Florian Feltes is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zortify.
Founded in Luxembourg, Zortify is a pioneer in artificial intelligence for human experience management (HXM) and business success. The company’s mission is to develop software solutions that help translate any textual data into meaningful information, adding value to any situation where the human factor is crucial.
Using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques, Zortify generates additional layers of information for customers in a variety of contexts.

Furthermore, Florian is a Professor of Digital Leadership and HR at the XU Exponential University in Potsdam, an Author and a Speaker with focus on Leadership, Organizational Culture & Development, Transformation, AI for HR, Innovation, Disruption. In his research and teaching, he focuses on New Work and success factors of start-up and innovation teams.

As an author of the book "Revolution? Yes, please! When Old-School Leadership Meets New-Work Leadership".

Markus Haas ist seit Januar 2017 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) der Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG und seit September 2012 Mitglied des Vorstands. Von 2014 bis 2017 führte er als Chief Operating Officer (COO) das operative Kerngeschäft des Unternehmens. Unter seine Verantwortung als COO fiel auch die operative Integration von Telefónica und E-Plus nach dem Erwerb 2014 sowie die damit verbundene erfolgreiche Realisierung der erwarteten Synergien. Zuletzt hat Telefónica unter seiner Gesamtführung des Unternehmens den Mobilfunkmarkt in Deutschland mit der Einführung von O2 Free, dem mit Abstand kundenfreundlichsten mobilen Datenprodukt, erneut revolutioniert.
Der Volljurist ist seit 1998 für Telefónica tätig. 2009 wurde er Mitglied der Geschäftsführung. Er hat die Übernahme und Integration der HanseNet, die LTE Spektrums-Auktion und den erfolgreichen Börsengang von Telefónica Deutschland entscheidend mitgestaltet. Unter seiner Verhandlungsführung wurden kommerziell wichtige, strategische Partnerschaften geschlossen, unter anderem mit der Deutschen Telekom AG, Versatel GmbH und mit der Drillisch AG.
Seine Karriere begann Markus Haas als Referent Recht und Regulierung 1998 bei Telefónica in Deutschland – damals noch Viag Interkom – und anschließend als Executive Assistent des CFO. Danach leitete er als Vice President den Bereich Corporate & Legal Affairs mit kommerzieller Verantwortung für das Roaming- und Wholsesale-Netzbetreibergeschäft. Markus Haas wurde 1972 in München geboren und lebt mit seiner Familie in München.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Dr. Stephan Keller
Nationality German
Date of birth 18 September 1970
Place of birth Aachen
Family status married, three children

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
since 1 November 2020
Mayor of the state capital Düsseldorf

27 September 2020
Election as Mayor of the state capital Düsseldorf

January 2017 - October 2020
City of Cologne
City Director

January 2011 - December 2016
State capital Düsseldorf
Deputy for law, public order and traffic

January 2006 - December 2010
Association of Towns and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
Deputy for urban development, environment and municipal economy

September 2000 - December 2005
Association of German Cities, Cologne
Head of the office of the Managing Director

September 1999 - August 2000
German Association of Cities, Cologne
Consultant (Department for fundamental issues regarding the local constitution, administrative structural reform and aliens law)

May 1999 - August 1999
Administrative Court Cologne Judge

October 1996 - January 1998
Law firm Delheid Soiron Schreven Hammer, Aachen
Freelancer

September 1995 - September 1996
Faculty of Law, Birmingham University (UK)
Research assistant

September 1995 - September 1996
Law firm Ebersberger Meisen & Coll., Bayreuth
Freelancer

TRAINING AND FURTHER EDUCATION
2010
Doctorate in law, Ruhr University Bochum

February 1999
Second state examination in law

December 1996
Master of Laws, Birmingham University (UK)

November 1990 - January 1995
LL.M studies, Birmingham University (UK)

January 1995
First state examination in law

November 1990 - January 1995
Law studies, University of Bayreuth

June 1990
A-levels, municipal secondary school Herzogenrath

Marina Löwe is ada´s Head of Learning & Development. She joins us in our belief that growth rarely happens alone, and shares our passion to inspire the connections that will drive future change. Marina is an experienced change expert with a proven track record in creating personal and business transformations. She accompanies executives and teams in the development of mindful digital high-performance cultures for sustainable business. Marina has been working as an internal and external consultant, facilitator and trainer in international companies ranging from DAX corporations to startups since 2002. She is an industrial and organizational psychologist, multi-certified trainer, mediator, Co-active and Berkeley Executive Coach.

