HODcon Speakers 2022
Alexander Kipp
GIS and Remote Sensing and Analyst
RAG Aktiengesellschaft
Alexander Weihe
Head of Innovation & Business Building
VonoviaAre Corporates the Better VCs? No! The opportunities lie in the collaboration between the strategist's technical view and the investment expertise of venture capital.
Ana Ferreira
Cybersecurity Researcher
Center for Health Technology and Services Research, University of PortoI advocate for a more versatile, innovative, multidisciplinar, yet disruptive, cybersecurity research, so that it is possible to build and promote a more sustainable and inclusive cybersecure society.
André Käber
CEO
leogistics GmbHMy motto in life: Go-your-own-way - try the unknown, be authentic, initiate new things - bring people together and make them better, so that great things can emerge and thereby enable experiences and developments!
Axel Köhnke
Head of software project management and head of data collection & management
Volkswagen Infotainment GmbHData is the new oil. Responsible data handling can only take place on secure E2E systems and must respect the privacy and anonymity of users as well as the focus on usable data.
Bastian Winkenbach
Head of advanced analytics
Vonovia SEInsights from data fuel change!
Christian Glock
Innovation Manager / Business Developer
Vonovia SE
Christian Kellermann
Senior Data Scientist Advanced Analytics
Vonovia SEData is the foundation.
Dirk Ramhorst
Chief Information Officer
Evonik Industries AGData-driven innovation is a matter close to my heart, whereby this is not purely a technology issue, but a socio-technical challenge that also involves people and employees.
Dr. Christian Temath
Managing Director
Kompetenzplattform KI.NRWI am enthusiastic about successfully bringing innovative AI solutions into use in NRW and accompanying the AI journey, especially of SMEs. #NRWcanKI"
Dr. Matteo Große-Kampmann
Founder and CEO
AWARE7Information security is complex, but we share history with hard work here in the Ruhr area. Organizations must rise to the challenges of becoming resilient.
Jan Gräfe
Managing Director
Gründerfonds RuhrAs an investor for startups in the Ruhr region, we are part of the local ecosystem and support ambitious founders in the region with capital, expertise and network.
Jan Sawatzki
Project lead business development
Vonovia
Justin Allchin
Digitalization Projects, Incubation and Strategy
EvonikImpossible is the inverse function of creativity, endurance and investment.
Karim Mustaghni
Founder
culturedesign.orgWhen I think about diversity, I think about the immense but too often unknown and unlocked creativity and innovation potential for business success.
Katharina Schüller
Data Scientist, Founder & CEO
STAT-UPI stand for more data literacy in our economy and society, because we can only create sustainable value in a digital economy through a reflective approach to data.
Kelwin Fernandes
CEO
NILG.AIData is becoming more of a human challenge than a technical one. Training AI models is easy. The open question is how to transform companies' cultures and activities into data-driven ecosystems.
Leonard Tröder
Head of Delivery
Birds on MarsConnecting people, data and artificial intelligence.
Leonhard Thyssen
CTO
roometricGreat and innovative augmented reality and data science software for the real estate industry.
Marcel Wegener
Lead Finance Advisor
Industrial Analytics Lab GmbHPassionate about fact-based decision-making on finance, strategic and operating level.
Marius Manecki
Technical project lead in business development
Vonovia Engineering GmbHInnovations and technological progress take place outside the comfort zone. It is important to be patient and also stick to your idea.
Martin Wibbe
CEO
Materna Information & Communications SEResilience as well as agility represent increasingly important topics and will keep us busy in the future, especially in terms of decision making and execution. Unfortunately, managing crises became an indispensable element of our “new normal”.
Matthias Karl Gebhardt
Director Supply Chain Business
Akiem TechnikOperational Excellence and Innovation - make things visible and initiate sustainable change.
Murisa Cokic
Trainee
Vonovia
Peter Lasch
Department lead simulator engineering
EKu.SIMProviding Power Plant Simulation Solutions - I get excited about being able to use simulations to solve problems that are very difficult to solve in reality.
Sophia Tran
Founder and CEO
Spotlight! VenturesENTREPRENEUR | INVESTOR | FUTURIST | TECH INFLUENCER Sophia supports up-and-coming digital start-ups. Through her work at Spotlight! Ventures & as state spokeswoman for the startup association, she has an ear to the needs of young companies and knows how successful startups come about.
Stuart Bruce Cameron
Founder and CEO
UHLALA GroupAs founder and CEO of UHLALA Group, I have been working with my team for more than 12 years to empower LGBTIQ+ people in the workplace. We do this, for example, by working with companies in all industries in the areas of consulting & awareness, employer branding & recruiting.
Tobias Bleymehl
Corporate Controller
Evonik"Torture the data long enough, and it will confess to anything" - Ronald Coase
Umberto Cattaneo
EURA Regional Cybersecurity Business Consultant Lead
Schneider Electric
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Professor of Internet Governance & Regulation | Co-author of "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think" & 8 other Books
Oxford University
Viviane Winter
Digital Strategist
Evonik Industries AG"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Albert Einstein
Yakup Kaya
Head of energy innovation
Vonovia SE