TECH DAYS 2019: JUNE 2 - 3

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Mohammed

Alam

• 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Keshavarz

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.