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SEP 27 - OCt 2, 2020
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Speakers 2019
President Barack Obama
Margit Wennmachers
Operating Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Jessica Alba
Founder
The Honest Company
Drew Houston
Founder & CEO
Dropbox
Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder
LinkedIn
Joko Winterscheidt
Entertainer & Entrepreneur
David Limp
Senior Vice President Amazon Devices & Services
Amazon
Donna Carpenter
Co-founder & CEO
Burton Snowboards
Fatoumata Ba
Founder & CEO
Janngo
Klaus Hommels
CEO
Lakestar Advisors
Joey Zwillinger
Co-CEO, Co-founder
Allbirds
Chris Barton
Founder
Shazam
Hannes Ametsreiter
CEO
Vodafone Deutschland
Saeed Amidi
Founder & CEO
Plug and Play
Frank Thelen
Founder & CEO
Freigeist
Tina Müller
CEO
Douglas
Hans Sigl
Actor
Hildegard Wortmann
Member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing
Audi
Lars Jankowfsky
Founder
NFQ.Asia
Matthias Schranner
Ex-Hostage Negotiator
CEO Schranner Negotiation Institute
Nicolas Brusson
CEO & Co-Founder
BlaBlaCar
Finn Age Hänsel
Founder
Sanity
Julian Stiefel
CEO & Co-Founder
Tourlane
Valentin Stalf
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
N26
Stefan Krautkrämer
Managing Director/ Co-Founder
FinTecSystems
Anna Iarotska
Cofounder & CEO
Robo Wunderkind
Aimie-Sarah Carstensen
Founder/CEO
ArtNight / ShakeNight / BakeNight / PlantNight
Ann-Sophie Reinelt
Innovation Management - Program Management Intrapreneur-Program
TRUMPF
Dr. Thorsten Lambertus
Head of AHEAD
Fraunhofer Venture
Patrick Sobalvarro
Co-founder and CEO
Veo Robotics
Bastian Lechner
Founder & CEO
Catana Capital
Fabian Bosler
CIO/CMO
Homelike
Patrick Studener
Vice President, Head of EMEA & APAC
Bird
Nina Geiss
CEO
CarFellows
Stefan Herbst
CXO
helden.de
Hanno Renner
Co-Founder & CEO
Personio
Torsten Kolind
CEO
YouNoodle, Inc.
Michael Duttlinger
CEO & Co-Founder
Cashlink Technologies
Christian Mischler
Co-Founder & Chairman
GuestReady
Aleksander Ciszek
CEO & Founder
3YOURMIND
Rupert Schäfer
Managing Partner & Co-founder
The Nunatak Group
Farina Schurzfeld
Founder & CMO
Selfapy
Dan Ram
Event MC, TEDx Speaker and Executive Coach
Julian Riedlbauer
Partner
GP Bullhound
Peter Fricke
Head of
Deutsche Börse Venture Network
Daniel Smeds
CEO & Founder
optile
Robert Wetzker
CEO
Aklamio
Prof. Dr. Marc Gruber
Vice President for Innovation
EPFL Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Lawrence Leuschner
Co-Founder & CEO
TIER Mobility
Düzen Tekkal
Founder, Chairwoman and CEO
Human rights organization 'HAWAR.help e.V.' & nationwide educational initiative 'GermanDream'
Julia Profeta Johansson
Founder
Ella Impact
Andy Weinzierl
Founder & CEO
SUSHI Bikes
Andreas König
CEO
ProGlove
Philipp Stangl
Co-Founder & CEO
Rebel Meat
Adam Yearsley
Global Head of Talent Management
Red Bull
Rainer Märkle
General Partner
HV Holtzbrinck Ventures
State Minister Judith Gerlach
Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs
Marko Wenthin
CEO
Penta
Morten Primdahl
Co-Founder
Zendesk
Katrin Kaeufer
Senior Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rania Reda
Founder & CEO
Augmania
Christopher McLachlan
Head of Company Builder
