TECH DAYS 2018

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Markus Haas

Markus Haas
Markus Haas has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG since January 2017. Prior to this position, he had been leading the operative core business of the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2014. As COO he was also responsible for the operative integration of Telefónica and E-Plus following the acquisition in 2014 as well as the related successful realisation of the expected synergies.

Being a fully qualified lawyer, Markus Haas has been working for Telefónica since 1998. In 2009 he was appointed to the executive board and since 2012 he is member of the board of directors of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG, where he most recently steered the company strategy. In this position he was mainly responsible for the successful acquisition of E-Plus group. Previously he played significant roles in the acquisition and integration of HanseNet, the LTE spectrum auction and Telefónica Deutschland´s successful IPO. Under his conduct of negotiations Telefónica Deutschland entered commercially important strategic partnerships with Deutsche Telekom AG, Versatel GmbH and Drillisch AG among others.

Markus Haas started his career in the legal affairs and regulatory division at Telefónica in Germany in 1998 – at that time Viag Interkom – and subsequently worked as Executive Assistant of the CFO. Afterwards, he steered as Vice President the Corporate & Legal Affairs department with commercial responsibility for the roaming- and wholesale network-business. Markus Haas was born in Munich in 1972, is married and has two children.

Paul Haigh

Vodafone is ranked by Gartner and other analysts as global leader in IoT service providing. Paul Haigh lead’s Vodafone’s IoT business for the multinational corporate sector in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Vodafone is present in all leading industry verticals and provides end- to- end IoT services from hardware through secure global connectivity to application layer and hosting services. Paul is married and lives in Munich where he has worked in the telecommunications industry since 2001. His first role was the launch of the BlackBerry service in Germany at Viag Interkom.

Carsten Ahrens

Carsten Ahrens
Carsten Ahrens is Chief Executive Officer of Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security GmbH. Having completed his studies in electrical engineering, he brings more than 20 years of experience in various management positions in national and international telecommunications and IT companies. Prior to his most recent positions as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Mobile Security at Giesecke & Devrient GmbH and as CTO of Funkwerk AG, he served over five years as CEO for the telecommunications equipment supplier Ericsson in the German market. His professional career includes building up business units in leading companies such as Atos Origin and Ericsson.

Georg Eisenreich

Dr. Moritz Holzgraefe

Moritz Holzgraefe
Moritz Holzgraefe, 37, is COO of Axel Springer’s Corporate Digital Platforms (CDP), a cross-functional division which was started in 2016/2017. Moritz is responsible for the operationalization and further development of the horizontal digital platforms “Data & Analytics”, “Single Sign on”, “AdSolutions” and “Distribution”. These platforms serve as a foundation for vertical industry champions in paid, marketing and classifieds models to grow their businesses. Before starting at CDP he obtained different positions at Axel Springer, inter alia Head of Portfolio / Operations at the Marketing & Classifieds Division or General Manager TV & Radio at the Electronic Media Division. Moritz studied at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and at Duke University in the USA and holds a doctoral degree.

Johann Schwenk

Johann Schwenk
Johann is leading the Competence Center Electric Mobility at Bayern Innovativ and is Lecturer in Innovation Management at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI). Before that he was Head of the Showcase Electric Mobility Bayern-Sachsen of the Federal Government and Project Manager at Bayern Innovativ in Nuremberg. Between 2007 and 2011 he was Research Associate for Innovation and Technology Management with focus on Roadmapping and Knowledge Management and before that Junior Consultant in the field of Automotive. He is holding a PhD in Corporate Strategy, a Master in Economics as well as a Bachelor in Business Management.
Next to publications in Corporate Management as well as Knowledge and Customer Management Johann has shown his demonstrated expertise for (e)Mobility in many contributions for print, radio and TV. He is a well-received guest for speeches and presentations at (inter)national conferences, podium discussion as well as moderator of leading events.

Dr. Andreas Böhm

Head of Cluster Automotive, Bayern Innovativ GmbH

Dominique Petersen

Dominique Petersen
Dominique Petersen is managing director at finally safe GmbH. The company is developing an intelligent security solution for detecting malicious network traffic using Machine Learning. Prior to this, Mr. Petersen was Head of Research for Internet Early Warning Systems at the Institute for Internet Security, where he was responsible for many research and development projects in the area of situation awareness and attack detection in networks

Dr. Andreas Liebl

Dr. Andreas Liebl
Dr. Andreas Liebl supports medium and large companies in their innovation strategy and implementation as managing director at UnternehmerTUM Projekt GmbH. He previously worked in top management and strategy consulting for five years, co-founded two start-ups and did his dissertation at TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute.

Prof. Dariu M. Gavrila

Prof. Dariu M. Gavrila
Since 2016 Dariu M. Gavrila heads the Intelligent Vehicles and Cognitive Robotics section at the TU Delft as a Full Professor.
In 2010, he was appointed professor at the University of Amsterdam, chairing the area of Intelligent Perception Systems.
Over the past 15 years, Prof. Gavrila has focused on visual systems for detecting humans and their activity, with application to intelligent vehicles, smart surveillance and social robotics. From 1997 till 2016 he has been with Daimler R&D where he led the multi-year pedestrian detection research effort. He received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, in 1996. Prof. Gavrila is frequently cited in the scientific literature and received the I/O 2007 Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Application Award 2014.

Ralph Steidl

Ralph Steidl
Ralph Steidl is founder and CEO of Portabiles HealthCare Technologies GmbH in Nuernberg. The company develops a sensor-based gait analysis system that is integrated into orthopedic shoes for therapy monitoring and diagnostic support. During the past ten years, Ralph has led several interdisciplinary R&D projects with a digital health focus: for intersectoral IT-interconnection, digital medication plans and smart wearables.

Dr. Stephan Spitz

Dr. Stephan Spitz
Stephan Spitz has working experience in the field of IT security with cryptography and basic research projects as well as with successful product launches and go-to-market strategies. At G&D he is currently responsible for the development and deployment of new security technologies and services related to IoT and the upcoming 5G networks. Before re-joining G&D he co-founded the ARM-Gemalto-G&D joint venture Trustonic. He received his doctorate degree from the Technical University of Munich and lectured there several years “Applied IT Security”. He holds several patents and publications related to IT security and is co-author of the book “Kryptographie und IT Sicherheit”.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin
Prof. Sami Haddadin is Director of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and holds the Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence. He is considered one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of robotics and machine intelligence. The engineer and computer scientist has written more than 130 scientific articles and received numerous of the most important international prizes and awards from the scientific community. Sami Haddadin has won the IEEE/RAS Early Career Award, the Alfried Krupp Prize and the German Future Prize of the German President.

Dr. Alexander Duisberg

Dr. Alexander Duisberg
Alexander Duisberg is a highly reputed lawyer within the IT, digital transformation and privacy sphere, with a clear international vision to develop his clients‘ businesses.
A partner of Bird & Bird in Munich, Alexander specializes in data protection, digital transformation projects, Internet of Things, and complex technology transactions, with a particular focus on automotive, industrial and insurance sectors. He covers a range of matters, including agile development, platforms and the data economy, cloud, cyber security, licensing and technology disputes.
Alexander is considered an „absolute expert“ and „1 of 5 leading technology lawyers in Germany“ on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters of technology law, including agile development, Big Data, cloud migration, transactional data protection and cyber security, digital transformation projects, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. His client base comprises suppliers and customers in a range of industries, in particular within the automotive, mechanical engineering and insurance sectors.
Alexander has been invited to the Federal Government think-tanks „Trusted Cloud“, „Smart Data“ and „Plattform Industrie 4.0“, and is member of the Steering Group of the Industrial Data Space Association. Alexander speaks German, English, Italian, Spanish and French.

