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Tobias Margarit is Managing Director of diconium data and partner for the areas Smart Content & Campaign, Personalization & Analytics as well as Data Sciences & AI. With 15 years of experience in the field of data strategies and the implementation of BI and AI projects, he successfully realizes data driven business management projects for clients. In addition, Tobias has more than 10 years of experience in the conception and scaling of digital and data analytic platforms for a car manufacturer in southern Germany, China and the United States.
Jurjen is a digital innovation and transformation professional, recognised as an influencer on digital twins. With cross-industry experience and operating at the intersection of design / innovation / technology / development and arts - he applies a multi-disciplinary and a holistic approach to the process of innovation to enable the most advanced and meaningful digital experiences. The concept of Human Digital Twins is his healthy obsession and the amalgamation of his work evangelising 'Industry 4.0 technologies' across the many hackathons he orchestrated to alleviate societal challenges.
Scott Lyons leads the Tech & Commercial Partnerships for Ford of Europe. Based in Berlin, Lyons is responsible managing and growing various aspect of Ford's European Tech Partnerships Ecosystem and is the co-founder of the Ford start-up innovation program MakeItDriveable. His focus is on content and services that will help deliver meaningful, unique and viable solutions to Ford customers via the connected car. Lyons joined Ford in 2013 from Motorola Mobility where he was Director of International Market Development and led a global team responsible for external developer engagement and business development within the MOTODEV organization. Prior to that he held positions at WPP interactive agency Digit London as commercial director – leading the award-winning Vodafone and Motorola accounts respectively – and co-founding London-based interactive agency Sugar Ltd. – a pioneer in the webcasting and digital creative industries. Lyons began his career with time spent in both the press relations and on-air promo departments at MTV Networks in New York, working on a variety of high-profile programming including the “MTV Movie Awards”, “Unplugged” and the “Video Music Awards”.
When LEGO Group Senior art director Morten Bonde was declared legally blind in 2016, His whole world collapsed. How should life continue? Morten made a decision: he wanted to teach himself to focus on the good in life rather than the bad. Morten became a public speaker and wrote the book Sentenced to Blindness – Now What? A Journey from Hopelessness Street to Possibility Road to share how he decided to see possibilities in blindness rather than limitations. Today Morten has an active career in the LEGO Group, and is a published author and motivational speaker on self-management and self-motivation.
Ahsan is a multi-faceted sustainability professional with knowledge and interest in clean technologies, energy decarbonisation, climate policy, circular economy and sustainability integration in corporate strategy. His broad experience in the environmental industry was developed through his work as a Consultant with Cap-Op Energy, SYSTEMIQ and ERM. In these roles, Ahsan has advised clients across the public and private sectors on upstream oil and gas energy efficiency projects, GHG emissions quantification & reporting, carbon market regulatory design, carbon offsets project development, net zero GHG emissions planning and climate risk management and disclosure (TCFD and scenario planning). Ahsan currently works as a contractor for various clean technology companies between Canada and the UK, helping companies reduce emissions in hard to decarbonize sectors using green hydrogen. Ahsan has a BA in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business, a BSc in Environmental Science from Western University, and a MSc in Environmental Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences which he attended on a full scholarship as a Chevening Scholar.
Vlad Oprisa is a Software Developer who learned his craft during the past 15 years while working for a wide range of business domains like Telecommunications, Electronic Payment Systems, Banking, Business Intelligence, Insurance, Accounting, Cash Management, Electronic Data Interchange, IoT and more. He holds both a Bachelor and a master’s degree in computer science. During his career he covered roles like Senior Development Consultant, Software Architect, Technical Excellence Discipline Lead, Development Lead, Senior Software Engineer etc. "I am grateful for the opportunity to tackle major software quality attributes challenges for such a wide range of business use-cases and continuously find better and easier ways to improve the design and architecture.
Mark Little leads the technical direction, research, and development for Red Hat JBoss Middleware.
