Speakers | Project A Knowledge Conference 2020

Nina Reicke

Sasserath Munzinger Plus

Tarek Müller

About You

Thuy-Ngan Trinh

Project A

Erik Siekmann

Digital Forward GmbH

Caroline Weimann

JoinPolitics

Cornelis Stettner

KRY

Simon Walter

Project A

Anastasia Albert

Project A

Anne Geuther

Project A

Cristina Koehn

KRY

Pia Frey

Opinary

Philipp Werner

Project A

Krisztina Orosz

Anyline

Nina Jetter

Project A

Martin Bach

Project A

Philip Husemann

JoinPolitics

Andrea Althaus

Project A

Luisa Haxel

Evernest

Dr. Martin Loetzsch

Project A

Alena Stock

Homeday

Thomas Bleyer

Ravensburger AG

Jonas Krauss

trendtours Touristik

Alexandra Deichsel

Project A

Moritz Trutschel

Project A

Dirk Daumann

Sennder

Stephan Schulze

Project A

Hansi Hansmann

Hansmengroup

Romane Persch

Catawiki

Jonas Bailly

Jung von Matt HAVEL

Fausto Maglia

Casavo

Tamer El-Hawari

Project A

Raul Porojan

Project A

Theo Tortorici

Spryker

Tim Herbig

herbig.co

Mark Roberge

Stage 2 Capital | Harvard Business School

Philipp Westermeyer

OMR

Laurent Rime

A-LL Creative Technology

Merlin Carter

Project A

Kristina Prokop

Eyeota

René A. Pfromm

pfromm negotiations

Dr. Oliver Mauss

PlusServer Group

Allard Buijze

AxonIQ

Hannes Felsberg

Trade Republic

Benjamin Chino

Sennder

Selim Nowicki

Project A

Alis Yasiuchynskaya

Project A

Julia Flaig

Urban Sports Club

Dr. Stephan Tingler

Comtravo

David Nothacker

Sennder

Charlotte Niklahs

Project A

Zoltan Kincses

Project A

Mathias Frank

kfzteile24

Rainer Berak

Project A

Miriam Wohlfarth

Ratepay Gmbh | Banxware

Andreas Greilhuber

Anyline GmbH

Eduardo San Martin Morote

Vue.js Core Team

Michael Lande Blau

Project A

Dr. Frederik Gärtner

SMP

Jonas Huth

SMP

Marie-Theres Klüpfel

Project A

Niusha Shahmoradi

Project A

Marius Kühlmann

Project A

Mirela Stefan

Project A

Szilvia Ovari

Project A

Molly Barrett

Project A

Mila Cramer

Project A

Sharanya Eswaran

Project A

Joel El-Qalqili

SMP

Dr. Fabian Euhus

SMP

Dr. Florian Heinemann

Project A

Philipp Kloeckner

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Philipp Gloeckler

Moovel Group

Loana Junge

Spryker

James Arch

N26

Dennis Krueger

Project A

Alexandra Braznikova

Project A

Caroline Hjelm

VOI Technology

Andreas Wild

Project A

Jules Coleman

Resi

Uwe Horstmann

Project A

Xiaoyin Qu

Run the World

Hubert Deutsch

Feinguss Blank

Peter Fricke

Deutsche Börse AG

Benjamin Dennehy

The UK's Most Hated Sales Trainer

Markus Wuebben

CrossEngage

Nina Levchuk

Google

Magdalena Maksan

Google

Bjorn Muller

Google

Michaela Tada

Google

Jean-Luc Saorine

Google

Peter Bakenecker

Mastercard

Jean de Bressy

Zalando

Simon Lorenz

Klara

Felix Engelhardt

Carl Finance

Felix Marzian

Sennder

Christoph Roessner

Laserhub

Christoph Rösler

Project A

Jade Lu

SVB

Michaela Brady

SVB

Dan Caputo

SVB

Christian Hoppe

SVB

Peder Stahle

Kry

Isabelle Ewald

Otto Group

Sebastian Kielmann

Picalike

Christoph Goeken

M-Venture

Elise Müller

Spryker

Dr. Philip Gisdakis

HypoVereinsbank

AJ Ziegler

BlackRock

Tobias Rosenstock

Project A Ventures

Jacopo Melloni

Project A Ventures

Daniel Schneider

Kry

Matthias Kannegiesser

Spryker

Albert Pescheck

Azowo

Ben Fischer

Project A Ventures

Thies Sander

Project A Ventures

Andrea Girardello

42matters

Matt Brennan

General Catalyst

Ronnie Vuine

micropsi industries

Benjamin Ullrich

SMP

Romanus Otte

Business Insider Deutschland GmbH

Simon Bolz

Klara

Christian Evers

Evernest

Steffen Wicker

Homeday

Adrian Raidt

Laserhub

Christian Schneider-Sickert

Liqid

Kaspar Korjus

Pactum

Kurosch Daniel Habibi

Carl Finance

Maria-Liisa Bruckert

SQIN

Kinga Jentetics

PublishDrive

Harald Fanderl

McKinsey & Company

Oliver Ehrlich

McKinsey & Company

David Fuhr

HiSolutions AG

Oliver Gediehn

McKinsey & Company

Manuela Mohr-Zydek

Salesforce

Karin Fusco

Salesforce

Adnan Zaheer

Seers

Zahra Shah

Seers

Lee Butz

District Technologies

Oscar Jazdowski

SVB

Dr. Sophie Chung

Qunomedical

Alex Ferrara

Bessemer Venture Partners

Manuel Hinz

CrossEngage

Rytis Vitkauskas

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Carolin Desirée Toepfer

cdt digital GmbH & Cyttraction

Anton Waitz

Project A Ventures

Thomas Bauer

McKinsey & Company

Wolfgang Möller

Mast-Jaegermeister SE

Nadja D'arcy

Salesforce

Benjamin Mosse

LIQID

Sven Moellmeier

LIQID

Simon Leicht

Inventures

Rodrigo Martinez

helloworld

Mario Barosevcic

Emerge Education

Jens Lapinski

Angel Invest

Leopold Lerach

Project A Ventures

Enrico Mellis

Project A Ventures

Erin Grueber

Google

Dr. med. Monika Gratzke

KRY Germany

Dr. Elena Heber

HelloBetter

Dr. Ulf Maywald

AOK Plus

Frederik de Beer

Catawiki

Christian Hecker

Trade Republic

Pavlína Zychová

MyStay

Patric Hellermann

Foundamental

Misha Glenny

Mads Fosselius

Dixa

Lukas Kinigadner

Anyline

Christoph Braunsberger

Anyline

Giorgio Tinacci

Casavo

Andres Tapia Almansa

Project A Ventures

Andres Tapia Almansa

Head of Marketing, Project A Ventures

Talks:

CMO Round Table (invite only) - B2B

Giorgio Tinacci

Founder & CEO Casavo

Giorgio Tinacci graduated in International Management at Bocconi and Honk Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015. He enters BCG where he works for 2 years with a focus on digital transformation projects in banking, insurance and industrial goods. Giorgio leaves BCG in September 2017 and founded Casavo (of which is CEO) with the vision to develop a tech-enabled market maker in the residential real estate space, by purchasing property in 30 days and taking the risk of finding a final buyer.

Talks:

Casavo: Building a European real estate champion - how Casavo changes residential real estate one market at a time

Lukas Kinigadner

CEO & Co-Founder, Anyline

Lukas Kinigadner is an advisor, speaker and entrepreneur by heart. He is a co-founder and CEO of Anyline, one of the most successful and recognised European AI startups.

Before Anyline, Lukas founded several companies including one of the first app agencies in Austria. Lukas has also worked for the Swarovski Group, BAWAG Bank, BA-CA Leasing Bank, Allis-Gleaner Corporation and was a manager at Accenture.

Besides his role as Anyline CEO, Lukas mentors startups and shares his expertise with other young entrepreneurs. In addition to his role at Anyline, Lukas gives speeches and talks on topics like entrepreneurship, sales and his achievements as a startup-founder.

Talks:

Anyline: Capture Opportunities

Christoph Braunsberger

CFO, Anyline

Christoph Braunsberger joined Anyline in 2019 as CFO. He began his professional career in the M&A division of an international investment bank. Afterwards Christoph was with an international strategy consultancy and a Big 4 accounting firm in the Refinancing and Restructuring practice, where he lead several restructuring and transformation assignments in various industries. In the course of his over 10 years of professional finance experience, Christoph was able to acquire deep industry knowledge and extensive experience in the areas of M&A, debt advisory, corporate restructuring & transformation, liquidity management, strategy and performance improvement. Christoph is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Austria.

Talks:

Anyline: Capture Opportunities

Mads Fosselius

CEO, Dixa

Mads is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in customer service software industries. He co-founded Dixa in 2015, with an aim to empower customer-centric leaders and their teams in people-first brands to build stronger bonds with their customers. Mads was brought on as CEO in January 2018 and quickly led the company to hyper-growth, closed 2 successful funding rounds and grew the team from 10 to 120+ people across offices in Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Kyiv.

Talks:

Dixa: Welcome to the age of Conversational Customer Engagement

Misha Glenny

Journalist

Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist whose books have been published around the world. He established his reputation as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in Yugoslavia. More recently he has developed an unparalleled expertise in global organized crime and cyber security. His books include McMafia, made into a successful TV drama, and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia.

Talks:

Cyber security is made out of people

Patric Hellermann

Partner, Foundamental

Patric’s forever striving to make the world more efficient by using technology and reason. He’s passionate about construction – and we mean super passionate (don’t ask him about his favorite construction statistics).

