DN22 SPEAKERS

Will Hurley aka whurley, CEO 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.

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 Masters in Public Policy with a focus on quantitative methods

Ashwin Ravikumar, Head of Startups at CERN

Ash manages all startup activities for CERN – to create more deep tech startups from CERN and to support startups that can use CERN technology and know-how. He has worked at technology transfer from research institutes in US and Australia.

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 of outstanding makers responsible for driving innovative and creative technical

Paula Schwarz, Founder at NFTs4Refugees

Claire Lebarz, Head of Guest Data Science at Airbnb

She has 10+ years of experience in data engineering, advanced inference and machine learning.

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 Germany. She currently works as Lead Data Analytics at Axel

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 technical capacity in the social sector. She currently serves as

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 amazing cross functional team. My strongest focus is on recommendation

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 Capital Magazine). She is Director of Client Engineering at IBM,

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 data science projects. He was previously a senior data scientist

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 way we use it to make decisions

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…

Samuel King, Co-Founder & CTO at Briink

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…

Nasrin Saef, Head of Machine Learning at frogs42

Thorsten Dittmar, Initiator and Director at polypoly

Thorsten is technologist, entrepreneur, mentor and social impact investor for over thirty years. He has worked as a C-level management consultant in several European Fortune 500 companies.

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 GmbH a Berlin based company with the mission to empower

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 of machine learning models. Earlier, she co-founded an industrial AI

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…

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…

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 learning and science to enable businesses to reduce their emissions

Lex Gillon, CEO & Co-Founder at Modality Group

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 create apps without coding skills on his NoCode YouTube channel

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…

Danko Nikolić, Head of Data Science and AI at evocenta GmbH

Danko is a neuroscientist and AI practitioner. Author.

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 digital growth strategies and new market entries with their tech

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 stack, and working as a technical authority for the engineering

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 & external reports, timely & effectively management of the various project

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 obey me”. To be more specific, he is a software

Idil Serifoglu, Creative Producer at Betahaus

Actively involved in scouting & onboarding processes, analysing the data of different phases of the projects, preparation of internal & external reports, timely & effectively management of the various project

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 and did research on the explainability of Deep Learning models

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 data for application to urban challenges operating within cities in

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 is to minimize the downside impacts of risk contributed by

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

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, in which all actors are connected & able to work

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 with creative, tech and business teams regarding data and design

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. in Scientific Computing from FU Berlin (with focus on machine

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 a team 50 people spread across Europe dedicated to building

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 solutions on a global scale. She was a business strategy

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 and talent on a mission to help companies transition towards

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, learned LISP and Prolog in a George Soros computer class.

Marc Biemer, Senior Digital Product Designer at Alva Labs

Marc is a designer with a deep passion for soldering electronics and cracking numbers in python. His work bridges creative expression and empirical research to design emotionally meaningful experiences. Besides

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. Freelancing for the last two years, now building a medical

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 world. I write, I produce a podcast and I strategize

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 science books, built up technical evangelism for Amazon Web Services

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 WhereIsMyTransport

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 MIT

Andrea Bravo is an expert on data visualization, user experience (UX), and ethics in the metaverse. She is involved in immersive technologies’ human and societal implications, leading a brief on

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…

Benjamin Djidi, CEO at PatternsPopsink

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.

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.

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 technology in the fashion industry and connecting digitalization with sustainability

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 and 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 and 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.

Fabian Rang, CTO & Co-Founder at paretos

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 more than 10 years in data projects in all sorts

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 help us create better data products and tackle complexity, or

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.

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 credit bureau. He previously founded UK fintech Satago, and also

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 Brain-Computer Interfaces and reactive audiovisuals. Parting from the fields of

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.

Vinicius Ribeiro, Head of Intelligence at Cartesi

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Christine Mohan, Vice President of Business Development at KILT Protocol

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…

Elena Poughia, Founder & CEO, MD at 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

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 research in Astrophysics. In her free time, she volunteers as

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 AI. She brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise,

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 Initiatives.

