Our neighbour – Germany, wasn’t actually one of our key destinations lately.  Being focused on typically English speaking markets (England, Scotland,  Ireland) we had no time to investigate new ones. But this time we decided to change it and explore new destinations,  especially such promising like Germany (one of the richest markets in Europe as you know). Even when it is hardly possible to find some time for it – we decided to do it anyway…

An opportunity to make our first steps in Germany emerged about a week ago, when we were invited by the Wielkopolska ICT Cluster to participate in Berlin-Wielkopolska 2010 Forum, a first conference of collaboration between these two regions.

As nearly everything what is made for the first time, the conference wasn’t surprisingly successful. On the other hand I managed to establish some interesting local contacts and people enjoyed the idea in general – so it could be good start for more future events of this kind.

I have never been to Berlin, even though it is closer to Poznan than Warsaw is (it was shocking for me when I discovered it)! No borders now so travelling was smooth and easy.

It turned out that schedule is so tight we weren’t able to see some more of Berlin. At least we had chance to see a bit more of the most modern technology park in Europe (as Germans say) – one I can tell, they have invested there a lot! It’s called Adlershof and it’s astonishing how fast it grows. I discovered that they’re open for cooperation and they’re kind of forced by the law to reply to my enquiry so it is good news for me – I will definitely take advantage of it.

I hope we’ll find some proper business partners in Germany this year – hopefully the process began.