PROGRAM RULEBREAKER® EXPERIENCE SILICON VALLEY · with Apache Mesos. Mesosphere’s commercial product is the Mesosphere Datacentre Operating System (DCOS), a new kind of operating

RULEBREAKER® EXPERIENCE SILICON VALLEY

PROGRAM

AUGUST 24 \\ AUGUST 28, 2015

As of: August 19, 2015. This information is subject to change without notice.


Organizational matters:Overnight Stay: Dinah‘s Garden Hotel, 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA

All overnight stays (including the extra nights before and after the program) are booked and payed by us in advance! The hotel may only charge you individually for extras such as the mini-bar. We will charge you for the refund of expenses in case you booked extra nights afterwards in Germany.

Transport: To travel between the different stations in San Francisco we will use the typical transport service of the tech-elite: The Taxi alternative UBERTo get to the destinations in Silicon Valley we will use a hired Executive Coach from Black Tie Transportation with 22 seats.Every participant is responsible for his or her own transport from the airport to the hotel.

Dresscode: The Silicon Valley is known for its casual style of clothing. Even CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies are wear-ing sweatshirts and sneakers. Suits and ties are rather seen in the Financial District of San Francisco. At all the other places of our trip you are best suited with Business Casual. Jeans, shirts and a pair of modish shoes should be the perfect style in Silicon Valley…as well for our journey.

San Francisco is known for its unpredictable weather. A heat of 30 degrees can be followed by an ice-cold wind. That’s why it is recommended to always carry a light jacket with you. Generally though it should be nicely warm at this time of year and in the Valley the temperatures can even become tropical sometimes.

Mobility Silicon Valley:UBER on-demand ride service (App for iOS/Android/Windows)

Lyft on-demand ride service (App for iOS/Android)



Monday \\ August 24, 2015

Arrival & Get together at the Dinah‘s Garden Hotel, 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA

Tuesday \\ August 25, 2015

\ individually

Breakfast at the Hotel

\ 9:30 a.m.

Start from the Hotel to Mountain View

\ 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Samsung, ClydeAve, MountainView

\ 12:30 – 04.00p.m.

Facebook (incl. Lunch, guided tour, panel discussion),

Menlo Park

\ 4.30 – 6.00 p.m.

Swarm, Palo Alto

\ 6.30 – 09.00 p.m.

BBQ at the Facebook-house

\\ Company profile: Samsung

From its inception as a small export business in Taegu, Ko-rea, Samsung has grown to become one of the world’s leading electronics companies, specializing in digital appliances and media, semiconductors, memory, and system integration. To-day Samsung‘s innovative and top quality products and pro-cesses are world recognized. This timeline captures the major milestones in Samsung‘s history, showing how the company expanded its product lines and reach, grew its revenue and market share, and has followed its mission of making life better for consumers around the world.

\\ Company profile: Facebook

Facebook, Inc. is a social networking service and website. Its website allows people to communicate with their family, friends, and coworkers. The company offers advertisers a combination of reach, relevance, social context, and engagement to en-hance the value of their ads. Its services include timeline, news feed, messages, lists, ticker and mobile apps. Facebook was founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris R. Hughes, Andrew McCollum and Eduardo P. Saverin on February 4, 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

\\ Company profile: Swarm

Founded in 2012, Swarm is a venture-backed technology com-pany with headquarters in San Francisco, California, and offic-es in New York and Australia. Swarm is committed to helping small business retailers understand their business and cus-tomers better. The company’s family of “smart” retail devices, coupled with advanced retail analytics and a comprehensive retail management platform, can help retailers increase sales through superior insights. Its ongoing commitment to building innovative tools means that retailers can have detailed data and advanced personalization and marketing techniques for physical stores that are on par with online retail business.

\\ Person profile: Dr. Farzan Fallah (Idelan inc.)

