Dr. Markus
Söder

Dorothee
Bär

Foto Credits: Bundesregierung/Denzel

Judith
Gerlach

Judith Gerlach was appointed Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs in November 2018. At the age of 33, the law graduate was the youngest minister ever to be appointed for the Bavarian cabinet, and the youngest member to have been elected for the Bavarian State Parliament in 2013.

As State Minister she co-ordinates the digitalization projects undertaken by all ministries and develops strategies for Bavaria’s future as a digital location. In doing so, she aligns a wide spectrum of topics for digitalization in Bavaria: from promoting the Bavarian films and games industry, via pushing the development of digital infrastructure in our country, up to supporting initiatives in cutting-edge technology trends like artificial intelligence and blockchain.

A matter of the heart for Mrs. Gerlach is to encourage women to take up careers in digital jobs. Another one of her major concerns is to enter into a dialogue with citizens about ethical questions coming with digitalization.

Ralf
Wintergerst

As CEO of Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Ralf Wintergerst is managing one of the world's leading security technology companies. He began his career in 1998 as Director of International Subsidiaries in the Cards and Services business. Between 1999 and 2005 he held various management positions in the division Currency Management Solutions, ultimately heading it from 2006 on. He has been a member of the Management Board since 2013. In 2016, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board.
Furthermore to his role at G+D, Wintergerst is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of secunet Security Networks AG. In addition, he holds various positions related to IT security issues, including member of the advisory board of the Cyber Defense research institute of the Bundeswehr University in Munich and co-chair of the Digital Summit Platform "Security, Protection and Trust" of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Since mid-2019, he took over as chair of the North Africa Middle East Initiative of German Business (NMI) and has also become a member of the Executive Committee of Germany's digital association, Bitkom.

Dr. Roland
Busch

Dr. Roland Busch is Deputy CEO, CTO and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. Roland is responsible for corporate strategy and for advancing R&D, innovation, digitalization and Internet of Things. As designated CEO, he has overarching responsibility for the Siemens Operating and Strategic Companies Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure and Mobility. He also holds the positions of Labor Director and CHRO. He also oversees Next47, the global venture firm of Siemens, as well as the company’s sustainability and carbon neutral initiatives. In addition, he is the Chairman of Siemens Mobility GmbH, a leader in intelligent mobility solutions, and a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Healthineers AG, a leading medical technology company.

Roland is passionate about the potential of technology to create value for customers and society. He believes that by combining the physical and digital worlds and leveraging IoT technologies, businesses and economies can unleash the next era of growth and innovation. The possibilities include greater efficiency, less energy consumption, shorter travel times, better healthcare, smarter buildings and factories. He is also passionate about empowering people to develop innovations, by promoting diversity and access to continuous training and development.

Roland studied physics at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany – where he also received his doctorate – and at the University of Grenoble in France.

Klaus Josef
Lutz

A native of Munich, Klaus Josef Lutz, studied law at the LMU in Munich. He began his career initially as a lawyer but soon assumed managerial positions in a number of different sectors which enabled him to gain extensive experience, above all in the restructuring and development of companies.Among other positions, Lutz was General Manager of Digital Equipment GmbH, Chief Executive Officer of DITEC Informationstechnologie AG, General Manager of Burda Druck GmbH and Chief Executive Officer of i-center Beteiligungen AG. His last post before joining BayWa was as General Manager of Süddeutscher Verlag GmbH.Lutz was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BayWa AG in July 2008. The company’s business activities are comprised under the core segments Agriculture, Energy (with a special focus on renewable energies) and Building Materials as well as the Innovation & Digitalisation Segment, focused on development.In addition, Klaus Josef Lutz is on the supervisory boards of a number of listed and private companies, including T&G Global Limited, Auckland/New Zealand (Chairman), Giesecke+Devrient GmbH, Munich/Germany (Chairman), Euro Pool System International, Rijswijk/Netherlands (Chairman), WHG mbH, Klagenfurt/Austria (Chairman) and RWA AG, Vienna/ Austria (Member of the Supervisory Board). In 2013, Lutz was appointed as an honorary professor of Managerial Economics of Co-operative Societies at the Technische Universität München. He has been the vice president of IHK München und Oberbayern (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Munich and Upper Bavaria) since 2016 as well as the vice president of Deutscher Raiffeisenverband e.V. (German Raiffeisen Association) since 2017.

Dr. Wolfgang
Hackenberg

Dr. Wolfgang Hackenberg holds a PhD in Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge. He joined Nokia from Alcatel-Lucent in 2013 and has held several international business leadership functions. On 1 January 2020 he was appointed Vice President and Head of Licensing Sales for Nokia patents worldwide. In addition he has been serving as Speaker of the Management Board of Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG since 2017. He is involved in various industry organizations to develop the digital infrastructure Germany.

Lina Gandløse
Hansen

Lina Gandløse Hansen is based in Munich as the Consul General of Denmark to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and the Director of Innovation Centre Denmark. With a Master’s Degree from Copenhagen Business School and IT University of Copenhagen. As part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lina Gandløse Hansen’s career path as an entrepreneurial diplomat includes previous diplomatic postings in Washington D.C. and Paris.
The Innovation Centre Denmark in Munich is a partnership between the Ministry of Higher Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
Innovation Centre Denmark offers insights into research, science, technology, new business models and commercial innovation in innovation hotspots around the world.

Katrin
Pucknat

Katrin Pucknat is President of ResMed Germany and member of ResMed's Global Executive team. ResMed is a market leader in tech driven integrated care solutions that treat and keep people out of the hospital, empowering them to live healthier, higher-quality lives.
ResMed’s digital health technologies and cloud-connected medical devices transform care for people with sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic diseases. Its comprehensive out-of-hospital software platforms support health professionals and caregivers who help people stay healthy in the home or care setting of their choice. By enabling better care, ResMed improves quality of life, reduces the impact of chronic diseases, and lowers costs for consumers and healthcare systems in more than 140 countries.
Katrin has held various European leadership roles in ResMed, dating back to 2010. Prior to joining ResMed, Katrin held senior executive marketing positions in the United States and Europe. She has over 20 years’ experience in the medical device industry with a focus on marketing, communications, business innovation, and business development. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing.

Dr. Liliane
Ableitner

Liliane Ableitner focused on the energy sector early on in her career. Already during her undergrads in information systems, she worked part-time in a Swiss cleantech startup. During her PhD at ETH Zurich, she designed, developed, and tested digital products and applications that enable end users to contribute to the energy transition in easy ways. Since October 2019 she has been dedicated to the start-up Exnaton as co-founder and CEO.

Marco
Affonseca

Marco Affonseca is currently Head of Global Innovation at InsurTech Hub, co-founder at IDA, an innovation think tank, other ventures, and an angel investor. Marco has been working with Fortune 500 companies and startups for more than 12 years, mainly leading high-performance teams in complex business projects as well as innovation initiatives globally.

Radoslav
Albrecht

Radoslav Albrecht is the Founder & CEO of Bitbond, a financial technology company that improves the issuance, settlement and custody of securities with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization. In 2019 Bitbond conducted Germany's first regulated security token offering with approval from BaFin. Before founding Bitbond, Radoslav worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and advised banks in Europe and Western Africa in restructuring and post-merger integrations. Prior to that Radoslav was with Deutsche Bank London in sales & trading of structured products.

