2019 Hilti Company Report “ THE SEARCH FOR INNOVATION IS TAKING PLACE EVERYWHERE.” Ruediger Wagner, Head of Open Technology Innovation, Hilti Headquarters, Liechtenstein The process of generating new ideas at Hilti doesn’t only happen in collaboration with the customer or in the company’s own Innovation Center, but increasingly in large event halls and coworking spaces. Hilti engineers meet up with programmers and software engineers at hackathons, taking place over the course of a weekend, in order to develop special digital solutions for the industry. These ideas and initial approaches don’t merely create new Hilti solu- tions, as cooperation now takes place in completely new groupings. Continuously advancing digitalization on building sites is turning the construction industry into an attractive target for start-up companies. Whether as part of an event conducted by UnternehmerTUM in Munich, as pictured here, or via our scouting teams in Silicon Valley and in Israel – the search for innovation is taking place everywhere. 28–29