Bitkom Big Data Summit 2018 | Bitkom Services | 28 February 2018 | Congress Park Hanau , Schloßpl. 1, 63450 Hanau, Germany

Since the 1st Big Data Summit, companies and organizations have made significant progress in turning data into business value. Since then, data volumes have continued to grow and the range of analysis tools has expanded steadily. The potential of data analysis is still not exhausted. Now it is time to expand the business value of investing in big data technologies and to anchor the results of the data analysis more strongly in the decision-making and business processes.

Since 2013, the decision-makers of the data economy have been meeting every year at the Big Data Summit. Around 700 users of advanced Big Data and AI solutions, policy makers, technology providers, strategy consultants and scientists are coming together to:
• To be strategically oriented in the fast change of I.T.,
• Exchange experiences on practical experience, initiatives for the further development of framework conditions and the latest results of research and development,
• To initiate cooperation, to advance projects and to discuss innovative solutions live on site.

Included are:
• Chief Executive Officers, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers & Chief Financial Officers of global players, mid-sized companies and start-ups
• Decision makers from strategy development, business development, sales and marketing, research and development, production.
• Decision-makers from research, technology and economic policy as well as economic and technology promotion
• Scientists, primarily from applied research
• Decision-makers from politics, federal and state authorities
• Provider of technologies for the digitization of business processes, strategy, technology and innovation consultants
• Journalists (business and trade press).

2018 Speakers

Dr. Eric Armengaud
Project Manager R & D, Avl List

Dr. Jens Baas
Chief Executive Officer, Technician Health Officer

Daniele Balestrazzi
Planning Engineer in the Area of Supply, Berliner Verkerhrsbetriebe

Stafan Balkenholl
Postbank Systems

Sebastian Baumann
Scientific Assistant, Darmstadt Univesity of Technology

Stephan Bautz
Digital Architect, Pricewaterhouse Cooper

Martin Blomenhofer
Software Engineer, Federal agency for work

Dr. Benjamin Bluhm
Senior Consultant Data Science, Advisori F.T.C.

Klaas Bollhoefer
Founder, Birds on Mars

Dr. Alexander Borek
Head of Smart Data & Analytics, Volkswagen

Gert Breitfuß
Senior Researcher Data Driven Business
Know-Center

Dr. Tobias Brockmann
Co-Founder & Head of Operations
innoscale

Hilmar Buchta
Managing Director & Chief Data Scientist
ORAYLIS

Anja Burmann
Engineer of medical technology, Fraunhofer I.S.S.T.

Martin Buske
Chief Business Development & Strategy Officer, mobalo

Jan Buß
managing Director, Cortex

Sascha Baker
managing Director, Duality Consulting GmbH

Arnab Chakraborty
Managing Director Accenture Analytics Lead Dach, Accenture

Xiaoqun Clever
Chief Technology & Data Officer, Member of the Group Executive Board, Ringier Group

Dr. med Michael Dahlweid
Chief Technology Officer, Island group

Andre Danner
Manager Human Resource Information Technology, Deutsche Telekom

Thomas Dapp
Chief Digital Office | Think tank, Kfw Banking Group

Sebastian Dennerlein
Business Development & Deputy Head Social Computing, Know-Center

Bart de Witte
Director of Digital Health, I.B.M. Germany

Christian Dirschl
Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer Germany

Florian Dohmann
Founder, Birds on Mars

Dr. Arnab Dutta
Data scientist, mobile.de

Dagmar Ehlert
BI architect, Ergo group

Dr. Christian Elsner
managing Director, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein

Dr. Babak Farrokhzad
Senior Manager, Device Insight

Prof. Dr. Michael Enemy
Professor Founder & Chief Scientist, Kit/Blue Yonder

Assuero Ferraro
Data Center Solutions Manager, Blue Consult

Alexander Firyn
Senior Consultant, Empolis Information Management

Stephanie Fischer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, datanizing

Florian Fischer
Business Developer, the peak lab.

Otto Fitz
IoT & Big Data Specialist, Opitz Consulting

Dr. Florens Focke
Advanced Analytics Expert, Merck Kgaa

Andri Fried
Head of Marketing, Marley Spoon

Jens Spring
Principal Director, Accenture

Wolfgang Füssel
Director IT Strategy, Sourcing & Solution Watch, Consorsbank

Ushan Ganeshananthan
Chief Executive Officer, Kiana Systems

Stefan Geier
Department Management Offer Bases, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

Martin Gerner
Partner, Taylor Wessing

Loic Giraud
Lead the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, Novartis Pharma

Dr. Roland Goetzke
Open Data Specialist, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Christoph Großbaier
Head of Product Marketing, Celonis

Dr. Claudia Gruhn
Senior Consultant, Star Cooperation

Dr. Liliana Guzmán
project manager, Fraunhofer Iese

Dr. Alwin Haensel
Founder, Haensel A.M.S.

