The Second Local Demo Day for DA-SPACE Open Innovation Lab at TU-Sofia was held on the 9-th of April 2019. The event joined together lab managers, current and future seekers and solvers and guests, including the Innovation Program Managers of the project prof. Lubomir Dimitrov, assoc. prof. Pancho Tomov, Valentin Voutev of GIS, the managers of the TUS OIL assist. prof. Vladislav Ivanov and MEng Kiril Nikolov, as well as Kostadin Kostadinov From Bulgarian Academy of Science, professors from the university and guests.

The nine (9) teams of solvers, working on the challenges, presented the results of their work – products with different level of maturity, starting from just a finished survey and analysis up to a fully operating prototype.

Some problems, which both seekers and solvers were facing in their joint work, were discussed during the meeting and new ideas were proposed to increase the efficiency of the Lab. A discussion was also held about sustainability actions concerning the OIL after the completion of the DA-SPACE project.

A jury including prof. Lubomir Dimitrov, assoc. prof. Pancho Tomov and assist. prof. Vladislav Ivanov had the not so difficult task of evaluating the achievements of the solvers which are the result of a 7 months of work. Some of the evaluation criteria were maturity of the product, level of difficulty, innovativeness and business potential and the obvious winner was the team working on the challenge "Development of a robotized system for cocktail preparation", or as they refer to it “BarBot – Robot Bartender” – Simeon Simeonov and Georgi Georgiev.

The winning team, following the guidelines for conducting of a local Demo Day will have the opportunity to travel to Ulm, Germany, for the “Second International Demo Day and Final Conference” event, which will be held in the period 13-17.05.2019 at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Am Hochsträß 10, 89081 Ulm, Germany.