Dr. Reinhold Bareiss has founded Eagle Peak 16 years ago with an idea, which is called digitization today. After many years in standard ERP based surroundings, as head of SW development for a logistics and consulting company dealing with optimization of processes, he felt there must be a better, more suitable solution that enables smooth and automatic transitions between the various process steps within an organization. As a result, he began developing a revolutionary platform that enables just that: perfectly fitting business processes, mapped without coding and in remarkably less time than classic individual developments, much more flexibility but with the same benefits.

16 years of experience and successful projects in the field make him an old hand who has the knowhow to guide the transition to a digital company and make it work. 

Veit Brücker, seit März 2016 Regional Vice President bei Salesforce, ist verantwortlich für die Betreuung mittelständischer Unternehmen in der DACH Region.

Zuvor agierte er als Geschäftsführer der Firma corexus, eines der führenden Beratungshäuser für Kundenbeziehungsmanagement (CRM) in München.

Im Laufe seines beruflichen Werdegangs sammelte Herr Brücker fundierte Kenntnisse im Online Marketing sowie Produktmarketing u.a. in der Konsumgüter - und Stahlindustrie. Seit dem Jahr 2000 war er durchgängig in verschiedenen Positionen in der IT - und CRM Branche im Mittelstand, aber auch Unternehmen wie ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG und Siemens AG beschäftigt. Sein Fokus lag stets auf Themengebieten wie CRM Strategie, Vertrieb & Marketing, Business Development und Social CRM.

Willem Bulthuis ist seit 30 Jahren im internationalen Technologiesektor tätig, in Silicon Valley und in Europa. Nach weltweiten Führungspositionen bei den Unternehmen Philips Electronics, NXP Semiconductors und Giesecke & Devrient, in den Bereichen Vertrieb und Marketing, Innovation und als CTO, war er zuletzt als Vorstand der secunet Security Networks AG tätig.

Er hat Erfahrung in Industrien wie Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Media, Telecom, Payment, und IT Security.

Zurzeit ist er als Business Angel und Board Member für High-Tech Start-Ups aktiv und berät Firmen zum Thema Digitalisierung und Kooperation mit Startups. Sein Fokus ist auf Themen wie Smart Factory, Smart Energy, Connected Car, Smart Agriculture, Sustainability and Patente.

Alexander Dolan, born 1960, is Director Central Processes at Rittal GmbH & Co. KG. In this position he is responsible for the worldwide standardization of all central working processes at FLG. Besides that, he currently is in charge of the implementation of an Industrial Engineering department with focus on Industry 4.0 in combination with the initiation of lean-administration/-management.

Previously to his graduation in Stuttgart as an mechanical engineer (Dipl.-Ing.), Alexander Dolan completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic. Several additional trainings with diploma in the fields of lean- and purchase management, CI project lead, process auditing, VAVE as well as FMEA complement his educational background.

Due to his many years of international management exercise in the fields of project purchase automotive, manufacturing- and quality planning/-assurance for the Robert Bosch Group nationally and internationally, Alexander Dolan achieved cost reductions and process optimizations and executed digitization in-house as well as extensive supplier development efforts.

Dr. Klaus Doppler is a self-employed management and organization consultant, co-founder of the magazine “OrganisationsEntwicklung” and author of several specialised books and numerous articles in the field of Change Management in Organizations. His book „Change Management“ has been translated into various languages and is regarded as a classic on the subject.

Klaus Doppler graduated in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rom, completed his psychanalytical training at the ‘Innsbrucker Arbeitskreis für Tiefenpsychologie’, is certified Group Dynamics Trainer (DAGG) and received his PhD at the University of Salzburg.

Michael joint Fraunhofer in September 2014 in the newly set-up Executive Board Division for Technology Marketing and Business Models, looking after R&D co-operations between Fraunhofer and industry partners in the ICT sector.

He has 25 years of professional experience which spans from consulting, supply chain management & business operations leadership to account management/business development.

Michael graduated in Business Administration with the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

For more than 15 years he worked in the ICT industry, namely Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq Computer.