Farzan Fallah is president of Idelan inc., an R&D company providing different technology services and solutions special-ised on wearable technologies such as smart watches and glasses. Dr. Fallah also had breaking successes in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, trust establishing techniques in cyberspace, low power design techniques etc. He received a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Tech-nology in Tehran and an M.S and Ph.D. in E.E and Computer Science from MIT. Before starting his own technology firm he also worked as Professor, Engineering Director and Scientist at Fujitsu and Stanford University. Furthermore he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

\\ Person profile: Oliver Hanisch

Mr. Oliver Hanisch is a Partner at Apaxys Ventures. He is based in San Mateo, California. Previously, Mr. Hanisch served as a Co-Founder and Consultant at VentureGate, Business Devel-opment, Director at Red Herring, Founder and Consultant at 8P Project Consulting, Contractor at Hewlett-Packard, and Founder at pulque. He is a Facilitator at Founder Institute, Adviser at International Economic Alliance, Co-Founder and Adviser at SnipClip, and Co-Chair Entrepreneurship and Ven-ture Capital Group at German American Business Association. Mr. Hanisch studied at Karlstads universitet and Fachhoch-schule Pforzheim - Hochschule für Gestaltung, Technik und Wirtschaft.



\\ Person profile: Dirk Lammert

Prior to myNEXT, Dirk had joined Burrill & Company to lead the firm’s digital health investments. Throughout his career, Dirk has been driving technology convergence through innovative use of computer technologies and online, mobile, and interac-tive media in medicine, based on the premise that these tech-nologies are providing a platform to fundamentally improve access to and quality of healthcare worldwide. Dirk has served on the boards of AliveCor and BetterDoctor. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in healthcare, life scienc-es, and high-tech industries. He has a combined medical and computer science background. He holds an M.D. from Dues-seldorf University Medical School and trained in Neurology at the University of Cologne Medical Center. Dirk also received Board certification in Medical Computer Science by the Ger-man Medical Association. Early in his career, Dirk developed computer-based training programs for neurological patients suffering from memory and cognitive deficits.

Wednesday \\ August 26, 2015

\ individually


\ 8:30 a.m.

Start from the Hotel

\ 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

AirBnB, San Francisco

\ 11:30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

San Francisco – City

\ 1.00 - 2:30 p.m.

Shyp, San Francisco

\ 3:30 – 05.00 p.m.

Mesosphere, San Francisco

\ 6.30 – 09.00 p.m.

OSHA Thai Restaurant, San Francisco

\\ Company profile: AirBnB

Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discov-er and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects peo-ple to unique travel experiences at any price point, with over 500,000 listings in 33,000 cities and 192 countries.With a growing community of users, Airbnb also provides an easy way for people to monetize their extra space and show-case it to an audience of millions. Founded in August 2008, Airbnb has acquired several of its competitors, including Acco-leo, CrashPadder, NabeWise, and Localmind.Airbnb was founded in August 2008 by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, Cal-ifornia, USA.

\\ Company profile: Shyp

Shyp, Inc. developed and published a mobile phone shipping application. The App allows users to take a picture of itemst hat they wish to ship and have it picked up by a driver and then have it professionally packaged offsite and shipped by com-mon carrier. Shyp markets its services in major cities through-out the US. It was founded by Jack Smith, Joshua Scott and Kevin Gibbon in 2013, is already supported by 27 Investors and has its headquarter in San Francisco.

\\ Company profile: Mesosphere

Mesosphere is dedicated to helping enterprises unlock the next generation of datacentre scale, efficiency and automation with Apache Mesos. Mesosphere’s commercial product is the Mesosphere Datacentre Operating System (DCOS), a new kind of operating system that spans the entire datacentre and pools datacentre resources and automates IT operations. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Fuel Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with a second office in Hamburg, Germany

\\ Person profile: Hank Pellissier

Hank Pellissier is a humanitarian writer, editor, speaker and producer, especially on futurist and transhumanist topics. He wrote 22 articles for Hplus-Magazine in 2009-2010. In 2011



he wrote 30 articles for IEET.org - the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Seven of his articles placed in the Top 12 in 2011 hits. In 2012 he was appointed the Managing Di-rector of IEET, plus he continued to write for the site, finishing the year with 4 articles in the Top 12. He left IEET in October 2012 to start Transhumanity.net. He gave that site to Zero State in February 2013, and started ImmortalLife.info. He sold that site to Giovanni Santostasi in June 2013, and started Brighter-Brains. At this site he producing the TRANSHUMAN VISIONS conferences in the SF Bay Area.

