The Space where Business & Culture collide
Startup Pitches & Programme • Networking • Consulting
With AiDiA, we pursue the goal of connecting and empowering Black entrepreneurs. We offer them resources and support to bring their innovative ideas to life and scale them. The AiDiA Pitch is the first competition to focus on the ideas or "AiDiAs" of Black founders.
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People on Stage 2026
Thanks to all the inspiring personalities who took to the stages at our Business & Culture Fest 2026
Dean Forbes
Y’akoto
David Kwasi Owusu
Sandra Lambeck
AiDiA Business & Culture Fest 2026
We have shown what happens when economy, culture and community no longer exist in separate spaces.
On the 4th and 5th of September, more than 1,500 people and over 100 speakers, artists and changemakers came together for the first two-day AiDiA Business & Culture Fest.
After five years of building up the AiDiA Pitch, we took our biggest step to date.
We began the first day aboard a ship in the heart of Hamburg's port – an unexpected setting, yet one closely linked to the city where our journey started.
From there, it continued to an unforgettable pitch night full of bold ideas, ambitious visions and founders ready to help shape the future, before we brought the weekend to a close with the Ghanaian afro-dancehall icon and BET Award winner Stonebwoy.
At the very centre of it all, of course, were our founders.
🏆 HYNOVY won the AiDiA Pitch and with it €30,000.
🏆 Lady D Cosmetics secured victory at the ideas pitch and with it €2,000.
Congratulations to both teams – and to all founders who had the courage to present their vision on our stage.
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Aminata Touré
Minister of Social Affairs Schleswig-Holstein
Elmar Broscheit
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Sandra Lambeck
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