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Annabell Whitney

Rock star without airs and graces, entrepreneur, sought-after speaker trainer and internationally successful keynote speaker. Her talent for inspiring people has seen her work with world stars such as Michael Jackson, Joe Cocker, Shaggy and Helene Fischer as well as a number of big names from politics and business. After over 3000 performances worldwide, several chart successes and TV appearances, she is passionate about sharing her secrets of success with others.

Christian Jung

After studying mathematics, Christian Jung joined the database marketing department of a mail order company. He subsequently worked for various retailers and management consultancies in the fields of direct and database marketing, project management and process optimization. For the past 10 years, he has also been actively involved in these tasks at Baur Versand as Head of Customer Analysis and Project Manager.

Manuel Tönz

Manuel is a recognized technology strategist with over 15 years of experience in developing customer-centric delivery models in various industries, including serving as program director for several major CX software implementations. With his pragmatic approach and entrepreneurial spirit, he has extensive international experience in the USA, UK, EU, and APAC. Manuel holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics (Eisenstadt, Austria) and is a certified IT specialist in Switzerland. At Bloomreach, Manuel is responsible for strategically advising clients on their digital and commerce experience transformation.

Dr. Martin Kraus

Martin Kraus heads the "CDO Office" at Commerzbank, where he supports the Group Chief Data Officer in expanding data governance and data quality management for the bank. Prior to this, he was responsible for the Risk, Finance and Compliance application landscape as well as overarching data architecture issues in the bank's architecture function. After studying physics and completing his doctorate, he began his career in IT at Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank in various project and management positions in the areas of investment banking, risk and finance.

Carsten Schweiger

With over 20 years of professional experience, 14 of them in consulting, Carsten has in-depth expertise in business intelligence and data warehousing. After studying business informatics at HP, he managed numerous projects as a requirements engineer, architect and developer. As a coach, he accompanied over 25 teams and managers into agility. In the Datavault Builder team, he now creates the synergy between DWH automation and agility.

Murat Yurt

Murat Yurt is Head of Business Intelligence & Digital Analytics at DFL Digital Sports, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies in the area of business intelligence and digital analytics. His tasks include analyzing data from digital platforms and channels, identifying trends and supporting decision-making based on data. He began his career in strategy consulting at Kearney, where he gained valuable experience in the field of corporate strategy. He then moved to IT consulting, where he worked as Lead Consultant for Advanced Analytics. MuratYurt holds a Master's degree in Information Science & Language Technology from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Simon Nehls

Simon Nehls is Director Data Intelligence at ZEIT Verlag. After studying economics, he worked as a data scientist and project manager in various consulting firms in recent years. His focus is on the implementation of analytical data products and solutions, the setup of data teams and the implementation of data strategies.

Dr. Sönke Iwersen

Dr. Sönke Iwersen has been responsible for data & analytics organizations in various industries (including Telefónica, Handelsblatt, XING, Fitness First and HRS) for more than 15 years. His emphasis is on development of digitization and data strategies, as well as their operationalization with cloud-based analytical platforms and ML/AI solutions. He regularly presents his innovative results at national and international conferences.

Stefan Endorff

Remco Broekmans

Remco Broekmans is the vice president of international programs for Genesee Academy. He works in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Warehousing as a trainer, advisor, facilitator and speaker with a focus on modeling and architecture including Ensemble and Data Vault modeling. He works internationally, and is based in the Netherlands.

The last 15+ years, Remco has taught different classes on data modeling, business intelligence and data warehousing, and is acting as a coach for several teams to improve their skills in data modeling.

Specialties: Information Management and Modeling, Ensemble Modeling, Data Vault Modeling, Agile Data Warehousing, Education and Business Development.

Dr. Clemens Schäffner

Dr. Clemens Schäffner has been working as Global Director Data Science Center at Gerresheimer AG, based in Düsseldorf, since the beginning of 2023. He has more than 25 years of specialist and management experience in the fields of business intelligence, data science, data management, artificial intelligence and machine learning at companies such as Siemens, Telefonica O2, Bertelsmann, MediaSaturn and Metro.

Wolfgang Jarnach

Wolfgang Jarnach brings over 10 years of experience in the fashion industry and expertise in data analytics. Formerly in consulting, he now serves as Director of Data Intelligence at Home Shopping Europe, leading the centralized data department and supervising digital product analytics, data platform management, business intelligence, and data science.

Sébastien Kovacs

Sébastien holds a degree in computer science from LMU Munich. He has been working as a software developer at MARTIN GmbH for environmental and energy technology since 2022. His expertise covers the areas of computer vision, data pipelines and machine learning. In addition, he is successfully responsible for the management of cloud resources and thus bears comprehensive responsibility for the efficient provision and management of our cloud-based services.

Max Schönsteiner

Max completed his degree in environmental engineering at the OTH Amberg-Weiden. He has been working at MARTIN GmbH for environmental and energy technology since 2013 and has held various positions, including development engineer and product management. He has held the position of Head of Research and Development since 2020. In addition to his technical expertise in combustion technology, Max has discovered and developed a particular passion for designing digital products. 

Dr. Florian Nielsen

Florian Nielsen is Director of AI & Data in the Smart Home/Electronics division at Miele & Cie. KG, the premium home appliance manufacturer. The main challenge is to help leading a manufacturing company through digital transformation by building AI & Data capabilities to infuse decision making with data and maneuver the company towards a mastery of data-driven product development.

Samet Toy

Samet has been working as a Business Intelligence Engineer at ProSiebenSat.1 since 2022. Prior to this role, he gained experience as a Software Developer and Data Analyst in various industries. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Business Informatics. Samet is particularly passionate about cloud-based data solutions.

Tim Schindler

After studying Business Administration specializing in Information Systems, Tim Schindler started his career as a ETL and DWH engineer. He subsequently worked for various companies in the areas of Cloud services, Dev/DataOps and system architecture. For the past 2 years, he is part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Data Products unit as a Data Engineer.

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Olaf Hein

In more than 25 years, Olaf Hein has gained experience in IT as an executive, project manager, architect, system integrator, developer, trainer and author. One focus has always been the storage and processing of large amounts of data. He has been a department head at SKP since 2021, where he is responsible for the bank's data infrastructure and data-driven development.

Dr. Katharina Wirtz

Katharina Wirtz holds a doctorate in business informatics and has over 20 years of experience in software development, including more than 15 years in agile projects. Her focus was on the concepts of DWH/Big Data and artificial intelligence. She worked as a lecturer in business informatics for six years and has published numerous publications. Since 2016, she has been training large corporations (Ergo, Daimler, BMW, Allianz and others) with the "Scrumkitchen" workshop concept she developed. In 2019, she used it to train the entire management team at Porsche AG. She currently supports the data management department at SKP in agile transformation.

Marianne Temerowski

Marianne is People Lead in Data Analytics & AI at Swisscom and manages 80 internal and 20 external colleagues in Data Services. She has been working in the information and communication technology industry for around 15 years for companies such as SAP, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom. She has already successfully implemented several transformations of organizations, technologies and products. She has many years of experience in managing people (up to 100 colleagues in a team) and over 60 million Euro profit and loss responsibility. She has lived in 7 countries and is half Chilean, half German.

Jan Wickerath

Jan Wickerath is a Manager in the Global Transformation & AI department. He advises clients on the digitalization of processes, with a focus on taxes and transfer pricing. He also supports the use of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence. Previously, Jan worked as a research assistant at the Mercator School of Management and in transfer pricing consulting for a Big 4 company.