Dr. Heike
Bach

Dr. Heike Bach is founder (1995) and CEO of VISTA, an innovative company specialised on applications of remote sensing in hydrology and agriculture. In 2017 she successfully transferred the SME into a company belonging to the BayWa group. Bringing scientifically sound solutions into practise in order to solve societal challenges is her strong motivation and passion. For example, VISTA’s Smart Farming solutions (TalkingFields) are applied now in more than 20 countries also outside Europe. VISTA uses the opportunities of digitalisation, big data, environmental models and satellite image analyses to support sustainable agriculture and water management. The core applications include site-specific fertilisation, irrigation management and yield forecasting.

Katrin
Bacic

Katrin Bacic is Head of Venture Development and has been Managing Director of wayra Germany together with Florian Bogenschütz since January 2020. In this position, she is responsible for the cooperation between investors, stakeholders, and external funding programs, as well as the scouted start-ups. She oversees the collaboration between the start-ups and the business units of Telefónica.

Christian
Banse

Christian Banse is the head of the department Service and Application Security at Fraunhofer AISEC. With over 8 years of experience in the research domain he is currently interested in automated security assessment in the fields of IoT and Cloud computing. He is the author of numerous publications, an avid open source contributor on GitHub and the lead developer of the open source tool Clouditor.

John
Barry

Flexound has revolutionized the listening experience and now John Barry is leading us into the automotive sector. Over his twenty-five year career, John has guided new technologies into mass adoption and is now focusing on bringing FLEXOUND Augmented Audio™ to vehicle seating. His commercial experience ranges from starting and running his own company to leading a turnaround of a multi-billion euro business unit at Nokia.

Anne Kjaer
Bathel

Anne Kjær Bathel is CEO and co-founder of ReDI School of Digital Integration. She is a graduate from KaosPilot in Denmark, a hybrid of a business and a design school. Her career started consulting Samsung Electronics, developing the company’s award-winning corporate social responsibility strategy for Scandinavia. Afterwards she spent 2 years in Japan researching open social innovation on the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship. Returning to Europe Anne set up the Berlin Peace Innovation Lab, which is associated with Stanford University. The lab focuses on how technology is facilitating emerging and measurable social change toward global peace. In response to the refugee crises, Anne co-founded ReDI School in 2015. Since then, the 4 schools in Berlin, Munich, Duisburg and Copenhagen are teaching programming and tech skills to asylum seekers and migrants and connects them to the tech industry for a career start. The success of ReDI School attracted prominent school visitors as chancellor Angela Merkel, General Secretary of the UN António Guterres and Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg. For her work and engagement Anne received the “Victress Award” in 2017 for outstanding female leadership, in 2018 she was recognized by “Edition F” as one of 25 women revolutionizing German industry and named “Encourager of the year” by Handelsblatt. In 2020 Anne was celebrated as the Female Social Entrepreneur of the year by the German Startup Award.

Mark
Bartig

Mark Bartig, CRO, is a seasoned sales executive who has built several sales teams from the ground up and specializes in high growth sales models. Previous to Rezilion, Mark was CRO at Netsurion, a Global Managed Security Services Provider. Prior to Netsurion he was CRO at Connectria, a Global Hosting company, and Mark also led North America Mid Market and SMB Sales for Symantec where he was also a member of the Symantec Leadership Council.

Chris
Begley

Chris Begley is the representative of the Province of Ontario, Canada in Germany and Austria. Prior to joining the Government of Ontario, Chris worked for Global Affairs Canada as a Trade Commissioner since 2009. That period included a term at the Canadian Embassy to Germany in Berlin. Chris has also conducted historical land claims research for the Government of Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Chris received a Bachelor’s Degree in Canadian Studies and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Peter
Bludau

Peter Bludau is a research associate in the Center for Code Excellence (CCE) at fortiss. He studied computer science at the Technical University Munich and received his master's degree in 2016. His focus is on the support of software development and its processes. He is especially interested in the prediction of program defects by mining software repositories, which is currently the topic of his PhD doctorate.

Dr. Andreas
Böhm

Dr Andreas Böhm is Head of Cluster Automotive at Bayern Innovativ GmbH in Nuremberg. He studied Physics with a focus on Solid State Physics, Semiconductors and Magnetism at the University of Regensburg and completed his PhD in molecular biophysics in Ulm and Frankfurt. In 2003 he joined the Robert Bosch GmbH in Schwieberdingen as project manager for ECU Hardware Development. He’s been at Bayern Innovativ since 2007, where he leads the Cluster Automotive and is a project manager for automotive and electronics.

Günter
Böhm

Günter Böhm is Senior Key Expert for communication technology and cyber security at Siemens AG, Digital Grid business unit. Günter is responsible for product management of communication products for smart grid systems and solutions. He is convinced that connectivity paired with truly easy-to-use cyber-security will boost further exciting digital innovations creating value for customers and society.Günter studied communications engineering at Friedrich Alexander University in ErlangenNuremberg, Germany and at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been working in different positions at Siemens and Nokia.

Dr. Christopher
Brennan

Dr. Christopher Brennan is the Regional Director of DACH and Eastern Europe at Checkmarx (cyber security) Deutschland GmbH. He leads a team of cyber security professionals who are based in various cities in Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Poland and Russia. Christopher is also a non-executive director (Aufsichtsrat) of OSB AG Engineering & IT. Originally from Cork in Ireland, Christopher now lives in Munich, Bavaria

Jakob
Breuninger

Jakob Breuninger is machine learning expert, founder & CTO of munich-based Startup Delicious Data. Coming late for lunch to the university cafeteria he came across the problem of food waste caused by overproduction.

Driven by the idea to solve that problem he realized that restaurants, cafeterias and canteens offer plenty of data that can be used to apply machine learning methods to predict future customer demand more precisely. Delicious Data was founded in 2017 and has successfully closed their first financing round last year. Recently they were awarded with the german federal award against food waste "Zu gut für die Tonne" in the category "Digitalisierung" for saving food waste in over 20 university cafeterias across Germany.

Dr. Robert
Brooks

Robert is a leading expert in precision, high reliability robotic sensing and design with a PhD in mechanical engineering and over 9 years industry experience.
He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto where his thesis was focused on designing and developing the next generation of surgical robotic mechanisms and sensors. In industry, Robert has worked across a broad range of high-reliability sectors including nuclear, steel, industrial robotics, pharmaceutical automation and medical devices. Practically, he has a deep background in micro-machining, high density circuit board assembly, and welding with a focus on precision machine assemblies.
Prior to that, he received his Bachelor Degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Carl
Byers

Carl Byers applies thirty years of experience in modeling and simulation, virtual environments, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence to software applications that improve knowledge-based productivity enhancement and decision making in complex distributed organizations. As co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Contextere, Carl drives integrated R&D, product development, and collaborative partnerships that leverage machine learning, the industrial internet, and augmented reality to build the 21st century workforce. Carl is also past-President and current Treasurer of The AREA, a member organization focused on accelerating the adoption of augmented reality in the enterprise. Carl holds an MBA, a Master’s in Human Security & Peacebuilding, and a Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics.

Dr. Mara
Cole

Dr. Mara Cole holds a master´s degree in ethnology, psychology and communication science as well as a PhD in the field of psychology. In her current position as Platform Lead Connected Mobility at Bayern Innovativ Mara supports the digitisation efforts of Bavarian stakeholders in the mobility sector, mainly through networking activities, including the organisation of events.

