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Tech Conference

5 stages and over 50 speeches by top speakers from the tech world. This is the ITCS, cutting-edge tech topics, interactive and authentic! There's something for everyone here.

Festival

Everyone needs a break sometimes. With a game of table football, table tennis or a hot match in the gaming area. There are even rumours of an after-party in the chill-out areas.

IT - Job Fair

From start-ups to global corporations. At the trade fair stand, you can get to know the techies from the companies directly, gain exclusive insights into their IT projects and find your new dream job.

Who?

Students & Professionals

When?

Friday, 04.07.2025
10:00 - 16:00
Admission 09:30 - 15:45

Where?

Hamburg Fair
Exhibition Hall B4, East Entrance
St.Petersburger Str. 30
20355 Hamburg

What?

You can find all the information about the exhibitors, the programme and our specials below.

Afterparty!

The ITCS after-party starts at 4pm with a DJ, drinks and snacks.

#noDresscode

In keeping with the motto "come as you are", you won't be finding many in a suit and tie at the ITCS!

The exhibitors - Get to know the top companies from the IT sector.

Do not push this button! ☄️

Stand: B34

Employees: 8

Stand: D22

Stand: B32

Stand: B33

Employees: 4

Stand: D23

Employees: 6,200

Stand: D34

Employees: 400

Stand: B11

Employees: 1,500

Stand: D24

Employees: 250

Stand: B40

Employees: 3

Stand: D32

Employees: 1,800

The Programme grows daily with 50+ talks about cutting-edge tech topics await you on the day of the fair!

The Programme - cutting-edge tech topics await you!

Duration of presentation approx. 15 min

What will the working world of tomorrow look like - and what role will quantum technologies, neuroscience and other deep tech innovations play in it? In this presentation, Dr Barbara Wellmann from Deloitte will provide insights into how they work at the interface of technology, science and business and the exciting career paths that arise from this.
Find out how you can use your expertise to help shape the future in an interdisciplinary environment - whether as a tech talent, strategist or creative thinker. Be inspired by real projects and find out how you can become part of this development.

Subject area: Future technologies

Dr Barbara Wellmann, Director | Lead Quantum.Link

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Visibility is not an end in itself - it determines who is heard, who helps shape things and whose perspectives count. In the tech industry - one of the most forward-looking and at the same time most homogeneous fields - this visibility is often unevenly distributed. Women, queer people and marginalised groups achieve outstanding things on a daily basis, but are still too rarely considered in decision-making rooms, on panels or in product development.

This presentation looks at how networks can be used as a strategic tool to break down structural barriers, enable participation and make new role models visible. It is about the role of allies (allyship), the power of targeted communication and the development of sustainable structures in which diversity is not the exception but a prerequisite for innovation. An impulse for all those who not only want to belong, but also want to actively shape the rules of the game.

Subject area: Diversity & Inclusion

Linda Brack, Founder #Women Power & Inclusion & Diversity Lead

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IT projects rarely fail because of the code - they fail because of communication, a lack of structure and unclear goals. Ines Kaps, the Queen of Projects, shows how to manage large IT projects with confidence, even without a technical background. An impulse about courage, leadership and the real success factors behind every successful project.

Subject area: Project & product management

Ines Kaps, Queen of Projects

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In this session you will get a quick guide to take agency in your career, which will cover essential topics to help you become the driver of your professional journey.

  1. What is empowerment? Focusing on what you can control
  2. Identifying and letting go of what's holding you back
  3. Using your body to change old patterns
  4. Working with fear, failure, and criticism
  5. Communication is power
  6. Building the right support network
  7. Developing confidence and self-promotion skills
  8. Increasing your visibility and personal brand
  9. Setting boundaries and prioritising wellbeing
  10. Embracing authenticity and community
  11. What about organisational change?

Each of the key topics will include a practical exercise or call-to-actionso you'll leave the session with many tangible steps to implement.

Subject area: Female empowerment

Verena Weber, AI expert & Coach for Women in Tech

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Traditional gender relations continue to have a significant influence on young people's decisions in favour of a particular apprenticeship or course of study. The lecture will explain the reasons for stereotypical career choices and highlight their influence on those affected and on society. It will also explain how programmes such as Girls' Day - Girls' Future Day - can influence the choice.

