Data Natives 2019 Speakers

Susan Wegner, VP Data, Artificial Intelligence and Governance (CDO), Deutsche Telekom

Dr. Susan Wegner (CDataO) is responsible for Artificial Intelligence, Data Architecture, models and governance at Deutsche Telekom…

Thilo Kölzer, CEO, antwerpes ag

Thilo is an experienced board director with a demonstrated history of working in the digital healthcare marketing and advertising sector. Internet explorer since 1995. Skilled in Forward Thinking, Digital Strategy, Medical Advertising, User Experience, Advertising, Search Engine Marketing, Healthcare Marketing in general and leadership. Strong business development professional with a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) focused in Economics,

Dr. Chan Nasseb, Senior Data Scientist, IBM Deutschland

Senior Data Scientist / Applied AI Expert

Stefan Urbanek, Ex-Data Engineer, Facebook

Alistair Croll, Visiting Executive , Harvard Business School

Alistair is an entrepreneur, author, and event organizer. He co-founded Real User Monitoring pioneer Coradiant and has authored four books…

Raffaela Rein, Founder , WildWildVentures, CareerFoundry

Raffaela is the founder of WildWildVentures and CareerFoundry…

Martin Ocker, Data Scientist, XING

Martin is developing the member recommendation system at XING…

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schlueter Langdon, Data Analytics Executive and Scientist, Deutsche Telekom IoT

Chris is a professor in Data Science and Analytics; his doctorate involved Artificial Intelligence and Complex Adaptive Systems.
At the Telekom Data Intelligence Hub he is a development executive responsible for partner on-boarding…

Nasir Zubairi, CEO, the LHoFT Foundation - Luxembourg House of Financial Technology

Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg. He is also Non-Executive Director at SEB S.A., a leading European wealth manager. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS,

Dr. Fanny Nusbaum, Author, Associate researcher, Pdt Centre PSYRENE, Pdt PSYRENE pour l'intelligence Fund

Filipa Peleja, Data Scientist, Vodafone Portugal

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…

Nils Fortmann, Head of Innovation & Activation, antwerpes ag

As Head of Digital Innovation & Activation at antwerpes, keywords such as AI, AR, IoT, VR, SEO, SEA, CTR and KPI are part of the daily life of Nils Fortmann…

Romeo Kiezler, Chief Data Scientist, IBM

Angeli Möller, Head of IT Business Partnering Research , Bayer Business Services

Dr. Angeli Möller has two roles at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, she leads the artificial intelligence work stream and is responsible for the research digital investment strategy…

Christian Gust, Head Of Data & Insights, SumUp

Being passionate about data I am glad to support SumUp’s data driven mindset with a state-of-the art data infrastructure and talented analysts, that help us to thrive the business of millions of merchants worldwide…

Simone Krist, Unit Director B2C, PIABO PR GmbH

Simone is B2C Unit Director and member of the Management Team at PIABO, Germany’s leading Full-Service PR partner for the digital economy based in Berlin…

Susara (Sarette) van den Heever, Executive Data Scientist & Program Director, IBM Data Science & AI

Dr. Susara van den Heever is an Executive Decision Scientist and Program Director for the IBM Data Science Elite team, with a focus on helping clients lead with data science, by applying techniques such as decision optimization and machine learning to their business challenges…

Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolic, CDO & CEO, Savedroid/RobotsGoMental

Thomas Müller, DevOps Technical Leader DACH , IBM Deutschland

Thomas Müller has been working in various functions at IBM for more than 20 years. From software development to project management in large, international application development projects for and with customers…

Carina Walter, Data Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG

Carina is a Data Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG. She has a strong background in Computer Science and likes to drive innovative ideas and approaches forward….

