Speakers of 2018
Agnieszka Sarnecka
Agnieszka Sarnecka, VP Ventures at Neufund, is responsible for building and managing the ETO (Equity Token Offering) flow, and maintaining relationships with key partners and investors.
Alexander Michel
Alexander founded dwins (short for “digital wins”) together with his twin Benjamin Michel in 2015. The Company specializes in transaction analysis for banks and has advised many banks in the development of big data analytics and mobile banking applications.
Andreas Thümmler
He founded Corporate Finance Partners Group “CFP” in 1998, a leading European Tech & Internet Corporate Finance advisor with expertise and execution in mid-cap Tech Corporate Finance advisory and M&A transactions. In 2015 CFP merged with Acxit Capital Management to form ACXIT Capital Partners.
Ankur Kamalia
Ankur Kamalia joined Deutsche Börse Group in November 2015 as a Managing Director to take up the newly-created role as Head of Group Venture Portfolio Management and currently heads DB1 Ventures, DBG’s strategic investment arm.
Axel Apfelbacher
Axel is a digital banking strategist with a liking for disruptive business models. He is Chief Strategy Officer (Vorstand) @ niiio finance group AG.
Axel Schiemann
He focuses on financial regulation and compliance. Recently, he has advised on various ICOs both in the German market and internationally.
Benjamin Erhart
Benjamin Erhart is Partner at Munich based Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners), focussing on Industrial Tech and Mobility.
Benjamin Michel
Benjamin founded dwins (short for “digital wins”) together with his twin Alexander Michel in 2015. The Company specializes in transaction analysis for banks and has advised many banks in the development of big data analytics and mobile banking applications
Carlos Creus Moreira
Carlos Creus Moreira is the Founder Chairman CEO of WISeKey. Under his leadership, WISekey’s mission has been to continually advance and improve Internet Trust, Cybersecurity and Internet of things, and to make it easier and more secure for people to use the Internet.
Carsten Peter
Carsten is part of the Corporate Finance practice at Quirin Privatbank. He started his career in the financial markets department with BHF-BANK, over the years working in various posts related to the stock market.
Charles Fraenkl
Smartfrog CEO Charles Fraenkl is an internet and telco veteran. Prior to Smartfrog, he was the CEO of Gigaset AG.
Christian Ramme
Christian Ramme is an investment and corporate finance professional with more than 15 years of transaction, investment and M&A experience. He joined ACXIT Capital Partners in 2014 and became Managing Director in 2016.
Christian Hoppe
Christian, former CEO of Main Incubator GmbH, has been in the banking industry for over 18 years. He has co-authored several specialist articles, edited a number of reference books, is a sought after business angel and remarkably founded his first company at the age of only 21.
Christophe Hocquet
Christophe Hocquet is a passionate entrepreneur, successful founder and manager and was appointed CEO of the Brille24 Group in 2015.
Dr Alex von Frankenberg
Dr Alex von Frankenberg has been active in the world of venture capital and start-ups since 2000 and became Managing Director of High-Tech Gründerfonds in 2005.
Dr Marcus C. Funke
Marcus C. Funke advises clients in all aspects of securities and corporate law, particularly in the areas of initial public offerings, rights offerings, and bonds, including high-yield bonds.
Dr Markus E. Krüger
Markus E. Krüger specializes in complex structurings and M&A transactions, with a particular focus on the financial industry and on FinTech.
Dr Felix Hötzinger
Dr Felix Hötzinger began his career as an investment analyst with a venture capital company and is founder and co-founder of many fintech companies.
Dr Heinrich Zetlmayer
Heinrich Zetlmayer is an active investor and board member of Lykke Corp., the global trading platform based on blockchain technology.
Dr Sebastian Schäfer
Sebastian aims at promoting the startup scene Frankfurt Rhine-Main as one of the leading Startupand Fintech Hubs in Europe.
Dr Thomas Funke
Entrepreneurship has fascinated Thomas since he set up a course at university in 2008 that allowed students to start their own businesses.
