TECH DAYS 2019: JUNE 2 - 3

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Impressions from our 5 year anniversary!

Alam

Mohammad

Alam is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services practice and specializes in assisting clients with the risk associated with cyber threats. He has over a decade of professional experience in information security and privacy. Alam primarily serves clients in horizontal and vertical integration of cybersecurity into new digital industrial technologies such as Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Thing (IIoT), Operational Technologies (OT), Cloud, Big data and Analytics, etc. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer science (Germany) and a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering (Russia). He has the CISSP, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CCSK, and PMP certification.

Dian

Balta

Dian Balta conducts his research in the competence field Open Data and Information Management at fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems and services (located in Munich). His areas of interest involve the intersection of information technology and interactions between government and public administration, society and industry. After joining fortiss in 2013, Dian was involved as a lead in different projects and his current topics of research involve distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and the design of open IT system architectures.

Christian

Banse

Christian Banse is the head of the department “Service and Application Security” at Fraunhofer AISEC. The primary focus of the department is to develop and research tools and technologies to analysis and strengthen the security of software. This includes mobile application as well as Cloud and Edge Computing. Christian has been an employee of Fraunhofer AISEC since 2011. He has a Master of Science degree in Management Information Systems from the University in Regensburg and is the author of several publications in the field of network and Cloud security.

Daniel

Barth

Daniel Barth has been an Innovation Coach at creaffective since 2013. He supports international companies through consulting on the topics of innovation, agility and organization, He leads innovation projects, facilitates workshops and conducts trainings on creativity, innovation and methods of new work. At creaffective, Daniel is also responsible for controlling, continuous improvement and the development of new services and offerings. He is also writing about various topics in magazines, including creaffective’s own online magazine “divergent”. He speaks German, English and Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Sven

Bauer

Dr Sven Bauer is working as a cryptologist for Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security. He has more than 15 years of experience securing and breaking cryptographic software on smart cards and other embedded devices. Over the past few years, he has put a special focus on white-box cryptography and related techniques for creating secure enclaves in untrusted environments.

Rene

Berger

Principal Software Engineer at Parkside specialized in the fast moving world of full stack JavaScript development and machine learning. Rene holds a master degree in Software Engineering and Management, focussing on machine learning in his master thesis. Next to working with international clients in Fintech his focus at Parkside is to combine UX and machine learning into products, people love to use.

Stefan

Blum

Stefan Blum is project manager for artificial intelligence and machine learning at iteratec. Here he established the innovation lab for machine learning where he has worked on ml-project in broad range of technics and methods. As an experienced advisor, speaker and author about artificial intelligence he supports the client from an early step of innovation to the installation of production ready systems.

Alexander

Bogensperger

Alexander Bogensperger, M.Sc. works as a research associate at the Research Center for Energy Economics (www.ffe.de) in the field of sustainable and intelligent energy supply in the context of the energy transition and digitization. He specialized in digitization of energy infrastructure, utilization of flexibility, incentive regulation and Blockchain technology. He managed a research-project on the basics and applications of the Blockchain-technology in the German energy sector, identifying multiple use cases, their potentials and barriers to their scaled implementation

Mladen

Botsov

Mladen Botsov is a R&D specialist for vehicular connectivity at the BMW Group. His recent work is focused on Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in the scope of 5G mobile communications. He is leading BMW’s efforts in a number of related national and Horizon 2020 projects including 5G NetMobil, Providentia, and 5G CARMEN. Mladen Botsov received his Master of Science degree in Electrical engineering and information technology from the Technical University of Munich and is currently working towards his PhD with the Technical University of Berlin.

Raphael

Breitner

Raphael is a Venture Architect at Bitrock Digital Partners developing digital business models. He supports established businesses throughout the whole innovation process, from ideation and validation to building and scaling new digital ventures. His experience includes working with start-ups as well as established companies on various artificial intelligence and platform projects. He holds a Master’s Degree in Digital Business and Innovation from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Hila

Cohen

Hila is the Head of Business Development at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator which was launched in August 2015 in Munich, Germany. The Innovation Accelerator’s aim is to accelerate disruptive innovations to reach a world without hunger. The accelerator supports entrepreneurs and startups working towards ending hunger applying a human-centered design and a lean startup approach. To learn more: https://innovation.wfp.org/. Hila worked in WFP for 3.5 years before joining the Innovation Accelerator. Beforehand, she worked for 4 year as a hi-tech corporate lawyer in a leading firm in Tel Aviv. She holds an MBA from the SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy) and a Bachelors in Law from the University of Haifa (Israel). She has an avid interest in the latest developments and trends in the technology realm.: https://twitter.com/_Hilonet (@_hilonet) https://twitter.com/WFPInnovation (@wfpinnovation).

Karl

Czernin

Karl Czernin has been with NDGIT for a year and works in Sales & Account Management. He loves the start-up philosophy at NDGIT because it is an extremely agile and motivated environment. Prior to joining NDGIT, he completed his bachelor and master studies in economics in Prague and London.

Willem

Bulthuis

Venture Partner at Silicon Valley – based DeepTech VC, Investment Manager Pre-Seed Capital at UnternehmerTUM, VP Partnerships at TechTour Mobility Summit and Scale-Up Program, Advisor to Corporates / Mittelstand on Start-up Cooperation, Board Member and Investor at Start-ups. 30 years of Executive Experience in Global High-Tech Corporations like Philips Electronics, NXP Semiconductors, Giesecke & Devrient, secunet Security Networks AG. Lived in Europe and Silicon Valley

Dr. Werner

Degenhardt

Dr. Werner Degenhardt is working as a human factor specialist at Code and Concept. His main interests are in human factor risk assessment, social engineering, identity management and usability. Currently he does consulting in the area of human factor risk assessment, runs phishing simulations and writes articles for various magazines specializing in network administration, IT-security and communication networks

Stefan

Diem

During the past 20+ years Stefan has actively shaped various transitions to digital business models. From the early internet towards smartphones and other devices connected to big data backends. Leadership positions in software development in several start-ups and corporate environments formed his lean and agile thinking. As Technical Lead Stefan ensures the success of the software development at advance52.