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 championing diversity and inclusion from the get-go. Caroline obtained her

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.

Michael Burkhardt, CMO, Founding Member at Omdena

Just exploring life and helping to grow Omdena to the world´s largest collaborative platform for impact-driven AI.

Kristina Leipold, Commercial Director at Light Art Space gGmbH

Kristina has been working at the intersection of arts and technology for over 15 years through which she gained a deep understanding of the potential when both worlds come together.

Cecilia MoSze Tham, Founder and Director at Futurity Systems

Cecilia works in the intersection of technology, business, design and impact. Currently founder and principal of Futurity Systems

Nick Meehan, Chair, Artistic Director at Berlin Institute for Sound and Music | Berlin ISM

Nicholas Meehan is a Berlin-based American artist, technologist, sound designer, founding chairman and Artistic Director of Berlin ISM e.V. in Berlin

Gaspard Peduzzi, CEO at APWine

Gaspard is the CEO of APWine, leading the protocol design and developement. Passionate about trustless & censorship-resistant systems

Enes Hosgor, CEO & Founder at Gesund.ai

Dr. Enes Hosgor is an engineer by training and an AI entrepreneur by trade driven to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs having built AI products and companies in the last 10+ years in high compliance environments.

Elizabeth Taylor, Founder at Future Brain Trust

“Elizabeth is the founder of the Future Brain Trust, an initiative focused on the re-visioning of human culture.

Su-Zeong Fröhlich, Founder at Visiblr

Artist, Physician and Founder of Visiblr, a web 3 platform where they want to make invisible aspects of women’s lives visible.

Johannes Bittel, Senior Innovation Manager at Deutsche Bahn

Johannes Bittel (M.Sc.) has over 10 years of experience in the areas of Corporate Innovation and Startup Entrepreneurship.

Emily Jordan, COO & Cofounder at Ancora.ai

She has spent her career working at the intersection of healthcare and technology in 3 countries, and has a passion for improving diversity and representation in the healthcare ecosystem both for patients and professionals.

Sarah Finegan, Director at Antler

Embracing her passion for entrepreneurship and tech innovation, she continuously screens and invests in early-stage ventures.

Michael Messele, CEO at Pillar Project

Michael Messele is a co-founder and CEO of Pillar Project, the leading open source, non-custodial, and community owned crypto wallet that facilitates seamless access to markets, DEXs and provides storage for crypto assets across multiple chains.

Diego Siguelnitzky, Investment Manager at APX

Chilean early-stage VC investing in pre-seed startups across Europe with a sweet spot in fintech, web3 and consumer tech.

Maximilian Werk, Head of Engineering at Jina AI

The combination of high quality engineering, digging into data & algorithms and solving real-world problems thrills me.

Flavio Deroo, Staff Software Engineer at Solaris

Seasoned software lead with more than 10 years of experience designing, building and operating banking software products at scale

Mina Luetkens, Founder & Managing Director at Patients4Digital gGmbH

Mina Luetkens is Managing Partner of Patients4Digital (P4D), a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering citizens and patients in the digital health marketplace.

Kim Zietlow, Director at FDI Center

Dr. Kim J. Zietlow is Director at FDI Center, where he focuses on project delivery, business development and global representation.

Maurice Beckand Verwee, Partner at Curiosity VC

Investor in seed, series A stage AI and ML companies in the Benelux, Nordics and Baltics

Axel Koehler, Principal Solution Architect at NVIDIA

Axel Koehler is Principal Solution Architect at NVIDIA. He has been with NVIDIA since January 2011.

Aleksandr Sergeev, CEO at nGrow, Inc.

CEO&founder, CMO/CDO largest eastern european IT ecosystem

Georg Rollmann, Head of Advanced Analytics & AI at Siemens Energy

Today responsible for Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at Siemens Energy, heading a global team of experts to enable the transformation towards sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy.

Nick Jetten, Co-founder at Deeploy

Co-founder of responsible AI platform Deeploy.

