Asif Sadiq MBE

Asif is the Senior Vice President at WarnerMedia for Equity and Inclusion, International, he was previously the Global Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact at adidas and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police. He is a board member for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a member of the board of advisors for Hedley May. Over his 20-year career he has worked in Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia.  

Asif has been credited with impactful global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities and programs across organizations, that have created a strong sense of belonging for all and resulted in truly diverse workplaces. He has been key in building synergies between internal and external D&I efforts within organizations, ensuring diversity and inclusion is embedded in all elements of a business, resulting in innovative, creative and inclusive products and services. 

Erin Meyer

Erin Meyer is the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business and the co-author of the New York Times best-selling book and FT nominated best business book of 2020, No Rules Rules. She is also a professor at INSEAD. Her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Forbes.com. In 2021, Erin was selected by the Thinkers50 – for the third time – as one of the fifty most influential business thinkers in the world.

Sophie Theen

Sophie is an award-winning Diversity & HR leader in fintech and as the Chief People Officer in Boom, her aim is to shift cultural paradigms within organisations and to champion diversity and equality using structured, disruptive thinking. She is a recognized mentor, career coach for young women in tech and a credited mental health coach.

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Perry Timms

Perry Timms MCIPD & FRSA is Founder & Chief Energy Officer of PTHR. He has been 4x voted onto the HR Most Influential Thinker’s List (3x Top 10, and No 2 overall in 2021). He has authored 2 books, Transformational HR (1st & 2nd Editions) & The Energized Workplace. He is a 2x TEDx Speaker, 4x Adjunct Professor/Visiting Fellow and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor.

Katarina Berg

Katarina Berg has been heading up Spotify’s global HR team and she’s also head of the company’s Global Workplace Services and Strategy Operations teams. She’s been with the company since 2013, leading the talent transformation during the business transition from startup to a mature international company.

Before Spotify, Katarina held high-profile HR roles in various multinational companies, such as Preem, Swedbank, Kanal 5 (SBS Broadcasting) and 3 (Hi3G Access). As well as catering to the people needs of a diverse, nimble and ever-changing organization, Katarina is also focused on building teams and reinventing processes to establish an environment where creative and passionate people can be their very best, have fun and develop great careers.

Daniel Illes

Daniel is VP People at Vinted, the largest second hand platform in Europe. Before Vinted, Daniel was Co-Founder and Chief People Officer at Drover, a car subscription startup in London which exited to Cazoo last year. In a previous life, Daniel worked as a corporate lawyer and later as an early employee at the ridesharing company Lyft.

Sarah Metcalfe

As a Chief Happiness Officer at Happy Coffee Consulting, Sarah helps organisations around the world put people at the heart of their organisations through keynotes, workshops, culture programmes and retreats. Sarah is also the co-leader of the Woohoo Partnership, a group of more than 120 happiness at work experts from 31 countries and co-founder of the Global Summit on Happiness at Work.

Yssine Matola

Yssine Matola is the VP of People at Heydoc, a practice management software for healthcare. Yssine is passionate about facilitating a slick & inclusive employee experience. For the last 12 years, she has done just that for startups, scale-ups and corporates across Europe. She also cofounded Thriving Tribes, a People consultancy for tech startups.

Marcus Sawyerr

Marcus Sawyerr rose from a recruiting expert at Careerbuilder.com to become a global Fortune 500 Executive at The Adecco Group. He’s been ranked in the top 100 most influential industry leaders by Staffing Industry analysts. As the Founder of EQ Community, Marcus has activated a community of the top 1% of leaders that connects executives seeking meaningful work with inclusive tech-enabled firms ready to cultivate a diverse workforce.

Tara Ryan

Tara is the People Experience Director for Monzo, supporting the fast growing team to scale what makes them special. She is an experienced People person with a commitment to driving forward a progressive People agenda. Inherently curious by nature and committed to a kind and transparent approach to People.

Miriam Partington

Miriam is the Germany correspondent for Sifted, a tech and startups publication backed by the Financial Times. She’s also the dedicated future of work reporter and coauthor of Sifted’s Startup Life newsletter, which looks at the inner-workings of Europe’s startups and explores workplace trends. Previously, Miriam worked as a freelance journalist writing across art, design, culture and technology.

Meri Williams

Meri is an experienced CTO and leader of technology organisations. She particularly enjoys helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organisations, and works as a CTO coach and tech advisor to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.

Ynzo van Zanten

Ynzo is a Post-Purpose Preacher, former Chief Evangelist and Head of People & Culture at Tony’s Chocolonely.

Wiebke Rowedda

Wiebke is an HR professional with a positive can-do attitude and a passion for people development.

