GREENTECH FESTIVAL SPEAKERS 2021

Beth is an internationally respected environmental leader and advocate. She joined Patagonia from her position as Deputy Chief Executive at Client Earth, an environmental NGO with a unique approach – using the power of the law to create systemic change.
In response to the widespread suffering caused by Covid, in 2020, Beth used her spare time to initiate and lead a team of volunteers from across the nature sector to develop the National Nature Service: a programme to tackle the problems of nature’s decline and rising unemployment. Prior to ClientEarth, Beth spent four years at the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, as Director of Fundraising and Communications.

Vanessa started her activism in 2019, when she began a solitary strike after becoming concerned with unusually high temperatures in her home country. Vanessa has since been outspoken about a variety of climate issues. Vanessa initiated a project, instaling solar panels and institutional cooking stoves in schools. Reducing the amount of used firewood, cutting down emissions and ensuring clean cooking also enables learning experiences for students, their parents and teachers about the importance of protecting the planet.

Frans Timmermans began his career with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1987. After taking part in the junior diplomat training programme, he worked at the European Integration Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow. He later worked for Hans van den Broek, European Commissioner for External Relations, and Max van der Stoel, High Commissioner on National Minorities for the OSCE.
In 1998, Frans Timmermans was elected as a member of the House of Representatives for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), where he dealt principally with foreign affairs. In the fourth Balkenende government, from February 2007 to February 2010, Mr Timmermans was Minister for European Affairs. In 2010, Mr Timmermans returned to Parliament as the Labour Party’s spokesperson on foreign policy.
On 5 November 2012, Mr Timmermans became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second Rutte government. Two years later, on 1 November 2014, he became First Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for better regulation, interinstitutional relations, sustainable development, the rule of law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Since 1 December 2019, he is the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for the Green Deal.

Dr. James Rogers is Founder and CEO of Apeel Sciences, a company that’s fighting the global food waste crisis by using materials found in nature to help food last longer — a sustainable approach to the world’s growing food demands. James leads corporate strategy and Apeel’s team of award-winning scientists in developing plant-based technologies that keep fruits and vegetables fresh two to three times longer. James received dual undergraduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also received his MS in Economics. In 2020, James was named a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader” for addressing climate change, world hunger, and sustainable food systems.

Boris Herrmann is a professional offshore sailor from Hamburg. On 8th November 2020 Boris set off on the Vendee Globe, a solo non-stop race around the globe as the first German to ever attempt this mission. He arrived after 80 days at sea, sailing through the Southern Ocean in the toughest conditions in the world and completed this emission free. The team’s main mission is to create awareness around climate change and solutions. He carries the message A Race We Must Win on his sails and is furthering scientific knowledge on all his sailing missions with an onboard laboratory.

Dr. Sabine Mauderer has been Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2018. She is responsible for the Directorates Markets and Human Resources. In this capacity, she is a member of the Steering Committee of the “Central banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)”. Prior to her current responsibilities, she held several senior positions at the KfW Banking group and worked as a senior adviser at the Federal Ministry of Finance as well as the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. Sabine Mauderer graduated in law, holds a PhD by the Osnabrück University and an Executive MBA by the ESSEC & Mannheim Business School.

Cees joined OVG Real Estate 10 years ago to be the head of the Sustainability Center. His first project was the first LEED Platinum TNT HQ and the first sustainable lab/office/factory, the Danone Innovation Center, both initiated by his team. The well-known office building The Edge in Amsterdam was the best example of smart and sustainable development and become a blueprint of the future of working and according to BREEAM, the most sustainable office building in the world. Today Cees is one of the initiators of the new company EDGE, a tech scale-up of OVG. With over 15 healthy, sustainable and tech EDGE buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London and the US, this seems to be the answer to disruption in the global real estate market.

Nico Rosberg is well-known as the 2016 Formula 1 World Champion. Since leaving the racing series, he is passionately committed to the issue of sustainability. As an entrepreneur and investor in green technologies and mobility startups, he represents visionary innovations that make the world a little better. In numerous projects around the world, he also contributes to the topic of environmental protection, health, equality and justice. In 2019, he co-founded the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, a global platform for pioneering sustainable ideas that takes place annually in Berlin. Since 2021, he has been competing with Rosberg X Racing in Extreme E, a racing series that aims to draw attention to the consequences of global climate change.

Since 1 September 2019, Philipp Rickenbacher has been CEO of Julius Baer Group Ltd. and Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. Philipp Rickenbacher joined Julius Baer in 2004 and subsequently held various senior leadership roles, including the responsibility for the Structured Products area. In 2016, he was appointed to the Bank’s Executive Board and became Head Advisory Solutions. From January until the end of August 2019, he was Head Intermediaries & Global Custody and Member of the Bank’s Executive Board. Before joining Julius Baer, he was employed with McKinsey & Company in Zurich and London from 1997 to 2004, amongst others as Associate Principal. Philipp Rickenbacher holds a Master of Science in Biotechnology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Swiss Finance Institute and of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products and supply chain. In this role, Kate coordinates with Google’s data centers, real estate, supply chain, and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability.
Previously Kate served as the Nation’s first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across Federal Government operations.
Prior to the White House, Kate held several senior roles in U.S. Federal Government including Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy, Director for Energy and Environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, and Energy Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy.

Melati Wijsen is a 20 year old full-time changemaker. She founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister and has been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013. She also started the people movement One Island One Voice and the social enterprise, Mountain Mamas. Melati has spoken on world stages such as TED and the UN and has also been selected as FORBES top ten most inspiring women in the country. She has been honoured by TIME as part of the annual list of most influential teens in the world along with CNN Heroes Young Wonders and FORBES 30 under 30. Today, Melati is excited about her new youth empowerment project; YOUTHTOPIA, empowering youth through meaningful and short peer to peer programs and providing them the tools they need to be change makers.

The former Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany led the Green Party in its first participation in government, both at the state (Hessen) and federal levels. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Fischer held a professorship at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University (US). Mr. Fischer is a managing partner and founding partner of Joschka Fischer and Company, the political strategy consultancy for companies, organizations and their decision-makers in times of change.

Mark Post is an MD, PhD and professor of Sustainable Industrial Tissue Engineering at Maastricht University. His main research interest is the engineering of tissues for medical applications and consumer products, which has led to the development of cultured beef from bovine skeletal muscle stem cells in an effort to supplement and transform the traditional meat production through livestock. In August 2013, he presented the world’s first hamburger from cultured beef. He is CSO and co-founder of two companies, MosaMeat and Qorium that will commercialize cultured meat and cultured leather.

Born in 1969, she graduated from Bielefeld University and received a doctorate in Psychology.
She began her career in the management of a medium-sized company in Bielefeld, and joined Deutsche Bahn in 1996. Her work took her to Dresden and Frankfurt, until she settled for freight transport in Duisburg/Cologne and Mainz, initially as the Head of Human Resources.
She was soon appointed Head of Production and became spokeswoman for the management of block train transport in Mainz. Subsequently, she held the position of Board Member for Production at the subsidiary, DB Cargo Polska.
In October 2010, Sigrid Nikutta left DB to become Chairperson and Chief Operating Officer at Germany’s largest public transport company, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). As the first female Chairperson, she made the company operate profitably for the first time.
In late 2019, she was appointed Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn. As CEO of the Mainz-based DB Cargo AG she will also be responsible for operational management.

Jannis manages all internal and external partnerships at Hyundai UAM with regards to the development of their Urban Air Mobility vehicle. In that capacity he leads partnerships through the complete life cycle from initial strategizing all the way through execution and continuous improvement. Prior to joining Hyundai, Jannis was a leader in McKinsey’s Aerospace & Defense practice, serving as an aerospace industry expert and touching over 100 different client engagements. In addition, he was part of the founding team of McKinsey’s Unmanned Systems (UAS) Hub and in charge of all Urban Air Mobility (UAM) initiatives of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (MCFM) Jannis holds a B.Sc degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University in Delft and two M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering and Technology Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marcus Butler was an early venturer into the YouTube world starting his channel in 2010. He amassed over 6 million subscribers and 1 billion video views. He’s had a number one podcast, best selling book and Co-Founded the sustainable vegan fashion brand nu-in. Stefanie Giesinger won Germany’s Next Top Model in 2014 which kickstarted a new wave of modelling combined with building a brand through social media. She’s sharing her life and important topics to her 3.9 million followers whilst founding brands including мой and nu-in. She’s also a co-owner of the social food brand Lyka.