Talks:

Winning in construction - success patterns we see in the market

Pavlína Zychová

CEO & Co-Founder, MyStay

Pavlína Zychová is the CEO and co-founder of MyStay, a company helping hotels deliver a seamless guest experience, which has won award Travel Startup Of the 2017. Studied lawyer, she is involved with in travel industry for more than 7 years with a strong passion for traveling and moving guests experience forward. In 2018 she was voted as a Top Women in Startups by Economia. She is also an ambassador of a Woman Startup Competition, for 4 years helping to grow the startup community in the Czech Republic.

Talks:

MyStay: The world of hospitality is moving faster than ever

Christian Hecker

Founder, Trade Republic

Christian Hecker is in charge of Strategic development at Trade Republic Bank. He founded the FinTech together with Thomas Pischke and Marco Cancellieri in 2015 to offer commission-free securities trading for everyone. Before founding Trade Republic, Christian already had many years of experience in banking and finance. He was in Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and supported numerous capital market transactions in the start-up and technology sector.

Christian holds two bachelor degrees in business administration and philosophy from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen."

Talks:

Empowering everyone to take their financial investments into their own hands

Frederik de Beer

CCo Catawiki

Frederik de Beer (37) joined Catawiki in 2015 as Head of International Expansion, before taking over as CCO. In his current role Frederik is responsible for 4 business units and optimizing its operations and value propositions. Frederik’s goal throughout his career has been to realise maximum value for every stakeholder involved. The same applies for Catawiki, where he aspires to do so for buyers, sellers, employees, shareholders and other partners.

Talks:

Catawiki: Special objects, selected by experts

Dr. med. Monika Gratzke

Medical Director, KRY Germany

Dr. Monika Gratzke is a specialist for anesthesia, intensive-care medicine, an emergency doctor and pain therapist. She also is the Medical Director at Kry Germany, responsible for all medical quality aspects of the company. Next to this, Dr. Gratzke is working at a General Practicioner practice. Previously, Dr. Gratzke was working as a senior physician at LMU Munich.

Talks:

Health Apps (DiGA) - how do they fit in the German healthcare system?

Dr. Elena Heber

Co-Founder & VP Content & Research, HelloBetter

As a specialist in the field of mental health online training, Dr. Elena Heber is the co-founder as well as VP Content & Research of HelloBetter. Previously, she also co-founded the GET.ON Institute.

Talks:

Health Apps (DiGA) - how do they fit in the German healthcare system?

Dr. Ulf Maywald

Head of Pharmaceuticals & Drug Managment, AOK Plus

Dr. Ulf Maywald is the head of pharmaceuticals and drug management at AOK Plus.

Talks:

Health Apps (DiGA) - how do they fit in the German healthcare system?

Erin Grueber

Startup Partner Manager, Google

Erin Grueber designs and manages programs for Google for Startups in DACH, with a particular focus on supporting under-represented founders.

Talks:

Introduction to Google for Startups

Enrico Mellis

Investment Manager, Project A Ventures

Investment Manager at Berlin-based Project A Ventures looking for exceptional early-stage companies in PropTech, Logistics, Procurement & Gaming.

Talks:

Leopold Lerach

Investment Manager, Project A Ventures

Investment Manager at Berlin-based Project A Ventures looking for exceptional early-stage companies in Developer & Design Tools, and Cybersecurity.

Talks:

Better Late Than Never - Venture Capital Meets Open Source

Simon Leicht

Partner, Inventures

Investing in early-stage start-ups as Business Angel (Fintech, Blockchain, AI enabled-SaaS , Proptech). Former Entrepreneur at VentureStars and Rocket Internet. CEMS Alumni, Finance @SSE and Goethe-Uni. Proud investor at Donut - the new home for digital assets.

Talks:

Earlier than early-stage investing - best-in-class microfunds we love to partner with

Rodrigo Martinez

Investor, helloworld

Angel Investing at helloworld & Venture Partner at Point Nine Capital.

Talks:

Earlier than early-stage investing - best-in-class microfunds we love to partner with

Mario Barosevcic

Principal, Emerge Education

Investor at Emerge Education, Europe's most active fund investing in companies solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Previous background in social impact investing and strategy consulting.

Talks:

Earlier than early-stage investing - best-in-class microfunds we love to partner with

Jens Lapinski

CEO, Angel Invest

Jens is one of Europe’s most active angel investors, making 10 to 20 investments per year. Based in Berlin, he is CEO of Angel Invest. The Angel Invest portfolio companies have raised over $175m in funding. More than 85% of the 2018 investments have raised significant follow-on funding.

Previously, he was a Managing Director at Techstars, where he launched the German office and invested in 40 companies that have raised $200m+ in funding. Before Techstars, Jens was a partner at Forward Labs (now Forward Partners), which he co-founded in 2012. Forward Labs launched a new product per month using lean startup principles. Forward Partners became London's largest operational VC firm.

Talks:

Earlier than early-stage investing - best-in-class microfunds we love to partner with

Nadja D'arcy

Senior Area Vice President, Salesforce

Talks:

Grow stronger, grow together - How to build a scalable future

Sven Moellmeier

VP Strategy & Operations, LIQID

Talks:

Grow stronger, grow together - How to build a scalable future

Benjamin Mosse

CPO, LIQID

Talks:

Grow stronger, grow together - How to build a scalable future

Wolfgang Möller

CMO, Mast-Jaegermeister SE

Previous to his current responsibility for the Jaegermeister brand and its portfolio, Wolfgang had several international marketing roles at Red Bull. A strong believer in building brands through meaningful relations marked by mutual esteem.

Talks:

From Buzzword to Best Nights: Jägermeister's approach of purpose in marketing

Thomas Bauer

Expert Partner, McKinsey & Company

Thomas Bauer is an Expert Partner in McKinsey & Company's Munich office and he brings deep expertise in marketing-performance optimization to help leading brands across industries and geographies transform their brand management and marketing investment in an increasingly digitized marketing world. Thomas has led a broad range of marketing-performance projects across geographies, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. He has developed marketing-performance levers—including brand management, marketing-budget sizing and allocation, channel mix, procurement, and marketing operating and agency model—at leading global brands in retail, consumer-goods, automotive, insurance, banking, telecommunications, aviation, and other consumer-facing industries.

Talks:

Anton Waitz

General Partner, Project A Ventures

He leads venture capital investment activities and the investment team — he shares responsibility for both with Uwe.

Prior to joining Project A in 2016, Anton was the managing director of Axel Springer Digital Ventures Inc. and has built up the venture capital activities of this media company in the US. Before that, he was the Chief of Staff to Axel Springer’s CEO Matthias Döpfner in Berlin. Anton is a fully qualified lawyer, holds a Ph.D. in IP law as well as an MBA from IESE Business School.

Talks:

Wrap up

Carolin Desirée Toepfer

CEO, cdt digital GmbH & Cyttraction

Carolin has been engaged in technology and coding since her teenage years. Her lively and rich keynotes spring from years as a bridge builder on the challenges of digital transformation as much as being a certified data protection officer and IT security expert. Carolin just recently left Berlin and moved to Estonia to build Cyttraction, a platform for innovative cybersecurity training.

Talks:

Simon Walter

VP Brand & Communications, Project A

Before joining Project A as VP Brand & Communications in 2019, Simon was associate partner at the strategy consultancy bemorrow. The first ten years of his professional career he spent in leading advertising agencies, the last three as executive planning director of TBWA. Simon holds a teaching assignment for strategic marketing from the University of the Arts, Berlin, a master’s degree in business and social sciences from the University of Berne and a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich.

Talks:

Anastasia Albert

Marketing Project Lead, Project A

Anastasia has worked in marketing for over 8 years. After her Masters at the LSE, she has been working for the award-winning marketing agency Scholz & Friends. Later she fell in love with the startup scene and started supporting various B2B and B2C companies until their successful exits to corporates such as SAP and Swisscom. As a tech enthusiast, she did a deep dive into the blockchain space before joining Project A.

Talks:

Brandformance. Full Funnel Force.

Cornelis Stettner

Director Marketing, KRY

Cornelis Stettner has been a storyteller for over 19 years. Working for some of the best-known agencies in Germany such as Zum Goldenen Hirschen and Ressourcenmangel, he has developed award-winning campaigns for brands such as MINI, VW, Die Grünen, Leica and many more. Since 2015 Cornelis has been working independently and is currently supporting Swedish telemedicine provider Kry in establishing their brand in Germany.

Talks:

Brandformance. Full Funnel Force.

Nina Reicke

Managing Partner, Sasserath Munzinger Plus

Nina Reicke is managing partner at Sasserath Munzinger Plus, a management consultancy for brand, culture, and innovation based in Berlin. She is a seasoned brand and communications advisor, with more than 20 years’ experience in leading agencies and consultancies. Nina's experience spans brand and marketing strategy through trends and innovation, with current clients including several large retailers in the DACH region.

Talks:

How to build a platform brand
Backstage with Nina Reicke

Erik Siekmann

CEO, Digital Forward GmbH

Erik Siekmann is the founder and managing director of DIGITAL FORWARD, a consulting firm specialized in the field of online marketing auditing, digital analytics and ad-/mar-tech. Erik and his team analyse and evaluate digital marketing strategies of their clients from an organizational, technical and media-specific perspective with the objective of increasing efficiency and growth. The firm is independent as well as provider- and solution-agnostic. Clients include Pipedrive, comdirect, ING, KfW, Philips, Lego, Beiersdorf, Carglass, Yello, Blau Mobilfunk and miscellaneous private equity funds.