Dr. Dominik
Dellermann

Dr. Dominik Dellermann is CEO and founder of vencortex, an AI-based decision performance platform empowering managers to validate business hypotheses in today's uncertain business environments. Dominik holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems on inventing hybrid intelligence for augmenting business decisions and has over 6 years of working experience in the field of digital transformation and over 5 years of experience with R&D of AI technologies. The former professional athlete is a thought leader on combining human intuition and AI and speaker on topics of AI, corporate innovation and M&A. Dominik published over 60 articles on those topics in world-leading outlets

Vincent
Demortier

Vincent is above all entrepreneur in the domain of digital innovation projects and
connected objects. He has co-created multiple companies, including the following
two startups:
● Hostabee is one of the success stories of the European FIWARE
accelerators and has developed an IoT technology for beekeepers that is
being sold now worldwide in partnership with the world leader in the
sector, Veto Pharma
● Influvisio is developing a video sensing solution for the control of industrial
processes in partnership with agrifood and energy corporates .

Thanks to these experiences, Vincent was elected as referent on the IoT &
Manufacturing theme in the French Tech network of French startups.
In order to contribute to the development of a regional ecosystem to support the
digital transition, training and innovation, in 2014, Vincent co-founded the
association Faubourg Numérique, of which he is now president since 2016.
With this entrepreneurial impulse, Faubourg Numérique is committed to the
FIWARE initiative as an Innovation Hub - IoT Booster and Vincent is an "evangelist"
associated with the FIWARE foundation , which has made it possible to participate in
the European initiative (H2020 ) IoT EPI and introduce these technologies into the
curriculums of local universities . At the regional level, FIWARE iHub - IoT Booster's
main activity is the animation of the Innosprint program , which supports project
leaders in "peer-to-peer" mode.

Faubourg Numérique is also a vector of collaboration with local governments on
the Smart City theme:
● Creation of the French branch of the Open & Agile Smart Cities network, of
which Vincent is the national contact point
● Participation in the INTERREG 2 Seas project Smart City Innovation
Framework Implementation to deploy open innovation processes and
exploit FIWARE technologies with companies and cities ..
● Launch of a digital Smart City platform in partnership with the city of
Saint-Quentin and Orange .
These Smart City activities have enabled Vincent to put his leadership at the service
of very concrete collaborative projects involving companies, local authorities,
universities and especially the citizens to quickly build useful and sustainable
solutions following the principles of quadruple helix and open innovation 2.0. .

David
Dohmen

David Dohmen is an electrical engineer and data scientist by training. In 2018, he founded OCELL with his two co-founders. OCELL combines AI and a unique approach to remote sensing in order to allow for better data and deeper location-based insights. OCELL applies its technology stack to modern forestry, improving sustainability & profitability for forest managers and predictively preventing forest damages. Before OCELL, David worked for the Munich Startups Bragi and Kinexon as well as in the automobile industry, gathering experience in both the corporate and startup worlds

Dr. Markus
Duchon

Markus Duchon is head of the Architecture and Services for Critical Infrastructures research group at fortiss. He received his PhD in the field of mobile and distributed systems at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in cooperation with Siemens Corporate Technology.There he worked in the department for software architectures and platforms. Recently, he led a project to develop a reference architecture for a cyberphysical system to support maintenance in an industrial context. Currently, he is leading projects on multimodal energy systems in neighbourhoods, energy optimization for small and medium sized enterprises and monitoring and control of network infrastructures. His research interests include software architectures for critical infrastructures and methods for optimizing distributed and IoT systems.

Dr. Mike
Durst

Dr. Michael Durst has more than 15 years of experience in innovation and technology management, IT strategy and management, entrepreneurship and academic teaching and research. After more than 5 years in strategy and IT consulting he designed and managed the innovations and research department in a Fortune500 company.
In 2009, Mike founded ITONICS, a company specializing in consulting and software solutions for strategic foresight, innovation management, trend and technology management and innovation roadmapping. With > 100 employees today, ITONICS helps clients in 15 countries to systematically innovate and grow. Between 2010 and 2016 Mike held a professorship at FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management and is still very active in research projects and teaching.

Yannick

Engel

Heading the mobility competency within the Finnish innovation company Futurice, Yannick Engel from our Munich office has a passion for managing new technologies and integrating these into everyday life. With an extensive experience in the automotive and payment industry, going from product management and engineering to consulting, he brings in a deep understanding for connected journey needs and combines this with a background in mechanical engineering and strategy as well as a passion for all things on wheels. Other than mobility, Yannick has been working across industries for international customers in the steel, finance, construction, home appliances and research industry.

Markus
Fedra

Markus Fedra was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied logistics and transportation management and gained experience working for different rail and public transport companies. He also worked in event management and journalism: he was chief editor for the mobility journal “Forum Mobil”. Between 2017 and 2019, Markus Fedra was a mobility consultant at Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung, responsible for the development of the local Urban Mobility Lab. He joined FAIRTIQ in March 2019 as Business Development and Key Account Manager for Austria. In addition, he still works as a freelance journalist.

Frank
Felten

Frank Felten joined Hawa Dawa as Head of Product and Partner management. In his role he strikes the delicate balance between managing and overseeing Hawa Dawa’s ever-growing product portfolio, its supporting technology stack and the expanding network of strategic partners ranging from traffic management, city planning, telecommunication, to infrastructure and utility companies. Frank builds on a comprehensive expertise gained from his working experiences such as being the former Chief Product Officer of Munich-based Thinkproject, and the former Vice President Product Development of the PTV Group a company specialising in software services in the fields of traffic, transportation, mobility and logistics.

Efrat
Friedland

With training and experience in industrial design and a great passion for materials, Efrat founded Materialscout, a Munich-based consultancy that helps market-leading companies generate value through creative, competitive and sustainable implementation of materials and technologies. It’s all about enthusiastically stirring materials-driven processes, leading to products, spaces and services that have a positive footprint; processes that take into account consumer tendencies, materials sourcing, processing, implementation, emotional attachment and end usage with a circular approach. Materialscout connects the materials industry with the creative industry, linking suppliers, engineers, product managers, recyclers and designers to solve materials challenges together.

Dr. Andreas
Gallasch

Dr. Andreas Gallasch is CEO of Software Factory GmbH. As a C-level business architect and mentor, he supports companies in end-to-end digitization - from product idea and modularization, requirements definition, design and software development to production and service. As an executive, a technologist, an academic, and an engineer, Andreas Gallasch brings a wealth of experience and expertise in driving technology innovation to companies. Further stations in his professional career were the management of the Global Services Organization at PTC for the DACH region. He was also a management consultant with IBM and supported customers in product development, logistics and production issues. Originally he studied mechanical engineering with a focus on design and development and received his doctorate on the subject of information technology in production. It is of great concern to him to build a bridge between engineering and computer science and to bring new trends into the market.

Gil
Geron

Gil Geron has 15 years of experience leading and delivering cybersecurity and intelligence products. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Gil directed a team of over 80 cyber professionals at Check Point Software Technologies. There he led the strategies and development cycle of its core cybersecurity product portfolio, which grew to over $400M in annual revenues while under his leadership. Gil is committed to providing seamless cybersecurity solutions without compromising on efficiency.

Christopher
Geyer

Christopher studied business informatics and did an MBA in innovation science. Besides developing financial services apps, he started with a start-up before joining BMW. At BMW, he is head of Innovation and Technology Management, where he and his team conduct early technology identification and implement innovations based on business challenges.