Janine Stuchl studied sociology and international marketing in Bamberg and Santiago de Chile and has more than 10 years of international leadership experience in the technology and start-up industry. Since 2020 she acts as Vice President of Global Marketing & Communications of PTV. As such, she is responsible for the company’s global positioning, partnerships, and digital strategy, driving the business transformation to an innovative SaaS tech player with focus on a more sustainable and smart future. The latter is not just a buzzword for Janine but her passion: She is driven by connecting creative minds and innovative tech to shape new solutions for diverse needs, in particular in the field of sustainable mobility.

Mads Nipper is heading Ørsted, the global renewable energy major and world-leading offshore wind developer. He believes businesses should be a catalyst for change in fighting climate change and addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. Mads Nipper is part of World Economic Forum’s Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders where he leads the Power Working Group. He is also Co-Chair of the roundtable of hydrogen production under the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance. Before joining Ørsted, Mads Nipper was CEO and Group President of the Grundfos Group (2014-2020).

Asher Jay, National Geographic explorer turned entrepreneur and key advisor to a Venture Capital Growth Fund focused on Saas, AI, Smart farming and aquaculture, and renewables, is an international adventurer and public figure whose career arc has taken her from fashion designing on Seventh Avenue to campaigning against blood ivory on it’s Billboards. Jay’s work has contributed to raising consumer awareness and empowering citizen action. From business to design, Jay’s efforts have always pushed the boundaries on and explored technology as the final frontier to promote access and address inequity. Jay and her team aim to foster an inclusive, cyclical paradigm that takes humanity out of its exploitative, deficit-causing expression and into models of mutualism.

Andrea Orsag is a co-founder of MissionC, strategy advisory on a mission to accelerate the transition to Circular Economy. She is also a Senior Manager at ACE + Company, helping clients to integrate Sustainability into their Strategy and Risk Management. Speaker, guest lecturer, moderator and facilitator on topics related to Circular Economy, Sustainability, Purpose and Impact. One Young World Ambassador. Recently featured in a book “We Have a Dream” linking stories from all around the world to SDGs to inspire children and young people.

Uwe Bergmann is the Director Global Sustainability at Henkel. His responsibilities include the development of the sustainability strategy and the coordination of Henkel’s Sustainability Council, driving the implementation of the strategy together with Henkel’s business units and functions as well as the development of steering and communication tools. He holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London and a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Prior to joining Henkel in 2000, he worked as a Researcher and Consultant at the Institute for Environmental Management at the European Business School, in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.

Daniela holds a Bachelor degree in socio economics. After working as a business consultant, she accompanied the position of Cluster Manager at an aerospace cluster. She joined the Hamburg Aviation team in 2020 to widen the UAM network Windrove. In close cooperation with the city and other stakeholders, she is now managing the network and its activities, aiming at strategically developing an integrated, safe and accepted aerial mobility in urban areas.

Since 31 years, Karsten Müller is active in the technical lighting industry with a main focus on architectural lighting.

For over four decades, Adams has toured the world with his music. A committed vegetarian/vegan for more than 30 years, Adams has always been passionate about sustainability. During his tours in the 80’s and 90’s he campaigned to ban the killing of whales. On one tour he issued postcards to his audiences who posted them to countries that were enabling Japan to undermine the IWC. The postcards were instrumental in creating the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary which now covers more than 50 million square kilometres around Antarctica. In 2015 Adams founded the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Environment Fund (SVGEF) supporting locals to preserve delicate ecosystems. In 2019, Adams and DHL planted up to 1 million trees through WeForest; on Adams’ Shine A Light-world tour, DHL pledged to plant a tree for each ticket sold.

Julius Menge has been working in commercial transport since 2004, focusing on its academic dimensions until 2009. He has been at the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection since 2010, where he is responsible for the strategic planning of commercial transport for all modes of transport. He is also the official contact person for the City State of Berlin on issues relating to his field of expertise.

Oliver Hoffmann began his career in the Technical Development division at Volkswagen AG in 2004. From 2005 to 2017, he held various positions at Audi sites in Germany, Hungary and Italy (Lamborghini). During this time he was responsible for quality assurance and the development of powertrains.
From October 2017 Oliver Hoffmann was Head of Technical Development at Audi Sport GmbH and appointed Managing Director in June 2018. He accepted two additional management positions in the company in 2019: Head of Technical Development at the Neckarsulm site and again Head of Powertrain Development at AUDI AG.
Since July 2020, Oliver Hoffmann has been heading the business operations of Technical Development at AUDI AG as Chief Operating Officer. Since March 2021, he is member of the Board of Management for Technical Development.

Lukas Walter was born on 14.05.1969 in Vienna. In 1997 he graduated from the Technical University of Vienna where he studied mechanical engineering. Lukas Walter started his career at AVL List GmbH in Austria as a Project Engineer.
After various positions within AVL ,e.g. Managing Director of AVL Autókut Engineering Ltd. in Budapest he hold the position of Executive Vice President for Business Development and Global Operations from 2017 to the beginning of 2019.
In February 2019, Lukas Walter joined MAN Truck & Bus SE, as a Senior Vice President of Engineering Powertrain.

Kayvan connects people through events and experiences. Kayvan creates and manages some of the worlds most exciting events for celebrities, corporates, startups and governments.

Kate Raworth is an economist focused on making economics fit for the 21st century. Her book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist is an international bestseller that has been translated into 20 languages, and was long-listed for the 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She is co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, working with cities, business, communities, governments and educators to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and is Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Dieter Wirthmann started at MAN Truck & Bus SE, Munich in 2007. Starting in after sales he gained comprehensive knowledge on the truck business from a customer perspective. In 2012 he joined sales in the field of product requirements and in 2013 became stream project lead for sales & after sales in the new MAN Truck Generation. In this position his major task was to align the Truck concept with customer needs. In 2016 he joined the project “MAN new product logic” as co-lead frontend helping to transform the MAN sales logic to a modular kit logic and to introduce the new product configurator to the markets. Since the project completion in 2020 he is working as sales project coordinator for the MAN eTGM project.

Gonzalo studied architecture in Barcelona and Berlin. Before co-founding morean he worked in various international architecture offices like Pich Architects and Sauerbruch Hutton focusing in parametric design and process optimization. At morean he plays the role of creative director of films and applications for a wide range of high profile projects including neom, Shenzhen Airport Hub and Riyadh Metro Stations among others.

During his studies at the Technical University of Berlin in the master’s course urban and regional planning, Malte Jacobsen was already involved in activities of the previous See-Meile project at eMO. Now in the project Shuttles & Co, Malte Jacobsen leads the work package on public dialogue, which deals with the acceptance and usability of autonomous driving, participation and public relations as well as the exploitation and scaling potential of this technology. eMO bundles the competencies of business, science, government and administration, networkes stakeholders and supports the development, implementation and marketing of regional, national and international innovation projects in the field of new mobility.

Stephan is Head of Business Development at DB Regio Bus. His mission: taking public transport to the next level by rethinking and rebuilding mobility from the user’s perspective. He strives for intuitive and fully integrated mobility solutions in order to increase sustainability and comfort in the way people move. Before joining Deutsche Bahn, Stephan helped multinational corporates on their way to excellence. He is a business engineer by profession and a mobility enthusiast as well as musician by passion.

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 20 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that otherwise go to landfill or incineration. It also created a new circular reuse platform called Loop that enables consumers to purchase products in reusable packaging. Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of awards and recognition from organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Fortune Magazine and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Tom is the author of four books, Revolution in a Bottle, Outsmart Waste, Make Garbage Great and The Future of Packaging.

Stephanie is a Digital Transformation and human-centered Design expert with extensive industry expertise in the CPG & Retail Industry. She worked with numerous companies in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry to build out their future vision around B2B sales, consumer engagement and employee experience with a customer centric approach. Stephanie is able to combine Industry expertise with extensive experience in large-scale digital transformation programs and innovation consulting. She has a proven track record to link innovation to corporate strategy to bring innovative visions to live while also supporting the people side of change in these projects. Stephanie works with Salesforce’s customer innovation Team Ignite that works with the company’s most ambitious customers to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

I dedicate my effort into a responsible innovation process regarding drones as potential new modes of transport (TU Berlin). The inclusion of all relevant stakeholders in forthcoming planning processes is my ambition, thereby drawing on my experience in interdisciplinary risk and innovation research (ZIRIUS), dialog moderation (Dialog Basis) and a master degree in Planning and Participation (University of Stuttgart).