Subject area: Female empowerment

Jonas Hoff, Scientific Officer

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From studying computer science to working in IT consulting to leading a team in a major international corporation - Anke Wiechmann's path into the tech world was anything but straightforward, but full of valuable experiences. In her talk, she shares with you her top 3 learnings from over ten years in tech:

🔹 How she learnt to find her own path - even if it doesn't correspond to the classic career plan.
🔹 Why technical expertise is important, but soft skills are the key to leadership.
🔹 How to become visible, effective and successful as a woman in the tech world - despite hurdles.

Anke would like to encourage you to discover the tech world for yourself - whether as a career changer, graduate or experienced professional. The opportunities are diverse, exciting and forward-looking.

💡 Tech is not a man thing - tech is your thing.
Come along, be inspired, ask questions - and show us what you're made of!

Subject area: Female empowerment

Anke Wiechmann, Teamlead Digitalisation RD & GreenIT

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As cyberattacks increasingly dominate headlines and mirror the tensions of the geopolitical landscape, cybersecurity today demands more than technical expertise - it requires a strategic understanding of the broader geopolitical landscape.

  • This presentation explores how geopolitical developments and international power shifts increasingly shape the cyber threat landscape and its underlying cyber actor ecosystem, underscoring the need to move beyond a purely technical lens in cybersecurity.
  • Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how understanding policy environments and diplomatic frictions can often uncover the strategic intent behind cyberattacks.
  • The presentation would emphasise the need for interdisciplinary expertise within cybersecurity teams, where technical proficiency is complemented by geopolitical awareness and strategic thinking.

Subject area: Cyber Security

Kritika Roy, Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher

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The erratic runs into error while wandering into wandering

Just stop walking on obsolete traces, finding yourself caught in traps of inherited error

Let me show you how to embrace the Post-Purpose Era

Let's celebrate the Female Wisdom of Rooting for the Essence of Life

Woohoo, it's gonna be winkingly bewildering, transient and po-faced wild

Subject area: Female empowerment

Theophanu Christiane Klappert, the Creative Act of Abundance | La Chef du Bonheur philanthropique

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Imagine being in your early 20s and suddenly writing your first computer science book. For Lisa, this is not a vision of the future - it's reality. Today, not even 30 and four books later, she is not only on the biggest tech stages in Germany, but also on the "Forbes Under 30" list. Oh yes, and she works at Google on the side. Sounds like she's found the cheat code for life? In her talk, Lisa shows how she found her own way in IT from a working-class child. From her first encounters with programming, through challenges during her studies and her first successes at hackathons, to jobs in large tech companies and her commitment to more diversity in the tech world.

Subject area: Career & Diversity

Lisa Ihde, Tech Author & Technical Account Manager @ Google

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What does it take to lead as a woman in tech? No more toughness, loudness or conformity - but the courage to lead with your own strengths. In her presentation, Alexandra Hermes shows why individual strengths are the key to modern leadership - and how women in tech can exert influence and make an impact in an authentic way.

  • Why there is no such thing as a "tech leader personality" - and why that's good news.
  • How to recognise your individual strengths and turn them into effective leadership.
  • Why constructive communication and psychological safety are more effective than power play.

Alexandra Hermes wants to encourage women in tech to discover and live their own leadership style - regardless of role clichés or traditional career images. After all, those who build on their own strengths can act confidently and confidently - and be successful in the long term.

Subject area: Female empowerment

Alexandra Hermes, leadership and performance coach - lead confidently and feel lightness, @net4tec

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Duration of presentation approx. 15 min

  • A brief overview of AI/AI in relation to cybersecurity
  • Analysing the use of LLMs by the attackers
  • Reality check and assessment of the current risk situation

Subject area: Cyber Security

Thomas Hemker, Senior Director Cyber Defence

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What was presented as a "vision of the future" a year ago is now reality: AI agents can be used to automate not just individual tasks, but processes. What previously took time and nerves can now be done at the touch of a button - and suddenly space is freed up for what really matters.

But it's not quite that simple. If you want to use AI in practice, you have to consider more than just the technology - ethics, process optimisation, data protection and the legal situation also play a key role.

Wiebke Apitzsch uses concrete practical examples and memorable stories to show how the use of AI agents can be successful - and where the real levers for impact lie.

Subject area: AI

Wiebke Apitzsch, CTO

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How do you bring artificial intelligence into an organisation in a meaningful way? The HPA relies on collaboration instead of individual initiatives - with a cross-divisional AI community that promotes innovation, shares knowledge and identifies use cases.

