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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, 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.

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 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.

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

Born in Berlin in 1957, Alexander Mankowsky studied Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He graduated in 1984 with the title of Diplom Soziologe.

After four years in social services helping troubled children, he decided to follow the Zeitgeist and enrolled at a post graduate university, focusing on the then new field of Artificial Intelligence. After heavy programming in Lisp and Prolog, he earned himself the title of ‘Knowledge Engineer’. Since 1989 Alexander Mankowsky has worked in the research unit at Daimler AG, initially focusing on societal trends in mobility. This led him in 2001 to his current field of work – ‘Future &Technology.’

Alexander Mankowsky is focused on human centered innovation utilizing futuristic technological concepts. He is embedded in Daimler’s rich and diverse network of creative engineers and designers.

Dieter May joined BMW in 05/2014. He has 23 years of experience in global high tech companies, spanning mobile products, large-scale cloud based consumer services and semiconductor technology. Dieter has a track record in scaling, transforming and re-positioning of global businesses. During his career, Dieter built and managed large scale and high performance teams in the US, Europe, India and China. His portfolio includes setting-up digital consumer services activities in Nokia with more than 200 M active users and focus on emerging markets, connecting the next billion consumers to the internet.  He also ran Nokia’s Emerging Businesses Unit and was instrumental in multiple strategic acquisitions. During his Corporate Strategy leadership with Infineon, the company made significant strides into the systems and solutions business and built the basis for its China activities. Dieter was also turning around one of Infineon’s global business divisions. In addition to his consulting background with Booz, Dieter held management positions with Motorola Semiconductors and IBM.