\\ Person profile: Xiaoxi Wei

As a supramolecular chemist with business experience Xiaoxi Wei is Founder & CEO at X-Therma. The incoroporation is de-veloping a radical new highway of non-toxic, hyper-effective antifreeze agents to fight unwanted ice formation in regenera-tive medicine (Ultimate Market), advanced formulation cosmet-ics (Entry Market), enhanced quality frozen food, and industrial de-icing applications using nature-inspired biomimetic nano-science. She also works at the Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory and is in charge of the Vice Chair of the Younger Chemists Committee

\\ Person profile: Randal A. Koene

Randal A. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, and co-founder of carboncopies.org, the outreach and road-mapping organization for advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (SIM). Between 2008 and 2010, Koene was Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at the Fatronik-Tecnalia Institute in Spain, the third largest private research organi-zation in Europe. Koene earned his Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology at McGill Uni-versity, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a speciali-zation in Information Theory at Delft University of Technology. He is a former Professor at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University, and is co-founder of the Neural Engi-neering Corporation of Massachusetts. Koene established the MindUploading.org website and first proposed the term and specific approach called whole brain emulation, the purpose of which is the technological accomplishment of mind trans-fer to a different substrate. His professional research objective is the implementation of whole brain emulation: creating the

large-scale high-resolution representations and emulations of activity in neuronal circuitry that are needed in patient-specific neuroprotheses. He is a member of the Oxford working group that convened in 2007 to create a first roadmap toward whole brain emulation.

\\ Person profile: Andres Gomez Emilsson

Andrés Gómez Emilsson is President of the Stanford Transhu-manist Association. He is a Research Assistant at Stanford University. He was previously Intern, Data Analyst at Kanjoya and Intern, Research Egineer at Klout. Andrés earned a degree in Symbolic Systems, AI and CogSci concentrations at Stan-ford. In 2013. He is completing a Master’s degree in Compu-tianal Psychology at Stanford University. He also is known for winning many mathematical contests around the world.

Thursday \\ August 27, 2015

\ individually Breakfast at the Hotel

\ 9:30 a.m.


\ 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Meeting Ge Wang, Stanford

\ 11:30 a.m. – 1.00p.m.

Lunch at Coho with Catalin Voss (tbc), Stanford

\ 1.00 - 2:30 p.m.

Meeting Dr. Dennis Wall, Stanford University

\ 3:30 – 5.30 p.m.

Battery Ventures (tbc) or NASA (tbc)

\ 6.30 – 9.00 p.m.

Dinner at Nola’s with: Matthias Hohensee – Wirtschaftswoche

Eric Martindale (tbc), Sean Ironstag – Oceanus

\\ Person profile: Ge Wang

Ge Wang is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His research interests include interactive software



systems for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, new performance ensembles (e.g., lap-top orchestras and mobile phone orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), mobile music, interfaces for human-comput-er interaction, interactive audio over networks, and method-ologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the author of the ChucK audio programming language, and was a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). He is the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO).

