Technologies, Strategies, Networking

Aya Jaff develops her first app at the age of 15, founds a programming club shortly thereafter and develops the stock market simulation "Tradity" together with friends - today one of the largest social stock market simulation games in Germany.

In the meantime, she is one of Germany's best-known programmers and made the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019 in her mid-20s. The ZEIT calls her "Mrs. Code", for the Handelsblatt she is the "star of the tech industry". As a techie and founder, one topic in particular comes into focus for Aya Jaff: digital sustainability, thought out in an entrepreneurial way.

Her first book "Moneymakers: How you can discover the stock market for yourself" (2020) was a SPIEGEL bestseller. In it, she shares her trader experiences and reveals which investment strategies promise success for young people.

Web3

Web3 is more than just a trend. But what is behind this term? What relevance does the decentralized online ecosystem have for companies and individual industries? What does it have to do with sustainability, consumption and values? And more importantly, what is actually in store for our society? Do we even want it?

Horst von Buttlar is a business journalist, author and, since March 2023, Editor-in-Chief of WirtschaftsWoche. Horst von Buttlar was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize and received the Herbert Quandt Media Prize for business journalism. In 2019, he was honored as "Business Journalist of the Year".

Horst von Buttlar studied Slavic studies, history and political science and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich. He previously worked for the "Financial Times Deutschland," most recently as department head in the central editorial department of G+J Wirtschaftsmedien.

Green founder time

A new generation of entrepreneurs is dedicating their work to one big goal: finding solutions in the fight against climate change. It's hopeful to see the ideas and companies that are emerging - because the problems may seem daunting. But so is man's ability to solve them. A foray from Iceland to Leipzig.

Sven Gábor Jánszky is a futurologist and Chairman of the largest independent futurology institute in Europe. His 2b AHEAD Group currently includes 30 companies, in addition to the Zukunftsinstitut, an investment company, two investment funds, a company builder and high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, Israel, the UK, Australia and Germany.

Over the past 20 years, his institute has broken down the methods of international, academic futurology for corporate strategy departments and made them usable. His startups in future technologies, from quantum computing to genetics, robotics, self-driving to cryopreservation, founded in cooperation with medium-sized companies, have achieved multimillion valuations.

Working world 2035

In a cross-industry scenario, Jánszky highlights an imaginary working day of a person in 2035. What will work, leadership and colleagues look like in the future? Jánszky explains the challenges ahead and describes the strategic implications for companies: These will become Predictive Enterprises with adaptive products, predictive enterprise software, and business models that must be faster than real time.

Christoph Keese is a managing partner of Axel Springer hy GmbH and advises well-known companies, government institutions and cities on issues of digital transformation and technological innovation. The journalist, economist, publishing manager and book author has been working on the digitization of business models since the early 1990s. He is one of the co-founders of the Financial Times Deutschland, headed WELT am Sonntag and WELT Online as Editor-in-Chief, and drove digitization at Axel Springer, most recently as Executive Vice President.

Companies in upheaval

In his presentation, Christoph Keese highlights the challenges that now need to be overcome in the face of emerging technologies and platforms, disruptive innovations, changing business models and increased demands for sustainability. Building on his many years of experience, Christoph Keese explains why companies need to reinvent themselves in the 21st century and how a successful transformation can succeed.

With his victory in the seventh race of the 2016 Red Bull Air Race World Championship at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Germany's Matthias Dolderer made history: not only was he the first pilot to win a race at the legendary speedway, he is also the first German world champion ever in the ultimate motorsport series of the skies.

Matthias Dolderer completed his first flights at the age of three together with his father. He grew up in his parents' flying school and was infected by the "airplane" virus at an early age. He was 14 when he made his first solo flight, and since then his whole life has revolved around aviation.

Sven Wagenknecht is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of BTC-ECHO, the widest-reach media platform on blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the DACH region. In his role, he regularly comments on the socio- and macroeconomic impact of decentralized technologies. He also advises public institutions (including the United Nations) on individual blockchain initiatives and is a board member of the Blockchain working group of the digital association Bitkom e. V.