Melissa Re

Melissa Re is a former model and aerial performer turned public speaker, lecuring internationally on mental health awareness and emotional wellbeing. She is also a certified stress management specialist and clinical hypnotherapist with a BA in psychology and a lifelong interest in the study of the unconscious mind. Melissa’s passion for psychology is inspiring, and she is known for her fun and engaging workshops that combine her unique areas of interest to address wellbeing an original and holistic way. In addition, Melissa is currently studying for an MA in Ecology & Spirituality.

Alexandra Kammer

As head of diversity management at Aivy, Alexandra lives and breathes all topics revolving around diversity engagement. She studied business administration and linguistics at the University of Mannheim and the Sorbonne Université, where she acquired a strong experience in research on corporate social responsibility and diversity management. In 2021, Alexandra was a finalist in the Digital Female Leader Award and in 2022 she was a nominee in the Impact of Diversity Award.

Linda Jonas

Linda Jonas is a performance coach, consultant and management trainer with over a decade of experience in the performance management space.

She holds both Australian and German passports and has lived for years as a global nomad, traveling constantly between North America, Australia and Europe helping companies develop better work experience.

Linda is a collector of stories, experiences and beer labels on a mission to improve the future of work.

Aleks Sibilia

Aleks is an organizational psychologist, systemic coach and business constellation facilitator. He considers himself a people person at heart with 20+ years in all aspects of development of people and organizations. In the last few years he has worked in the Berlin startup eco-system as OD manager, People Business Partner and recently as Head of People & Culture.

Gerardine Lally

With over 25 years of providing communications training, executive coaching and mentoring business owners – Gerardine has a track record of getting the best from companies, teams and individuals which enables their growth and success. Gerardine has always had to communicate and influence at the very highest level within business and industry ensuring alignment of engagement to business goals. Her workshop approach is practical, highly interactive and fun.

Michi Bär

Michi has worked in Brand & Marketing in various senior positions at major brands such as GoPro and BMW Group, as well as in a Munich-based start-up. In his career, he has experienced a wide variety of working environments that have enabled him to found Nichy – a people consultancy which focus on strategically attract the right employees (no recruiting), especially for smb and start-ups.

Benjamin Kopf

Benjamin Kopf (MBA) is the co-founder of NICHY currently working as People Advisor for various tech clients. He developed the “Candidate Attraction” strategy, currently used by many of his clients, as well as various Social Selling concepts within LinkedIn. As a Microsoft veteran (+10yrs) he has extended knowledge and insights of different aspects of the tech industry, such as Scaling, Account Based Selling/Marketing, the new way of work and modern hiring strategies. His client base includes some of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe.

Tijen Onaran

Tijen Onaran is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author and one of Germany’s most important opinion leaders when it comes to diversity, visibility and digitalisation, as well as one of the most prominent voices in German business. Her motto: “Diversity is not a trend. Diversity is the basis of a company’s success!”

Tijen is the founder of Global Digital Women and the diversity consultancy ACI – the leading consultancies on diversity issues. With Global Digital Women she supports corporations and SMEs in designing and implementing female empowerment campaigns and with ACI she advises companies on all issues related to diversity, inclusion and equality. Global Digital Women and ACI were both the first companies with a diversity focus to win the German Excellence Award.

With the Digital Female Leader Award, Tijen also created the most important award for young female digital talents and leaders. To increase the share of female founders, she actively supports women with venture capital as an investor. She is involved in the baby food company Pumpkin Organics, the intimate wellness startup Nevernot, the language software Witty Works and the training startup Quofox.

Tijen Onaran is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ZKM Karlsruhe as well as the Board of Trustees for Entrepreneurship at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and is involved as an advisory board member with Jugend gegen Aids.

In her books “Die Netzwerkbibel” (published 2019 by Springer Gabler Verlag, 2nd edition December 2020) and the Spiegel bestseller “Nur wer sichtbar ist, findet auch statt” (published 2020 by Goldmann Verlag, 5th edition), she also shares her knowledge on the topics of visibility and personal branding.

In addition, she regularly publishes guest articles and articles in leading media such as Handelsblatt and Manager Magazin on topics related to entrepreneurship, visibility and diversity. She also frequently speaks on these topics in talk shows and other TV formats. She is also the host of her podcast “Aufsteiger*innen – Der Podcast über den Mut, Erste*r zu sein” and was the host of “How to Hack”, the Business Punk podcast, for more than 160 episodes, in which she spoke with founders, CEOs and celebrities about their careers.

Tijen Onaran is considered a “digital pioneer” and an “exceptional figure in the German digital scene”. The professional networking platform LinkedIn therefore chose her as one of the few LinkedIn Influencers worldwide and as TOP VOICE 2022 for the DACH region. Manager Magazin counts her among the top 100 most influential women in German business, the business magazine Capital among the top 40 under 40 talents in business, and Handelsblatt among the top 100 women who move Germany. Last but not least, on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, she was honoured by Mattel as one of 12 role models worldwide with her own Barbie “to inspire the next generation of female leaders“.

