Bits & Pretzels hosts 7,500 founders, investors, and industry leaders for three days full of learning and doing business at Oktoberfest.
131 sessions · tap any to dive deeper
Masterclass A | Room 11
OUR SPEAKERS
281 speakers on stage.
State Minister for Health, Care and Prevention @ Bavaria
1
Session
Bavaria
Organisation
Keynote
Topic
Judith Gerlach
State Minister for Health, Care and Prevention
Thomas Carlson
Moderator
Host
Andrew McCarthy
General Manager EMEA
Tim Rietz
Founder
Anne Decker
Co-Founder & CEO
Corina Apachite
Head of Artificial Intelligence | Executive on Sabbatical
Grisha Pavlotskyi
Chief Transformation Officer
Karsten Wildberger
Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Latifa Yakhloufi-Konstroffer
CFO Europe
Miyu Lee
General Counsel, Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Gordian Braun
Head of Growth EMEA
Ilan Leifermann
Chief Value Officer
Lennard Schmidt
Greta Buschhaus
Reporter / Moderator
Ines Ivoković
Managing Director
Markus Hacker
Senior Regional Director Enterprise DACH
Philipp Karmires
Executive Vice President - Chief Digital and Information Officer
Simon Morris
Senior Director Solution Engineering
Tom Becker
VP DACH
Michael Beilfuss
Head of Customer Success
Nathan Gruber
Pol Peiffer
Head of Product
Stefanie Kemp
CTO der Sana Klinken, Mitglied des Vorstands
Patrick Dreisch
GTM Industry Lead
Ralf Belusa
Aufsichtsrat
Thomas Saueressig
Chief Customer Officer & Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE
Tobias Gotthardt
Vice Minister
Elsa Hyland
Angel Investor
Andreas Klinger
General Partner
Maex Ament
Karsten Lemmer
Executive Board Member for Innovation, Transfer and Research Infrastructure
Fanny Giannou
CEO
Harry Nelis
Partner
Gabriel Vasquez
Investment Partner
Bernd Storm
Co-Founder & Co-Host
Evelina Anttila
Founder & CEO
Sven Weizenegger
Head and CEO
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO
Rana Yared
Mark Bergen
Senior Reporter; Moderator
Fabian Mehring
Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs
Sven Parusel
Head of Research Partnerships
Matthias H. Tschöp
President of the University
Bar Winkler
Co-founder & CEO
Sahir Azam
Angela Relógio
Zeynep Yavuz-Willson
Ekaterina Zaharieva
Commissioner for Startups
Paula Wehmeyer
VP Marketing & Talent
Feliks Eyser
Felix Haas
Chairman & Co-Host; Moderator
Maria Lindholm
Josef Schmid
GSK Stockmann
Christian Bock
Head of the Innovation Center of the German Armed Forces
Klaus Kappen
Chief Technology Officer
Sebastian Matthes
Editor in Chief; Moderator
Judith Dada
Co-CEO & Senior Partner; Moderator
Carsten Maschmeyer
Thomas F. Hofmann
President
Matthias Schranner
Eric Schmidt
KBE, Former CEO & Chairman
Mirko Novakovic
Zhenya Loginov
Markus Söder
Minister President of Bavaria
Trevor Noah
Eli Waxman
Claes Mårtén
Matthias Spott
Business Angel
Magdalena Lang
Caoimhe Vallely
Managing Director; Moderator
Thomas Oehl
General Partner; Moderator
Malte Rau
Jan Philipp Haas
Kristian Segerstrale
Jack Alderman
Kathi Wilhelm
Partner; Moderator
Christoph Klink
Frederik Brammer
Domokos Kertesz
Flo Akinbiyi
International Speak and Coach; Moderator
Jan Goetz
CEO & Co-Founder
Anne-Marije Zwerver
Max Schertel
Domenico Cipolla
Hubertus Bessau
Partner & CMO
Sarah Buge
Chief Operating Officer
Doreen Huber
Investor
Stefan Rouenhoff
Parliamentary State Secretary
Joko Winterscheidt
Entertainer & Entrepreneur; Moderator
Christian Stiebner
Maxime Paradis
Managing Partner
Franziska P. Bäurle
Co-CEO
Carolina Aguilar
Toby Cubitt
Co-Founder, CTO & CSCIO
Jonathan Sanders
Hannah Schwär
Editor; Moderator
Peter Specht
Yamen Mohisn
Maurits Zevering
Laura Raggl
Filip Dames
Founding Partner
Ara Yeromian
Ben Wilkinson
Yusuf Özdalga
Christian Miele
Nadine Schimroszik
Technology correspondent; Moderator
Philippa Köhnk
Arik Willner
Stephanie Pfeil-Coenen
Anika Gruner
Co-Founder & Coo
Markus Klippstein
Alexander Schöneseiffen
CEO and Co-Founder
Aiga Senftleben
Co-Founder
Danijel Grabovac
Head of Siemens for Startups
Alexander Müller
Head of Innovation & Cooperation Supply Chain
Heike Freund
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Andreas Just
Director Marketing German Accelerator
Thomas Grübler
CSO, US-CEO & Co-founder
Magdalena Oehl
Verena Pausder
Vorstandsvorsitzende
Timo Kuroschinski
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Julian Riedlbauer
Tilo Bonow
Founder and CEO
Peng-Sang Cau