Dr. Bernd Rosenbusch

Dr. Bernd Rosenbusch
Born in Bremen he studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, where he also obtained a doctor’s degree for the subject of ASEAN.
In 2001 he started working for Deutsche Bahn Passenger Services in the field of strategy.
In 2005 he became Director Pricing & Revenue Management DB Regio AG. In 2006 he relocated to Bavaria and assumed the responsibility as Regional Director Marketing and from 2010 onwards the additional task as Managing Director DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben. In 2015 he started as CEO & Commercial Director for Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH and Bayerische Regiobahn GmbH.

Dr. Roland Assam

Dr. Roland Assam
Roland Assam is Chief Data Architect at Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH.
At G+D Currency Technology, he is developing an AI-Driven Big Data Analytics software called SeriTrack. He is also researching on how Artificial Intelligence can be optimally leveraged in the Cash Cycle and Banking Industry.
Roland Assam has more than 12 years of experience in Software Development. He has a PhD in Predictive Analytics and Data Protection from the RWTH Aachen University.

Nick Wright

Nick Wright
Nick is an experienced manufacturing sector professional with over 10 years experience in industry. He started out with an Engineering Doctorate in ultrasonic welding with Jaguar Land Rover which was followed by 2 years in the body and trim function of R&D at Jaguar Land Rover. A stint in aerospace followed as an engineering manager for the Airbus A350 galley programme at B/E Aerospace. Nick then took an opportunity to develop his technology knowledge as management consultant at Accenture within A&D for 3 years. He’s now the Digital Manufacturing Sector Lead at Digital Catapult where he seeks to help industry incorporate digital technology to delivered wide ranging benefits for the UK.

Dr. Philipp Schulte

Dr. Philipp Schulte
Dr. Philipp Schulte is the Head of Corporate Development & Strategy for the Giesecke+Devrient group. In his role, Philipp is responsible to outline the strategic direction of the company, analyze markets and trends, conduct M&A activities and drive innovation. He has over 12 years of experience in running strategic projects in the global high-tech industry. Before joining Giesecke+Devrient, Philipp was a junior partner at McKinsey&Company, where he focused on client work in Automotive, Machinery and Telecommunication. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) and a Masters degree in Computer Science and Communications Engineering.

Luke Watkins

Luke Watkins
Luke Watkins is head of business development at Flexciton. Luke has a background in Mechanical Engineering and previous experience working in industry at Ford and McLaren Automotive.

Dr. Juan Bernabé-Moreno

Dr. Juan Bernabé-Moreno
Dr. Juan Bernabé-Moreno received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain, in 2002 and 2015, respectively.
He has been leading data science teams in the telecommunication industry (product data lab for Telefónica Digital and web intelligence team for Telefónica Germany) for the more than 8 years. At present Juan is heading the Global Advanced Analytics Unit at E.ON, where he is leveraging Artificial Intelligence to reshape the energy sector and come closer to the 100% carbon free goal.
Juan never stopped his research activities in the applied AI area, currently with focus on social networks, cognitive modelling, recommendation techniques, knowledge retrieval, etc (several times “best paper” award). At the same time, he is a visiting lecturer at the International University of La Rioja.
Dr. Bernabé-Moreno is a renowned data science evangelist specialized in transforming big organizations to make the most of their data assets and connecting the state-of-the-art AI research to the industry to maximize the impact.

Ingo Susemihl

Ingo Susemihl
Ingo Susemihl is an international manager, entrepreneur and business coach with a strong focus on innovation, business creation and leadership. He has gained his 30+ years of professional experience in various hi-tech sectors, including the semiconductor, security, lighting and energy industries. He has spent over 25 years in management and executive functions of Start Ups, SMEs and Corporates in Germany and the US. Currently he works as Principal in Siemens’ venture firm next47 and as Partner Manager in the Charter of Trust initiative for Siemens.

Dr. Dirk Schachtner

Dr. Dirk Schachtner
Dr. Dirk Schachtner is Executive Officer at Consline AG. He has been in leadership positions at Consline since 2003 and was appointed to the management board on April 1st, 2009. After his business administration studies at the University of Passau, he worked at the Chair of Marketing and Retail where he conducted market research and consulting projects for medium-sized and large companies.

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster
As Senior VP for Sustainability and Cities, Jenny Bofinger-Schuster leads the Siemens Center of Competence Cities. The purpose of the Center within Siemens is to offer integrated solutions addressing the challenges caused by urbanization, climate change and globalization, shaping tomorrow’s urban infrastructures. Additional responsibilities include the company’s global sustainability program and its implementation. Jenny’s professional focus encompasses resource and energy efficiency, sustainability management and Siemens’ Business to Society approach.
With more than 12 years experience in management consultancy within and outside of Siemens, Jenny Bofinger-Schuster was made a Partner of Siemens Management Consulting. Within that role, Jenny developed trendsetting strategies in areas ranging from mobility to healthcare, around the globe.

Antti Partanen

Antti Partanen
Antti is a software professional with experience from various roles of software development from developer to a product manager. Antti also works as a business advisor coaching corporate teams with lean and agile new business development. Additionally, he has several years of experience on how robots and humans can work together.

Philipp Schäfer

Philipp Schäfer
Philipp Schäfer is an expert in communications, design and innovation and held management positions at e.g. IDEO, SinnerSchrader and Razorfish. He has successfully built, lead and mentored world class interdisciplinary teams for over 20 years. His expertise spans from the financial-, automotive-, and high-tech industry to fashion and retail.
Philipp joined ExB in 2016 to unify high tech research and state of the art software development with design to create meaningful solutions and user experiences for the various applications of the ExB ML/AI platform.

Rüdiger Vogt

Rüdiger Vogt
Rüdiger Vogt is heading the Secure Remote Identification business at G+D Mobile Security GmbH. In essence, Rüdiger makes sure multi-channel digital onboarding is an exciting experience for customers while complying with high security standards. He is active across several different industries such as financial services, telecommunications and mobility. Rüdiger joined G+D in 2008 and held several leadership positions in international sales. Before that, he was VP Key Account Centers, headed strategic marketing and worked in product management at Infineon Technologies AG and Qimonda AG in Germany and the US. Rüdiger is based in Munich and holds an MBE from Darmstadt University, Germany.

Dr. Kurt Höller, MBA

Dr. Kurt Höller, MBA
Since December 2015, Kurt is Director of Business Creation at EIT Health e.V., Europe’s largest healthcare initiative focusing on healthy living, active ageing and improvements in healthcare. He is leading the EIT Health Accelerator supporting more than 100 startups with close access to all leading players in health industry and a budget of more than 10mio€ per year.
After attaining his Diploma of Electrical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU), he gained his Doctorate at FAU with research stays at Technische Universität München (TUM), and The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA. His research activities focused heavily on health innovation, with his thesis on “Novel Techniques for Spatial Orientation in Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)

Charlotte Han

Charlotte Han
Charlotte Han processes data and computes brand and digital strategies for a living. Thanks to growing up in Asia, becoming American in Silicon Valley and now living in Europe, she has learnt not take things for granted and to make connections where they may not seem apparent. She is highly interested in all things tech, especially how technologies can advance human lives, and enjoys networking with the misfits, the rebels and the trouble makers who are not afraid to shake things up and push the boundaries of what is possible. She currently works as Deep Learning Marketing Manager at NVIDIA, where she sees first-hand how AI is transforming industries. Connect with her on Twitter (@sunsiren) or LinkedIn.

