Bits & Pretzels 2019 | Bits & Pretzels | 29 September 2019 | Internationales Congress Center München, Messe München GmbH, Messegelände, 81823 München, Germany

Bits & Pretzels is an application-only, three-day festival that connects 5,000 founders, investors, startup enthusiasts, and all other decision-makers of the startup ecosystem. The festival takes place in a unique setting.

2019 Speakers

President Barack Obama

Jessica Alba
Founder
The Honest Company

Drew Houston
Founder & CEO
Dropbox

Margit Wennmachers
Operating Partner
Andreessen Horowitz

Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder
LinkedIn

Joko Winterscheidt
Entertainer & Entrepreneur

David Limp
Senior Vice President Amazon Devices & Services
Amazon

Donna Carpenter
Co-founder & CEO
Burton Snowboards

Fatoumata Ba
Founder & CEO
Janngo

Klaus Hommels
CEO
Lakestar Advisors

Joey Zwillinger
Co-CEO, Co-founder
Allbirds

Chris Barton
Founder
Shazam

Hannes Ametsreiter
CEO
Vodafone Deutschland

Saeed Amidi
Founder & CEO
Plug and Play

Frank Thelen
Founder & CEO
Freigeist

Tina Müller
CEO
Douglas

Hans Sigl
Actor

Hildegard Wortmann
Member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing
AUDI

Lars Jankowfsky
Founder
NFQ.Asia

Matthias Schranner
Ex-Hostage Negotiator, CEO
Schranner Negotiation Institute

Nicolas Brusson
CEO & Co-Founder
BlaBlaCar

Finn Age Hänsel
Founder
Sanity

Julian Stiefel
CEO & Co-Founder
Tourlane

Valentin Stalf
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
N26

Stefan Krautkrämer
Managing Director/ Co-Founder
FinTecSystems

Anna Iarotska
Cofounder & CEO
Robo Wunderkind

Aimie-Sarah Carstensen
Founder/CEO
ArtNight / ShakeNight / BakeNight / PlantNight

Ann-Sophie Reinelt
Innovation Management - Program Management Intrapreneur-Program
TRUMPF

Dr. Thorsten Lambertus
Head of AHEAD
Fraunhofer Venture

Patrick Sobalvarro
Co-founder and CEO
Veo Robotics

Bastian Lechner
Founder & CEO
Catana Capital

Fabian Bosler
CIO/CMO
Homelike

Patrick Studener
Vice President, Head of EMEA & APAC
Bird

Nina Geiss
CEO
CarFellows

Stefan Herbst
CXO
helden.de

Hanno Renner
Co-Founder & CEO
Personio

Torsten Kolind
CEO
YouNoodle, Inc.

Michael Duttlinger
CEO & Co-Founder
Cashlink Technologies

Christian Mischler
Co-Founder & Chairman
GuestReady

Aleksander Ciszek
CEO & Founder
3YOURMIND

Rupert Schäfer
Managing Partner & Co-founder
The Nunatak Group

Farina Schurzfeld
Founder & CMO
Selfapy

Dan Ram
Moderator

Julian Riedlbauer
Partner
GP Bullhound

Peter Fricke
Head of
Deutsche Börse Venture Network

Daniel Smeds
CEO & Founder
optile

Robert Wetzker
CEO
Aklamio

Prof. Dr. Marc Gruber
Vice President for Innovation
EPFL Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Lawrence Leuschner
Co-Founder & CEO
TIER Mobility

Düzen Tekkal
Founder, Chairwoman and CEO
Human rights organization 'HAWAR.help e.V.' & nationwide educational initiative 'GermanDream'

Julia Profeta Johansson
Founder
Ella Impact

Andy Weinzierl
Founder & CEO
SUSHI Bikes

Andreas König
CEO
ProGlove

Philipp Stangl
Co-Founder & CEO
Rebel Meat

Adam Yearsley
Global Head of Talent Management
Red Bull

Rainer Märkle
General Partner
HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

State Minister Judith Gerlach
Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs

Marko Wenthin
CEO
Penta

Morten Primdahl
Co-Founder
Zendesk

Katrin Kaeufer
Senior Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rania Reda
Founder & CEO
Augmania

Christopher McLachlan
Head of Company Builder
EnBW Innovation

David Galipeau
Founding Partner
SDGx

Tunde Kehinde
Co-CEO
Lidya

Patrick Campbell
Co-founder & CEO
ProfitWell

Katharina Gehra
Co-Founder & CEO
Immutable Insight

Markus Dickhardt
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Roadsurfer

Dr. Felix Reinshagen
CEO
NavVis

Ilkka Lavas
CEO & co-founder
EatAndTheCity / Vivas Stories

Marc Grewenig
Co-Founder & CEO
Fanomena

Marta Ra
Founder
Women In Sustainable Finance

Tom van den Brulle
Global Head of Innovation
Munich Re

Nenad Marovac
Founder & CEO
DN Capital

Johannes Weber
Managing Partner
Ananda Ventures

Prof. Dr. Kai Andrejewski
Managing Partner South
KPMG

Carina Schnitzenbaumer
Head of Airbus AirSense
Airbus Defence and Space

Bulent Altan
Member of the Executive Board
Mynaric and Space Investor

Franz Doerr
CEO
flatfair

Intakhab Khan
Managing Director & Founder, Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI)