Marco

di Filippo

Marco Di Filippo ist „Hacker“, Autor, Blogger, Berater und hält Fach- und Publikumsvorträge. Sein Spezialgebiet sind organisatorische und technische ITSicherheitsprüfungen und -konzepte.

Tobias

Drewlani

Tobias Drewlani works at the Munich Center for Technology (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In his research, he is interested in how organizations can approach the grand challenges of the digital transformation in more reflexive ways. Therefore, over the past years he and his colleagues have worked in various collaborative settings with industries to develop experimental and explorative methods of organizational learning.

Dr. Maximilian

Eichhorn

Max is the global head of Strategy & Business Development of Siemens Mobility, a world market leader in sustainable transport technologies for rail and road. Earlier roles within the transport sector included Head of Digital Transformation of Siemens’ Intelligent Transport Systems, CEO of Siemens Mobility Australia and Global Head of Siemens’ Software Solutions for Railways. Earlier he worked seven years as a Management Consultant with strong focus on the Transport and Building Technology sectors. He started his career with a German “Mittelstands”-Champion. Max holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in Logistics from University of Göttingen, Germany. (Twitter: @MaxEichhorn1)

Dr. Zoltan

Fazekas

Dr. Zoltan Fazekas is an experienced advisor, speaker and author of publications about blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. He established the student research group Blockchain Labs at iteratec and the blockchain education program at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna. Furthermore, he is an active member of the blockchain working group of Austrian Standards International.

Barnabas

Ferenczi

Barnabas Ferenczi leads the European sales and service activities at Giesecke + Devrient Currency Technology since 2012. He is responsible for providing technology, software and service solutions to professional customers all along the cash cycle, across 50+ countries and all market segments in Europe. A frequent speaker at industry seminars, he has also contributed to a recent book on “Banknote Management for Central Banks”.

Previously he gained valuable experience at the Central Bank of Hungary, where he worked for 13 years, managing economic analysis before taking over the cash department in 2006. As chief cashier he managed the establishment of the new automated cash center, and led a major re-engineering effort aiming both in the central bank and across the whole cash cycle.

A graduate of the London School of Economics, he lives and works in Munich, Germany. He can be reached at barnabas.ferenczi@gi-de.com and at https://www.linkedin.com/in/barnabasferenczi/.

Prof. Christof

Fetzer

Prof. Fetzer's research focuses on Trusted Execution and Dependable Computing. He is a co-Founder of Cloud&Heat GmbH, SIListra Systems GmbH, and Scontain UG. He has been a Professor at TU Dresden, Germany since 2004 and he received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

Roland

Fleischhacker

Roland Fleischhacker is Co-Founder and CEO of DEEPSEARCH GmbH. A Vienna-based company, which helps its customers to optimize and automate their customer case processes. In the past Roland founded one of the leading SAP consulting companies in Central Europe. After the IPO he headed towards the next big topic: AI, semantic technologies and Natural Language Understanding.

Neele Maria

Franke

Neele Maria Franke is a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM for Blockchain and Business Transformation. She leads Blockchain Value Design engagements within DACH and has worked with different clients and consortia to design, build and govern blockchain networks across Europe - putting business and user value in the centre.
Neele is an experienced advisor and speaker about blockchain enabled business transformation, business value of blockchain technology and design of ecosystem plays.

Natalia

García Mozo

Expert in European and public funds for innovative SMEs, European project management, establishing international partnerships for research and innovation as well as innovation support services for enterprises. Senior adviser in the Enterprise Europe Network, the biggest support network helping European companies to innovate and grow internationally. Long-term experience in implementing European initiatives fostering internationalisation of small companies in different European countries

Peer

Geiger

As Sales Manager at IDnow, Peer Geiger ensures that customers like N26, Western Union, UBS or Consors Finance can offer their clients a simple, easy to use, fast and above all safe onboarding.
Peer Geiger studied business administration at the University of Augsburg with a focus on marketing, corporate management and strategy. He has broad professional experience in IT and digital environments and is an expert in identity services.

Torsten

Gigler

• Interner IT-Sicherheitsberater bei einer Bank, spezialisiert auf IT-Infrastruktur- und Anwendungs-Sicherheit (seit >20 Jahren)
• OWASP-Volunteer seit über 6 Jahren, z.B.:
– OWASP Top 10 – 2017 (Co-Leader und Mitarbeit bei der deutschen Version)
– OWASP Top 10 – 2013 (Contributor und Mitarbeit bei der deutschen Version)
– OWASP Stammtisch München (Mit-Organisator seit >4 Jahren)
– OWASP-Germany (Mitglied im Chapter-Board seit >1 Jahr)
– O-Saft – OWASP SSL Advanced Forensic Tool (Co-Entwickler seit 5 Jahren)

Andy

Goldstein

Andy is a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Deloitte Digital GmbH and co leads the Digital Ventures Service Area. He is also Co Founder and Executive Director of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center with over 225 spawned companies in 10 years and co founder of the German Accelerator, a project of the German government that has graduated over 100 companies in five years. Andy is a serial entrepreneur with 34 years experience in founding, building and accelerating companies. Before working for Deloitte, he sold his software publishing company to the publicly listed Avanquest Software in 2003, where he was COO for 5 years and held a Board seat for 12 years.

Dominik

Golle

Dominik Golle is head of the Center for Digitization Bavaria’s Consumer Affairs unit together with Dr. Christian Thiel. His work is to promote and fund technical and organizational measures that offer better protection for online consumers while at the same time enabling companies to harness the opportunities of digitization. A political scientist by training, his current focus lies on the topics Privacy by Design and Corporate Digital Responsibility.