Prior to taking over this role in 2009, Mark served as the SOA technical development manager and director of standards. Additionally, Mark was a chief architect, and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP, where he was Distinguished Engineer. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s with a PhD in fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication, and transactions. Mark is also a professor at Newcastle University and Lyon University.
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.
Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform. Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as AzulÕs JVM technologies and products. Simon has twice been awarded Java Rockstar status at JavaOne and is a Java Champion. He represents Azul on the Java SE Expert Group, OpenJDK Vulnerability Group and Adoptium Steering Committee.
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Zwienenberg started dealing with computer viruses in 1988 after encountering the first virus problems. His interest thus kindled he has studied virus behaviour and presented solutions and detection schemes ever since. Starting as an independent consultant, later as R&D Manager at CSE Ltd, as a researcher for ThunderBYTE, as Chief Research Officer at Norman, and currently as Senior Research Fellow at ESET. Over the years he has served in many extra roles in different industry organizations. Currently he is still serving on the board of AVAR, on the Technical Overview Board of the WildList and as the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of IEEE ICSG. In 2018, Zwienenberg joined the Europol European Cyber Crime Center (EC3) Advisory Group as an ESET representative. Zwienenberg has been a member of CARO since late 1991. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and general security seminars.
Charl van der Walt is Head of Security Research for Orange Cyberdefense, where he now leads a specialist security research unit that identifies, tracks, analyses & communicates significant developments in the security landscape that may impact customers. Previously Charl was a co-founder of SensePost – a penetration testing company that has made a mark on the industry globally for two decades now, and the lead for a global threat detection operation based in the UK. Charl and his team are globally recognized and frequently showcased at international security events such as Black Hat, RSA & BSides. Orange’s access to authentic security data as an operator, and their deep focus on intelligence and research, place Charl in a unique position to understand and comment on the fundamental dynamics of the security landscape.
Siân John MBE is Director of Security Business Development and Strategic Growth at Microsoft. She leads a team focusing on developing opportunities for Microsoft to deliver new security, compliance, and identity offerings to market. Siân has worked in Cybersecurity for nearly 25 years across strategy, business risk, privacy, and technology. She is Chair of both techUK’s CyberSecurity Management committee and the Digital Economy Advisory Board for the UK Research Councils. Siân is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to Cybersecurity.
As a partner and senior vice president at Future Point of View, Corey White is tasked with helping leaders look out into the future and anticipate how technology will impact their organizations and themselves. Corey leads FPOV’s cybersecurity arm where he guides leaders on the best ways to protect their organizations in an increasingly critical yet dangerous digital landscape. He teaches leaders how to recognize and avoid common and uncommon cyberattacks while also proactively preparing for the near inevitability they will be forced to endure a digital event at some point. From building digital event response playbooks, assessing organizational cybersecurity risk, and even trolling the dark web for client information, Corey has wide experience in many different facets of digital security. Corey is also an accomplished speaker who offers audiences insights into how complex innovation is dramatically altering the world we live in ways that can be both positive and negative. He most recently presented on the subject of algorithmic bias at TEDx Oklahoma City.
With over 15 years of experience in ING Bank Romania, Crina Nicolae was named Tribe Lead Cards in October 2019. Crina joined the ING team in 2005 as a Management Trainee, eventually holding various roles in the Retail, IT and Customer Service areas. In 2006 held the role of Retail Banking Product Specialist, followed by Project Manager, Change Management Manager, Head of Value Chain Lending, IT Change and Process Manager, IT Service Management and IT Governance and Customer Service Lead. Crina has a master's degree in management and business strategies from BI Norwegian Business School and is a graduate of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, where she got a bachelor's degree in Economics and International Affairs.