Christian Hahn
Head of Department Energy Saving, D.B. Regio

Torsten Hartmann
Chief Executive Officer, Avant-garde labs

Simon Hartmann
Senior Manager, Star Cooperation

Dr. Eva Haslauer
project management, Porsche Austria

Dipl. Wi. Ing. Udo Heidl
Regional Director Project Management & Services, Ptv Group

Robert Heigl
Project Manager Fuel Efficiency, Lufthansa Technik

Olaf Hein
Principal Consultant and Team Leader, Ordix

Diana Heinrichs
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Lindera

Britta Hilt
Managing Partner, I.S. Predict

Dr. Christian Hinrichs
Senior Consultant, Btc

Alexander Hock
managing Director, Anwr Media

Stefan Holtel
Senior Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Benedict Höck
Manager Advanced Analytics, Union Investment

Andreas Jung
Senior Software Engineer, Capgemini

Frank Kaufer
Platform Architect & Technical Product Owner Data Platform Services, Flix Mobility Tech

Dr. Tobias Keller
Data scientist, D.B. Systel

Dr.-Ing. Matthias Keller
Head of Data Analysis & Research, Echobot Media Technologies

Isabella Kipp
Medical Officer, Healthcare.X.0

Dr. Alexander Kipp, Robert Bosch

Dr. Sebastian Klenk
Chief Executive Officer, 5Analytics

Marcel Kling
Director, Program Lead Personalization Program Smile, Lufthansa

Prof. Dr. Uwe Klingauf
Professor and director of the institut, Tu Darmstadt

Carsten Klingels
Head of Business IT Digital, E.On

Ralf Klinkenberg
Founder & Research Manager, RapidMiner

Ralf Klinkhammer
Product Manager, IntraFind software

Martin Klässner
Managing Director, has.to.be

Ilya Komarov
Bundesdruckerei

Alexander Kouril
Managing Director, Connective Elements

Jochen Kramer
Business Unit Manager Service Member of the Board of Management, Kone

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Kraxner
Head of Research, Development & Technology Transfer, Management Center Innsbruck

Philipp Krebs
Head of eSolutions, Riegler

Michael Krech
Creative Tec, D.B. Systel

Christoph Kruger
Chief Architecture Owner, Lufthansa Systems

Florian Kuhlmann
Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Leverton

Dennis Kurpierz
Lawyer and Consultant, Isico Privacy Policy

Michael Kwiatkowski
Head of I.T. Applications Sales, Marketing, AfterSales & B.I., Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Chris-Gilbert King
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare.X.0

Dr. Tobias Kötter
Senior Data Scientist & Managing Director, Knime.com

Dr. Stefan Kühne
Head of Research & Development, University of Leipzig

Dipl. Ing. Thomas Lacker
Founder & Operations Manager, introbest

Dr. Jobst Landgrebe
Managing Director, Cognotekt

Jens Lappoehn
Chief executive Officer, Telefónica Next

Rainer Le-Ngoc
Head of Industry & Media Solutions, Payback

Frank Luley
managing Director, S.V. Informatik GmbH

Stefan Manske
Order Manager Overhead Line, 50Hertz Transmission

Klaus Marczinke
controller, German Post Dhl

Negib Marhoul
Solution Engineer, DataStax

Dr. Tarek Mashhour
Head of Central Functions Production, Audi

Philippe Masson
Software Engineer & Solution Architect, Capgemini

Prof. Dr. Uwe Meinberg
Holder of the chair "Industrial Information Technology", Brandenburg Technical University

Christopher Muth
Product Owner Team Data Vision, D.B. Systel

Lars Nagel
Head of content, working groups and knowledge, Industrial Data Space

Michael Niederée
Partner, Lighthouse, Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics, Kpmg

Dr. Markus Noga
Department Manager Machine Learning, S.A.P.

Peder Nordgren
Head of Presales and Marketing, Fleet and Driver Services, Scania

Dipl.-Geogr. Carmen Nowack
Solution Director Data
Ptv Group

Prof. Dr. Boris Paal
Dean of Law Faculty & Director of the Institute for Media and Information Law, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

Dr. Manfred Paeschke
Chief Visionary Officer, Bundesdruckerei

Thomas Paschke
product specialist, Esri Germany

Eyk Pfeiffer
managing Director, travel-Ba.Sys

Axel Platz
Principal for User Experience Design, Siemens

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Valentin Plenk
Scientific Director, Institute of Information Systems

Mathias Pott-Stahmeyer
Head of Information Technology, D.B. Station & Service

Mark Pudelsky
Product Manager, Sms digital

Dr. Lucas Quarta
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Bnp Paribas Personal Investors

Christian Rammig
Head of Data Science, Otto Group Business Intelligence

Frank smoke foot
Chief Executive Officer, IntelliAd Media

André Rauschert
Expert in Data Driven Business Models & Disruptive Technologies, Fraunhofer Ivi

Klaus Reichenberger
Chief Security Officer, Smart Views

Stephan Reimann
I.T. Specialist - Technical Sales, I.B.M.

