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.
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.
The Creators Lounge is an online event for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Join us in this panel discussion on the topic 'Human meets Machine: Redefining Interactions for the Future' with Hermann Erlach, Christiane Noll, Shahrukh Kazmi and Wolfgang Puntigam moderated by Ludmilla Derr.
Have a look at our Creators Expedition Demo Day 2024 Aftermovie. Every year we host a demo day in Graz showcasing all collaboration projects between AVL and startups.
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.
Explore the collaboration projects between AVL, DeepScenario and AVES Reality in this short talk with Holgar Banzhaf, Florian Albert and Sebastian Jagsch.
Have a look at our Creators Expedition Demo Day 2023 Aftermovie. Every year we host a demo day in Graz, showcasing all collaboration projects between AVL and startups.
Explore how Creators Expedition fosters university entrepreneurship in this talk with Matteo Pertocchi, Maximilian Grandi and Viktoria Ilger.
Explore the collaboration projects between AVL, Tributech and Tirn fostering sustainable mobility in this short talk with Juraj Majera, Patrick Lamplmair and Alexander Ulz.
A Glimpse into the Automotive Future with Qiong Sun, Arlena Amiri and Andrea Leitner moderated by Dejan Jovicevic.
Explore more about VENTURE CLIENTING with Viktoria Ilger and Mario Fraiss-Kollmanitsch from Venture Clienting Austria.
'Is there one right approach to open innovation?' with Claudia Falkinger, Christian Hüttenhein and Stefan Cülter moderated by Dejan Jovicevic.
Deep dive session on the topic 'Patent vs Open Innovation' with Mario Hartinger and Viktoria Ilger moderated by Dejan Jovicevic.
Introducting Creators Expedition to The FED4SAE Innovation Club.
Explore more about the collaboration between Deepen AI and AVL with Mohammad Musa, Thomas Schlömicher and Viktoria Ilger.
Check out this exciting panel about the digitalization of education and the collaboration between companies and educational institutions that are creating exciting projects.
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.
Discover how Creators Co-Lab by AVL Creators brings companies together to tackle cross-industry challenges with a structured, flexible open innovation process turning ideas into action.
Staying ahead in the automotive industry requires continuous innovation and the ability to quickly identify emerging technologies and startups.
Curious – Brave – Collaborative – Entrepreneurial.
Four words that define the mindset of a creator.
Innovation in Action: Highlights from the 2023 Creators Co-Lab Cohort - IoT in a Box with Infineon Technologies, A1 Telekom Austria Group and AVL
Innovation in Action: Highlights from the 2023 Creators Co-Lab Cohort - Crowd Energy with Energy Steiermark, Keba Group, Siemens Energy, Infineon Technologies, and AVL.
Innovation in Action: Highlights from the 2023 Creators Co-Lab Cohort - An Asset’s Life: The Digital Product Passport with Siemens Energy, Keba Group, Infineon Technologies, A1 Telekom Austria Group and AVL.
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.
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AVL CREATORS is built by entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts who speak both languages: startup and corporate.
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