Andreas Dittes

As Director of Entrepreneurship at Falling Walls Foundation, Andreas Dittes builds bridges between science and business. He previously founded technology companies himself and, as an entrepreneur, stands for a new, digitalised world in which innovation and speed are the keys to success. The magazine “brand eins” calls Andreas a “digital fisher of people” and names him Innovator of the Year in 2019 as the founder of Talentwunder GmbH, while the haufe-Personalmagazin names him the “TOP Influencer” of the HR industry.
Andreas is co-founder of the “Ethics Advisory Board HR Tech” and speaks regularly on the topics of recruiting, artificial intelligence, innovation and digitalisation.

This talk will be held in German only.

Annahita Esmailzadeh

Seit 2021 leitet Annahita Esmailzadeh den Bereich Customer Success Account Management für die Reise- und Transportindustrie sowie für den Energie- und Versorgungssektor bei Microsoft. Vor ihrer aktuellen Funktion verantwortete die studierte Wirtschaftsinformatikerin als Head of Innovation den Innovationsbereich für das SAP Labs in München. Als eine der bedeutendsten Business Influencerinnen im DACH-Raum, setzt sie ihre Reichweite auf den sozialen Netzwerken und in den Medien für mehr Diversität in der Wirtschaft sowie moderne Kultur- und Führungsansätze in der Arbeitswelt ein.

Dr. Irène Kilubi

Irène Kilubi has a doctorate in industrial engineering and is a management consultant with companies such as BMW, Deloitte, Amazon & Co on her CV. After many stations, she is now following her own personal passion and is on the road with the topics of community building, corporate influencer strategy and JOINT GENERATIONS. She is also an Expert Advisor for the European Innovation Council Accelerator of the European Commission and active as an Advisory Board Member.

Dr Irène Kilubi is a university lecturer in digital marketing and entrepreneurship and a sought-after keynote speaker and moderator at conferences and events. Dr Irène Kilubi has been named a “Xing Top Mind 2020” in the Personal Branding and Marketing category, and is co-author of the two-time Spiegel bestseller “Future Republic”, published in 2021. She received 2 times the XING NEW WORK Award 2021 1st place in the category Future Designs and 2nd place in the category Audience Award for her social impact initiative JOINT GENERATIONS as well as 1st place of the Impact of Diversity Award in the category Age Inclusion 2021. Furthermore, she was awarded among the TOP 10 FEMALE BUSINESS INFLUENCER in 2021 with the focus on “NEW WORK” by Strive Magazine.

This talk will be held in German only.

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Dr. Arne Sjöström

As a member of the people science team, Arne assists clients in collecting, understanding, and acting on employee feedback through the use of technology and the application of psychological knowledge, theory and practice.

Prior to Culture Amp, Arne has worked in several tech-enabled management consultancies where he specialised in developing assessment and development solutions grounded in psychology and driven by technology.

He studied Psychology with a focus on Organisational Psychology in Germany and the USA. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany).

Eszter Debreczeni

Eszter is an established thought leader in the European HR community, a Digital Workplace Strategist, and Organizational Design Expert. She stands for and is known for co-designing futureproof organizations via harmonizing digital and human approaches responsibly, aligned with business strategy and purpose. Her North Star is Augmented Organizational Intelligence: successful AI adoption in HR and in other corporate functions. She builds on her 20+ years of international HR and Leadership experience gained in organizations like DHL, Pepsi, augmented with the digital leadership accumulated in her 10+ years as international HR Director of Microsoft. In 2017 she founded esthra-HR Orchestration and brought organizational transformation successes for corporate clients (Audi, Shell, DLL), start-ups, and educational institutions. At PHI Institute she is the evangelist of Responsible AI.

Levi Yosef

Levi is a tech-entrepreneur, originally from Hamburg, Danish influenced, with a psychology background and experienced in Innovation and Venture Building. He has spent his past 5 years with building companies and finding product market fit, first for his own, then for others during the pandemic, and now on scale for 130 SMEs and enterprises (at ComX) with the focus on high growth.

Maja Schreiner

Maja draws her inspiration from many years of hands-on experience in IT and a proven track record in software development, software testing, QA, agile leadership, and product development and management. She is a founder and CEO of Sharing Tribe, based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Stefan Scheller

In addition to his main job as an Employer Branding Consultant at DATEV eG, Stefan runs PERSOBLOGGER.DE, one of the best-known HR websites in the DACH region. Within this framework, he tries to constantly improve the working world of HR professionals with articles, studies and infographics, an event calendar, a content-based provider catalogue and an HR job exchange.

This session will only be available in German.

Dr. Anneke Neuhaus

Comprehensive transformations bring with them increased uncertainties. Brands can provide orientation. But only if they are in line with the strategy, values and culture of the company. As a management consultant, head of corporate communications in the financial sector, professor and most recently head of thought leadership for a technology company, this has always been Anneke’s guiding principle.