\\ Person profile: Catalin Voss

Catalin Voss is a German student entrepreneur at Stanford Uni-versity. Voss founded the computer vision startup Sension dur-ing his freshman year at Stanford’s startup accelerator StartX, where he is an Innovator in Residence. Sension gained traction for developing expression recognition software used in edu-cation and for developing a Google Glass app to aid people with Autism in recognizing social cues. Before, Voss worked in mobile software engineering with the startup PayNearMe. He was interested in technology from a young age. When he was twelve, he taught himself the basics of mobile software devel-opment when iPhone apps first became popular. A year later, he started a German podcast about iOS development. Voss’s tutorials quickly gained > 200,000 views and became the #1 podcast on the German iTunes store. In 2009, he began work-ing with a startup in Stuttgart on iPhone apps for the U.S. Army stationed in Europe and launched five applications before he turned 15. Steve Capps hired Voss as a software engineer in 2010 to work on his Silicon Valley startup PayNearMe’s mo-bile product. Voss worked on the company’s iPhone, Android, and web platforms and helped launch a mobile cash payments platform. In 2012, Voss joined Stanford University at age 17 to pursue a degree in Computer Science (advisee of Professors Terry Winograd and Jerry Cain). During the same year, Voss ad-vised the executive team of Germany’s largest media company Axel Springer on structuring a technology partnership between a Silicon Valley outpost and Germany. His role gained national attention when the German magazine DER SPIEGEL covered his work in 2013. Today, As an IIR in the StartX program, Voss advises StartX’s founders on mobile engineering.

\\ Person profile: Dr. Dennis Wall

Dennis Wall is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Stan-ford University School of Medicine, where his lab is developing novel approaches in systems biology to decipher the molecu-lar pathology of autism spectrum disorder and related neuro-logical disorders. Dr. Wall received his doctorate in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he pioneered the use of fast evolving gene sequences to trace population-scale diversification across islands. Then, with a postdoctoral fellowship award from the National Science Foun-dation, he went on to Stanford University to address broader questions in systems biology and computational genomics, work that resulted in comprehensive functional models for both protein mutation and protein interaction. Dr. Wall has acted as science advisor to several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, has developed cutting-edge approaches to cloud computing, and has received numerous awards, including an NSF postdoctoral fellowship, the Fred R. Cagle Award for Out-standing Achievement in Biology, the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research, three awards for excellence in teaching, and the Harvard Medical School Leadership award.

\\ Company profile: Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in cut-ting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, Web infrastructure, e-commerce, dig-ital media and industrial technologies. The firm, which was founded in 1983, has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Menlo Park, California, San Francisco, California and Herzliya, Israel. The firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to lat-er stage, with investments as low as a few hundred-thousand dollars and up to $100 million. The investment team is adept at sophisticated deal structures such as leveraged buyouts, PIPEs, spin outs, rollups and take-privates, as well as debt ar-rangements and secondary transactions. The firm has raised approximately $4 billion of investor commitments since incep-tion across ten funds. As of 2013, Battery is currently investing from its tenth fund, BV X and BV X Side Fund, a $900 million fund.[1]Battery’s previous fund was closed in 2010 with $750 million of investor commitments.



\\ Company profile: NASA Ames Research Center /

Space Portal @ NASA Research Park

The Space Portal of the NASA Research Park was established in 2005 to provide a “friendly front door” for the commercial development of space for public benefit. This collaboratory of award-winning senior space scientists, engineers, technolo-gists and educators began as a volunteer brainstorming group that saw the potential of commercial space exploration and development for public benefit. The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (as amended)* assigns NASA the mission to “seek and encourage, to the maximum extent possible, the full-est commercial use of space”.The White House and Congress have affirmed this mandate to NASA in multiple federal laws, and in national policy.

\\ Person profile: Matthias Hohensee

Matthias is US-Correspondent of the German economy-mag-azine Wirtschaftswoche and lives in Silicon Valley since 1998, where he could spectate the rise of companies such as Goog-le, Facebook, Yahoo and Ebay right on sight. Furthermore he was able to interview about every one of the most influential Internet-Businessmen. Since about 10 years Matthias pub-lishes the column “Valley Talk” in the print version of WiWo, in which he introduces the newest Trends, business models and businessmen from the Californian Hightech-Eldorado. For his documentaries about Google and the Silicon Valley Entrepre-neur Andreas Bechtolsheim he won the Georg von Holtzbrinck Award of Economy-journalism.

