Audrey Tsang

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.

Tao Tao

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.

Marc Christ

Marc-Alexander Christ is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at SumUp. After graduating from the University of Maatricht, he started his career in Investment Banking at European Investors in New York, followed by a position as VP at JPM in London and Frankfurt. After collecting his first experience in the startup world as head of sales at CityDeal (Groupon), Marc cofounded MIOSATO, the online fashion gallery and SumUp the leading mPOS player in Europe.

Sheel Mohnot

Sheel is co-founder of BTV, a seed stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company.

Pia Mancini

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).

Bradley Miles

Bradley is the co-founder and CEO of Roll. Prior to Roll he was one of the founding researchers at CoinDesk, creating the company’s State of Blockchain report and serving as a product lead on the research team as the Ethereum Mainnet went live in 2015. He was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars and is the best-selling author of #BreakIntoVC

Ingmar Hoerr

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.

Dr. Emil Kendziorra

Dr. Emil Kendziorra is a Founder & CEO at Tomorrow Bio and President at the European Biostasis Foundation, a Swiss non-profit research institute. Prior he's was CEO at tech and medical companies, recently Medlanes (Exit to ZAVA) and onFeedback (Exit to QuestionPro). As a doctor and entrepreneur, he's a regular keynote speaker on longevity, cryopreservation, science and deep tech.

Joy Howard

Joy the founder & CEO of the member-owned apparel community, Early Majority. Prior to being a founder in the Web3 space, Joy has a strong track record of building high-growth, highly innovative brands. By leading the digital transformation of Patagonia and Sonos, she accelerated the growth of their direct businesses and anchored them firmly in popular culture. She has been recognized by Forbes and Fast Company as one of the most influential and creative global business leaders and was profiled by Bloomberg for her unconventional journey to the C-suite.

Marissa Giustina

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.

Hampus Jakobsson

Hampus Jakobsson has founded two companies, angel invested in 100+, then co-founded climate tech venture fund Pale blue dot that so far invested in 30 companies working on solutions for the climate crisis.

Ralf Wenzel

Ralf Wenzel is the New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the next generation digital grocery offering across Latin America. As CEO he is involved in every part of the business, from Operations to Product & Tech and beyond. He has a 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams with a focus in emerging markets.

George Goldsmith

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.

Zach Bell

Zach is a storyteller, entrepreneur, and community builder focused on projects which support a more unified, whole systems worldview. Currently, he’s the CEO of MyPlace Founder of Return and writing his first book on global community. Previously, Zach has held seed stage, executive roles at Remedy (now SGFY) and Habitas.

Rolf Schrömgens

Rolf is a serial entrepreneur. His company trivago.com became within a decade, the most successful hotel search and one of the largest global consumer brands. He brought trivago public at Nasdaq in 2016. After stepping down from his role as CEO in 2020, Rolf started with brafe.space a movement to create space for entrepreneurs and activists to evolve themselves and their organizations.

Melanie Joy

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.

Magnus Drewelies

Magnus is founder of CEEZER, a platform for corporates to access and manage negative emissions credits with science-backed data. With a background and chemistry, he worked on large-scale transformation and climate strategies at BCG. Magnus fell in love with the carbon market when visiting a mangrove project in Madagascar and believes carbon should be managed with the same scrutiny as finances.

Eva Kaczor

Eva Kaczor is a Dipl. Psychologist, Purpose Coach and as the founder of PSYCHEDELIC BREATH®, one of the worldwide leading breathwork experts. Eva guides humans into their purpose in her purpose coaching, PSYCHEDELIC BREATH® events and teacher trainings.Her work spans from working with companies such as Google, Netflix and Porsche to facilitating experiences with several thousands participants.

Sarah Hamburg

Sarah is a Neuroscientist and "web3" entrepreneur. Currently, she is researching neurorobotics (AI + neuromorphic computing + humanoid robots). Previously she cofounded an award winning web3 consultancy. She is an Industry Affiliate at UCL's Centre for Blockchain Technologies and has been involved in the "decentralised science" movement ("DeSci") for over 2 years.

Felix Harteneck

CEO & Co-Founder of InPlanet. Inplanet's vision is to remove gigatons of CO2 by spreading rock powder in the tropics. Inplanet was founded in August 2022 and is already moving more than 20 000 of rock on 2 000 hectares.

Chris Burniske

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.