EnBW Innovation
David Galipeau
Founding Partner
SDGx
Tunde Kehinde
Co-CEO
Lidya
Patrick Campbell
Co-founder & CEO
ProfitWell
Katharina Gehra
Co-Founder & CEO
Immutable Insight
Markus Dickhardt
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Roadsurfer
Dr. Felix Reinshagen
CEO
NavVis
Ilkka Lavas
CEO & co-founder
EatAndTheCity / Vivas Stories
Marc Grewenig
Co-Founder & CEO
Fanomena
Marta Ra
Founder
Women In Sustainable Finance
Tom van den Brulle
Global Head of Innovation
Munich Re
Nenad Marovac
Founder & CEO
DN Capital
Johannes Weber
Managing Partner
Ananda Ventures
Prof. Dr. Kai Andrejewski
Managing Partner South
KPMG
Carina Schnitzenbaumer
Head of Airbus AirSense
Airbus Defence and Space
Bulent Altan
Member of the Executive Board
Mynaric and Space Investor
Franz Doerr
CEO
flatfair
Intakhab Khan
Managing Director & Founder
Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI)
Isabel Metz
Director Strategy & Business Development
Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI)
Nils Henning
Co-Founder, Managing Director
CASAFARI
Arne Pache
Vice President Global Products & Solutions
Mastercard International
Rita Casimiro
Head of Acceleration
MAZE
Antonia Gawel
Head, Circular Economy Initiative
World Economic Forum
Daniel Cronin
Founding Partner
Vienna Mentoring
Ulrich Schäfer
Chief Business-Editor
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Andreas Bihlmaier
Co-Founder
robodev
Miki Yokoyama
Chief Operating Officer
TechFounders
Alison Fort
Partner & Head of Impact
Katapult
Frank Salzgeber
Head of Innovation and Ventures Office
European Space Agency
Andreas Bruckschlögl
Co-Founder
Ryte
Marco Fuchs
CEO
OHB SE
Zarah Bruhn
Co-founder & CEO
Social Bee
Jonathan Nowak Delgado
Founder & Managing Director
SPREE by HolodeckVR
Jens Schädler
CEO
i-surance
Markus Kreipl
CFO
shipcloud
Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of Innovation Accelerator
United Nations World Food Programme
Johannes Joey Naumann
Head of Start-up Lab / Intrapreneurship program
Deutsche Post DHL
Haakon Brunell
CEO & Managing Partner
Katapult Impact Accelerators
Marco Langhoff
Co-Founder & CEO
eatclever
Oliver Berchtold
Co-Founder & CPO
YUKKA Lab
Sebastian Wuerz
Co-Founder & CEO
homefully
Louise Koch
Corporate Sustainability Director
Dell Technologies
Joscha Raue
Co-founder
Think-it
Rupert Simon
Head of Strategy Digital Technology
OSRAM
Tharald Nustad
Founder
Katapult / Nordic impact
Daniel Szabo
CEO & MD
Körber Digital
Michael Bednar-Brandt
Head of Business Innovation, Oracle NEXT
Oracle
Til Landwehrmann
Founder & CEO
LIV-T / OILFOX
Johannes Diebig
VP CMO Germany & Austria
Salesforce
Dr. Benjamin Jetter
KPMG Innovate
KPMG
Darja Gutnick
CEO, Co-Founder
12grapes / Bunch.ai
Christopher Pommerening
Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer
Learnlife
Dr. Bernd Klosterkemper
Partner
Ananda Impact Ventures
Marc-Olivier Luecke
General Partner
Atlantic Labs
Philipp Benkler
Founder and CEO
Testbirds
Vanessa Gstettenbauer
Principal
btov Partners
Jeremias Heinrich
Founder
Arvantis Group/Picus Capital
David Wortmann
CEO & Founder
DWR eco
Lea-Sophie Cramer
Founder & Advisory Board Member
Amorelie
Stephanie Czerny
Managing Director