Dr.-Ing. Heba Aguib is Chief Executive RESPOND at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. Aguib joined the BMW Foundation in 2019 with an ambition to strengthen the relationships between Tech4Good and investors in order to make a positive difference.
Previously, she was instrumental in establishing the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation’s Aswan Heart Research Centre in Egypt. As head of the center’s Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Laboratory and an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London, she led multidisciplinary projects to develop new computational solutions for early diagnosis and detection of cardiovascular disease. She is also a medical technology expert in the Digital Arabia Network, established in 2018.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire is the Chairman and CEO of Schneider Electric. As the head of what is the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, Jean-Pascal is committed to creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for all, using technologies and digital innovation to empower all to make the most of their energy and resources. Jean-Pascal was appointed as Chairman of the Management Board in 2006 and then Chairman and CEO since 2013, following the change of Schneider Electric’s governance. Jean-Pascal is a director of the worldwide board of the UN Global Compact, a UN #HeForShe Corporate IMPACT champion, and is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

Tilman Floehr is an environmental scientist with focus on pollutants in water bodies and their impacts on humans and nature. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University and wrote his doctoral thesis on the pollution of the Yangtze River in China, focusing on organic micropollutants and the consequences for regional ecosystems.
In 2018, he co-founded the environmental startup everwave, where he heads the Research & Development division. The holistic approach of everwave is dedicated to protect rivers and the ocean from plastic waste and to promote a more sustainable life-style, in order to secure aquatic environments as precious habitats, food resources and economic regions. The overall goal is to promote a sustainable circular economy on a global scale with a comprehensive network of partners from academia, industry, policy and civil society.

Frank Steffens studied industrial engineering with a focus on construction at the Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences from 1999 to 2003. After starting his career as a controller in a medium-sized family company, Mr. Steffens worked for 4 years at hagebau Handelsgesellschaft für Baustoffe GmbH & Co. KG in various positions. From 2009 he worked as commercial director and authorized signatory for Brüninghoff GmbH & Co, KG, before taking over management of Brüninghoff Holz GmbH & Co. KG in 2012 and Brüninghoff GmbH & Co. KG in 2013. As managing director of Brüninghoff Bausysteme GmbH & Co. KG, he has also been responsible for the multi-storey building since 2017. In addition, Mr. Steffens is a lecturer in the field of construction and geoinformation at Jade University.

Erika is the Chief Impact Officer at Pathstone. She joins the Pathstone team from Cornerstone Capital Group, the sustainable and impact investment advisory firm she founded in 2013. (Cornerstone recently merged with Pathstone.)
Erika’s passion is to bring the disciplines of finance, economics, and sustainability to bear in pursuit of a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism. Over the course of her 25-plus years on Wall Street, she developed a deep belief in environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) analysis as a critical input to investment decision-making, culminating in her role as Head of Global Sector Research at UBS Investment Bank, where she spearheaded the firm’s ESG research efforts before leaving to form Cornerstone.

Meta-Architect and Entrepreneur, born in the north-west of Germany. Studied Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. Worked as an architect for about 20 years, teaching experience in entrepreneurial matters. Founder of Share Par, the All-in-one-Tool for the next generation of sharing. Living in Berlin.

CEO & Founder of FUTURECANDY, innovation agency, Hamburg, consulting C-level executives, sales and marketing teams in the dynamics of defining innovation and change.
Nick Sohnemann is a top keynote speaker and an experienced round table moderator.
As one of Europe’s leading experts in the field of trends and innovation research, it´s his expertise and entertainment skills that make complex material easy to understand, refreshing, informative and engaging. People love to listen to Nick Sohnemann´s talks on innovation, leadership, trends, and transformation.
He is ready to discuss the benefits of unlimited green energy & green innovation, clean vehicles and MAAS solutions in smart cities as well as IIOT and artificial intelligence related topics or the new employer-employee relationship in today’s work environment.

Robert Heinecke is an entrepreneur, futurist thinker and smart city expert. He is the CEO of Breeze Technologies, a German industry leader in air quality sensors, data and analytics, which he founded in 2015. Before that, Robert worked for multiple international consultancies in strategy and digitalisation. He holds degrees in Computer Science and IT Management & Consulting. Robert is a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe” and “Capital 40 Under 40”, 2019 Young Green Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of the European Commission’s “Young Leaders of Industry” sustainability panel, member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Association for Electric Mobility in Germany and advisor to French UrbanAI.

Daniel Egger is the Chief Commercial Officer at Climeworks, a Swiss company that empowers people to reverse climate change by permanently removing carbon dioxide from the air through a technology called direct air capture. Daniel’s background is in engineering, he holds and MSc in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich and has many years’ experience in quality management, product and process development and marketing & sales at different industrial companies. Daniel is an experienced speaker and passionate about restoring a healthy balance of CO2 in the air.

Hans Jürgen Kalmbach is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Executive Board of the Hansgrohe SE. Following his studies in Business Administration, he began his professional career within the Hansgrohe Group in 1998 and has since held a number of national and international managerial positions. Between 2010 and 2014, Kalmbach was responsible for international business at the Delta Faucet Company in the United States. After four years, he returned to the Black Forest, taking on the position of Sales Director for Northern and Western Europe, as well as leading the Corporate Business Development team. From 2015 to 2017, he has been responsible for the production and sales subsidiaries of the Hansgrohe Group in the Asia Pacific region. At the same time, he headed up the global project business for the Hansgrohe Group. From January to July 2018 he has been a member of the Executive Board, responsible for International Sales. Since August 2018 Hans Jürgen Kalmbach is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Board.

Dr. Tobias Fischer is responsible for the TecLab technology department at Deutsche Bahn. He was born on July 4th, 1975 in Dresden and studied at the Faculty of Transport Science at the Technical University of Dresden. His doctorate took place at the Institute for Transport Economics and Logistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Since 2001 he has been working for Deutsche Bahn in various functions. Since July 2017 he moved to the technical department and has been pursuing the goal of testing new, innovative vehicle components and concepts together with the rail industry. The main basis for this is the specially created advanced TrainLab, a unique test train that the Deutsche Bahn technology department uses to evaluate and test new sensors, new antennas, but also alternative fuels and paints.

Curious mind, loves to be fascinated, into physics, materials, people and being there for my team. Always striving to strike the right balance.

Sustainability is the new digital. With over 15 years of experience in managing innovation Philippe Souidi’s challenge, is to build a sustainable future. Which he is perusing in his current role at SAP as Head of SAP.iO Startup Foundry Munich.

Timotheus Höttges is CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG since 2014. From 2009 until his appointment as CEO, he has been member of the Group Board of Management responsible for Finance and Controlling. From 2006 to 2009 he was member of the Board of Management responsible for the T-Home unit. In this position, he was in charge of fixed-network and broadband business, as well as integrated sales and service in Germany. Under his leadership, T-Home became the market leader in terms of new DSL customers and developed its Internet TV service, Entertain, into a mass-market product while at the same time stabilizing its profitability. He studied business administration at Cologne University and started his career at a business consulting company.

Steffen Szeidl studied architecture at Technische Universität Darmstadt and ETH Zurich. He joined Drees & Sommer in Frankfurt in 2006 and moved to Drees & Sommer Switzerland in 2008. He started to develop the Drees & Sommer location in Switzerland as Managing Director, expanding it to over 200 employees by 2015. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Drees & Sommer SE since January 2015 and is responsible for Finance, IT and Corporate Communications in addition to the Group’s digitization strategy. In addition, he drives innovation and future topics forward.

Kerstin Kube-Erkens works at Messe Berlin, one of the largest event organizer in Germany. She holds a diploma in business administration from the University of Westminster, London and the HTW Berlin, Germany. She started her career at Total Germany, as Regional Sales Director. As a product architect, Kerstin deals with new product ideas related to the MICE business in a national and international context. She is particularly interested in developments in the field of sustainable mobility. In 2017, she established a new business platform for the future of the bus industry – the BUS2BUS

Florian Lüft has been Head of Business Development of Envision Digital’s German entity since 2020. Envision Digital is one of the world’s leading Greentech companies with a strong focus on the digital transformation of the energy sector. In his position, he is responsible for the strategic and operational development of the company through the development of new business areas. As founder and CEO of various companies, such as Sportnex and Ridotto, he has gained more than 20 years of experience in sales, strategy, marketing and business development. Lüft holds a diploma in Business Administration from the Berufsakademie Ravensburg.

Sebastian Süß is one of the co-founders and Head of Marketing & Communication at Spleenlab GmbH. The focus of Spleenlab’s work is to make safe automated flying possible for drones and air taxis using AI. Through his many years of experience in marketing and advertising, Sebastian Süß, together with his partners, wants to bring more public attention to the topic and help this groundbreaking technology for sustainable mobility in the air to achieve a breakthrough.