One example: IT service management at HPA-IT. They show what impact Generative and Agentic AI can already have on process automation and service quality today.

Torben Setter, IT architect

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Microsoft's Build 2025 keynote sealed the deal: AI agents are "first-class citizens" of corporate IT and work like real colleagues across departmental boundaries. In my presentation, I will show how companies are redistributing roles, orchestrating hybrid teams and transforming the strengths of both sides - human creativity & judgement vs. machine speed & precision - into measurable impact.

Subject area: AI

Immo Ait Stapelfeld, CEO & Co-Founder

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Exciting times: AI will change every industry during this decade.

We live in the most exciting time in mankind!

Ragnar Kruse will show you what is possible today, already.

The impact on our industry could be huge! 10+% on our GDP is possible.

Ragnar Kruse, Founding Partner AI.FUND

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Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that has been the subject of much public hype for many years. On the one hand, it is regarded as a key technology for future value creation, and an incredible amount of money is being invested in its development, while on the other hand, risks and dangers are attributed to it, including the destruction of humanity. In this presentation, I will try to realistically assess both the expectations and the fears.

Subject area: AI

Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Prof. Dr.

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Find out about the advantages of open-source AI software and how the use of chatbots can be reconciled with digital sovereignty and climate neutrality.

Subject area: AI

Artificial intelligence is no longer a dream of the future - it is part of our everyday lives, our work and our decisions. In this keynote, we will take you on a journey through real use cases, surprising possibilities and concrete tools with which we are already using AI at KPMG today. Not science fiction, but real practice.

Subject area: AI

Tom-Lucas Säger, Manager, AI Initiative

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AI agents provide a variety of approaches for integration in companies.
This presentation examines the approach of generating added value through agents by focussing on the company's activities.

The presentation explicitly highlights approaches to closing expertise gaps and the innovative use of existing expertise in companies.

Subject area: AI

Immo Brüggemann, Managing Director

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AI agents are everywhere - but not every system that calls itself an 'agent' is really agentic. In this presentation, Tebbl UG will highlight the key differences between real agents, apparent agents and the many forms that agent systems can take. They will show in a practical way what makes agentic systems special, what role they play in qualitative data analysis - and why less often means more with agents.

Subject area: Data & Analytics

Johannes Jamroszczyk, CTO

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Duration of presentation approx. 15 min

In a world where artificial intelligence can falsify identities, we need AI to protect us. The presentation "How to help AI fight AI (Identity) fraud" shows how WebID uses modern technologies to expose digital deception. With real use cases, smart strategies and a look behind the scenes of deepfake defence. If you want to put a stop to fraudsters, you first have to understand them - and that's what this is all about.

David Kristan, Head of Regulatory Affairs

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Find out how we successfully implement modern IT solutions with a focus on integration, cloud and artificial intelligence. With platforms such as IBM App Connect and SAP Cloud Integration, we connect systems efficiently and securely. Our interdisciplinary teams work across technologies and provide holistic advice on digital process optimisation.
A strong data strategy takes centre stage - together with our customers, we define KPIs, create scalable data lakes and integrate AI services for data-driven decisions and automation.

Look forward to exciting insights into our technical integration practice!

Topic area: Cloud & Infrastructure

Dr Stefan Bollmann, Senior Consultant

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How often have we broken new ground - sometimes in the wrong direction, often with valuable insights?

What began as purely internal training has evolved: Today, we organise genuine specialist training courses, especially in onboarding. In this way, we not only provide an efficient introduction for new colleagues, but also an inspiring one.

This helps us to bring knowledge to life - and that inspires. New employees immediately realise that this is about more than just processes. It's about understanding, about quality, about passing on knowledge.

And that is precisely what drives us:
Sharing knowledge, ensuring quality, arousing interest - together with you.

Denis Apel, HR trainer and training manager

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Cats are cute, make you content and happy. So it's not surprising that 15% of global internet traffic is cat memes, cat pictures and cat videos. But how does "cat content" reach consumers?

What is IP? Why do you need an IP address? What is DNS? What does the engine room of the global Internet look like?

Based on simple principles and mechanisms, the lecture shows what is needed to provide a global network for billions of people and keep it running.

Learn about fibre optics, switches, routers, firewalls, protocols and network admins and what holds it all together. Because only a happy admin is a good admin, and that requires coffee and cat pictures!

