Speakers 2021

Mathieu Weill, Head of Digital Economy Departmant at the Ministry of Economy France, has been involved for more than 20 years in the changes induced by the Internet across the economy, in France and globally. His focus is towards customer […]

Born with a true passion for technology, Eran started programming when he was just 9 years old, teaching himself with books and online resources. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland at the age […]

Olga Mordvinova is the founder and CEO of incontext.technology GmbH (INCTEC), a deep-tech startup  focused on smart automation. Special focus is on increasing effectiveness as well as supporting sustainability in industry and infrastructures 4.0. Using AI/ML methods, their software for smart monitoring unleashes data insights from […]

Rainer Sträter is Head of Global Platform Hosting at IONOS. In this role, he leads the international IaaS department as well as the technology teams at the subsidiaries Fasthosts and Arsys. In 2015, he was responsible for the successful launch […]

Mirko Ross, born 1972, is an internationally recognized activist, expert, speaker, publicist and researcher in the field of Cyber Security and the Internet of Things. At the age of 14, he began investigating vulnerabilities in IT systems. Instead of a […]

Gaëlle Chéruy Pottiau is an agricultural engineer with a degree in management of agricultural and agri-food cooperatives. She worked at Agro EDI Europe where she managed complex projects in the field of professional electronic exchanges and the standardization of agricultural […]

„Marius Bleif is Co-Founder and Head of Business at Bitahoy,  a spinoff of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. He studied cybersecurity at Saarland University and started working as a research assistant on the security of IoT devices in 2016. In 2018, with insecure IoT devices being more relevant than ever, he started working on Bitahoy alongside his Co-Founders to develop a solution that brings more security and privacy to the home network. Marius works full-time on the venture since Bitahoy received funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Fall 2020.“  Bitahoy:  „Bitahoy develops a cybersecurity solution for smart home appliances. The Bitahoy Watchdog can be plugged into any home network to monitor and protect all your internet connected devices. The Watchdog contains an intrusion prevention system that can detect and block network attacks in real-time without configuration. The system further provides the user with additional tools to preserve their privacy and security in their digital home, such as filtering malicious or inappropriate content.“  marius@bitahoy.com 

Duc Tam Nguyen is a former AI researcher at Google AI research. Before Google, he finished his Ph.D. in Computer Vision at the University of Freiburg in collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH. He has been active in research activities on […]

Dr. Anna Christmann has been elected as a member of the German Bundestag in 2017. She is Spokeswoman for Innovation and Technology as well as for Civic Engagement for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Ms. Christmann is chairwoman of the Bundestag’s Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Furthermore, she is a member […]

Emmanuel Bacry currently serves as the Scientific Director of the French Health Data Hub. In parallel, he is a Senior Researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) at Paris Dauphine University. For over 4 years, he served as  a Mathematics Professor as well as the head of the Big Data & Data Science Initiative at Ecole Polytechnique. National and international AI expert and general chair of various summer schools on AI and data science, Emmanuel Bacry is  also a member of several French and […]