Digital evolution in the financial sector

Our financial sector is facing tremendous upheaval. Central banks around the world are working on digital central bank money, banks are issuing electronic securities, and cryptocurrencies are enabling a decentralized financial sector. With the help of blockchain technology and so-called tokenization, assets, money, identities and usage rights are becoming programmable. However, only very few people are aware of what this means in concrete terms.

Dietmar Dahmen began his career as a strategic planner and spent the next 15 years working in the creative departments of major network agencies in Hamburg, Los Angeles, Munich, New York and, most recently, as Chief Creative Officer and Managing Director at BBDO in Vienna.

He then switched fields and served for 8 years as Chief Innovation Officer at ecx.io, an IBM Company. Today Dietmar is an internationally sought-after speaker and expert for change, future and transformation and founder and CEO of Dietmar Dahmen Brainkicks GmbH.

Open A.I., quantum computing and the metaverse.

Which "shark of change" is circling your office today? What new sharks are growing up right now? How will Open A.I. change your job? What influences will quantum computing and the metaverse have on your success? What other waves will digitization unleash … and do these waves pile up into a dangerous tsunami for you and your company … or do they result in the opportunity for more fun and speed while riding the waves? Learn to see dangers as a resource and thus secure your success.

Thomas Ramge, expert on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, technology correspondent for the business magazine brand eins, contributing editor for The Economist, author and moderator, explains in his lectures how customer data is revolutionizing our economy, why Smart Data is better than Big Data, how innovation can succeed in the digital age, and why the new industrial era is less a technical challenge than one of human capacity for change.

The journalist has received several awards for his books, including the Herbert Quandt Media Prize and the German Business Book Prize.

Augmented Intelligence

Large language models like ChatGPT "understand" contexts. At the same time, they access almost the entire (digitized) wealth of human experience. This makes something possible that AI has failed at up to now: automating decisions. This is especially true for management decisions that are made regularly and are well documented.

Simone Menne worked at Lufthansa AG from 1989 to 2016. From 1999 to 2004, she was responsible for commercial administration and human resources. From 2004 to 2010, Menne took over as Head of Finance and Accounting at Lufthansa Technik. In 2010, Menne moved to the airline British Midland as CFO until she was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Lufthansa in 2012.

In August 2016, she left Lufthansa at her own request in order to "develop personally." She moved to Boehringer Ingelheim, where she was responsible for corporate finance until 2017.

Sustainability in the economy

What is the role of the private sector in the transition to new and near-sustainable technologies? And what is needed and expected from the public sector? How can we accelerate the changeover? Together with Simone Menne, we are looking for answers.

Pierre Bürkle has been Vice President Industrial Automation DACH at Schneider Electric since July 2021. With the company since 2001, his career to date has been in global software development (motion control) at country level in the UK, Taiwan and Germany at Schneider Electric.

In his role as Vice President Industrial Automation DACH, Pierre Bürkle plays a key role in the development of smart and sustainable IIoT solutions for the industry of the future.

Prof. Dr. Christian Stöcker is head of the "Digital Communication" course at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Previously, he was head of the Net World department at SPIEGEL ONLINE. As an expert on digital public issues, he advised the Bundestag, the Enquete Commission "Artificial Intelligence - Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential", and the Thuringian state parliament, among others.

In 2010, he received the Prize for Science Journalism and Science Communication of the German Psychological Society. In the fall of 2020, his most recent book "Das Experiment sind wir" (The Experiment is Us) was published about the so-called "Great Acceleration", which has been changing the world ever faster since the 1960s.

Artificial intelligence and climate crisis

Digital technology and the progressive destruction of the human living environment have something in common: both are phenomena characterized by exponential, i.e. accelerated, change processes. Artificial intelligence or, more precisely, machine learning is the latest and probably most powerful line of development in digitization - but how can it be used meaningfully in the service of sustainable developments?