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

Michael Keusgen is an investor and serial entrepreneur with a focus on media technology and founder of Ella Media AG.
Born in Dinslaken in 1966 he studied Chinese and Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS in London.
After training as a TV producer, Michael Keusgen worked for the BBC, WTN, and ABC News. He then returned to Germany and founded AZ Media, based in Cologne.

He has been involved in a number of innovative and highly rated TV productions for almost all the German broadcasters. His work has been awarded with the Bavarian Television Prize.

Michael Keusgen has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Ella Media AG since 2020. The AI-based software developed under his leadership is capable of writing high-quality content and creative stories automatically. From product descriptions to info texts to short stories, every text is generated individually within a few minutes at the push of a button.

With his team of highly qualified experts, Michael Keusgen‘s vision is to spark (r)evolution in the content industry.

Kenza is a multi-award-winning AI expert, author and one of the top 40 under 40 talents in Germany (awarded by Capital Magazine). She was born in Morocco, studied Telecommunications Engineering in Spain. A Master in Project Management followed in Germany, then Chinese as a foreign language in China. She has a track record managing big projects and teams, in Hardware and Software development, ICT outsourcing tenders and agile transformations. In August 2020 Kenza published her first Book „Keine Panik, ist nur Technik“ and in February 2022 the children’s book “Meine Freundin Roxy” (in German for now). In both books she explains artificial intelligence and pleads for more diversity in AI development. Today she is Director of Client Engineering DACH at IBM.
www.iamkenza.de

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.

Evgeny Morozov is a writer and thinker on the social and political implications of information technology. He is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013). He holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University and has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown and Stanford universities. He is also the founder of The Syllabus, a media project that seeks to make serious and academic knowledge more accessible to the general public.

Tina Müller has been CEO of the DOUGLAS Group since November 2017. Under her leadership, the digital transformation of the company was initiated, leading DOUGLAS into a new era of profitable growth with a strong e-commerce focus as part of the #FORWARDBEAUTYDigitalFirst strategy program. She looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the consumer goods industry and has held international leadership positions at Wella and Henkel. From 2013 to 2017, she was a member of the Board of
Management at General Motors for Opel.

Kathy Pham is a product leader, computer scientist, and founder who has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, consulting, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. She currently serves as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission in the United States, Senior Advisor at the Mozilla Foundation, and Product Advisor at the United States Digital Service.
Kathy’s expertise lies at the intersection of technology, ethics, and responsibility, with a focus on ethical principles in practice in product management, design, and engineering. Her work has spanned Mozilla, Google (Search, Health, and People Operations), IBM, Harris Healthcare, and the federal government at the United States Digital Service at the White House, where she was a founding product and engineering member. She has founded the Ethical Tech Collective, Product and Society, Women in Product Boston, the Cancer Sidekick Foundation, Team Curious, and Unite for Sight Southeast.
At the Kennedy School, Kathy created and teaches Product Management and Society, and launched Product and Society. Kathy is an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center where she leads the Ethical Tech working group, and focuses on ethics in technology, with an emphasis on engineering culture and computer science curricula. She is also a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, former Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center, faculty affiliate at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at the Harvard, faculty affiliate with Assembly:Disinformation. As a 2018 fellow of the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Assembly, Kathy co-founded ai-in-the-loop focused on community inclusion in the development of Artificial Intelligence. In 2019, she gave the Commencement Speech at the Harvard University Extension school, and in 2020, the Commencement Class Day Farewell Lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School.
At Mozilla, Kathy co-founded and advises the Responsible Computer Science Challenge and in March 2020, co-founded the new Mozilla Builders Fix-the-Internet Incubator, supporting and funding teams and start-ups with promising ideas for a better internet for communities around the world.
Kathy serves and has served on the advisory boards and councils of technology companies, the Anita Borg Institute, World Economic Forum’s Tech Ethics working group, Startups and Society, and the “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck” initiative. She has been involved in leadership with ProductTank and Women in Product. She advises tech companies, startups, conferences, and non-profits on product, social responsibility, hiring, building teams, and community inclusion.
Kathy has been recognized as First Lady Michelle Obama’s Guest to the State of the Union Address, Inductee into the Computing Hall of Fame at Georgia Tech, a finalist in the StarCraft II After Hours Gaming League, Lighthouse3’s 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, and worldwide champion at the Imagine Cup Technology Competition. Kathy holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Supelec in (Metz, France). Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Politico, TechCrunch, NPR, VentureBeat, Nguoi Viet, the Huffington Post, and more.
Kathy can also be found looking for surf spots along the New England coast, experimenting with recipes that coordinate with F1 grand prix locations, and coaching grade school soccer.

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.