\\ Person profile: Eric Martindale

Eric Martindale is a relentless maker and serial entrepreneur, having founded his first successful company at 18 and continu-ing to lead early stage companies through the open source eco-system throughout his career. His passion lies in world-chang-ing ideas and seeing them through to fruition, something that has driven him to acquire robust array of skills in entrepreneur-ship, technology, and design. Eric has been an autodidact from an early age, devouring whole encyclopaedias at first before moving on to libraries and eventually the Internet. His tenuous relationship with the education system—spanning public, pri-vate, charter, home, and even personalized schools—has given

him a passion for building something revolutionary to address the ever-expounding array of problems in the education space, leading to him cofound Coursefork in early 2013.

Eric is also an avid adventurer and athlete, participating in ac-tivities ranging from wilderness survival camps and rock climb-ing to jiu-jitsu, muay thai, and mixed martial arts (MMA). He’s previously participated in month-long Search & Rescue (SAR) training exercises in the mountains of West Virginia and even moonlighted as a musician at local venues.

\\ Company / Person profile: Oceanus / Sean Ironstag

Oceanus’ (and Sean Ironstag’s) objectives are straightforward: Clean the pacific gyre, transform plastic debris into workable material and build upon that. Our dynamic and efficient new ways of thinking about the gyres will pave the road to an infin-etaly healthier, more productive marine environment. With the goal to create a green-living community steeped from incep-tion in the tradition of self-sustainability. Oceanus is embarking on a promising journey. We invite you to make it with us.

Friday \\ August 28, 2015

\ individually


\ 8:30 a.m.


\ 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Alta Motors, South San Francisco

\ 12:00 – 1.30 p.m.

San Francisco - City

\ 1.30 - 3:00 p.m. Space VR, San Francisco

\ 3:30 – 5.30p.m.

GSVA, Try Fleet, San Francisco


\\ Company profile: Alta Motors

Alta Motors (formerly BRD Motorcycles) is a team of racers, rid-ers, designers, engineers, makers, builders, thinkers, mechan-ics, and troublemakers. The Company is a very future-oriented one that builds quality electric bikes. It is privately owned and has it’s headquarter in San Francisco.Alta Motors was founded in 2010.

\\ Company profile: Space VR

If a single image of the Earth rising in the dark of space can spawn a national environmental movement, imagine how in-spiring a live, 360-degree, 3-D video stream of our planet and the International Space Station could be.

That’s the theory behind SpaceVR, a San Francisco startup that’s planning to have its virtual-reality camera, known as the Overview One, put into space and mounted on the space sta-tion as early as next year. Once it’s up and running, anyone will be able to watch the video online, and those with virtual-reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, the Gear VR, and Google Cardboard will be able to immerse themselves in the view from space.

\\ Company profile: Try Fleet

Founded in September 2014 and based in San Francisco Fleet changes the way small to medium sized businesses engage and choose international freight forwarders. For customers who need international transportation services Try Fleet pro-vides a place to learn about service providers directly from the customer perspective. For international freight forwarders the company provides a platform to demonstrate the quality of ser-vices you provide. The goal is to simplify the global commercial shipping industry by providing an easy-to-use platform, relia-ble shipments, fair pricing, and an unparalleled customer expe-rience for shippers of any size. The Start-Up will create and add new value features for both customers and service providers as they grow together.

\\ Company profile: German Silicon Valley Accelerator

To establish a permanent bridge between Germany and the U.S. that facilitates transatlantic startups, provides inspiration and drives demand, innovation, research and development in Germany. It enables German startups to evolve into global cor-porations with lasting competitiveness and success in interna-tional markets.

To accelerate the growth of German tech startups and to de-velop them into internationally recognized and successful ven-tures by providing an understanding of the U.S. startup culture and access to U.S. market and financing opportunities.

RULEBREAKER® EXPERIENCE SILICON VALLEYAUGUST 24 \\ AUGUST 28, 2015

Jürgen is founder of the Company ABRAMS PREMIUM STEEL.He studied Industrial Engineering and Management and worked for Companies such as Schoeller Group, G. Claas Group and Porsche before starting his own business with which he became one of the top steel-suppliers in the wide range of all technical branches. His brand was able to establish a significant amount of new products and developed a pa-tented software for the steel industry which is by now installed more than 20.000 times worldwide. Furthermore it is used browser-based by thousands of technicians in this niche industry using speciality steel. The idea: using multi-dimensional parameters for the selec-tion of most appropriate steel for an individual application, selectable in realtime.