Masanori Fujita heads the Solution Center Internet-of-Things at Zühlke Engineering GmbH. With a strong passion for innovation and software technology, he helps companies to build new digital businesses. During his career at Zühlke, he accompanied product and service development projects in mechanical engineering, logistics, insurance, energy, and software companies.

Masanori Fujita has graduated in business informatics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His professional career started as self-employed trainer and consultant at Accenture in the finance sector. He regularly speaks at conferences about IoT and business innovation.

Robert Gallenberger is a Venture Partner at b-to-v Partners AG (www.b-to-v.com). His focus lies on Industry 4.0 & IoT, Data & Analytics as well as Energy & Ressource management. 

Prior to b-to-v he spent 6 years in Venture and Growth Capital at Belgium investment firm Gimv where he was responsible for several investments in Software & Hardware companies. Before that he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London, gathered first VC experience at DFJ Esprit and 3i and started his career at the BMW Group in Munich. 

Robert graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University Munich, holds a Master of Science from Ecole Centrale Paris and earned an MBA from London Business School.

Dr. Annabell Geidner heads the strategy and innovation department of TÜV SÜD and is responsible to drive strategy development and innovation activities across the different sectors and regions of TÜV SÜD group.

Before, she worked for several years for the management consulting firm Bain & Company advising companies in the technology, telecommunications and financial services sectors in strategic challenges and programs.

She studied Business Administration at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich and did her PhD in Entrepreneurial Finance at TU München.

Herbert Ginzinger is Managing Director of Ginzinger electronic systems GmbH. In a comprehensive project, he has radically changed the processes in his factory. With a re-definition of all processes he was laying the foundation for the new, self-organizing system.

During his entire life Dr. Kreidler was always working on the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Started at a small garage type of the company IBH pushing CNC-automation to it´s limits. Developed as one of the key people the new CNC-controls technology for Siemens and introducing the new technology into the aerospace industry. In the year 2000 Dr. Kreidler came up with the first Industrial Cloud-platform which was communicating via Internet to thousands of CNC-machines for the purpose of machine analytics and implemented the startup company Electronic Production Services GmbH. As the CTO of Winergy AG, the world market leader of wind gearboxes and –generators he pushed innovative products for wind turbines. He became the CTO of the new Siemens division Renewable Energy and innovated energy technologies in the field of Wind, Solarthermal, Photovoltaics and Hydro. Awarded as the first Siemens Chief Engineer Dr. Kreidler was responsible for disruptive Innovations for the Industry Sector. Since two years he is the head of Industry 4.0 at SAP and is developing and piloting new cloudbased Big Data Analytics products for the discrete manufacturing industry.

Stefan Lippautz is a Managing Director of Accenture and is part of the ASG leadership team.  

Stefan has been working for leading strategy consultancies for more than 20 years. He has experience especially around IIoT, Technology & Innovation Management, R&D and all digital related topics. He is an expert within the Future of Mobility, connected business and smart city combining the strategic, technology and implementation perspective. 

Dieter Meuser (born 1964) is founder and CTO of iTAC Software AG in Montabaur – already in 1998 he had the vision to build up the field of INDUSTRIE 4.0 in Germany and – being based in Germany - to build up INDUSTRIE 4.0 on a worldwide level.

He completed his education as Diplom-Ingenieur (Engineer) for communications and microprocessor technology in 1987. After working as a development engineer for hardware and software components at Techem AG, he joined the telecommunications division of Robert Bosch GmbH in 1990. He was responsible for the concept and development of an MES solution for Bosch, the conceptual origin of which dated back to a CIM study from 1990. In 1998, together with two former Bosch employees, he founded iTAC Software. The objective of the company was to further develop the Bosch MES solution and to commercially market it to the discrete manufacturing industry.

Under the management of Dieter Meuser, iTAC Software AG has grown to become one of the leading MES producers in the discrete manufacturing industry and therewith a pioneer in the field of INDUSTRIE 4.0. In 2015, with high commitment on the part of Dieter Meuser, the “Smart Electronic Factory e.V.”, an information and demonstration platform for INDUSTRIE 4.0., was founded by iTAC and eight partners from business and research. As of December 2015, iTAC Software AG belongs to the Dürr AG as an independent company within it.

