WELCOME TO
TECH DAYS 2020: JUNE 15

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Dr. Markus

Söder

Dorothee

Bär

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anne Kjaer Barthel

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. 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. 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

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 H.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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