Talks:

How to generate competitive advantages by insourcing key marketing functions
Backstage with Erik Siekmann

Philipp Werner

CMO, Project A

Philipp is Chief Marketing Officer at Project A where he is responsible for marketing and business intelligence. Before his current role, he was Director of Business Intelligence and headed Project A's Venture Development team. Over that last 5 years, Philipp supported more than 30 VC-backed startups and grownups on a strategic and operational level and was a speaker at conferences such as OMR, K5, Code.talks and Marketing Analytics Summit. He holds an MBA degree in media management from Hamburg Media School and the University of Hamburg.

Talks:

Tarek Muller

Co-founder & Co-CEO , About You

Tarek Müller (31) is one of the co-founders and co-CEO of ABOUT YOU, the fastest-expanding E-commerce start-ups in Europe and Hamburg’s first unicorn. Müller has been developing several digital business models for online retail for over fifteen years and is responsible for marketing and brands at ABOUT YOU. In 2019, Müller received the prestigious award “CMO of the Year” from Europe’s biggest agency group Serviceplan.

Talks:

Winning the attention and hearts of the young audience: How to build a mass market brand
Backstage with Tarek Muller

Cristina Koehn

KRY

Cristina's career has centred around health care right from the very start when she joined BCG in their Health Care Practice Area. After a few years as a consultant, she moved on to become a founder and later an absolute European healthcare specialist holding various roles at KRY as Head of Business Development, General Manager at KRY Germany and currently on a KRY Corporate Development Management level.

Talks:

Defining the strategic foundation to emerge from start-up to grown-up

Nina Jetter

Principal Project A

Nina is a Principal with Project A and very passionate about Digital Health in Europe. She has been working closely with Project A Venture's Digital Health Portfolio companies to define the future of healthcare. Before joining Project A, Nina was a consultant at Bain & Company working for international Private Equity firms across industries.

Talks:

Pia Frey

Co-Founder and CCO Opinary

As a co-founder of Opinary, Pia helps brands and publishers make products interactive and engaging by enabling users to share their opinions of online content. With over 60 million monthly users, Opinary has partnered with media giants like Spiegel Online, Funke Mediengruppe and Hubert Burda Media. Already 2017, she was listed on Forbes' 30 Under 30.

Talks:

The Corona Catalyzer: Building a Marketing Strategy during Crisis

Martin Bach

Senior Marketing Manager Project A

Martin works on exciting projects in our portfolio at the intersection of Marketing, BI and Sales. He mainly works with Project A's B2B portfolio which includes companies like Dixa, Spryker, Anyline, Sennder or Opinary. Besides his focus on B2B, he works in the space of e-commerce marketplaces and product data marketing for private equity companies like kfzteile24 or Lampenwelt in the portfolio.

Talks:

Thuy-Ngan Trinh

Head of Customer Acquisition Project A

Thuy Ngan is Head of Customer Acquisition at Project A. With her deep understanding of marketing diversification along the lifecycle stages of a company, she supports portfolio companies in marketing strategy and execution. Before re-joining Project A, she drove the growth of leading start-ups and grown-ups in DACH at Facebook. Thuy Ngan is an expert in MarTech and strongly advocates for automation in marketing teams.

Talks:

How to translate strategy into actions in marketing

Krisztina Orosz

Chief Experience Officer Anyline

Krisztina is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Anyline, a rapidly-scaling tech company based in Vienna, Austria and Boston MA. With her talented and skilled teams, she drives product and marketing at Anyline and leads by example. Originally from Romania, Krisz has forged a career as a leader and mentor in the European tech scene. Krisz is passionate about fostering innovation and creating opportunities for young entrepreneurs, particularly among young women.

Talks:

How to translate strategy into actions in marketing

Caroline Weimann

Founder & Managing Director JoinPolitics

Caroline founded JoinPolitics when she realised the great need to support not only tech entrepreneurs or social entrepreneurs, but also political talents who bring innovation into politics. She is now serving as managing director of JoinPolitics. Previously, Caroline worked for Siemens Stiftung building social enterprises in developing countries.

Talks:

Do beta politics! Why we need to support political entrepreneurs.
Backstage with Caroline Weimann and Philipp Husemann

Philip Husemann

Managing Director JoinPolitics

Philip is the second managing director of JoinPolitics. He previously worked as a communications consultant for the Federal Government in Germany among others. He co-initiated the political start-up HateAid and served as a managing director of the Initiative Offene Gesellschaft.

Talks:

Do beta politics! Why we need to support political entrepreneurs.
Backstage with Caroline Weimann and Philipp Husemann

Andrea Althaus

Director Talent Acquisition Project A

Andrea has supported many portfolio companies with a focus on qualitative talent acquisition to find great potentials and employees and to increase their recruiting efficiency by continuously questioning best practices. Before joining Project A, she worked as a recruiter for a diverse range of companies. From corporates such as Magna International to startups like Kitchen Stories. After founding her own mobile app company, she also gained experience in building processes and leading projects. On top of that, she's continuously developing her professional knowledge of Human Resources as a lecturer at the IUBH Internationale Hochschule.

Talks:

Luisa Haxel

Co-Founder / Head of Business Operations Evernest

Luisa is co-founder of Evernest - an upcoming dominant player in European urban real estate. With developing the most advanced agent-first platform, Evernest attracts top performing agents in the upper real estate brokerage segment. Before founding Evernest, Luisa was a consultant for several years and has worked for Engel & Völkers. Being responsible for the Digital Strategy at Engel & Völkers she gained experience in building up digital products for agents and setting up processes for scaling up big sales teams all over the world.

Talks:

The hard thing about the stealth mode: How to recruit a tech team with no product

Dr. Martin Loetzsch

Chief Data Officer Project A

Martin has helped many of Project A’s portfolio companies to form teams that build data warehouses and other data-driven applications. Before joining Project A (with a short interlude at Rocket Internet), he worked in artificial intelligence labs in Paris and Brussels on computational linguistics and robotics. He received a PhD in computer science from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Talks:

Modern data stacks

Alena Stock

Mindfulness Coach & Trainer / Senior HR Manager Recruiting Homeday

Alena is a mindfulness coach and trainer. She also works as a Senior HR Manager and Recruiter at Homeday. There, she successfully implemented a mindfulness programme in collaboration with the GIZ.

Talks:

How mindfulness helps to increase employees' performance?

Thomas Bleyer

Head of Corporate Development Ravensburger AG

Thomas has 20+ years experience as a company co-founder, venture capital investor and corporate executive. Among others, he founded and lead Ravensburger Digital and currently serves as Head of Corporate Development for Ravensburger Group, responsible for all acquisitions and investment activities. He is a long-term lecturer at CDTM in Munich and also serves as a coach and lecturer on mindfulness, meditation and conscious leadership.

Talks:

Mindful Leadership

Jonas Krauss

Enterprise Information Manager trendtours Touristik

Jonas is the Data team lead at tt. He has built data warehouses and analytical / ML applications for more than 10 years in the manufacturing, pharma and travel industries as a developer, analyst, product owner and team lead.

Talks:

Boosting offline marketing by operationalizing machine learning

Alexandra Deichsel

Senior Business Intelligence Manager Project A

Alexandra is a Senior Business Intelligence Manager at Project A. She has been supporting +10 portfolio companies with managing data related projects as well as hands-on web tracking and data crunching.

Talks:

Boosting offline marketing by operationalizing machine learning

Moritz Trutschel

Venture Development Project Lead Project A

Moritz works as a Venture Development Project Lead at Project A. He has been involved in different project management tasks across a variety of ventures as well as supporting operationally with internationalization, data-driven account management and implementation of sales frameworks.

Talks:

Boosting offline marketing by operationalizing machine learning
PM vs PM - Product Management and Project Management in agile companies

Dirk Daumann

CTO Sennder

As the CTO at Sennder, Dirk oversees over 100 talented and passionate people who are building the operating system for the logistics market. As an experienced technology professional, having worked at Skype, as VP Engineering at Klarna and held numerous CTO positions, he brings a wealth of expertise and leadership experience to the company.

Talks:

Scale a sustainable tech organisation in a hypergrowth phase

Stephan Schulze

CTO Project A

As CTO of Project A, Stephan strives to help companies of different sizes, development stages, and industries, to develop faster and better than their competition. His background in computer science, his long working experience as a developer and the broad variety of leadership positions he has held, help him to serve our portfolio best.

Talks:

Scale a sustainable tech organisation in a hypergrowth phase
CTO Round Table

Hansi Hansmann

Chairman Hansmengroup

Former Top executive in multinational pharma industry, MBO of a pharmaceutical plant in 1995, successful founder, CEO and serial entrepreneur, Business Angel since 2010, >50 startup investments, 12 exits so far (runtastic, shpock, mysugr, etc), Best European Early Stage Investor 2015, President of the Austrian Angel Investor Association. Mountainbiker.

Talks:

Why I love to be a Business Angel
Backstage with Hansi Hansmann

Romane Persch

Marketing, Commercial & CX Insights Team lead Catawiki

As a data science team lead at Catawiki, the two-sided curated marketplace for special and unique objects, Romane empowers the marketing, sales and customer support departments to use data in the best way. With a strong quantitative and business background, her focus is on optimizing and forecasting supply and demand, always on the lookout for opportunities to grow the company faster and smarter.

Talks:

Using data to manage marketplace balance at scale

Jonas Bailly

Managing Director Jung von Matt HAVEL

As Managing Director of Jung von Matt HAVEL, Jonas is leading national and international clients across different industries and works closely with startups. Before joining Jung von Matt in 2016, he worked as a strategist, personal assistant and client lead at the international agency network Ogilvy. Jonas studied Communication Management and Economics at Zeppelin Universität and currently lives and works in Berlin.

