Auticon Explained

auticon
Logo Alt:auticon's 2023 logo
Image Alt:auticon's 2023 logo
Type:Limited Company
Foundation:2011
Location:United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Italy
Key People:Kurt Schoffer (Group CEO)
Industry:Professional Services
Services:Quality Assurance
Consulting
Software Testing
Data Analysis
Software Development
Num Employees:370, including 270 with an autism spectrum diagnosis (December 2022)

Auticon (stylized "auticon") is an international information technology consulting firm that exclusively employs adults on the autism spectrum as Information technology (IT) consultants. Auticon identifies as a social enterprise. Services mainly focus on IT quality management, including transformation, migration, data analytics, data analysis, security and deep web analysis, as well as compliance and reporting.[1]

Auticon is based in Berlin[2] and currently employs more than 200 members of staff, around 150 of whom are on the autism spectrum.[3] Auticon has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and Italy.

History

Dirk Müller-Remus, who has a son on the autism spectrum, launched Auticon in 2011 with an investment of the Munich-based Ananda Social Venture Fund.[4] The launch was inspired by the Belgian company Passwerk.[5] Auticon's concept to employ people on the autism spectrum as ICT consultants has since been acknowledged internationally.[6] [7] [8] [9] The Auticon model was presented at the G8 Social Impact Investment Forum, held in London on 6 June 2013, in front of 150 leaders in social impact investment.[10]

In 2018, Auticon acquired MindSpark,[11] a company in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2013 by Gray Benoist, whose two sons are also on the autism spectrum.[12]

Awards

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: auticon services. Auticon. 2015-06-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20150302043101/http://auticon.de/services/. 2015-03-02. dead.
  2. Web site: Company Overview of auticon GmbH. www.bloomberg.com. 2019-01-06.
  3. Web site: Company auticon.
  4. Web site: Investment example Auticon . Ananda Social Venture Fund . 2015-06-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025232020/http://www.socialventurefund.com/eng/social_enterprises_portfolio/investment_example_auticon/ . 2014-10-25 .
  5. Web site: Passwerk Website. passwerk.be. 2015-06-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20150510072110/http://www.passwerk.be/en. 2015-05-10. dead.
  6. Web site: Hal Hodson . Rise of the autistic workforce. New Scientist . 29 May 2013 . 2015-06-01.
  7. News: Laura Lucchini . La genialidad que firmas alemanas buscan en una forma de autismo . La Nacion . 6 July 2013 . 2015-06-01 . Spanish . 2015-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150108112532/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1598645-la-genialidad-que-firmas-alemanas-buscan-en-una-forma-de-autismo . dead .
  8. Web site: IT company hires genius minds. Al Jazeera English . YouTube . 13 January 2013 . 2015-06-01 . video, 2 mins 8 secs .
  9. News: Fred Pleitgen . Help wanted: Asperger's-only apply. CNN . 3 January 2013 . 2015-06-01 . video, 2 mins 38 secs .
  10. Web site: G8 Social Impact Investment Forum: auticon . Cabinet Office UK . YouTube . 23 July 2013 . 2015-06-01 . video, 10 mins 10 secs.
  11. News: Dana Bartholomew . German Employer of Autistic Professionals to Acquire MindSpark . LA Business News . 14 June 2018 . 2019-01-02 .
  12. News: Jane Wakefield . Technology: The firm whose staff are all autistic . BBC News . 2 January 2019 .
  13. Web site: Auticon awarded IQ prize on World Autism Day . auticon UK . press release . 1 April 2014 . 2019-01-02 .
  14. Web site: auticon und Talwerk sind die Sieger des Innovators' Pitch 2014 . BITKOM . 2015-06-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150105133610/http://www.bitkom.org/de/presse/81149_80867.aspx . 2015-01-05 . German . press release .
  15. Web site: Ausgezeichnete Orte 2015: auticon – Berufsperspektiven für Menschen im Autismus-Spektrum . Land der Ideen . 2019-01-02 . German .
  16. Web site: New Work Award 2015 - Platz 1: auticon GmbH (Kategorie KMUs und Start-Ups) . XING . YouTube . 26 January 2015 . 2015-01-27 . video, 1 min 22 secs . German .
  17. Web site: Der Schatzsucher: Dirk Müller-Remus, auticon GmbH, Berlin Sonderpreis des Deutschen Gründerpreises 2015 . 2015-07-13 . German .
  18. Web site: Winners of the 2017 UK Social Enterprise Awards . Social Enterprise UK . 2018-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181107185522/https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/winners-of-the-2017-social-enterprise-awards . 2018-11-07 . dead .
  19. Web site: Home.
  20. Web site: World Changing Ideas Awards 2020: Corporate Social Responsibility Finalists and Honorable Mentions. 28 April 2020.

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