Angelika Mitteregger is a project manager at the City of Graz Department for Economic Development, meaning she is responsible for founders, startups and innovation. With her passion for human-centred innovation, organizational culture and sustainability as well as her experience in working with both large companies and startups in Vienna and Graz as an innovation consultant, she is now fostering the regional startup ecosystem. As a design thinker and agile mind with an academic background in communications and digital media, she acts as an interface between several stakeholders in the ecosystem, startups and within the City of Graz to ensure targeted support.