Talks:

The path of the brave - How startups and agencies finally come together
Backstage with Jonas Bailly

Fausto Maglia

Chief Product Officer Casavo

Fausto has a variegate background with the tech world as a constant. He has been part of product teams in startups and large corporations in the travel, telecommunications, and real estate industry. Fausto is now Chief Product Officer at Casavo, one of Italy's fastest-growing scale-ups ever, where he deals both with the challenge of disrupting the Real Estate industry and with that of scaling the company's product organization.

Talks:

Scaling Product Management

Tamer El-Hawari

Chief Product Officer Project A

Tamer is CPO at Project A. He supports Project A’s portfolio companies to build successful digital products. He loves to share his decade# of experience working with over 50 products from many industries in early, growth and later stage.

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Raul Porojan

Sales & Customer Success Specialist Project A

Raul is a Sales & Customer Success Specialist at Project A. He works with Project A’s portfolio companies on topics such as sales recruiting & training, sales stack, organizational building, strategy and processes. Raul has witnessed and helped multiple high-growth cases build up and scale sales organizations, from early stage to exit. Raul is a proud sales nerd who believes in the intersection of data and humans as a driver of sales excellence.

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Theo Tortorici

Senior BI Analyst Spryker

Theo Tortorici is Senior BI Analyst at Spryker Systems. He has led the development of their first data infrastructure serving business stakeholders with analytics, as well as the migration of the sales CRM system to Salesforce in tandem with Project A teams. Theo has previous experience in venture capital and as an entrepreneur. Before Spryker, Theo launched his first venture to solve the problem of image labeling in computer vision.

Talks:

The Five Pillars - How to Implement Salesforce in a grown and complex organization

Tim Herbig

Product Management Coach, Author, and Speaker herbig.co

As a Product Coach, Tim has helped dozens of teams do build better products through Product Discovery, Outcome Goals, and Tangible Product Strategy. Tim's work is informed by more than 10 years working as a Product Leader helping develop a broad range of B2C and B2B products.

Talks:

Putting Outcomes into Practice - How to move beyond features and velocity

Mark Roberge

Managing Director Stage 2 Capital

Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School

Mark Roberge is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Stage 2 Capital, the first venture capital firm run and backed by over 100 go-to-market executives. He is also Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches courses on sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship. Prior to these roles he served as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at HubSpot, increasing revenue over 6,000% and expanding the team from 1 to 450 employees through the company's IPO. He was named one of Forbes' Top 30 Social Sellers in the World, received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Boston Globe, TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, and other major publications for his entrepreneurial ventures. Mark is the author of the bestselling book The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million.

Talks:

The Science of Scaling: When, Where, and How?
Backstage with Mark Roberge

Philipp Westermeyer

Founder OMR

Philipp is the founder of OMR—a 360° media firm based in Hamburg, Germany with a focus on digital marketing and tech. The annual OMR Festival is one of the largest digital conferences in Europe. OMR brings together over 50,000 attendees, international stars and senior leaders from major European organizations and big-name international players. In addition to the festival, OMR publishes daily articles on digital and tech topics found nowhere else. Furthermore, Philipp and the OMR Team produce the OMR Podcast, which reaches a weekly audience of 40,000, the in-depth OMR Reports, the largest jobs portal in the industry, as well as many other special events. Prior to founding OMR, Philipp founded two ad tech companies that he grew and sold to Bertelsmann and Zalando respectively.

Talks:

State of the German Internet
Backstage with Philipp Westermeyer

Laurent Rime

CEO + Co-Founder A-LL Creative Technology

Laurent Rime started his career discussing with technology leaders like Apple, Google, the MIT or Qualcomm, to which he could sell AR patents with his first startup. His vision led him to the foundation of 3 more startups. Laurent is currently CEO and Co-Founder at A-LL Creative Technology, with which he participated in the prestigious Sundance Festival (USA) and has put together projects in innovative cities like Dubai or Milan.

Talks:

Creative Technology - With A Twist

Merlin Carter

Senior Content Writer Project A

Merlin is a Senior Content Writer for Project A and covers the technical side of supporting portfolio companies. His focus is on developer innovation and the IT industry. He has worked as a technical writer for over 10 years and has supported many distributed developer teams working on complex SaaS platforms. He also holds a degree in Fine Arts from the UdK, and collaborates with other artists working at the intersection of art and technology.

Talks:

Write it down! Using documentation to share knowledge and enable developers

Kristina Prokop

CEO & Co-Founder Eyeota

Kristina Prokop is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Eyeota, the global leader in audience technology. For more than 20 years, Kristina has been on the forefront of digital marketing and online advertising, bringing new advertising technologies and business models to the global market. At Eyeota, she has pioneered quality audience data and data solutions as a cornerstone of the global advertising and marketing ecosystem and driven programmatic innovation.

Talks:

Eye to Eye(ota) – Increasing the Company’s Awareness through Personal Branding

René A. Pfromm

pfromm negotiations

René helps companies of all sizes to achieve better outcomes in strategic and challenging negotiations. He also works with individuals and teams to improve their negotiation skills and to optimize the negotiation impact of their companies, professional service firms, and start-ups. Prior, he was a lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Germany and China. A graduate of Harvard Law School, René teaches negotiations at various universities around the globe.

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Dr. Oliver Mauss

CEO PlusServer Group

Dr. Oliver Mauss is CEO of the PlusServer Group since July 2018. In addition to the management of the operational business, he drives forward plusserver’s transformation to a Managed Cloud Service Provider as well as the development of new business areas. He looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the hosting and telecommunications industry. Initially as Managing Director of 1&1 Internet AG, he managed one of the largest hosting providers in Europe. Before joining 1&1, he held various positions within the Vodafone Group, including head of business customer segment. Oliver Mauss studied in Aachen, Germany, where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Talks:

A fireside chat about GAIA-X - A Federated Data Infrastructure for Europe

Hannes Felsberg

Data Lead Trade Republic

Getting excited about technology-heavy startups during his Math studies, Hannes started his career in Venture Capital. After a short stop in Tech M&A, he went back to the startup world and served in several smaller companies before joining Trade Republic to build up its data team.

Talks:

Challenges of Hypergrowth: Scaling a Data Team in 365 days

Selim Nowicki

Data Project Lead Project A

With a background in Business Management and Economics, Selim entered the world of Data working for both high-growth startups and scale-ups in Digital Health, Fintech, eCommerce and Marketplaces. Currently driving change through various data projects in the Project A portfolio. He takes particular interest in topics like: data strategy, marketing analytics, marketing automation, building data-driven organisations, incentive engineering and many more!

Talks:

Challenges of Hypergrowth: Scaling a Data Team in 365 days

Allard Buijze

CTO & Founder AxonIQ

Allard Buijze is Founder and CTO of AxonIQ. Starting at the age of 6, he has developed a great passion for programming and has guided both large and small organizations in building performant and scalable applications. Now, he is on a mission to make implementations of large scale systems easier. He created Axon Framework as an experiment initially, but when both large and organizations started using Axon, AxonIQ was born.

Talks:

Harness the power of event-driven systems without burning your hands (or budgets)

Julia Flaig

Head of M&A Urban Sports Club

Julia joined Urban Sports Club, Europe’s largest sports community, in March 2019 to head M&A. She is responsible for the entire deal cycle, incl. sourcing, structuring, valuation and legal negotiation. In previous roles, Julia worked in investment banking, impact investing and capital markets

Talks:

M&A as part of a startup's growth strategy

Dr. Stephan Tingler

VP M&A & Integrations Comtravo

Stephan joined Comtravo in 2020, where he has end-2-end responsibility for the entire deal cycle from target sourcing, due diligence, structuring, integration and synergy capture. Previously, Stephan worked for McKinsey, where he, amongst others, led the European M&A practice for heavy industries.

Talks:

M&A as part of a startup's growth strategy

David Nothacker

Co-Founder and CEO Sennder

David founded sennder GmbH in 2015 after completing an MBA at INSEAD and working at Roland Berger.

Talks:

M&A as part of a startup's growth strategy
Keep on trucking

Charlotte Niklahs

Head of Venture Development Project A

Charlotte has been working in Project A’s Venture Development Team for more than three years. In her role, she often works on cross-departmental projects supporting founders and C-level directly. Charlotte gets excited about solving difficult situations efficiently and sustainably, ideally in a diverse and high-performing team. She enjoys developing strategic value drivers for ventures, translating those into operational measures and ensuring their success.

Talks:

M&A as part of a startup's growth strategy

Benjamin Chino

Director of Product Sennder

Enthusiastic digital builder & Forbes 30 Under 30. Current Director of Product Officier at sennder where we create magical experiences for both Carriers & Shippers across Europe. Former global Product Operations lead for Uber for Business - a portfolio of products used by thousands of organizations & millions of employees around the world to manage both Rides & Food delivery programs.

Talks:

Two M&As and a joint venture in less than a year—learnings from ramping up a Product organisation

Alis Yasiuchynskaya

Senior Product Manager Project A

Product leader helping digital companies build scalable products and platforms that delight users. I'm passionate about building human-centered elegant tech solutions.

Talks:

Two M&As and a joint venture in less than a year—learnings from ramping up a Product organisation

Zoltan Kincses

Senior Backend Developer Project A

Zoltan is Senior Developer at Project A. He supported kfzteile24 as a team lead in the development of a customer data orchestration project. He attended college at ELTE University in Budapest, where he studied Computer Science. He has 10 years experience in software development, from startups like the insurtech Simplesurance, and enterprises like Nokia in telecommunications and Wayfair in e-commerce. He is focused on APIs and micro-services. He is an aspiring leader, who enables venture growth via the harmony of business needs, a capable team and scalable tech solutions.

