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We are looking forward to inquiries coming from magazine and newspaper editorial departments. Our founders and technology experts are always available for interviews and glad to provide background information. Our technological focus is on:
- Interactive installations
- Multitouch technology
- Multitouch software
- Immersive spaces
- Interactive exhibitions
- Interactive showrooms
Andreas Will
Head of Communications
About Garamantis
Founded in Berlin in 2014, Garamantis specialises in developing interactive exhibitions and showrooms. At the heart of its global projects lies bespoke software development, offering users an impressive interactive experience in showrooms, immersive spaces, and visitor centres. A long-standing partner of Ars Electronica, Garamantis has also been recognised by the German government as a ‘Culture and Creative Pilot 2020’. Its unique, bespoke projects give rise to interactive experiences that are unparalleled worldwide.
History
- Garamantis GmbH was founded in Berlin in January 2014 by Oliver Elias (Managing Director) and Marcus Dittebrand (CTO).
- Then as now, the company works closely with the renowned Ars Electronica in Austria. Joint interactive installations, projects and exhibitions worldwide.
- Since 2015, Garamantis has been working beyond individual project-based business to develop interactive products
- In early 2017, Garamantis won the Initiative Mittelstand’s IT Innovation Award for its multi-touch scanner table. The interactive display case was awarded the ‘Best of 2017’ distinction. The interactive projection was named ‘Best of 2018’ Innovation.
- In the summer of 2018, Garamantis opened an office with a showroom and experience workshop on the EUREF Campus in Berlin.
- In the summer of 2019, a partnership was formed with the agency Hustle&Bustle, leading to the opening of a showroom in Singapore.
- 2020: The Garamantis team consists of seven permanent staff members, supported by a network of freelancers and partners. The “multi-touch scanner table with optical object recognition and people sensor” is recognised as a Berlin Innovation by the Technologiestiftung Berlin.
- 2021: The German government honours the team as “Culture and Creative Pilots Germany”. Despite the pandemic, the projects become even more international, with Dubai, Mexico and Hong Kong.
- 2022: Garamantis’ interactive B2B showroom featuring a multi-touch scanner table wins the German Innovation Award.
- 2023: The focus shifts to immersive spaces. Realisation of a Deep Space in Shanghai in collaboration with Ars Electronica. Opening of an immersive space at Khroma Berlin.
- 2024: The Garamantis team now comprises ten permanent staff members and we are celebrating our tenth anniversary.
- 2025: We double our floor space at the EUREF Campus in Berlin. Immersive showrooms are created for clients including Infineon, the Wack Group and the German Armed Forces.
- Clients: medium-sized and large enterprises, hidden champions, government departments, universities, agencies.
- References: renowned organisations such as the European Space Agency (ESA), Europe’s largest software group, public institutions such as the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Federal Government.
- The company philosophy is based on a holistic approach that creates a new user experience of interactive technologies through creativity, design, bespoke software development and appropriately configured hardware.
- Garamantis operates without investors, debt or subsidies. Independence and flexibility are central objectives of the company’s development.
Press material
Press Releases
Garamantis was one of the leading contenders in the “Marketing – Best Brand Experience – B2B” category and won the prestigious TITAN Award in Gold. The interactive B2B showroom project for FFT Produktionssysteme was realised by the Garamantis team at FFT’s headquarters in Fulda. Exceptional showroom…
FFT Production Systems Open Their Doors to Entrepreneurs in Fulda Fulda, February 16th, 2023 – Swipe your finger over the car production line in planning, zoom in on details in seconds and show them to your client? All this is possible today! FFT, a leading manufacturer of intelligent production sys…
With their groundbreaking showroom “Procurement Future” for Lingemann GmbH, the Berlin company Garamantis has set new standards in the field of B2B product presentation. Now this multimedia showroom has been honored with a German Innovation Award in the ‘Excellence in Business to Business’ category….
Berlin Start‑up Garamantis Realizes Interactive Display Window in Hong Kong The Berlin-based tech company Garamantis realizes an innovative contactless shopping concept in a Hong Kong mall. Laser-based sensor system recognizes finger- and hand gestures throughout a 21 square meters area. 12 especial…
German Federal Government’s Award for the Cultural and Creative Industry 2020 Berlin, December 1, 2020 – For the 11th time now, the Federal Government of Germany has honored the 32 most creative minds in Germany – the country’s most innovative ideas and entrepreneurs – as Germany’s Culture and Creat…
On September 8, 2020, BDA and Microsoft Germany will once again host the largest festival on the future of work in Berlin on the EUREF campus. On three stages, a large number of top-class and international speakers will once again discuss how we will shape the working world of tomorrow. Under specia…
A real threat that is still very abstract for many people: Climate change is a complex topic that is difficult to make tangible in just a few sentences. At the Green Week in Berlin (17-26 January 2020), visitors to the stand of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) can…
On June 28, Hustle & Bustle, a Singapore-based event agency, celebrated the office’s first anniversary together with the Co-Working Space The Common Ground and at the same time the expansion of office space in the heart of the Southeast Asian city-state. Garamantis managing directors Oliver Elia…
Berlin-based Garamantis can look back on a successful five-year anniversary: The media installation specialists have significantly increased their turnover and number of customers in recent years. Their references include renowned companies such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the largest Eur…
Press Reviews
Today, corporate showrooms are more than just presentation rooms. In the Wack Group’s visitor center, an innovative digital signage concept from Garamantis stages the brand and technology in an impressive way – with a world first.
While many companies rely on purely digital presentations, the Wack Group made a conscious decision to invest in its new interactive corporate showroom.
Corporate Showroom – First 3-layer display for the Wack Group showroom
LED plus OLED plus glycerin layer: Garamantis relies on display layering for an eye-catching installation in the Wack Group showroom. The liquid in the middle allows both digital layers to merge.
For the first time, Garamantis Interactive Technologies has been listed among the top 50 German IT technology companies, according to the magazine Markt und Mittelstand. The ranking is based on 39 analyzed evaluation criteria. In addition to traditional company metrics such as sales, number of employees, and growth, the evaluation also considers qualitative factors like patent activity, innovative strength, commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, digital visibility, employer attractiveness, and succession and transformation capabilities.
Garamantis gehört zu den Top 50 IT-Technologieunternehmen 2025
With great professionalism, expertise and openness, the Garamantis team developed a real-time 3D multi-touch application that exceeded our expectations! The collaboration with our account team and designers was straightforward and fun. We look forward to working with Garamantis again in the future.
“The Wave” is an immersive installation in the former gas tank, now Museum Gasometer Oberhausen. Visitors to the current Planet Ocean exhibition can stand in front of or under the wave. Thanks to a software application by Garamantis, they even become part of the “water world”.
TITAN Business Award 2023 – Gold Winner
Interactive B2B Showroom for FFT Production Systems wins gold in the category “Marketing – Best Brand Experience – B2B”
A rotating 360-degree screen also features word clouds that show which topics people were most concerned about during which phase of the pandemic. They are fed by terms that were most frequently used in social media content.
Visitors can embark on an interactive time travel through communication during the Corona pandemic. Multimedia elements are used to make communication tangible and encourage visitors to reflect on their own experiences.