Director of Siemens for Startups
Barbara Scheben
Partner, Head of Forensic
Stijn Verstijnen
CEO & Founder
Finn Persson
Nico Eichhorn
Paul Murphy
Troy Estes
Head of VCs, EMEA; Moderator
Dominic Wilhelm
Vic Singh
General Partner & Founder
Ritika Pai
Nicolas Meier
Aaron Archer
Ivan Levingston
Deals reporter; Moderator
Antoine Nussenbaum
Christian Angermayer
Janina Jänsch
Director General for SMEs, Future Technologies, Startups
Nora Hesse
Themenmanagerin Science Spin-offs
Eric Braun
Co-Founder und Geschäftsführer
Carsten Rudolph
Florian Scherl
Philipp Herrmann
Oliver Hanisch
Gregor Haidl
Katja Ruhnke
Chairwoman of BAND / CEO & Co-Founder of CK Venture Capital GmbH
Philipp Kessler
Niclas Jakob
Lead Digital Transformation EU Markets
Hugo Suidman
Executive Coach & Founder Sidekick
Moritz Fürste
Co-Founder & CMO
Tomas Karlsson
Andre Retterath
Robert Lacher
Moustafa ElBialy
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Dominik Stein
Maximilian Harl
Director Investor Relations; Moderator
Cara Griffiths
Valerie Bures Bönström
Partner & Managing Director of DACH
Anna Herken
Alex Ilic
Co-Founder & Executive Director; Moderator
Enrico Mellis
Florian Heinemann
Zackes Brustik
Podcast-Host, Moderator
Judit Klein
Startup & Fellows Lead
Katja Butzmann
Sebastian Hirtz
Director Sales Operations & CRM/ERP Process Enablement
Pia Dorfinger
Director Start-ups & Innovation
Janos Körtge
Head of Dell Startup Program
Moritz Högner
Dominik Steinkühler
Head of Group Development and Economics
Laura Keilhofer
Investment Manager
Niels Doerje
Silvia Christmann
I/O Psychologist
Johannes Kliesch
Anja Redenz
Dominik Krause
Oberbürgermeister
Max Wittrock
Co-Founder; Moderator
Tim Rocktäschel
Ben Fletcher
Dex Hunter-Torricke
Founder & President
Max Junestrand
Lara Sophie Bothur
Global Tech Translator & Influncer
Peter Van Woerkum
Robin Rombach
Jan Oberhauser
Daniel Metzler
Florian Seibel
Klaus Hommels
Founder & Chairman
Torsten Reil
Co-Founder and co-CEO
Steven Bartlett
Entrepreneur & Investor
Hakob Astabatsyan
Christian Byza
CEO; Moderator
Milan Allan
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Philipp Gerbert
Julian Geist
Sebastian Klaus
Rob Moffat
Alex Schmitt
Olivier Tonneau
Julia Hawkins
Frank Thieser
Greg Schmitt
Head of Private Equity & Co-Investments
Magnus Karnehm
Andrei Brasoveanu
Guillermo Flor
André Schürrle
Noah Hollmann
CTO & Cofounder
Matthias Niessner
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
President and Managing Director
Karim Jalbout
Managing Partner; Moderator
Anna-Julia Storch
Julie Böhning
Sethu Saveda Suvanam
Bernhard Gold
Prash Sharma
Head of M&A
Alexander Thees
Member of the Management Board
Michael Ströck
Thomas Mann
Tom Fitzherbert-Brockholes
Franziska Kayser
Franz Tschimben
Jan Gutknecht
Director SAP for Startups
Aiden Blake
Head of Startup Sales EMEA
James Vincent
Adrian Rosenkranz
Chief Revenue Officer
Ansgar Mondorf
Account Executive
Jannis Grube
Head of Ventures
BND Speaker
Staff Federal Intelligence Service
Fynn Kliemann
Bastian Hasslinger
Jannis Gilde
Director Research
Larissa Schneider
Co-Founder & COO
Jonas Sommer
Principal
Balázs Nagy
Alexander Hirschfeld
Head of Research & Partnerships
Michael Fritz
Joker
Nikolaus Karpf
Eveline Buchatskiy
Larissa Holzki
Editorial Head of TECH; Moderator
Ulrich Nuding
Senior Vice President Engineering Germany & Member of the Board
Dara Khosrowshahi
June Sarpong
TV Presenter, Diversity Expert, Award-Winning Author and Former Director of Creative Diversity; Moderator
Steve Basher
Ralf Gulde
Lukas Köstler
Ido Bar-On
Johannes Schaback
Co-Founder & CTO
Luisa Buinhas
Chief Program Officer
Lukas Leitner
Founding Partner; Moderator
Evgenia Plotnikova
Rupert Schaefer
Fabian Heilemann
Hendrik Brandis
General Partner and Co-Founder
Philip Chopin
Managing Director, Head of Europe at NEA
Leyla Holterud
Mike Wax
Aashna Kumar
Markus Schillo
Representative of the EIF in Germany
Philipp Struth
Yacine Coco
Antonius Gress
Nico Waegerle
Finn Hänsel
Anna Schulte
Sebastian Janus
Andra Larin
Ilja Rudyk
Senior economist
Olga Perepelkina
Inception - Physical AI lead in DACH
Alexander Noll
Robin Haak
Desiree Fixler
Veteran Banker and Free Enterprise Activist
Christian Figge
Ollie George
Director, Executive Talent
Mats Kuuskemaa
Country Director DACH + Poland
Bernd Läßiger
Director
Kartik Sachdev
Senior Solutions Architect
Sarah Theinert
Director Value Creation & Cybersecurity