DLD Media
Magdalena Rogl
Head of Digital Channels
Microsoft
Christina Burkhardt
Founder & CEO
SHIFTSCHOOL for Digital Transformation GmbH
Andreas Kunze
CEO & Founder
KONUX
Antonio Miguel
Managing Partner
MAZE Impact
Henrike Luszik
Founder & CEO
BRIDGEMAKER
Jochen Wermuth
Founder and Managing Partner
Wermuth Asset Management
Dr. Frank Niederländer
Board Member / Chairman-Designate
Responsible Leaders Network / National Advisory Board for Impact Investment Germany
Niels Doerje
Chairman and Board Director
Chairman.de
Christopher Waldner
Intrapreneurship Advisor
Chairman.de
Sarah Turner
CEO & Co-Founder
Angel Academe
Dr. Christian Saller
General Partner
Holtzbrinck Ventures
Sebastian Copeland
Founder & President
SEDNA Foundation
Jörn Leogrande
EVP Mobile Services, WD Labs
Wirecard Technologies
Simon Baldus
Head of New Products
Friday Insurance
Marie Moesgaard
Country Manager, Germany
Pleo
Clara Péron
Founder & Managing Director
Value for Good
Donata Hopfen
Managing Director and Partner
BCG Digital Ventures
Alex Stephens
Investment Manager
Big Society Capital
Soul Patel
Foudner
Exponential Ventures
Bennet Barth
Program Manager Accelerator
Responsible Leaders Network
Taeun Kwon
Head of Wealth Manager Programs
University of Zurich
Sebastian Hopp
Head of Corporate Innovation
Innogy SE
Emilie Colker
Managing Director
IDEO
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Wuttig
Professor Entrepreneurship and Innovation
IUBH
Heike Czalaun
Managing Director
Zahlenreich
Alexander Igelsböck
CEO
Adverity
Raphaël Moraglia
CEO
Skillogs
Kathrin Krönig
CEO
Intao
Regina Mehler
Founder, CEO
WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION
Tina Umbach
Managing Director
primeCrowd Deutschland
Ferry Heilemann
CO-Founder & CEO
FreightHub
Sara Patti
Head of Health Innovation Center
Allianz Partners
Marc Trieschmann
Co-Founder & Managing Director
enmacc
Domagoj Dolinsek
Managing Director
PlanRadar
Heba Aguib
Lead Accelerator Program
Responsible Leaders Network
Gloria Seibert
CEO
Temedica
Ida Tin
Founder and CEO
Clue by BioWink
Boris Wasmuth
Co-Founder
GameDuell
Selected
former speakers
President Barack Obama
Jessica Alba
Founder
The Honest Company
Richard Branson
Founder
Virgin Group
Drew Houston
Founder & CEO
Dropbox
Tarana Burke
Founder
#MeToo Movement
Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder
LinkedIn
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder & CTO
airbnb
Donna Carpenter
Co-founder & CEO
Burton Snowboards
Klaus Hommels
CEO
Lakestar Advisors
Nico Rosberg
Green Tech Entrepreneur and F1 World Champion
Margit Wennmachers
Operating Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Leila Janah
CEO + Founder
Samasource and LXMI
Jan Böhmermann
satirist, tv host, and multiple award-winner
Mitchell Baker
Executive Chairwoman
Mozilla Foundation & Corporation
Stefan Raab
Entrepreneur & Entertainer
Philipp Lahm
Founder Philipp Lahm Holding, Partner
Fanmiles
Tony Fadell
Founder Nest & Creator iPod
Kasper Rorsted
CEO
adidas
Dorothee Bär
State Ministry Commissioner for Digitization
Prof. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner
European Multi Advisory Board Member,
including Linde, Munich Re & Deutsche Börse AG