Asif Kabani, Founder and CEO, Next Generation Leaders, Europe

Asif Kabani MBA Mentor Hatch CoLab, Founder & CEO Next Generation Leaders (NGLs) and Fellow an Economist, Social Entrepreneur, International Trainer, Public Speaker, Motivation Coach and Mentor based in Europe, with a passion for the Internet of Things (IoT)…

Alistair Nolan, Administrator at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD - OCDE

Taryn Andersen, President & co-Founder, 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…

Benjamin Seeber, Head of Big Data and Data Science, Five1

Ben is a graduate of physics from the University of Freiburg. On completion of establishing causality models in reasoning and inference in understanding how information flows through the brain…

Jacqueline Neef, Junior Data Scientist, Data Science & AI Elite EMEA a, IBM Deutschland

Jacqueline Neef is a data scientist with 7 years of experience within IBM. She holds a double master’s degree in data science from the European Institute of Technology…

Thomas Hartwig, Founder, CEO, LEOGANT

Thomas Hartwig is Founder and CEO of the company LEOGANT. Since 2009, his label LEOGANT has developed and sold the best filtration and vitalization systems for water treatment. These days, private households aren’t the only ones running his systems, which can increasingly be found in restaurants and sustainable businesses. Trained as a restaurateur, his interest

Elsa Schröder, Data Science Consultant, Cimt AG

As an enthusiastic data scientist, she works now as a data science consultant at cimt. In the past, she has played her part by using analytical methods, in particular outlier detection, to support environmentally conscious projects…

Shlomi Hod, Data Scientist | AI Ethics | Educator, ethically.ai

Shlomi is a data scientist and educator. He works on the use of artificial intelligence technology for the social good, primarily as the developer of Ethically…

Matthias Biniok, Lead Watson Architect DACH, IBM Deutschland

Matthias studied computer science and IT management in Jena, Tel Aviv and Frankfurt and is Lead Watson AI Architect at IBM…

Abel Archundia, Global Head of IT, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Stephan Lobinger, Lead Solution Architect , IBM Switzerland

Stephan is the Lead Solution Architect for Data Science & Business Analytics with IBM Cloud in Switzerland. He has an international track record of developing enterprise-level solutions that substantially increases clients’ ability to turn data into actionable insights…

Samantha Edds, Senior DataScientist, Bunch.ai

Sam is a passionate leader with a successful track record in using statistics and data modeling to help organizations uncover insights and tell a story to grow their business…

Dr. Sean Gustafson, Engineering Manager , Scout24

Axel Morgner, Founder and Managing Director, Structr

Axel Morgner is initiator of the Structr Open Source project and Managing Director at Structr GmbH in Frankfurt/Main.

Roman Rittweger, CEO, ottonova

Dr. Roman Rittweger is the founder and Chairman of the Board at ottonova Holding AG since its founding in late 2015…

Cara Baestlein, Implementation Engineering Lead, Snowplow Analytics

Bart de Witte, Founder, HIPPO AI Foundation / Digital Health Academy

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

Samuel King, Senior Data Engineer, Streem.ai

Samuel King is a senior data scientist at Streem.ai. He has over five years of experience deploying machine learning solutions across a range of industries from finance to green technology…

Rene Meyer, Cloud IT Architect, IBM Deutschland

RenéMeyer is working as Cloud Platform Architect at IBM supporting clients in their journey to Cloud Computing, DevOps and cloud native application development…

Wilfried Hoge, Analytics Architect, 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…

Benjamin De Boe, Product Manager, InterSystems

Benjamin is a product manager in the Data Platforms group at InterSystems, looking after the areas of scalability and analytics…

Sandra Winkler, Country Marketing Manager , Mindspace

As a home office pioneer – Sandra started working from home in 2010 – working for a supportive employer, where remote work was already a standard practice. Therefore, her interest in that topic was sparked before any coworking spaces even existed…

Holger Kyas, Enterprise Architect, Helvetia

Daria Markova, Founder & Educator, TU Berlin, Dash Too Much, The Guild

Having contributed to Future of Workspace as a cofounder of a Coworking space, Daria daily saw people struggling with re-skilling and adapting to new work realities…

Stefany Barker, Co-Founder, Team Leader, Palantir Technologies, TechFace.ch

Sebastian Gebhardt, Data Science Consultant, Cimt AG

Starting with knowledge Management, he works now as a data science consultant at cimt. Always looking for ideas to improve the Infrastructure of a data science Project…

Maximilian Nowottnick, Data Scientist, Supper & Supper GmbH

As a long-time programmer and trained physicist, my journey into data science and deep learning began with the analysis of spectrograms of speech recordings for accent recognition…