Daniel

Grassinger

After getting introduced to the blockchain technology early 2015 in Silicon
Valley, Daniel co-founded nexussquared, a blockchain business platform with
the focus on accelerating blockchain ideas through ‚nexuslab’ – a virtual
blockchain acceleration programme. Daniel designed the programme and
managed its first cohort with 10 European blockchain start-ups from April –
July, 2016. In January 2017 Daniel joined UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s biggest
entrepreneurship and innovation center. He designed, developed and
manages XPRENEURS, an incubation for early-stage high-tech StartUps. As of
today, XPRENEURS supported 80+ StartUps in successfully entering the market.
Holding degrees in civil engineering and business administration, Daniel
Grassinger has worked in real estate consulting for more than ten years prior
to co-founding nexussquared. Besides building up and managing AECOM’s
Swiss branch from January 2013 till September 2015 Daniel designed various
innovation processes for corporate clients.

Prof. Jens

Grossklags

Prof. Jens Grossklags, Ph.D., holds the Professorship for Cyber Trust at the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. He studies security and privacy challenges from the economic, technical and behavioral perspectives with a variety of methodologies. Prof. Grossklags received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He then directed the Security, Privacy and Information Economics Lab, and served as the Haile Family Early Career Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

Prof. Jens

Grubert

Jens Grubert is ZD.B Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Internet of Things at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and leads the mixedrealitylab (www.mixedrealitylab.de) – a laboratory for bringing Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) into business, arts and society. He has been active in researching, developing and evaluation Augmented and Virtual Reality systems for more than 10 years both in industrial and consumer-oriented contexts. Jens Grubert is an avid supporter of interdisciplinary research. He published over 60 scientific articles and is an active member of the scientific AR/VR community (e.g., Program Committee Chair of IEEE ISMAR 2018/2019).

Carlos

Härtel

Dr.-Ing. Carlos Jiménez Härtel is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GE Power in Germany. He’s also a strategy advisor to private companies and public-sector organizations and holds a number of national and international board assignments. His operational career in industry spans about two decades in a variety of senior leadership roles, most recently as CTO & Chief Innovation Officer for GE Europe and previously as President & CEO for GE Germany. Carlos Härtel has extensive experience in industrial R&D, organizational development, management of technology transfer and innovation, and the assessment of potential and market readiness of advanced technologies. He studied Aerospace Engineering at RWTH Aachen and TU Munich where he also received his doctorate. In addition, he spent several years in research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and at ETH Zurich, where he qualified as University Lecturer in 1999. Carlos Härtel is past President of the European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA).

Joachim

Hauck

Joachim Hauck has studied mobile communication systems and works more than 20 years in cellular technologies, more than eight years for Vodafone IoT. He is responsible for product marketing of end-to-end IoT solutions in Vodafone´s Central Europe sales region. In this role he supports customers and their projects from first idea and concept creation to final realization. IoT Terminals, the Vodafone IoT application platform for machinery and construction and the Vodafone IoT Tracker platform are his focus areas.

Dr. Gregor

Heinrich

Gregor Heinrich is Chief Technology Officer of creditshelf, the leading online lender for German SMEs. The platform originates SME loans and distributes to professional and institutional investors. Since market launch in 2015 creditshelf has been growing fast and was granted the 2016 Frankfurt founder award. Since 2018, the company is listed in the prime standard of Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN: DE000A2LQUA5). Since January 2019 with creditshelf, Gregor is in charge of technology, which includes development of the innovative creditshelf software platform and novel methods of credit risk analysis. Gregor has 20 years of experience with design and implementation of technology and product innovations as well as 12 years on CTO positions. Before joining creditshelf, he worked in this role for a leading German-American vendor of IT automation technologies, using them to facilitate modernization and digital transformation in the financial industry. Prior to this, Gregor worked in applied research at the Fraunhofer Society and founded a software development company. Gregor holds a doctoral degree from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation topic at the boundary between machine learning and natural language processing.

Nico

Heinze

Nico Heinze is a project manager at iteratec GmbH and supports his customers in the realization of innovative IT solutions. After studying business computer science, he was responsible for the implementation of various IT projects in the automotive sector. In this area, new technologies were tested, which found their way into productive operation. Currently he is interested in the possibilities of new DLTs like IOTA and Hashgraph.

Calvin

Hoenes

Calvin Hoenes is a true all-rounder with his expertise ranging from Design, User Experience, Software Development, Cyber Security to Psychology. Calvin runs UX, Design and Communications at IDEE GmbH, a Munich startup that provides password-less identities that cannot be stolen and easily exchanged between companies. At the age of 15 he self-taught Design, studied Computer Science at the age of 19, and today he is focusing on psychology and human-computer interaction. Before joining IDEE GmbH 1,5 years ago, Calvin worked with several startups in Food, Health and Blockchain.

Alex

Holzreiter

Since founding his creative agency Brainbuxx LTD & Co KG in 2002, Alex Holzreiter has accumulated over 15 years experience as an entrepreneur, building and consulting startups across Germany. However, his personal mission is educating his students for Gamification and Design Thinking as a lecturer in several universities. Since 2015 he has additionally become part of the Accenture Interactive Team in Munich performing in his role as a Partner Manager for SAP & Adobe Europe. His latest startup Myndset has just been successfully funded on Kickstarter.

Dr. Rolf

Illenberger

Dr. Rolf Illenberger is founder and CEO of Viond. Viond operates the VRdirect (www.vrdirect.com) platform that allows anyone to create and publish VR experiences and VR apps without any coding skills. The platform is tailored towards B2B use cases like marketing, tourism or training. Prior to founding Viond, Dr. Rolf Illenberger was a managing director at ProSiebenSat.1 Digital as well as a managing director with the digital strategy consultancies The Nunatak Group and Solon Management Consulting. Dr. Rolf Illenberger holds an PhD from University of Mainz and an MBA from HHL Leipzig School of Management.

Peter

Joneck

Peter Joneck has been working on projects in the field of digitalization of agriculture for the last 6 years. Being sr. project manager at BayWa AG he is deeply involved in all kind of digital developments in the agricultural sector, such as machine networking, IoT, Farm Management software or supply-chain-management.As digitalization works globally, the collaboration with global players and stakeholders is crucial.According to the motto “enabling smart farming”, Peter’s aim is it to make digital solutions available to farmers as well as to the agricultural environment.