Jürgen is currently introducing two new start-ups with the aim to generate business knowledge based on big data. Due to the great impact it is already supported by the EU.

MANAGING PARTNER, ABRAMS PREMIUM STAHL

Dr. Jürgen Abrams

RULEBREAKER® SILICON VALLEYPARTICIPANTS

Henning Bauwe is Partner Innovation & Strategic Growth Initiatives at KPMG since April 2015 and is responsible for building up the Business Eco-System. He has more than 12 years experience in business development, strategy, innovation and commercial management in the IT and telecommunications industry. Before his job change to KPMG he worked for well-known companies (VW, Thyssenkrupp, RWE, E.on, Comcast and Deutsche Telekom) in different management positions. As SPV of Deutsche Telekom he was in charge of rebuilding the key account distribution to an industry- and customer- oriented market model. At Deutsche Telekom and with partners from finance industry he developed business process outsourcing and established that at leading bank and insurance companies. He also had the responsibility for various M&A processes and realized split-offs of organi-zational units as well as the integration of different cultures for additional growth impulses. In the last five years his practice focus has been the implementation of disruptive innova-tions in collaborations, mobile, business intelligence, security and sustainability. By set-ting up industry comprehensive innovation network in cooperation with high tech industry, startups and universities, he wants to enable new innovation speed for classic companies.

PARTNER INNOVATION & STRATEGIC GROWTH INITIATIVES, KPMG

Henning Bauwe


Frank is responsible for future trends and technology transfer at IAV‘s Vehicle Integ-rated Functions Department in Germany. After studying electrical engineering in Ilmenau and many years of professional experience in the semiconductor industry, he has worked in the automotive industry since 2004. He gained valuable experience in the field of electric mobility and autonomous driving. Today, he examines the effects of future technologies and global trends on mobility‘s future. Frank also works as a consultant for the European Commission in terms of new Intelligent Transport Systems‘ roll-out and is a corresponding member of the Deployment Working Group of ITS America.

IAV is one of the world’s leading providers of engineering services to the automotive indus-try, employing over 6,000 people. The company has been developing innovative concepts and technologies for the vehicles of the future for more than 30 years. Core competencies include production-ready solutions in all fields of electronics, powertrain and vehicle deve-lopment. Clients include all the world‘s premier automobile manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to development centers in Berlin, Gifhorn and Stollberg near Chemnitz, IAV operates from other locations in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, IAV

Frank Fickel

After graduating University Astrid worked in diverse Communication Agencies for more than 15 years. There she was responsible for strategy and conception of company development, campaigns and account management. In 2007 she changed perspectives and started at Cosnova to build up the communication department for both brands. “Our aim was and is always to communicate on an eye level with the consumer - in a smart way without spending too much money for media. Off this reason we were one of the first cosmetic brands in Social Media channels.“ Since March of this year Astrid is part of the Innovation Team and responsible for Creative Strategy and Concepts that will help the company and brands to stay ahead.

SENIOR EXPERT CREATIVE STRATEGY & CONCEPTS, COSNOVA THINK TANK

Astrid Haury

Ralf Heinze followed the request of Mr. Kostal to return to the KOSTAL-Group in 2012 and was appointed Vice President for the Kostal EE.Labs / Think-Tank in Germany.This business unit bundles and extends competencies of the KOSTAL-Group and genera-tes innovative ideas, marketable products and services. His team works as Market-, Trend- and Technology-Scout and identifies potential business models regarding future opportu-nities for the KOSTAL-Group. Previously, he served as Partner and Senior Manager for Lean Management and Operational Excellence in the Kloepfel Consulting Group and Porsche Consulting Group, focusing on DAX and MDAX customers.