Bernardo Caldas, Head of Data Science and AI , Novo Banco

I am a data science & AI leader, passionate about powering digital transformation in companies and promoting social good in society using data…

Felipe Duarte, Facilitator , DAOstack

Originally an artist and activist, Felipe’s experience on the ground during the social upheavals of Brazil over the last decade have shifted his reflections towards society and organizations…

Nicole Büttner, CEO, MerantixLabs

Nicole Büttner is an entrepreneur, tech optimist and economist. She is CEO at MerantixLABS, a leading AI firm building bespoke machine learning products for its clients. She also founded DataQuotient, an artificial intelligence expert platform helping companies bridge shortages in talent and implement new technologies to create real value…

Christophe Bourguignat, CEO, Co-founder, Zelros

Christophe is an entrepreneur, senior Data Scientist, and blogger. He worked at AXA Data Innovation Lab, and then co-founded Zelros, a Parisian startup developing an intelligent technology dedicated to insurers…

Tanay Pant, Developer Advocate, Crate

Tanay is an author, speaker, developer, and tech enthusiast. He currently works at Crate.io as a Developer Advocate. He is best known for his books “Learning Web-based Virtual Reality”, “Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi” and “Learning Firefox OS Application Development…

Tizian Kronsbein, Founder, Dlighted

Tizian is the founder of dlighted and an active data strategist in the field of Digital Product and Service Design working with customers from different domains in order to make their offerings more efficient and develop the necessary skillsets of their employees…

Frederic Stallaert, Solution Engineer, ML6

Frederic is a versatile, broad minded data engineer, passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. As a Machine Learning Engineer and AI Strategist at ML6…

Juan Carlos Medina Serrano, Doctorate Candidate, TU Munich

Alaa Elhadba, Head of Analytics & Insights, Native Instruments

Karol Przystalski, CTO, Codete

Peter Fedichev, CEO, GERO

Jay Krall, VP Product , Socialgist

Joe Harris, Data Scientist, DataKindUK

As Chapter Lead for the Programme’s Committee, Joe’s focus is instilling a rigorous delivery approach to ensure DataKind’s UK’s output is both top notch and on schedule…

Narayan Prasad Nagendran, Senior Advisor, SatSure

Researcher focussed on the use of satellite big data analytics to drive positive socio-economic outcomes in developing countries.

Kaoutar Chennaf, Master student-Researcher, TU Berlin

Yet, another person trying to unravel the mysteries of the world and reach the ultimate truth. I happened to find that the best way to do so would be through the lenses of a data scientist…

Markus Feigelbinder, Managing Director & Co-founder of Fineway, Fineway GmbH

Markus Feigelbinder is founder and managing director of the Travel Tech start-up FINEWAY.

Daniel Reppel, Scrum Master KI Team, IAV GmbH

Francesco Lo Sterzo, Data Scientist, Natural Cycles

Francesco is a Data Scientist at Natural Cycles, a healthcare company providing the first contraceptive app. He has a PhD in physics and spent many years working at CERN as a researcher before leaving academia to seek new challenges in industry…

Himanshu Ardawatia, Global Reporting and Analysis Advisor, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Himanshu Ardawatia currently works as Global Reporting and Analysis advisor in Monitoring & Evaluation at the Norwegian Refugee Council…

Roland Greifeld, Head of German Growth, Civocracy

Chloe Pahud is the CEO and Co-founder of Civocracy, a CivicTech organisation focused on improving governance structures using digital citizen participation…

Michał Dębski, Founder, C'Mon Data - Foundation

Michał Dębski- Data Manager and Consultant with more than 7 years of experience in multicultural environments. I believe the right usage of the data is necessary for the development of our civilization…

Mark Turrell, Young Global Leader , World Economic Forum

Eduard Lebedyuk, AI/ML specialist, InterSystems

Eduard Lebedyuk is a Sales Engineer, specializing at InterSystems Interoperability and Analytics offerings. He worked in the areas of Master Data Management solutions…

Agnieszka Michalik, Solution Architect, HERE Technologies

Agnieszka Michalik holds an MSc degree in information technology from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. She has been working in the IT industry for over 16 years across Europe – in Poland…

Alexander Schabel, Head of Sustainable Business Development, iFood

Alexander Schabel is Head of Sustainable Business Development at the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability…

