OUR TOA23 partners
This project was funded as part of the Union's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Technology transforms how we work, live, and relate to one another.
It is on us to seize the opportunities ahead and steer change toward the good. Join 5,000+ curious minds in Berlin! Learn from the world's leading founders, investors, operators, scientists and creatives.
Meet the people that could change your life!
Attendees
Speakers
Satellite events
Founders/CxOs
Business matches
This project was funded as part of the Union's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Our program pillars will cover key verticals from Business Success, Web3, AI & Deep Tech to Climate, Health, and SynBio. Dive in and learn more about these areas that are shaping our future.
Big-name tech leaders, thought-provoking academics, inspiring creatives, and exceptional founders.
Audrey is currently the Co-CEO at Clue, the female health app that helps millions of people better understand their menstrual cycle so they can live full and healthy lives. In this role, she leads product, design, data science, and growth. Before joining Clue, she was Product Lead of the Pinterest Home Feed, Director of Mobile at HotelTonight (acquired by Airbnb), and the first Product Manager at Yelp. She also co-founded, pivoted, navigated the business and emotional roller coaster, and shuttered a photo-sharing startup called Waddle.
Co-CEO
Clue by BioWink GmbH
Tao Tao is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s business operations. Under Tao’s direction, GetYourGuide has grown into the leading global online booking platform for incredible travel experiences, with a nearly $2 billion valuation after raising $1.1 billion overall and more than 75.000 activities offered to date. As COO, he ensures GetYourGuide’s business runs smoothly along its entire value chain.
Co-Founder & COO
Get Your Guide
Pia Mancini is a democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder at Open Collective and Chair of Democracy Earth Foundation. She worked in politics in Argentina and developed technology for democracy around the world. YC Alum, globe-trotter and Roma’s mum. She is now based in NYC. YC Alum, YGL (World Economic Forum).
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Co-Founder & CEO
Open Collective
Ingmar founded “CureVac, the RNA people“ together with colleagues in Tübingen, Germany in 2000. His entrepreneurship was motivated by his surprising discovery during his doctoral research that naked mRNA can be expressed in vivo without the risk of rapid degradation, while exhibiting the ability to generate strong specific immune responses, in contrast to what had previously been believed.
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Founder
Morpho Foundation / RNA Pioneer
Marissa Giustina, Staff Research Scientist, joined Google’s quantum computing effort in 2016. A hybrid "quantum applied philosopher" and passionate engineer of efficient systems, Giustina’s many hats span the full stack, from device packaging team lead to developer of tools and hardware to make quantum computers more performant. Giustina is a highly-sought speaker for technical and lay audiences.
Research Scientist
George is an entrepreneur dedicated to bringing about positive change in society with particular focus on health and wellbeing. His early training and experience was a multi-disciplinary blending of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology and computer science. In 2016, he co-founded COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Chairman and Co-Founder
COMPASS Pathways
Roham Gharegozlou is cofounder & CEO of Dapper Labs, the Web3 company behind CryptoKitties & NBA Top Shot as well as Flow blockchain, Dapper Wallet, NFL ALL DAY, & La Liga Golazos. Previously, Roham was co-founder & CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning startup studio focused on emerging technology. During his 6 years as CEO, Axiom Zen spun out 3 venture-backed businesses including Dapper Labs.
Co-Founder & CEO
Dapper Labs / Cryptokitties
Dr. Melanie Joy is an award-winning psychologist and bestselling author. Her books include Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows and How to End Injustice Everywhere. She received endorsements from Yuval Harari, Matthieu Ricard, and Peter Singer. She also received the Ahimsa Award—previously given to Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama—for her work on nonviolence. She’s the founder of Beyond Carnism.
Founding President
Beyond Carnism
Chris Burniske is a partner at Placeholder, a New York venture firm that invests in decentralized information networks. Prior to Placeholder, he co-authored the best-seller, Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, and spearheaded ARK Invest’s crypto efforts, including its 2015 bitcoin investment. His commentary has been featured on international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and Bloomberg. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BS from Stanford University. Twitter @cburniske.
Partner
Placeholder
Anna Frebel is an MIT professor and world-renowned astronomer who studies 13 billion year-old stars to understand the origin of chemical elements and our Milky Way galaxy. Honoured with multiple awards, she has authored the book "Searching for the oldest stars" and founded LEAPS STEM leadership program.
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Astronomer & Professor
MIT
Lawrence is an entrepreneur, environmentalist and philanthropist who builds companies that prioritise climate impact. He is currently on a mission to change mobility for good with TIER Mobility. In 2020, he established Blue Impact - an evergreen fund dedicated to providing early-stage funding for companies building climate solutions. He has committed 100% of his shares in TIER to Blue Impact.
