Dimitri Lerner has proven experience in IoT, Cloud, Digital Architecture, Digital Innovations and applications. He holds a degree in business informatics as well as various certifications in architecture management, project management and enterprise architecture. He is in charge of international project management, advisory, innovations, digital architecture, IT-strategy and IoT at SIG.

Rainer Rolder is a studied Electro Engineer and also holds a degree in Business Administration. He started his career at ZF Friedrichshafen in the IT department. In 2017, he began working as the Head of Production IT Security. In this role he is responsible for creating concepts to protect Production IT and creating and changing guidelines as well as the organization of business processes and to build up and lead a global team of highly skilled specialists.

Matthias Felder is portfolio manager Blockchain & DLT solutions at DB Systel, the ICT provider of Deutsche Bahn AG. As portfolio manager is the responsible for all DLT products & services at DB Systel. This includes consulting, education and the development and implementation of new services and products containing distributed ledger technologies. He is working in different areas of the telecommunication and mobility sector in the past 10 years.

Daniel is Managing Director at ITCL GmbH and an expert in consultancy in Digitalization, Operational Excellence and Leadership
He holds a Ph.D. in Industry 4.0 and accomplished his studies in Engineering and Management in Berlin and Tokyo.

Stephen Mellor is the Chief Technical Officer for the Industrial Internet Consortium, where he directs the standards requirements and technology & security priorities for the Industrial Internet. In that role, he coordinates the activities of the several engineering, architecture, security and testbed working groups and teams

Dr. Carsten Mielke has been digitizing Uniper since the beginning of 2017, driving both Digitalization projects and cultural change. Carsten has a proven track as an executive for IT as well as leading and driving Digital Transformation projects forward from initial concept to delivery. After completing his PhD in software engineering, Carsten Mielke started his career as a project manager in the mobile communications industry. After six years in various positions, he joined E.ON and the energy sector in 2007. In 2011, he founded the Cross Functions Services division of E.ON Energy Trading SE, and headed IT Service Management in E.ON Global Commodities.

Malte Hedemann holds a degree in Business Informatics. After various positions at Lufthansa Technik and working for a game design company, he joined the Volkswagen group IT as an SAP project manager in 2009. As the responsible IT project manager for the group logistics SAP template and later being responsible for the worldwide rollout, he has proven experience in project management, logistics, and production. In 2017 he joined the VW brand logistic to work on the digitization roadmap. Besides his activities in logistics, he leads the Volkswagen team “Digital Realities (VR /AR)”.

Aljoscha Schlosser holds a degree in Business Administration and is also an industry merchant. He started at Boge right after he finished his studies. After being assistant to the manager of the board. Since September 2017 he is Digital Innovation Officer and is in charge of improving internal processes, manufacturing, digital services and many more.

Dieter Sellner is DB Schenker’s Blockchain Global Program Manager and is developing DB Schenker’s strategy for using Blockchain technology and is coordinating the company’s global Blockchain activities. He holds a Degree in Logistics and directly after completing University, he started working in different companies as a consultant for technological logistic solutions. Since 2015, Dieter has coordinated DB Schenker's global Blockchain initiatives and has managed the most strategic ones in person. He is convinced that in 2019, the learning curve will show when to apply blockchain approaches and when to solve problems with existing technologies.

Christophe Global Operational Excellence Manager and Global Supply Chain Leader in GE Healthcare, leading supply chain digital transformation - Industry 4.0. His current focus is implementation and deployment of blockchain technology within the supply chain to increase the end-to-end visibility.

Dr. Nils-Holger Schmidt is Product Group Leader for the Nexeed Production Performance Manager at Bosch Connected Industry in Berlin. He is responsible for product management, development and the provision of complementary services. Dr. Schmidt went through various stations at Bosch. He holds a doctoral degree from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in the Department of Business Informatics and is the author of more than 40 specialist publications on sustainability and information management.

Timo is co-founder of inmation Software GmbH and has set the overall vision for the inmation product from first day back in early 2013. Today he operates in the CTO role, overseeing product development, QA and user experience teams. Additionally, he works closely with key enterprise: inmation end users in order to ensure their expectations are met and the continuous expansion into new use cases and advanced system integration scenarios adds value for the customers with every new product release.

Michael is Senior Vice President Operations of Vorwerk International Strecker & Co. The main business is the direct distribution of various products like household appliances, fitted kitchens or cosmetics. The famous food processor Thermomix is Vorwerks most significant success. Today, the Thermomix represents approximately 34% (1.2 billion euros) of the total turnover of the parent company.

Yannick Willemin calls himself a “Swiss Army Knife” with the cross section of languages, business, tech and interpersonal skills. After completing his degree in material engineering, he started working in R&D in the automotive field, and afterwards began tech sales in the steel industry. His next position was for purchasing in the graphite industry, and now he works at futurist at SGL Carbon, where he has the unique chance to shape an innovation-friendly ecosystem.

As the Head of Smart Factory Logistics at Bossard AG, Urs Güttinger has more than 18 years of experience in B and C parts management and plays a crucial role in the development and industrialization of Bossard's SmartBin and SmartLabel logistics systems. He is responsible for operating more than 2,500 logistics systems worldwide. From the beginning, he specified and accompanied the development of the ARIMS platform with the digital cockpit and the ARIMS Mobile App. Since 2018, Urs Güttinger has been responsible for the development of new technologies as Chief Technology Officer of the Bossard Group. He deals with topics related to digitization, the use of data through data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

Kai D. Kreisköther is CEO and Co-Founder of Ducktrain, a lightweight autonomous logistic device for urban transportation.
Starting in 2011 Kai has worked as researcher in the field of production, logistic, electric mobility and automation at RWTH Aachen University.
There he led research teams for electrification and automated driving as group leader and later managing chief engineer. He was involved in the development of the StreetScooter and e.GO.
Since 2019, Kai has focused on the development of Ducktrain.

Harald Jony holds a Master's Degree in International Business Management. After various positions and experience at important infrastructure and logistics companies in Austria, he became general manager at WienCont in May 2018. His knowledge in Energy Management and Strategic Planning give him a perfect overview of the future trends in logistics and sustainability. In 2016 he was also the Chairman of the Energy Efficiency and CO2-Network

Thomas Groeninger is the Head of Division Digital Object Survey & UAV at Strabag and holds a degree in Civil Engineering. Since 2013, he has worked with UAV applications at Strabag and quickly after became the leader of the UAV-Unit and lead of the surveying office. Since 2018, he has been in charge of development and research, lidar, digitalization, cloud solutions, point clouds and 3D scanning at Strabag.

Dr. Frank Stummer obtained a doctorate at the Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovation Research before founding his first company, ipoque, in the area of network security in 2006. As its CFO, he was involved in the successful sale of this company. At Rhebo he works as a Business Developer.

Since 2017 David Saive is working as a PhD student and research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law of the Information Society (ZRI) at the University of Oldenburg. His research focuses on the digitization of maritime law. In particular, he deals with the legal implications of blockchain technology. David has already published several articles and appears regularly as a speaker at conferences.

Michael holds a doctor in Production Engineering, besides a Bachelor and Master of Science Business Administration and Engineering. Before he started Henkel, he was the Chief Engineer - Head of Business Development at the RWTH Aachen - Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production in Germany. He is passioned about Supply Chain Management and how to make procurement and secure more digital.