Anja Weiss

Anja works as Head of People & Development in the startup space and as coach & trainer in her own company. She has more than 20 years of experience in both strategic and operational roles around the globe. Her greatest passion is in assisting others with their growth journey, be it as individuals or teams.

Laura Bornmann

Laura started her career at REWE back in 2010. Here she started her dual studies, then worked in sales and became assistant to REWE’s CEO. For almost two years now, she has been Head of HR Development at REWE Dortmund and is pursuing her passion of creating a more divers, meaningful and healthier working environment.

This talk will be held in German only.

Daniel Mühlbauer

After completing his PhD at the Institute of Human Resources Management at LMU Munich, Daniel co-founded a Munich-based people analytics startup. As a people tech expert, he is passionate about combining data analytics, artificial intelligence and digital tools to pave the way for the future of work and people management. He lives out this passion at a Munich-based industrial company.

Maximilian Specht

Maximilian Specht is a Content Marketing Manager at Personio. As an expert copywriter and content creator, Max’s work is focused on writing surrounding HR issues, topics, and topics that educate and engage audiences.

Katrin Schwerdtner

Katrin is Head of People & Culture at Tomorrow. She has been working in various HR fields for more than 10 years. With her work, she wants to contribute to real diversity and the development of potential in organisations. To this end, she questions established structures and highlights the meaning and opportunities of new ways of collaboration beyond new work buzzwords.

Jannis Tsalikis

Jannis Tsalikis is HR Director for Germany, Austria and China at Lautsprecher Teufel. Previously, he was VP HR DACH and worked at VICE Media. Before that, he worked for MSL Germany (Publicis Group) as HR Director and Senior Consultant Brand & Talent. He also worked for Scholz & Friends and BBDO as a Human Resources Manager and Employer Branding Consultant. Together with Henner Knabenreich, he was the initiator and organiser of the golden Runkelrübe 2014 and 2015 (award for outstanding bad HR marketing). He has been the initiator and organiser of the legendary Berlin HR BarCamp with Christoph Athanas since 2012. He was nominated for the HR Excellence Award in 2012, was able to win the HR Management Award with VICE Media in 2017 and was again shortlisted for the HR Excellence Award for his work in 2018. Mr Tsalikis was able to win the Recruiter Slam 2016, probably the funniest and most bizarre award in the HR scene. Together with Eva Stock, he published his book “HR True Story” in 2020.

This panel will be held in German.

Selma Sadikovic

Selma is 27 years old and comes from Mannheim. She works in HR at the e-commerce start-up SNOCKS since 2020 – initially as a “one woman show”, she has meanwhile built up a great team of four. She is passionate about employer branding and culture and loves to share her knowledge with other start-ups and companies!

Stephanie Dekker

Stephanie is a Legal Director in the international Employment and Reward team of Pinsent Masons. She advises domestic and international clients on a broad range of employment law matters, including the HR aspects of M&A, reorganizations, digital transformation and diversity and inclusion. Stephanie has a particular focus on employee data protection and privacy in HR.

Myriam Ben Farhat

Myriam Ben Farhat joined as a certified professional coach in 2020 and became VP of People & Culture of the Play Magnus Group in 2021. From her experience as an entrepreneur and a founder of Pangea Shipping Group based in Tunisia and as a corporate business lawyer for 15 years, she brings her expertise to coach and mentor people, optimize the organization and build a culture following the values of Play Magnus Group. She holds an MSc from the University of Juridical, Political, and Social Sciences of Tunis; she is an ICF, International Coaching Federation member.

Ilona Ludewig

Ilona Ludewig leads change in the fields of energy, health-tech, education and ethical investment – areas that are growing in importance to people and contribute to decarbonising our future.

In 2017, she co-founded Octopus Energy Germany to give as many people as possible access to green affordable power.

In Exec and Non-Exec appointments, Ilona influences key decision-makers in their strategic direction and offers behavioural insights for sustainable, scalable offers. Her vision of Good by Default guides companies to creating a world of pure climate-friendly offers, tapping into the huge economic opportunity of the sustainability revolution.

Sarah Klachin

Sarah Klachin is a lawyer and specialist in labour law. She advises companies in all areas of individual and collective labor law and represents national and international clients in labor and civil court proceedings throughout Germany.

This session will only be available in German.

Hanno Renner

Hanno Renner is co-founder and CEO of Personio, the all-in-one HR software for SMEs. After his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Hanno did his master’s in Munich, Auckland and New York. Since 2015, he and his team have been helping small and medium-sized businesses across Europe unlock their productive potential by digitizing and automating HR processes.