Florian Glatz

Florian Glatz is Vice President of the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) and co-founder of Common Ground (commonground.cg), a user-owned social network for communities. A visionary at heart, Florian paves the way for self-sovereign identities, community-led decision-making and a user-owned data economy. Trained as a lawyer and software developer, Florian is an expert on crypto regulation.

Anna Frebel

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.

René Herzer

René Herzer is the founder Basebox. An entrepreneur since 1996, he has founded four companies.He has helped twenty-seven digital health teams at BIH/Charité. Innovations advised Basebox is the professional instant health tech backend. It solves the three big problems of making apps in health tech: high development cost, compliance and cyber security.

Carla Glassl

Ucaneo aims to remove 1 million tons of CO2 from ambient air by 2030 by developing the world's first biomimetic Direct Air Capture approach. Carla is a visionary and ambitious female founder with 8 years of biotech, 4 years of machine learning, and 3 years of startup experience. She initiated 10+ research projects during her studies and is driven to harness technology to create a bright future.

Florian Hildebrand

Florian is a serial entrepreneur and today co-founder / CEO of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies GmbH. GCT operates a low-energy DAC approach to capture CO2 from the atmosphere while generating hydrogen as a byproduct. A 100t demonstrator plant is currently under construction with expected completion in Q3 2023.

Michal Pěchouček

Michal Pěchouček is the CTO of Gen, a publicly traded global company with a market capitalization of $11 billion, and AI Professor at the Czech Technical University. Gen is dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted Cyber Safety brands, which include Norton, Avast, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. As the CTO, Michal leads the core technology, innovation, and R&D teams at Gen, driving advancements in security engines, AI, and cybersecurity research. He plays a pivotal role in shaping the company's technological vision for human-centered digital safety.

Ramzi Rizk

Currently building Dunbar - a second brain to unleash your network's potential. Previously co-founded Aware, EyeEm & BerlinPhotoWeek (both acquired). Active angel investor (>50 investments in last 4 yrs incl. Pitch, Gorillas, Kittl, Beat81) and small LP in several early funds. Public speaker (focused on AI, society, entrepreneurship) with appearances on most major stages and publications.

Lawrence Leuschner

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.

Adi Ben-Ari

Adi founded Applied Blockchain in 2015 to develop blockchain technology solutions. The company works with global organisations such as Shell (also an investor), Vodafone, Barclays, Toyota and the United Nations, as well as blockchain players Ledger, Chainlink and Algorand.

Praneeth Srikanti

Praneeth is an investment partner on the founding team of Ethereal Ventures. Prior to this, he started venture investing at Consensys and started his career with product and engineering at Microsoft and Oracle. He has a bachelors in CS from IIT Bombay and a MBA from ESADE. He spends time between Berlin and India and speaks 6 languages.

Patricia Ryan

Patricia is Co-founder and creative director at Wonderfeel, a longevity biosciences company. An early architect of the house music scene, she also co-founded Mushroom Jazz and OM Records. At Wonderfeel, she works with top scientists on breakthroughs to slow aging and helps demystify cellular health for consumers through design and communication for an industry that is growing by $100B annually.

Hannes Graah

Zeal is the web3 wallet that defends your crypto and privacy. Manage all your crypto across networks and apps, with shielded privacy and protection from scams.

Amanda Cassatt

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.

Anna Alex

Anna Alex is serial entrepreneur and angel investor focussing on the big challenges in climate and nature. Anna just founded her third company, NALA Earth, which is making Biodiversity and Nature measurable for Companies. Prior to this she founded Planetly and Outfittery. Anna's Foundation Wild&Free Animal Fund is supporting organizations in their fight against livestock farming.

Eva-Valérie Gfrerer

Eva-Valérie Gfrerer is the General Partner and founder of Morphais VC. The early-stage VC invests in European technology founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Eva has been a part of the startup ecosystem for 10 years and is dedicated to making the venture capital asset class more profitable, efficient, and inclusive through Morphais VC.

Lauren Taus

Lauren Taus is a psychedelic assisted therapist, trained to work with both psychoactive compounds and plant medicines. Lauren leads Inbodied Life, a group therapy practice that also offers immersive educational programs for clinicians to learn psychedelic assisted therapy and integration in contexts that hold personal healing as essential to effective facilitation.

Jasvin Bhasin

Jasvin is a strategy consultant, people leader & technologist with more than a decade of global professional experience. As founder and CEO of bridge.the.NEXT( ) - a “think-and-do" tank, she envisions bridging the gap between businesses, individuals & society to foster a systemic understanding of emerging digital trends such as web3, blockchain & AI, albeit keeping a humane mindset alive.

