DN22 SPEAKERS

Florian Grüning, CMO at Kuwala.io

I am Florian Data-Science Influencer with my Podcast Techrap and CMO at Kuwala. I am responsible for Product and Marketing

Martin Čmejrek, Co-Founder and VP, AI & Data at The MAMA AI

Martin is developing the member recommendation system at XING…

Taryn Andersen, CEO & co-Founder at Impulse4women

Taryn Andersen is President and co-founder of Impulse4women, who are developing a Matchmaking Platform to connect International Women Entrepreneurs with different investors, corporates, public-private organizations based of their economics needs…

Wilfried Hoge, Senior Data & AI Technical Specialist at IBM Deutschland

I am a senior IT architect at IBM Germany and an expert in designing complex IT infrastructures for next generation information architectures. I have more than 10 years of experience in planning and implementing data warehouse and business intelligence environments and works on Big Data architectures since 2011…

Moojan Asghari, Founder & CEO at Thousand Faces

“Born in Iran and based in Paris, Moojan Asghari is a serial entrepreneur, public speaker, technologist, activist, and strong advocate

Kenza Ait Si Abbou, Director Client Engineering DACH at IBM

Kenza is a multi-award-winning AI expert, author and one of the top 40 under 40 talents in Germany (awarded by

Carlos Ahumada, Public Policy Manager EMEA & LATAM, Data for Good at Meta

Carlos has a B.A. in International Relations with a focus on Economics from ITAM in Mexico City, Mexico, and a

Maren Lesche, Founder at Applied Data Incubator

Bart de Witte, Founder and CEO at HIPPO AI Foundation

Bart de Witte hails from Antwerp, Belgium and lived in Brussels, Zürich, Vienna before calling Berlin his home in 2016…

Mina Saidze, Lead Data Analytics & Tech Evangelist at Axel Springer SE

Mina Saidze is a data expert, founder, publicist and one of the best known faces of the tech scene in

Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Co-Founder Plan A & Co-Founder at Greentech Alliance

Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a software provider offering an end-to-end platform that uses machine

Filipa Peleja, Lead Data Scientist at Levi Strauss & Co.

Filipa Peleja has always been enthusiastic about technology.She first stepped into the tech world as an undergrad in Computer Science and later Ph.D…

Lex Gillon, CEO & Co-Founder at Modality Group

Lior Barak, Head of Product at idealo

Working in the data space for over ten years, eat and drink Hummus, ah data, asked live to simplify the

Michael Ionita, Author of No-Code, Blockhain YouTube Channel & Board Member at Austrian Startups

Michael is an entrepreneur with a tech/developer background. Currently he is passionate about giving people superpowers by showing how to

Dr. Azadeh Dindarian, Co-Founder & Consulting Founder at Women AI Academy & KRATOSapp

Azadeh holds Ph.D., in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and BEng., in Computing and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK. Azadeh has extensive experience as founder, researcher and consultant…

Asif Kabani, Fellow UN & Founder & CEO at Next Generation Leaders, Europe

MBA, Mentor. As an international scholar on public policy research and a fellow of international organisations with a number of international presentations, publications and reports in the…

Katherine Townsend, Director for Policy at World Wide Web Foundation Executive Director at Open Data Collaboratives

Katherine is a passionate advocate for information equity and has devoted her career to open data, government transparency, and improving

Peter Grosskopf, Co-Founder & CTO at Unstoppable Finance

ex CTO at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange & ex Co-Founder/CTO at Solarisbank. Peter is Co-Founder and CTO at Unstoppable Finance

Karolina Attspodina, CEO & Co-Founder at WeDoSolar

Passionate about Technology, Startups, and anything that has to do with Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Mentoring local & international startups on

Thorsten Dittmar, Founder & CEO at Polypoly, Kumbayja Investment Ltd

Thorsten started his computer science career in the early 80s when he had a 4 color Mohawk haircut and most

Nasrin Saef, Head of Machine Learning at frogs42

Tomas Neubauer, Co-Founder & CTO at Quix

Tomas Neubauer is cofounder and CTO at Quix, responsible for the technical direction of the company across the full technical

Javier Blanco Cordero, Senior Data Scientist at Quix

Javier Blanco Cordero is a senior data scientist at Quix, where he helps customers get the most out of their