Niklas Goby, Co-Founder, Geospin

Niklas Goby is Co-Founder and CDO of Geospin, a startup specializing in urban Data Science and Automated Geo-Deep-Learning…

Roi Shternin, Founder, Visiting Lecturer, Valero Clinical, Dysautonomia Israel, Project Hearts, Shenkar

After Being Ill for years, Roi has diagnosed himself with a rare condition (POTS Syndrome), Starting a medical revolution, saving lives…

Dr. Kirell Benzi, Creative Data Scientist, ekino

Kirell Benzi is a data artist. He holds a Ph.D. in Data Science from EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he teaches data visualization…

Katharina Rasch, Data scientist / Computer vision engineer, Self Employed

Bartosz Mikulski, Data Scientist, Pub Ocean

Bartosz has recently become a Data Scientist at Pub Ocean. Previously, he had been working as a backend engineer for over eight years..

Andreas Dewes, Co-Founder, KIProtect

Adam Janes, Fellow, Dalarub & Ettrich

Adam is a former Harvard Economist, programmer, and early-stage startup founder, who has taught data visualization to over 8,000 students on Udemy.

Azadeh Dindarian, Consultant and researcher, Freelancer

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…

Mattias Arro, Founder, Subspace AI

Mattias is the Founder of Subspace AI. He is a Machine learning engineer with more than ten years of software engineering experience…

Gunay Kazimzade, Doctoral Researcher on AI, Technical University of Berlin

Gunay Kazimzade is a Doctoral Researcher on Artificial Intelligence at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin…

Alana Range, Founder, Principal and Creative Director, Radish Lab

An award-winning journalist turned digital media producer, storyteller, and project manager of all things pixelated, Alana’s been in the industry for over 12 years…

Zinayida Kensche, Data Masseur, ex Dropnostix GmbH

Zinayida is a Data Scientist that has fun while digging the data and making customers happy supporting their insights with relevant data…

Fabian Abel, Director Data Science, XING

Fabian is developing recommender systems and other data-driven products at XING. In the past, he tried to make sense of Social Web data…

Sandra Rendgen, Author & consultant, freelance

Sandra is an author and editor with a focus on visual culture and technology. She has published four books about information graphics…

Carsten Roland, Founder, Earth Ratings

Carsten grew up in Namibia and moved to Europe in 2014. Looking for purpose in his work. he moved from Audit to Fintech but found much…

Aragats Amirkhanyan, GeoSpatial Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer, Yara International

Aragats holds a Diploma degree in ICT from St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. Since 2011 he worked as a software engineer at several IT companies…

Ole Bossdorf, Head of Business Intelligence, Project A Ventures

Ole is heading the Business Intelligence team of Project A, where he and his team turn raw data into real insights…

Uri Goren, Head of AI, Nym

An experienced data scientist, specializes in natural language processing. Organizer of PyData Tel-Aviv.

Vince Madai, Senior Medical AI Researcher at Charité, CSO, ai4medicine

Vince is  Senior Medical AI Researcher at Charité with an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience and an M.A. in Medical Ethics, and I am also CSO at ai4medicine. His focus includes AI-research, AI-ethics, data science, neuroimage post-processing and clinical research. He has been the scientific lead of the “Predictive Modelling in Medicine” research group

Lior Barak, Managing Partner, Tale about Data

Lior is the Managing Partner at Tale About Data and his focus has been on delivering holistic user-centric marketing data-driven reporting for easy decisions as well as business growth and improving interface ultimate driving customer satisfaction under the tight timelines and uncertainty constraints. He is passionate about transforming ‘big data’ into actionable insights, data automation,

Marc Weimer-Hablitzel, Principal, etventure

Marc Weimer-Hablitzel, pioneer of the data thinking methodology, founder of the DataHub.ruhr and principal at the digital consulting company etventure, is an expert for business driven data innovation…

Lea Dias, Co-Founder, Quaefacta

Lea is the Co-Founder of Quaefacta and has previously worked as a Strategy Consultant and Project Manager for tertiary healthcare facilities, achieving a proven track record…