Eva Kaul

Eva is fascinated by every form of development – one of the many reasons why her career has led her to a wide variety of stations that revolve around a healthy workplace. The question of a “healthy coexistence” within the ambivalent and sometimes conflictual interplay between business and people is particularly appealing to her.

Iryna Dobrova

Since 2007, Iryna has worked in various positions in the HR field – until 2015 in Ukraine, then in Germany and has 15 years of HR experience. She currently heads the HR department at Invia Flights Germany GmbH.

Since February 2021, she has also been running an Instagram blog about finding a job in Germany for Russian-speaking applicants, and since February 2022 she has been volunteering with the Leipzig helps Ukraine association to support Ukrainian refugees.

Lorenz Illing

Coming from a competitive sport background (world and European champion in dance), Lorenz and his team are currently building one of the most relevant and highly recommended Leadership and New Work academies in the German-speaking region, the TAM Academy.

This talk will be held in German only.

Kathrin Brügger

Kathrin Brügger is a partner at Pinsent Masons and a specialist in employment law. She has been part of the employment law team since the opening of the Munich office in 2012, advising national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law.

This session will only be available in German.

Curley Fiedler

Curley Fiedler is Head of People & Culture at the AgTech startup E-FARM GmbH, Co-Founder of HR ROOKIES e.V. – an association for the promotion of young HR professionals – and an established keynote speaker. Her strength is the combination of theory and practice, which she has already been able to prove in various positions and industries. When she holds keynote speeches, gives trainings or advises as a consultant, the audience and participants receive pragmatic input that they can implement directly the next day.

This session will only be available in German.

Dominik Nowicki

Nick is the classic representative of Generation Y: direct, puts (mostly time-honoured) certainties to the test and can’t last 5 minutes without mixing in some sarcasm or satire – chatting with him can be super entertaining. He is very interested in social policy and the future of our labour market, as well as our business and how it can become more social again.

This talk will be held in German only.

Marcus Bingenheimer-Zimmermann

Marcus Bingenheimer-Zimmermann is Director People & Culture at EXXETA AG. In his role, he advises the Executive Board, managers, and employees on all HR-related issues. His current focus is on supporting change processes, especially the integration of new subsidiaries and the transformation of the company into a sustainable, future-oriented working environment. Previously, Marcus Bingenheimer-Zimmermann held various management positions at well-known companies such as Krombacher, VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, and AUDI AG.

This talk will be held in German only.

Jürgen Billerbeck

After completing his training in wholesale and foreign trade, Jürgen Billerbeck held various positions in the HR sector. Initially as a trainer in training and further education, then as Head of Human Resources Development for a region at REWE Markt, then as Head of HR for a region up to Head of HR at REWE Markt in Germany. For the last 6 years, Mr. Billerbeck has been the Head of HR at REWE Dortmund SE Co. KG.

This talk will be held in German only.

Toygar Cinar

As a former banker in asset finance and private equity, Toygar built teams and brought people on board. He noticed that this always worked best when he didn’t follow the worn-out traditional rules of HR, because he wanted great people in the team, not emotionless specialists.

Today, at RheinWest HR Solutions GmbH, he is revolutionising HR rules in Germany. “From recruiting and talent acquisition to job architecture and employer branding, we change everything so that companies and employees find each other. They should not only fit each other professionally but also in terms of character.” Their clients include companies ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to DAX corporations, which learn how they can retain and permanently develop their employees in order to achieve extraordinary goals.

This talk will be held in German only.

Tanja Baumeister

Nach ihrem Psychologiestudium hat Tanja erst bei einem großen Einzelhandelsunternehmen in der Personalabteilung gearbeitet. Seit 2017 arbeitet sie bei der DATEV eG in verschiedenen Positionen – wobei sie die Themen Agilität, Skillentwicklung und Veränderung immer begleitet haben.

Matthias Seiller

Matthias is an agile learning coach at DATEV eG. He is responsible for the didactic conception and organisation of learning initiatives for software developers within DATEV. As a learning coach, he actively supports employees in their (self-)learning.

Nadine Franziska König

Nadine founded König Intangible Capital: A strategy advisory boutique with a holistic perspective on intangible capital of organizations and individuals.

Her passion is to advise and educate…

– small-/medium-sized organizations and start-ups without own strategy departments
– venture capital and private equity funds
– individuals who want to skill up on intangible capital competencies

…with her expertise on strategy, human relations, innovation, ecosystem and stakeholder management. She holds a Master of Science degree in business administration from LMU Munich, where she discovered her fascination for the power of intangibles early on with her masters’ thesis on the influence of social media on intangible company values, which was honored with the prestigious alumni award of LMU Munich’s business school. She can also look back on many years of comprehensive experience in a strategy department of a German automotive company, where she gained senior expertise in a variety of projects on strategy, human relations, leadership, culture, organizational development, innovation management and transformation. Furthermore, Nadine is also very dedicated to her passion project WE CARE Initiative, a non-profit support platform for relatives of breast cancer patients, and loves to share her knowledge as a social entrepreneurship coach.