Prof. Georg Sigl

Prof. Georg Sigl
Georg Sigl finished his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Technical University Munich in 1992. Afterwards he held several positions in research and development at Siemens and Infineon. From 2000 until 2010 he was responsible for the development of new secure microcontroller platforms in the Chip Card and Security division. Under his responsibility, two award winning platforms have been designed. In June 2010, he founded a new chair at Technical University of Munich for Security in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. In parallel, he is driving embedded security research as director at the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC Munich.

Dr. Rainer Stetter

Dr. Rainer Stetter
Dr.-Ing. Rainer Stetter was born in 1963 and studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was awarded a doctorate at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management, iwb) by Prof. Milberg. 1993 he joined Zwick GmbH in Ulm as Product Development Manager of Material Inspection. He has been Executive Director of Software Factory GmbH and ITQ GmbH since 1997.
From 1998 to 2006 he has been Vice Chairman of the VDMA Association Software, while since 2002 he is a member of the VDMA Committee for Research & Innovation. Since 2004 Dr. Stetter has been also a member of the Steering Committee of the ASQF Automation Specialist Association. Another integral part of his work is the design and execution of research projects and the establishment of national and international congresses. In addition, he is regular co-author for professional journals such as Computer & AUTOMATION, [me], and Mecha- tronik.
For nearly fifteen years, Dr. Stetter has dedicated himself to interdisciplinary projects with uni- versities in order to offer students a practical and industrial-relevant education. As an assistant professor at TUM, he holds lectures, seminars and team term papers. In 2011 he launched the foundation “Technik macht Spaß” (“Technology is Fun”), whose goal is awaking enthusiasm for technology in youths and improving cross-links between industry and research/education.
In 2016, he founded the subsidiary called Dr. Stetter ITQ S.L.U in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria). Itis focused on developing future technologies. In close cooperation with the local Universidad de Las Palmas, but also together with some other European universities, the venture offers the chance to let one’s imagination run free and turn ideas into prototypes. To propagate this ”crazy thinking”, innovative events such as Makeathons are being organized. The focus is on “smart, green and innovative products”, for which the location in Las Palmas is an ideal place.

Dr. Christian Patron

Dr. Christian Patron
Dr. Christian Patron, born in 1972, studied at the Technical University of Munich, with a focus on production technology and received a doctorate in virtual and augmented reality. In 2004 he joined the BMW Group at Munich, as project manager for change projects in product data management. Following various managerial positions in IT such as strategic IT master planning, he was appointed Head of Digitalization in Production in 2013. Since 1 August 2016, he has been Head of Innovations Management and Digitalization in the Production System.

Bill Cole

Bill Cole
As Designit’s Strategic Design Director, Bill loves helping clients create a more human shaped world. Since figuring out in the 90’s he was better at applying technology to solve business issues than healing broken skiers, he began his industry and continent spanning career. From Apple to Zeppelin, Bill has repeatedly found ways to apply technology and strategic design on business’ greatest challenges. He is fairly sure he knows how many guitars he has, and plays at least one of them every day.

Volker Held

Volker Held
At Nokia, Volker is focused on combining the technology and business side of innovation. He heads Nokia’s 5G market development activities for the company, helping to create the future of telecommunications. He was also one of the founders of Nokia FutureWorks and brought Technology Vision 2020 to life.

Alex Hill

Alex Hill
Alex is a Co-founder of Senseye, following a successful career developing software for Condition Based Maintenance in industries as diverse as aerospace, defence, energy and transportation. His background in Digital Systems Engineering and early work on one of the largest wireless sensor networks in the world has enabled Alex to bridge the gap between the real-world and the promises of the Internet of Things. He contributes his interests and experience to the development Senseye, the Scalable Predictive Maintenance product. Alex likes cats, cars and keeping things simple.

Alex Appelbe

Alex Appelbe
Alex Appelbe is an experienced industrialist with a clear vision for the future of the industrial internet and real-world experience of implementing factory improvements.Starting out as a factory supervisor, he knows that bringing innovation to the manufacturing environment involves much more than just technology. During his career, he has also been responsible for product development (delivering first article products to the A350 aircraft) and also developed a disruptive innovation programme for a global manufacturing corporation (GKN).Alex is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters in Industrial Systems from Cambridge University. He is the founder and CEO of Metis Labs.

Dr. Thomas Kinkeldei

Thomas Kinkeldei
Thomas Kinkeldei ist beim VDMA Bayern Koordinator für das Projekt Industrie 4.0 und beschäftigt sich hier mit neuen Technologien für die Industrie mit speziellem Fokus auf die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle. Zuvor arbeitete er als Projektleiter Forschung bei der Hilti AG und hat sich mit IoT und neuen Mechatronik Anwendungen für Power Tools befasst. Er ist promovierter Elektroingenieur und studierter Maschinenbauer.

Johannes Forster

Johannes Forster
Johannes Forster is heading the center for Digital Transformation at G+D Mobile Security GmbH. In essence, he leads the transformation from a company traditionally selling hardware products to a digital and solutions-oriented company. Moreover Johannes is the representative of G+D in the advisory board of VERIMI – the new cross-industry platform with the goal of creating the most secure and user-friendly platform of trust for identity services and payments across Europe. Johannes joined G+D in 2010 and held several leadership positions in strategy and corporate functions. Before that Johannes was a senior strategy consultant at Horváth & Partners Management Consulting and was focused on client work in Oil&Gas, Automotive and Financial Industries. Johannes is based in Munich and holds an MBA from Regensburg University, Germany.

Franziska Meier

Franziska Meier
Franziska’s focus is all about IT-Technology for smart cities, like apps, intelligent lampposts, sensors, smart data platforms and data gatekeeping. In January 2017 Franziska started working for the City of Munich as a Smart City IT-Strategist in the EU-Project ‚Smarter Together‘. She also supports the development process of a citywide strategic agenda for the digital transformation.
Franziska studied ‚Informatics in Public Administration‘ at FHVR Hof and she also holds a Master of Science in ‚Integrative Urban-Rural Development‘, received at Hochschule Wismar – University of Applied Sciences.
Prior to this, she worked for the Free State of Bavaria. She was responsible for the strategy, the development and operation of the IT-infrastructure of the Transportation and Operations Control Center (Verkehrs- und Betriebszentrale) of the motorway authority for northern Bavaria (Autobahndirektion Nordbayern).

Jürgen Besser

Jürgen Besser
Jürgen Besser holds an academic degree in sport science, he also majored in gerontology (M.Sc) and has a MBA in healthcare management. For more than 10 years, the now CEO of MOIO GmbH has been a research associate at the research institute IDC, which belongs to Wilhelm Löhe University of applied science, here he managed multiple programs exploring assistance systems for elderly. In those projects he focused mainly on finding ways to include the users and developing new business models.
Since 2017 he is the CEO and founder of MOIO GmbH.