Yang Yang, Investment & Research at IOSG Ventures

Investment manager at IOSG Ventures. Yang reviews Infrastructure, zk, MEV, and data related projects at IOSG.

Eran Shlomo, CEO at Dataloop.ai

Eran held key positions in Intel’s processor division over 13 years and has global expertise in computing and information processing architecture.

Michal Ptáčník, Minister of Justice at Liberland

Michal currently works in Exact, a tech corp, the market leader in business software in the Netherlands.

Umberto Minora, Project Officer at Joint Research Centre - European Commission

Umberto Minora is a Data Scientist of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Varese (Italy).

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…

Nicole Büttner, CEO at Merantix Momentum

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…

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 for diversity and inclusion. Moojan has founded the global nonprofit

Marlene Ronstedt, Co-founder at Data Union DAO

Marlene Ronstedt is the co-founder of the Data Union DAO. Previously, she’s been working in various project management and communication roles in Web3, crypto and fintech.

Nicholas Borsotto Machado Monteiro, WW Manager for AI Alliances at Lenovo

Nicholas Borsotto is the WW Manager for AI Alliances at Lenovo, responsible for building their full-stack ecosystem of AI partners and ensuring their combined efforts translated into end-to-end AI deployments.

Daniela Marzavan, Change Darer at Change Darer

Daniela Marzavan is a polyglot lecturer and a ‘pracademic’:Half practitioner, half academic.

Michael Burgess, COO at Moonstake

I’m a professional speaker, you can learn more about me on my speaker page although I’ve taken a long pandemic pause.

Stewart Rogers, Editor-at-large at Dataconomy

Stewart Rogers is a journalist, analyst, public speaker, author, startup founder, musician, and “digital nomad.” Rogers is best known for his speeches and work on mental health in the tech

Alice Piterova, Product Principal at ustwo

Robert Quarshie, Sales Manager at Quantpaper

Quantpaper is a startup company building an insights platform for discovering personalized news about technology adoption and maturity tailored to your innovation needs. I’m the sales partner responsible for its

Daniel Pavlicek, Lead Data Scientist at Panos.AI

Mathematician turned into a lead data scientist with experiences from computer vision to natural language processing, interested in pushing the boundaries of AI. Startup team Panos.AI is part of Applied

Frank Spangenberg, Business & Product Owner at Panos.AI

Visionary in the area of intelligent process automation with more than a decade of product, consulting and project experience. Startup team Panos.AI is part of Applied Data Incubator in Berlin.

Barak Shalom, Data Scientist and Co-Founder at ClearCO2

Barak Shalom is a data enthusiast with a strong computational background and experience in project management. Experienced in using machine learning methods, statistical inference and various bioinformatics tools with large

Joerg Geier, Partner at PDIE Group

Joerg Geier is a partner at PDIE Group, an agency offering consulting, research, and ecosystem building services in the areas of sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. Joerg has lived and worked

Ben V Butler, Marketing and Communications Manager at Applied Data Incubator

A storyteller who likes nothing more than showcasing startups and innovation in the world of data and beyond. Ben is the Marketing and Communications Manager for Applied Data Incubator. Supported

Viivi Lähteenoja, Chair of the board, Senior data strategist at MyData Global, 1001 Lakes

Viivi is a data, policy, and ethics researcher and professional. She has experience working towards human-centric and ethically sound personal data benefits for people and societies in nonprofit, academic, public

Rupert Steffner, CEO at WUNDER

Rupert Steffner is the founder of WUNDER, a cognitive AI startup that is helping brands to attract and engage customers with gamified commerce. Rupert has over 25 years of experience

Robert D. Brunner, MEditor at B'IMPRESS

How to enrich your CRM data with extended information quickly finding the person in the function and position you need. GDPR-conform. #AI #SMM #Marketing #webinar Learn, how to enrich your

Anne Schönauer, Project Lead at 2 Degrees Investing Initiative Deutschland e.V.

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Filip Martinsson, COO at Moralis

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Jupiter Bakakeu, Data Scientist at Alteryx Inc.