Katherina Reiche has a degree in chemistry and was a member of the German Bundestag for 18 years, including 7 years on the German Federal Cabinet. She has three children. From 1998 to 2015 she was a member of the German Bundestag, from 2005 to 2009 deputy chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, responsible for education and research policy as well as for the environment, nature conservation and reactor safety. From 2009 to 2013 Katherina Reiche was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2013 to 2015 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. From 2015 to 2019, she was Chief Executive Officer of the German Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU). Since January 1, 2020 Katherina Reiche has been Chairwoman of the Board of Westenergie AG. Katherina Reiche has been a honorary member of the German Council for Sustainable Development since November 2016 and was reappointed to the Sustainability Council in 2019. Since June 2020 she has been chairwoman of the National Hydrogen Council (Nationaler Wasserstoffrat).

Daniela Schiffer has an MFA in New Media and founded Changers.com in 2012. Changers is a company in the fields of tokenized incentivisation for health promotion and climate change mitigation.
Daniela’s heart beats for the possibility of solving societal problems through the use of technology. With the help of a CO₂ token, rules for earning and spending and the according exchange value can be defined, enabling a healthier and more just future for us all.

Driven by a profound belief in the potential of people, the power of humanity, and the genius of nature, Ole dedicates himself to combating some of the greatest threats to life on earth. With 20 years of experience from leading change and inspiring hope as a problem-solver, his critical takeaway is that global challenges must be recognized and solved from the edges. We must think big, start small, act fast, and design to scale exponentially. In 2019 Ole took the helm of ClimateTech start-up Desert Control, fueled by a passion for creating hope for a better future for “people and planet.” He is a global steward for our planet’s vital soil ecosystem, dedicated to stop and reverse desertification and soil degradation.

Mauro Cozzi is the CEO and Co-founder of Emitwise. He is ambitious and pragmatic in his vision for getting our world to net-zero carbon faster by empowering businesses to take action on a global scale.
While studying mechanical engineering at Southampton University, Mauro launched his first company. The fast-growing AI solution for pharmaceuticals won him a place in the coveted Berkley Skydeck Incubator. Having grown the company, and ready for a more impactful change, Mauro sold its IP.
Seeing the effects of the growing climate emergency while running social enterprises marrying humanitarian impact with sustainability in Kenya, Malawi, and Chile, he decided to tackle the issue head-on.
Emitwise was created alongside two of his best friends equally driven to help companies fight climate change, believing that you can power profitability through sustainability.

Henrik Wenders was born 1972 in Düsseldorf. After he studied business administration with a focus on marketing and communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, he began his professional career in 1992 as an advertising sales assistant. From 1995 to 2002, Henrik Wenders worked as a customer consultant in various advertising agencies.

Henrik Wenders held various management positions at BMW AG from 2002 to 2016. He was most recently responsible as Vice President Product Management BMW i for communication, sales and after-sales in the electric car division. 

He moved to Byton Ltd. in October 2016. In his position as Vice President Marketing, he developed the globally present brand. He was also responsible for digital and vehicle product management as well as the development of an after-sales & service and market entry strategy.
In April 2020 he took over the position as Head of Brand at AUDI AG with the global responsibility for the brand Audi.

We transform online shoe shopping into an individualized and sustainable experience. Our web-embedded solution enables users to measure their feet easily and accurately with their smartphone at home. Matching these measurements with our database of inner shoe dimensions we help them to always find the perfect-fitting shoe. Thus, we avoid the current immense return costs for retailers and CO₂ emissions.

NIKOLAS IWAN is the CEO of the joint venture H2 MOBILITY. The mission of H2 MOBILITY is to show the world, that hydrogen in mobility and transport works. By building and operating a customer centric national network of hydrogen refuelling stations all over Germany.
Nikolas Iwan has profound infrastructure and management experience, which he gained in various positions at Shell, most recently as the head of the refuelling station business in Austria, where he was responsible for the largest truckports in Europe with 260 Shell filling stations.
Currently, Nikolas Iwan is focusing on expanding the hydrogen refuelling station infrastructure for high-demand commercial vehicles in all vehicle segments. Therefore, he is laying the foundation for emission-free electromobility with a long range and short refueling times.

Donya Amer’s career started with an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Cologne. Her subsequent studies in business administration took her from Cologne University to the University of California at Berkley. After graduating in business administration with a major in finance and human resources, she joined IBM in Frankfurt, where she held customer and consulting-related positions in the field of digital transformation for 17 years. In 2017 she moved to Bosch. For around three years, she was part of the Bosch IT management team, responsible for the business interface of internal IT, before taking over as CEO of the newly founded Bosch Climate Solutions GmbH in 2020. In her free time, she enjoys diving – and often encounters with plastic in the water.

Working with Too Good To Go as strategic partnerships manager for a world without food waste. We fight food waste primarily through our app, that connects users with stores and restaurants that have unsold surplus food at the end of the day. Our greater mission, as an international company, is to inspire and empower everyone to take action against food waste.

Tim is one of the four co-founders of Hardt Hyperloop. Hardt has realized Europe’s first operational hyperloop and is often seen as the most advanced European hyperloop initiative. Tim has a background in mechanical engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he built record-breaking electric race cars among others. Prior to Hardt, Tim was the team captain of the Delft Hyperloop team, which won Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition. It is Tim’s passion to work with an amazing team with loads of ambition to do the extraordinary.

Tanja Kufner is passionate about helping entrepreneurs establish, grow, and scale their startups. She does this by helping founders discover invaluable insights that assist in creating sustainable businesses, through to formulating and fostering collaborations with private funds and corporate VC investments, in addition to building and running accelerator programs. Tanja has invested in over 70 startups at various stages of growth and has helped clients such as Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, Cisco, here, Vinci, Kühne + Nagel, SBB, EnBW, Telefónica, Siemens Mobile, and DB on their innovation journeys. Tanja is recognized annually, since 2016 and by EU-Startups, as one of the top 50 most influential women in VC.

Stefan Höchbauer is CEO of Central Europe at Salesforce. In his position he is leading the Salesforce organization in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.
Stefan Höchbauer builds on over 25 years of experience in the software industry. Previously, he was Global President Digital Core at SAP responsible for the global ERP business after holding various management and leadership positions in Germany, Switzerland and Emerging Markets. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions at Peoplesoft, Oracle and IBM Software Group. Being close to the customer, understanding customer needs and helping customers succeed – that’s what drives Stefan in his role at Salesforce. His objective for and at Salesforce is the successful growth of the Central European region.

Gabriele became CodeCheck’s CEO in 2020. Since then the team is turning CodeCheck into a consumer insights platform. CodeCheck’s data helps consumer packaged goods companies and retailers to develop and market more healthy and sustainable food and cosmetics products.
Earlier he was CEO of Doodle, the scheduling company. With his team, he transformed Doodle from an advertising business to a SaaS company. During his time, they tripled subscription revenue, acquired first B2B customers, and the team grew from 20 to over 70 people in 5 locations including the US. Before running Doodle, Gabriele held different strategy roles within TX Group, the largest Swiss media company. Gabriele holds an MBA from London Business School and a Masters in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL).

Tanguy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Lizee, the first SaaS made for brands and retailers to integrate the circular economy thanks to the rental and resell of their products.

Astraea provides an end to end Machine Learning / AI platform for Geospatial AI. We provide the satellite imagery and geospatial data, the cloud compute resources and the machine learning algorithms to build, automate, deploy and manage geospatial analysis and monitoring into an organization’s business processes and workflows.

GreenPlat is a Brazilian technology company which has developed a SaaS with blockchain-based architecture that covers the entire production chain, from the extraction of the raw material, from the product manufacture to the final disposal of the loss of production. We help our customers achieve zero landfills and increase recycling rates, offering full traceability and supporting environmental compliance. We are able to control other environmental KPIs, providing companies and governments with a complete ESG dashboard in real time.
Our main mission is to accelerate cleaner production and since 2018 we are recognized by the World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers, as one of the only systems in the world that applies blockchain technology to meet the supply chain and other aspects not related to finance.

Following his studies in Germany, U.S., and the UK, Bernd Körber first joined MINI in 2003 with roles in marketing and product management. He took on responsibility for MINI brand management internationally, before moving to the BMW brand in 2010. At BMW, he led the product portfolio strategy team before moving to China, where he was responsible for Business Development. Following his return to Munich, he was in charge of global brand strategy and brand management for BMW. Since 2019, Bernd has been leading the MINI organization as Senior Vice President.