Ali Albazaz

Founder & CEO of Inkitt, Ali Albazaz is a software engineer who reimagined the publishing industry by putting publishing decisions in readers' hands instead of human gut feeling. Using data and AI, Inkitt discovers talented storytellers and turns their content into blockbuster franchises. Financial Times ranked Inkitt Germany's fastest-growing company, having raised over $80 million to date.

Daniela Gerd tom Markotten

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.

Roxanne Varza

Roxanne Varza is Director of STATION F, the biggest startup campus in the world. She is originally from Silicon Valley. Before joining STATION F, she led Microsoft Ventures Paris and TechCrunch France. She also worked for several London-based startups and co-founded StartHer, Tech.eu and FailCon France. Roxanne is also scout for Sequoia Capital.

Billie Quinlan

Billie Quinlan is the co-founder and CEO of Ferly, a sexual wellness company transforming the way women access care for their sexual difficulties. Ferly has supported over 500,000 women in 70+ countries and raised ~£2m from tier 1 investors such as Local Globe and Michael Acton Smith. Billie has delivered a TED talk, been voted a top 100 innovator and featured in major media publications.

Maxim Nitsche

Maxim is the Co-Founder & CEO of DeepNews — the first news platform that is trustworthy & personalized, without a filter bubble. The aim is to combat Fake News on a global scale. DeepNews is looking to partner with publishers to bring their content to younger audiences. Previously Maxim co-founded MATH 42 — a math learning app used by over 6 million students worldwide. The company was acquired by Chegg in 2017.

David Sneider

David is a founder at Lit Protocol, a distributed key management network that provides encryption and signing across 100s of web3 and cryptocurrency applications including social, wallets, DeFi, and user-owned data. Prior to Lit, David was on the founding team of a SaaS company that was acquired by LinkedIn.

Lisa Mandemaker

Lisa Mandemaker designs impactful experiences exploring reproductive futures. With strategic thinking, she uses prototypes to delve into socio-cultural and ethical impacts of emerging technologies. Recognised on the BBC 100 Women List for her contribution to the speculative artificial womb prototype, Lisa challenges blind acceptance, urging thoughtful consideration of technology's implications.

David Bennett

David Bennett has over 27 years of experience in the VFX, performance capture, 3D gaming and VR industries. He has played a major role in the development of facial animation, his credits include hollywood's blockbusters and has invented new tools and techniques. He founded Mimic Productions in 2012, a leading studio that makes realistic digital characters, for all industries and imaginations.

Raffael Wohlgensinger

Raffael is the Founder & CEO of Formo Bio, Europes leading biotech food company that raised over €50M to bring animal-free dairy to the world. He holds a Master in Strategy and International Management from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland.

Lutz Kloke

Lutz is mad scientist and specialist in Bioprinting – he developed a technology, which allows the three-dimensional printing of biological material. Driven by the vision to advance human health care he produces mini-organs for drug development and vital tissues for regenerative therapies.

Angel Hernandez

Angel is an expert in co-creative project development. He has mentored individuals and organizations to empower people and overcome hierarchical structures. With Connected Business, he has reached over 30,000 leaders with unconventional learning models. He dedicates his life to finding sustainable solutions and combines digital concepts with Servant Leadership, Indigenous and Buddhist teachings.

Jon Von Tetzchner

Jon von Tetzchner is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi web browser on desktop, mobile, and in cars. An industry pioneer, Jon has been building browsers since the early days of the web, leading Opera Software for more than 16 years. A proponent of privacy, Jon is clearly setting the bar and bringing back ethical standards to the world of technology.

Djoni de Vos

Djoni De Vos is an investor for Keen Venture Partners. She heads their AI venture studio alliance with Slimmer AI.

Zak Khutoretsky

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.

Scott Chacon

Scott Chacon is the former Co-Founder of GitHub; now Co-Founder of GitButler, a next-generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com.

Carrie Walter

Carrie is the co-CEO of Clue, the Berlin-based pioneer in femtech and digital health that is a companion for millions of people around the world who want to empower themselves through knowledge, from their first period to their last. She initially joined the company as GC, where she led Clue’s regulatory process for FDA clearance, which approved Clue Birth Control mode as a digital medical device

Rene Reinsberg

Rene Reinsberg is a Celo co-founder and Celo Foundation president. Celo's blockchain ecosystem is known as web3's "Home of ReFi" (or regenerative finance) with over 1,000 projects in 150+ countries. Previously, he co-founded Locu (acquired by GoDaddy) and has worked at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe, and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU & MIT.