Robyn Farah, Founder at Kato Global & Senior Product Manager at Babbel

Actively involved in scouting & onboarding processes, analysing the data of different phases of the projects, preparation of internal &

Alessandro Pedori, Founder at IFS Collective & CTO at EnterpriseAI Consulting

Alex describes what he does as “telling very stupid artificial intelligences what to do. Every now and then, they even

Idil Serifoglou, Creative Producer at Betahaus

Actively involved in scouting & onboarding processes, analysing the data of different phases of the projects, preparation of internal &

Andrei Tara, Founder & CEO at Openfabric

Andrei is an entrepreneur, polymath and researcher with a strong focus on new paradigms capable of improving the human condition through emergent technologies

Jona Welsch, Machine Learning Project Lead at dida Machine Learning

Jona Welsch originally studied physics (TU Dresden, Heidelberg University). He worked on optimisation methods at the German Cancer Research Center

Richard Gevers, Director & Founder at Open Cities Lab

Richard is the founder of Open Cities Lab, a civic technology lab with a focus on the development of open

Dora Petrella, Data Scientist at Metro Digital

I’ve been working as Data Scientist for almost 4 years. I’m currently employed at METRO.digital where I’m part of an

Sundar Narayanan, Researcher at AI Tech Ethics

Sundar is an Ethics & Compliance professional with over 15 years of experience in advising Corporations. Sundar’s area of focus

Felix Rank, Co-Founder at German Forum for Ethical Machine Decision Making

Felix Rank is co-founder of the German Forum for Ethical Machine Decision Making, a think tank for the responsible use of algorithms and artificial intelligence…

Fadwa Ouardani, Senior Associate at XAnge

Tousif Rahman, GeoBIM Data Engineer at Elea iC

My name is Tousif Rahman, and I am working as a Geo-Data Design Engineer at a leading Slovene-Austrian Engineering Consultancy

Alpesh Doshi, CEO at Fintricity

Alpesh is an innovative and dynamic thought leader in how organisations can transform and future-proof their business using emerging technologies

Shahar Graf, House of Quantum Lead at Quantum Delta NL

In order to create a ‘Silicon Valley of quantum technology’ in the Netherlands, we are building a solid national ecosystem,

Thomas Otto, Senior Director Strategic Design at Icon group

Over 9 years Thomas is working in the intersection of Interaction Design, User Experience, Design Research and Business Design. Working

Emeli Dral, CTO and Co-founder at Evidently AI

Emeli Dral is a Co-founder and CTO at Evidently AI, a startup developing tools to analyze and monitor the performance

Mohammad Yeghanem, Researcher (NLP) at Humboldt Universität Berlin

Mohammad Yeghaneh is a research associate working in HU Berlin and doing my PhD in NLP. He received a M.Sc.

Charlie Davies, CEO at TravelTime

CEO of TravelTime, an API-first company that maps and searches location data using minutes rather than miles. Charlie has built

Alexa Sinyachova, CEO at Moeco

For the last 12 years, she has been helping start-ups drive growth and innovation. Her experience is focused on leading-edge

Caroline Lair, Founder at The Good AI

Caroline Lair is an investor and entrepreneur. She launched The Good AI in 2021, the first community of AI startups

Mila Suharev, Founder, MD Product and Data at Casafari

Serial founder with focus on product, data and growth operations. Trained writing algorithms with a pen and paper. Being 12,

Marc Biemer, Senior Digital Product Designer at Futurice

Marc is a designer with a deep passion for soldering electronics and cracking numbers in python. His work bridges creative

Oliver Rieger, Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer / Tech Lead at PreFree

Studied math and physics, coded for astrophysical researchers, worked as a data scientist / machine learning engineer in the industry.