CEO and Co-founder
TIER Mobility
Amanda Cassatt is the Founder and CEO of Serotonin, a web3 native marketing and product studio. She was the Chief Marketing Officer for ConsenSys between 2016 and 2019, bringing Ethereum to market and helping to grow it into one of the largest and most robust blockchain ecosystems. She regularly speaks at global events and is featured in news outlets around the world.
Founder & CEO
Serotonin
Daniela Gerd tom Markotten studied industrial engineering and holds a PhD in IT security, combining two passions: IT & technology. She held management positions at large companies like Daimler as well as start-ups. As Board Member at Deutsche Bahn, the national railway company of Germany with over 324,00 employees, she has a clear mission: utilising digitalisation and technology to make DB the most popular and sustainable means of transport for customers.
Board Member
Deutsche Bahn
Founder of the revenue-sharing service Aslice, Zak Khutoretsky, aka DVS1, is one the world's most revered DJs and prominent voices in preserving true club culture. Known for addressing issues within the electronic scene, DVS1 launched Aslice in 2022, a community-driven platform that encourages DJs to donate a percentage of their fees to the artists whose music they play.
Founder
Aslice
Jenny Fielding is one of the most active global pre-seed investors, having invested in 300+ companies as the first money in. As the cofounder and Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures, Jenny has built a thriving community of 500+ founders and operators who help source, diligence, and invest in the next generation of startups across 3 core verticals: money, health, and work. Prior to starting The Fund, Jenny spent 7.5 years as the Managing Director of Techstars where she invested in a portfolio of companies with a current market cap over $10B. Jenny is a 2x founder, a lawyer by training, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Managing Partner
Everywhere Ventures
Futurist and entrepreneur, fusing blockchain, design and technology. Trained in architecture and design, Marjorie is recognized as a thought leader and disrupter by co-founding industry-shaping ventures that remain on the forefront of fashion, technology and design including the first web3 market space for digital goods, The Dematerialised; and LUKSO, a Blockchain for the New Creative Economy.
CEO and co-founder
LUKSO
Niklas Östberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Delivery Hero, began his journey of building the world’s leading local delivery platform back in Sweden in 2007 when he co-founded Pizza.nu. Delivery Hero is the largest global platform for food ordering outside of China, operating in over 70 markets, partnering with hundreds of thousands local restaurants and processing millions of orders a day.
CEO & Co-Founder
Delivery Hero
Mr. Ackermann began his career as a banker in 1977 at Credit Suisse. In 1990 he was appointed to the Executive Board, becoming president in 1993. In 1996 he joined the board of Deutsche Bank, serving a decade, as spokesman and later as Chair of the Management Board and Executive Committee. He led Deutsche Bank into the top ranks of the world's investment banks and is a globally recognised leader.
Advisory Board Chair
The TMRW Foundation / Former CEO, Deutsche Bank
Prior to becoming co-founder and President of Dapper Labs, a company valuated at $7.6 billion, Mik Naayem served on parent company Axiom Zen’s Board of Directors. He is currently responsible for business strategy, partnerships, and helping build out Flow’s ecosystem in order to create powerful blockchain-based user experiences.
President
Dapper Labs
Dr. Anna Christmann is the Aerospace Coordinator of German Federal Government and the Commissioner for Startups and the Digital Economy at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 and is part of the parliamentary group Alliance 90/ The Greens. She received her PhD from the University of Bern in 2011 and then worked at the Center for Democracy at the University of Zurich. From 2013, she worked at the Ministry of Science in Stuttgart as the minister's office manager and as a policy advisor in science policy.
Commissioner of BMWK for the Digital Economy and Start-ups
German Government
Member of Parliament, Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey is a Member of Parliament representing the 2.4 million people of Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. As a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for over ten years, Ritesh was the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Jalalpur, Uttar Pradesh between 2017 and 2019. Ritesh is committed to fighting for caste and gender equality and climate change, and believes that social justice is climate justice.
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Member of the Indian Parliament
Member of the Indian Parliament
Alex is the co-inventor of zkSync and currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. At Matter Labs, he leads a talented team focused on addressing blockchain scalability challenges using zero-knowledge proofs. Alex's passion lies in using technology to advance personal freedom, self-ownership, and decentralisation.
CEO & co-inventor
Matter Labs (zkSync Era)
At TOA, startup founders & operators don't just meet one another but also leaders of other industries and disciplines. Join us on our mission to help people and organizations become future-proof.
Whether you are looking for talent or jobs, customers or leads, startups or investment. We expect 6,000 matches and 1,000+ meetings to be scheduled on site. Some people have found their life partners, too!
Inspiration sparks action. We expose you to groundbreaking new ideas that will allow you to think differently and accelerate your career.
Learn where technology is headed and growth opportunities abound. Renowned leaders in tech will share the skills that matter tomorrow.
More than 80,000 people have attended our events. Whether you are building a startup or career: Join a supportive community that will boost your path forward.
We are always looking for partners, satellite event hosts, and team members!
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