Tobias

Kaller

Currently Tobias is working as Research Specialist at knooing GmbH, a Munich based StartUp founded to disrupt the traditional way of finding solutions for digitalization projects. Priorly he studied data science at the LMU in Munich. During his studies he got in contact with the world of blockchain and was fascinated by the opportunities the distributed ledger technology offers to the world. Since mid 2017 he is also part of the administrator team of the largest German cryptocurrency and blockchain community. Additionally to that, he worked as external consultant for TenX in Europe.

Jasmin Deniz

Karatas

Jasmin Deniz Karatas is on a quest to lead Gamification and Behavioral Design to success for businesses and entrepreneurs alike. She build up and lead the Gamification Chapter within Accenture Interactive. She gives lecturers to student, holds international talks and workshops. Trained as a product designer and armed with years of experience in service design, as well as founding her own Startup Myndset, Jasmin follows her ambition to help her clients add passion, value, and emotions to their ideas and solutions.

Dr. Kiarash

Keshavarzi

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

Simone

Kirsch

Simone is the founder and coach of „Der Impro-Effekt". As an improviser at heart, she is firmly convinced that collaboration and co-creation go hand in hand with the joy of playing. When agile approaches failed again and again in her environment, although smart people worked on them, she realized that it wasn't because these people didn't understand the methodology, but because of the mindset. Since then, her passion has been to help people develop their full potential and not to give up a part in front of the office door. Simone is seeking to make a change in people’s live by accelerating trust, flexibility, happiness and productive collaboration. How does she do it? By harnessing the tools of improv theater and applying them to workplace and everyday live. Next to her coaching she works at Siemens as a digital collaboration and community manager. Improeffekt.de

Silke

Kreiling

Silke Kreiling currently works as Executive Director at diffferent. Before joining the Berlin and Munich-based strategy agency she spent 12 years working for digital agencies such as Aperto, which is part of IBM. She is an expert in the areas of digital transformation, innovation and purpose finding, mindful leadership and agile methods – and regularly joins talks and conferences on these topics both as a speaker as well as a trainer.

She is also a lecturer for agile project management and self-management at the Designakademie Berlin

Moritz

Kuhn

As a Principal IT Consultant and Product Manager for AdNovum in Zurich, Moritz Kuhn leads a cross-functional team designing and implementing a middleware, which enables the digitalization of business ecosystems. In his previous role as Managing Director,he led the transformation of AdNovum’s regional office in Singapore by defining a new strategic positioning and implementing a corporate refocus. Moritz Kuhn holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich with a focus on information security. He recently started exploring the application of blockchain technology within the car ecosystem.

Bernhard

Kux

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

Christina

Lekati

Christina Lekati is a psychologist and a social engineer.
Raised by George Lekatis, a sought-after cyber security expert, she found herself magnetized by the security field and many times found herself in projects that were beyond her age, giving her interesting stories to tell and an edge in her own knowledge and experience.
She proceeded in earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a distinction in her master’s degree, due to her thesis on social engineering.
Christina has participated among other things, in penetration tests, and in needs and vulnerabilities assessments. She is currently working with Cyber Risk GmbH, a provider of cyber security training programs, as a social engineering expert and trainer.
Christina is the main developer of the social engineering training programs provided by Cyber Risk GmbH. Those programs are intertwining the lessons learned from real life cases and previous experiences with the fields of cybersecurity, psychology and counterintelligence. They often cover unique aspects while their main goal is to inspire delegates with a sense of responsibility and a better relationship with security.

Christian

Lindener

His expertise is in corporate venturing within large organizations learned working with companies such as Telefónica, BMW, Bosch, Siemens, Volkswagen. He is the Managing Director of Wayra Germany, one of the first corporate accelerators, and strategized, built and executed a new model of innovation through startups by impact based innovation relaunching Wayra in 2017. It is now part of the growth strategy of Telefónica. Expanding the capabilities into innovation inside in and inside out leads to the E2E venture Managament large companies need to move the needle. He supports the building of growth organizations through board member seats in different ventures as well as driving growth through innovation as part of the leadership team at Telefónica.

Martin

Loiperdinger

Martin Loiperdinger has more than 18 years’ experience in the IT industry. He has worked in a range of industry sectors from start-ups to multi nationals. Before he founded Blumatix, Martin had worked more than 5 years as an IT consultant. At Blumatix he is responsible for Business Development and Sales.

Bea

Longworth

Bea Longworth has spent most of the last 15 years finding ways to make technical topics like high performance computing, professional graphics and deep learning accessible for broad audiences. Originally from the UK, she’s now based in Munich. In her current role at NVIDIA, she’s working with national stakeholders in Europe to help them understand, prepare for and benefit from artificial intelligence.

Dr. Ullrich

Martini

Ullrich studied physics in Munich where he received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University.He joined the R&D Department of Giesecke & Devrient in 2001. At G&D he worked on all kinds of secure software and hardware. Since 2018, his focus is on smart wearable devices.

Oliver

Mayer

In my 28 years of professional experience my technical focus has been on renewable energy systems, their technology and interaction. I have led teams and developed, installed, operated and technologically advanced such systems. Based on this work, I have focused intensely on innovation methodology and quality assurance in research and development in order to enable faster innovation cycles successfully and purposefully over the past 15 years.

Axel

Meiling

Axel was born with telco DNA. He started as an engineer in the 3GPP/ETSI standardization and invented numerous patents. After his MBA in Cambridge, Axel entered consulting. He has now gathered extensive know-how in consulting projects for major international telco operators and media companies.