Talks:

Enable growth through data orchestration
Ballmer Peak: A Live Experiment

Mathias Frank

Senior Product Manager kfzteile24

Mathias is an experienced Product Manager at kfzteile24, with a strong software developer and science background. He manages the development of multiple data orchestration projects, like product pricing, sales channel and customer data. Thanks to his data analyst background at Airberlin, he is a machine learning and data enthusiast.

Talks:

Enable growth through data orchestration

Rainer Berak

Managing Director Project A

Rainer is responsible for the 100 operational experts at Project A. He managed large scale projects at the international football associations UEFA and FIFA, the global operations strategy team at the Adidas Group and the consultancy Accenture. Driven by his personal path and his experience as a passionate father, Rainer cares a lot about diversity and sustainability.

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Miriam Wohlfarth

Founder and MD Ratepay Gmbh

Founder Banxware

Miriam Wohlfarth is Co-founder and Managing Director of Ratepay and Banxware. She is responsible for the areas of Innovation, Marketing and Sales. With almost 20 years’ experience in online payment, she was most recently Country Manager Germany of the international payment service provider Ogone (Ingenico Payment Services). Prior to that, she played a significant role in establishing the electronic payment transaction business for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and its payment services subsidiary Bibit in Germany.

Talks:

What startups can learn from corporations

Andreas Greilhuber

COO and MD Anyline GmbH

More than 30 years in the IT & Consulting Business. Started as a software developer, continued his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM, spent most of his career on international engagements throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After being in a corporate and in a start-up Andreas started his 3rd career as a manager and a coach for his 9-year-old son in ski jumping :-)

Talks:

What startups can learn from corporations

Eduardo San Martin Morote

Freelance Vue.js Core Team

Eduardo is a Frontend Nerd who works on the Vue.js Core Team, with a special focus on the Vue Router.

Talks:

The Future of Vue.js: Composition and other patterns in Vue 3
Backstage with Eduardo San Martin Morote

Michael Lande Blau

Team Lead Software Engineering Project A

Michael leads the frontend engineering team at Project A. He is perpetually curious about education, leadership, product development and software as a craft.

Talks:

The Future of Vue.js: Composition and other patterns in Vue 3
Ballmer Peak: A Live Experiment

Jonas Huth

Associate SMP

Jonas is an attorney at the SMP office in Berlin. He studied law at Brucerius Law School in Hamburg as well as at New York University. His legal training included stations at the Court of Appeal and the Federal Ministry of Finance. Furthermore, Jonas gained experience as General Counsel of the mobility start-up unu, where he will continue to work alongside his work as an attorney.

Talks:

Strange Cases in European Venture Capital: Real World Lessons from SMP Attorneys

Marie-Theres Klüpfel

Sales Development Associate Project A

Marie-Theres joined Project A four months ago as a Sales Development Associate and jumped right into her first project at Micropsi Industries - a robotics software company. There she is involved in supporting along the full sales cycle as well as in developing strategic sales concepts. Before joining Marie-Theres gained experience in international sales in a corporate, business development in a startup and consulting.

Talks:

Building tomorrow's commercial leaders - Project A's Sales Development Graduate Programme

Niusha Shahmoradi

Sales Development Associate Project A

About a week after his last exam Niusha joined Project A as part of the Sales Graduate Programme. There he works with different Ventures of their portfolio on a variety of commercial/sales topics. For the past months Niusha helped Kry to establish strong partnerships with different stakeholders in the German healthcare space.

Talks:

Building tomorrow's commercial leaders - Project A's Sales Development Graduate Programme

Marius Kühlmann

Sales Development Associate Project A

Marius recently joined Project A after finishing his Masters in Copenhagen. After initial placements with a venture in the OCR industry and a Digital Health venture, he is currently testing how a SaaS company in the customer service industry can enter the German market.

Talks:

Building tomorrow's commercial leaders - Project A's Sales Development Graduate Programme

Corinne Herberg

Senior Sales & Customer Success Analyst Project A

Corinne is with Project A for more than 2,5 years now and has supported a double-digit number of portfolio companies with strategic and operational sales & customer success support over time. Together with her colleague Raul, she has developed the Sales Graduate Program due to a significant need for sales power in the ventures.

Talks:

Building tomorrow's commercial leaders - Project A's Sales Development Graduate Programme

Mirela Stefan

Talent Acquisition Manager Project A

Recruiting for a variety of roles, from business to tech roles, focusing on senior ones (VP, Director, Head of). Supported several ventures from different industries such as digital health, mobility, ecommerce, software, etc. Also, worked with very early-stage start-ups, incubation projects, where the team had to be set up from the ground (Evernest), to already developed and well-established companies (AG). Besides operational support, passionate about the technical side such as analytics and tools.

Talks:

How to get hired - Everything you want to know about recruiting

Szilvia Ovari

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Project A

Main focus on tech recruiting and C-level or head of positions (e.g. scaling up the tech team at sennder GmbH). In-house recruiter at several ventures. Direct Search trainer (within Project A and in the portfolio companies).

Talks:

How to get hired - Everything you want to know about recruiting

Molly Barrett

Talent Acquisition Associate Project A

Molly has been a team member at Project A for more than 2 years now and is the responsible recruiter for the investment team. She is working on internal recruitment as well as with ventures in industries such as FinTech, digital health, and robotics. When she isn't recruiting she handling projects related to diversity & inclusion and supporting with talent acquisition content and communications.

Talks:

How to be an Investment Manager

Mila Cramer

Investment Manager Project A

Mila has been an investment manager at Project A for 3.5 years. She focuses on ventures in the education and enterprise SaaS space and covers Munich and France as geographies at Project A.

Talks:

How to be an Investment Manager

Sharanya Eswaran

Investment Associate Project A

Sharanya has recently joined Project A as an Associate in the Investment team. Along the way to a full time role in VC, she has tried her hand at varied fields like hardware design, banking, product strategy, and venture capital. Sharanya holds degrees in management from France and engineering from India.

Talks:

How to be an Investment Manager

Joel El-Qalqili

Senior Associate SMP

Joel is an avid attorney in SMP’s fund practice. His clients include venture capital and growth funds, and increasingly impact funds. Joel specialises in fund-structuring as well as regulatory and compliance issues including ESG related advice. Joel studied law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, at Queen Mary University, London, at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Massachusetts (USA), as well as Harvard Law School.

Talks:

ESG, Impact Investing and how it affects VC-backed Companies

Dr. Fabian Euhus

Partner SMP

Fabian is a Partner at SMP’s funds practice. He advises venture capital, buy-out and fund-of-funds on fund structuring and fundraising. Fabian studied law and taxation in Frankfurt/Oder, Münster and Barcelona. Before joining SMP, he worked in the private funds team of P+P Pöllath + Partners. Fabian is a member of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of Invest Europe and of the Legal Advisory Board of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Talks:

ESG, Impact Investing and how it affects VC-backed Companies

Dr. Frederik Gärtner

Associated Partner SMP

Frederik specializes in venture capital, M&A transactions and corporate law. He advises investors, start-ups and large corporations, and focuses on FinTech, InsureTech, PropTech, digital health, software, mobility and other regulated industries. Before joining SMP, Frederik was Counsel at the FinTech Raisin, founded the LegalTech start-up CONNY (wenigermiete.de) and was Senior Associate at Hengeler Mueller. He studied law in Berlin and Kiel as well as law and management at the University of St. Gallen.

Talks:

Strange Cases in European Venture Capital: Real World Lessons from SMP Attorneys

Dr. Florian Heinemann

Founding Partner Project A

He is responsible for the functional areas of marketing, CRM and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was managing director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global Fashion Group, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas). Prior to Rocket, Florian was co-founder and managing director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2006). Then, he was co-heading the digital marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was co-founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak). Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University (Germany).

Talks:

From zero to hero: A marketing sophistication framework
Designing the future of digital payments: Why the pace of change is accelerating
How venture capital can help to bring people back together (#savethenight)
Backstage with Philipp Werner and Dr. Florian Heinemann
Empowering everyone to take their financial investments into their own hands

Philipp Kloeckner

Investor/Advisor

Philipp has helped more than a hundred startups and growth companies to accelerate their organic growth and optimize their digital marketing mix. Today he's helping several top tier PE firms to assess dealflow and invests his own money.

Talks:

Doppelganger TechTalk Live-Podcast Recording (DE only)
Backstage with Philipp Kloeckner

Philipp Gloeckler

Marketing Director Moovel Group

Philipp Gloeckler is Marketing Director at moovel Group GmbH. He co-founded several startups in the sharing and sustainability sector - including the award-winning venture AvocadoStore, which is Germany’s largest marketplace for Eco-Fashion & Green Lifestyle.

Talks:

Doppelgänger TechTalk Live-Podcast Recording (DE only)

Loana Junge

Head of Demand Generation Marketing Spryker

Loana heads up Marketing Demand Generation at Spryker. She makes sure Spryker sees light at the end of the funnel by managing demand across the customer lifecycle. Immersed in marketing for over 13 years, Loana cultivated her marketing experience at various startups, corporates and an agency. With an eye on digital, e-commerce and technology, she previously validated, scaled and pushed marketing for Hugo Boss, Porsche, TomTom and Miami-based VC and accelerator Rokk3r Labs.