Tim
Grebner

Born 1984

Dipl. (FH) European Administration Management 2006-2011

M. Sc. (FH) Regionalmangement and Business Development 2012-2014

Since 2017 Head of Business Development and Location Marketing in Grafing (Responsible for the Digital Twin of Grafing)

Carola
Grimminger

Digital Enthusiast from the first hour

Carola Grimminger is a communications professional and marketing expert who focused on topics such as digital marketing, social media and digitalization at an early stage. She studied Information Management at „Hochschule der Medien“ in Stuttgart and Electronic Marketing at Bayerische Akademie für Werbung und Marketing“ (BAW) in Munich.

Experienced Marketing Expert

Since 1999 she has been developing the digital marketing sector in international IT companies. Until 2015 she worked as Marketing Manager in a global biotech company, where she was responsible for integrated communication supported by Web 3.0 technologies. At the same time she founded her consulting company Inventive Marketing to support B2B companies on strategic marketing and digital transformation. Since 2019, Carola leads the MarComms team at ResMed, a medical device manufacturer that plays a key role in the COVID-19 pandemic. ResMed’s digital health technologies and cloud-connected medical devices transform care for people with sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic diseases.

Knowledge transfer as a concern

She has made a name for herself in recent years as a trainer, motivator and coach. She speaks and teaches at the IHK, FOM and at the ptm academy, among others. At the same time, Carola is a board member of the German Mittelstand, where she promotes the topic of digital health together with established companies, start-ups and other stakeholders.

Dr. Dirk
Häger

Dr. Dirk Häger is head of department „Operational Cyber-Security“ and is therefore responsible for CERT-Bund and the governmental security operation center. He started as an IT penetration tester and security consultant, and focused in recent years on the defense against cyber attacks.

Dr. Magnus
Harlander

Dr. Magnus Harlander is a Member of Board of Directors and heads the working group "trust" of the German Think Tank Münchner Kreis. Münchner Kreis serves as an independent, interdisciplinary, and international platform for active and diverse discussions amongst key players from business, academia, and public policy. Magnus holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the TU Munich and Lawrence Berkeley Lab. In 1992 - still during his doctorate - he founded the German IT security company genua. The products developed under his responsibility secure highly sensitive networks of governments and global organizations. Magnus Harlander is known from many lectures and panel contributions on the subject of IT security, has published a number of papers and is an active member of several organizations or, as with the Münchner Kreis, also a board member. Since the beginning of 2018 he acts as a shareholder, consultant, investor and IT security activist.

Lex
Hartman

Lex Hartman, born 1956 in Rotterdam, became/took the post as CEO of ubitricity Gesellschaft für verteilte Energiesysteme GmbH in May 2019. Prior to this, he had worked for the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT for 20 years. At TenneT, the former lawyer was a member of the Executive Board of TenneT Holding BV from 2008 on. In 2010 he became the Managing Director of the German subsidiary TenneT TSO GmbH. To this day, he holds supervisory board positions in various companies. In addition to his professional activities, he gives keynotes and motivational lectures for executives. His personal interests range from sports to technology with a focus on disruptive technological developments and their impact on society.

Susanne
Heger

Susanne has studied Information Science and Political Science and worked in IT for Siemens, Continental, Deutsche Bank. She is now head of the IT Tech Office Silicon Valley for the BMW Group. With her team she is discovering and evaluating emerging technologies, establishing research & development partnerships, building innovative solutions and shaping an innovation culture.

Diana
Heinrichs

Diana Heinrichs, CEO and founder of Berlin-based Lindera, develops AI solutions for the healthcare industry to prevent seniors from falling and digitize orthopedic assessments for hospitals and nursing homes. Her experience at Microsoft Deutschland on the future of the digital world of work helped her to frame the question – how can older people live longer and independently? Diana studied linguistics at the edge of psychology at the Universities of Bonn, Florence and Oxford and completed an MBA at the University of St. Gallen.

Maximilian
Irlbeck

Maximilian Irlbeck is head of the thematic platform energy at ZD.B | Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern, an initiative of the Bavarian government that is part of Bayern Innovativ. Moreover, he is founder and deputy chairman of Blockchain Bayern e.V., an association of more than 100 members that promotes Blockchain in Bavaria.He is dedicated to all topics related to the digital transformation of energy systems. He is interested in the future design of the energy system and an expert in the fields of blockchain,reference architectures, sector coupling and decentralized systems. He has gained extensive experience in these areas and has launched activities in Bavaria, Germany and Europe,including the start-up competition Energie Start-up Bayern, the think tank European Energy Lab 2030, the regional idea workshop energylab in Altötting or energieistdigital.de. Before joining ZD.B he was head of ICT accompanying research in the national research project EEnergy on behalf of the federal ministry for economic affairs and energy. As head of the platform, he has built up a network of more than 1.000 institutions and aims to identify marketable solution components that could contribute to the regional realization of the energy shift and determine the digital future of energy.

Prof. Dr. Lutz
Heuser

Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser has been in the business of industrial research for more than thirty years. As CTO of [ui!] the urban software institute, he has developed successful business models to allow for efficient ‘co- innovation’ between industry, communities, and service companies.
[ui!] is an innovation incubator for smart city solutions, and work focusses on energy efficiency management, smart urban infrastructure, sustainable urban mobility and transport using real-time data. Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser is also Chairman of the SMART CITY Forum, a think tank and network of cities and industry. In this role he engaged with EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on the Smart Cities and Communities Initiative to establish a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) in 2012 and leads among others the Action Cluster on “Sustainable Urban Mobility”.
Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser´s interest is to connect those with great ideas with those who can execute on them. His vision is inspired by the fast-growing opportunities in what is being called the ‘Future Internet’, and he strongly believes that the ‘Internet of Services’ is a game changing mega trend which will allow for significant business model innovation, largely changing the way business has been done in IT.

Thilo
Hoelscher

• Stroke neurologist, former Professor at UCSD
• Former director of German’s 1st Stroke Unit
• Inventor of the SONAS®️ device

Lisa
Hyna

Lisa Hyna is the Communications & Community Manager at the incubator gate located on the research campus in Garching/Munich. She focuses on the needs and ideal support for High-Tech-Startups. With her work experience as Public Relations and Communication Design Manager, she is specialized in fostering young tech companies with her network. Lisa Hyna is responsible for the CleanTech initiative just starting at the gate to call the attention of the Munich startup ecosystem to the topic. The initiative’s aim is to offer an easy but substantial approach for founders to make their businesses more sustainable.

Pieter
Jansen

Pieter Jansen is a passionate cybersecurity-specialist and CEO & Founder of Cybersprint. With his experience as an ethical hacker and security manager he has worked on both the "offense" and "defense" side of cybersecurity. Based on his experience, Pieter saw new possibilities in developing a platform protecting the online environment of organisations. Driven by his ambition ‘to make the world more secure’ he started his own company in Digital Risk Protection. With Cybersprint, he has developed Europe's first Digital Risk Protection platform that automatically and 24/7 identifies online vulnerabilities of organisations. His motto ‘Defense is hard, offense is easy’ forms the base of the Cybersprint-platform.

Dr. Tanja
Jovanovic

Dr. Tanja Jovanovic is innovation manager and innovation researcher with more than seven years of experience in business model innovation, digitization and innovation tools. Tanja holds a Ph.D. in economics, or rather innovation management, with a broad experience in publishing research, holding workshops and execution of corporate projects.
As head of technology and innovation management at Bayern Innovativ, she is responsible for technology and innovation management services and the further development of technology transfer.