Miriam Meckel is founding publisher and Chief Executive Officer of ada. Since 2005 Miraiam has held a professorship in communication management at the University of St. Gallen, and was editor in chief and publisher of WirtschaftsWoche. She served one legislative period as government spokesperson and State Secretary for Media and International Affairs under the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and she also worked as a consultant for the Brunswick Group for many years. During her time as a journalist and scientist she received the Cicero Speakers Prize in the science category, published numerous books, and was accepted engagements as a guest professor at Harvard University, Singapore Management University and the University of Vienna.

Dr Margaret Mitchell is a researcher working on Ethical AI, currently focused on the ins and outs of ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published over 50 papers on natural language generation, assistive technology, computer vision, and AI ethics, and holds multiple patents in the areas of conversation generation and sentiment classification.

She previously worked at Google AI as a Staff Research Scientist, where she founded and co-led Google’s Ethical AI group, focused on foundational AI ethics research and operationalizing AI ethics Googleinternally.

Before joining Google, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on computer vision-to-language generation; and was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins, focused on Bayesian modeling and information extraction.

She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Aberdeen and a Master’s in computational linguistics from the University of Washington. While earning her degrees, she also worked from 2005-2012 on machine learning, neurological disorders, and assistive technology at Oregon Health and Science University.

She has spearheaded a number of workshops and initiatives at the intersections of diversity, inclusion, computer science, and ethics. Her work has received awards from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the American Foundation for the Blind, and has been implemented by multiple technology companies.

She likes gardening, dogs, and cats.

Verena Pausder ist Unternehmerin, Expertin für Digitale Bildung und Gründerin von Fox & Sheep und den HABA Digitalwerkstätten.

Kindern chancengleichen Zugang zu digitaler Bildung zu ermöglichen ist in ihren Augen eine der Kernvoraussetzungen für die Zukunftsfähigkeit unseres Landes. Dafür hat sie 2017 den Digitale Bildung für Alle e.V. gegründet. Während der Corona-Zeit stellte sie homeschooling-corona.com ins Netz und initiierte den größten Bildungs-Hackathon des Landes #wirfürschule. Dafür wurde sie vom Handelsblatt und BCG als Vordenkerin 2020 ausgezeichnet.

Ihr Buch „Das Neue Land“ ist Spiegel Bestseller und wurde von der Frankfurter Buchmesse mit dem Sonderpreis „Unternehmerbuch des Jahres“ ausgezeichnet.

Sie ist im Beirat von Delius und Röhlig Logistics, Hochschulrätin der CODE University in Berlin, und Gründerin der Initiative #stayonboard. 2016 wurde sie vom Weltwirtschaftsforum zum „Young Global Leader“ ernannt. 2018 erfolgte die Aufnahme in die Forbes Europe’s Top 50 Women In Tech Liste. 1979 in Hamburg geboren, lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern in Berlin.

Kimo Quaintance is ada’s Director of Community. He first worked with ada as an external consultant in 2019, and joined the team full-time in 2021. He has spent the past 10 years consulting on collective learning and technological change to clients such as Facebook, Microsoft, General Motors, Lufthansa, Siemens, the United States Army, and the Royal Opera House in London. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has developed curriculum and lectured at the University of Denver, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich (Universität der Bundeswehr München), and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Léa Steinacker is founder and Chief Operations Officer of ada. Prior to 2018 she worked for Wirtschaftswoche, most recently as Chief Innovation Officer. In 2018 the american magazine Forbes named her one of the “Top 30 Under 30” managers in Europe’s media landscape, the same year she was one of the “Top 30 Under 30” journalists named by Medium Magazin. Raised in Germany, Australia and Wales, she studied at Princeton, Harvard and the American University in Cairo before writing her doctor’s thesis on the social impact of artificial intelligence systems at the University of St. Gallen.