Diksha Dutta, Head Of Marketing and Communication at AsiaBerlin

I am a journalist at heart- I ask a lot of questions and I love communicating the answers to the

Dr. Frank Munz, Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks

Dr. Frank Munz works as a Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks, the Data and AI company. He authored three computer

Johannes Starlinger, Managing Director, Cross-disciplinary digital health consultant and developer at Howto Health

Johannes Starlinger is both a medical doctor and a computer scientist, and a TÜV Süd certified specialist for medical software regulatory…

Devin de Vries, CEO & Co-Founder at WhereIsMy Transport

Devin de Vries is CEO and co-founder of WhereIsMyTransport. In the world’s 30 largest emerging-market cities, over 300 million people use public transport every day…

Andrea Bravo, Ph.D. Data visualization and ethics in the metaverse at -

Andrea Bravo is an expert on data visualization, user experience (UX), and ethics in the metaverse. She is involved in

Joseph Abubakar, Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Renewable Africa 365

Joseph is from Nigeria, remotely studying Master of Engineering in Information Technology at Frankfurt University of Applied Science…

Julien Carbonnell, Data Scientist // Civic Technologies & Smart Cities at Democracy Studio

Former real estate developer converted to urban innovation, I focus on citizen engagement in urban transformations…

Jakob Graff, Director of Data Science at Inkitt

Jakob is a data science and analytics leader with 8 years of experience in industries such as digital publishing, ed tech, mobile gaming and consulting…

Jeronim Morina, ML Ops Engineer at AXA Konzern AG

Driving Artificial Intelligence Innovation at AXA | Founder of AXA’s AI Guild

Benjamin Djidi, CEO at Popsink

In 2021, he co-founded Popsink, a service to launch and manage continuous data pipelines without scripting. Prior to Popsink, Benjamin held several Data Engineering and Transformation positions at Amazon across multiple geographies before joining SIXT to lead the Data & Analytics teams.

Simon Müller, CTO at wattx GmbH

I’ve founded and sold a startup, built the digital lab of a German Mittelstand company, and now combine both aspects as the CTO of the Venture Builder wattx.

Julius Maina, Director of Special Projects/Initiatives at gener8tor

Julius Valentine Maina currently serves as the Chief of Staff/Director of Special Projects for gener8tor. gener8tor is a turnkey platform for the creative economy that connects startup founders, musicians, artists, investors, universities, and corporations via a nationally ranked accelerator model.

Alistair Croll, Founder at Solve for Interesting

Alistair is the author of four books on tech and society, serial entrepreneur, and startup advisor.

Marcel Poelker, Founder & CTO at Taledo

Marcel’s expertise in AI and product development is highly regarded in various media outlets, podcasts, and events in Germany, such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, t3n, Springer Professional Wirtschaftsinformatik und Management.

Mariem Mhadhbi, Founder at ValueCoMetrics

Financial Markets Expert, entrepreneur and change Maker Ecole des Mines, INSEAD, MIT Working on redefining performance and creating multidimensional return integrating explicitly human, social and natural capital.

Olivier Blais, Head of Decision Science at Moov AI

Olivier is co-founder and Head of Decision Science at Moov AI. He’s also a member of the Standards Council of Canada committee that is defining the ISO standards for artificial intelligence solutions.

Jo Kroese, Co-Founder at Radical Data and Dataknit

Jo Kroese has worked as a statistical consultant for clients including the UK government, various startups and international NGOs such as FSC…

Amit Leibovitz, Data Scientist and Security Researcher at Imperva

Data scientist and security researcher at Imperva, a leading cybersecurity provider that protects data
and applications on-premises, in the cloud, and across hybrid environments.

Stephan Schnieber, Sales Leader IBM Cloud Pak for Data - DACH at IBM Deutschland

Stephan Schnieber is the Sales Leader for Data & AI at IBM DACH.The generation of new knowledge out of and from data is not a new topic for Stephan Schnieber.

Norbert Riedelsheimer, EMEA Design Profession Lead at IBM Client Engineering

“Norbert Riedelsheimer is the EMEA Design Profession Lead at IBM Client Engineering where he focuses on building “Proof of Value”.

Ellen Hoeven, Data Science Lead Client Engineering DACH at IBM

“Ellen Hoeven is the Lead Data Scientist DACH at IBM Client Engineering, where she currently helps clients to unlock the potential of their data by creating minimal viable solutions.

Will Hurley aka whurley, Founder & CEO Strangeworks at Strangeworks, Inc.

Whurley is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup that makes the power of quantum computing easily accessible and available to all.

Samuel Boehme, Hybrid AI business lead at SAP Innovation Center Potsdam

Samuel Boehme is the Hybrid AI Business lead at the SAP Innovation Center Network Berlin/ Potsdam, an innovation team dedicated to exploring the future of enterprise software using the latest technologies.

