Dirk Ahlborn

Dirk Ahlborn

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Entrepreneur and Innovation Speaker, CEO of Hyperloop Technologies, Founder of JumpStarter

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Dirk is the founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc, a web portal that believes in creating smarter and more successful companies using crowdsourcing to fund an idea all the way from initial conception to final product. Dirk is also CEO and Co-Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. It is JumpStartFund's well-known undertaking to make the Hyperloop become reality, by using its crowd collaboration concept.

Dirk Ahlborn started his career in 1993 as an investment specialist in Berlin, Germany. After moving to Italy in 1997, he founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design space. In 2006, he successfully sold one of these companies to a global alternative energy conglomerate.

Why Dirk?
Dirk started a movement that made the rest of the world wonder why they hadn't thought of it before.

From The United States to Europe, South America to Korea, Russia to the Middle East, Dirk has spoken about innovation, the future of transport and the future of building companies in the internet age at 80+ conferences including the WEF, SXSW, CES, SPIEF, DLD, Pioneers, carIT, CeBit, Smart Mobility World Congress and many others.

He is a serial entrepreneur with experience in almost every element of business. His careers have taken him through management, product design, development, manufacturing, production facility design and set up, production cost control, marketing, product distribution, customer service, and sales.

Before co-founding Jumpstarter, he was at the Girvan Institute of Technology, an incubator-accelerator for early-stage high-tech companies. At Girvan, beginning in 2009, he was instrumental in the development of several startup companies, most notably Advanced Turbine Designs, a developer of natural-gas-fueled gas turbine generators for combined heat and power. In the course of his multi-faceted activities at Girvan he also managed mobile and web application developments as well as search engine optimization and online marketing.

Prior to 2009, his activities were centered in Germany and Italy. Dirk is fluent in German and Italian and proficient in conversational Spanish. He holds the credential in banking and insurance from the Organization of German Industry and Commerce.

Dirk is the founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc, a web portal that believes in creating smarter and more successful companies using crowdsourcing to fund an idea all the way from initial conception to final product. Dirk is also CEO and Co-Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. It is JumpStartFund's well-known undertaking to make the Hyperloop become reality, by using its crowd collaboration concept.

Dirk Ahlborn started his career in 1993 as an investment specialist in Berlin, Germany. After moving to Italy in 1997, he founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design space. In 2006, he successfully sold one of these companies to a global alternative energy conglomerate.

Why Dirk?
Dirk started a movement that made the rest of the world wonder why they hadn't thought of it before.

From The United States to Europe, South America to Korea, Russia to the Middle East, Dirk has spoken about innovation, the future of transport and the future of building companies in the internet age at 80+ conferences including the WEF, SXSW, CES, SPIEF, DLD, Pioneers, carIT, CeBit, Smart Mobility World Congress and many others.

He is a serial entrepreneur with experience in almost every element of business. His careers have taken him through management, product design, development, manufacturing, production facility design and set up, production cost control, marketing, product distribution, customer service, and sales.

Before co-founding Jumpstarter, he was at the Girvan Institute of Technology, an incubator-accelerator for early-stage high-tech companies. At Girvan, beginning in 2009, he was instrumental in the development of several startup companies, most notably Advanced Turbine Designs, a developer of natural-gas-fueled gas turbine generators for combined heat and power. In the course of his multi-faceted activities at Girvan he also managed mobile and web application developments as well as search engine optimization and online marketing.

Prior to 2009, his activities were centered in Germany and Italy. Dirk is fluent in German and Italian and proficient in conversational Spanish. He holds the credential in banking and insurance from the Organization of German Industry and Commerce.

Building the Hyperloop

After Tesla and SpaceX opened up the Hyperloop Transportation project to the public, Dirk's company JumpStarter took on the task of making airplane-speed travel at ground level a reality. With the ability to turn travel times between major cities from hours to minutes, Hyperloop will disrupt the travel industry as we know it. In this talk, you will hear behind-the-scenes details about the planning and constructing of the Hyperloop, its international reach, and how crowdsourcing made it all...
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Building Breakthrough Innovations With Crowd-Powered Ecosystems

When Dirk Ahlborn took on the challenge of creating the world's first hyperloop transportation system, he knew he would have to use the world's collective passion to turn his idea into a reality. By inviting over 800 people to work a minimum of 10 hours per week in exchange for future equity, his company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has been able to work on solutions for culture, technology, intellectual property and more on a global scale. In this exciting and enlightening talk,...
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The New Business Models That Will Be Changing Your Industry

Technology is changing your business model. We have gone from products to subscriptions and customer service to customer experience. But technology will not only change how customers interact with our services, but also how businesses solve their clients' problems. Dirk Ahlborn, co-founder of JumpStarter and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), is at the forefront of this movement. With HTT, Ahblorn has been using crowdsourcing to problem solve transportation issues on a global scale....
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OPEN INNOVATION FORUM

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J., j, OPEN INNOVATION FORUM

Dirk Ahlborn delivered an inspiring talk during the plenary session at the Open Innovation Forum in Moscow alongside Mr. Medvedev, Paul Misener from Amazon and Ofir Akunis from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space in Israel. He demonstrated to our 12.000 participants a new future of possibility by using innovative thinking and technology. We recommend him as a speaker on stages around the world.

GLOBAL BUSINESS BUREAU NIKKEI INC.

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J., j, GLOBAL BUSINESS BUREAU NIKKEI INC.

Dirk, thank you very much for speaking at the Nikkei Forum. Everybody was impressed by your very passionate speech. You have lit the audience's fire!