Dr. Gisela

Meister

Dr. Gisela Meister is Standardisation Expert with Eurosmart. She has been Eurosmart Vice President since 2017 until the end of May. She has been employed with G&D since 1989 and has been until her retirement, end of May 2019, G&D´s Standardisation Director and the Head of R&D´s Technology Consulting Department before 2017. Since 1994, Dr. Meister is the chair of the DIN national committee on cards, secure devices and Personal Identification NIA 17 and she chairs the IOT standardization group on Security Requirements for IoT devices. Since 9 /2017 she has been a member of the national TCAM preparation group and since 2018 she has been a member in the new founded CEN TC 13 WG 6 group on secure products within the Cybersecurity group. Dr.Meister has degrees in mathematics and economics from the University Münster, has received the SIT Fraunhofer Smart Card prize 2004 and is a member of several program committees regarding smart cards and security aspects, e.g. the BSI IT-Sicherheitskongress 2013-15, the Fraunhofer Smart Card Workshop, the Smart Week Conference in Marseille (CSW and CIW).

Andreas

Morawietz

Andreas is head of the global Product Management for eSIM management services and SIM convergence of Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security. Within several management positions Andreas evangelized since 2009 the adoption of global solutions for eSIM management and he is heavily involved in the strategic impacts for the changing eSIM/xUICC ecosystem, OEMs and CSPs. Within his career he was responsible for G+D´s global M2M activities and is involved in many commercial remote eSIM management projects around the globe. Andreas holds an engineering degree in precision engineering and Master of Business Administration.

Sharath

Muddaiah

Sharath Muddaiah holds a Master degree in Mobile & High Speed Telecommunication Networks. He began his career within Product Management at Samsung, before he joined Sony Ericsson and Sony Mobile on various Senior Global Sales & Marketing, Product Management and Portfolio Strategy roles which he has supported over the last 16 years. In his current position as Director of Business Development and IoT at G+D Mobile Security GmbH, he is responsible for all innovation projects and eco system partnerships in the areas of Mobile IoT & 5G. Sharath is responsible to direct first global rollouts of new products that securely manage the identities of the millions of “Things” over their lifetime.

Swantje

Napp

Swantje Napp is leading one of the most prominent and fast-paced strategic Human Resource (HR) projects in the Deutsche Telekom Group, the so-called “Skill Management” project. Her goal is to increase the future capability of Deutsche Telekom’s workforce by providing the employees with the right platform and mindset to do so. She believes in the power of diversity which she experienced during her studies in economics, law and social sciences as well as in the context of her professional experience in India and France. Her professional career at Deutsche Telekom started in 2013 when she joined the Start UP! Traineeprogram and has stayed in the field of HR ever since, first as HR business partner in BuyIn – the strategic procurement alliance of Deutsche Telekom and Orange, later in Deutsche Telekom Group HR Development.

Lars

Orta

Lars Orta has been developing software for more than 20 years, ranging from Frontend to Backend development as well as DevOps. He is also a recognized speaker, trainer and workshop leader. Lars is always interested in new technologies while not losing focus on the fun aspect of software development - which is why the Internet of Things is an ideal area for him.

Jymy

Parhiala

Jymy Parhiala is a Helsinki-based senior designer experienced in physical, digital and experience design. Currently working at Futurice, he focuses on strategic concept design and product development around biometrics for corporate clients ranging from banking to aviation. Jymy is strong believer of design-driven innovation, design thinking and lean approach. In biometrics, he sees an opportunity for a paradigm shift in human-machine collaboration and a new emerging interaction dimension that can change many of our daily tasks to the better, payments being one of them.

Prof. Dr. Sabine

Pfeiffer

Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer holds the Chair of Sociology with a focus on Technology, Work and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. For years she has been working on the impact of digital transformation on work, qualification and employment. Among other positions, she is a member of the research advisory board of Plattform Industrie 4.0.

Dr. Henrich C.

Pöhls

Henrich C. Pöhls currently teaches IT-Security at the University of Passau and tries to bridge gaps by conducting interdisciplinary work, especially in the fields of cryptography, software development, and law: The more gaps between those worlds get bridged, the more sound (=safe, secure and legally compliant) ICT-enhanced products and digitally-enhanced environments will be.
Besides teaching, he collaborates with international experts in several successful research projects on security and privacy for Cloud & IoT. He is also active in international standardisation (ISO SC27). He received his PhD. from University of Passau and holds a Diploma degree in Informatics from University of Hamburg and an MSc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, UK.

Martin

Postweiler

Martin serves as Head of Transactions & Core Banking at Fidor Bank - one of the world’s first digital banks. When he started his career at Siemens in Berlin about 20 years ago, most payments were already sent electronically - by disk, fax or even telex – digital 1.0. At his following positions at large Corporations and Software Vendors, Martin persued and worked on the evolvement of digital payments. He now sees the strong need for discussing the opportunities and risks that go along with future developments in the payments arena.

Taulant

Ramabaja

Taulant Ramabaja is Chief Scientist at Bitsapphire, a complex systems consulting and incubation company, as well as CTO at ULedger, a blockchain protocol startup. He has been active in the blockchain industry since 2012 and has advised dozens of startups as well as corporations on blockchain tech and complex systems planning. He specializes in predicting possible future outcomes of various technologies and plans software and organizational structures accordingly.

Stefan

Rauch

Stefan Rauch has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years. He has always been interested in technologies with high business impact and all kinds of innovation processes. Therefore, he is also one of the driving forces behind iteratec's Innovation Frei-Day and various digitization projects. He is particularly interested in the necessary cultural change and different aspects of leadership.

Ulrich

Rehfuess

Ulrich holds a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany and one in Industrial Engineering of Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Of his 25+ years of professional experience in Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia, he spent 20+ years in R&D, business strategy, system architecture and product management of mobile radio network systems covering GSM, EDGE, UMTS, Flash OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and LTE Advanced. In 2011, he assumed responsibility for spectrum policy at Nokia, organised within the Nokia Bell Labs and CTO team. Ulrich heads a 5G project group within the German National Digital Summit, is vice chair of the BITKOM spectrum working group in Germany and chairs the DIGITALEUROPE spectrum working group in Brussels.

