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This were our previous Speakers

We are especially proud of the diverse and powerful speakers we have had in recent years. CEOs of traditional companies met serial entrepreneurs and thought leaders and discussed the most important topics of our time.

Tim Reusch

Head of Consulting & Planning Studio Vitra International AG

Philipp Sandner

Co-Founder Frankfurt School Blockchain Center

Fabian Kienbaum

CEO Kienbaum

Verena Pausder

Entrepreneur, Investor, Digital Education Expert

Dan Ram

Hinterland Stage Host

André Bierbass

Partner Rheingans

Zoë Andreae

CEO LECARE

Melanie Riebel

Junior Project Lead McKinsey & Company

Gesa Miczaika

Founding Partner Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund

Paul Becker

Co-Founder & CEO re:cap

Céline Flores Willers

Founders Stage Host

Benedikt Müller-Arnold

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Luca Martinelli

Partner btov

Finn Age Hänsel

Co-Founder & MD Sanity Group

Thomas Schmidt

CEO Franz Haniel & Cie.

Jerome Königsfeld

Partner McKinsey & Company

Henrike Luszick

Co-Founder & CEO Bridgemaker

David de Picciotto

Co-founder & CEO Pledge

Hanna Drabon

PM Bielefelder Startup Paket

David Block

CFO & COO circulee

Albert Gorlick

Co-Founder & CEO Synctive

Bonita Grupp

Head of E-Commerce & HR Trigema

Caspar Schlenk

Finance Forward

Franziska Telser

Business Insider

Katharina Kreitz

CEO & Co-Founder Vectoflow

Sebastian Holtze

Director PwC Managing Director DBU Digital Business University

Johannis Hatt

CEO jvh-ventures GmbH

Nicolaus Schefenacker

Co-Founder & MD Sennder

Laura Möller

Growth Investor Burda Principal Investments

Volker Seidel

Senior Director PreSales Germany Dell Technologies

Josef Brunner

Entrepreneur, investor & author

al Henderson

Cal Henderson

Co-Founder and CTO of Slack

Christiane Mänz

Zentis GmbH

Farina Schurzfeld

Co-Founder Selfapy, startup advisor

Lasse Dumstrei

CEO & Co-Founder Betriebsmittelhelden

Christian Hülsewig

Founder & CEO Schüttflix GmbH

Uta Haller

Director HCI Partner-Go-To-Market EMEA VMware

Sven Wiechert

CMO ClimatePartner GmbH

Insa Schniedermeier

t3n

Marco Voigt

Co-Founder Greentech Festival

Svea Fina

Founder & Managing Director FINA-DIGITAL LTD

Monja Mühling

Co-Founder & CEO Smartlane

Lars Klingbeil

SPD party chairman

Varinia Bernau

WiWo

Christina Kyriasoglou

Journalist manager magazin

Sebastian Heise

Founder & COO Graphmasters GmbH

Alex von Frankenberg

MD of High-Tech Gründerfonds

Herbert Mangesius

Partner Vsquared Ventures

Larissa Holzki

Handelsblatt

Gerald Pfeifer

CTO Suse

Sabine Engel

Serial Entrepreneur

Jens Hutzschenreuter

Managing Director Digital Business Group

Alice Albizzati

Founding Partner Revaia

Christian Rebernik

Co-Founder & CEO Tomorrow's Education

Philipp von Bülow

CEO lawpilots

Just Beyer

Partner Saarbrücker21

Felix Fiege

Co-CEO FIEGE Group

Dr. Friedrich Droste

Head of Strategy & Digitalization Bitburger Group, Managing Director Bitburger Ventures