Markus Zürn, Executive Director Marketing & Digital, A.T.U / Groupe Mobivia

Markus Zürn from South-West Germany graduated from the International Business School, IDRAC, in Paris. He continued to expand and deepen his expertise…

Tjasa Zajc, Business Development and Communications Manager, Better

A former journalist, still the author and host of the Faces of digital health podcast, she worked as a business developer for the healthcare blockchain startup Iryo…

Christoph Raethke, Founder, Berlin Startup Academy

Christoph is the founder of Berlin’s boutique accelerator program Berlin Startup Academy, and has been a startup founder, investor…

Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Founder, PlanA.Earth

Lubomila Jordanova is the founder and CEO of Plan A, the first data-driven action platform in the ght against climate change. Prior to Plan A she worked in the investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She holds a Master in Management degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Johannes Starlinger, Health Data Scientist & Digital Health Architect, Charite

Johannes Starlinger is a Health Data Researcher at the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin…

Stewart Rogers, Analyst-at-large, VentureBeat

Stewart Rogers has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and mentoring for the software and IT industries…

Lara Seemann, Product Owner , orderbird AG

Sebastian Niehaus, Machine Learning Engineer & Data Scientist, AICURA medical GmbH

Sebastian Niehaus is currently Data Science Lead at AICURA medical GmbH, where he works primarily on federated learning for healthcare applications…

Kareen Amin, Senior Data Engineer, IBM Deutschland

Developed a Big data solution architecture to support different business users including the Data Scientists. Implemented several Big Data use cases supporting the teams in the Data Engineering part of the pipeline….

Jasper Wognum, Co-Founder & CEO, BrainCreators

Since Jasper studied artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam in the mid-90’s he has led a number of successful technology startups including Hyves, Fashiolista and Looklive…

Helena Kauppila, Mathematician & Artist, Freelancer

Mathematician turned visual artist, Helena Kauppila is deeply fascinated by the mechanisms of learning and of generating knowledge and action.  Combining perspectives, and especially creating spaces for conversations and interactions,…

Catherine Bischoff, Chief Relationship Officer, Factory Berlin

I’m a hard core community builder coming from a background of complex stakeholder relations across continents, business and cultural divides.

Christina Lang, CEO , Tech4Germany

Josi Hübner, Student, Fridays For Future Berlin

Sarah Hambridge, TitlePrincipal Scientist and D3A Product Owner, Grid Singularity

Jessica Berlin, Founder & MD, coStruct

Jazmin Medrano, Transformational coach, Unfettered Living

Karolina Decker, CEO & Co-founder , FinMarie

Karolina is a CEO and Founder of FinMarie: the first online investment platform for women in Germany. With more than 10 years experience in banking and financial sector…

Jan Zawadzki, Project Lead Data & AI, Carmeq GmbH (Vokswagen Group)

Jan Zawadzki is an experienced Management Consultant and Data Scientist. Jan currently works in the realm of self-driving cars as a Project Lead Data & AI for Carmeq GmbH, the innovation vehicle of Volkswagen AG…

Kave Bulambo, Founder, MyCareerPath

Florent Kirchner, Cybersecurity Program Lead, CEA

Florent Kirchner is a senior scientist and the Director of the Cybersecurity Program of the List institute at CEA. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, where he designed and built interoperable proof systems…

Babajide Owoyele, Design Research/Creative Leadership/Digital Entrepreneurship, Hasso Plattner Institute

A peaceful design researcher, passionate about digital entrepreneurship and creative collaboration. Babajide has held research positions at Wuppertal Institute and ESA BIC and is currently…

Gary Sharkey, Global Sustainability / Smart Cities , PWC

Based in London, Gary splits his time between PwC’s sustainability and smart cities practices. Aligning to PwC’s purpose to ‘build trust in society and solve important problems…

Tom Nassr, Founder & CEO, Checkmate Digital

Tom is a serial entrepreneur with a background in philosophy. He is obsessed with the concept of ‘value’, and how digital platforms can create more ‘value’ for the people who use them. His expertise ranges from UX design, to business process automation, to social entrepreneurship business modeling…

NiMA Asghari, AI Ecosystem Development, Ocean Protocol

Maren Lesche, Founder and Ecosystem Expert, Startup Colors

I am a communicator and connector by heart. I am fascinated by new and innovative startup ideas and happy to support entrepreneurs growing their business. I am an ecosystem builder, mentor and match-maker. Co-Organizer of The HealthTech Innovation Day at SXSW 2019.