Dr. Boris

Reichel

Dr. Boris Reichel supports companies in the realization and further development of innovative IT services and products from the idea to the productive system. His goal is the beneficial use of technologies. He has many years of experience in the implementation of IT projects in various industries and technology stacks following his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich. The opportunities of machine learning have fascinated him since his studies.

Ralf

Reinhardt

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

Thomas

Reiners

As R&D head 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

Reuter

Michael is a serial entrepreneur who incorporates an extraordinary structured way of problem solving, business judgement and passion for building up new businesses. Michael possesses 25 years of experience in building companies and cross-functional strategy, innovation, and transformation programs. He sold his last business, app development agency AppAdvisors, to Bertelsmann. Michael leads Datarella by building and expanding its competencies as the enterprise blockchain solution provider for digital transformation.

Oliver

Reyers

Definition and creation of strategic solutions for identity and access management (IDAM) solutions based on PalmSecure and other biometric security technology. Business planning, product availability, marketing support and partner management. Research and development control for vertical oriented and ustomized IDAM solutions based on biometric modalties. Physical access, logical access, special use case solutions

Markus

Rolle

Markus Rolle Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Member of the Management Board of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG, has been CFO of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG since August 2017. Previously, he had been Director Controlling of Telefónica Germany since October 2014. Markus joined E-Plus 18 years ago - as part of his training, he went through all relevant business areas and found his goal as a business analyst in strategic long-term planning in controlling. From 2004, the business graduate held various management positions in the finance division of the E-Plus Group and the KPN Group, including Director Controlling at E-Plus as well as CFO Consumer Mobile in the Netherlands. From November 2013, he played a key role in preparing the Post Merger Integration (PMI) process between Telefónica Germany and E-Plus. In addition, Markus took over various management tasks from subsidiaries and headed the financial issues there. Markus Rolle graduated from the University of Economics and Management in Essen with a degree in Business Administration. In addition, he underwent various high potential and executive programs.Markus was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1978, is married and has two children.

Prof. Dr. Steffi

Rudel

Prof. Dr. Steffi Rudel studied Industrial Engineering and Systems Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Munich and received his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen. After several years at the Institute of Applied Computer Science at the Bundeswehr University Munich, she currently holds the Deputy Professorship for Personnel Controlling and Business Analytics at the Faculty of Business Administration

Emanuel

Schatthauer

Emanuel Schattauer is founder and CEO of FACT AI. He has more than a decade of experience in developing AI-based solutions that offer real practical value. Fact AI offers software for companies that want to rework processes especially in eCommerce and manufacturing. Since FACT AI was founded in 2017, established companies like Audi and Volkswagen, but also startups like ORIGINAL+ use our solutions to automate processes, simplify interfaces, reduce manufacturing costs or gain insights into existing data.

Stefan

Schmidhofer

After gathering experience in agile coaching and organisation development, Stefan Schmidhofer is now responsible for business development and innovation for the Austrian Scale-up Leftshift One. He is dedicating his time to process optimization through and the general implementation of artificial intelligence solutions in enterprises via Leftshift One’s AI-as-a-service platform G.A.I.A. and it’s AI microservices. Passionate about artificial intelligence he is also a board member of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (AI AUSTRIA) and the driving figure for it’s spiritual sister AI STYRIA.

Uwe

Schnabel

Mr. Schnabel has 30+ years of experience as team leader and manager of which 25+ years are in hardware and software development with the last ten years in HID Global, contributing
 As OMNIKEY AG cofounder and CTO
 By leading the OMNIKEY product portfolio development
 By active involvement in international standardization
o ISO/IEC SC37 Biometrics (author of multiple standards)
o ISO/IEC SC17 WG8 (main contributor for RFID reader aspects in standards
development)
o ISO/IEC SC17 WG3 (contributor to ICAO eMRTD TRs)
o ISO/IEC SC17 WG10 (contributor to ISO/IEC 18013-5)
 As technical lead and system architect for mobile documents (goIDTM)
 As technical lead for the HID and Assa Abloy key management system

Jörg

Schneider

Jörg has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, working for multinational companies as start ups – joining Rohde & Schwarz 3 years ago. He has an international background thanks to his business management studies in Paris and Munich. He is responsible for leading clients projects and creating international alliances with key public cloud players as i.e. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google. He is also responsible for the Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity cloud business from the key account management and business development side.

Peter

Schneider

After receiving his diploma in mathematics, Peter started his professional career at Siemens, as a researcher on new software architectures. Later, he joined the Siemens Communications division and worked on the research and prototyping of innovative communication solutions. As a systems engineer for the IP-based mobile core network, he started to focus on network security topics. He is now a senior expert for mobile network security in the Security Research Team at Nokia Bell Labs, researching on security for 5G networks, including network slicing and security concepts for highly sensitive industrial IoT use cases.

Olivier

Schneller

Innovation Coach, Out of Your Mind & Hammer! Coaching
Olivier is founder and coach of Out of Your Mind and of Hammer! Coaching. His aim is to enable
people, teams and organizations to think freely and crazily. Also, he wants the coaching
experience to be cool, funky and fun. He is an analytical but radical mind, challenging every
given mental border and disrupting the shit out of things. Next to his coaching ventures, he is
raising his two children to live life to the fullest.
outofyourmind.de
hammer.works

Dr. Gunnar

Schomaker

As a computer scientist, Dr Schomaker has an extensive background in storage and system virtualization. Since 2010 he has also been active in the field of energy and cost optimization, as well as in the field of green IT, which covers all IKT-based potentials for energy and resource efficiency. Since 2014 he is part of the Software Innovation Campus Paderborn SICP an cover as manager topics like advanced and industrial analytics or artificial intelligence embedded in the competence center Smart System.

