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Megan Thudium is an American B2B content strategist and climate communicator working in Berlin, founder of Content For Good & Co. She works primarily with innovative climate brands and B Corps in Germany and Europe. She also actively brings awareness to the ‘marketing as a force for good’ movement through workshops and speaking engagements. She openly advocates for sustainable marketing and encourages creatives and marketers to step into the ‘ecomarketer’ role with enthusiasm and confidence.

Books: Forecasting government budgets and Megadeals (2020) Investor in 15 companies, lead investor in 8 of them (scale-ups in cleantech and SaaS) Founder of Mine storage, Retain24, Taxisystem, Vendemore, and Megadeals. Prosales Chief Commercial Officer of the year 2018. Climeon order intake 3-90 MUSD in two years. Mission, Expertise & Accomplishments: Help companies, their great innovations and most important people (Rainmakers) go to market and scale faster with less resources than traditionally tactics.

Sophia is CMO at 1KOMMA5°, platform for carbon neutral energy, heat and mobility. She is business psychologist, author and has been shaping innovation in the digital energy and mobility environment for 15 yrs. As CEO, she founded & managed the blockchain company bloXmove, which was created following a management buy-out with Mercedes-Benz. Here, at the car manufacturer, Sophia’s career began in management positions around startup investment, EV charging and digital transformation. Sophia was a bitkom board member & advised politicians on blockchain issues & is involved as an international keynote speaker, podcast host and moderator at events such as TEDx, slush, websummit, OMR.

I have been working in the cement industry for over 20 years. Originally from a process chemistry background, I have been interacting with cement customers and developing new solutions with and for them – initially the focus was on minimizing the cost of operations, but recently the discussions have shifted to reducing emissions as well.

Managing Director at Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) in the direct infrastructure investment team in Munich, Germany. Joined ACP in 2012 and has worked on multiple infrastructure transactions in different sectors across various geographies. ​Current focus is on development of infrastructure investment opportunities in the area of energy transition. Led and is responsible for ACP’s first two direct investment in the sector: Finnish green power-to-gas developer Ren-Gas in 2022 and Norwegian green ammonia project developer FUELLA in 2023.​

Maikel has been developing impact tech for datacenters & digital infrastructure for over 15 years. His expertise covers innovation, product and growth management, with strategic partnerships at the core. Since 2017 at the Dutch scale up Asperitas, thermal management for datacenters and compute infrastructure since 2017.He has been involved and lead more than 15 public-private innovation projects both national and EU, currently one of the leaders of the Modular Integrated Sustainable Datacenter Project in the 8ra (IPCEI-CIS) program.

Jessica Hyman is the Head of Sustainability at Atlassian. She is responsible for Atlassian’s sustainability strategy including ESG Reporting, Climate and Human Rights. Previously, Jessica led Global Operations for Business for Social responsibility (BSR). She has been involved in Atlassian’s Foundation and Pledge 1% programs and leads a Women in Tech mentoring group in San Francisco.

Studied in Munich, Frankfurt a.M., Lyon (France), Bath (UK), Seattle (USA) and Berlin. Working for Autobahn since 2019.

Member of Alliance 90/The Greens since 2009; 2010 to 2011 member of the state board of the Green Youth Berlin; 2011 to 2014 member of the federal board of the Green Youth, most recently as federal spokesperson; 2016 to 2018 spokesperson for the Duisburg district association of Alliance 90/The Greens; from 2018 to 2022: state chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens North Rhine-Westphalia. Federal chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens since November 2024.

Albert Cheung serves as Deputy CEO of BloombergNEF, a leading provider of primary research on commodities and the low-carbon transition. He also oversees BNEF’s research on the global low-carbon transition, including clean energy, transport, industry, technology, agriculture and sustainable finance, providing strategic oversight and managing the development and delivery of BNEF’s global research agenda. Albert and his team work closely with corporates, financial institutions and policymakers across the globe, supporting them as they navigate the transition towards a cleaner future.