Eran Davidson
Eran Davidson founded his seventh fund – Davidson Technology Growth Debt in 2015, the first German fund to provide growth debt to mid/late stage IT companies in Europe.
Eric Franz
Eric is a founder and the CTO of Cargodrone, a company that focusses on the replacement of trucks and railways in the long term.
Fabian Westerheide
Fabian Westerheide is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and investor with a passion for Artificial Intelligence.
Florian Petit
Florian Petit is an entrepreneur and roboticist. He is one of the founders of the start up Blickfeld. The company developed a unique LiDAR technology, that enables autonomous mobility.
Frank Niehage, LL.M.
Frank Niehage is the CEO of FinTech Group AG. He has vast experience across all segments of retail and commercial banking.
Frederic Hofmann
Frederic Hofmann is a Managing Director at ING Ventures, the €300m fintech investment fund of ING Bank, and a member of its Investment Committee.
Hannah Klose
Hannah is a natural born host! Her talent for authentic and charming moderation as well as hands on stage training is unique and empowering.
Hans-Christian Boos
Chris Boos' (Arago) mission: empowering human potential, freeing up time for creativity and innovative thinking through AI.
Holger Clemens Hinz
What I enjoy most of all is to help achieve goals for enterprises and entrepreneurs – be it a successful IPO, an effective financing of a restructuring measure or a successful bond issue
Jan Andresen
Managing Director of Engagement at the Cyber Innovation Hub of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).
Laurenz Apiarius
He is the Founder & CEO of Blockwall Capital - the first German crypto investment fund focused on Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies serving UHNWIs, Family Offices and Institutionals to gain access to this asset class.
Marc Wilczek
Marc Wilczek is a business leader with more than 20 years of experience in helping market-leading ICT companies to transform themselves, expand into new fields of business and geographies, and accelerate their growth.
Marina Zubrod
Marina Zubrod studied and worked in Melbourne, Stockholm, Frankfurt and London. She is building innovate products for Schufa Holding AG, ex-CEO asuro, worked in venture capital @ CommerzVentures, and has her roots in M&A for financial institutions.
Markus Koch
Markus Koch has covered Wall Street and the stock market for well over twenty years, and is credited for becoming one the first reporters to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Maximilian Lautenschläger
Maximilian Lautenschläger is the Sourcing Director and a Managing Partner of Iconiq Lab.
Michael Brecht
Michael Brecht is the CEO of InnovationFactory. Michael Brecht is a serial entrepreneur with more than twenty years of experience in IT and New Media.
Michael Mellinghoff
Michael is a seasoned investment professional with over 15 years of experience, spanning both the traditional banking and fintech world.
Niclas Braun
Niclas is a founder and the CEO of Cargodrone, a company that focusses on the replacement of trucks and railways in the long term.
Niko Wäsche
Niko co-founded German Media Pool, Germany's largest independent media for equity fund, in 2011.
Oliver Seiler
Oliver Seiler has broad experience in international equity capital markets transactions, particularly IPOs, capital increases (rights issues), blocktrades, and equity-linked transactions.
Paul Jozefak
Paul Jozefak is Managing Director of Otto Group Digital Solutions and its Company Builder Liquid Labs, where start-ups in FinTech and logistics are created.
Renata Bandov
Renata Bandov ist seit 2009 für die Gruppe Deutsche Börse tätig. Sie leitet als Syndikusanwältin den Bereich Listing & Issuer Services und verantwortet damit den gesamten Listingprozess sowie die Betreuung von Emittenten und Neukunden.
Stefan Roßbach
Stefan Roßbach is the co-founder and member of the board of directors of TME AG, as well as the chairman of TME Institute.
Sven Körner
Sven is a cognitive / semantic / DeepLearning / MachineLearning / NLP computing and cloud expert, an early adopter of new technologies and AI researcher.
Sven A. Weber
Sven is part of Deutsche Bank's New Digital Ecosystem team. He is responsible for the identification and development of new "beyond banking" solutions.