Andrea Ahlemeyer-Stubbe

Andrea Ahlemeyer-Stubbe
Andrea Ahlemeyer-Stubbe is Director of Strategic Analytics at servicepro München GmbH and the author of ‘A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry‘ , as well as ‘Monetizing Data’, both books published by Wiley. Upon receiving her Master’s in statistics from the University of Dortmund, Ahlemeyer-Stubbe formed a consulting firm, offering customized professional services to her clients. She now leads servicepro Munich’s Analytics team, drawing on the wealth of experience gained from her more than 20 years in the industry, specifically in the areas of Data Mining, Predictive Modelling, CRM, Big Data and Social CRM. Ahlemeyer-Stubbe is a frequent lecturer at several universities, as well as a speaker at professional conferences. She was President of ENBIS (European Network Business and Industrial Statistics) from 2007-2009.

Gabriele Semino

Gabriele Semino
Gabriele is project leader at WARR Hyperloop, a student group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), that is building prototypes of the futuristic transportation system proposed by Elon Musk in 2013 as part of the international „SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition“. In the last round of the competition in August 2017, his team won the main prize with a top speed of 324 km/h, breaking the competition’s speed record. At the competition this summer the team will try to defend the title and set a new record.
After completing his bachelor’s in physics, Gabriele is now enrolled in the master program “Applied and Engineering Physics” at the TUM.

Rob Earley

Rob Earley
Rob Earley is a Senior Pre-Sales engineer at Endace. Rob has over 30 years’ experience of computer networking, including 10 years within the cyber security and threat management environment. Currently his role covers the EMEA region, where he deals with many different types of customers, including retail, financial, trading, legal, pharmaceutical, and service providers.

Nadim Khater

Nadim Khater
Nadim has been with Digital Shadows for over 4 years and as a Professional Services Manager, he has helped hundreds of companies customise Digital Shadows’ SearchLight tool to better understand their Digital Risks and how to mitigate them. His work has helped companies in various sectors including retail, financial services, automotive and technology; with use-cases ranging from awareness to incident response.

Dr. Stefan Lenz

Dr. Stefan Lenz
Dr. Stefan Lenz scouts digital technologies and startups and tests them by running POC projects in Linde’s internal accelerator. His focus is on data/AI related projects. He has a background in areas ranging from project risk management to strategy development and turbulence simulation which he focused on during his Post-Doc studies in an international research group. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from TU Muenchen.

Bob Crozier

Bob Crozier
Bob found his passion when he left the actuarial world and, with a group of like-minded individuals, set about ‚collaborating the shit out of insurance‘. Bob heads up both Architecture Services and the Global Blockchain Center of Competence at Allianz. He also works closely with the blockchain insurtech start-up, B3i.
Bob’s goal is to bring blockchain and DLT (distributed ledger technologies) into the mainstream of the insurance industry, in order to solve problems and unearth new opportunities, especially when those opportunities lead to greater financial inclusion and the closing of the ‚protection gap‘–particularly, in emerging markets where there is a greater proportion of #U2D2: unbanked, uninsured, disenfranchised, and dispossessed. Bob believes blockchain has the power to improve the lives of the next billion people.

Prof. Klaus Schilling

Prof. Klaus Schilling
Prof. Dr. Schilling had in space industry responsibility in interplanetary satellites, before he was appointed professor and chair for Robotics and Telematics at University Würzburg. In parallel he is president of the research company „Center for Telematics“. His team built the first German pico-satellite UWE-1, launched 2005 to optimize Internet in space. He published more than 350 papers and received several awards, including the Walter-Reis-Award for Robotic Innovations 2008 and 2012, as well as an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for research on control of networked distributed satellite systems. He is full member of the International Academy of Astronautics and was appointed Consulting Professor at Stanford University 2002-2006.
In international professional societies he served in IEEE as chairman of „TC on Networked Robotics“ and in the International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC) as coordinating chair for the area “Computers & Control” after having been TC chair for „Telematics: Control via Communication Networks“ and for “Aerospace”.

Brigitte Ecker

Brigitte Ecke
I’m Teamleader of the team Data Analytics at SWM Services GmbH. Since years we are building classical BI solution. Additionally we are developing a strategic analytics platform using SAP HANA Predictive analytics library, R-Server and a Hadoop cluster. I have 18 years of IT experience in different roles, 8 years in the analytics area.

Cristiano Malossi, PhD

Cristiano Malossi, PhD
Cristiano Malossi received his B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering and his M.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2004 and 2007, respectively. After a year of focus on computational geology problems in collaboration with ENI, he moved to Switzerland where in 2012 he got his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), with a thesis focused on the development of algorithms and mathematical methods for the numerical simulation of cardiovascular problems. After winning the IBM Research Prize for his PhD thesis, in July 2013 Cristiano joined IBM Research – Zurich in the Foundations of Cognitive Solutions group. Cristiano is a recipient of the 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize and 2016 IPDPS Best Paper Award. Since 2017 he is coordinator of the FET-H2020 Open transPREcision COMPuting (OPRECOMP) project.
His main research interests include: Deep Learning & Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, Transprecision & Energy-Aware Computing, Graph Analytics, Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aircraft Design, Cardiovascular Simulations, and Computational Geology.

Maximilian Möhring

Maximilian Möhring
Starting during his childhood, Maximilian grew more and more fascinated with technology and started modifying desktop PCs with his dad.
Driven by curiosity, he has always been trying to understand the inner workings of systems and has been looking for new technologies.
Not surprisingly, he founded 9 tech startups within the last 11 years during which time he learned how to create successful market-relevant technologies, but also what it means to fail.
Out of his curiosity and his critical innovation-driven thinking he dived into multiple industries (from automotive to insurance) and worked with C-Levels in various fields of digital innovation (from Internet-of-Things to Blockchain).
As part of the Generation Y he has a strong focus on prototyping and disruptive digital business models. In his private life Maximilian is driven by new technology and science, too. In order to optimize his health and wellbeing he started hacking his own system for example. By becoming a biohacker he changed his eating behavior, quit smoking, lost 40+ kilograms of weight and boosted his productivity. With a Master’s in Business and as a serial tech entrepreneur he combined the things he loves most: developing disruptive digital businesses.
His latest Startup is Keyp, an open identity ecosystem with the worlds first smart login (SSO) for any type of digital access.

Prof. Dr. sc. ETHZ Oliver Amft

Prof. Dr. sc. ETHZ Oliver Amft
Oliver Amft is the founding director of the Chair of eHealth and mHealth at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Oliver received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) from Chemnitz Technical University in 1999 and the Dr. sc. ETH (Ph.D.) from ETH Zurich in 2008, both in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Oliver obtained his university teaching qualification from TU Eindhoven in 2011. Until 2004, Oliver was a R&D project manager with ABB Inc. Oliver was an assistant professor at TU Eindhoven between 2009 and 2013, tenured since 2012. From 2014 to 2017, he was a full professor and established the Chair of Sensor Technology at University of Passau. Since 2017 Oliver Amft is a full professor at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Oliver Amft coordinated European research consortia (GreenerBuildings, iCareNet) and is a PI in several other European and national projects. Oliver has co-authored more than 150 refereed archival research publications in field of context recognition, biomedical sensor technology, wearable computing, digital health, and embedded systems.

Dr. Kiarash Keshavarzi

Dr. Kiarash Keshavarzi
Dr. Kiarash Keshavarzi is a Senior Director at Oracle and manages the Cloud Insight team for Northern and Eastern Europe. The team focuses on advising clients in large-scale Cloud transformation engagements and plays a strategic role in the transformation of Oracle into a Cloud company.
Prior to joining Oracle, Kiarash led the international expansion for a business unit of a U.S. Fortune 500 company into Europe and China as Director Strategy & Business Development, including its sale to private equity. Before that, Kiarash worked for many years at Accenture as a Strategy Consultant for Tech & Telecom companies.
Kiarash holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and has completed the Corporate Finance Program at London Business School. He is a passionate father of three childern and a taekwondo black belt practitioner.