Talks:

Light at the end of the Funnel - Why it all starts with the full Customer Lifecycle in mind

James Arch

Product Analytics Lead N26

James leads the Product Analytics team at N26, helping to shape and improve the product experience for their 5 million+ customers across Europe and USA. He joined N26 over 2.5 years ago as the first Product Analyst and since then has embarked on the journey of scaling an analytics function in a rapidly changing and growing organisation.

Talks:

How user clusters helped us to finally understand our customers

Dennis Krueger

Senior Product Manager Project A Ventures

Dennis entered Product Management after an internship in the Project A Investment Team 4 years ago. As Product Manager he has been responsible for launching the first Version of the Spryker B2B Shop, and launched an adapted Version of the sennder software for their Joint Venture with sennder Italia

Talks:

The Project A Product School

Alexandra Braznikova

Senior QA Manager Project A Ventures

Alex joined Project A 2 years ago ensuring that final products and services of the ventures meet high quality standards. During her tenure supported Kfzteile24 and Sennder, having a strong focus on requirements engineering, assessing product problems and maintaining overall quality control

Talks:

The Project A Product School

Andreas Wild

Head of Customer Engagement Project A Ventures

Customer Engagement enthusiast with a passion for interacting with online audiences on large scale & solving blockers they encounter as individuals. Spent several years deploying automated CRM solutions across multiple ventures and countries at Delivery Hero before opting for the full rollercoaster experience joining hyper-growth startup Circ helping scale the global marketing team from 0 to exit to Bird. Building the Customer Engagement Team at Berlin-based VC Project A Ventures since.

Talks:

The mobility industry - a analysis of events, trends & business outlook

Jules Coleman

Founder & CTO Resi

Jules Coleman is the co-founder and CTO of Resi (resi.co.uk), the UK’s largest residential architecture practice. Prior to Resi, Jules co-founded hassle.com, a domestic cleaning marketplace. Jules and the team grew Hassle.com to 100 employees across 4 countries before selling the company to Helpling in July 2015 for €32m.

Talks:

The self-taught CTO

Uwe Horstmann

General Partner Project A Ventures

Uwe Horstmann was one of the founders of the investment fund Project A Ventures in 2012. By now, Project A has raised close to 500m USD to invest in startups, mostly at the Seed and Series A stage. At Project A, Uwe is responsible for the investment team. That team engages with thousands of startups every year.

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Xiaoyin Qu

Founder & CEO Run the World

Before founding the online conference platform Run the world – this conference is hosted on – Xiaoyin worked as Product Manager at Facebook and Instagram. Her company is funded by A16Z & Founders Fund. She has built and launched products with hundreds of millions of users and led product teams with >50 people while building her own Product blog with over 7000 paid subscribers.. She's a contributor for Forbes China.

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Hubert Deutsch

CEO Feinguss Blank

Hubert is the CEO of Feinguss Blank, a prime example of the mighty German "Mittelstand". Before, he was CFO of the Liebherr Group, another hidden champion with close to 12bn EUR of annual revenue and 48.000 employees.

Talks:

Cracking the "German Mittelstand": How to tackle Germany's most rewarding customer group
Backstage with Hubert Deutsch

Peter Fricke

Head of Deutsche Boerse Venture Network Deutsche Börse AG

+10y international, financial and capital market experience. As Head of Deutsche Boerse Venture Network matching startups with suitable investors and helping them to achieve capital market readiness.

Talks:

IPO Mythbusting
Backstage with Peter Fricke

Caroline Hjelm

CMO VOI Technology

Leading the marketing department at Europe's leading e-scooter company, Voi, she's setting the direction for the brand, digital, offline, partnership, and channel strategy. Carro has a background at the global music giant Spotify where she developed partner marketing and engagement strategies.

Talks:

The mobility industry - a analysis of events, trends & business outlook

Benjamin Dennehy

Managing Director The UK's Most Hated Sales Trainer

Benjamin Dennehy is an engaging international sales speaker, trainer and coach who will explain that the barriers cemented within your selling process is all your parents’ fault! Dennehy brings an antipodean brutality and charm to the sales experience that many have never encountered before. His ‘no holds barred’ presentations will educate, inspire, motivate and help your sales people understand why they struggle with many of their daily sales frustrations.

Talks:

Forget everything you know - How sales actually works

Dr. Markus Wuebben

Co-Founder & CDO CrossEngage

Markus Wuebben, with a PhD in Data-Driven Marketing from TU Munich, is a marketing veteran for data-driven applications. For Rocket Internet, he developed a solution for multichannel campaign management that was used by more than 70 companies in 20 countries. Moreover, he was Customer Management Director at EPIC companies as well as Head of Industry Promotions at Arvato/Bertelsmann.

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Nina Levchuk

Sales Leader Startups, Platforms & VCs Google

Nina is a versatile leader with a successful track record of 12+ years experience in business development, sales, marketing, cross-functional teams and channel management for leading organisations including Google, SC Johnson and Unilever. She has significant expertise in the development and management of scaled sales and customer service via both online and customer-facing channels.

Talks:

Winning international customers through the power of digital marketing
Backstage with Nina Levchuk

Magdalena Maksan

Industry Manager Startups Google

As an Industry Manager for Startups, Magdalena is working as a strategic partner with different German startups to help them accelerate their growth. She started her career at Google where she developed profound product and leadership expertise. To broaden her expertise, she moved later on to work for different performance marketing-focused companies and startups in Berlin where she built and led different performance marketing teams.

Talks:

Winning international customers through the power of digital marketing

Bjorn Muller

Analytical Consultant Google

Bjorn is an Analytical Consultant based in Berlin and helps Google most promising startup clients to tackle strategic challenges using Google data.

Before Google, Bjorn worked as a Venture Capital investor for Lufthansa and Paua Ventures and holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona as well as a Master of Transport Management from The University of Sydney.

Talks:

Google Trends for startups and investors

Michaela Tada

Senior Automation Specialist Google

Michaela works as a Product Expert for Google Search Automation and Audience Solutions and consults advertisers and agencies in Central Europe on how to leverage Automation in a holistic way across all elements of their marketing strategy. Michaela has been with Google for 8 years and previously worked as a key account manager with some of our largest, most advanced advertisers across various industries, including travel, software and B2B retail.

Talks:

Reaching your business goals with SEA automation

Jean-Luc Saorine

Data Activation Specialist Google

As a Data Activation Specialist, Jean-Luc is consulting some of Central Europe's largest advertisers on how they can integrate 1P data into their marketing activities.

Prior to his current role, he has specialised in different product areas, such as Display advertising, SEA and Automation. Before his time with Google, Jean-Luc has i.a. worked for Criteo, Dublin City University and Parisian online marketing agency AdsOnWall (Effilab).

Talks:

Reaching your business goals with SEA automation

Peter Bakenecker

Divisional President Germany & Switzerland Mastercard

Since joining Mastercard in 2006 Peter held various management positions, including Head of Product, Business Development as well as Digital Payments for Europe. For many years he was part of the Mastercard Advisors’ management team for Europe, AP and MEA, where he had the opportunity to design and build payments technology solutions in various geographies for different industries.

Before joining Mastercard, Peter was with Batten & Company as well as Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as part of their financial services practices.

Peter holds an MBA in Banking & Finance from the University of Essen/Duisburg and the University of Technology in Sydney. He completed executive programs at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Talks:

Designing the future of digital payments: Why the pace of change is accelerating
Backstage with Peter Bakenecker

Jean de Bressy

Principal Product Manager, Performance Marketing Zalando

Jean is a Principal Product Manager at Zalando, where his team's challenge is to automate all things Facebook marketing related. He was previously a product manager at trivago, working on marketing technology.

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Simon Lorenz

Co-Founder & Co-CEO Klara

Simon, co-founder and co-CEO of Klara, comes from a family of doctors spanning several generations. He was destined to become a doctor too, even starting to work in hospitals at a young age. He decided to join one of the leading management consulting companies in Germany, working in healthcare as well as in other industries. In parallel, he wrote his PhD thesis at the Technical University of Munich on performance optimization in hospitals, which was later published as a book. Prior to his PhD, he earned his Master at one of Europe’s leading Management Schools and Grand École, ESCP-EAP.

Talks:

Sales Maturity Levels: How to assess where your organization is at

Felix Engelhardt

Head of M&A Carl Finance

Felix is the Head of M&A at Carl and responsible for the origination and execution of corporate finance transactions. He has built a sales organisation at Carl that has originated a > EUR 15 Mio. fee pipeline. Before joining Carl beginning of 2018, he gained years of experience in the investment banking divisions (IBD) of Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank and UBS in London and Frankfurt.

Talks:

Sales Maturity Levels: How to assess where your organization is at

Felix Marzian

Head of M&A Sennder

Felix is Managing Director International Markets at sennder GmbH and was prior in the position of Vice President Global Sales. Since his start in September 2018 the company tenfolded (10x) net revenues. Previous to sennder GmbH Felix worked in several Berlin based Start-Ups as Assistant to the CEO of Quandoo.com, Global Head of Sales at Move24 and Vice President at Videobeat Networks.

Talks:

Sales Maturity Levels: How to assess where your organization is at

Christoph Roessner

Co-Founder & MD Laserhub

Christoph is Co-Founder and CCO at Laserhub where he has built a marketing and sales organization that turned the company into Europe's fastest-growing Manufacturing-as-a-Service Start-up. Before founding Laserhub Christoph has gained deep industry knowledge as managing director of a machinery construction supplier where he was leading a team of over 150 people.

Talks:

Sales Maturity Levels: How to assess where your organization is at

Christoph Rösler

Chief Commercial Officer Project A

Christoph is Chief Commercial Officer at Project A and responsible for the Venture Development as well as the Sales & Customer Success teams. He has built a commercial excellence function at Project A that has advised and operationally supported over 30 portfolio companies from Seed Stage to Private Equity Buy-outs.

