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Christoph Weigler has been the General Manager of Uber Germany since 2015. Christoph worked for a strategic consulting firm on international projects in the automotive industry for OEMs and Tier 1s. He studied business administration at European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, Tsinghua University Beijing, China and Arizona State University, United States.

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. Today Christopher supports and builds sustainability companies (mainly scale ups) with great innovations. His more than 20 years of experience of supporting Fortune 500 companies and several hundred scale ups in orchestrating their deal management in combination with extended research support his mission well.

As Co-Managing Director at NovAzure, Christopher Gruen’s expertise spans energy and mobility innovation topics with an electrification and decarbonisation focus bringing corporate, startup and investor eco systems together across Europe and Asia to accelerate Net Zero. In particular, Chris spearheads investments and startup acceleration efforts. Among these startups, CityQ stands out as an urban mobility startup introducing one of the most carbon friendly vehicle platforms being launched across Europe. Chris actively engages within CityQ as a venture builder, driving business development initiatives. His former tenure involved leading multimillion-dollar transformations for a global energy company. At NovAzure, next to Startup acceleration, commercialisation and venture building Chris excels in implementing circular business models for net-zero programs and managing corporate sustainability transformations.

As the Executive Board Member for Sustainability and Development of FÜCHSE BERLIN, I bring over four years of experience in fostering sustainable practices within sports organizations. Currently serving as Co-Chairman of the Sustainability Board at the European Handball Federation and the Nachhaltigkeits-Taskforce at Handball-Bundesliga GmbH, I am dedicated to driving positive environmental and social impact. With a background as Founder & CEO of XU sustainable, I am committed to leading initiatives that promote sustainability and advance the development of our community.

Claudia Müller, Member of the German Bundestag since 2017, Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. Born in Rostock, studied International Business Administration in Stralsund. Spent 1998/1999 abroad in the USA. Active in local politics 2009 to 2022. In first term in the German Bundestag, Mrs. Mueller was a member of the Economic Affairs committee and the European Affairs committee.
From the beginning of the 21st legislative period until January 2023, Claudia Müller was a member of the Defense Committee and an alternate member of the Transport Committee. From 2022 to January 2023, she was the Federal Government’s Coordinator for Maritime Industries and Tourism. Since January 2023, Claudia Müller has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Constance is a sustainability expert with over 20 years of experience working on topics such as climate change, nature, energy, biodiversity, social and environmental enterprises, as well as gender equality and human rights. She has strong expertise in building partnerships and brings a global perspective to her work having grown up in Mongolia and Singapore and having been posted in countries such as North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Viet Nam and the United States. She recently joined Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Germany (CCEP) from the United Nations and leads the coordination and implementation of the CCEP Sustainability Strategy.

Environmental policy specialist and lead business developer at Volta Greentech. Working to eliminate methane emissions from the world’s cows & sheep by 2050.

Céline Flores Willers is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of The People Branding Company, the leading German consultancy for personal branding and corporate influencing on LinkedIn. Céline is one of the most relevant voices around the topic of visibility as well as personal and corporate storytelling in the digital world. For her contributions around entrepreneurship, innovation and future trends, Céline Flores Willers has already been awarded three times as LinkedIn Top Voice and is also on the road as a speaker throughout Europe (including TEDx Talk).

Daniel Kiss is a team member of HomeSwap, one of the winning teams of the HackHPI Hackathon 2024. He is also a student at the Hasso Plattner Institute, and founding engineer at Elephant Company, building the future of frontline operations.

Dr. Daniela Gerd tom Markotten studied industrial engineering and received her doctorate in IT security, combining two passions: IT and technology. She held various positions in IT, logistics and production at Daimler AG, such as CEO of “Daimler Fleetboard Management” as well as Head of “Digital Solutions & Services” of Mercedes-Benz Trucks. In 2017, Daniela became CEO of moovel, a mobility joint venture of the BMW Group and Daimler AG. In mid-2020, she founded the tech startup IUHHOO GmbH, which is developing AI/AR-powered video calls for premium customer support. Daniela has been appointed Board Member for Digitalization and Technology at Deutsche Bahn AG in September 2021. Her mission: utilizing digitalization and technology to make Deutsche Bahn the most popular and sustainable means of transport for customers.

David is a successful technology entrepreneur with over 19 years of experience in software development and business creation. Before founding syte in 2021, he was the founder and CTO of Familonet, a startup that was successfully exited and acquired by Daimler in 2017. The focus area of the graduate mathematician is the innovative technological development of syte in order to always be one step ahead of the market.

Kovar joined Deere in 2000 and spent most of her career in positions in channel and product management, where she gained a deep understanding of customers’ requirements. She has developed an extensive background in precision technologies, beginning with her move in 2010 to the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group as Manager of Portfolio Management. Later positions included Division Sales Manager, Director, Production & Precision Ag Marketing, and Director, Global Operator Stations. Kovar grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm and earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business management from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Loyola University in Chicago.

Former race car driver and aerodynamics expert who co-developed Karts and open wheel cars during his active career. Dennis established strong networks to renowned OEMs as a driver. Now, he is entrepreneur in the fashion industry with a strong entrepreneurial and design competence. Currently, Managing Director of Odonata.