Jens Dissmann

As Surface Lead Germany at Microsoft, Jens Dissmann is responsible for the new hardware initiatives around the Microsoft Surface product line.

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Prior to that, Jens had leading positions in mobile business units at Microsoft & NOKIA.

Jens looks back at more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience in the digital and wireless sphere. After co-founding an Internet startup and merging it with Ciao.com he engaged in several mobile technology companies focusing on both, mobile service provisioning infrastructure as well as consumer content propositions.

Jens is a graduate of “WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management” and studied at the Texas A&M University in the United States and the INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. He holds several advisory board positions in which he contributes through his expertise and passion for innovative technologies and propositions in the mobile sphere, which are likely to change the way we experience and interact in the not so far future.

Johann Jungwirth

Johann Jungwirth is the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of Volkswagen AG is responsible for the digital transformation of the Volkswagen Group and reports directly to Matthias Müller, CEO of Volkswagen AG.

Johann Jungwirth transferred from Apple in Cupertino, CA (USA), where he was Director, Mac Systems Engineering for over a year. He was responsible for innovation in design and engineering in product development as well as hiring, growing and leading a multicultural research & development team and supporting the Special Projects Group. 
 
In 2009 Jungwirth was appointed as President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America to head the Research & Development Center in Sunnyvale, CA (USA), with additional locations. From the center in Silicon Valley, Jungwirth and his team were responsible for all research and development units in the US market such as autonomous driving, powertrain and electric drive, technology and vehicle development, as well as business innovation and user interaction design. From 2008 to 2014 Jungwirth was also Vice-President Connected Car, User Interaction & Telematics responsible for all research, engineering and product development for infotainment and connected car solutions.

Bart de Witte

Bart de Witte is the Director of Digital Health DACH at IBM Germany. In this role he leads the newly formed Digital Health Unit, focusing on digital Health transformation, stimulating innovation in the DACH health sector, leveraging the company’s investments around cognitive solutions and Watson Health. Bart De Witte has over 17 years of experience in the digital health sector, calls himself a healthcare nerd and has been involved in leading edge technologies and new IT businesses, including intimate involvement as a mentor in the formation and growth of a dozen startups within the healthcare sector. He is passionate about technology and data-driven transformation of healthcare systems, brings a wealth of experience and understands well the barriers for innovation in healthcare.

Bart de Witte holds degrees from different universities in Belgium and has followed several other post-university tracks at national and international business schools, including Harvard Business School. Bart de Witte is a faculty member of guest lecturer of the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich on digital health, and is a founder of the Austrian Quantified Self Organization.

Liat Segal

Liat Segal (Israel, 1979), a new media artist fusing together art and technology. In her works Segal harnesses information, software, electronics and mechanics to build installations and machines that connect the physical world with virtual ones.
Liat graduated her M.Sc studies in computer science and biology and the Interdisciplinary Program for fostering excellence at Tel Aviv University. She worked as a researcher at Microsoft Innovation Labs and taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Design at the Hebrew University.
Segal’s recent works were exhibited at the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, National American Jewish History Museum Philadelphia, Hansen House, Jerusalem, the Amsterdam Light Festival, Jerusalem International Light Festival and others.

Markus Durstewitz

Markus works for the Airbus Corporate Innovation team. His mission is the establishment of a sustainable innovation culture and effective innovation environment that delivers value to the customers. He has over twenty years of experience in the aerospace industry working in different key positions along the complete product life-cycle. Markus holds a PhD in Cognitive Engineering and Man-Machine Systems. Main interest is in user-centered design and impact of digitalization in offering new ways of collaboration along the complete value chain of aviation.

Nils Wollny

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Nils Wollny is Head of Digital Business Solutions at AUDI AG. Together with his team he develops digital services, platforms and solutions for customers and dealers throughout the whole user journey. Before joining Audi, Nils was Managing Director Strategy at SinnerSchrader – one of Europe’s leading digital agencies. He started his career in at thjnk (formerly kempertrautmann), where he at last was Managing Partner of the multichannel subsidiary kempertrautmann change. Nils holds a degree in Foreign Trade/International Management and has an extensive experience in brand and communications strategy, digital transformation and innovation.