Dr. Michael Lemke has 29+ years’ experience in wireless and ICT across all aspects, R&D, product management, marketing, business development, technology innovations, government relations, regu-lations etc.
After completing his thesis in nuclear physics at the Technical University Dresden (1992), Michael joined Siemens R&D, followed by product management positions in wireless for mobile data services, mobile internet, and network security. He led the international LTE qualification program on behalf of Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks.
In 2007, Michael joined Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH, for the LTE technology / product management, wireless marketing and mobile broadband business development across Europe. Michael joined the Huawei Deutsche Telekom Key Account Department as head of wireless marketing in 2010.
Since 2016, Michael supports the Huawei Germany head-office as senior technology principal for all ICT topics with special emphasis on national broadband, digitalization (e.g. connected car, Industry 4.0, IOT, spectrum regulation, 5G, artificial intelligence) and sustainability.

Josef Brunner is a successful entrepreneur and active investor in a range of industrial start-ups and deep tech firms across multiple industries including IT, cyber security, and construction, to name a few. He is also a board member for various industrial start-ups in both Europe and the United States, and acts as advisor to large industrial customers and governments.
Josef has successfully founded several companies, most recently JouleX, which was acquired by Cisco for $107 million and relayr – where he still serves as CEO – which was acquired in 2018 by MunichRE for $300 million.
For each company he is invested in, Josef is actively involved to guide the leadership teams and offer his hands-on expertise, business insights and network.
With his in-depth knowledge of the IT, IoT, and technology worlds, Josef is a regular key-note speaker and panelist at high level international conferences and meetings.

Arne is co-founder and managing director of Carbon Minds, a data analytics company focusing on environmental sustainability in the chemical industry. During his time at Carbon Minds, Arne Kätelhön has worked as a sustainability consultant and data provider for large multinational companies, including some of the world’s largest oil & gas, chemical and tech companies. In his previous position as team leader of a life cycle assessment team at RWTH Aachen University, he gained extensive experience in environmental assessment of energy-intensive industries, building on his PhD studies at RWTH Aachen University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Arne has a background in chemical engineering and economics from his studies at RWTH Aachen University, Keio University in Tokyo, and Maastricht University.

Marjorie is the CEO and cofounder of Lixo. After having worked as a strategy consultant in Europe and Africa, Marjorie decided to embrace the challenge of digitalizing the waste management industry

Marc Wilkens is a recognized expert on data center topics. He graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in engineering. As a research assistant, he worked in the field of Green IT research. For more than ten years, Marc Wilkens has been employed in data center consulting. Since 2020, he has been working for TÜViT in the field of auditing Data Center (Trusted Site Infrastructure, TSI). As an expert, he is a member of the EN 50600 and ISO 30134 standardization committees.

Luca Caracciolo is a tech-journalist based in Hanover. He worked at the tech magazine t3n from 2012 until the end of March 2021, most recently as editor-in-chief for print and online. Since 1 April, he has been editor-in-chief of the german edition of the MIT Technology Review.

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Marco Lescher is Customer Care & Services Director of Nespresso Germany since 2019. His focus areas are Supply Chain and Customer Experience Management – all with sustainability in mind. For over six years he has already been involved in Nespresso’s success: Before managing the Customer Care & Services area in the German Market, Marco was Operations Director and Supply Chain & Procurement Director. Before he became part of Nespresso, he was Head of Supply Chain at DMK Eis GmbH and Rosen Eiskrem GmbH and Supply Chain Manager at Henkel Corporation. He has more than ten years of experience in the FMCG / Consumer Good Industry.

Reyhan is the founder of Rainergy, a company that harvests energy from rainwater through a device she developed at the age of 14. The device collects rainwater and transfers its rich potential energy into electricity through the motion of a wheel. This relieves pressure on the local power grid by providing communities with an additional source of electricity, and significantly reducing CO₂ emissions. By sharing her story she promotes talented young people with innovative ideas, especially motivating young girls to pursue their passions.

Roger Lienhard, Founder and Executive Chairman of Blue Horizon, views revolutionizing the global production of proteins as the greatest impact investment opportunity of our time. Blue Horizon invests in game changing companies at the forefront of modern protein production including new household names, such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, also rising stars, such as Clara Foods, Geltor and over 60 other game changers. Lienhard is a believer in the Wayne Gretzky philosophy of ‘skating to where the puck is going’; or as Lienhard sees it, towards alternative protein. He founded and sits on the board of the LIVEKINDLY Collective, a group of companies committed to making natural, plant-based food tastier and cheaper than commodity products worldwide. Lienhard also oversees Blue Horizon Foundation with its aligned mission of removing animals from the global food supply chain.

In a sport dominated by men and from a remarkably young age, Molly has amassed a swag of accolades, having won the 2016 Australian Rally Championship, European Ladies Championship & Peter Brock Medal.
There are probably easier careers she could have chosen, but Molly thrives through challenges and her passion, fierce determination and willingness to take risks are major components of her winning formula.
In 2021 she joined Rosberg X Racing for the Extreme E Series – a five race global voyage designed to highlight the impact of climate change and human activity on the globe, whilst promoting sustainability and the adoption of electric vehicles to protect the planet. The team currently lead the standings after taking back-to-back round wins in the first two events.

Mr. Kuchta started his professional career at Neoplan Bus GmbH & Co, Stuttgart, in 1992 where he held various positions in the sales department before working as head sales export Europe from 1998 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008 he was managing director at NEOMAN SAS France (Paris), responsible for the Neoplan and MAN bus brands. Rudi Kuchta has been the Senior Vice President Product & Sales Bus at MAN Truck & Bus SE since 2008 and Head of Business Unit Bus since January 2019.

Mark Ruijgrok is Managing Director of Nespresso Germany since 2018. He has been driving Nespresso’s success for nine years: Before managing the German Market, Mark was Managing Director of Nespresso Netherlands. Prior to joining Nespresso, he was Global Segment Director at packaging specialist Avery Dennison for three years. From 1999 to 2009, he held various positions at Heineken, most recently as General Manager in Trinidad & Tobago.

Thomas Heim has been a part of the global Viessmann family since July 2017 and is a member of the Viessmann Climate Solutions SE Executive Board. He holds a degree in business administration and began his career at Robert Bosch where he held various positions in Germany, Brazil, Spain, and Denmark from 1994 to 2010. In 2010, Thomas moved Gunnebo as a member of the board of management for Central and Northern Europe and MD of Germany and Austria. From 2012 to 2017, he led EMEA sales for the Power Tools Division of Robert Bosch GmbH as Senior Vice President and drove its digitalization as CDO. Today, in addition to his board activities at Viessmann Climate Solutions SE, Thomas Heim is a member of the board of the German Heating Industry Association (BDH) and a member of the Executive Council of the European Heating Industry Association (EHI).

Judith Kühn is the CEO of the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, the first event of its kind to create a space for inspiration and networking around the topic of sustainability aiming to actively promote technological, economic, and societal change. Under the motto #celebratechange GTF inspires those who already are or want to become change makers with the most innovative green technologies and ideas for a sustainable lifestyle. Judith has joined the festival team in its second year in 2020. Previous positions include digital publisher Vertical Media and international digital trade fair Dmexco, where she was director conference and board member for the congress part of Dmexco before joining GTF.

Mrs. Kubin-Hardewig holds the position of the VP Group Sustainability Management at Deutsche Telekom AG. Her role covers a wide range of sustainability topics from environmental to social aspects including supply chain, sustainable finance, digitization and the ongoing development and reporting of the DTAG corporate responsibility targets and KPIs.
She runs the top initiatives such as the “#GreenMagenta program”.
Before joining the CR team, she was running the procurement strategy function for DTAG. She holds a law degree as well as an MBA.

In 2018 Jens was appointed as the Energy Transition Manager for Shell in Germany. With a strong external focus, the role integrates ongoing activities across various businesses in support of Shell’s goal to become a net zero emissions business by 2050 in step with society. Jens is a chemical engineer by background and began his career in Shell as a fuels scientist in 1996. Based in Hamburg and Houston, Jens held various global technology and business leadership positions over the years, managing product and marketing strategies, development teams and programs, including the role of Managing Director of Shell Technology Centre in Hamburg, a global centre of expertise with 300 staff focusing on research and development in automotive, industrial, domestic and marine fuels, lubricants and technologies.