Jenny Fielding

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.

Mitchell Duffy

Cambrium is creating the specialty chemical company of the future. It enables high performance biomaterials by designing, scaling and supplying proteins to customers. NovaColl was launched as a micro-molecular collagen for skincare in March 2023. "Cambrium - Materials that Matter."

Friederike Ernst

Friederike, a physics PhD, is the cofounder of Gnosis and host of the Epicenter podcast. Gnosis DAO has created numerous essential infrastructure solutions for the Ethereum blockchain, including the widely used Gnosis Safe wallet and Gnosis Chain, a community-run, credibility-neutral public blockchain ecosystem.

Marjorie Hernandez

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.

William Pelton

William Pelton is the Co-founder and CEO of pioneering Phytoform, a UK/US company utilizing AI and genome editing to develop genetic solutions for crop enhancement and to promote a sustainable food system that has raised over $11 million to date. With a PhD in crop genetics from Imperial College London, his passion for applied research sparked the inception of Phytoform, fuelled by his fascination with unlocking the opportunities of plant genetic diversity.

Philipp Zentner

Philipp Zentner is a technical serial entrepreneur who's built B2B SaaS companies in gaming, biotech, and marketplace intelligence. With LI.FI, he's built a blockchain infrastructure company that has raised $23 Mio. USD within 18 months and grown to above 40 people. LI.FI aggregates crucial DeFi infrastructure, has processed over $1.5bn USD and serves the largest companies in the space.

Markus Bold

Markus holds a PhD in organic chemistry with studies in Marburg and Edinburgh. He joined BASF in 2001 and gathered experiences in research, controlling, innovation management, asset management and M&A, thereof 3 years in material research for the electronic industry and 8 years in various roles in crop protection. Since 5 years now Markus is leading the successful business incubator of BASF SE.

Niklas Östberg

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.

David Nothacker

David Nothacker is the Co-founder and CEO of Sennder, Europe’s leading digital freight-forwarder platform and German unicorn that has raised over $340 million to date. David co-founded Sennder during his MBA studies at INSEAD. Under his leadership, over 40,000 connected trucks completed more than 1,000,000 FTL shipments. With headquarters in Berlin, the company has more than 1,000 employees across 11 European offices.

Brett Leve

Brett Leve is the Co-Founder of Summit, a next-gen community building organization best known for hosting a global ideas festival Forbes called "Davos of Generation Y". He is the Co-Owner of Powder Mountain, America's largest ski resort. Brett is the Co-director of Summit Action Fund and an investor in companies like Uber, Warby Parker, Lyft, Space-X, Liquid Death and Classpass.

Greg Bernstein

Gregory Bernstein is General Partner at Acequia Capital and leads In Service of Mission (ISM), the firm's strategy for reindustrialization. ISM is a diversified investment platform purpose-built to scale transformative technology companies as they provide the tools and platforms for market economies to reindustrialize and sustainably meet the demands of a disrupted, contested, and evolving world.

Cevat Yerli

Cevat Yerli founded Crytek at age 19, revolutionised the gaming industry and launched critically acclaimed IPs played by 100s of millions. Crytek was behind one of the most popular game series, "Farcry". He earned global fame as a pioneer whose CryEngine Platform remains a benchmark to this day. Cevat leads The TMRW Foundation building Web 3.0’s future—The Internet of Life—guiding the shift from the 2D internet of pages to the 3D real-time internet of spaces.

Josef Ackermann

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.

Tanguy Goretti

Tanguy Goretti is Co-Founder and CTO of Cowboy, the Belgium electric bike maker. Responsible for leading the software team and vision at Cowboy, Tanguy is focused on using the power of technology to solve one of the biggest problems of this century, namely the future of urban mobility.

Adrian Locher

Adrian Locher is the co-founder and CEO of Berlin-based Merantix, an AI investment platform, and initiator of the AI Campus. He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for the past 20 years, founding more than 10 companies. He sold his previous company, a leading Swiss e-commerce firm, at EUR 100M revenue.

