VISORIC CEO Ulrich Buckenlei and Nataliya Daniltseva at the Innovation Pioneers Event in Stockholm.
Photo: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
The Pulse of Innovation in Stockholm
At Elements in Stockholm on September 17, leading minds of the European innovation scene came together. The Mega Trend Hackathon, organized by the Innovation Pioneers, offered a unique platform for exchange between corporations, start-ups, and creative talents. At the center were questions about how Artificial Intelligence, digital twins, and immersive technologies can provide answers to the major challenges of our time.
- Participating companies: including IKEA, Tetra Pak, and leading tech players
- Diverse topics: from sustainable supply chains to AI-driven workflows
- Interdisciplinary teams from research, business, and the creative industries
- A format that combines inspiration with concrete implementation
The energy was palpable as soon as you entered the venue: new ideas, spontaneous discussions, and creative sketches emerged everywhere. Instead of abstract visions of the future, the focus here was on practical and hands-on work โ with the goal of making innovative solutions tangible and bringing them into reality.
View into the main hall of Elements: international teams working in interdisciplinary groups on ideas for the future.
Photo: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
The hackathon impressively demonstrated that the key impulses for digital transformation emerge where people from different fields come together. For two days, Stockholm became the epicenter of an innovation culture that connects creativity, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Cross-Industry Challenges in Focus
The Mega Trend Hackathon in Stockholm brought together leading companies such as IKEA, Tetra Pak, and other partners to address urgent issues of our time with the help of AI and immersive technologies. Instead of abstract theories, the focus was on practical questions with immediate impact on consumers, sustainability, and future business models.
At the core of these challenges was collaboration in interdisciplinary teams: students, start-ups, developers, and designers worked side by side with established companies to transform visions into implementable prototypes. The creative exchange impressively showed how quickly new ideas can take shape with AI support.
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- Sustainable consumption behavior with digital tools
- Circular packaging concepts
- Digital twins for fashion and lifestyle
- AI-supported assistance with patent applications
This diversity of challenges highlighted that the combination of industry knowledge and technological power has the potential to generate true innovation. The discussions produced the first functional solutions, demonstrating how the future becomes tangible when creativity and digital tools come together.
Participants of the Mega Trend Hackathon in Stockholm working on the IKEA Challenge: How can sustainable consumption behavior be promoted through digital innovations?
Photo: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
The work on the different challenges showed impressively that the big questions of the future can only be solved through the interplay of technology, business, and society. The prototypes created here in a short time are less to be understood as finished products and more as impulses that inspire both companies and start-ups. This open character is precisely what makes the hackathon a driving force for sustainable and practical innovation.
Creative Energy and Real-Time Prototyping
During the hackathon, the creative energy of the participants was especially tangible. Small, interdisciplinary teams used the time to develop first prototypes, analyze data, and translate innovative concepts into concrete approaches. The atmosphere at Elements Stockholm was marked by open discussion, intensive collaboration, and the willingness to take risks to make bold ideas visible.
- Development of prototypes in just a few hours
- Direct use of data and AI-powered tools
- Collaboration between technology, design, and business
The Tetra Pak team at the Hackathon in Stockholm: intensive teamwork, fast prototyping, and direct application of data and AI tools.
Photo: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
The immediate connection between theory and practice made the hackathon particularly appealing. Many teams translated their ideas into visual simulations, early mock-ups, or small functional applications. It became clear how much innovative power emerges when different disciplines work hand in hand โ from the first sketches to results that could already be tested in real contexts.
The Winning Team: AI Makes Patents Understandable
Out of the strong field of ideas, one team stood out that convinced the jury with its vision: **Lightbringer**. Their solution uses Artificial Intelligence to simplify the often complex and hard-to-access process of patent applications. Instead of technical jargon and endless documents, innovators receive clear, actionable information โ an approach with the potential to change the global innovation landscape.
- Automated analysis of patent applications through AI
- Translation of complex texts into clear action steps
- Easier access to patents for start-ups and innovators
The winning team Lightbringer at the Hackathon in Stockholm: with their AI-based solution making patents more accessible, they won the AI Global Mega Trends competition.
Photo: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
The teamโs presentation impressively showed how an idea can become a functional prototype in the shortest time. By combining machine learning, semantic text analysis, and a clear user interface, they managed to decode and clearly present patent applications. Lightbringer thus opens the door to more innovation by significantly simplifying access to legal knowledge.
The Hackathon in Motion
The video captures the unique atmosphere of the Innovation Pioneers Mega Trend Hackathon at Elements Stockholm โ with intense teamwork, creative prototyping sessions, and interdisciplinary discussions. It shows how companies, start-ups, and creative minds can develop ideas and turn them into tangible solutions in a very short time.
Impressions from the Mega Trend Hackathon: Creative energy, international teams, and hands-on prototypes.
Source: Ulrich Buckenlei | VISORIC GmbH, 2025
This video conveys the pulse of innovation in Stockholm โ where AI, digital twins, and immersive technologies meet entrepreneurial spirit and creativity to shape the future together.
Ulrich Buckenlei and the VISORIC Expert Team
Ulrich Buckenlei, CEO of VISORIC, has been an expert in implementing innovative technologies for more than fifteen years. Together with his Munich-based expert team, he supports companies from the first idea to the market-ready result. The focus is not on abstract analysis, but on concrete implementation: consulting, conception, programming, and design โ from proof of concept to successful roll-out.
- XR solutions and immersive visualizations for automotive and industry
- Digital twins and AI-supported simulations
- Development of prototypes and market-ready applications
- More than 15 years of experience in combining technology, design, and business
If you want to advance your company with innovative ideas, Ulrich Buckenlei and the VISORIC expert team are the right partners. Together we design concepts, develop prototypes, and realize solutions that drive your business forward.
Ulrich Buckenlei and Nataliya Daniltseva from the VISORIC expert team at the Innovation Pioneers Mega Trend Hackathon in Stockholm. Photo: VISORIC GmbH, 2025
Our expertise ranges from early ideation to final roll-out. We support companies throughout the entire innovation process โ from the first sketch through technical implementation to integration into existing system landscapes. We use state-of-the-art tools and methods to implement projects faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably.
We place particular value on practical results. Every project is designed not only to impress technologically, but also to deliver measurable added value in terms of productivity, safety, and efficiency. In this way, we combine creativity, technical know-how, and entrepreneurial goals into a holistic success concept.
Contact Persons:
Ulrich Buckenlei (Creative Director)
Mobile: +49 152 53532871
Email: ulrich.buckenlei@visoric.com
Nataliya Daniltseva (Project Manager)
Mobile: +49 176 72805705
Email: nataliya.daniltseva@visoric.com
Address:
VISORIC GmbH
Bayerstraรe 13
D-80335 Munich