Dr. Philip Lettmann, born in 1965, studied Business Administration in Cologne, Paris, Oxford and Berlin. Before joining WALA (https://www.wala.world/en/) in 2004 Philip Lettmann held a senior position in a private equity firm in Germany, specialized in the financing of midsize growth companies. With WALA he started as the director of the Infrastructure & Supply Department, which included overseeing the areas of finance, planning, logistics and IT. Until 2020, he was CFO of WALA. In July 2020, he became a member of the Board of Directors of WALA Stiftung, the owner of the WALA Group.
In 2015, Dr. Philip Lettmann was elected to the board of GLS Gemeinschaftsbank, of which he has been president since March 2019.

Dr. Nicola Kimm is the Global Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health & Safety for Signify. In this role she has led the company to its position as a recognized sustainability leader and its achievement of carbon neutrality. Nicola is also a non-executive board member at EQT AB. She has held international and multi-disciplinary roles in engineering, operations, communications and sustainability in Europe, Asia, and the US in the electronics, chemicals and food industries. She holds a PhD in Economics and Business Engineering, MSc and BSc degrees in Chemical Engineering and a BSc in Ecology.

Patrick is a Managing Director and Partner at BCG with a focus on Climate and Sustainability. His expertise includes power sector decarbonization, hydrogen, e-fuels and their related economics, market potentials and policy frameworks. He has co-authored several reports on these topics and serves as an advisor to energy companies, OEMs, investors, and associations. He leads BCG’s Climate & Sustainability business for BCG in energy globally.

An architect by trade, Gudrun is the Managing Director of Tegel Projekt GmbH, a municipal company commissioned with the conversion of the former airport Berlin-Tegel into a smart new district with mixed uses: Berlin TXL – The Urban Tech Republic is an innovation park dedicated to green urban technologies, and Schumacher Quartier is a residential neighbourhood pioneering the use of sustainable technologies and building methods. Previously, she was a partner at NÄGLIARCHITEKTEN (offices in Berlin and Karlsruhe). A specialist for sustainable planning and building practises, she seeks to set new standards for Berlin and establish it as a leader in resilient urban development.

Nils is co-founder of Sunfire GmbH, a global leader for industrial electrolyzers founded in 2010. As CEO and Managing Director, he is responsible for the strategic positioning and leadership of the company. Since 2016, Nils has been a member of the Board of Directors and Energy Chair of the European hydrogen and fuel cell association Hydrogen Europe. This association represents the interests of over 200 industrial companies and research institutions in Europe. In 2020, Nils was appointed by the European Commission to the CEO group of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance. Nils studied business administration and business law at the European Business School and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Sandra works primarily with Consumer Goods companies, focusing on strategy, innovation, and marketing.  She is the topic lead for innovation strategy, and has led several innovation efforts with clients across industries. For the leading consumer goods companies she has seen sustainability increasingly becoming a driver for innovation and long-term success.

Mariesa is social ambassador at Enactus Worldwide, one of the biggest student organization and largest experimental learning platform for entrepreneurial action with a head for business and a heart for the world. Her purpose is to connect people with the same mission international and nationally. Mariesa holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology (Goethe University of Frankfurt) and is currently finalizing her master’s degree in interdisciplinary public and nonprofit studies (University of Hamburg). Beside her engagement for Enactus and her master’s studies, she is working for the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Mr. Wendel is a co-founder of Volta and has served as Volta’s President since
April 2013. Mr. Wendel also has extensive finance experience working as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs from August 1993 to June 2006, as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers from July 2006 to October 2008 and as a Senior Managing Director at Nomura Securities from October 2008 to June 2012. Mr. Wendel holds a B.S.F.S. in international relations from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a M.A.L.D in international political economy from Tufts University — The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Mr. Wendel currently serves on the board of the Napa Valley Film Festival and was past board chair of the Blue Oak School in Napa.

Mathias Wiecher, VP E.ON eMobility, is responsible for all eMobility activities across the E.ON group. Before this he was in leadership positions at E.ON Inhouse Consulting as well as at Kearney in Germany and the US with a focus on Energy and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Christian Bauer has 15 years of experience in the mobility sector. He worked for Daimler in various functions including Business Development and M&A, where he participated in merger, venture, fundraising and IPO projects including Airbus, myTaxi, HERE Technologies, Renault/Nissan and others. Before joining Volocopter, he was heading a department for high-tech cooperations at Mercedes-Benz, pushing to bring innovations to series maturity. An economist and information technologist by training, Christian is responsible for all commercial aspects at Volocopter and making Urban Air Mobility Services an integral part of transportation systems across the globe.

Dennis Hawner studied architecture at Saarland University of Applied Sciences. In 2004 he graduated as Dipl.-Ing. (FH). In 2005 he was awarded the Taut Prize of the Federal Chamber of Architects for his diploma project, the most important award for young architects. After his studies, he worked in renowned architectural offices in London and Berlin, where he was involved in the completion of numerous award-winning projects. He has been with GRAFT since 2012, initially as a project manager and since 2015 as director. With his extensive experience in all phases of construction planning he oversees projects in urban planning, housing and mobility. In 2018 Dennis Hawner became a partner at GRAFT.

With over 20 years of experience, Marie-Eve Schröder is considered one of the most renowned experts and executives in the consumer goods and media industry. Sustainability, digital transformation and diversity are particularly close to her heart. Since 2019 she is Group Director at Facebook heading the Auto & Mobility, Travel, CPG, Pharma, as well as the Financial Services departments for DACH. Marie-Eve is a member of the Advisory Board of Carl Kühne KG (GmbH & Co.) and she serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Plastic Bank Foundation. From 2007 – 2019 Marie-Eve was global CMO/CDO at Henkel. During this time, she founded the Schwarzkopf Million Chances initiative and led the digital transformation. From 1997 – 2007 Marie-Eve held global and regional leadership positions at Procter & Gamble and Wella in the Professional Division.

As Chief Sales & Operations Officer, Timo Sillober heads both sales and sales-side product and business development at EnBW, one of the largest energy companies in Germany and Europe. He is responsible for the consumer business with some 3.3 million customers and of the B2C and B2B solutions business in the areas of electric mobility and decentralised energy generation.
Under his leadership, EnBW has massively expanded its strategic activities in electric mobility: The company is market leader in fast charging and operates Germany’s largest nationwide fast charging network. He previously held various management positions at EnBW from 2016. Before switching to the energy and infrastructure sector, he held different positions at Vodafone and Siemens AG.

Marco Voigt is one of Germany’s green visionaries. Back in 2008, he founded the GreenTec Awards, an award for sustainable technologies, companies and projects. Before he launched the GREENTECH FESTIVAL in 2018 together with former F1 champion and sustainability entrepreneur Nico Rosberg and co-founder of the awards Sven Krüger, he was known primarily in the startup scene as a “green serial founder.” With the motto #celebratechange GTF inspires those who already are or want to become change makers with the most innovative green technologies and ideas for a sustainable lifestyle. Under Marco’s influence, GTF became the first event of its kind to create a space for inspiration and networking around the topic of sustainability aiming to actively promote technological, economic, and societal change.

Guive Balooch is a scientist dedicated to bringing cutting-edge technology to the beauty industry. As the head of L’Oréal’s Global Technology Incubator, Guive has helped L’Oréal evolve from the world’s foremost beauty company to a technology player that is empowering consumers through personalized products that solve their individual beauty and wellness desires. Guive oversees L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator and its labs in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, Japan and France. Designed as a startup within a large organization, Guive’s dynamic team partners with entrepreneurs, academic institutions and experts across a diverse array of fields to unearth breakthrough research and first-to-market technologies. A native of California, Guive has a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. in Biomaterials from University of California, San Francisco

Silvio Konrad has been Managing Director of TÜV NORD Systems since September 2016. Together with Dr. Ralf Jung and Ulf Theike, he continues to develop the Industrial Services Business Segment within TÜV NORD GROUP. Silvio Konrad is responsible for the Strategic Business Segment Energy and contributes his methodical-strategic sales expertise as well as his experience in the implementation of large customer projects.His area of responsibility in the strategic business segment Energy includes the operating segments Nuclear Technology and Renewable Energies as well as other focus topics from the energy sector, particularly Energy Infrastructure Systems, Energy Storage, Grids and Hydrogen. Before joining TÜV NORD the graduate engineer had held various management positions at GE since 1998.

Johannes Pallasch is an economic geographer and MBA and has been involved in the topics of electromobility and charging infrastructure for many years. He has been with NOW GmbH since 2012 and took on the role of Head (Speaker) of the Nationale Leitstelle Ladeinfrastruktur (National Centre for Charging Infrastructure) at the start of 2020. At the Leitstelle, he is responsible in particular for the areas of strategy and communication.

