Exclusive Talent Festival 2025

Welcome!

Here, you can directly apply to participate in the exclusive Talent Festival 2025 by Collective Incubator and get direct 1-on-1 interviews with the following companies:

McKinsey Dürr Group Inform Ionkraft Floodwaive Würth Elektronik

You may apply for full-time jobs, internships, or working student positions. Please find the ideal target profile for each company below. You can apply for more than one company.

Target Profiles

McKinsey

• Company: With over 45,000 employees in more than 65 countries, McKinsey is one of the world’s leading consulting firms, supporting top decision makers in solving strategic challenges and driving sustainable transformation.
• Fields of study: All
• Degree: Students who are about to finish their Bachelor or Master program

Dürr Group

• Company: Employing around 20,500 people across 33 countries, Dürr is a global technology leader in industrial engineering, providing smart solutions for automation, digitalization, and sustainable production, especially in the automotive sector.
• Fields of study: Students who study either something technical, IT, or business are all desired.
• Degree: Bachelor and Master students at every level of their program

Inform

• Company: Based in Aachen, INFORM has more than 900 employees and delivers AI-powered optimization software used in over 45 countries to manage complex processes in logistics, aviation, manufacturing, and finance.
• Fields of study: Either computer science, mathematics, business informatics, IT, physics, or biology
• Degree: Current Master students and PhD students

Ionkraft

• Company: IonKraft is an innovative startup that develops a plasma-based coating technology to equip plastic packaging with glass-like barriers that remain fully recyclable. This technology can replace conventional multi-layer packaging that is difficult to recycle.
• Fields of study: Either mechanical engineering (ideally with a focus on plastics technology), chemistry, electrical engineering (automation), or business administration
• Degree: Bachelor and Master students at every level of their program

Floodwaive

• Company: FloodWaive develops physics-based AI software that predicts floods in real time and turns them into clear, map-based risk insights for streets, neighborhoods, and critical assets. With our dashboard and APIs, municipalities, insurers, and emergency authorities can plan operations, prioritize resources, and make informed decisions—without relying on static flood maps.
• Fields of study: Either civil engineering, business administration, computer science (esp. deep learning and AI), design (UX, UI), geoscience (ideally for civil engineering)
• Degree: Students who are about to finish their Bachelor or Master program

Würth Elektronik

• Company: With over 7,500 employees at 50 global locations, Würth Elektronik is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of electronic and electromechanical components, supplying high tech parts for industry, automotive, and IoT applications.
• Fields of study: Either electrical engineering, IT, industrial engineering, business administration, or economics.
• Degree: Bachelor and Master students at every level of their program

The exclusive event kicks off at 1:15pm at Collective Incubator and concludes after dinner at around 7.30pm. To participate, you are reuired to attend the entire event.

Apply now by using the following link: CLICK HERE - APPLY NOW

Application deadline until 26 October 2025