This workshop will be held in German only.

Dr. Valentin Schellhaas

Valentin is a former “Business Monkey” (ex-manager Bain, CMO Westwing, MD Experteer) with a PhD in psychology and on a quest to find a formula for happiness. 

Tobias Hopfner

Tobias feels called to constantly develop and optimise himself, and sees it as his life’s mission. Coaching is his absolute passion. He has experienced professionally and privately how valuable and life-changing coaching is. After many years of experience as a construction engineer in project management, he has learned what moves companies and people inside and outside the corporate world. Due to his curiosity in the field of personal development, he has already tried out a lot in this area. This also flows into his holistic coaching style with a mixture of: High performance coaching elements, mindfulness and biohacking.

This workshop will be held in German only.

Martina Weifenbach

Dr. Martina Weifenbach is an author, executive coach and founder of myndway. Her heart beats for mindful innovation and a new way of thinking in HR. myndway therefore offers a holistic transformation approach in the form of hybrid trainings on mindfulness, innovation and new work. The goal of myndway is to bring mindfulness and agility into the company from onboarding to offboarding and to help shape a meaningful and fulfilling economy.

This workshop will held in German only.

Julian Traut

Julian prefers to call himself Diversity Ally, thinking not only of people but also of companies looking for an ally on the diversity journey. A late-comer, he came to DE&I through his psychology degree and has been working ever since to build workplaces that truly work for everyone. Right now, he is driven by how to use agility and user-centred design from his work as an IT consultant to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

This workshop will be held in German only.

Melanie Meyer-Tischler

Melanie accompanies companies on their way to optimizing a sustainable workplace and corporate culture and specializes in the topics of emotional and psychological stress in the work context.

Melanie follows the attitude of solution-oriented thinking and acting. She studied business psychology and is an expert in the design, implementation and assessment of mental hazards in companies.

As a freelance lecturer at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, specialising in workplace health promotion, she passes on her knowledge to the next generation.”

This talk will only be available in German.

Melanie Faltermeier

Melanie accompanies people in dealing with their own psyche.

Through her work as a lecturer and her civic engagement, Melanie promotes the mental health of students and pupils.

Dealing openly with her personal burn-out experience is more important to her than protecting herself through silence – so that others may be spared her experience or dare to seek help. In the last few years, during and after her crisis, Melanie has learned and achieved more than in the last 10 years of professional experience.

Melanie is convinced that an open dialogue about mental health promotes a deeper interpersonal relationship – also in the work context.

This talk will only be available in German.

Jakob Gillmann

Jakob is co-founder & MD @HiPeople helping modern companies to hire better and prevent bad hires. Previous to that ge worked at Adjust, Peakon and Optimizely.

This session will only be available in German.

Susanne Ambros

As an educator, long-time HR expert and IHK lecturer, Susanne has a wealth of experience in organising teaching and learning in international companies and she is passionate about agile, innovative working. Since 2018, she has been a QualityMind. With their expertise, they do not only take care of the agile development of software and its quality assurance, but also of optimally accompanying people on their way to digitalisation. Susanne contributes to this in her role as an “agile learning coach”, among other things.

This session will only be available in German.

Franziska Rduch

Franziska spent two years in Personio’s sales team helping companies evaluate Personio as a solution and decide on digital processes. At the beginning of 2020, she moved to Product Marketing and has since been enthusiastically working to bring Sales, Product and Marketing closer together.

Kathrin Kroenig

Kathrin is an organisational psychologist and coach. She is also co-founder at Intao – a leadership development platform.

This session will only be available in German.

Andrea Strohmayr

Andrea Strohmayr is a workplace culture designer and creative confidence coach for people teams. After setting up people operations for her brothers’ tech start up, she founded her own consultancy Culture By Design in 2018 with the aim to help organisations design unique employee experiences.

Dennis Schenkel

Dennis Schenkel has been active as a founder, consultant and freelancer in various areas of the digital industry for over ten years. Since 2017, he has been running Digital Misfits, a community of digital talents who are actively shaping the working world and society of the future.

Joona Bradtke

As a psychologist in the agile (learning) world, Joona supports people on different levels to develop their potential. As an agile learning coach, he supports employees in successfully pursuing their learning goals, and as a Scrum Master, he accompanies teams in shaping their collaboration. At QualityMinds, he also develops innovative teaching and learning concepts that meet the needs of employees in today’s working world. Through a stronger orientation towards the needs of the learners and a needs-based goal orientation in our reskilling approach, we at QualityMinds create a teaching in which everyone can find themselves.

This session will only be available in German.