Falco

Schütt

Vor der NBT war Falco international im operativen Vertrieb und Marketing für erfolgreiche Softwareunternehmen im Bereich mobiler, kontaktloser Zahlungslösungen, Datenbanktechnologien und Veranstaltungssoftware tätig. 2015 trat er dem Marketing Team des IoT-Pioniers relayr bei, wo er das Event-Marketing leitete und als Interims Head of Marketing so die Internationalisierung voran trieb. Bei NBT nutzt Falco seine Erfahrung mit etablierten Unternehmen, um die Verbindung zwischen der Wirtschaft, Politik und Technologie herzustellen.

Asim M.

Soysal

Since 2016, Asim M. Soysal (51) has been responsible for the further development and addressing of the topics Digitization, Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain), Industry 4.0, IoT, as well as Big Data & Analytics in the Strategic IT Consulting unit at Fujitsu, with a focus on the financial services and fintech industry in Central Europe. In addition, Soysal has also been spokesman of the regional board of the European Finance Forum since 2017. He is a respected interlocutor and keynote speaker and an entrepreneurial and experienced consultant for business strategy, compliance & governance, risk management and security & data protection.

Hermann

Sterzinger

As COO of Veridos, Dr. Hermann Sterzinger is responsible for the management of the operating business of the company. Veridos GmbH is a joint venture between Giesecke+Devrient GmbH and Bundesdruckerei GmbH. The company creates secure and pioneering identity solutions for governments. Hermann Sterzinger had been in charge of the Government Business Unit of Giesecke+Devrient since 2011 and joined the Management Board of Veridos GmbH after its foundation in 2015. Prior to that, he held various positions at Giesecke+Devrient, including responsibilities for the divisions Business Development and Cash Point Solutions.

Dr. Rainer

Stetter

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

Florian

Stocker

As project manager for “NutriSafe”, Florian Stocker took over the responsibility for the international project about resilience of food production and logistics and Distributed ledger technology.
After his graduation in information systems his professional experience had a focus to R&D projects in the automotive industry. He led projects with hardware specialisation like panoramic roofs or intelligent side-door systems. He entered the Bundeswehr University Munich to support the newly formed division of Computer Science for safety and dependability.

Thomas

Stosberg

Thomas Stosberg. Thomas works in the Cash Management Advisory unit of the Global Transaction Bank of Deutsche Bank. He has a 25 years’ background in the financial industry in various roles on the IT und business side. Thomas is specialized on E2E integration solutions for corporate customers. He holds a degree in computer science and business administration from FH Wedel.

Michael

Tagscherer

Michael Tagscherer is currently CTO of Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security. He studied computer science and electronic engineering at Karlsruhe Technical University, where his research focus lay in autonomous driving and robots based on state of the art machine learning methods. In his Ph.D. studies he was researching the optimization of process automation and big data analysis and prediction inventing new artificial neural network models and fuzzy logic for industrial applications. Michael Tagscherer joined the product management team G+D in 2001. Between 2008 and 2013 he spent several years in China and Asia heading product management and the APAC business unit telecommunication. After Asia he was heading the global product management of the telecommunication and of the enterprise security / OEM division. Since 2017 Michael Tagscherer is CTO at G+D Mobile Security.

Francesca

Terzi

Francesca is a passionate designer seeking to make a change in the financial sector through the application of User-Centered Design and Agile principles. In the past 7 years, she worked in the development of service MVPs covering UX, agile development and service process improvements in several sectors. Knowledge sharing is her driver and she co-organises the Service Design Drinks and Global Service Jam in Munich.

Wolfgang

Themessl

Wolfgang Themessl has been guiding businesses on their way to the ideal software solution for more than 15 years. He specializes in international business development, key account management, partner and alliance management, bid management, technology and strategy consulting and project management. At Guid.New he is part of a young team working on disruptive concepts based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto.

Dr. Christian

Thiel

Dr. Christian Thiel is head of the Center for Digitization Bavaria’s Consumer Affairs unit together with Dominik Golle. His work is to promote and fund technical and organizational measures that offer better protection for online consumers while at the same time enabling companies to harness the opportunities of digitization. A computer scientist by training, his interests are all the changes that digitization brings about for consumers. His current focus is Privacy by Design.

Florian

Unterstein

Florian Unterstein joined Fraunhofer AISEC in 2014 and is a research associate at the Department of Hardware Security. Additionally he is pursuing a Ph.D. at Technical University Munich. His research interests include embedded security in general and side-channel security in particular.

Paul

van den Berg

Paul is co-founder and co-coach of Hammer! Coaching, a coaching boutique redefining the
coaching experience to be flashy, funky and fun! He is a feel good drug disguised as a
provocative psychologist. Next to Hammer! Coaching he works as at a stationary facility for
mentally ill children. As a coach, he is specialised in boosting self-confidence.
hammer.works

Stefan

Vollmer

Stefan Vollmer has been Chief Technology Officer of the Cyber Security Services BU at TÜV SÜD since July 2018. In this function, he heads the global teams of experts in the areas of penetration testing and threat intelligence. In addition, the development of the global competence centers and hacker labs as well as the development of new services in the area of cyber security at TÜV SÜD are part of Vollmer's competence.
Before joining TÜV SÜD, Vollmer worked as a Cyber Security Analyst at Airbus Defence & Space and as a Cyber Threat Analyst in the public sector. Vollmer laid the foundation for his career as a systems IT specialist at Rohde&Schwarz and studied electrical engineering and information technology.

Thyra

Wegener

In various professional positions in business, science and administration, I have often reached the limits of tried and tested but inflexible ways of thinking and working. When searching for more creative and innovative ways to solve problems with a user centered focus and to create direct added value, I stumbled on Design Thinking methods. They help me to question everything we take for granted everyday and to transfer the - often uncomfortable - findings into tangible solutions: a challenge that many companies today do not yet efficiently overcome. Today I’m happy to share these insights with our clients, support them in fostering innovative processes and – together with our great teams – to work on lowering the boundaries of feasibility further and further down every day.

Siegfried

Weigert

For more than 30 years I have been involved in the introduction and use of tools and technologies for the development of high end technical systems. I support my customers in product planning and development when new technologies get involved and disruptions occur. Applications include, but are not limited to systems for tool building and manufacturing, especially in the context of Industry 4.0 and IoT.