Luisa
Katzenberger

Luisa Katzenberger studied International Business Studies in Zurich, Sydney and Nuremberg. She worked in product planning & strategy at Daimler Trucks and has many years of work experience in innovation management, i.a. as a manager of the innovation network quer.kraft.
The innovation expert has been involved with Bayern Innovativ GmbH since July 2017. As Head of Corporate Development & Coordination, she is responsible for innovation management with integrated road mapping and focus on intrapreneurship. In addition, Luisa Katzenberger is committed to agility and collaboration and drives forward strategic planning as a shareholder of a SME.“

Dr. Tobias
Kämpf

Tobias Kämpf (Dr.) is a scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research in Munich (ISF München) and lecturer at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen/Nürnberg. As a sociologist he has conducted research about the digitalisation of work and the outcome for society for more than 15 years. Research trips on the global IT industry led him to Eastern Europe, India and Silicon Valley. His focus is currently on digital business models, the agile company and the changing work worlds of knowledge labor. Tobias is especially interested in the empowerment of employees and their perspective on digitalisation. In winter semester 2019/2020 he was visiting professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Chair “Sociology of Digital Transformation”).

Jasmin
Karatas

Jasmin Deniz Karatas is on a quest to lead Gamification and Behavioral Design to success. Trained as a product designer and armed with more than 7 years of experience in service design, as well as founding her own Startup “Myndset”, Jasmin follows her ambition to inspire people with passion and emotions. She is on her quest to lead Gamification and Behavioral Design to success for businesses and entrepreneurs alike.

Frank
Kirchner

Frank Kirchner is an expert for Information Security and Dataprotection. He is specialized in small and medium-sized companies. Frank holds a Diplom in Electrical Engineering (TU Munich). Prior to netcos, he worked at MunichRe.

Eitan
Kirshenboim

Eitan comes with many years of experience in business development and management both in local and international markets, and long years of both entrepreneurship and employment in technology companies and startups. Previously working for international companies such as Microsoft and Telit Communication. Eitan brings his extensive knowledge and experience to push Tartico technology and business to the highest level possible.

Vesa
Kiviranta

Vesa is Senior Vice President of Automotive and Intelligent Vehicle business at Unikie. Vesa started his career 25+ years ago in the wireless telecom business. Since then he has been working in various executive positions building new business for high tech companies. For the last 15 years he has been focusing on the automotive software business and helping automotive companies to navigate successfully through the disruption.

David
Kelm

David Kelm has been working intensively on the topic of social engineering and employee awareness since 2012. His research at the TU-Darmstadt focused on how to measure the security level of a company in a standardized way. After various awards and sponsorships, the research results led to the foundation of the IT-Seal start-up in 2016. Today, the company specialises not only in measuring but also in the effective training of employees. Awarded the prize as Best CyberSecurity StartUp at it-sa 2018, IT-Seal supports public authorities and companies from a wide range of industries such as mechanical engineering, banks, public authorities and hospitals in securing their employees in the long term. With the "Stay alert, Darmstadt!" project, IT-Seal has launched the world´s first free awareness programme for citizens and private individuals in cooperation with the Digital City of Darmstadt.

Werner
Koch

Werner Koch started GnuPG in 1997 and still puts most of his working time into the development and maintenance of GnuPG. GnuPG is the standard for system security on Linux systems. As the backend for Gpg4win, GnuPG is also very popular on Windows to secure mail and file exchanges; since 2019 with BSI approval for EU RESTRICTED / VS-NfD classified data.Werner is a long time free software supporter, GNU Maintainer and co-founder of the FSFE. To provide long term support and development of GnuPG he also created the brand GnuPG.com to provide customers with a reliable supplier for the generally Free Software GnuPG and Gpg4win.

Prof. Dr. Thomas
Kolbe

Thomas H. Kolbe is full professor and chair of Geoinformatics at Technische Universität München (TUM). www.lrg.tum.de/en/gis/
In 2019, he became the director of the Hans Eisenmann Forum (HEF) – World Agricultural Systems Center – the central institute of TUM for agricultural sciences, see www.hef.tum.de
Prof. Kolbe is a founding member of the Leonhard Obermeyer Center (LOC) - TUM Center of Digital Methods for the Built Environment – www.loc.tum.de
His main research interests lie in the fields of virtual 3D city, landscape, and building information modelling; 3D geoinformation systems; city system modelling and digital twins; spatial data infrastructures; Smart Cities and Smart Rural Areas; Smart Farming; indoor navigation. Prof. Kolbe is initiator and one of the principal developers of the international standard CityGML for the interoperable exchange of semantic 3D city and landscape models issued by the Open Geospatial Consortium. He has been principal investigator of the EIT Climate-KIC funded projects “Energy Atlas Berlin”, “Smart Sustainable Districts”, “Smart District Data Infrastructure

Mikko
Koskue

Mikko Koskue is the Senior Advisor and Mobility expert at Business Finland. Mr. Koskue has 15 years’ experience in the international mobility and automotive business. He’s spent the last eight years at Business Finland, focusing on automotive and mobility related projects on a global scale. Previously, he lived and worked 17 years outside of Finland, in Germany and Italy. Before joining Business Finland he worked five years at Daimler AG (Mercedes) in Stuttgart, Germany.

Antje Kunze

Antje is the Director of Sales and Marketing for virtualcitySYSTEMS. She is working on what is needed to build healthy, liveable and resilient cities and pushing digitalization on an international scale. Previously she was a co-founder and CEO of CloudCities, a 3D web platform for urban planning and design, a Senior Director for City Solutions at Dassault Systèmes and Solution Manager for BIM and Smart Cities at Esri Germany.

Bernhard
Kux

Thomas
Licklederer

Thomas Licklederer is a research associate and doctoral student at the Technical University of Munich. He acquired his Bachelors and Masters degree (M.Sc.) in (Renewable) Energy Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. His current work focuses on the management of cross-sectoral energy systems on a neighborhood scale. Together with his colleagues, he builds up and runs a research microgrid laboratory that replicates and emulates the energy infrastructure of five connected buildings. Thomas research interests include mathematical modelling, optimization, machine learning and optimal scheduling in smart energy systems of different scales.

Klaus
Löckel

Klaus Löckel is Managing Director EuroCentral of Dassault Systèmes. In this position he bears responsibility for business activities and strategic growth in Central Europe. The area covers Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Klaus Löckel joined Dassault Systèmes in 2013, and to date, as Sales Director EuroCentral, Business Transformation Sales, steered operative business of the direct sales channel. Prior to this, as Sales Director, Industry Transportation & Mobility, he was responsible for the success of this industry segment on the global marketplace.

Klaus Löckel commenced his career in 1996 at Daimler AG. Before joining Dassault Systèmes, he was employed at SAP AG between 2006 and 2012. In both companies Klaus Löckel was engaged at different levels of management.

Klaus Löckel graduated from Stuttgart University with a degree in aerospace engineering.

Svenja
Lutz

Svenja Lutz is a communications expert with a focus on digital transformations and change management for IT and Tech. She believes in the power of stories, emotions and gamification to engage and empower employees in the changes that come along with e.g. new IT systems such as SAP S/4 HANA. Her very own "aim for the game": Help people navigate through changes and grow at their jobs. Svenja has worked in various communications, management and consultant roles and holds an M.Sc. in Communications from the London School of Economics.

