Speaker Details

Armin Baehr is Team Lead Business Development at EDI GmbH. With a background in Mechanical Engineering and Data Science, his team develops data-driven solutions to real-world challenges. His work focuses on algorithmic innovation that improves operational fairness and efficiency across organizations.

EDI GmbH develops AI-powered solutions for industry and business, enabling smarter decisions, process automation, and sustainable innovation.

Christoph Liphardt is Operations Management Consultant at BLANC & FISCHER Corporate Services GmbH. An experienced project manager, he specializes in optimizing and digitalizing logistics and production processes. Previously, he advised leading automotive and industrial OEMs, analyzing their logistics systems and developing tailored optimization concepts. Today, he drives the digital transformation within the BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding – with a clear focus on both logistics and production.

As a group-wide unit, BLANC & FISCHER Corporate Services provides overarching management function and central services for the companies of the BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding.

Jan Foelsing is an expert in New Learning and AI, an author, speaker, tool enthusiast, and founder of the New Learning Lab. From 2013 to 2021, he researched modern learning formats and digital tools for collaborative learning in two BMBF-projects. Previously, he worked as an IT consultant and has been active as a freelance advisor since 2014.
His goal: to make learning in organizations more effective—for both the business and the learners.

The New Learning Lab is a pioneer in effective learning and AI adoption. The community of now over 150 people meets in weekly sessions to work on the transformation of learning. eEight.io makes the experiential knowledge of employees transparent and usable for others, e.g. performance support systems.

Tatevik Mkrtchyan is team lead of the Competence team at IKEA in Germany. She is responsible for the strategic direction of IKEA Germany with regard to modern continuing education, training portfolios, upskilling and reskilling, skill management and topics related to new ways of learning. Her focus is on the democratisation of learning and the corresponding development of the organisation.

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world.

Dr. Constanze Hasterok holds a doctorate in particle physics and has been working at Fraunhofer IOSB since 2019. There, she is driving forward the transfer of basic AI research into industrial implementation. Her focus is on the further development of machine learning methods for long-term practical use beyond the prototype stage in industrial production.

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies, and Image Exploitation (IOSB), ideas for new technologies in image processing and production engineering are developed and implemented in processes.

Florian Schleissinger is a digital solutions and industrial AI specialist in Dieffenbacher’s move to data-driven wood-panel manufacturing. As lead on the Evoris platform, he integrates machine-learning tools that sharpen transparency and efficiency on the line. An M.Sc. engineer from KIT, he pairs deep software and automation expertise with a passion for advancing industrial digitalization.

Dieffenbacher, family-owned and based in Eppingen, builds press systems and turnkey plants for the wood-based panels, composites, recycling and energy industries.