Daniel Knapp, Data, Insight & Innovation in Advertising, Twins Digital GmbH, IAB Europe

Dr. Mervyn G. Maistry, Founder & CEO, Konfid.io & Kintaro Capital

Johannes Haupt, Data Scientist & PhD candidate at Humboldt-University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin

Krish Menon, Hardskills Pte Ltd, Co-Founder

Surya Emmylinda, Data Strategy Director, Heimat & TBWA

Surya started the analytics discipline in Singapore, at a business intelligence agency where she helped brands gain insight from social conversations. Shortly after, she joined TBWA\ Digital Arts Network (DAN) Singapore…

Christine Mohan, Co-Founder, Blue Firefly

Christine Mohan has 20+ years of experience in software platforms and digital media, working for startups and corporates including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal…

Marc Preusche, Managing Director, Dept

Andrii Kleshchonok, Data Scientist, Volkswagen Data:Lab

Being theoretical Physicist by training, I switched to the Data Science and joined the Volkswagen Data:Lab in Munich. My specialization is machine learning applied to engineering and production problems with focus on deep learning, Bayesian neural nets, time series analysis and computer vision.

Juri Stobbe, Managing Partner , Taival Germany

Manuel Friedrich, Clustermanager IKT, Medien und Kreativwirtschaft, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH

Dr. Adam Streck, Research Engineer, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

Aljoscha Burchardt, Deputy Site Director Berlin , Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)

Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, TU Berlin

Toby Walsh is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University, Berlin and UNSW, Sydney. He is winner of the Humboldt award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science…

Lina Yassin, Lead Agile Coach, Delivery Hero SE

Dr. Lina Yassin is a neuroscientist, researcher and Agile enabler. Dr. Yassin is passionate at solving problems by posing and validating hypothesis. In her current job at Delivery Hero, she leads the Agile chapter at Pandora’s Product and Tech Consumer department. Helping scale the team and push growth, through self-organization towards team performance and productively.

Dr. Sören S.Petersen, Machine Learning Specialist, Google

In his role as a Machine Learning Product Specialist, Dr. Sören Simon Petersen is responsible for consulting a wide range of Machine Learning and Cloud Computing customer projects in EMEA. Bridging the gap between AI and Data Engineering to solve impactful problems is what Sören is passionate about.

Martin Heuer, Project Manager, Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. / r0g_agency

Hi, I’m Martin Häuer, people call me ‘Moe’, engineer, board member of OSE Germany e.V. Currently I’m coordinating the creation of the first (German) standard under an open source license…

Dr. Alexander Del Toro Barba, Machine Learning Specialist , Google

My passion is machine learning at the intersection of business, mathematics & technology, where I‘m focused on lean product-driven applications, as well as advanced machine learning to help customers to transform their business with Google Cloud solutions. I complement this entrepreneurial mind with passion for research in machine intelligence, where I successfully finished a PhD.

Nadine Brehm, Sales Leader IBM Cloud PAK for Data & Big Data, IBM Deutschland

Maximilian von Duering, Founder & CCO, AiSight GmbH

Nadja Benes, Content Strategy, dashdash

Nadja Beneš is a passionate brand strategist and marketer who’s at home in the startup world. From San Francisco to Berlin, she helps early-stage tech companies make complex products…

Anish Mohammed, Blockchain Researcher , Institute of Information Systems

Technologist with multidisciplinary background who is passionate about technology. Over the years have been involved in architecting/building micropayments, reinsurance hubs, big data platforms for banking among other things. Have worked as researcher in security/cryptography both in industry and academia, with deep expertise in Blockchain and Cryptography. Currently focusing on Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics.