Daniel
Lux

In my work as co-founder of Seluxit I have gained in depth knowledge in the field of Internet of Things, from wireless communication protocols, over cryptology and security, to cloud services and user interfaces. Doing an IPO with Seluxit in 2018 has not only been a very exciting journey, but also taught me a lot about business plans, due diligence, PR/IR and how to professionalize and grow a listed company.

Next to my work i engage very actively in climate change discussions. You can find my articles about this subject on Medium and some videos on YouTube. My main focus is on finding solutions and the effects that CO2 has on our human body.

In my free time I enjoy running, playing piano and socializing to balance my busy work life.

Danusch
Mahmoudi

Danusch Mahmoudi has studied design and is working as managing director at Designit Germany, an international strategic design firm, who work with ambitious brands and companies to create high-impact products, services and ecosystems – that people love. He is a true believer that with the right design process, every business problem can be solvable. He is also the founder of the worlds first peer-to-peer energy platform BUZZN.

Humera
Malik

Humera Malik is CEO of Canvass Analytics, a AI software provider that empowers the world’s largest industrial companies with actionable intelligence to make data-driven operational decisions. Internationally, Ms Malik is one of the leading voices in Artificial Intelligence and how it can help the industrial sector to propel growth, accelerate innovation and augment human expertise. Ms Malik is a recipient of the RBC Women of Influence Entrepreneur of the Year award, the Women of IoT/M2M award and was most recently named in the list of Top 10 Hot AI IoT Startups to Watch. She is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences and has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg and Forbes.

Wilhelm
Mauß

Wilhelm Mauß first embarked on an officer´s career in the German Armed Forces, where, after twelve years with stations in Munich, Füssen and Donauwörth, he was finally captain and battery commander. After studying mechanical and industrial engineering, he joined a world-leading testing machine manufacturer in Ulm in 1994, where he initially became sales manager and in 2000 moved to Singapore as Managing Director Asia.
Back in Germany, he took over the management of Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG. Since then, the company has tripled its turnover and number of employees and has received several awards for research and development, resource efficiency and corporate responsibility, most recently Lorenz receives German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federation of German Industries BDI.

Sabine
Mertsch

Sabine Mertsch is responsible as a Manager Market Access and has been with ResMed Germany for more than 10 years.

ResMed is a market leader in tech driven integrated care solutions that treat and keep people out of the hospital, empowering them to live healthier with higher-quality lives. ResMed’s digital health technologies and cloud-connected medical devices transform care for people with sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic diseases.

Sabine joined ResMed with 30 years of extensive experience in the provision of medical devices as a health care policy expert (market access and government affairs) for the German healthcare sector.

Christian
Metz

Farmboy, Agricultural Scientist, Digitization Expert.

Close practical relevance and the combination of ecology and economy have always been important to me. At the ZD.B I am now part of a team whose goal is to drive the digital transformation in Bavaria by supporting and connecting the right and innovative people across disciplines.

The themes and visions of the future of modern agriculture and environmental protection awaken a new thirst for adventure in me every day. Therefore, I am very happy to exchange ideas with like-minded people who, like me, try to make a difference.

Stephan
Micklitz

Stephan Micklitz is Engineering Director for Privacy and Security at Google in Munich, the home of the Google Safety Engineering Center a global hub for privacy engineering.Stephan manages engineering teams across Europe and the US who work both on user-facing products and on internal infrastructure. His teams provide users with tools and controls to manage their privacy and security when using Google - helping them to keep their data secure and protecting their privacy. Stephan’s organization also supports teams across Google and Alphabet with tools and infrastructure to build helpful products for Google users. This includes products such as Google Account, Security Checkup and the open source, cross-industry Data Transfer Project among others Stephan joined Google in 2007 as a Software Engineer, and has been working on the Identity, Privacy and Security team since 2009. He studied computer science at the TU München and completed his masters degree (Dipl. Inf.) in 2003. Prior to joining Google he worked for several software companies as an engineer and consultant for business software solutions.

Dr. Felix
Miller

Dr. Felix Miller is an expert for hardware security and certification at G+D Mobile Security. He is a member of the OpenTitan Technical Committee and oversees G+D’s technical involvement in the OpenTitan project. He is active in multiple committees and boards in the field of standardization and certification of high security integrated circuits. He holds a MSc. degree and a doctorate in electronic engineering from Technical University of Munich.

Pekka
Möttö

Pekka is a Finnish transport entrepreneur with a high profile as a market disruptor and innovator. His previous company Onnibus.com thoroughly changed the Finnish intercity public transport market. Since 2016 he has been a CEO of Kyyti Group, based in Helsinki Finland.

Sinisha
Patkovic

Sinisha Patkovic is a Senior Executive at ISARA Corporation who is dedicated to working closely with Government and Fortune 500 organization Leaders, Boards and IT Executives on cyber governance, and quantum resilience. He has deep-sector knowledge of enterprise security, privacy, and IT, as well as IoT and Edge Computing technologies. Sinisha is CISSP-ISSAP certified, and his education includes Master degree in Technology Management at the Solvay School of Economics, and General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Sebastian
Porkert

Sebastian is married and father of two kids and grew up and lives at lake Ammersee close to Munich. He is the inventor of the technology, founder of the business idea, and chief executive officer of ECOFARIO. He operates as head of the team and is responsible for key steps in product development and application engineering, as well as for public relations. For his educational background, he has a diploma and a master's degree as well as a Ph.D. in paper technology from Munich University of Applied Sciences. He worked as a field engineer around the world and as a research associate and doctoral student at Munich University of Applied Sciences, where he led research projects in the field of resource conservation in paper production (until 2015). To this day, he is working as a lecturer in this subject area. As profession next to ECOFARIO, he is active as an optimization engineer for the pulp-, paper-, and wood industry with the main focus on saving resources and energy, while optimizing product and process parameters.

Dr. Jernej Poteko

Jernej Poteko is a scientist at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry (Bavarian State Research Institute for Agriculture). Agricultural engineering in the livestock farming has been the main focus of his career. During his doctorate at the ETH Zurich he was researching in the field of emission mitigation in the dairy cattle husbandry. Currently, he is working on digitalisation in the dairy production chain, with a special interest in technologies inside dairy housing.

Andrea
Prestel-Galler

Andrea Prestel-Galler is a change expert and business coach for IT and Tech. She is convinced that inspiring leadership is tied to authenticity. And that organizational commitment comes along with a balanced mix of something well-known and something new. Andrea holds a master in social anthropologies and started her career in IT communications and change management. After working in various corporate and consultant positions Andrea founded her own company: ANDARE Consulting & Coaching with System is specialized in change management consulting and coaching for IT, technology and digitalization.

Ernst
Stöckl-Pukall

As Head of Unit “Digitisation and "Industrie 4.0" in the Department for Industrial Policy in the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall focuses on topics regarding a successful digitisation of the manufacturing sector in Germany. In that role he is also responsible for the "Plattform Industrie 4.0" and he takes care of Germany’s various bilateral and multilateral cooperation activities in the field of Industrie 4.0 e. g. with China and Japan. The Plattform Industrie 4.0 is headed by the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Minister for Education and Research. The platform is a central player in the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector in Germany and includes all relevant stakeholders such as industry, academia, trade unions and politics. It also initiated the project GAIA-X which aims at building a sovereign data infrastructure in Europe. Before his current post Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall was in charge of the maritime sector after having returned from his post at the German Embassy of New Delhi where he served as economic and commercial counsellor. He graduated in Economics at Ludwig Maximilans-University in Munich.