Anders Christian Nordstrøm joined Ørsted in 2006 and has been involved in several roles within the company. He held various technical and managerial positions within Ørsted’s biomass-based combined heat and power production and sales. Also acting as Vice President and Head of Commercial. Since 2018 Anders is leading Ørsted’s hydrogen business. In 2021 he was appointment to Ørsted’s Commercial Executive Committee. Anders is holding a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Business Administration.

Anke is one of the co-founders of urban beta. Urban beta creates scalable architecture systems on-demand with a strong focus on social inclusion, renewables and circular economy models. After working several years at architect and urban planner in London, Dubai, Rotterdam and Hamburg, she joined the HOLZMARKT development team in Berlin to built up on innovative participatory building processes and social economy models. She also started several initiatives to gain more transparency and democratization within city development through usage of city data and new cooperation methods.

Achim has a decade of consulting experience in the mobility industry. As managing director of DTM he led the turn-around and commercial growth of the race series.

Holger is the President of BMW Group Designworks, the design consultancy that globally works for clients in diverse industries spanning Mobility and Digital Life. As president he is leading the global design consulting firm and its three studios with 140 employees from its headquarters in California. Prior to his present role, Holger held the in-house position of Head of Design User Experience for BMW Group. He brings extensive experience in Product Design, Creative Consulting, and Interaction Design and Design Management as well as deep insights into the thinking, processes and design culture of the BMW Group.

Marvin Bratke is German architect, entrepreneur, academic lecturer and managing partner of spatial innovation studio Urban Beta and inventor of the BetaPort Mobility Hub.
At his studio Marvin works on participatory methods to create inclusive, unconventional and transformative spaces through predictive planning. In the studio he collaboratively works on new ways of social inclusion, as well as participatory approaches to co-design, both virtual and physical. Urban Beta’s work aims to enable greater democratization of technology for construction and architecture, focussing on a positive social and ecological footprint.

The organisation was founded in 2012 by the contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson, and Frederik Ottesen, an engineer – an artist and a problem solver who look at the world from different perspectives. Little Sun started as a simple idea to create small, portable, solar lamp for people living without electricity in Ethiopia. We began as a social enterprise, selling solar devices around the world with the aim of raising funds to make solar lights and chargers available in energy-impoverished rural communities in Africa at affordable prices, where they could also provide a clean alternative to toxic and expensive fuel-based lighting. We believe that every person has the power to change the world with their passion, creativity, and ingenuity, and that everyone has a role to play in changing the world for the better.

Martin works for VMware, a global leader in virtualization and cloud technology. His work focuses on software engineering technologies and processes for more than 20 years now. He is part of a team that creates and ships software for millions of software engineers around the globe and constantly pushes the boundaries of what is possible in today’s and future software engineering environments. Sustainability has become a central part of this work.

Felix Fiege is the fifth generation of the Fiege family to manage the company and heads a 6-member Board of Directors, with his cousin Jens Fiege. In 2008, he joined their family-owned company as Managing Director of FIEGE Engineering. Since 2012, Felix Fiege has been a member of the Management Board of the FIEGE Group. As Chairman of the Executive Board, he shares responsibility for the company as a whole with Jens Fiege. The main objective of their work is to sustainably develop the family business in order to be able to hand it over to the sixth generation – fit for the future. In this accord, their main focus is on innovation and identifying new areas of business.

By the age of 17, Laurin had already founded his first company together with his brothers in the events industry. This experience triggered Laurin’s entrepreneurial spirit in mobility. Driven by the ambition of realizing system change, he decided to stop his studies in electrical engineering and fully dedicate himself to the development of an efficient, affordable electric vehicle suitable for everyday use and whose battery can be additionally charged by the sun. Within three years, Laurin and his friend Jona built their first electric car with integrated solar modules in a garage. They named this car the Sion. Based on this project and the vision of a sustainable mobility concept independent of fossil fuels, Sono Motors GmbH was founded in 2016 by Laurin Hahn, Jona Christians, and Navina Pernsteiner.

Serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated startup history in multinational settings. Swedish national, but having lived in 6 European countries and started businesses in most of them.

Filippo Imberti is an architect focusing on data-driven design and sustainable urban development.
During his career he coordinated large-scale urban design proposals and elaborated strategies and guidelines for multi-stakeholders programmes; he managed partnerships with international organizations and co-edited publications, concept notes and capacity-building activities.
He collaborated with UN-Habitat, supporting the programme for achieving sustainable urban development in the Philippines and Mozambique, and preparing methodologies of planning workshops for professionals and city leaders in rapid urbanisation contexts (RPS – Rapid Planning studio), Filippo leads the technology and innovation department of TSPA, with a focus on digital urban design and GIS applications, and co-founded the platform City Scan, investigating urban development patterns through the lens of geospatial data.

Felix has been hosting international live-, hybrid- and virtual-events for over a decade. After his school career, various detours around the globe and successfully completing his studies as a specialist in hotel business he found himself best to be on stage and/or in front of a camera. His true passion lies in entertaining people and connecting them. As a professional host with all his heart he also knows to step back at the right moment to let his guests and the audience shine.
Clients that regularly rely on his expertise amongst others are Audi, Deutsche Telekom, Villeroy & Boch, Volkswagen, Samsung and various German federal ministries. He’s also hosting for the third largest private charity donor in the world, Deutsche Postcode Lotterie/Novamedia since 2016.

Bruno Mombrinie is committed to innovation in the transportation sector. His years of experience in the field of electric aviation and background in entrepreneurship have led to his current focus: developing an aircraft suited to the urban air mobility mission. Bruno holds an S.B. in mechanical engineering from MIT.
Bruno is no stranger to electric flight and aviation innovation. During his studies at MIT, he spent most of his time in the AeroAstro department. Bruno was on the team that built the Chrysalis, the second human-powered airplane in history to fly (over 300 people were able to fly it). The five-person team, with the help of occasional volunteers, built the plane in only 7 months.

Passionate Sustainability Manager and Political Scientist. Workshop leader, trainer and consultant on various aspects of sustainability, circularity and innovation. Strong focus on sustainable energy, food systems and CO₂ reduction.

For Sven Krüger, green technologies are what life is all about. He studied to be an engineer and has been working on this topic for over 20 years. After starting his career as a developer for simulators, he worked for the European Commission, a national project implementing agency for the Ministry of Research, Economics and the Environment, after which, together with Marco Voigt, he founded the GreenTec Awards and in 2019, the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

Jörg Singer has been Mayor of Helgoland since 2011. He studied business engineering in Germany and the USA. He subsequently worked for various companies in the high-tech industry. E.g. Lufthansa. During his professional career, innovation and change management has become his aptitude. Leading Helgoland into a new life cycle has been his most comprehensive transformation project the past ten years. Now his vision is to harvest 1 Million tons of Green Hydrogen from the Northsea. What has been an utopia for years will become a reality very soon.

Benedikt Bösel is founder and CEO of Gut & Bösel near Berlin. Benedikt and his team are implementing different forms of regenerative agriculture like syntropic agroforestry, holistic grazing, market gardening and different composting methodologies on his estate that is characterized by extremely low precipitation and sandy soil. The estate also ties in startups and technology to combine both worlds. Benedikt is engaged and sits in various boards of initiatives around the future of land use and rural development. For instance, he sits on the board of Soil Alliance – an association of Regenerative Agriculture as well as is part of the Advisory Board of Digitalisation of Agriculture for the Ministry of Food & Agriculture in Germany.

Eight years as SVP for Innovation & Sustainability at “NG”. Developed and commercialized circular recycling solutions for a number of waste materials. Instrumental in building an entrepreneurial culture in a 100 year old company, as well as shaping the external image of “what NG is”. Culture and people always at the core. Prior to this, Mr. Mørch worked at a European start-up for six years. Before that five years in the banking industry at Nordea. Mørch holds an MSc in International Business from Skema Business School in France, and a BA(Hons) in Economics from The University of Manchester, UK.

After studying Theoretical Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in The Netherlands, Liduine joined Picnic, in the team responsible for the last part of Picnic’s supply chain, in which it delivers groceries from cityhubs to customers’ homes with proprietary electric vehicles.
First Liduine has worked on further improvement of the efficiency of the Picnic Milkman Model. She now focuses on applying insights of last mile driving behaviour to further improve safety. Together with 6 specialists, Liduine developed the Picnic Driving Coach, using real time feedback and gamification to drastically decrease the number of incidents and thus making neighbourhoods safer.

Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a Berlin-based startup developing an end-to-end platform that enables companies to measure, monitor and reduce their environmental footprint and improve their ESG performance. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of 1000+ startups which are connected to over 450+ advisors from VC, media and business, who help them monthly with advice and feedback. Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She was recently announced as Marshall Fund Fellow for 2021 and 100 Top Women in Germany 2020.