Dr. Richard Schubert, Physicist and 3D-Artist, Max Planck Alumni Association (MPAA)

Dr. Richard Schubert, born in Hof/Germany, studied physics in Bayreuth (Germany) and Grenoble (France). He made his PhD in the area of nuclear fusion at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics…

Magdalena Paluch, Co-Founder & CEO , LabTwin

Tina Nord, Director of Marketing / Ambassador , Ultimate.ai / Woman in AI

Tina Nord is a communication economist and AI expert from Berlin. She is currently driving the growth of one of Europe’s top start-ups – ultimate.ai – as Director of Marketing. Tina represents the non-profit Do-Tank women in AI (Wai) as ambassador for Germany. Their goal is a greater representation and participation of women in artificial intelligence. As

Caroline Lair, Account Manager / Co-founder, Snips / Women in AI

Mustapha Al Helwi, Innovation Manager, HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH

Christopher Treshan Perera, Political Technologist & CEO, Worldacquire

Chris helps political, government and impact organizations apply digital, data and A.I. technology effectively…

Diane Drubay, Founder, We are Museums

Diane Drubay accelerates the transformation of museums internationally since 2007 with her vision of a future respectful of people and the planet empowered by museums. Today, her main spearheads are around the climate crisis and data openness.  Her values inspired the creation of the movement We Are Museums, a community of museums professionals working towards

Marie-Louise Timcke, Programming Journalist, Head of Funke Interaktiv , Funke Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA / Berliner Morgenpost

Marie‐Louise Timcke is a programming journalist and heads the department “Interaktiv” of Funke Mediengruppe. Together with an interdisciplinary team of developers, designers and journalists she uses new research methods and visual narrative forms. From her studies of data journalism at the TU Dortmund University she founded Journocode, an initiative for more data literacy and IT

Vaibhav Singh, Data Science Manager , Klarna GmbH

Louis Klein, International Expert, Thought and Practice Leader, Systemic Governance and Change

Winston Barlow, Innovation Team , HELLA Aglaia | DEEP BERLIN

Carla Penedo, Analytics Manager, Celfocus

Carla Penedo is leading a Cognitive Automation business offer at Celfocus, a company that empowers innovation for telecoms. She is focused on the creation of actionable AI solutions to drive the maximum benefits to the organizations.

Matthias Bettag, Senior Data Strategist, ODOSCOPE

Dr. Frank Antwerpes, CEO, DocCheck AG

The CEO of DocCheck AG and Chairman of the Board of antwerpes ag is a doctor and dentist. During his studies he worked as freelance copywriter and conceptual designer for advertising agencies and industrial companies…

Sven Schaltenbrand, Head of Data Analytics, S Rating und Risikosysteme GmbH

David Tomczyk, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Game Design , ex-Nasa, Quinnipiac University

Dave is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Game Design at Quinnipiac University. Before teaching at QU, Dave had a very varied career, working at numerous positions at NASA…

Charlotte Seiler, Innovation Manager, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH

Dr. Saskia Ostendorff, Co-Founder & Chairwoman, Open Justice e.V.

“One of my biggest goals is to strengthen women’s rights and work for equality in society, as well as to ensure access to justice for everyone.” Dr. Saskia Ostendorff is a lawyer from Berlin specializing in personality rights, new technologies and the legal challenges of digital transformation in law. She is a keynote speaker for digital

Maureen Mutheu, Host / Presenter, Tech Open Air

Mali Baum, CEO & Founding Partner, Wlounge & Magda Group FoF

Luca Borela, Financial Economist, Advocate of Open Banking, Loan-level Data Specialist, Open Bank Project

Kazim Rajani, Manager Client Services, Data One Technologies

Kazim Rajani is Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and BI & analytics professional, with over 15 years of experience in BI & analytics, OLAP, design & integration & digital product management. He has expertise in IBM TM1, Azure, AWS, Power BI suite, various flavors of SQL, DAX, Python and R. He has presented tech talks at

Joerg Geier, Consultant for Sustainable Innovation/Capacity Building, Lucid.Berlin

Yolanda Rother, International Conference Curator, Community Activator, Speaker, Moderator, re:publica

Yolanda Rother is a Berlin-based international conference curator. She has a Master’s in Public Policy and is a design thinker. Her work focuses on open government, digital policy, identity politics and developmental issues. Yolanda lived in the USA, France and Brazil and currently leads international projects at re:publica.