Mar Fernández-Méndez

Mar is an algae expert and a biological oceanographer with more than 10 years of research experience and 25 peer reviewed papers. She is the CEO of MacroCarbon, working to de-fossilize the chemical industry using sustainable, renewable, and eco-friendly feedstocks by cultivating and processing Sargassum seaweed. We aim to avoid and sequester 100 Mill. tons CO2e/year by 2040.

Luke Seelenbinder

After a decade building systems to handle billions of requests at the cutting edge of technology and product, Luke founded Stadia Maps. As CEO, he leads the company as it challenges the titans with a uniquely private, affordable, and human location experience. As an American in Switzerland and e-Resident of Estonia, Luke is equally comfortable traversing cultures and countries—by bike or by Zoom.

Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Brazilian-born Hermes Gadêlha is a poly-disciplinary mathematician working at the fertile union of mathematics, engineering, soft-robotics and biology. He leads the Polymaths Lab, a diverse team of mathematicians, physicists, biologists and engineers whose research has reached over 6.5 billion people worldwide through scientific media, translated to countless languages, with over 1 million viewers.

Mats Kuuskemaa

Mats Kuuskemaa started his career as a diplomat for Estonia. He was Consul & Economic Officer at Estonian Embassy in New Delhi (2014-18) and Political Counsellor at Estonian Embassy in Beijing (2018-19). In 2018 Mats joined Government of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, initially as Head of Business Strategy. He is Country Director Germany, based in Berlin from 2022.

Yelebe B. Kinfu

Yelebé Kinfu is a versatile professional with a diverse background and entrepreneurial spirit. With experience in the humanitarian sector in Ethiopia and agribusiness internationally, she has showcased expertise in various industries. Recently, Yelebé embraced entrepreneurship as an e-resident. Committed to making a difference, she leverages her skills and experiences to create impact.

Britta Thie

Britta Thie is a filmmaker, actress and former model. Her works explore the treacherous geographies created by the endless flow of highly stylised and commodified images that define contemporary visual culture. Her increasingly renowned video and multimedia works, including the webseries Translantics (co-produced by ARTE and Schirn Kunsthalle), consider not only the ways in which such images are produced, but also how they are consumed.

Jenny Jung

Jenny is a certified systemic coach and consultant for organisational development. Since she has switched from the operational side of building businesses to consulting, she has helped 200+ founders, 50+ executive teams and countless organisations ranging from startups to Federal Ministries.

Alain Ryan Bouwman

Alain Bouwman, Head of Strategy, Growth & Transformation at Mercedes-Benz.io, is leading the strategy of the company's digital hubs that build Mercedes-Benz's online sales channels. His strategic acumen and focus on organizational performance have propelled the company's digital transformation, making it a leader in the automotive industry.

Paul Kohlhaas

Paul Kohlhaas is an economist, biohacker and web3 pioneer on a mission to create public utility networks. He graduated from the University of St Gallen, founded Linum Labs and oversaw digital identity at ConsenSys. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Molecule democratising biopharma via decentralised science (DeSci), which aims to reconnect patients and scientists through liquid markets for IP.

Sebastian Campos Groth

Sebastian Campos Groth is the COO of Arweave, a permanent and decentralized storage system built on an open ledger, with a market capitalization of $196 million. The company has successfully raised $22 million thus far. He has successfully built finance, operations, and legal departments from inception. He has also led expansion of operations into the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland.

Christian Bogatu

Christian is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He advises the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (www.sprind.org), identifying and supporting innovators with radical ideas with a billion Euro budget. Since 2018, Christian also serves as Venture Partner for Eurazeo/Idinvest Partners, the largest EU based Venture Capital fund, investing in cleantech startups. From 2017 until 2020 he was co-founder and CEO of Fresh Energy, generating unparalleled insights based on smart meter data, before selling Fresh Energy to EWE end of 2020.

Nadia Aimé

Nadia is a Cybersecurity Technical Specialist and public speaker based in Brussels. She is a diversity advocate and founder of She Leads Digital. In her work, she promotes the importance of promoting role models to motivate, inspire and replicate success stories.

Max Mundt

Max is a synthetic biology researcher turned founder turned investor who explores how the biological revolution will transform the physical space around us. At Amino Collective, he backs early-stage startups in bio and health with a focus on Europe.

Daniela Bezdan

Daniela Bezdan is the Chief Scientific Officer at YURI GmbH, a commercial spaceflight company specializing in research and development services for microgravity experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). In this role, she spearheads the development of innovative products for the ISS and leverages the unique microgravity environment to advance healthcare solutions.