Dirk
Ramhorst

Dirk Ramhorst, born in Bielefeld, has a degree in software engineering as well as in business administration and economics from the University of Kiel, Germany. He worked for 20 years in different positions at BASF and Siemens. In 2013, he was named the first Chief Digital Officer (CDO) in the German DAX (top 30 public-listed companies). In September 2016, he joined WACKER as CDO and CIO, heading the IT department since.

In addition Dirk is the chairman of the Kieler Woche - the World Largest Sailing Event.

Jens
Redmer

Jens Redmer is Principal for New Products at Google. Jens joined Google in 2005 and was previously responsible for New Business Development for Google's efforts in Europe. Before that, Jens was heading up the Google Book Search Programme in EMEA.

Jens began his career with German publishing group Axel Springer in Hamburg. In the period 1995-98 he played a key role in establishing Springer's first new media operations before becoming regional Managing Director for the group's nascent internet service provider, a joint venture with fellow publishing houses Bertelsmann and WAZ.

Between 1998 and 2001, Jens was Board Member of publicly listed ricardo.de, the then-premier European online auction service which was bought out by qxl.com in 2000. He ran Premium/ Paid Services for internet service provider AOL in Germany between 2001 and 2004 and joined Google from Endemol Germany, the world's largest independent television producer, where he was director of multimedia between 2004 and 2005.

Jens holds a degree in computer science/ medicine from Kiel University. He is a member of the Supervisory Board at PON Holdings, the Netherlands based mobility conglomerate and exclusive importer for Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi and a member of the scientific board at the think tank “Frankfurter Zukunftsrat”.

Likes: H2O in every aggregate state with water, winter and air sports. The smell of new hardware.

Dislikes: Inertia.

Jennifer
Reinz-Zettler

Jennifer Reinz-Zettler has over 20 years experience in the automotive industry, including experience as an industrial design engineer for an international industry and automotive supplier in Shanghai. She discovered her passion for mobility as a project manager for the Bavarian Cluster Automotive at Bayern Innovativ, where she is currently Head of Mobility. Her current focus is new technologies for mobility, new mobility concepts and smart mobility services. She also teaches a Masters course at the Landshut University of Applied Science and is working on a doctorate about the potential of micromobility devices at the Bauhaus University Weimar and Erfurt University of Applied Science.

Rahav Shalom
Revivo

Rahav is Fintech and Cyber Innovations Manager at the Israeli Ministry of Finance with more than 20 years of experience in R&D management with a focus on Cyber, Fintech, DevOps and Cloud solutions. She is part of the Israeli National Financial CERT and is the founder of the Fintech-Cyber Innovation lab program - the first initiative in the world that leverages governmental assets and data in order to promote Fintech and Cyber startups in an open innovation platform. Rahav was nominated by lattice80 in the 2019 top 100 women in the Fintech industry to know and follow. Rahav is actively working on women promotion, she is the founder of Fintech Ladies IL community, and is part of the National Council of Women Promotion in the STEM fields.

Dr. Jörg
Robert

Joerg Robert studied electrical engineering in Ilmenau and Braunschweig, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 he was researcher at the “Institut für Nachrichtentechnik” of TU Braunschweig. Here he was deeply involved in numerous standardizations of the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) project, e.g. DVB-T2, and DVB-C2. He finished his PhD in 2013, which was on the topic of using multi-antenna systems in broadcast applications. Since 2012 he is with the “Lehrstuhl fuer Informationstechnik mit dem Schwerpunkt Kommunikationselektronik” (LIKE) of the Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. His current work focuses on energy efficient networking, e.g. based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard family. Since 2016 he is chairing the IEEE 802.15.4w activities on Low Power Wide Area networks

Paula
Ruoff

Paula Ruoff has been working in the mobility sector for 10 years. She lived and worked in London for several years for various organisations with the mission to make mobility more sustainable. From 2015 to mid-2019 she worked for KCW GmbH in Berlin, a consulting firm specialising in public transport. Her topics were the digital transformation and its impact on public transport, including user needs, distribution and ticketing, and multimodality. From 2016 to 2018 Paula Ruoff was a member of the board of directors of the VCD federal association. Since July 2019 Paula Ruoff complements the FAIRTIQ team as Business Development Manager and represents FAIRTIQ in Germany.

Silke
Schmidt

As head of the new XR HUB Bavaria / Munich at Medien.Bayern GmbH Silke is in charge of the XR community in Bavaria. The aim of the XR HUB Bavaria is to inspire, support and connect the actors - both nationally and globally. Before she worked at the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs in the field of "Audiovisual Media - Film, Games and XR", and before that at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Foreign Trade Department. She also gained first-hand industrial experience and worked as National Expert at the European Commission. Her career began in the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment

Sophia
Sauter

Sophia Sauter is a research assistant at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry (Bavarian State Research Institute for Agriculture). The focal point of her career has been research in the field of agricultural technology and its implications towards animal health and welfare in livestock farming.

During her previous employment at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry she was engaged in the project "Advancements in the development of a module for autonomous control of manure removal, cubicle cleaning and bedding machines".

Currently, she is working on the technical possibilities of digitalisation in dairy production, focusing on technologies inside dairy barns and individual animal sensor systems.

Prof. Dr. Björn
Schuller

Björn W. Schuller received his diploma, doctoral degree, habilitation, and Adjunct Teaching Professor in EE/IT from TUM in Munich/Germany. He is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London/UK, Full Professor and Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg/Germany, co-founding CEO and current CSO of audEERING – an Audio Intelligence company based near Munich and in Berlin/Germany, and permanent Visiting Professor at HIT/China amongst other Professorships and Affiliations. Previous stays include Full Professor at the University of Passau/Germany, and Researcher at Joanneum Research in Graz/Austria, and the CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Awardee of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of the ISCA, President-Emeritus of the AAAC, and Senior Member of the ACM. He (co-)authored 900+ publications (30k citations, h-index=80), is Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health and was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing amongst manifold further commitments and service to the community. His 30+ awards include having been honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the WEF in 2015. He served as Coordinator/PI in 15+ European Projects, is an ERC Starting Grantee, and consultant of companies such as Barclays, GN, Huawei, or Samsung.

Jan
Schulze-Siebert

Jan is the co-founder of HalloPodcaster a platform for podcast interview guest placement and podcast advertisement. As a tech founder he specializes in content, platforms and digital business models. For him, it is part of the process to build the expertise for a project on a solid content foundation. In addition, it is important to consider which channels can be used to reach the target group for your growth. This is also the focus of his workshop.

Linda
Splitt

For 3 years Linda has been part of the Cloud&Heat family. Starting with an internship and writing her final thesis, then as an assistant to the executive management, and finally becoming an integral part of the business development team, she works daily on the further development of business areas and products to meet the requirements and needs of the digital age.

David
Stolz

David Stolz is co-founder and managing director at urban energy. He holds a degree in economics and electrical engineering and prior to founding urban energy he worked in IT consulting. David already gained more than 10 years of experience in innovative projects such as virtual power plants, smart charging and combined generation with PV and wind energy. At urban energy he is responsible for product development and project management.

urban energy and David were born and raised in Berlin, today David lives in Hamburg.