Rutta Mekonen

My vision is that all people go to work on Mondays with joy and that no one gets sick because of work anymore. I believe in a working world that invites people to grow, learn and be happy. As a People & Culture (HR) Consultant I support companies, leaders and individuals to work, lead and live with trust, connection and responsibility.

This talk will only be available in German.

Lea Podgajnik

Lea originally comes from the IT & digital industry and discovered 7 years ago how great recruiting is when you combine it with these industries. She has since digitised, modernised and automated recruiting strategies and processes for both employers and recruitment agencies. In 2020 she founded her own company and shows with UNTERWALD how recruiting & employer branding works with organic reach without active sourcing and campaign budgets.

This workshop will only be available in German.

Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier

Frau Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier is the Founder and CEO of MyCollective GmbH.

Her academic background is in politics and economics with a Bachelor and Master at UCL and LSE in the UK and in business administration with a PhD in Germany. Ricarda started her career in a strategy consultancy in Germany and then joined GIZ in India. Based out of New Delhi, she worked for seven years on impact driven business models in Asia, resulting in the set-up of an independent institution for responsible business. She then joined the Siemens AG in corporate strategy in Munich, focusing on sustainability. She founded MyCollective – offering programs to empower, inspire and connect talents while they are on parental leave – during her own parental leave.

This talk will only be available in German.

Dr. Amelie Wiedemann

Amelie is a passionate health and occupational psychologist with a great enthusiasm for people and data. She has spent 12 years researching the implementation and effectiveness of needs-based health approaches and now supports companies in improving workplace health with DearEmployee, the holistic platform for a better workplace.

This talk will only be available in German.

Katharina Holl

As a business psychologist, systemic coach and mindfulness trainer, Katharina lives New Work and supports companies in establishing human connection and mental well-being in times of digitalisation and change.

An essential part of her work is to create places (Brave Spaces) where honest exchange can take place and new ways of communication can be practiced.

She also coaches executives and private individuals in the DACH region with her systemic mindfulness approach.

This session will only be available in German.

Jenny von Podewils

Jenny von Podewils is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Leapsome. Leapsome supports companies such as Spotify, Northvolt, and Babbel in building high-performing teams with a platform for performance management, employee engagement and learning.

Yara Hoffmann

Yara Hoffmann is a German journalist. She has worked for media companies such as SWR3, 1LIVE, Südkurier, ZDF and MDR. She worked in the editorial departments of “heute” news and delivered to all programs of ZDF. Since 2018, she was a reporter at the ZDF regional studio in Saxony-Anhalt. There, she was primarily responsible for cross-media current affairs reporting. This also includes format development, on-reportages and live broadcasts. Since 2020, she has been a format developer for moving images and a presenter of formats for MDR Saxony-Anhalt.

Dan Ram

Dan Ram ignites the stage as an Event MC & Speaker at over 100 events a year. Hosting changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders like Sir Richard Branson, record breaking athletes like F1 champion Nico Rosberg, Grammy-winning artists and celebrities, he works on 4 continents from college campuses to parliaments to in-house corporate innovation days to the biggest tech conferences in the world. His passion is to inspire people with his motto ‘Start Now Start Simple’ in building a future we all want to live in.

Pieter Manden

Pieter is a certified tax lawyer with more than 13 years of experience in the field of remote work tax and legal compliance. Prior to joining WorkMotion as Head of Trust & Employer Compliance, he was Director at PwC Germany responsible for the firm´s Remote Work proposition. Pieter speaks Dutch, English and German and holds an MBA from ESCP Business School in Paris.

Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve

Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve founded Alan in 2016, to make personal, proactive and holistic health part of people’s daily life, and strive to build the world’s most member-centric healthcare company. Prior to Alan, Jean-Charles co-founded Expliseat, which has revolutionised aircraft seating for economy class. He holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.

Reece Procter

Reece leads the Global Mobility team at Personio, looking after International Relocations, remote workers, flexible International working and business travel. Prior to life at Personio, he has spent over 10 years in Europe and the Middle East advising a variety of companies on Global Mobility policy as well as managing tax, social security and immigration concerns.

Martin Mignot

Martin focuses on startups that develop must-have products that improve with each additional user and operate in large markets like transportation, food, finance, health, and SME. Most of his initial investments are Seed and Series A.

Ari Joseph

Ari Joseph is the Global Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at WalkMe. Leveraging principles from cognitive and organizational psychology, Ari assesses company cultures and designs and implements strategies to recruit, retain, and advance people from underrepresented groups, including members of the BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ communities, women, and people with disabilities. Ari is passionate about encouraging and facilitating communication, using data to guide strategy, and affecting change through empathy and relationship building.

Katie Rovelstad

A generalist at heart, Katie has found a home in Operations. At Pave, she is leading European Operations, focused on empowering European people leaders with data to help plan and communicate compensation. While at Pave Katie has also led Customer Implementations — helping over 75 companies run compensation cycles and build compensation bands — and the internal People Operations teams — personally building Pave’s internal compensation philosophy and running performance & compensation review cycles. Prior to Pave, Katie lead an Operations team at Segment (acquired by Twilio).