Previously to joining Project A, he invested in seed-stage startups and scaled their commercial operations. Christoph holds business degrees from WHU and the London School of Economics.

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Jade Lu

President of SPD Silicon Valley Bank and President SVB, Asia SVB

Jade Lu is the President of SVB Asia, SPD Silicon Valley Bank (SSVB), primarily responsible for SVB’s Asia business, including China joint venture bank, SPD Silicon Valley Bank. With almost 20 years of working experience in the banking industry, Jade joined SSVB in 2017.

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FinTech around the world

Michaela Brady

Vice President FinTech UK SVB

Michaela Brady is a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) where she specialises in providing banking solutions and debt finance to growth stage Fintech companies in the UK and Europe.

Talks:

FinTech around the world

Dan Caputo

Director FinTech US SVB

Dan Caputo is a Director at SVB focused on the fintech sector in New York City. Dan and his team power fintech companies through deposit, debt, and payments solutions. Dan also spent 3 months in SVB’s Frankfurt office in 2019.

Talks:

FinTech around the world

Christian Hoppe

Managing Director SVB Germany Branch SVB

Christian Hoppe is Managing Director, Relationship Management and joined the SVB Germany Branch in November 2017.

Before joining, Christian was the founder and CEO of Main Incubator GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary and FinTech investment vehicle of Commerzbank AG. With Between the Towers. FinTechCity_Frankfurt he established the scene's first monthly recurring event series, laying the foundations for a constantly growing ecosystem in the Rhine-Main region.

Talks:

FinTech around the world

Anne Geuther

Head of Investor Relations Project A

Anne is the Head of Investor Relations for Project A — IR at Project A covers fundraising, LP management, fund administration and fund finance. Prior to IR, Anne supported the PAV primarily in an operational role and for some time with investing.

Anne studied business management in her Master and Bachelor and prior to Project A gained work experiences at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Roland Berger, Rheingau Founders and diverse startups.

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FinTech around the world

Peder Stahle

Chief Product Officer Kry

Peder is the CPO at Kry. He is passionate about great product experiences and excited about accelerating the future of healthcare. Before joining Kry, Peder was the first employee and CPO at iZettle.

Talks:

Managing International Product Organizations

Isabelle Ewald

Senior Digital Communications Consultant & Member of the inhouse FeMale Business Network PLAN F Otto Group

Isabelle joined the Otto Group in 2010, where she is primarily responsible for digital communications. In 2018, she developed the idea of a digital camp for women in order to get female colleagues excited about technology. This idea is closely linked to Isabelle's bad experiences during her engineering studies, which she started 20 years ago and finally dropped out. This was followed by a degree in musicology and journalism training at Axel Springer. Isabelle is married and mother of an 11-year-old son. Privately she runs the podcast "Mind the Tech".

Talks:

"Don't bother me with IT" to <Hello World/> within 36 hours: How the developHER initiative inspires women for tech

Sebastian Kielmann

CEO Picalike

Sebastian studied economics at the University of Leicester, is one of the founders and also an active member of the research team inside Picalike. He has more than 15 years of experience in computer vision and machine learning and started his career at SAP. Picalike uses Computer Vision and AI for competitor analysis and personalized recommendations for fashion e-commerce.

Talks:

How AI is influencing us

Christoph Goeken

Managing Director M-Venture

Christoph was appointed MD at M-Venture, the investment and innovation unit of Mast-Jägermeister SE, at age 27 to empower people to have more and better "Best Nights". Prior to joining M-Venture, Christoph grew up in a 5th generation family business, worked for another iconic consumer brand (Colgate-Palmolive) and helped numerous corporations redefining their business models at McKinsey & Company.

Talks:

How venture capital can help to bring people back together (#savethenight)

Elise Müller

Head of People & Culture Spryker

Elise is heading the People & Culture department at Spryker Systems. Her main goal is to create a company culture digital talents love to work in. Since 4 years Elise is constantly working on creating, optimizing and innovating HR processes at Spryker, built up the talent acquisition team and developed a feedback and learning culture. Before joining Spryker, she gained experiences in startups and corporates such as Auto1 and Otto with a strong focus on recruiting and employer branding.

Talks:

Rethinking HR in times of Covid19

Dr. Philip Gisdakis

Chief Investment Officer Wealth Management HypoVereinsbank

Dr. Philip Gisdakis is Head of Capital Investment for Wealth Management and Private Banking of HypoVereinsbank in Munich. Furthermore, he is Group Co-CIO Wealth Management of UniCredit. Prior to that, he headed the Strategy Research Team at UniCredit Corporate & Investment Bank. He has been working for the HypoVereinsbank for more than 15 years. Before his employment at the UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank he has worked as a management consultant for financial institutions and focuses on risk and portfolio management for banks. Dr. Gisdakis studied in financial mathematics at the University of Oxford and has a degree in theoretical chemistry from the Technical University of Munich.

Talks:

Technology disrupts the world. How to invest in tech in financial markets

AJ Ziegler

CFA & Vice President BlackRock

AJ Ziegler, CFA, Vice President, is a Product Strategist within the Active Equities Group at BlackRock representing Global, Sector and Thematic equity strategies. In this capacity, he primarily supports the investment teams on a global basis to both retail and institutional clients. He is responsible both for providing a link between investment teams and all client groups, as well as providing insight on the Active Equities product platform.

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Technology disrupts the world. How to invest in tech in financial markets

Tobias Rosenstock

Team Lead Software Engineering Project A Ventures

Tobias is leading one of the Engineering Teams at Project A and has a strong focus on backend related topics. During the last 6 years, he worked with multiple Portfolio companies like Kfzteile24, Evernest, and Spryker, assisting them with particular attention to code quality, testability, and performance. He believes an essential key to creating a strong team of developers is to promote a culture where everyone trusts and supports each other.

Talks:

Ballmer Peak: A Live Experiment

Jacopo Melloni

Senior Backend Developer Project A Ventures

Jacopo is a backend developer at Project A. He supported kfzteile24 for two years while working on very different business areas and technologies (catalog, infrastructure and customer teams). Naturally inclined towards the DevOps philosophy (development & operations).

Talks:

Ballmer Peak: A Live Experiment

Daniel Schneider

General Manager Germany Kry

Leading Kry's efforts in Germany, previously builing a digital hub for the Oetker Group, Ex-Zalando, Ex-BCG

Talks:

PM vs PM - Product Management and Project Management in agile companies
Backstage with Daniel Schneider

Matthias Kannegiesser

Director Project Management Spryker

Director Project Management

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PM vs PM - Product Management and Project Management in agile companies

Albert Pescheck

CEO Azowo

Albert has successfully build, scaled and exited numerous international technology ventures in the retail (3M), AdTech and Mobility space over the last 15 years. He holds an MBA from Imperial College London and was prior to entering the tech space an awarding winning TV producer and radio host.

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Azowo: Enterprise software for intelligent mobility

Ben Fischer

General Partner Project A Ventures

Ben is a general partner and joined Project A in 2016. He is responsible for venture support operations, private equity co-investments, finance and legal.

Before assuming his current position, he was group CFO at Quandoo (2014-2016). Prior to this, he spent 14 years with Bain & Company, the last three as a partner in the private equity practice. He received his master's degree in business administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz (Germany), with periods of study abroad at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China) and Penn State University (USA).

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Backstage with Ben Fischer and Thies Sander
Keep on trucking

Thies Sander

Founding Partner Project A Ventures

Thies Sander is a general partner at Project A and co-founded the firm in 2012.

He is responsible for investor relations.

Before co-founding Project A, Thies was CEO of a German online comparison startup. Previous to that, he was a principal at The Boston Consulting Group (Berlin, New York) and headed the global operations strategy team at the sporting goods company Adidas. Thies holds a double master's degree from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz (Germany) and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago (USA).

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Ben is a general partner and joined Project A in 2016.
Backstage with Ben Fischer and Thies Sander

Andrea Girardello

CEO 42matters

An engineer at heart with a strong background in computer science. Andrea's biggest passion lies in mobile and web technologies. He is an hi-tech professional with cross-functional experience in Startups, Mobile Apps, Software Engineering, App Store Optimization, and Online Marketing.

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42matters: App Intelligence

Matt Brennan

Partner General Catalyst

Matt Brennan, partner at VC firm General Catalyst, focuses on growth stage investmenting in areas including application software, SaaS, financial technology, and data services such as Olive and Rapyd. Before joining GC, Matt was an investor at Bain Capital Ventures and Insight Venture Partners. Outside the office, Matt enjoys traveling and staying active through skiing, tennis, and running. Matt received a BS in finance from the University of Pennsylvania.

Talks:

Coming to Europe: General Catalyst

Ronnie Vuine

CEO micropsi industries

Co-founder and managing director. Background in philosophy and computer sience, in AI since 2001. Interested in intelligence and importing technology from the future.

Talks:

Micropsi: Automate manual workstations yourself

Benjamin Ullrich

Partner SMP

Ben specializes in M&A and venture capital transactions as well as corporate compliance. Ben's clients appreciate his excellent commercial awareness and proven negotiation skills. This enables him to successfully close even the most complex transactions.

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Backstage with Benjamin Ullrich

Romanus Otte

CEO & Editor Business Insider Deutschland GmbH

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Backstage with Romanus Otte

Simon Bolz

Co-Founder & Co-CEO Klara

A serial entrepreneur, Simon founded two technology companies in Berlin. He then found his true passion in healthcare helping build Germany’s most innovative implantology clinic group. Simon studied at the London School of Economics, Humboldt Universität Berlin, and got a Masters at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has three kids, and his wife is - surprisingly - a doctor.