Topic area: Cloud & Infrastructure

Rene Caspari, Network Consultant | Team Lead Network & Security

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Legacy systems and old structures from a junior's perspective.

Subject area: Software development

Lucas Karle, IT Consultant

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Marie-Christine takes you on a journey towards the cloud in large corporations. She openly shares her experiences at Tchibo, from her team and herself: how do you support a mindset change on the way from cloud hosting to cloud-native? And what are the new skills that are relevant for cloud engineering or cloud operations and for a successful cloud platform team? You don't have to be a techie to join Marie-Christine on this journey.

Topic area: Cloud & Infrastructure

Marie-Christine Wehming, Head of Cloud Platforms

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What do modern software development and Formula 1 have in common? Speed is crucial. In this talk, I will show you how we started to build a platform that accelerates our internal software development and optimises processes. Step by step, we are creating an infrastructure that does not slow down innovation - but accelerates it.

Subject area: Digital transformation

Marcel Pochert, Head of Digital Transformation

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How complicated can it be to show a single measured value on a display? This presentation provides an insight into the challenges of supposedly simple digital measuring devices. Using the example of a Dräger alcohol meter, we show why large development teams and hundreds of thousands of lines of code are needed to realise seemingly simple functions. A journey into the world of embedded systems, where technological precision and software architecture come together to deliver reliable results.

Subject area: Software development

Robert Kulpe, Embedded Software Developer

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From the motor in a robot to the digital image of an entire plant - in this presentation you will learn how digital twins are changing production. Experience how virtual images make real processes more transparent and efficient.

Subject area: Data & Analytics

Christian Bruss, Research Assistant

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ITCS MasterclassesExperience tech topics in a practical way!

Experience current industry topics in a practical way and learn from leading experts - this is exactly what the masterclasses offer. The format goes beyond a conventional presentation. In practice-orientated sessions, you can discover innovative solutions, make valuable contacts and gain directly applicable insights.

Artificial intelligence is far more than just a trend - it is fundamentally changing our working world and opening up completely new perspectives.
In this inspiring masterclass, the future shapers of the Microsoft SkillHer initiative provide exciting insights into how you can use AI specifically for your career - in a practical, understandable and directly applicable way.

Look forward to valuable tips and concrete application examples with Microsoft Copilot, which you can try out directly on site. The session is designed to be interactive - so don't forget your mobile device!

This masterclass is particularly exciting for women, but of course the Women in Tech Initiative Microsoft SkillHer is happy to see everyone. Afterwards, they cordially invite you to an open exchange in the Women in Tech Area.

Previous knowledge required: This masterclass is particularly exciting for women, but of course the Women in Tech Initiative Microsoft SkillHer is happy to see everyone.

Materials required: Mobile device for interactive part

Duration: 60 min

Katharina Könches, Strategic Account Technology Strategist

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Yashita Saxena, Cloud Solution Architect

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In this interactive masterclass, PCS Beratungscontor AG will demonstrate live how Generative AI can be used in Databricks for qualitative data analysis - with real data, spontaneous prompting and honest evaluation of the results. Together you will test how close AI comes to real consulting today.

Necessary prior knowledge: - Basic understanding of/interest in data

Materials required: - Laptop - Standard software for data analysis (Excel, PowerBI, Tableau, Python, R...)

Duration: 90 min

Laura-Isabell Jantz, Trainee SAP Data & Analytics

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Marcel Scherbinek, Head of Advanced Analytics Platform

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Parenthood is complex - just like the world of AI. Bringing the two together creates relief and future expertise. The best time to start? Right now!

In this masterclass, you will learn why AI competence is much more than just using tools and how parents can use technology to make their everyday lives easier.

An inspiring impulse with interactive elements that shows that parenthood and AI use have more in common than you might think. Those who combine the two reduce mental load, strengthen digital skills and move more confidently between everyday family life, gainful employment and social change.

Subject area: AI

Janine Boldt, strategist for AI in everyday family life & podcaster

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The IT world is vast: from software development and UX design to data science, IT security and tech content. But how do you find out which area suits you best? And how do you actually get started?
In this panel, Lisa, Julia, Lena and Fatma from the tech community share their very personal paths into IT in an honest and motivating way. They talk about their first steps, career detours, helpful tools, formative experiences and what they would do differently today.
Whether you are studying, attending a boot camp, training or making a career change, you will receive practical tips for your own path, learn how to recognise your strengths, build a strong network and deal with uncertainty.
An inspiring deep dive for all those who want to start in IT or are looking for orientation, exchange and empowerment.

