Beyond Integration: How Newcomer Founders Are Reshaping Europe's Economy

Ramona Hinkelmann , Nia Rakheja , Anna Kurilova

19.05.2026 10:30–11:00
Stage 7
English
Panel
Economy & Innovation
#Digitalpolitik #Business models #Common good #Technologie
Europe's growth problem isn't a lack of talent but a failure to recognize where that talent already is. Newcomer founders are building companies, creating jobs, and developing solutions that local ecosystems haven't thought of yet. In this session, we challenge the "integration" frame and ask a different question: what happens when you stop integrating newcomers and start building with them? Featuring the first results from NewcomerTech, SINGA Deutschland's incubator for tech solutions built around migrant experiences.

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Europe's innovation stagnation and shrinking labor market are not just policy failures, but a failure of imagination. The talent and drive needed to turn this around are already here. We just haven't built the structures to see it. That's why we built NewcomerTech: SINGA Deutschland's incubator for tech solutions developed by and for migrants. The first cohort ends May 11,  and we're bringing the insights to re:publica. In this session, we introduce the Migrant Founder Mindset: not a survival story, but a strategic asset. We examine how diverse backgrounds and lived experience with systemic barriers translate into market insight and radical innovation capacity: precisely what Europe's economy needs. SINGA leaders and a newcomer innovator from the program join to discuss what it takes to move from "helping" newcomers to building with them, and why the distinction matters for Europe's economic future.

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