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Klara: Digitize & automate the patient experience

Christian Evers

CEO Evernest

General Management. Previously Member of the Global Board of Engel & Völkers AG (Europe's market leader in Resential Real Estate Brokerage), responsible for global platform, ramped up large operations across Europe and hired more than 5,000 Agents, took revenues from 300-800m in 5 years / Commercial Director Thomas Cook / Project Leader BCG

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Evernest: Building the dominant European urban real estate company

Steffen Wicker

CEO Homeday

Steffen Wicker is co-founder & CEO of Homeday. Since 2014 he is changing how people sell and buy properties, making it a smooth, digital experience and saving customers thousands of Euros in commission. Under his management, Homeday became the fastest growing real estate broker in Germany, with today 200+ employees, a transaction volume of more than EUR 3bn. Prior to Homeday, Steffen co-founded simfy, the first music streaming service to launch in Germany.

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Homeday: The fastest growing German hybrid real estate agent

Adrian Raidt

CEO Laserhub

CEO and co-founder of Laserhub. Previously he had several managerial roles within the Trumpf Group, the world market leader for industrial laser technology. He studied at WHU (Germany), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India) and Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (Chile).

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Laserhub: Reinventing the market for metal part procurement

Christian Schneider-Sickert

CEO Liqid

Christian is CEO and co-founder of LIQID. His previous experience cuts across entreneurship, finance and management. In addition to starting and successfully exiting two companies, he spent many years in senior management positions in media and finance. Christian holds an MA from Oxford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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LIQID: Join the smart money

Kaspar Korjus

Co-Founder & CPO Pactum

Kaspar is the Co-Founder and CPO of Pactum. Formerly the founder and the MD of Estonian e-Residency. Kaspar has been the most cited Estonian by global press in 2017 and 2018. As Forbe 30 under 30, Kaspar has been awarded as JCI 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons of the World and the Order of Orange-Nassau by the King of the Netherlands.

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Pactum: Automating commercial negotiations

Ravi Vora

CEO Catawiki

Ravi has nineteen years of experience in industries ranging from FMCG to OTT video streaming to e-commerce. He joined Catawiki in 2017 as Chief Marketing Officer before taking over as CEO in June 2018. Catawiki is a Euro 450M GMV, profitable business which growing in upwards of 30% yoy. Its well on its way to becoming a Billion GMV business in the next 3 years.

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Special objects, selected by experts

Kurosch Daniel Habibi

Founder & Co-CEO Carl Finance

Kurosch Daniel Habibi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Carl, Europe's leading M&A platform for SMBs, running the venture's commercial side. Previously to Carl he gained experience in investment banking, management consulting, consumer goods and the startup scene. He holds BS and MS degrees from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management with distinction and was selected to the Forbes 30 und 30.

Talks:

Carl Finance: Building the leading M&A platform for SMB transactions

Maria-Liisa Bruckert

Founder & CCO SQIN

An expert for digital transformation with international experience as digital pioneer for one of europeans largest companies. As empathic strategist my vision is to revolutionize the beauty industry by putting digitalization, personalization as well as human capital first. I am founder and the marketing, sales and operational head of SQIN. With an international master degree in electrical engineering I am caring about innovative technologies.

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Sqin: Beauty's next level

Kinga Jentetics

CEO & Co-Founder PublishDrive

Kinga Jentetics is the CEO and founder of PublishDrive, the software-as-a-service platform for indie publishers that rewrites the rules of publishing. She made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media in 2017 and was named one of the Top 100 European Female Founders by The Hundert. She was also nominated for the 2018 Digital Book World Awards (in a list that included Jeff Bezos). As an advocate of using new technologies such as blockchain and AI, Kinga is helping to shape the digital publishing landscape with PublishDrive by providing services from global ebook distribution to promotional tools and financial services tailored for indies. So that publishing will not be the privilege of a few but a resource for many.

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PublishDrive: The self-publishing platform for book publishing success

Harald Fanderl

Senior Partner McKinsey & Company

Harald helps companies in sectors such as insurance, banking, energy, automotive, and retail become more customer-centric and achieve higher financial impact, customer satisfaction, and employee morale. Harald leads McKinsey’s global Customer Experience work, and is a core member of the leadership team within the firm’s Marketing & Sales practice.

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What digital businesses should know & do about customer experience

Oliver Ehrlich

Senior Partner McKinsey & Company

As leader of our European Customer Experience practice and core member of our Marketing & Sales leadership team, Oliver supports B2C and B2B companies across industries in shaping their commercial strategies, creating superior customer experiences, and re-shaping their operating models towards customer centricity.

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What digital businesses should know & do about customer experience

David Fuhr

Head of Research HiSolutions AG

David is Head of Research at leading German boutique security consultancy HiSolutions. As principal security researcher he not only had the pleasure to create the internal research & innovation matrix org, but to regularly work on, think about and preach “next gen”, “bleeding edge”, and “disruptive” tech from a security and risk standpoint. In 2020, he has mostly stopped talking about Blockchain, put ponders going back to the beginnings when he was studying Quantum Computers and Gestalt Organizational Psychology.

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You are the cavalry – The 5 levels of startup security

Oliver Gediehn

Expert Associate Partner McKinsey & Company

Oliver Gediehn is an Expert Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company's Berlin Office. He is a leader within our European Marketing Performance Service Line with expertise both in B2B and B2C marketing. Having led and transformed marketing organizations in corporate as well as in start-up/agency environments, he drives marketing performance and digital marketing transformations aiming both at growth and efficiency.

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Manuela Mohr-Zydek

Regional Vice President Salesforce

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Go for Growth - How to set up your Sales team for success

Karin Fusco

Manager, Sales Programs Salesforce

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Go for Growth - How to set up your Sales team for success

Adnan Zaheer

Founder & CEO Seers

Adnan is a qualified accountant and has over 18 years’ experience in FTSE 100, SMEs and Big Four in the UK. At PwC, he assisted SMEs to fulfil compliance requirements and grow. He was a founding member of Smart Pension, a successful RegTech venture.

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Seers: UK's leading privacy and consent management platform for companies worldwide

Zahra Shah

Founder & CCO Seers

Zahra is the Co-Founder of Seers - UK's leading data protection and privacy management platform for companies across the UK, Europe and the US: https://seersco.com. She has a background in Management Consultancy with over a decade of experience at Accenture within the Financial Services – Capital Markets practice area. She helped global Investment Banking clients in the planning, management and execution of complex, high impact projects to achieve strategic business objectives (i.e. expansion, growth transformation etc.), organisational change, deliver high-performance and ensure compliance with various regulatory requirements such as: KYC, AML, Basel 3, MiFID, Cross Border Sanctions etc. by leveraging cutting-edge technological solutions amongst other areas. She has an MSc. (Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems) from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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Seers: UK's leading privacy and consent management platform for companies worldwide

Lee Butz

CEO & Founder District Technologies

Lee is passionate about shaping the future of cities to improve everyone’s work and life experience. Working at the intersection of cities and technology, they founded District Technologies, a community and smart buildings platform for large commercial or residential portfolios that helps owners save time and money through an innovative tenant experience app. Prior to District, having written their masters thesis at Oxford University on "Understanding the DNA of Strong Entrepreneurial Hubs”, they then took their theory into practice by building large coworking campuses (Factory Berlin and Interchange London for Market-Tech).

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District Tech: A workplace experience platform that allows communities to navigate the workplace and stay connected from anywhere

Oscar Jazdowski

General Manager Sales and Origination SVB

Oscar is the Co-General Manager of Silicon Valley Bank's Germany Branch and has over 30 years’ experience of financing technology companies at all stages. Starting his career at SVB Boston in 2002, he transferred to SVB’s London in 2010 to help grow the operations in the UK and help in obtaining a full banking license. In March 2013, he transferred to SVB's joint venture bank in Shanghai, SPD Silicon Valley Bank (SSVB), where he was Head of Corporate Banking. In April 2018 he eventually transferred to Frankfurt, to become Co-Head of SVB Germany.

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Backstage with Oscar Jazdowski

Dr. Sophie Chung

CEO & Founder Qunomedical

A medical doctor by training, Sophie was the Director of Healthcare Strategy of digital health Unicorn Zocdoc in New York prior to founding Qunomedical. Before that, she was a management consultant at McKinsey's Healthcare Practice.

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Quno Medical: Finding the right doctor. Worldwide.

Alex Ferrara

Partner Bessemer Venture Partner

Alex joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2005. He led Shopify's Series A for BVP in 2010. Today he serves on the boards of Pipedrive, BigID, Dashlane, Kenna Security, Wandera, ManyChat, and Manta among others. He primarily invests in enterprise SaaS, SMB software, and cybersecurity and is particularly focused on European startups https://www.bvp.com/europe. He is an avid cyclist and most mornings you can find him on Zwift.

Talks:

Bessemer Venture Partners & Project A - Views on European VC landscape

Manuel Hinz

Co-Founder & Co-CEO CrossEngage

Manuel Hinz is an experienced entrepreneur, consultant and manager with a track record of leading several e-commerce startups from the initial setup to a successful exit. He worked, among others, for DailyDeal (exit to Google), Toroleo and Scarosso. Beyond his operational experience, Manuel advises Earlybird Venture Capital and eTribes Connect.

Talks:

CrossEngage: The Customer Operating System

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners

Partner focused on backing the most ambitious founders in Europe.

Talks:

LVSP: Investing in Europe - Q&A Session