Subject area: Career & Diversity

Duration: 60 min

Lena John, Co-Founder

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Lisa Ihde, Tech Author & Technical Account Manager @ Google

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Julia Heidinger, Founder | Web Developer

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Fatma Acar, Content Creator & Founder

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Programme the energy transition yourself: Regulate producers, supply consumers, solve bottlenecks and control the German energy grid with your code.

Materials required: Laptop

Duration: 90 min

Philipp Lühmann, Developer

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Niklas Milbradt, Developer

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In the Project Partners masterclass, which is moderated by the management and experienced IT consultants, you will find out what IT consulting is. Project Partners will give you an insight into specific customer projects, their difficulties and how they solved them. You will then work in groups in a break-out session. Together with your team, you will examine and analyse specific tasks from the SAP S/4HANA world and recommend a solution. A short presentation of the results followed by a discussion rounds off the masterclass.

Duration: 60 min

Bernd Hommels, Managing Director

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Star Finanz develops a live agent system and shows you how AI even supports them in the development process.
Everyone is welcome to join in, anyone can code live and get an AI agent up and running at the end. If you just want to watch, you can do that too.

Necessary prior knowledge: basic programming skills

Materials required: Your own computer Cursor IDE installed, ideally with trial subscription. Python environment set up (ideally with UV Package Manager).

Duration: 60 min

Nick Koops, Mobile Developer

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Adrian Miska, Architect

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Here is an excerpt from our topSpeakers
From Tekkies for Tekkies, on the latest tech topics

AI.IMPACT GmbH

Wiebke Apitzsch

CTO

Berenberg

Marcel Pochert

Head of Digital Transformation

Tchibo GmbH

Marie-Christine Wehming

Head of Cloud Platforms

DCSO German Cyber Security Organisation GmbH

Thomas Hemker

Senior Director Cyber Defence

AI.HAMBURG

Ragnar Kruse

Founding Partner AI.FUND

Microsoft - SkillHer

Katharina Könches

Strategic Account Technology Strategist

Project Partners

Bernd Hommels

Managing Director

Women in Tech

Verena Weber

AI expert & Coach for Women in Tech

Deloitte

Dr Barbara Wellmann

Director | Lead Quantum.Link

Bechtle GmbH IT system house Hamburg / Kiel

Rene Caspari

Network Consultant | Team Lead Network & Security

CAS AG

Dr Stefan Bollmann

Senior Consultant

FIfF e.V.

Hans-Jörg Kreowski

Prof. Dr.

DCSO German Cyber Security Organisation GmbH

Kritika Roy

Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher

Hamburg Port Authority

Torben Setter

IT architect

Social Developers Club

Julia Heidinger

Founder | Web Developer

Dräger

Robert Kulpe

Embedded Software Developer

PCS Beratungscontor AG

Laura-Isabell Jantz

Trainee SAP Data & Analytics

PCS Beratungscontor AG

Marcel Scherbinek

Head of Advanced Analytics Platform

1TP5Women's power

Linda Brack

Founder #Frauenmacht & Inclusion & Diversity Lead

BROCKHAUS AG

Lucas Karle

IT consultant

Family organisation

Janine Boldt

Strategist for AI in everyday family life & podcaster

Women in Tech e.V.

Ines Kaps

Queen of Projects

net4tec

Alexandra Hermes

Leadership and performance coach - lead confidently and feel lightness, @net4tec

tebbl

Johannes Jamroszczyk

CTO

Splitbot

Tadeusz Nikitin

Founder & Managing Director

913.ai

Real estate Ait Stapelfeld

CEO & Co-Founder

Mittelstand Digital Centre HH

Christian Bruss

Research assistant

SUBLIME of CHANGE

Theophanu Christiane Klappert

the Creative Act of Abundance | La Chef du Bonheur philanthropique

CREATUM GmbH

Immo Brüggemann

Managing Director

womenintechhh

Fatma Acar

Content Creator & Founder

KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Tom-Lucas Säger

Manager, AI initiative

Girls' Day

Jonas Hoff

Scientific consultant

Microsoft - SkillHer

Yashita Saxena

Cloud Solution Architect

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