Tisha Anders, AI Developer at SAP Innovation Center Potsdam

“Tisha Anders is an AI Developer in the Applied Technology Exploration team under SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, responsible for identifying and implementing new AI models for business solutions.

Ethan Pierce, Founder at The CryptoAssets Institute / The NFT Factory

Ethan educates and inspires audiences on the Web3 Economy and Tokenized Securities, as well as Europe’s startup ecosystems and its entrepreneurs.

Benjamin Kempinski, Lead data scientist at Jokr and ArgmaxML., Recsplain

Benjamin Kempinski is a lead data scientist at ArgmaxML. He is a maintainer of Recsplain, an open-source framework for explainable recommendation systems in python.

Anna Franziska Michel, CEO at Yoona AI

Anna Franziska Michel is a tech ambassador and founder. She is known for being one of the prominent voices advocating

Maxim Khalilov, Head of Data Science at Glovo

Maxim Khalilov is currently a head of R&D at Glovo, a Spanish on-demand courier service unicorn.

Raimund Bau, CEO at SMP (Schwarz)

Raimund Bau is a serial entrepreneur who believes in disrupting retail with AI.

Tim Still, Director Artificial Intelligence Technology & Implementation at Schwarz IT

Tim is a physical scientist turned data scientist turned AI manager. At Schwarz Group, Europe’s
largest retailer, he leads the AI Technology & Implementation department, whose mission is to
deliver value through AI data products.

Francesco Bonglifio, CEO at Gaia-X

Francesco Bonfiglio is the CEO of Gaia-X since March 2021. An Electronic Engineer by training Francesco has over 30 years of experience in the business of consulting an information technology.

Andrea Pitrone, Chief Customer Success Officer and Chief Product Management Officer at Loop AI Labs Cognitive Computing at Loop AI Labs Cognitive Computing

Andrea Pitrone is an experienced director with Customer Success responsibilities at a global level. Previously, he worked for over 11 years as Senior Project Manager at Accenture in Riyad and Milan.

Letícia A. Pozza, Co-founder & data strategist at Odd.Studio

Leads odd.studio, a data product prototyping company. Experienced keynote speaker on data culture, storytelling and dataviz and design processes, with

Francisco Estivallet, co-founder & creative technologist at Odd.Studio

“Creative Tech and Founder of odd.studio, a data product prototyping studio. Leads the research and prototyping of tools that can

Ame Elliot, Design Director at Simply Secure

She has worked as a research scientist at Xerox PARC and the Ricoh Silicon Valley Research Center where she pioneered connected home and workplace collaboration systems.

Philipp Drieger, Principal Machine Learning Architect at Splunk

Philipp Drieger works as a Principal Machine Learning Architect at Splunk.

Dr. Stefanie Schwaar, Head of Junior Research Group at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics

she started her work at the department “Financial Mathematics” at Fraunhofer ITWM. Since 2020, she is the business developer for the area of settlement auditing.

Steven Renwick, CEO at Tilo Tech

Steven is co-founder and CEO of Tilores. Prior to founding the company, he was CPO at Regis24, a German consumer

Iliana Portugues Peters, Futurist at Siemens Energy

José Fernando Andrade, Director at Innative Lab

InnativeLab is a Berlin-based Art-Tech laboratory that focuses on the connection between creativity and brain activity, integrating the use of

Dee Wood, Head at Twitter Next Lab, EMEA

Dee Wood is a multidisciplinary creative technologist and award-winning leader of Twitter’s Lab in EMEA. The Lab is a team

Luisella Giani, Head of industry Transformation at Oracle

Luisella Giani, EMEA Head of EMEA Industry Transformation at Oracle, is an international executive.

Adriana Freitas, Partner at Muster Ventures

I was born in Brazil, I have over 20 years of experience in the telecom market in different networks.

Ingo Rübe, Founder at KILT Protocol

Ingo Rübe is founder of KILT Protocol and CEO of B.T.E. BOTLabs Trusted Entity GmbH (BTE), a subsidiary of BOTLabs GmbH, the initial developer of KILT.

Angel Haro Del Moral, Marketing Director - Co-founder at Universelle

Advertising graduate with more than 8 years of experience in Marketing (FMCG), digital marketing, and KAM positions.

