Campus Circle Update

THE FORGE is a closed network of decision-makers at the intersection of critical infrastructure, defense and dual-use. Initiated by DeepTech Campus Circle Hamburg, it connects Hanseatic tradition with the urgency of European sovereignty. Kickoff on July 2, 2026.

The Baltic Sea has become Europe's security fault line. Finland and Sweden have joined NATO. The Baltic States invest proportionally the most in defense. Hamburg must build the bridge.

What agentic AI leaves of work and who ends up on which side. Six theses on a new category of automation, fragile forecasts, and a closing window.

How AI won't make the middle class poor, but irrelevant. Six theses on two extremes, a likely middle ground, and a window that is closing.

How automation is undermining the right to strike. What this means for employers, unions, and society. Six theses on a power shift unfolding in investment decisions, not press releases.

A position paper as an invitation: Why Hamburg's SMEs must have the right conversations now to shape the automation wave rather than manage its aftermath.

Everyone can build now. And the result is often better than expected. Why Vibe Coding triggers the same mechanism as Lego: and what that means for software, competence and creativity.

Six theses on Europe's opportunity in a world being redistributed. What is digitized is automatable. What is not yet digitized will be on the way there.

Six theses on the silence before the greatest transformation of the working world. Why the debate that is needed has not yet begun.

Six theses on the future of work, growth and society in the age of artificial intelligence. VW is not a special case but the first visible example of a development that is simultaneously beginning in almost every sector.

Agentic AI is destroying knowledge work faster than companies and policymakers can react. A stress test for social systems, the middle class and the societal operating system.

Redefining human performance in the geoeconomics of tokens. A tectonic shift is emerging in Hamburg's innovation hubs.

Research and development happen on Hamburg's periphery, business in the center. The DEEPTECH Campus Circle creates a new meeting point right in the city.