Naziha Mestaoui

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Naziha Mestaoui, artist and architect, lives and works in Paris. Her unique approach merges space, imagery and technological innovations of the digital era to create in- novative immersive and sensory experiences.

International exhibitions

She is member of the Electronic Shadow duo, founded in 2000, now hailed as pioneers in the art of the digital age, and recognized as inventors of Video Mapping, a technique at the crossroads of spatial and imagistic art. The duo have marked their journey with numerous ex- hibitions across the globe: MOMA in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Contemporary Art Biennale in Sevilla, Sao Paulo’s SESI, Shanghai’s MOCA….

Nature at the heart of her vision

In 2011 she launched a solo artistic career, pursuing the ideas launched by Electronic Shadow and establishing herself as an artist at the cutting-edge of future-realist art. Her travels among aboriginal peoples (the Amazon, India, Oman) prompted a series of projects including One Beat One Tree, based the plurality of approaches to the Man/Nature relationship. As Philippe Descola states, this makes Western culture an anomaly given its disconnec- tion from its environment.

Today, Mestaoui is recognized as an avant-garde artist who personifies an altruistic vision of art and insists that nature be at the very heart of cultural issues.

During the United Nations Climate Conference COP21, Naziha launched a digital, green and citizen artwork «1 Heart 1 Tree». A powerful and engaging experience offe- red citizen around the globe to see their name and mes- sage appear on the Eiffel Tower with their unique virtual tree, generated by their heartbeat. For every virtual tree a real tree is planted in a reforestation program on all five continents, destined to improve living conditions locally and fight the effects of climate change.

www.nazihamestaoui.com www.1heart1tree.org

Marc Buckley

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Climate speaker & activist, promethean, business speaker, entrepreneur, sustainable futurist, agriculturist, hydro/aeroponist, teacher, and ecopreneur by profession. Evangelist for climate solutions, sustainability, and the Adaptive Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (ALOHAS). I love family, diversity, culture, animals, playing polo, reading, playing chess, and living ALOHAS. I have the ability to see the unseen bigger picture – “The Overview Effect”. I am optimistic seeing the world not only as it is but as it could be and I know the power of Exponential Growth and Quantum Leaps.

I am very optimistic and believe now is the time for grand awakening, addressing global challenges, globalization, decolonization, and global citizenry. I love Humanity and want to reach Billions with global solutions now. I came to this point in my life through multi-cultural family, working around the world, personal experiences like being overweight, living unhealthy, and excess consumption. As a food and beverage producer, I saw the many facets and effects this industry has on our world; climate, water, resources, energy, waste, and health. Balance must be restored and this industry needs to come out of the Industrial Age into the Global ERA of Sustainability. The Innovation and Technologies have been here for a long time, Let’s Do This, A Time is Now!

Co-Founder of ANJA GmbH & Co. KG – Adaptive Nutrition Joint Achievements, Climate Reality Project Speaker (Al Gore), Professor, Green Brand Academy, and Founding member of Wertemanufaktur e.V.

Favorite Quote:
A (Hu)man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a (Hu)man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
~ Cyrano de Bergerac

Antje Hundhausen

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Antje Hundhausen has over 20 years of professional experience, including 18 years in brand and marketing management positions.

Ms. Hundhausen, a graduate in Business Administration, has been head of 3D Brand Experience for Deutsche Telekom AG since mid-2007.
Prior to this, she headed Marketing Communication and Marketing Strategy at Deutsche Telekom AG from 2000–2007. Her agency experience includes a position as Senior Consultant for Marketing for the IBM corporate account at the American agency George P. Johnson in Stuttgart. From 1996–1999, as department head for trade fairs/events in Essen/Düsseldorf, she was a key player in building the o.tel.o brand. Before this, she headed the tourism trade fair for Messe Essen GmbH from 1994–1996.

Further positions and qualifications:
Stanford University Executive Program, training to take on supervisory board posts, qualification as a systemic coach in Wiesloch (Germany), business mediator, degree in Business Administration from Ravensburg Cooperative University, degree in Music, Art History and Spanish from the University of Bonn.
Hotel management training in Stuttgart, time spent in Boston, U.S.A., as manager at the Lafayette Hotel.

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