Lucille Bonnet

Lucille Bonnet
Lucille Bonnet holds a double master’s degree in financing and has studied in France, Spain and Germany. She entered the venture capital business in 2009 at Innogy Venture Capital, a German VC investor focused on European technology start-ups specializing in renewable energies. As Senior Investment Manager for HTGF’s Hardware team, she primarily works with companies operating in the energy, IoT and robotics sectors. Lucille Bonnet has been with High-Tech Gründerfonds since 2015.

Dr. Sc. ETH Felix Friemann

Dr. Sc. ETH Felix Friemann
Dr. Felix Friemann – “Felix Friemann’s interests are simulation and process optimization in the areas supply chain management and logistics. Mr Felix Friemann earned his PhD at the Center of Industrial Management at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, developing mathematical solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. During his academic career, he made the experience that many mathematical solutions especially in academia are not used anymore after the developer leaves the company or university. In addition, the step from “algorithmic solution” to “production-ready application that can be used by all employees” is a huge one. This is not suitable anymore in the context of digitization and rapid development.
For that reason, together with two colleagues he founded the company logarithmo in 2016. The vision is that with the press of a button, a data scientist can provide his algorithmic solution in form of a production-ready web-application to all relevant users within the company. These users will profit from that application (e.g. simulation, optimization or application based on artificial intelligence) within their daily work. All the smart data analytics solutions within one company can be distributed company-wide in the form of a Corporate AppStore for data analytics solutions.”

Dr. Andreas Wolf

Dr. Andreas Wolf
Dr. Andreas Wolf studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University of Munich. He holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science. In the past, he has worked with several IT companies in technology oriented positions. He initialized the first European Common Criteria certification of a biometric product. Today, Dr. Wolf works as Principal Scientist Biometrics with Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin. He has published several book and journal contributions as well as conference papers and patent applications. He holds a teaching position at the Free University Berlin. Furthermore, he is one of the German DIN experts delegated to the ISO/IEC JTC1 committees SC17, SC27, SC31 and SC37 as well as to the European Standards Committee CEN. He is the Chairman of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27, and editor and co-editor of several standards including the face data standard ISO/IEC 19794-5/39794-5 and the ICAO Portrait Quality TR.

Thorsten Roeske

Thorsten Roeske
Thorsten Roeske is Head of Business Development for G+D Mobile Security’s Cyber Security Division. With his team he is responsible to identify and understand customer’s cyber security requirements and to develop concepts and architecture of respective G+D solutions. In order to help customer navigate the challenges of the connected world the team also consults and advises customers on cyber security risks and security measures.
Over the last 10 years Thorsten has worked with G+D’s customers worldwide and implemented solutions to protect against current and upcoming cyber security threats in the online and mobile world incl. the secure provisioning and management of identities to mobile devices including phones, wearables etc..
Thorsten has co-founded several start-ups and has 25 years of experience in cyber security and building security solution for the financial, mobile and enterprise sector utilizing multi-factor authentication, hardware and software security concepts as well as machine learning methodology.

Marek Cynowski

Marek Cynowski
Marek works as Country Manager DACH for SentiOne, he is focused on the use of new trends and internet technologies to drive the business forward. He’s practised in delivering business growth in B2B and B2C environments.
He is also enthusiastic about building and managing online channels and innovative online consumer and business products as well for established but also new brands. Before starting with SentiOne Marek was previously responsible for the digital transformation of Polish Post as eCommerce Director and Business Development Director of Groupon.

Henning Helmbrecht

Henning Helmbrecht
Henning is an entrepreneurial IT engineer connecting emerging technologies with real life applications in appealing and user-friendly ways. After having worked in traditional IT industry branches such as software development, cloud computing and distributed network security, he founded a mobility startup, actively operating in multiple countries. Henning is now supporting companies designing and building lean and simple products in the fast-paced spaces of Mobility, Shared Economy and the Internet of Things.

Nicolas Pöltl

Nicolas Pöltl
Nicolas studied business administration at the universities of Mannheim, Germany, and Lund, Sweden. He started his career at the Boston Consulting Group in 2004, where he served insurance clients in Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East. Since 2010 he held various positions within the ARAG group, the largest family-owned company in the German insurance industry. First, he headed the business organization department at the headquarters in Dusseldorf. In 2014 he moved to Munich to lead the operations function, where he developed a passion for eHealth and Insurtechs.

Dr. Florian Petit

Dr. Florian Petit
Florian Petit is a roboticist and co-founder of Blickfeld. Prior to founding Blickfeld, he was concerned with the control of robots as part of scientific work at TU München, Stanford University, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the ETH Zurich. He obtained his PhD for work in the field of human aware robotics. He now contributes this experience to Blickfeld: here, he is responsible for a novel, high-performance scanner that finds application in LiDAR ranging and, thus, facilitates the future success of autonomous driving.

Dr. Florian Mann

Dr. Florian Mann
Florian’s mission as CEO of WERK1.Bayern GmbH – ‚the most startup-friendly place in Munich‘ – is to unleash the massive potential for startups, entrepreneurship and digitization in Munich and Bavaria. High growth digital startups from all sectors can apply for one of the startup offices that come with access to an extremely supportive entrepreneurial community, individual coaching as well as a top tier mentor network. WERK1, funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Technology, also offers acceleration programs in selected industries to facilitate innovation and piloting between startups and incumbent companies.
InsurTech Hub Munich e.V. emanated from one of these WERK1 industry programs (W1 Fwd InsurTech) and is today an independent association with more than 30 members and partners. WERK1 continues to be a leading partner of InsurTech Hub Munich by housing the hub, building up dedicated resources for the further development of the hub and providing access to the Munich startup ecosystem. Florian is founding member of InsurTech Hub Munich and engages strongly in the build-up of the hub.
Florian Mann’s current position follows previous positions as Head of Corporate Development at Burda Digital (Hubert Burda Media) and Managing Director of kununu, a XING/Hubert Burda Media subsidiary. He is also founder of FERTILA, a digital health / FemTech startup.
Dr. Mann holds a degree in business administration and a PhD in business informatics from the LMU Munich (summa cum laude). He enjoys spending his little free time out on the water, with his wife and his three sons.

Eike Sommer

Eike Sommer
Eike Sommer ist seit Juli 2017 Chief Sales Officer bei der DriveNow GmbH & Co. KG. Der gelernte Bankkaufmann und Betriebswirt (VWA) war nach seiner Zeit bei der Sparkasse Nürnberg in verschiedenen Managment-Rollen international bei dem weltweit führenden Aktenvernichtungsunternehmen Shred-it Inc. tätig, zuletzt als General Manager und Prokurist. Nach weiteren drei Jahren als Geschäftsführer im Messebereich, wo er Projekte für IT-Sicherheit, Automobil und Energie aufbaute und durchführte, steuert er nun den Gesamtvertrieb für DriveNow in Europa. In dieser Rolle begleitet er die Entwicklung von Business-Mobilitätslösungen, steuert die Neuausrichtung des Vertriebs und wirkt abteilungsübergreifend in verschiedenen Projekten mit.