Igor Mikulina (52) is founder and CEO of the MicroStep Europa GmbH. The MicroStep Europa GmbH with its base in Bad Wörishofen (Bavaria) belongs to the internationally working MicroStep Group and provides all clients from German-speaking countries with an extensive sales and service network. MicroStep develops and produces plasma, oxyfuel, laser and waterjet cutting systems – from small CNC machines to customized production lines. Apart from that, MicroStep offers automation systems and software applications for almost every field of the metalworking industry and the energy sector.

In the sector of sheet cutting and sheet processing Igor Mikulina is a recognized expert for all questions in matters of multifunctional cutting machines and automation solutions. He is also co-founder of Industry Business Network 4.0, a young and open initiative of innovative small and medium-sized manufacturers, which is going to develop systems to realize the potentials of a networked production.

Seit April 2016 leitet Gerhard Otterbach als Director & Sales Team Manager das Solution Team für Finance, Travel & Transportation und Manufacturing.
Er ist damit für die Kundenbetreuung und den Neukundenvertrieb in diesen Marktsegmenten verantwortlich. Als einer von drei Solution-Team-Managern berichtet er direkt an den Geschäftsführer der Teradata GmbH.

Gerhard Otterbach kam im Januar 2013 zu Teradata und war zunächst als Global Account Director  für die weltweite Betreuung von Siemens zuständig, einem Großkunden und wichtigen Entwicklungspartner von Teradata.

Zuvor hatte er als Global Account Director bei Microsoft mit seinem globalen Team einen weltweit operierenden Industriekunden betreut. Von 2002 bis 2008 war Gerhard Otterbach im IT-Management und im Sales-Management von Siemens tätig.

Gerhard Otterbach, Jahrgang 1960, schloss sein Studium an der Wirtschaftsakademie Mainz als Diplom-Betriebswirt (VWA) ab. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in München. Seine Hobbies sind Bewegungssportarten jeglicher Art, IT-Innovationen und amerikanische Gerichtsprozessliteratur.

Prof. Paetzold has studied mechanical engineering at the technical university in Chemnitz and business administration at the Open University Hagen.

In 2009 she received a doctorate in the field of developing and dimensioning of thermoplastic gear units in 2003. Between 2004 and 2009 Prof. Paetzold was working as chief engineer at the institute of engineering design of the university Erlangen-Nürnberg. In April 2009 she get the professorship for Technical Product Development at the University of German Armed Forces in Munich.

Her research interests lay in the field of Systems Engineering, here especially in the organisation of data- and information-flow in the product development to support design processes and decisions, and in the field of Human-Centred Design. Prof. Paetzold is the academic head of an advanced apprenticeship course of study “Systems Engineering”.

Andreas Popp ist verantwortlich für das Technologiescouting innerhalb des Zentralbereichs Forschung und Entwicklung in der TRUMPF Gruppe. Sein Branchenfokus beinhaltet die Bereiche Lasertechnik, Elektronik und die moderne Fertigungstechnologie, welche sowohl Fertigungsverfahren und -prozesse als auch die Digitalisierung der Fabrik beinhaltet.

Andreas Popp studierte Physik an der Technischen Universität München und arbeitete anschließend als wissenschaftlicher Angestellter an der Entwicklung neuer Laserstrahlquellen am Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge der Universität Stuttgart. Anschließend war er ab 2011 bei TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen als Projektleiter für die Vorausentwicklung und Experte für Festkörperlaser tätig.

Dr.-Ing. Detlev Richter studied electrical Engineering at Technical University Dresden and Sofia and made his PhD at the Technical University Munich. He worked in the semiconductor and power electronic industry in different position over 18 years. He was driving leading edge development projects within each position as head of Product Engineering, Product Development and Product Innovation for semiconductor System-on-Chip and Memory products as well power electronic systems for renewable energy, e-mobility and industrial applications.

Dr. Detlev Richter joined TÜV SÜD with the focus on functional safety for automotive components and systems. He was leading the powertrain and emission lab network within TÜV SÜD Automotive GmbH. Since 2014 Dr. Detlev Richter is the Global Head of Industrial and Energy products. He is driving implementation of SMART technologies as an add on to all existing IEP services for industrial and energy products within his global organization.