René Rembarz
Senior Consultant Automotive, Ericsson

Dr. Andreas Ribbrock
Principal Data Scientist, Zero G

Wolfgang Richter
Country Manager Germany & Austria, Luciad

Frank Riemensperger
Chairman of the Board, Accenture

Manuel Ruhl
Controlling & Business Intelligence, Enders

Dr.-Ing. Matthieu Schapranov
Program Manager E-Health & Life Sciences, Hasso Plattner Institute

Dr. Claudia Schepers
Manager in the field of advanced analytics, Merck Kgaa

Fritz Schinkel
Consultant Industrial Analytics, Fujitsu

Philipp Schlunder, M.Sc.
Data scientist, RapidMiner

Dr. Christian Schlögel
Chief Technology Officer, Kuka Group

Thorsten Schmidt
Pricewaterhouse Cooper

Dr. Habil Eberhard Schnebel
Group Risk Management, Commerzbank

Markus Schröder
Researcher and PhD student, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Joachim Schultze
Director Precise, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Dr. Karsten Schweichhart
Business Development Data Economics and Analytics, T-Systems International

Mohak Shah
Head of Data Science Vice President - AI and Machine Learning, Lg Electronics

Heng Shu
Head of Business Development, Alibaba Cloud Germany

Axel Simon
Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dr. Alec Sproten
Consultant, Star Cooperation

Dr. Christian staff
Senior Researcher & Project Coordinator, T.U. Darmstadt

Thilo Steckel
Claas E-Systems

Matthias Steffen
Founder, Fuse Ai

Dr. Achim Steinacker
Presales manager, Smart Views

Dr. Alexander Stocker
Key Researcher Virtual Vehicle, Competence Center - The Virtual Vehicle Research Society mbH

Dr. Roland Stoffel
Data scientist, D.S.A. data and system technology

Gregor Stühler
Chief Executive Officer, Scoutbee

Dr. Eldar Sultanov
Enterprise Architect, Capgemini

Thomas Szabo
managing Director, Act & React Advertising Agency

Fabian Taigel
Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods in Business Administration, University of Würzburg

Dr. Hauke ​​Thaden
Data scientist, Ewe

Alexander Thamm
Chief Executive Officer, Alexander Thamm

Duc Tran Anh
Scientific Assistant, Brandenburg Technical University

Matthias Traub
Project Manager & Researcher, Know-Center

Henric Uherek
Coordinator Digital Business, Messefrankfurt

Gerald Ulmer
Head of Situation and Threat Analysis, Siemens

Thomas Unterbörsch
Head of Competence Center Big Data & Consulting Manager, Opitz Consulting

Jürgen Urbanski
Vice President Digital Platforms, Airbus

Dr. Murat Ünal
Chief Executive Officer
Sonean

Guido van Husen
Lead Architect Reporting & Analytics, D.B. Systel

Giscard Venn
Business Evangelist, DataStax

Stefan Vienken
Product Manager Location Analytics, Esri Germany

Stefan Vogel
Data scientist, D.B. Systel

Patrick Volkmann
Portfolio Manager, Siemens

Nikolai von Loeper
Chief Executive Officer, Kinexon Industries

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster
Chairman of the Board, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Markus Weber
Member of the Executive Board, Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik

Claudia Weidner
Owner & Co-Founder, Paceval

Tobias White
Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting

Dr. Andreas Wierse
Chief Executive Officer, Sicos B.W.

Dr. Florian Wilhelm
Data Scientist, Inovex

Dr. Christian Winkler
Gründer & Geschäftsführer, Datanizing

Torsten Winterberg
Leiter Business Development & Innovation, Opitz Consulting

Dr. Georg Wittenburg
Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Inspirient

Dr. Armin Wolf
Leiter Kompetenzzentrums It4Energy, Fraunhofer Fokus

Stefan Wunderlich
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Birol Yildiz
Information Technology Architect, Rewe Digital

Dr. Valentin Zacharias
Lead Expert Machine Learning and AI, Daimler Tss

Robert Zenkert
Principal Solution Architect, Talend

Xingyue Zhu
Senior Consultant, Star Cooperation

Matthias Ziegler
Leiter Emerging Technology Innovation Dach (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz), Accenture

2018 Partners

• Accenture
• Adastra
• Adesso
• Alexander
• Celonis
• Datastax
• Esri Deutschland
• Exasol
• Fujitsu
• I-Views
• I.B.M.
• Inspirient
• Intel
• Lenovo
• Intra Find
• Iso
• Kpmg
• Lc Systems
• Mapr Data Technologies
• Ordix Ag
• Pure Storage
• Pwc
• Qlik
• Tableau
• Um
• Weissenberg Group
• Analytics
• Ad Think
• Bi Scout
• Digital Welt
• Digital Business Cloud
• Dsag
• Fraudhofer
• Gi
• Digitales Hessen
• Marketing Borse
• Smart Data Forum
• T.D.W.I.
• V.D.M.A.