Jason Medley

Jason is a developer of talent and a creator of culture. He is leading the charge on what the future of work looks like at Codility as the company continues to grow globally and triple down on a remote culture.

Matt Schulman

Matt was the previous SWE @Facebook. He has had a lifelong passion for helping people fully understand and take control of their personal finances, leading him to the compensation world. In his free time you can find him mountaineering in the Andes and backcountry skiing in the Rockies.

Carolin Fleissner

Carolin Fleissner is the VP of People and Culture at Wayve. After working in people roles, growing teams in AI & Robotics start-ups, Carolin joined Wayve as employee number 1. Since 2017 Carolin has built Wayve’s value-led culture from the bottom-up and put the processes and structure in place to expand what started as just 3 people, into a 150-person team.

Sergio Santabarbara

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Elena Arroyo

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Eva Collado Durán

• “Marca Eres Tú” Cómo mejorar tu futuro profesional a través de tu marca personal” Editorial Rasche. Octubre 2015
• El Mundo Cambia ¿Y tú? Claves para diseñar tu futuro profesional en plena era digital Editorial Alienta-Planeta 2019

Ximo Salas

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Rocío Valenzuela

Rocío Valenzuela ha sido reconocida como una de las mujeres de referencia en el ecosistema emprendedor de España en 2020. Co-fundadora de HRider, la plataforma SaaS que está revolucionando el modo en que empresas identifican y desarrollan en talento de sus equipos a través del feedback. Actualmente ya trabajan en más de 17 países.
Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación y Máster en Dirección de Recursos Humanos, ha desarrollado su carrera en el sector de IT. Antes del lanzamiento de HRider en 2015 trabajó gestionando equipos en proyectos de consultoría tecnológica para compañías como Telefónica, Banco Santander y otras organizaciones públicas y privadas.

Marc Herzog

Marc is a Community Manager at Personio and supports our customer in the international Personio Community. Prior to this role, Marc gained extensive Personio product knowledge and understanding of HR processes by helping over 100 customers implement Personio in their organizations.

Selina Hüttner

As Senior Community Manager, Selina is responsible for promoting and developing the knowledge exchange, networking and sense of community among Personio customers and HR professionals in the DACH market with the help of the Personio Community. Her previous experience in online marketing, customer engagement, event and project management makes her a true “all-rounder” in this field.

Michael Kalbfus

Michael Kalbfus is a certified employment law specialist in the Munich office of Noerr. He advises German and international companies on all aspects of the “modern workplace”, including questions relating to mobile work and the digitalization of the workplace. In this context, he also represents employers in negotiations with works councils. Furthermore, Michael advises on HR compliance related matters, such as on the lawful deployment of external workforce

Anna Kleisli

Anna joined Personio in May 2020 and, as a Customer Solution Specialist, she empowers our customers during each step of their people process digitisation journey with customized service offerings to increase Personio adoption and thereby maximizes customer value.

Angelina Gentili

As Head of People Operations of Personio, Angelina leads a global team that supports the HR employee experience of more than 900 employees distributed in five countries. Angelina has dedicated her career to supporting HR functions and strategies in fast growing tech companies. Along her career Angelina has partnered with tech companies like Seagate and Earnin in the USA (Bay Area), or Everis in various countries in South America. From Madrid, Spain, Angelina and team are shaping the new hybrid working model of Personio, its strategy and the impact on key HR services, including onboarding, benefits, leader’s support, and HR digitalisation.

Neil Morelli

Neil Morelli, Ph.D, is the Chief Industrial-Organizational Psychologist at Codility, a pre-hire assessment platform for software engineering talent. Neil focuses on scientifically validating test content, consulting clients on hiring best practices, and providing data analyses on hiring fairness. He has spent more than 10 years in technology-enabled talent acquisition, helping Fortune 500 and venture-backed tech companies create effective and inclusive hiring practices.

Alice Persson

Alice is a certified personal trainer with nine years of experience. She joined GuineaPig as their first coach hosting classes for mindfulness, yoga and more.

Daniel Jedmo

Daniel is a Swedish national who grew up in many different countries all over the globe. “If I could cast a spell to solve the world’s issues, that would be great. Unfortunately, my magic skills are lacking, so I turn to technology instead.”

Lena Hermann

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Jon Ingham

Jon Ingham is an insight based trainer and consultant who focuses on innovative HR and OD approaches creating competitive advantage. He has worked as an International HR Director for Ernst & Young and a Director in Human Capital Consulting for Buck. He is the author of ‘The Social Organization’ and a co-author with Dave Ulrich of ‘Building Better HR Departments’.