Dominik Schön

Dominik Schön
Dominik is Tech Lead of CodeCamp:N – the digital product incubator of NÜRNBERGER. Before that he was working as Research Assistant at the Chair for Information Systems II of Regensburg University, researching for his doctoral thesis in the field of Business Process Management. He is holding a Master as well as a Bachelor in Management Information Systems from Regensburg University, Germany. Parallel to his studies, he founded an app development agency in 2009. With his former team, he participated in different first initiatives of SMAs as well as several renowned listed groups in the area of mobile app solutions.

Martin Opercan

Martin Opercan
Martin Opercan is a brand communication and innovation expert with nearly 20 years of experiences. He currently works at the strategy consultancy diffferent and heads their Munich office. Previously, he was the Managing Director at the creative agency david + martin, and spent over 15 years with häberlein & mauerer, one of Germany’s leading communication agencies. He has worked for clients including Intel, Sony, Weber Grill, Nespresso, BMW and Freeletics.

Frank Blaimberger

Frank Blaimberger
In 2006, Frank Blaimberger joined FUJITSU as an international projects manager and is Head of Services & Tools since 2012. This department is an agile solutions provider for production and quality management. In the process, IT architecture services and IoT/I4.0 developments are applied for use in the smart factory at the Augsburg campus. The department also acts as an interface with the central IT infrastructure, electronics and systems manufacturing departments.
The core task is, in conjunction with the factory operation segments, to specify results in technical terms arising from requisition order analyses and implement these in the production environment. In mid-2014, as the first innovator from a German FUJITSU department, Frank Blaimberger and his team brought home the Q-Finity Award, a quality accolade competed for throughout the corporation, to the production facility in Augsburg. Architectural and implementation capabilities as part of the digital transformation were paid particular tribute to.
Due to his active participation on committees and in associations and the fact that he ensures a partner network is involved, Frank Blaimberger succeeds in making co-creation agreements and therefore implementing innovative solutions directly in the production process.
After graduating from the Technical University of Munich, Frank Blaimberger was responsible for building prototypes and predevelopment of technology innovations for a global mobile telephony and telecommunications producer. Numerous solutions for communications devices used to enter and extract data were created in the process and many of these were patented.
Afterwards, he joined the enterprise division as an SW product manager, spending two of those years in Toronto/Canada.

Olivier Schneller

Olivier Schneller
Olivier is co-founder and co-coach of Hammer! Coaching, a coaching boutique redefining the coaching experience to be flashy, funky and fun! He is an analytical and radical mind challenging every given mental borders and disrupting the shit out of things. Next to Hammer! Coaching, he is freelancing as an innovation activist and raising his two children to live life to the fullest.

Prof. Robert Hable

Prof. Robert Hable
Since 2015, Robert Hable is head of the Big Data Analytics group at Deggendorf Institute of Technology. The group closely works together with companies on industrial research projects in the field of data analytics.
After attaining his Diploma of Mathematics, he gained his Doctorate in statistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and his Habilitation in machine learning at University of Bayreuth.

Johannes Kestel

Johannes Kestel
As project manager digitization for die Bayerische Johannes and his team are providing a strong platform as basis for digital sales, marketing, customer relationship management and sponsoring initiatives. He’s aiming at providing user-friendly, state of the art online services to the clients whilst supporting the established sales and services channels by handing them right tools to achieve improved overall customer satisfaction.
Having managed multiple international projects in Europe, North America and the UAE for Zurich Insurance and being founder of the German-Mexican branding studio TIOTOU at the same time, Johannes enjoys the interface role between corporate insurance and agile tech startups that he is partnering with to push the digitization of die Bayerische at a faster pace.
Johannes holds the business administration diploma of the University of Würzburg and returned to Munich after several years in Zurich and Mexico City to join die Bayerische in 2017.

Dr. Florian Wilken

Dr. Florian Wilken
Florian leads the Analytical Models & Foresight team at Telefónica Deutschland, leveraging advanced analytics and AI to generate business impact for a wide range of Telefónica units from Networks to Marketing.
He has previously worked in different positions at Telefónica, including Strategy, Innovation and the Silicon Valley Office, with a strong focus on data analytics topics. Before joining Telefónica, Florian drove numerous strategic projects as a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group.
He holds a diploma in Physics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Heidelberg University.

Ralf Reinhardt

Ralf Reinhardt
Ralf Reinhardt is an internationally renowned expert for Information and Web Application Security. He is principal consultant and managing partner at sic[!]sec GmbH in Gröbenzell near Munich. For a number of years he has been an adjunct professor for web application security at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology as well as a project leader at OWASP („Open Web Application Security Projekt“).
Furthermore he is a community instructor at the SANS institute for Advanced Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking and holds various other memberships and certifications.

Martin Striegel

Martin Striegel
Martin joined Fraunhofer AISEC’s Hardware Security Department in 2017, where he is a research associate. In parallel, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at Technical University Munich. His research interests include secure interconnected embedded devices.
Before, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Medical Engineering from Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. There, he had focused on wearable devices and body sensor networks.

Dr.-Ing. Joerg Niesenhaus

Dr.-Ing. Joerg Niesenhaus
Dr.-Ing. Joerg Niesenhaus coordinates the activities at Centigrade’s North-West branch in Germany and is responsible for the areas of gamification and interaction design. In his role as Head of Gamification he focuses on the evaluation and the conceptual design of user-friendly interfaces incorporating playful design elements to enhance user engagement. Joerg is one of the leading experts for gamification in the area of industrial production. In 2016 he and his team won the German Design Award for the gamified user interface of their client SEW-Eurodrive.
Before his time at Centigrade Joerg worked more than 11 years for game companies like Blue Byte, Similis and Ubisoft and participated in the development of Germany’s popular strategy game series The Settlers. Joerg studied Applied Cognitive and Media Science and holds a PhD in human-computer-interaction (HCI).

Clemens Lutsch

Clemens Lutsch
Clemens Lutsch started working in the Usability / User Experience field in 1994. He manages and develops the area of strategic User Experience, which embraces new approaches in innovation management, organization development and the integration of human-centred design in corporate culture of Centigrade’s clients. The industrial anthropologist and trainer collaborates on a number of international standards in User Experience and Usability, recently as editor of ISO 9241 — Part 161: Guidance on visual user-interface elements. In course of his work on Industry 4.0 he is co-author of the German Standardization Roadmap Industry 4.0. Clemens Lutsch was also in the Board of the GermanUPA for two years. He is a member of the Certification Counsel at Fraunhofer Institute.

Silke Bell

Silke Bell
Silke Bell works as an Change facilitator and Executive Coach and is passionate about future leadership, facilitating transformational change and social innovation. In her work she helps organisations, leaders and teams in effectively co-creating new futures together including the facilitation of deep change processes and innovative value-oriented leadership development.

Marc Stiller

Marc Stiller
Marc develops digital products that challenge and rethink the interaction and experience with established industries. Since 2016, he focuses on the insurance sector and currently coordinates the Deloitte Digital Ventures team at a large InsurTech project. During his studies at TU Munich, he developed a deep interest for Artificial Intelligence and co-authored the AI in Insurance Whitepaper at Deloitte Digital. Previously, Marc gathered experience in consulting for high technology corporates and supported business development at a leading cloud provider and its startup clients. He is also a passionate digital artist and UI designer and did freelance work for several years.

Houssam El Moutaouakil

Houssam El Moutaouakil
El Moutaouakil developed predective algorithm for a robust and realtime accustic processing. 2015 he co-founded SENVISYS in order to prevent accidents on level crossings using vibration sensors for early train detection after patenting the algorithms. The solution of SENVISYS helps saving up to 200k Euro per installation just by economizing the cables.