Besides work, he studied Business Economics and Management, graduating with an MBA in 2008. Ralf Heinze studied Mechanical Engineering in Germany, Italy and the USA and graduated in 1993. After a one year freelancer employment for the European Communities (Italy), he started his automotive career at Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG , Germany, as Project Manager for International Automotive Projects. Ralf Heinze is Board-Member of the Alumni-Network of the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Bochum and was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences in 2014.

HEAD OF SYSTEMHAUS EFFIZIENZ, LEOPOLD KOSTAL

Ralf Heinze ht!


Jörg is with the Hannover Re for 16 years now. During that time he had several roles in-cluding project manager for several Enterprise Content Management projects. Since 2012 he worked as a Senior Architect looking after innovations in applying IT technologies and handling data within Hannover Re. Jörg finished a program for Enterprise Architecture in 2014 with a title “Approved Business Enterprise Architect by EuroCIO”.

SENIOR ARCHITECT OF INNOVATIONS IN APPLYING IT, HANNOVER RÜCK

Jörg Heiß

Dr. Doris Höpke was born in Georgsmarienhütte in 1966. She completed her law studies at the universities of Osnabrück, Hanover and Leiden with a doctorate. She commenced her career as assistant to the Board member responsible for industrial liability insurance at HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie V.a.G. in 1996. She subsequently beca-me the HDI‘s in-house attorney responsible for the management and negotiation of large industrial liability claims of corporate clients worldwide. Dr. Höpke joined Munich Reinsu-rance Company in 1999, where she worked as in-house legal counsel until 2001 and was head of section at Munich-American RiskPartners (MARP Munich) until 2003. In 2003, she took on the project management for „Business Group Master“ as part of Munich Re‘s glo-bal IT project GLORIA (Global Reinsurance Application). From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Höpke was head of the divisional unit Aerospace & Special Services. In 2011, Dr. Höpke became head of Munich Re, Madrid. Since 1 May 2014, Dr. Höpke has been a member of the Board of Management of Munich Reinsurance Company, with responsibility for the Health Division.

MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, MÜNCHENER RÜCKVERSICHERUNGS-GESELLSCHAFT

Dr. Doris Höpke


Ralph is a cofounder of Suberg Strategy Consultants. In Addition he acts as a Sector Principal for London-based Hampleton Partners, a M&A boutique specialized in the tech sector. Ralph began his career in the international fashion industry. Later on, while working in both consulting and different industries, he focused on international expansion in mar-kets such as Russia, India and China. Advising well-known brands for over 15 years Ralph has spent most of the last decade specializing in digital strategy. This includes building e-commerce solutions (b2b/b2c), selective distribution concepts and effective brand pro-tection on the Internet. He frequently appears in the trade press and at industry events as an author, speaker and moderator. Ralph is also an active investor in start-ups focusing on advanced digital innovations such as UX/strategy by design or VR/AR.

CO-FOUNDER OF SUBERG STRATEGY CONSULTANTS AND SECTOR PRINCIPAL WITH HAMPLETON PARTNERS

Ralph Hübner ht!

Sven is Germany’s best known economic futurist and trend researcher. The media call his company „Germany‘s most innovative business think tank“. Annually, together with 300 top managers, he creates the business models for the next ten years. Sven is the author of several books and dozens of future studies that have laid the basis for strategic decisions in several industries in Germany.

FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2BAHEAD AND PRESIDENT OF RULEBREAKER SOCIETY

Sven Gábor Jánszky

Thomas Lauber started his career with an apprenticeship in banking at UBS. After several years as a relationship manager for private clients he moved in 2009 as a product manager to Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank. There he was responsible for numerous product innovations. Nowadays he is in lead for the inhouse “innovation facto-ry” and sustainability board. One of his main topics is the question, how traditional banks have to change their business modell and lead offering in times of disruption due to new digital players in the banking environment. Thomas Lauber is 39 years old, lives in Basel, Switzerland, and has two children at the age of five and three.