He is an active member of the SmartFactoryKL Initiative in Kaiserslautern, a member of the BITKOM Interoperability Working Group Industrie 4.0 and a member of the IEC standardization group TC44 WG14 Safety of Machinery - Safety- related sensors used for protection of person.

Since May 2016, Dr. Dirk Schlesinger serves as Chief Digital Officer for TÜV SÜD. Before joining TÜV SÜD, Dr. Schlesinger spent 11 years in several management positions at Cisco, most recently as CEO of mozaiq, a joint venture of ABB, Bosch und Cisco in the area of home automation. Before mozaiq, he was the global lead for manufacturing at Cisco Consulting Services and the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Between 1992 and 2005, Dr. Schlesinger worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and Washington, D.C. – since 2000 as Vice President and Partner.

His clients ranged from the industrial good sector to the energy and utility industry as well as financial services companies. He started his professional career as a research and development engineer for  MTU Aero Engines in Munich.

Dr. Schlesinger is an aerospace engineer by training, but also holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctoral degree from the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universität Mannheim.

Axel Stepken was born in Essen, Germany. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen and achieved his PhD in High Voltage Engineering in 1989.

Upon completion of his PhD, Axel Stepken worked at ABB where he held several Management positions in Germany and Indonesia within the Power Transmission and Distribution Segment. He joined TÜV SÜD AG as Member of the Board of Management responsible for the INDUSTRY and the former PEOPLE Strategic Business Segments as well as the Strategic Region ASIA. In June 2007 Axel Stepken was appointed the Chairman of the Board of Management. 

Alexander Vencken is Innovation Consultant at the BMI Lab Deutschland GmbH. Together with Georg von der Ropp he started the German subsidiary of the BMI Lab in Munich. Besides his work as a consultant his focus lies on developing BMI Lab's business in Germany and beyond.

Alexander obtained his MSc degree in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from the ESADE Business School. He has a background in entrepreneurship in the hospitality industry and worked at the Barcelona-based innovation consulting firm Claro Partners. Startups make his heart tick faster, the knowledge he gains from them is passed on his clients.

Florian is a Partner who specialises in IT, IP and Outsourcing projects. He specialises in advising German and international companies in the IT/software, telecommunications, automotive, biotech and life sciences sectors. He has represented companies in numerous technology transactions, including a wide range of outsourcing, development, cooperation and strategic alliance projects.

The German legal directory JUVE Handbuch 2015/2016 lists him a frequently recommended lawyer in the area of IT law and Who's Who Legal Germany 2015 recommends him in the area of "Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection". Florian has published numerous publications and has presented on a number of occasions on IT and data protection law.

Georg von der Ropp guides and supports companies in developing and implementing business innovations. He is Managing Director at BMI Lab Deutschland GmbH, Munich, a spin-off of the University St. Gallen.

Ropp graduated in computer science at the Technical University of Munich and holds an MBA degree from University of St. Gallen. His professional career started at Siemens AG. Further stations were Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank, sd&m AG and Capgemini.

Prior to joining the BMI Lab, he was Vice President at Capgemini Germany, most recently in the CTO field focusing on new business models and cooperation with start-ups.

Florian Weigmann, born 1970 in Groß-Gerau, studied business administration at the university of Mannheim. After initial experience at a start-up in Mannheim, from 1999 until 2010 he worked for SAP in different positions, ultimately as Vice President and Chief Solution Architect. From 2010 to 2014, Florian Weigmann worked for 1&1 in several leading positions as manager with overall responsibility for the business segment ‘webhosting’.

Florian Weigmann is managing director of AXOOM GmbH in Karlsruhe. Founded in 2015, AXOOM is an IT services provider for manufacturing companies.

Jamie Wilkie is a Senior Director in the Fujitsu EMEA and India IT Security Technology Office. His focus is on IT security as an enabler of digital business transformation and on identifying potential innovative partnerships in this area.

Jamie has worked in the IT industry for 25 years at Fujitsu, Siemens and related JVs and at the Open Software Foundation in Cambridge, MA. Jamie has held management positions in systems software development, product planning for networking, corporate strategy and innovation management and has a Masters in Information Technology from the University of York, England.