Hassan Marzouk

Hassan Marzouk
With more than 20 years of experience in the cyber security sector, Hassan Marzouk joined RadarServices as Head of Sales DACH. Since then he leads the company’s sales teams in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is based in Munich and studied economics in Munich.

Christine Kirbach

Christine Kirbach
Christine Kirbach is an expert in transformation and leadership expert, with extensive experience as a consultant and manager. For 20 years, she has led digital transformation projects in diverse fields, including health, media, innovation and HR. Early on, she discovered her passion for building bridges between the old and new worlds and connecting corporations and startups. She started her career at an HR tech startup, and is equally comfortable working in small and large companies. Today, with the red lab, she supports companies to use digitization as an opportunity to do things differently

Dr. Thomas Friese

Dr. Thomas Friese
Thomas Friese is Vice President for Data Architecture and Digital Technology Platforms at Siemens Healthineers, Germany. In this role, he leads efforts to introduce novel digital and data based services into the portfolio of Siemens Healthineers. His work focuses on using state-of-the-art software technology, particularly cloud computing and big data analytics, to enhance and strengthen the core competencies of Siemens Healthineers in medical imaging, diagnostics and therapy. Prior to his current role, Thomas Friese held a variety of technical and engineering leadership positions at Siemens Corporate Technology and Siemens Healthcare. Thomas Friese earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Marburg, Germany.

Martin Sauer

Martin Sauer
Martin has always been excited about mobility and communication and the human factor about it. He studied Sociology with a concern in Science and Technololy Studies (STS) and worked for an innovation centre for mobility and societal change (InnoZ). Since 2016, Martin pushes projects forward for the mobility sector of Stadtwerke München / MVG.

Dr. Mara Cole

Dr. Mara Cole
Als Koordinatorin der Themenplattform Vernetzte Mobilität des Zentrums Digitalisierung.Bayern fördert Dr. Mara Cole den interaktiven Dialog zwischen Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit im Kontext von vernetzter Mobilität und Digitalisierung. Sie unterstützt bayerische Stakeholder beim Ausbau ihrer Digitalisierungskompetenzen und setzt sich bayernweit für Initiativen und Projekte in diesem Themenfeld ein.

Dr. Ullrich Martini

Dr. Ullrich Martini
Ullrich Martini studied physics in Munich where he received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University.
He joined the R&D Department of G+D in 2001. At G&D he worked on all kinds of secure software and hardware. Presently, his focus is on enhancing the security of wearable devices.

Andy Goldstein

Andy Goldstein
Co-Founder & Executive Director of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center & German Entrepreneurship GmbH Andy is also a Partner at Deloitte and Co-Founder & Managing Director of Deloitte Digital Ventures, an entity dedicated to building digital businesses for Fortune 500 level firms. A serial entrepreneur with 34 years of experience in founding, financing, building and accelerating companies, Andy sold his software company to the publicly listed Avanquest Software in 2003, served as COO Europe until 2009 and as a Board Member until 2014. Andy served for 3 years as a Board member at Carpooling.com (acquired by Bla Bla Car) and 4 years at Feingold Technologies (acquired by ShareCare). His accelerator at the LMU, the top ranked university in Germany, has spawned over 220 companies in 10 years and the German Accelerator, a project of the German government has graduated over 100 companies in 4 years. Before co-founding Deloitte Digital Ventures, Andy also led the launches of The Allianz Digital Accelerator & The Volkswagen DataLab and currently is leading Corporate Accelerator launches in the Pharma, Gas and Auto industries. Andy is Co-Founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie in Munich, The Global Entrepreneurship Summer School and is a founding member of 4Entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurial Think Tank of the 4 Munich Universities and holds teaching positions at the LMU (Munich University) and at the EM Lyon Business School in France.

Paul van den Berg

Paul van den Berg
Paul is co-founder and co-coach of Hammer! Coaching, a coaching boutique redefining the coaching experience to be flashy, funky and fun! He is a feel good drug disguised as a provocative psychologist. Next to Hammer! Coaching he supports troubled young people at a foster home and is discovering his new role of being a great dad for his newborn.

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wenzel

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wenzel
He started with the development of ceramic materials at RWTH Aachen University. At ABB, he worked in plant engineering as a program manager in Moscow, VP major projects in Zurich and head of M & A in Brussels.
As a CTO, he introduced a new product line for a medium-sized company and managed the international subsidiaries. At Siemens, he introduced a new technology in China and used startups to develop disruptive solutions for business units.

That’s what he now offers to large medium-sized companies – with the new ’startup to corporate‘

Dr. Ralf Rieken

Dr. Ralf Rieken
Dr. Ralf Rieken is founder and COO of the TÜV SÜD company Uniscon GmbH, the technology leader in cloud security.
Dr. Rieken does have over twenty years’ experience as network infrastructure and IT industry expert. He has held various leading positions in major IT and network supplier companies. Dr. Rieken also spent many years abroad in the United States, et al., heading a software company as CEO in the Silicon Valley until late 2007. Dr. Rieken holds several patents and has published many papers on computer technology and communication networks. He holds a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in Information Technology.

Dr. Benno Pichlmaier

Dr. Benno Pichlmaier
Benno is Director Global Technology & Innovation, leading the Research & Advanced Engineering organization at AGCO.
His worldwide team is responsible to deliver step change technologies and concepts to enable innovations, drive roadmaps and develop future strategies.

As a member of the AGCO iVenture Team Benno acts as the engineering interface for startups and entrepreneurs.
He represents AGCO in the European CEMA High Level Group on Agricultural Research and maintains a global partnership network in academia as well as governmental and private research institutions.
Benno holds a Diploma Degree in Mechanical Engineering and an Engineering PhD with Highest Honor from Technische Universität München.

AGCO is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural solutions with its core brands Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson and Valtra.

Bernhard Kux

Bernhard Kux
Bernhard Kux is an expert for the ICT industry at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) for Munich and Upper Bavaria. There he is the contact person for internal and external IT security issues. He also is Head of „Pack ma’s digital“ (www.packmasdigital.de), the Chamber’s digitalization campaign for SMBs. Bernhard holds a Master of General Physics (TU Munich). Prior to the CCI, he worked at CNet and Sport1.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl

Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl
Thomas Seidl is professor for Computer Science and head of the Database Systems and Data Mining group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). He studied Computer Science at Technische Universität München (TUM) and obtained his PhD in 1997 and his Habilitation in 2001 from LMU. From 2002 to 2016 he headed the data management and data exploration group at RWTH Aachen University. His fundamental research on data mining and database technologies with application domains in engineering, business, life science and humanities yielded more than 250 scientific publications so far. He serves on many program committees and scientific boards, directs the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) and is co-chair of the LMU Data Science Lab and of the elite Master program in Data Science at LMU.

Dr. Silke Bargstädt-Franke

Dr. Silke Bargstädt-Franke
Dr. Silke Bargstädt-Franke is heading the division of Product Management at Veridos GmbH – Identity Solutions by Giesecke + Devrient and Bundesdruckerei. In this function she is responsible for the complete product portfolio comprising the classical high secure travel document as well as complete system solutions, e.g. for mobile identities. Silke joined G+D/Veridos in 2009 and held several leadership positions in Project- and Product Management. Silke started her career taking over different functions in Development, Project Management and Technical Marketing at Infineon Technologies/ Qimonda AG. Silke is based in Munich and holds a PhD in Physics from Hamburg University, Germany.