Tobias Zwingmann, Co-Founder at RAPYD.AI

Tobias Zwingmann is an experienced Data Scientist with a strong business background

Alexandra Heller, Marketing Director at Bitgreen

Alexandra served as Head of Marketing at Parity Technologies where she worked on Polkadot, Substrate, and Kusama. As Crypto Philanthropy Club founder, she promotes philanthropy in web3.

Drew Bonneau, Carbon Market Integrations at KlimaDAO

Drew’s focus is on web3 carbon market integrations.

Maarten Henskens, Head of Ecosystem Development at Astar Network

Maarten is Head of Ecosystem Development at Astar Network.

Vinicius Ribeiro, Head of Intelligence at Cartesi

We aim to bring millions of developers, bridging the gap between Blockchain and the mainstream.

Clare Brooks, Creative Lead Sustainability at Google Arts and Culture - Consultant

“Converging technology, art and science, Clare’s work explores new pathways in using storytelling, and
technologies such as Machine Learning as a force for change across sustainability and social issues.

Tina Klüwer, Director AI at Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum (K.I.E.Z.)

“Dr. Tina Klüwer is a recognized expert, manager, and technical ambassador for the topic of artificial intelligence and its implementation in business.

Stephanie von Behr, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Founderland

I’ve been working with startups for over a decade building community, as a mentor, operator, a consultant, and a 3x founder.

Mike Butcher, Editor-at-large at TechCrunch

Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by Wired and is a regular broadcaster.

Ashwin Ravikumar, Head of Startups at CERN

Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by Wired and is a regular broadcaster.

Jan Sell, Head of Operations, Germany at Coinbase

An entrepreneurial and people focused operations leader with over 15 years of experience of building up numerous companies including start-ups and more complex businesses.

Pravin D, Co-founder and CTO at Reference Protocol

A graduate from IITM, one of the most reputed universities in India, Pravin has more than 10+ years of experience in the software industry.

Charlotte Kaiser, Growth & Operations Manager at Polyteia

Charlotte Kaiser is specialized in technology policy and quantitative methods.

David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodafone

David Palmer is a digital visionary and global platform innovator. He is the Vodafone Business lead for Blockchain technology, and he has been key to exploring the application of blockchain to telecoms and wider business.

Karin Wolok, Head of Developer Community at StarTree

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Milena Monova, CTO at Āut Protocol

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Susmit Lavania, Tech Co Founder at Huddle01

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Antti ‘Jogi’ Poikola, Data economy specialist at MyData Global & Sitra (Gaia-X hub Finland)

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Vera Futorjanski, CEO at Veritas Ventures

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Lujza Bubanova, CEO at SeeMe

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Micah Adams, Creative Director at Algorand Foundation/Brunel University

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Barney Mannerings, Founder at Vega Protocol

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Elisa Czerski, CEO and Founder at N Robotics GmbH

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Gilbert Hill, Chief Strategy Officer at Pool Data

Privacy technologist, entrepreneur and speaker. Former CEO at Tapmydata, VC-funded blockchain startup building tools for data control and portability.

Johannes Steger, Managing Editor at Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity

Johannes Steger is the managing editor of Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity, a daily briefing for decision makers focused on digital security from a political, economic and societal perspective.

Bas Wouterse, CTO & Co-Founder at Telm

Bas is Co-founder and CTO at Telm, creating new ways of using technologies such as Augmented Reality and Machine Learning to improve existing business processes.

Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Senior Data Scientist at HAKOM Time Series

Rosana is a Senior Data Scientist in the energy sector. She transitioned to industry after a long career on academic

Iveta Lohovska, Principal Data Scientist / AI Ambassador at HPE

Iveta is Principal Data Scientist and AI Ambassador at HPE, with a mission to democratize decision intelligence and safe, reliable

Alexandra Garatzogianni, HeadHead of Tech Transfer, Coordinator of EU ICT projects in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Leibniz University Hannover & Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology, University Library (TIB)

Currently Alexandra coordinates the H2020 Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS) project and the H2020 MediaFutures Data-driven innovation hub for

Caroline Harth, Founder and CEO at Harthcommunications

“Dr. Caroline Harth is the founder of Harthcommunications, a data storytelling and video production company with a strong focus on