HEAD OF INNOVATION FACTORY AND HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY, BASELLANDISCHE KARTONALBANK

Thomas Lauber

Since January 1, 2015, Andreas Schobert is appointed as Chief Technology Officer.The 42 year-old assumes responsibility for the Technology division at which group-wide information technology and the e-business activities will be pooled. As Director of E-Busi-ness, Schobert has been responsible for the international development and enhancement of the Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG Group‘s online business since 2012. He previously headed the sales innovations department for five years, focusing among other areas on the deve-lopment of new business fields. Schobert, who holds a doctorate in business administrati-on, began his career at Hornbach as assistant to EO Steffen Hornbach in 2004.

CHAIRMAN TECHNOLOGY HORNBACH BAUMARKT

Andreas Schobert

Andrea was born in 1974. She finished her apprenticeship as a commercial clerk in Bern and first started working in Travel agencies in Switzerland. In 2003 she found-ed the business4you Holding AG in which she works as C.E.O. ever since. Business4you is a All-Line Marketing Agency that is an owner-managed and has 4 venues around the world: In Biel (CH), Zurich, Ho-Chi-Minh and Honkong. Meanwhile the Agency leads two subsidiaries and has 56 Employees. Andrea is also a professor at a university of applied sciences teaching innovation-management and strategic management, President of the economic chamber Biel/Seeland and Co-President of the Brand-and Marketingday Bern/Biel/Seeland.

C.E.O, BUSINESS4YOU

Andrea Roch ht!


As the Head of tax at the Bayerische Landesbrandversicherg in Munich, Alma is in a challenging management position in the insurance industry. She has advanced know-ledge in taxation of German insurance business and more than twenty years of experience in tax consultancy. Alma has proven her ability to combine strategy with organized change and people. She also has a strong record of and is always looking to improve operational efficiencies as well as structuring new complex problems. She is also Co-leader of the project Solvency II within the VKB Group, which is the new European regulatory law for insurance companies. Additionally she is the head of a group of 10, representing the exe-cutives, elected from the VKB Group. She successfully completed her studies with the title Diplom-Finanzwirtin (FH) at the University of applied Science Hamburg.

DEPARTMENTAL DIRECTOR OF TAXES, BAYERISCHE LANDESBRANDVERSICHERUNG

Alma Schroedter

Frank is a passionate entrepreneur and founder of e-dox. He has the 7th sense for market trends, strong analytical skills and the ability to convert trends into business models. He understands himself as a digital visionary and states that the present wor-king approaches and processes in offices are facing a dramatic change. With a strong background in printing technology and all document related processes the 1999 founded e-dox GmbH with its headquarters in Chemnitz/Saxony has today two subsidiaries and is specialized in digitizing companies. e-dox‘ expertise is the digital transformation process and the resulting chances for companies and the whole IT sector. Frank transformed e-dox from analog to digital and lives the paperless office thoroughly.

CEO, E-DOX

Frank Theeg

Phillipp is currently the Head of Interactive at the Mediaschneider AG in Zurich, which is the biggest independent swiss media agency. He started his career with an apprenticeship and studied at Swiss institute for Marketing and Communications (SAWI). At the Mediaschnei-der AG he is leading a team with 17 digital consultans, technology analystics and media-planning specialists. Furthermore Philipp is lecturing at different marketing and advertising schools and leads the education partnership program in mass communication and online journalism at the University of Zambia, Africa.

HEAD OF INTERACTIVE, MEDIASCHNEIDER

Philipp Semmler ht!


Nicolas is the VP of business development at Control€xpert GmbH, a family owned business that helps all major insurance companies to bring more efficiency in their motor claims processes. With engineering and business background Nicolas joined one of his family‘s organizations, which are all automotive and claims related, to help them grow internationally by setting up over 20 subsidiaries in international markets around the world. Nicolas is 30 years old and after leading Control€xpert’s operations in Germany for some years, he recently moved to Los Angeles to establish his company in the US market.

VICE PRESIDENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, CONTROLEXPERT

Nicolas Witte

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