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TECH DAYS 2020: JUNE 15

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Dr. Markus

Söder

Dorothee

Bär

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Judith

Gerlach

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

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

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

Ralf

Wintergerst

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

Dr. Roland

Busch

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

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

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

Klaus Josef

Lutz

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

Dr. Wolfgang

Hackenberg

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

Lina Gandløse

Hansen

Lina Gandløse Hansen is based in Munich as the Consul General of Denmark to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and the Director of Innovation Centre Denmark. With a Master’s Degree from Copenhagen Business School and IT University of Copenhagen. As part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lina Gandløse Hansen’s career path as an entrepreneurial diplomat includes previous diplomatic postings in Washington D.C. and Paris.

The Innovation Centre Denmark in Munich is a partnership between the Ministry of Higher Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

Innovation Centre Denmark offers insights into research, science, technology, new business models and commercial innovation in innovation hotspots around the world.

Katrin

Pucknat

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

Dr. Liliane

Ableitner

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

Radoslav

Albrecht

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

Dr. Heike

Bach

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

Katrin

Bacic

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

Christian

Banse

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

Anne Kjaer

Bathel

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

Mark

Bartig

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

Chris

Begley

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

Peter

Bludau

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

Günter

Böhm

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

Dr. Robert

Brooks

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

Carl

Byers

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

Dr. Dominik

Dellermann

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

Vincent

Demortier

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

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

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

David

Dohmen

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

Dr. Markus

Duchon

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

Dr. Mike

Durst

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

Markus Fedra

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

Frank

Felten

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

Efrat

Friedland

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

Dr. Andreas

Gallasch

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

Gil

Geron

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

Christopher

Geyer

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

Lex

Hartman

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

Susanne

Heger

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

Maximilian

Irlbeck

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

Prof. Dr. Lutz

Heuser

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

Thilo

Hoelscher

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

Lisa

Hyna

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

Pieter

Jansen

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

Dr. Tanja

Jovanovic

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

Luisa

Katzenberger

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

Dr. Tobias

Kämpf

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

Jasmin

Karatas

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

Eitan Kirshenboim

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

Werner

Koch

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

Prof. Dr. Thomas

Kolbe

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

Thomas

Licklederer

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

Svenja

Lutz

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

Danusch

Mahmoudi

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

Humera

Malik

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

Wilhelm

Mauß

Wilhelm Mauß first embarked on an officer´s career in the German Armed Forces, where, after twelve years with stations in Munich, Füssen and Donauwörth, he was finally captain and battery commander. After studying mechanical and industrial engineering, he joined a world-leading testing machine manufacturer in Ulm in 1994, where he initially became sales manager and in 2000 moved to Singapore as Managing Director Asia.

Back in Germany, he took over the management of Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG. Since then, the company has tripled its turnover and number of employees and has received several awards for research and development, resource efficiency and corporate responsibility, most recently Lorenz receives German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federation of German Industries BDI.

Stephan Micklitz

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

Sinisha

Patkovic

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

Sebastian

Porkert

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

Dr. Jernej Poteko

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

Andrea

Prestel-Galler

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

Dirk

Ramhorst

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

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

Rahav Shalom

Revivo

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

Dr. Jörg

Robert

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

Silke

Schmidt

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

Sophia Sauter

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Björn

Schuller

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

Jan

Schulze-Siebert

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

Linda

Splitt

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

Marcel

Vroom

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

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

Hendrikje

Wagner

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

Dr. Imme

Witzel

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

Stephanie Wössner

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

Julian

Zöschinger

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

Thomas Reiners

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