Jesse Davis

Jesse Davis
Jesse Davis is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven in Belgium. He received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College (USA) and his masters‘ and PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA). He completed a three year post doc at the University of Washington (USA). His main research interests are in machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, he is interested in applying techniques from these fields to address problems in health care and sports. He is also a co-founder of Activ84Health, a startup whose mission is to motivate elderly individuals to remain physically active.

Willem Bulthuis

Willem Bulthuis
Willem Bulthuis has 30 years of Executive Experience in Global High-Tech Industries, a.o. as Board Member of secunet Security Networks AG, Group CTO and Head of Sales at Giesecke & Devrient, VP Global Automotive Sales at NXP Semiconductors and Executive at Philips Electronics, in Silicon Valley and Europe. Willem currently is Board Advisor for established companies on Digitisation, Corporate Venture Capital and Startup Cooperation. He also is active as Business Angel and Board Member for numerous Startups in the fields of Smart Industry, Automotive, Mobility, Energy, Construction, Recycling, Sustainability and Cybersecurity. He is Board Member at BAND (Business Angel Netzwerk Deutschland) and Expert/Mentor at many Accelerator Programs.

Armin Bauer

Armin Bauer
Armin Bauer is co-founder of IDnow and as CTO responsible for product and technology. While he was still at university, he founded together with colleagues amiando, a ticket- and payment-platform where he was in charge of the technological development. He studied Electrical Engineering with focus on robotics at the Technical University of Munich. At the same time, he got a degree in management studies at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich.

Roman Bügler

Roman Bügler
Roman Bügler graduated in information management at St. Gallen (HSG). He started his career at Swiss Re as a junior project manager, later changed to a client manager role for non-life insurance of eastern Europe. In his 15 years of experience within project management, he was also responsible to steer two insurance companies through run-off, was helping a mid-size European insurer to improve its claims management and was key account for the roll-out of several reinsurance tools used in the worldwide Munich Re organisation.

Dr. Kathrin Jaenicke

Dr. Kathrin Jaenicke
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Bertram Dorn

Bertram Dorn
Bertram Dorn is a Solution Architect specialized in security and compliance and does also cover networking and database topics.

In this role Bertram does help customers and partners of all sizes in architecting resources on AWS for their security and compliance needs. Prior to joining AWS, Bertram worked for more than 20 years in various deep technical roles in the high tech industry with a focus on security, networking storage and database technologies. Also Bertram has been working in very demanding IT environments for removing challenges, in the areas of performance, security and availability.

When Bertram is not helping customers, he is involved into music and is working on his solo piano and multi media performances.

Stephan Osthues

Stephan Osthues
Stephan is a Digital Transformation Consulting Partner, helping clients to identify their market opportunity by leveraging new digital business models, reinventing their customer engagements and inventing new digital services based on IoT’ised products.In this role he is heading IBM Digital Strategy & in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) and the Watson IoT Practice. Stephan has more than 18 years of consulting experience during which he has focused on complex Digital Transformation engagements. Prior to IBM he was head of corporate development of a wholesale company and has run his own marketing agency. Stephan is Sponsor for IBMs ‚Bachelor Graduate Programme‘. Stephan holds a Master (Dipl.-Kfm) of Business Administration from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU).

Carsten Neumann

Carsten Neumann
Carsten Neumann joined Ultimus in 2013 as Senior Vice President Enterprise Solutions and has responsibility for solutions delivery. Carsten has over 15 years of experience building and leading enterprise-scale managed solutions provider operations and designing and implementing process improvement solutions. Prior to Ultimus, Carsten was Director in the Managed Services Factory of Computacenter. He also held management positions at GE CompuNet, Xerox, and Agip. Carsten is a graduate of the University of Augsburg, Germany.

Lasse Kleinjohann

Lasse Kleinjohann
Lasse Kleinjohann joined Siemens 12 years ago. While making an apprenticeship as an Electronics Technician for Automation Technology, he studied Information Technology at the Nuremberg Tech.
After finishing his studies, Lasse went into the growing field of e-mobility, working with vehicle manufacturers on the electrification of their products, such as city busses, delivery trucks or construction machines.


In 2014 he moved to the Plant Data Services team, working on data-driven applications and services which bring added value to Siemens’ customers. Out of these individual, product-specific applications, e.g. for motor condition monitoring, the idea of a mutual IoT operating system was born. MindSphere was initially launched in 2015 as an Industrial IoT Platform, whereas 2016 the Siemens Management Board decided to make MindSphere the IoT Operating System for all Siemens Divisions.


From the very beginning, Lasse has worked on the regional market entry of MindSphere in various countries. Today he is heading the MindSphere Business Development team for the EMEA zone, increasing the reach of MindSphere into the regions and verticals of the zone.

Michael Kranawetter

Michael Kranawetter
Since 2007, Michael Kranawetter is National Security Officer and Head of Information Security at Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. In this role, he is responsible for IT governance, IT compliance and risk assessment, as well as the entire information security strategy of the company.

Kranawetter has comprehensive and long-standing experience in the IT security industry. As Project Manager and Consultant, he implemented a number of major infrastructure projects, before he became Senior Service Manager and IT Architect at Munich Re AG, inter alia in the fields of security architecture, service management and IT governance.

Rudolf Bayer

Rudolf Bayer
Rudolf Bayer ist emeritierter Professor für Informatik an der TU München. Er studierte Mathematik in München und promovierte an der University of Illinois 1966. Nach Aufenthalten am Boeing Research Lab in Seattle und als Associate Professor an der Purdue University begründete er 1972 den Lehrstuhl für Datenbanksysteme an der TU München. Bekannt ist er vor allem für die Erfindung und Weiterentwicklung des B-Baums und des UB-Baums. Er leitete mehrere Forschungsgruppen und viele Projekte.

Er erhielt 1999 das Bundesverdienstkreuz und 2001 den SIGMOD Innovations Award der ACM.

die Transaction SW GmbH www.transaction.de ist eine Ausgründung aus seinem Lehrstuhl

Stefan Sebastian

Stefan Sebastian
Stefan Sebastian leads product and strategy at Rhebo GmbH which includes solutions for industrial security and continuity for manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators. Before joining Rhebo, Stefan was Vice President of Product and Strategy for next-generation firewall vendor gateprotect (formerly Adyton System) and later Rhode und Schwarz post-acquisition. Stefan also helped guide Sandvine from pre-revenue startup to global DPI market leader and has held senior roles in other leading telecoms, cybersecurity, and fintech vendors.

Dr. Thomas Peters

Dr. Thomas Peters
Dr. Thomas Peters is a data scientist at OmegaLambdaTec. After 12 years of work in theoretical astrophysics at the highest international level, he left academia to apply his analytical and problem-solving skills in industry. He obtained his diploma in physics at the University of Marburg in 2006 and his PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2009. Before joining OmegaLambdaTec, he was a visiting scientist at Harvard University and held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Zurich and at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Dario Manns

Dario Manns
Dario Manns is leading innovation and special operations at FairFleet. Combining years of experience in aviation and sensor technology leverages huge potential as a Full-Service Provider for drone powered solutions. Holding an academic degree in movie & TV production Dario investigated workflow changes through drone technology. As Co-Founder and CIO of FairFleet he is solving the hassle of booking and operating drones worldwide for various industries by bringing standardized service offerings to the market. Over the last few years he and his team developed different drone powered products for numerous use cases – examples in the insurance industry: automated underwriting & accelerated claims management.

Dr. Thomas Huber

Dr. Thomas Huber
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