Florian Merkel

Florian was one of the initiators of KPMG Venture Services in 2013 and has since then provided comprehensive advice to growth companies and venture capitalists on national and international tax law issues. In addition, he is a regular speaker at workshops and conferences and gives lectures on tax issues related to start-ups and venture capital.

Stefan Kimmel

Sarah Mardini

Sarah Mardini is a Syrian former competition swimmer, lifeguard, human rights activist and subject of the acclaimed Netflix film The Swimmers. Fleeing her country in 2015 during the Syrian civil war with her sister, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini, they pulled their boat with other refugees towards the Mediterranean coast of Greece, saving themselves and the other passengers. Continuing their journey across the Balkans, they reached Berlin, Germany, the same year. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023, alongside her sister.

Vanessa LeMarie

Vanessa is Ada’s Chief Operating Officer, and also leads commercial operations and client success, playing a pivotal role in maximizing the value delivered to clients and users through Ada’s medical AI. Prior to joining Ada Health, Vanessa worked for Bayer Pharmaceuticals for more than 15 years, in different countries as well as in Global and Regional leadership roles with increasing responsibility for business across Pharma Commercial Operations. Her work experience covers therapeutic areas as diverse as Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Ophthalmology, Women's Health, and Rare Diseases, as well as management of pharmaceutical company/start-up collaborations with a focus on telemedicine providers.

Arnaud Touret

Arnaud's entrepreneurial spirit has led him to build an extensive property finance portfolio and create the UK's top-rated medical laboratory. He drives product and blockchain development at UPPFIRST with unparalleled dedication

Caroline S. Henne

Caroline Henne has been a CMO/CEO in the sustainable luxury space for 6 years now, after a 14 year corporate career at Google, GfK, and Bertelsmann. She joined the Mitte Water revolution – replacing bottled water with a sleek & smart home water filtration, mineralization & carbonation device – earlier this year.

Philip Tigges

Philip is one of the two managing directors of Mushlabs. He joined the startup in 2021 to help realize the company's vision of building a more resilient foodsystem. Previously, Philip has advised corporate leaders on growth strategies, when he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey. He studied business in London and Hamburg.

Jonathan Roberz

Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur who successfully led his first tech startup Apodius to exit and subsequently executed the transformation of SME Haugg. To drive sustainable change in a food system that accounts for 26% of CO2eq, he co-founded MicroHarvest, where cutting-edge biotechnology is used for the sustainable production of protein ingredients, aimed for market entry in 2023.

Mariya Grinina

Mariya Grinina is the CEO and co-founder of Feel, a sexual wellness and personal development brand for women. She is a tech entrepreneur, and has been named among the Top 25 Gen Z founders by Sifted. Mariya is also a certified embodiment facilitator, helping people to reconnect with their bodies and sexuality to increase their quality of life.

Mik Naayem

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.

Dr. Anna Christmann

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.

Julia Maier

Julian Maier is the person behind his online presence, called Julian Mental Sixpack. His personal mission is to empower people on 3 levels: mentally, physically, emotionally. In 2017, his mother passed away due to heavy depression, so he decided to dedicate his life to help people with mental, emotional, and physical health. With this intention, he started URBNTIGER, a startup and a club with the mission to empower people with 3-Elements Training for Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Nina Katharina Krahe

Dr Krahe's background is in life sciences with an PhD in fungal biotechnology from the university of Hannover. She joined Kynda in 2021 as CLO/R&D Manager and 1st employee. Kynda, founded in 2019, is focusing on easy-to-handle plug & play biotechnology systems (bioreactors) for decentralized and sustainable fungal biomass fermentation to produce mycelium as a future-friendly alternative protein source.

Anna Franziska Michel

Anna Franziska Michel is a tech ambassador and founder. She is known for being one of the prominent voices advocating technology in the fashion industry and connecting digitalization with AI and Metaverse. Anna was selected as one of the top female Business Influencers in Technology by Strive Magazine and she was awarded with the Digital Female Leader Award in the Innovation category.

Ida Kymmer

Ida Kymmer worked together with Dexter Studios in South Korea to develop the 3D interior screens for SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, and she has worked with 3D musicals and early VR applications of architectural renderings. In June 2021, Ida joined Journee. Her work in the metaverse and web3 field is centred around the question “What’s next?”. She works with the bricks and mortar as well as the newest NFT use cases to have a deep, vertical and horizontal understanding of the current developments.

Stefano Sacchi Muci