Bits & Pretzels - The Founders Festival 2017 | Bits & Pretzels | 24 September 2017 | Munich, Germany

3 days of vision, learning and networking.
Bits & Pretzels is a 3-day founders festival that connects 5.000 startup enthusiasts with Speakers and Table Captains like the founders of Virgin, Airbnb, Evernote or Zendesk. Bits & Pretzels creates unique networking around Munich Oktoberfest and encourages meaningful relationships between founders, investors and the media.

2017 SPEAKERS

Stefan Raab
Entertainer & Entrepreneur

Philipp Lahm
Partner Fanmiles, Founder Philipp Lahm Holding

Andy Cunningham
Former personal advisor to Steve Jobs Apple, Pixar, and NExT

Klaus Hommels
Seed Investor AirBnB, Facebook, Freenet, King.com, Skype, Klarna, Xing and Spotify

Rolf Schrömgens
CEO Trivago

Sebastian Siemiatkowski
CEO Klarna

Dr. Philipp Kreibohm
Founder & CEO Home24

Oliver Kahn
CEO Goalplay

Dr. Werner Vogels
CTO Amazon

Sandra Thier
Moderator

Kevin Novak
Chief Data Scientist Uber

Ralf Wenzel
Founder & CEO Foodpanda, Chief Strategy Officer Delivery Hero

Jeff Burton
Co-Founder Electronic Arts

Quentin Sannié
CEO at Devialet

Marianne Vikkula
CEO Slush

Frédéric Mazzella
Founder BlaBlaCar

Finn Age Hänsel
Managing Director MOVINGA

Loic Le Meur
CEO Learde:rs

Nikita Fahrenholz
Co-Founder & CEO Book a tiger

Felix Schneider
Founder & CEO Dreamlines

Salome Preiswerk
Founder & CEO Whitebox

Lars Jankowfsky
General Partner NFQ

Sebastian Diemer
Founder & CEO Blackbill

Andrea Anderheggen
Founder & CEO Shopgate

Fabian Schmidt
CEO Fanmiles

Alan Sternberg
Chief Revenue Officer Fanmiles

Marcus Börner
Founder & CEO OptioPay

Gero Decker
Co-Founder & CEO Signavio

Wilfried Beeck
Founder & CEO ePages

Dan Ram
Moderator

Jörg Wiemer
CEO Tis (Treasury Intelligence Solutions)

Sebastian Bärhold
Managing Director IDnow

Rafael Laguna de la Vera
CEO Open-Xchange

Remo Fyda
Managing Director Proven Expert

Niels Doerje
Serial Board Director and Entrepreneur

Manfred Tropper
CEO mantro

Rupert Schäfer
Managing Partner The Nunatak Group

Christopher Waldner
Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur & Innovation Coach

Philipp Karmires
Head of Digitalisation Linde AG

Helmut Schönenberger
CEO UnternehmerTUM

Michael Gamber
Head of Innovation Center Merck

Martin Wild
Chief Digital Officer MediaMarkt Saturn Retail Group

Peter Borchers
CEO AllianzX

Joel Spolsky
Co-Founder & CEO Stack Overflow

Dr. Philipp Strack
Head of New Venture ZEISS Group

Jens Rieken
Head of Sparkassen Innovation Hub

Rainer Maerkle
General Partner HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

Jacob de Geer
CEO and co-founder iZettle

Simon Brunke
CEO & Founder Exporo

Erik Podzuweit
Founder & Co-CEO Scalable Capital

Sebastian Hamann
CEO shopware

Florian Hübner
Founder & Co-CEO uberall

Marko Wenthin
CCO & Co-Founder SolarisBank

Andrea Pfundmeier
Founder & CEO Boxcryptor

Edgar Scholler
Founder GETAWAY

Richard Nagel
Director ByDesign Presales EMEA SAP

Henrik Zillmer
CEO Airhelp

Falk Bielesch
Managing Director & Co-Founder esome advertising technologies

Fabrice Leclerc
innovator, entrepreneur and life advocate

Dr. Reinhard Ploss
CEO Infineon Technologies

Ryan Kottenstette
CEO & Co-Founder Cape Analytics

George Arison
CEO Shift

Carsten Rudolph
CEO BayStartUp

Jonas Schneider
Creators Expedition AVL

Phil Libin
CEO & Co-Founder All Turtles

Simon Schmincke
Principal at Creandum

Marcus Tandler
Managing Director RYTE

David Rowan
Founding editor-in-chief WIRED

Fedor Holz
CEO Primed Mind

• Former Speakers •

Kevin Spacey
Oscar-winning actor, producer, startup investor

Richard Brandson
Founder Virgin Group

Ilse Aigner
Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology Deputy Minister-President

Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder & CTO airbnb

Mitchell Baker
Executive Chairwoman Mozilla Foundation & Corporation

Neil Patel
Co-Founder Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, KISSmetrics

Steve Hafner
Co-Founder & CEO KAYAK

Sportfreunde Stiller
Live in concert

Tony Fadell
Founder Nest & Creator iPod

Riccardo Zacconi
Co-Founder & CEO King Digital Entertainment PLC

Leila Janah
CEO Sama and Laxmi

Jochen Schweizer
Founder & Chairman Jochen Schweizer Group

2017 SPONSORS

• Google
• Salesforce
• Amazon.De
• IBM
• WiredCard
• Allianz
• Accenture Interactive
• Sage
• SAP Hybris
• KPMG
• HypoVereinsb
• Payback
• Amazon Web Series
• PLAY
• Zendesk
• Rakuten
• Datev
• Unternehmertum
• Amazon Business
• HoltzBrink Ventures
• The Nunatak group
• BayStart UP
• Grunderland Bayern
• Invest In Bavaria
• Ryte
• Aboalarm
• Felix Haas Investments