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Clara Rodriguez Fernandez, Deeptech Reporter at Sifted

With a background in biotechnology research, Clara covers deep tech topics for Sifted ranging from quantum computing and artificial intelligence to drug discovery and climate tech.

Ana Chubinidze, Founder/CEO at AdalanAI

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Anna Blume, Co-founder at ClearCO2

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Alexis Fourlis, R&D Project Manager at VIDAVO S.A.

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Berkay Kabay, Project Lead at IntellIot

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Sylvie Chin, CEO and Co-Founder at ClearCO2

Entrepreneur with 20 years experience in food, financial services and technology, ranging from SaaS software to eCommerce logistics powered by compliance and trust in product information using innovative technologies to

Jakub Bares, CTO and Co-Founder at Quantpaper

Senior AI architect specializing in NLP, GNNs and knowledge graph completion with 20+ completed projects and 50+ hackathons attended (15+ TOP 3s). At Quantpaper, Jakub is building a technology market

Nikos Frangakis, Director of Innovation at iKnowHow SA

Nikos Frangakis is an experienced project manager with more than 15 years of national and international project management and coordination with teams of up to 50 persons. He holds a

Konstantinos Fysarakis, Chief Technology Officer at Sphynx Analytics Ltd

Konstantinos is the Chief Technology Officer of Sphynx Analytics Ltd, working on research projects such as IntellIoT (developing a novel trustworthy framework for human-defined autonomy, tailored to intelligent IoT environments

Natalia Mejía, Researcher and Data Analyst at SeeMe Health

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Aswin Pyakurel, Data Scientist at Nubri

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Sebastian Schwenke, Managing Director at Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.

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Ralph Riecke, Investment Manager at Porsche Ventures

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Jérémy Lemée, Research Assistant at University of St. Gallen

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Nicola Dorigatti, Senior Engineer, Head of R&D Lab at Trilogis Srl

Works in the GIS domain for over ten years, strong technical skills and currently leading and mentoring junior engineers. Focusing on KPIs and how to extract value from the amount

Sławomir Paśko, CEO at Neti

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Kristine Tarvida, CEO at Latvian Business Angel Network

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Viola Hasani, Customer Success Lead / Co-Founder at Sustamize

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Katharina Beitz, Founder at Beitz.

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Peter Moll, Dr., CEO at science development

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Sander Gansen, CEO at Supplain

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David Braun, CEO & Founder at MindWell Foundation

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Alicia Mehl, Medical Product Lead, Data & Insights at Ada Health Gmbh

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Franziska Heine, Executive Director at Wikimedia Deutschland

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Liz Brandt, CEO at Ctrl-Shift

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Jakob Zwiers, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH at Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH

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Verena Dittmer, Machine Learning Engineer at enliteAI

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Daniel Hastik, Partner at Tensor Ventures

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Susmit Lavania, Tech Co Founder at Huddle01

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Jantine Derksen, Web3 / Blockchain Advisor at Jantinine

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Robin Lehmann, Founder at DataUnion

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Ariane Morassi Sasso, Digital Health Researcher | Biomedical Data Scientist at Digital Health Center @ Hasso Plattner Institute

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Eyal Matzkel, Senior Director of Engineering at AVIV Group

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Torben Nagel, Co-Founder at Tyreos Asset Universe

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Hendrik Nehnes, CTO and Co-Founder at Tilores

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Louis Klein, Secretary General at International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR)

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John Hurley, Vice President Product Marketing at Amplitude

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Lisa Carpenter, Data Science Instructor Lead at Digital Futures

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Jonas Sommer, Seed Investor at btov Partners

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ROMAN LIPSKI, Quantum Blur artist at romanlipski.com

Polish born, Berlin based painter Roman Lipski (b. Nowy Dwór Gdański, Poland, 1969) is a pioneer in the field of quantum art thanks to his collaboration with Quantum scientists Dr.

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Leveraging crypto for the climate to bring transparency and democracy to environmentally-positive projects