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Oktoberfest Day
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Bits & Pretzels 2026 won’t be just another event - it’ll be a once-in-a-lifetime big collective masterclass in building the next unicorns.
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Ansgar Mondorf
Account Executive
B2Brouter
Dr. Carsten Rudolph
Managing Director
BayStartUp
Dr. Ilja Rudyk
Senior economist
European Patent Office
Katja Ruhnke
Chairwoman of BAND / CEO & Co-Founder of CK Venture Capital GmbH
Business Angels Deutschland e.V. (BAND)
Andra Larin
CEO
Priolaunch
Florian Scherl
CEO & Founder
explaino.ai
Philipp Struth
Partner
BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital
Philip Kessler
CEO
TURN2X
Alexander Noll
Founder
plancraft
Jan Gutknecht
Director SAP for Startups
SAP
Niclas Jakob
Lead Digital Transformation EU Markets
Vodafone Group
Philipp Herrmann
Founder & CEO
BRYCK
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Selected Former Speakers
Barack Obama
44th President of the USA
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Businessman, Investor, Environmentalist, form. Governor of California
Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder
LinkedIn
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Airbnb
Niklas Zennström
Founder & CEO
Atomico
Robert Gentz
Founder & Co-CEO
Zalando
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face
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