CDTM Product Design Fair

Validated product concepts, early traction, and the decisions behind each product: a closer look at how the teams tackled real partner challenges over three months of product discovery, validation, and development. Live pitches, demos to try, and the stories behind what the teams built. Thursday, July 16, 6:00 to 8:30 PM, CDTM, Room 605, Marsstraße 20, Munich. With thanks to the sponsor of the evening, Cherry Ventures.

with Phoros

Team Phoros

Phoros is rethinking payroll preparation for German tax advisors. A crew of agents turns emails, PDFs, and handwritten notes into DATEV-ready data on its own, so payroll specialists stop retyping numbers and start doing the work that actually needs their expertise.

with Meta

Team Pixel Pilot

Pixel Pilot is making navigation more accessible for visually impaired people. Built on Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, it guides users through complex environments like train stations, helping them find platforms, identify the right train, and navigate hands-free beyond where traditional maps stop.

with Poke by The Interaction Company of California

Team Bloom

Bloom helps small businesses show up consistently on social media without the constant manual work. Its AI-powered platform turns social media marketing into a simple, repeatable workflow, helping entrepreneurs plan, create, schedule, and publish content week after week with less effort and more confidence.

with BMW Group

Team Aura

The BMW Group team is building a company brain for industrial teams. Their solution captures tacit knowledge from operations and transforms it into a living knowledge base that helps manufacturers preserve expertise and build smarter operations.

Navigation that works where maps give up

Google Maps says “you’ve arrived.” But for a visually impaired traveler, that’s exactly where the hardest part begins. Picture entering a crowded train station. Which platform? How do I get there? Is this my train? Is this my stop? A sighted person answers these questions in a glance. But without sight, they often go unanswered.

Over the past two months at CDTM, the team spent time with blind and severely visually impaired individuals, doctors, and rehabilitation specialists, including at the Bayerischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenbund. The same thing came up again and again: navigation falls apart exactly in the places where maps give up.

That’s why they built Pixel Pilot in partnership with Meta. Built on the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, Pixel Pilot guides users hands-free through complex indoor stations, helps them find the right platform, and identifies the exact train or bus.

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