Elena Pougia, Founder & CEO, MD, Datanatives, Dataconomy

Elena is a creative and practical purpose-driven professional, with an entrepreneurial mindset and a demonstrated experience of working in art, tech and business in the last decade. She has worked for established galleries and pioneering institutions co-founded an events company and an art publication before founding Data Natives. She is particularly committed to supporting womxn

Marco Rodriguez, Data Scientist, Prometeo

Marco Rodriguez is a Technical Computer Engineer, certified in Lean, currently studying a Master of Data Scientist and with 20 years of experience in the technological field. He began his career at Soluziona as a program analyst at a software factory. Later he directed his career to the field of consulting where he carried out

Karolina Attspodina, Founding Partner & CIO, Wlounge

Karolina has 10 years’ experience in business management and tech heavy B2B SaaS companies. She is a former Co-Founder of the #1 conference TargetSummit which took over the Eastern European markets with a focus on mobile app products & marketing. The company was built from 0 to 100 without any 3rd party investments. Karolina is

Marianna Lewitanus, Founder & CEO, AMYT Brand Studio

Mariana Lewitanus is the founder of AMYT – a Berlin-based brand studio focusing on digital branding and innovative brand implementation. After her Master graduation in Media Studies from TU Braunschweig & HBK Braunschweig, she started her brand building experiences in the E-commerce & Start-Up scene of Berlin. Data & Tech driven companies are her forever

Mark Mattingley-Scott, IBMQ Ambassador EMEA, IBM Deutschland

Mark Mattingley-Scott has a Bachelor of Science with Joint Honours in Computing and Electronics, and a Doctor of Philosophy on the subject of Code Division Multiple Access Local Area Networks from the University of Durham, combined with 34 years experience in the commercial exploitation of technology and research. As a Principal at IBM he is

Deborshi Seal, Art-Tech Entrepreneur, Freelance

 I studied Liberal Arts for my Bachelors (interdisciplinary degree, with a focus on Theology and Math) and have been passionate about an interdisciplinary approach towards fostering creativity. My work at Fraugster (first business employee at Berlin based enterprise AI company) put me in close quarters with emerging technologies like Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, etc. As

Felix Irmer, Research associate, Data Journalist, Institute of Communication and Media Studies of Leipzig University

Felix Irmer is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies of Leipzig University. At the journalism department, he researches data-driven reporting and its organizational structures and processes.

Derk Marseille, Creative content and team, Tothem.co

As experienced journalist and storyteller Derk Marseille has moderated more than 150 live events in the fields of tech, music, media and art in the past 5 years. Conferences such as Lange Nacht der Startups (Deutsche Telekom), Hub conference (Bitkom) and Startup Focus (SAP) have engaged him multiple times for his energetic style of moderating

Markus Kett, Co-Founder & CEO , MicroStream Software GmbH

Markus is a Java developer since 20 years. He is the project lead of the free Eclipse distribution RapidClipse, editor in chief for the free JAVAPRO magazine, co-organizer of the Java conference JCON in Duesseldorf, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of MicroStream, and well known as editor and speaker at many developer conferences and meetups.

Brad Cordova, CEO, Canotic Inc

Brad Cordova, is the CEO of Canotic. Previously founder of TrueMotion (150 person AI company), MIT PhD in AI, Forbes 30 under 30, String Theory @ Caltech/CERN.

Yossi Amon, Portfolio Management Director, Prytek

Dr. Andreas Wierse, Managing Director, SICOS BW GmbH

Dr. Andreas Wierse acts since 2011 as Managing Director of SICOS BW GmbH, located in Stuttgart. The company was founded by the University of Stuttgart and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to support small and medium sized enterprises in the uptake of smart data technology and is financially supported significantly by the ministry for

John Calian, SVP & Head of T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom

Mr. Calian is a Senior Vice President at Deutsche Telekom AG, and the Head of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) in Berlin, a group of some 300 experts & scientists (+ entrepreneurs) from a variety of disciplines, from more than 25 nations all working together at T-Labs. Additionally, Mr. Calian co-founded and leads all product

Wladimir Nikoluk, Chief Executive, ImmerLearn

Wladimir Nikoluk is the CEO of ImmerLearn, a mission-driven data analytics company supporting nonprofit organizations, UN agencies, and impact investors to measure social impact, predict impact-critical events and better understand people’s needs through ethical data and machine learning systems. Wladimir holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was