Michael
Tagscherer

Michael Tagscherer is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the G+D Giesecke+Devrient Group. He started his career at G+D in 2001 as product manager in the telecommunication division. Between 2008 and 2013 he spent several years in China and Asia heading product management and the APAC telecommunication business unit. From 2014 to 2017, Michael headed the Global Product Management in the Enterprise Security / OEM division. 2017 he took over the responsibility of the global technology office as CTO of the G+D Mobile Security business unit.

During his studies in computer science and electronic engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), FORWISS Erlangen and the Technical University Chemnitz, his research focus was on applied artificial intelligence in autonomous driving and robotics. The center of his Ph.D. was to invent and apply new artificial neural network models to real life problems in the context of industrial process automation optimization, big & smart data analysis and prediction.

Janne Ali-Tolppa

Janne Ali-Tolppa is a Senior Research Engineer and Project Manager at Nokia Bell Labs in Munich, Germany. His current focus areas include cognitive management of future mobile networks, self-organizing networks, analytics, and applying machine learning on network automation use cases. Janne received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Technical Mathematics from the Tampere University of Technology in 2003. He has 15 years of experience in network management related research and development in different roles in Finland, China and Germany. He is a (co-)author of numerous articles and papers on network management automation for next-generation mobile networks, including topics like automatic configuration change verification and anomaly detection and diagnosis in radio access network self-healing.

Kimberley
Trommler

Kimberley Trommler studied Mathematics and Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at the University of Waterloo in Canada and has over twenty years’ experience in multiple IT roles, for example as Network Architect at BMW and as Technical Evangelist at Paessler. She’s currently a project manager at Bayern Innovativ, with a focus on autonomous driving and digitalisation projects, and a team leader in the Bayern Innovativ Technology department

Steffen
Ullrich

Steffen Ullrich is a german software developer and security researcher.

He studied Computer Sciences in Berlin and moved, after some years working in Boston/USA and Cologne, in 2001 to Munich to work at the genua GmbH. There he was for many years heavily involved in developing the High Resistance firewall genugate. In 2011 he moved to the freshly created research group where he studied and developed methods to better protect clients from compromised web applications, to detect advanced attacks in the network and to use machine learning in this context. As a genua fellow he gets also more and more involved in product and company strategies.

Marcel
Vroom

Marcel Vroom is co-founder/inventor of H2ARVESTER and design & business manager at npk design.
H2ARVESTER is a unique solution for generating clean energy through the use of abundant agricultural land and conversion into hydrogen.
npk design is a multi-disciplinary design agency, based in The Netherlands. The team consists of passionate designers, engineers, strategists, researchers and builders. We have more then 40 years of experience in our field of expertise and are a strong, creative partner for diverse European companies to develop, design and realise new products and systems. Innovation and creation are in our DNA.

Marcel Vroom is a renowned industrial designer and acknowledged for his technological insights and future product visions. He holds a degree of Master of Science in Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. During the last 25 plus years many of his professional and consumer products have been rewarded with awards for outstanding design. He received the Kho Liang Ie award, the most prestigious design career award in the Netherlands

Hendrikje
Wagner

Hendrikje Wagner has spent her entire professional life, connecting her passion for storytelling and sales. While working for Startups and big companies alike, she has experienced first hand where companies struggle to tell their story efficiently, and how to do it better. Her personal ambition is to help people become better storytellers and connect with their audience emotionally

Dr. Imme
Witzel

Dr. Imme Witzel is Head of the New Work Programme at Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (Bavarian Center for Digitization)/Bayern Innovativ. The aim of this unit ist to foster the exchange between stakeholders from the economy, science and civil society regarding the effects of digitization on the workplace. Currently, the focus is on competencies for the digital transformation and on Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Imme Witzel is a business ethicist by training and wrote her doctoral thesis at TU Munich on Corporate Responsibility Innovations and stakeholder communication. She has worked for an international strategy consulting company, as a science manager at TU Munich and founded her own consulting company.

Stephanie Wössner

Stephanie Wössner is an Extended Reality expert and foreign language teacher for English and French. She is currently working full-time for the Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg as an ICT in Education consultant. Stephanie firmly believes that education has to change fundamentally and that it is up to teachers to actively participate in this change. This is why it is necessary to break new ground and to rethink the role of the teacher, reevaluate the purpose of education in general and challenge the current educational system. On top of her full-time job, Stephanie also works as a consultant for innovation in education, as a freelance speaker, a think tank member and an editor for “on. Lernen in der digitalen Welt” (Friedrich Verlag). For more information go to www.steffi-woessner.de

Julian
Zöschinger

Julian Zöschinger is 29 years old and initially studied geography with a focus on resource management in Augsburg before specializing in renewable energies and urban development in his interdisciplinary master's degree at the Technical University of Munich. He has already been active in sustainability research and municipal consulting and is an alumno of the Social Entrepreneurship Academy. He currently works as a technical consultant and is a freelance coach and consultant for issues related to sustainability

Thomas
Reiners

As head of Digital Solutions at G+D Mobile Security Thomas is leading the global development and integration of highly integrated platforms and services within the payments and telecommunications industry at G+D. Next to that he is mentoring and advising Startups, supporting mid / big size business on Lean Startup, and consulting on bigger projects, programs, and change management as a freelancer. In his professional history Thomas has spent roughly 20 years in global high technology companies - over time having had positions and roles within engineering, system architecture, project-/program-/team management, site management, business development, M&A, and more activities within multiple high tech segments at international leading companies. He is a family father, playing guitar in his band, soccer in his team, and mentors and advises Start-Ups, Strategy Agencies and SMEs in various aspects when it comes to design thinking, market fit, agile, etc. Reach out to Thomas via his LinkedIn profil at https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasreiners/.

Michael
Renninger

Michael is managing director of Munich based Green City Power GmbH. In this function he is responsible for growing Green City´s energy brand, but also acting with his team as an internal hub for energy innovation tasks. With now 20 years experience in the energy sector, he worked both for a DAX 30 company as well as for medium-sized enterprises and self employed throughout the renewable energy value chain in the past.

Dr. Sabine
Wilfling

Dr. Sabine Wilfling is an Innovation and Tech expert with focus on digital
transformation, working at Scheer GmbH, Munich. She believes that DATA and
TALENT are the raw materials to make innovation happen, scale ideas and boost
long-term success of new business models.
Her very own "aim for the game": Making more data available and improving the
way in which data is used for tackling social, climate and environmental
challenges, contributing to a more healthier and sustainable society.
As profession next to Scheer, she is active member of GAIA-X project with the
main focus on creation of data ecosystems enabling data-driven innovation and
smart service engineering.

Thomas

Strottner

Thomas Strottner is Head of Business Development at brighter AI. Since joining the startup in 2018, he drove marketing & sales activities and supported the founders in shaping the product strategy. Thomas has a Master degree in International Business and previously worked in management consulting, automotive and for a fintech startup.

Greg

Tracy

Greg Tracy is the Chief Technology Officer of Propeller Health. He is a technology enthusiast who excels at applying technology in new domains with the potential for large scale. He balances the big vision of how software technology can improve our lives with being an advocate for customers still living in the present. Greg previously ran the engineering team at Emageon, a medical imaging company. He has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Veronika

Schweighart

Veronika Schweighart is the Co-Founder and COO of Climedo Health, a Munich-based software company developing electronic data capture solutions to accelerate clinical validation and post-market surveillance. One of her main roles and mission is to excite healthcare professionals about the power of digital technologies to make their lives easier. Holding a degree in Business Administration and Technology Management, Veronika is a serial entrepreneur with international work experience in business development, strategic marketing, and technology consulting