Curious. Brave. Entrepreneurial. Collaborative.

AVL Creators is an open innovation initiative that brings together startups, corporates, and ecosystem partners to drive forward-thinking, collaborative innovation.

Background

CREATORS is more than a team; it’s a mindset, a movement, and a growing ecosystem built on curiosity, bravery, entrepreneurship, and collaboration.

We believe the future is shaped not by one company or idea alone, but through co-creation across startups, corporates, and industries. We bring people together to tackle shared challenges and turn them into real, actionable business cases.

Being a Creator means asking bold questions, trying new things, and building with others, across boundaries and silos.

We’re open by design and the “we” includes every partner, colleague, and curious mind who chooses to join in.

Competition drives progress.
But collaboration builds what’s next.

Curious? Brave? Let’s build something together.

Creators Expedition is a program designed to connect startups with AVL in areas such as e-mobility, autonomous driving, AI and digitalization, sustainability, and beyond. The goal: to launch impactful co-creation projects.

Each collaboration pairs a startup with AVL experts to work on a first customer project, proof of concept (PoC), or R&D initiative, laying the groundwork for long-term partnerships and future innovation.Through real-world application, Creators Expedition helps startups scale faster while enabling AVL to stay at the forefront of emerging technologies.

Co-Lab is an ecosystem designed to accelerate cross-industry co-innovation.
We connect companies across the value chain and provide the tools and structure needed to turn ideas into acceleration-ready opportunities.

Over a six-month journey, participating companies explore shared use cases and key collaboration themes, form working groups, and identify real problems worth solving. Together, they co-develop actionable business cases, culminating in a final graduation event, where teams pitch their collaboration outcomes to the management of all participating organizations.

Explore our videos to discover engaging stories and insights.

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7th Creators Lounge - Human meets Machine: Redefining Interactions for the Future

Join us in this panel discussion on the topic 'Human meets Machine: Redefining Interactions for the Future' with speakers from Microsoft, AVANADE, Volvo and AVL.

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AVL and Spark EV foster Intelligent Energy Management System for Fuel Cell Trucks

Explore the collaboration project between AVL and Spark EV fostering Intelligent Energy Managament System in this short talk with Justin Ott, Dominik Brunner and Alexander Ulz.

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How DeepScenario, AVES and AVL foster Virtual Testing of ADAS/AD

Explore the collaboration projects between AVL, DeepScenario and AVES Reality in this short talk with Holgar Banzhaf, Florian Albert and Sebastian Jagsch.

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Fostering University Entrepreneurship: Duramea and Novac Supercap

Explore how Creators Expedition fosters university entrepreneurship in this talk with Matteo Pertocchi, Maximilian Grandi and Viktoria Ilger.

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AVL X Tributech and Tirn: Mobility for a Sustainable Future

Explore the collaboration projects between AVL, Tributech and Tirn fostering sustainable mobility in this short talk with Juraj Majera, Patrick Lamplmair and Alexander Ulz.

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Creators Lounge: A Glimpse into the Automotive Future

A Glimpse into the Automotive Future with Qiong Sun, Arlena Amiri and Andrea Leitner moderated by Dejan Jovicevic.

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VENTURE CLIENTING... What's that !?

Explore more about VENTURE CLIENTING with Viktoria Ilger and Mario Fraiss-Kollmanitsch from Venture Clienting Austria.

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Creators Lounge - Is there one right open innovation approach?

'Is there one right approach to open innovation?' with Claudia Falkinger, Christian Hüttenhein and Stefan Cülter moderated by Dejan Jovicevic.

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Creators Lounge - Patent VS Open Innovation

Deep dive session on the topic 'Patent vs Open Innovation' with Mario Hartinger and Viktoria Ilger moderated by Dejan Jovicevic. 

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FED4SAE Innovation Club Discovers AVL's CREATORS EXPEDITION

Introducting Creators Expedition to The FED4SAE Innovation Club.

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How DeepenAI and AVL want to change the Future of Autonomous Driving?

Explore more about the collaboration between Deepen AI and AVL with Mohammad Musa, Thomas Schlömicher and Viktoria Ilger.

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Edupreneurship as the Education of the Future

Check out this exciting panel about the digitalization of education and the collaboration between companies and educational institutions that are creating exciting projects.

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The Current State of E-Mobility

What is the current state of e-mobility in Germany and Europe? Why do so many people still stick to traditional combustion cars instead of getting electric ones?

We have been pioneering various business and technology areas together with startups, corporates and beyond. Explore their stories to find out, how the AVL Creators is building an ecosystem for startups, corporates and entrepreneurs.

To bring our joint vision into reality, we enlarge the ecosystem by bringing in our customers - the leading OEMs in the world, collaborating with startup networks, universities, and public institutions. All of them can be instrumental at different stages in our journey.

If you want to be an official partner of the AVL Creators , please feel free to contact us below.

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AVL CREATORS is built by entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts who speak both languages: startup and corporate.

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Sebastian  Jagsch

Sebastian.Jagsch@avl.com

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Alexander Ulz

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Kevin Grebien

Kevin.Grebien@avl.com

 

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Lisbora Likaj

Lisbora.Likaj@avl.com

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Sebastian Harringer 

Sebastian.Harringer@avl.com

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Dominic Hemmer

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