At the end of February, Hemdat and David traveled to Barcelona to engage with colleagues across the Volkswagen Group, deepening collaboration and exchanging on best practices. The visit included in-depth discussions with the predevelopment teams of Seat, a Group internal workshop on Venture Client, led by Christine Schütz, Venture Client lead at GI, and the Venture Client Roundtable #9 at Seat CODE which was co-organized by Cariad and included external European corporate partners.

Some of the key takeaways we learned from our visit:

1. Communicating innovation activities and projects in a transparent way across the organization.
2. Top Management support is a main driver of venture client activities in the organization.
3. Defining clear, achievable, and measurable KPIs to assess the success of Innovation projects.