Klemens Haselsteiner

CEO elect & Chief Digital Officer at STRABAG SE

Leonard Dorlöchter

Co-Founder & CPO peaq

Mor Eini

Strategic Partnerships & Growth APX

Martin Spindler

Senior Vice President hy – the axel springer consulting group

Lena Schrum

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, aware THE PLATFORM

Kerstin Hochmüller

CEO Marantec Group

Hendrik Schriefer

Co-Founder & CEO Sharpist

Lasse Rheingans

CEO Rheingans

Elisabeth L’Orange

Co-Founder & CCO Oxolo

Aiga Senftleben

Co-Founder & MD Billie

Christine Wang

Managing Director Lufthansa Innovation Hub

Swantje Allmers

CEO NWMS

Christoph Schuh

Partner at Lakestar

Diana Heinrichs

Co-Founder & CEO Lindera

Otto Birnbaum

Founding Partner revent

Janina Mütze

Co-Founder & CEO Civey

Rouven Dresselhaus

Co-Founder & Managing Partner Cavalry Ventures

Gesche Weger

Co-Founder & CEO Packwise

Anna Granskog

Partner McKinsey

Monja Meier

CEO & Co-Founder EASI Control

Jolanta Baboulidis

Country Director Twitter Germany

Andrea Ostheer

Manager Corporate Communications Mast-Jägermeister SE

Ferry Heilemann

Managing Partner Pirate Impact

Johannes Hinsch

Director Digitalization & Innovation Porsche AG

Mario Stefan Oelkers

Founder & CEO Brightpoint

Julia Zhou

Co-Founder Tidal Impact

Lea Vajnorsky

Consultant @ Russell Reynolds Associates & Founder/CEO @ Wo\men Inc.

Benjamin Adrion

Initiator Viva con Agua

Maja Brankovic

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Miriam Wohlfarth

Founder & Co-CEO Banxware

Christoph Haß

Entrepreneurship & Scaling PwC Germany

Vincent Huguet

Co-Founder & CEO Malt

Christian Miele

Partner at Headline

Florian Gontek

Spiegel

Torsten Rolf Bendlin

Co-Founder & CEO Valuedesk

Axel Täubert

Head of Start-ups Google Cloud Germany

Joana Ristau

Customer Success Manager Slack

Erin Beilharz

Managing Director CleanTech Hub at Lufthansa Group

Ina Nordsiek

Director Intrapreneurship Miele

Sebastian Pollok

Founding Partner Visionaries Club

Fritz Cramer

Founder & MD Cosuno

Lawrence Leuschner

Co-Founder & CEO Tier

Dr. Vivien Dollinger

CEO ObjectBox

Astrid Maier

Editor in Chief XING

Jan Hendrik Goldbeck

MD Goldbeck

Laura Tönnies

CEO & Founder corrux

Martin Klenk

CTO Celonis

Jan Beckers

Chief Investment Officer BIT Capital GmbH

Maria von Scheel-Plessen

Keynote Speaker & Digital Transformation Enthusiast

Ferry Heilemann

Founder AENU

Nicole Büttner

Founder & CEO Merantix Momentum

Harald Zapp

Founder & CEO Next Big Thing AG

Oscar Jazdowski

General Manager Silicon Valley Bank

Christian Leybold

Founding & General Partner Headline

Kai Diekmann

Founder StoryMachine

Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

Founding Partner La Famiglia

Albert Christmann

Dr. Oetker

Christian Deilmann

MD tado

Sarna Röser

Federal Chairwoman DIE JUNG UNTERNEHMER

Dr. Rahmyn Kress

Founder & CEO WeVee® Technologies Ltd

Thies Sander

Founding Partner Project A

Dr. Florian Heinemann

Co-Founder & CEO Project A

Daniel Metzler

CEO Isar Aerospace

Dr. Brigitte Mohn

Bertelsmann Stiftung

Markus Miele

Executive Director & CEO Miele & Cie. KG

Justin Halsall

Public Speaker & Founder Record Once

Wendy Singer

Executive Director Start-Up Nation Central Israel

Zoe Adamovicz

Co-Founder & CEO Neufund

Dr. Daniel Kirchert

Ex-CEO Byton

Natalia Brzezinski

Global Business Development Klarna

Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser

Chairman of the Supervisory Board CLAAS

Dorothee Bär

Minister of Digitalization

Frank Thelen

Founder & CEO Freigeist Capital

Mauricio Rossi

Founder & Co-CEO H-FARM

Sebastian Johnston

Venture Partner Armira Growth

Philipp Westermeyer

Founder OMR

Alexander Sixt

CEO Sixt

Josef Brunner

Founding Investor & CEO relayr

Dr. Reinhard Christian Zinkann

CEO Miele & Cie KG

Colette Ballou

Investor Ballou Capital