Ralf

Wellens

After studying electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen in the Ericsson Eurolab Aachen, Ralf Wellens started as a software developer in the field of Operations Support Systems for mobile networks at Ericsson. His career has taken him through various management positions in Research & Development and Engineering IT Operations to his current position as Project Manager for 5G and IoT topics in Manufacturing, Automotive and Rail. In this role, Mr. Wellens, together with industry partners, explores the possibilities of 5G and IoT to solve problems in the industry and supports the partners in the implementation of the respective projects.

Eric

Wenig

Eric Wenig, Vice President Sales & Marketing
After starting his career as a telecommunications engineer at Siemens, Eric Wenig assumed his first leadership position with a Canadian telecommunications supplier in the mid-nineties. He then extended his executive skills at Internet Pioneers and even at a market leader in Internet set-up. This was followed by MD positions at leading companies in the data center sector. With his extensive experience with leading IT companies as well as young Silicon Valley start-ups, Eric Wenig has now taken over the leadership of Sales & Marketing at KINEXON Industries.

Oliver

Werneyer

Oliver is CEO of IMburse AG, winner of the "Finance-IT Innovation Award 2019 - Ecosystems", rapidly growing the business with investors, partners and customers. After founding his first company at age of 16, he academically specialised in Actuarial Science and innovation related methodologies. He was active in the (re)insurance industry for more than 10 years in various innovation, product development and management roles at companies like Liberty Life (South Africa), Genworth Financial (UK), Swiss Re (Switzerland). All the while being very involved in the UK and Swiss startup ecosystem as founder, mentor and promoter.

Mike

West

Mike West is a philosophy student, cleverly disguised as a software engineer at Google in Munich. He is responsible for the web platform arm of Chrome's security team, and chairs the W3C's Web Application Security Working Group.

Fabian

Winter

Fabian joined Munich Re in 2009 and is responsible for Analytics within Munich Re globally. Within this role, he is developing an advanced analytics and machine learning ecosystem, which enables the digital transformation of Munich Re.
He holds a PhD in Politics and Statistics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. This Doctoral Thesis was performed after he obtained a Diploma in Statistics from the Institute for Statistics in Munich, Germany.

Dr. Imme

Witzel

Dr. Imme Witzel is Head of the „New Work“ unit of Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (Bavarian Center for Digitization). 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. 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 is an entrepreneur.

Dr. Florian

Wolf

Florian is responsible for company strategy and product design at Mergeflow. Previously, Florian developed analytics software for institutional investors. Before that, he was a Research Associate in Computer Science and Genetics at the University of Cambridge. Florian has a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from MIT, where some of his work was funded by DARPA. Florian is a member of the Global Panel at MIT Technology Review.

Dr. Oliver

Zander

Dr Oliver Zander is Rechtsanwalt and Partner of the German law firm Weitnauer in their Munich office. Oliver advises in the areas of capital markets, financial regulation, corporate law and M&A. His clients include financial institutions, private equity funds, sponsors of closed end funds and corporates. He started his career with the law firm Deringer Tessin (today Freshfields) in Cologne and spent six years as corporate and capital markets lawyer in the City of London. Afterwards, he was inhouse counsel with a German sponsor of closed end funds in Munich. Prior to joining Weitnauer he was for more than 10 years founding partner of the Munich office of a German leading law firm. Oliver studied law at the universities of Bonn, Lausanne and Munich.

Tobias M.

Zeitler

Irresistibly drawn to knowing. Creator of a global high-performance value transaction system. Researching fundamental questions, such as antibiotic resistances and Hepatitis C using simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance. Technology Enthusiast. DLT and Blockchain expert. Experienced speaker. Thought-leader and problem solver. Uniquely skilled to hyper-focus and powered by omnidirectional creativity.

Peter

Wiedmann

Peter Wiedmann focuses on innovative business models and technologies. He is co-founder and responsible Manager at the Deloitte Blockchain Institute. During his more than 10 years of consulting, he was responsible for several large transformation projects. Before joining Deloitte in 2012, he worked for a large management consultancy group and in the Finance department of a large global bank.

Ramona

Sorgenfrei

After completing her first state examination in law, Ramona now is a PhD student in the field of contract and data protection law at the University of Bayreuth. In particular, she compares the legal aspects of data as an object of performance, consent under data protection law and potential areas of conflict in relation to contract law. She also works as a research assistant in an international law firm in Dusseldorf in the field of dispute resolution. In addition to lectures on data protection issues, in particular concerning privacy by design, she also lectures at the University of Bayreuth on International Sales Law and Arbitration Rules while coaching the participants of the Willem C. Vis Moot. Apart from questions of data protection law, her main areas of interest are international contractual relations and cross-border transactions.

Prof. Dr. Henner

Gimpel

Henner Gimpel is professor of Business & Information Systems Engineering at University of Augsburg and member of the Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT. The main focus of his work is the analysis and design of digitalization. His current research interests include the analysis and design of information systems to support the future of work and ICT-enabled services. The goals here are the human-centered and economically target-oriented development and use of information systems and the analysis of individual acceptance and handling of digital technologies in different industries. He studied Industrial Engineering and Management and holds a Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Eike

Sommer

Eike Sommer of CAPTRON Electronic is a renowned expert in several technological fields, ranging from IT-Security, Data-Security, Big Data Analysis, e-commerce to New Mobility and Industry Automation. His focus is on smart sensors for Industry 4.0 and awareness for identity theft.

Laszlo

Varro

Laszlo Varro, who has worked at the IEA since 2011, became the Agency’s Chief Economist at the start of 2016, succeeding Fatih Birol, who took over as IEA Executive Director on 1 September 2015. As Chief Economist, Mr. Varro supports all Directors and teams at the IEA in ensuring consistent energy economics and analytical rigour for the Agency’s work. Prior to assuming the position of Chief Economist, Mr Varro served as IEA Head of Gas, Coal and Power Markets.