Isabel Metz
Director Strategy & Business Development, Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI)

Nils Henning
Co-Founder, Managing Director, CASAFARI

Arne Pache
Vice President Global Products & Solutions, Mastercard International

Rita Casimiro
Head of Acceleration, MAZE

Antonia Gawel
Head, Circular Economy Initiative, World Economic Forum

Daniel Cronin
Co-Founder, AustrianStartups

Ulrich Schäfer
Chief Business-Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Andreas Bihlmaier
Co-Founder, robodev

Miki Yokoyama
Chief Operating Officer, TechFounders

Alison Fort
Partner & Head of Impact, Katapult

Frank Salzberger
Head of Innovation and Ventures Office, European Space Agency

Andreas Bruckschlögl
Co-Founder, Ryte

Marco Fuchs
CEO, OHB SE

Zarah Bruhn
CEO, Co-Founder and Ashoka Fellow, Social Bee

Jonathan Nowak Delgado
Founder & Managing Director, SPREE by HolodeckVR

Jens Schädler
CEO, i-surance

Markus Kreipl
CFO, shipcloud

Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of Innovation Accelerator, United Nations World Food Programme

Johannes Joey Naumann
Head of Start-up Lab / Intrapreneurship program, Deutsche Post DHL

Haakon Brunell
CEO & Managing Partner, Katapult Impact Accelerators

Marco Langhoff
Co-Founder & CEO, eatclever

Oliver Berchtold
Co-Founder & CPO, YUKKA Lab

Sebastian Wuerz
Co-Founder & CEO, homefully

Louise Koch
Corporate Sustainability Director, Dell Technologies

Joscha Raue
Co-founder, Think-it

Rupert Simon
Head of Strategy Digital Technology, OSRAM

Tharald Nustad
Founder, Katapult / Nordic impact

Daniel Szabo
CEO & MD, Körber Digital

Michael Bednar-Brandt
Head of Business Innovation, Oracle NEXT, Oracle

Til Landwehrmann
Founder & CEO, LIV-T / OILFOX

Johannes Diebig
VP CMO Germany & Austria, Salesforce

Dr. Benjamin Jetter
KPMG Innovate, KPMG

Darja Gutnick
CEO, Co-Founder, 12grapes / Bunch.ai

Christopher Pommerening
Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer, Learnlife

Dr. Bernd Klosterkemper
Partner, Ananda Impact Ventures

Marc-Olivier Luecke
General Partner, Atlantic Labs

Philipp Benkler
Founder and CEO, Testbirds

Vanessa Gstettenbauer
Principal, btov Partners

Jeremias Heinrich
Founder, Arvantis Group/Picus Capital

David Wortmann
CEO & Founder, DWR eco

Lea-Sophie Cramer
CEO, AMORELIE

Stephanie Czerny
Managing Director, DLD Media

Magdalena Rogl
Head of Digital Channels, Microsoft

Christina Burkhardt
Founder & CEO, SHIFTSCHOOL for Digital Transformation GmbH

Andreas Kunze
CEO & Founder, KONUX

SELECTED FORMER SPEAKERS:

Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group

Tarana Burke
Founder, #MeToo Movement

Leila Janah
CEO + Founder, Samasource and LXMI

Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder & CTO, airbnb

Nico Rosberg
Former Formula One World Champion & investor

Jan Böhmermann
satirist, tv host, and multiple award-winner

Mitchell Baker
Executive Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation & Corporation

Stefan Raab
Entrepreneur & Entertainer

Philipp Lahm
Founder Philipp Lahm Holding, Partner, Fanmiles

Tony Fadell
Founder Nest & Creator iPod

Kasper Rorsted
CEO, adidas

Dorothee Bär
State Ministry Commissioner for Digitization

Prof. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner
European Multi Advisory Board Member, including Linde, Munich Re & Deutsche Börse AG

Dr. Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon

Dr. Johannes Antonius Teyssen
CEO, E.ON SE

Philipp Rösler
CEO, Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation & Former Federal Minister of Economics and Technology of Germany

Marc Samwer
Founder, Global Founders Capital

Janina Kugel
Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG

Florian Gschwandtner
Co-Founder & CEO, Runtastic

Rolf Schrömgens
Co-Founder & CEO, Trivago

2019 Partners

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Bayerisches Staatsministerium
• Uplift
• KMPG
• Google
• Audi Denwerkstatt
• Ideation Hub

PARTNERS:
• Dell Technologies
• Deutsche Borse Cash Market
• HV
• DateV
• Oliver Wyman
• Bird
• Zendesk
• Cloud Flare
• General Atlantic
• Unternehmertum
• Department of Labor and Economic Development
• IHK
• EPFL
• Grunderland Bayern
• Invest in Bavaria
• JobRocker
• Salesfive
• Ryte
• Idnow
• The Nunatak Group

PRODUCT PARTNERS:
• All buyone
• Mail tastic
• Kafer
• Muncher Kaffee Rosterei
• You Noodle
• Bilendo
• FLSK
• Mammut Swiss
• Paulaner Zwickl
• Sueco
• Yoolox

CLIMATE PARTNER:
• Climate Partner