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.

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.

Timo Klingenmeier 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.

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.

Carsten Mielke has been digitizing Uniper since the beginning of 2017, driving both Digitalization projects and cultural change. Carsten has a proven track record 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 at E.ON Global Commodities.

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.

Matthias Walter is Senior Solution Architect for Industry 4.0 at Bosch Connected Industry. In this function, he leads the first implementation of Industrie 4.0 software projects. In doing so, he identifies use cases together with the customers 4.0, upsets the implementation and the coordination of the projects. Previously, Mr Walter worked for Tagueri AG and set Complex projects in the area of IT consulting for Volkswagen AG and Porsche AG. Mr Walter has a degree in Industrial Engineering for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the FH Aschaffenburg.

Kai D. Kreisköther is CEO and Co-Founder of Ducktrain, a lightweight autonomous logistics 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.

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.

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.

Daniel Roy 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.

Thomas Vollmer is the Head of Department for Production Quality, Fraunhofer IPT. He works since 2013 for the Fraunhofer Institue in Aachen and researches product efficiency, networked manufacturing, and production quality. Thomas holds a Doctor in Engineering from the University of Aachen, Germany.

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 gives 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.

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.

Alexander von Keller has been working for Kaspersky Lab since 2018 as Head of Enterprise Sales DACH. Mr. von Keller has more than 17 years of experience in a national and international software business. He can look back on many years of successful sales experience in various industries. His focus is on classic solution sales, HR, finance and related technologies.

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 Homuth 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. His strengths are product structuring, business process analysis, business organization, Business management and leadership. He is a multilingual specialist with the main interest in innovation processes.

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.

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