Adam Bond is Chief Executive Officer of AFC Energy plc, a leading provider of Alkaline Fuel Cell systems for the generation of clean energy. He has been Chief Executive since 2014, with a clean mandate on driving AFC Energy’s transition to an industry leading alkaline fuel cell company, with a clear focus on project execution in defined key global markets.
Adam has two decades of experience within the international energy sector, both in executive management positions for listed energy companies and in advisory capacities to both Governments and the private sector. Adam was previously a Non-Executive Director of AFC Energy between 2012 and 2014 and was formerly Director of both Waste2Tricity Ltd and JS Yerostigaz (Uzbekistan).

Since 2015 she has been the CEO of Plan Shop GmbH and made her passion a profession. While being in the Fashion Business since 1991 as a Designer, Manager and Creative Director her heart always belonged to stylish, posh, iconic and beautiful products made by empowered women and men all over the world. People, who have the talent and knowledge of traditional handicrafts and take this to a modern level. People, who are careful with resources and our planet. She always tried to give these people the possibility to participate in the global trade system.

Max grew up as the son of a development aid worker in China and experienced the stark contrast between the comfort of technology and malnutrition at an early age. While traveling the world and living in New Zealand and the EU he understood the link between the harm our global food systems are having on the planetary boundaries. Inspired by Vertical Farming he came up with the vision of bringing the revolutionary concept into everyones home and founded Agrilution in 2013 – which is part of the Miele Group since end 2019

Michael is a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England and the United Nations Development Program. Michael leads the BoEs work on green finance and is a co-founder of the Bank’s fintech accelerator. In his roles, he provides independent advice and guidance on issues relating to green finance, technology and sustainability. Michael represented the UK as co-chair, along with China, of the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group (SFSG) from 2016 to 2018. He actively contributes to international discussions at venues such as Chatham House, Harvard University and the World Economic Forum on key sustainable finance policies such as net zero carbon and greenfintech. Before joining the public sector, Michael spent more than twenty-five years at leading investment banks in the financial markets of New York and London.

Marc Nodorft is co-founder of the European environmental platform DEUS. He is head of project coordination for the mFUND project DEUS Smart Air supported by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and has worked in the past mainly in project development in the Central Asian region. Among other things, he has led projects on the use of catalysts and filters to reduce SMOG in emerging economies

Thomas Brück (*1972) obtained his B.Sc.in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Management Science as well as an M.Phil. in Molecular Medicine from Keele University, U.K.. In 2002, Thomas obtained his Ph.D. in Protein Biochemistry from Imperial College & Greenwich University, London, U.K.. From 2002-2006 Dr. Brück held an Assistance Professorship at Florida Atlantic University. In 2006 he joined Süd-Chemie AG in Germany, where he held various management positions in the central R&D unit Biotechnology. Since 2011 Thomas Brück is a tenured full Professur at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He holds the Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology and is Director of the TUM AlgaeTech Center. He became member in the German Government Bioeconomy Council in 2020.

Sally is Chief Executive at Forum for the Future with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems. This involves working with leading global organisations, including businesses such as Olam and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Foundations, such as the Laudes Foundation, and membership organisations, such as the United Nations Global Compact, both in one to one partnerships, and also as part of multi-stakeholder collaborations designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food, energy, apparel and shipping.

Jessie represents the Australian Government’s Global Talent Program in Europe and Israel. Her role is to work with exceptional individuals in future focused industry sectors to help fast-track their pathway to Australia in order to unlock Australian prosperity.
Prior to her current role Jessie worked as a management consultant with KPMG and in strategy for Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO. In her spare time Jessie supports the development of new, sustainably founded, Australian businesses through pro bono consulting.

Co-founding Boreal Light GmbH in 2014 in Berlin, Dr. Beheshti has designed and manufactured one of the most simple and highly affordable solar desalination system with great chance of operating safely in the most remote parts of the world. At Boreal Light GmbH, Dr. Beheshti has developed both technologies of drinking water supply and irrigation water supply for the off-grid parts of the planet. Establishing WaterKiosk Ltd has been the most infield initiative co-founded by Dr. Beheshti in East Africa to secure the access of local communities to products and services offered by Boreal Light GmbH. The rich in-field experiences, along his strong management skill make Dr. Beheshti always a great candidate to give speech in whatever events focusing on development and sustainability of the unprivileged parts of the world.

Nicole is an experienced attorney and nonprofit executive. She co-founded the Material Innovation Initiative after identifying the rich potential of the next-gen materials market through her work catapulting plant-based foods into the mainstream. In her previous role as director of international engagement at the Good Food Institute, Nicole worked with key audiences around the world including companies, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and government officials to promote the development of alternatives to animal products. Her expertise in the field and in bringing together stakeholders made her a sought after speaker at conferences and high profile meetings in locations like Israel, Estonia, Poland, London, Brazil, India, and across the U.S.

Dominik Schiener is an entrepreneur from Italy and the Co-Founder of IOTA and the IOTA Foundation. He has been in the Blockchain ecosystem since 2012 and has founded several startups in Switzerland and Germany. With IOTA he is working to establish trust to the Internet of Things and bring forth the emergencyof a Machine Economy. Through distributed ledgers he hopes to empower peopleall around the world through financial inclusion and new economic opportunities.

Anna Alex is founder and CCO of Planetly which is a climate-tech-company developing digital tools enabling companies to analyze, reduce and compensate their CO₂ emissions. Inspired by the “Leaders For Climate Action” initiative which Anna joined in 2019, she founded Planetly together with Benedikt Franke. It’s Planetly’s declared goal to make the business world carbon-neutral. She strongly believes that data and technology has what it takes to provide companies with the required transparency of their CO₂ footprint leading to actionable steps to reduce it.

Timon believes in the creative power of highly connected experts and entrepreneurs. With the founding of The Drivery GmbH in 2018, he created a marketplace for mobility innovators. In a unique environment the exchange of ideas and concepts between visionaries, investors, and politicians in accelerating innovation. Timon has distinguished himself as an MDAX executive, an entrepreneur, and a corporate venturing specialist with several successful foundations.

Alexander Piutti is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and innovation coach, who is deeply committed to social impact.

As Head of Sustainable Transformation at KPMG, I help organizations to excel in the fields of Geopolitics, ESG and Technology (GET). As a podcast host (“Zeitenwende”), keynote speaker and columnist, I analyze and explain long-term transformational trends and their impact on business and politics. In my latest book (“Zukunftsblind” – 2018), I am looking at the technological and economic disruptions shaping tomorrow’s society.
As an author and consultant, I leverage my experience as a Venture Capitalist. I started Vito Ventures as a founding Managing Director and invested in various deep tech B2B startups across Europe. Before Vito Ventures, I was part of the investment team at the global VC firm e.ventures.

Studied Applied Geography, for 25 yrs in the Media Industry, running Strategy & Innovation at Ströer

Sandya Lang has been the Sustainability Manager for Nudie Jeans since 2011. Prior to Nudie Jeans, she worked with t-shirt production in Sri Lanka and shoe production in Vietnam. She has extensive experience at the factory level and it is the improved working conditions in the supply chain that is her main interest. Within Nudie Jeans, she is responsible for the brand’s sustainability program and works daily with social compliance in the supply chain and the two main focus areas of transparency and living wages. She has a master’s degree in Development studies focusing on corporate social responsibility at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lavinia is an advocate for social & environmental justice. She has more than 10 years of proven experience in the world of ethically driven business with a focus on textiles. Lavinia joined ARMEDANGELS (Social Fashion Company GmbH) as the Corporate Responsibility Manager in late 2017. Prior to joining ARMEDANGELS, Lavinia researched in the field of Child Labour in global trade, audited, consulted, and supported numerous manufacturers, distributors & brands in China, Bangladesh, Europe, India, Myanmar, Turkey and South America supporting with the implementation of codes of conduct and textile industry standards in the areas of fair and safe working conditions and chemical management. She loves field operations and digging deeper at the factory level, and also working on strategic innovations.

Christian has been CEO of EnergyNest since 2014. He has more than 20 years’ experience in product development and executing market entries in the international tech sector in Europe, USA, Japan, China, India and UAE. Christian is focusing on the future-oriented implementation of industrial energy storage solutions, to the benefit of both businesses and environment. Earlier stations in his career include McKinsey and BMW Group amongst others. Christian holds a PhD in Marketing and a master’s degree in Business Administration. Prior to university, he completed his military service and participated in NATO’s peace-keeping mission in former Yugoslavia.