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A Tour of The Delta: Five Spaces Built for Unforgettable Events
One campus. Five distinct spaces. From a 500-person conference to an intimate rooftop dinner, The Delta is built to host ambitious gatherings without anyone leaving the address. Here's the tour, and how to host yours here.
The Founder Dinner: Why the Smallest Rooms Make the Biggest Deals
A 500-person conference creates energy. A 50-person dinner creates trust. There's a reason the most serious relationships in business are still built over a table. Here's how we design curated dinners at The Delta, and why the most valuable conversations happen over five-star food on a rooftop under the stars.
The Psychology of Space: Why the Right Venue Changes the Energy of Your Event
Event energy is shaped long before the first speaker begins. The layout, the light, the acoustics, how close people sit to one another. All of it influences how people behave, whether they engage, open up, and connect, or stay guarded and leave early. Understanding the psychology of space is one of the most underused tools in event design.
The Fastest R&D Cycle Your Company Has: 48 Hours.
Most corporate innovation moves at the speed of the calendar. A problem gets identified in Q1, scoped in Q2, resourced in Q3, and quietly deprioritised by Q4. A hackathon answers the same question on the weekend. Here's how ambitious companies are using them to pressure-test problems, ship prototypes, and break internal inertia.
Why Dr. Gero Decker Didn't Buy an Island After His €1 Billion Exit
Most founders slow down after a nine-figure exit. Gero Decker set a new high score instead: making Signavio the best acquisition in SAP's history, doubling its business case within 18 months, and pushing it towards the two billion revenue mark that earns a seat at the table. Along the way, he is writing a book on AI and art, and refining a leadership philosophy built on trust, clarity, and momentum. It is one of the clearest pictures we have heard of what it means to keep building after the money stops mattering.
Stop Reading CVs. Run a Hackathon.
The engineers you most want to hire are the least likely to apply. They're employed, they're building, and they're not refreshing job boards. A hackathon inverts the whole thing. Instead of assessing how someone performs in an interview, you watch them do the actual job. In 48 hours, you learn more about how a person thinks and builds than five interviews will ever tell you.
The Nerd Who Turned Down Hasso Plattner and Built a €1 Billion Company Anyway
At the 8th edition of Gründerszene x The Delta, Dr. Gero Decker shared the full story behind Signavio: from a nerdy kid building a computer game for Zaha Hadid, to turning down Hasso Plattner's HANA project, to a cash crisis caused by two months of unwritten invoices, to a bazaar-style negotiation that ended in a 957 million euro acquisition by SAP. It is a founder story about picking the market everyone calls boring and proving them all wrong.
When Is It Time to Upgrade? The Key Signals Your Startup Has Outgrown Its Current Office
Most office upgrades do not start with a desire for something better. They start with small workarounds. A hallway call here, a café meeting there. Startups adapt, and that adaptability becomes the problem. Workarounds quietly drain time, focus, and team energy until friction starts to feel normal. If you are starting to recognise the signs, it is probably time to pay attention.
Why the Best Hackathons in Europe Happen at The Delta
Hackathons stopped being about free pizza and toy demos. The new kind is curated, challenge-driven, and built around real problems. When the right builders meet the right space, the output speaks for itself. Here's why the best ones run at The Delta.