Andrei is a highly skilled and experienced consultant in Digital Customer Experience, IT Security, Digital Identity, and Digital Business Transformation. Over the last 15 years, he helped large international customers from the Telecom and Banking industries steer their IT strategies to ride the latest technological trends. Lately, he focused on R&D around Open Banking, particularly the security challenges, in close cooperation with leading software vendors and initiative groups. Following this direction, he co-founded Smart Fintech, together with Mihaela Georgescu, Alexandru Cociu and Ana Maria Georgescu, in February 2019. Smart Fintech is a Romanian start-up created as an innovation lab, set to deliver innovative open banking solutions that emerge from the two words: Finance and Technology. Their ambition is to create in Romania value-added services based on the PSD2 directive and help develop the Romanian market so that not only EU TPPs or Fintechs in partnership with banks are the main players.
Ana is a highly experienced technical and sales consultant, specialised in integrated informatic systems solutions and business processes for service-oriented architectures. Over the last 17 years, Ana helped large international enterprise customers from the financial-banking, telecom, or utilities industries to set up their technological processes and implement the latest digital business transformation strategies. In the last 2 years, she focused her attention also on the fintech innovative domain, launching in 2019, together with Mihaela Georgescu, Andrei Dumitru and Alexandru Cociu the Romanian start-up Smart Fintech. This was set up as an innovation lab, set to deliver innovative open banking solutions that emerge from the two words: Finance and Technology. Their ambition is to create in Romania value-added services based on the PSD2 directive and help develop the Romanian market so that not only EU TPPs or Fintechs in partnership with banks are the main players.
Aldo Lele is Sustainability manager at IKEA South East Europe (SEE). South East Europe region includes 5 countries - Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine. He is responsible for leading, developing and implementing sustainability related projects and topics in the whole SEE market. Aldo has been with IKEA for almost 15 years. He started his IKEA jurney as Colaborador in 2006 in IKEA Portugal.
He has changed various positions in IKEA Portugal through years and some of them are: Communication and Interior design manager, Project manager, Country Sustainability leader and he is Sustainability manager in SEE region at the moment. Aldo is passioned about People and Planet positive actions and inspiring others to live more sustainable life. He believes that together with co-workers and customers around the world, a new vision of how people can live a better life within the limits of the planet can be co-created. That means that everybody should always think long-term - The more people we reach, the bigger the impact we can have together.
Gabriel Caramis is the Founder & CEO of Woobble the Human Beings Digital Agency in CEE with an experience of over 10 years in Online Marketing. He launched Woobble in 2017 with the focus to make digital matter to customer problems with specific to all the web, mobile and marketing solutions. Gabriel always makes sure, the solutions are 100% unique and meet the client’s requirements. He is self-determined and urges to provide the best solution to suit your business nature and goal. His team of professionals will closely work with you and spot the right window for your business to attract customers. They have a wide area of knowledge in providing vital solutions and services in the areas of information technology, consulting and outsourcing in various segments of industry like advertising, education, finance, healthcare, life sciences, hotel/hospitality, media and entertainment, mobile and wireless, retail, real estate, sports and fitness, technology, non-profit and more. We Make Digital Matter to You!
Loek is is an Global Omnichannel Strategist, also known as Mr. Omnichannel, with 10+ years’ entrepreneurial FMCG experience building and nurturing C level relationships, driving partnerships and evaluate performance of retail & eCommerce & Customer Experience programs globally including but not limited to Logistics, Change Management, Business Operations and Brand Development. Always striving for excellence together with the teams. Omnichannel, Unified Commerce and Customer Experience are his passions; frequently sharing insights as a Keynote speaker or Panel member at international events on Omnichannel, Customer Experience and Retail. He has an untenable love to be challenged in solving problems that improve user experiences. Passionate and motivated for leading talent teams that work on impactful complex projects while focusing on delivering the daily revenue’s. Seasoned in transforming retail technology to meet needs of quickly growing or highly customer centric brands. o Transformed and built cross country teams with improved processes and passion to work as coherent teams o Improved customer journeys in million dollar companies with new processes, software and customer journeys o Simplified, Transformed and Implemented Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX) programs in 40+ Retail, eCommerce and User Experience initiatives, investments and programs o Breaking boundaries by transforming silo oriented teams into unified teams putting customers first