Digital Retail Conference 2019 | Bitkom Services | 25 September 2019 | Kalkscheune, Johannisstraße 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany

The future of the trade was the topic of Bitkom's Digital Retail Conference on May 17, 2018 in Berlin-Mitte.

Under the motto "Digitalisation of the Customer Journey", more than 400 participants from business, politics and science discussed how digital technologies can help to arouse the customer's interest, positively influence his purchasing decision, sustainably tie him down and optimize supply chains ,

More than 30 lectures made it clear: German retailers and logisticians are characterized by an extremely high level of innovation. And have a genuine interest in understanding their customers.

2019 Speakers

Christiane Auffermann
Fraunhofer IML, Deputy Head of Packaging and Trade Logistics, AutoID Technologies

Sebastian Baumann
ECE project management, Head of ECE Future Labs

Dr. Clemens Beckmann
German Post DHL, Executive Vice President Innovations Post - eCommerce - Parcel

Frank Bolten
Chain Step, Managing Partner

Dominik Brokelmann
Brodos Group, managing Director

Marc Dalbard
PTV Group, Strategic Business Development

Florian Dohmann
Birds on Mars GmbH, founder

André Drochner
3YOURMIND, key account manager

Jens Drubel
AllyouneedFresh.de, Founder, shareholder and managing director

Angela Elis
Moderator and author

Raphael Fellmer
SirPlus, CEO & co-founder

Xenia Giese
Microsoft, Industry Solution Executive Retail & CG

Rainer Gläß
GK software, CEO & co-founder

Thomas Gruhle
Leap founder

Martin Grützner
EHI Certified Online Store, Business Development Manager

Dr. rer. nat. Mandy pike
code check, Head of Science

Matthias Heid
WUNDERAI, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Christian shepherd
Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Parliamentary State Secretary

Andrea Kurz-Richarz
EHI Certified Online Store, Business Development Manager

Robert Kümmerlen
DVZ - German traffic newspaper, Deputy Editor in Chief

Ronald Liebermann
shoutr labs, Co-Founder

Monique Lück
Border guru, Head of Operations / Account Management

Julia Miosga
Bitkom, Division Manager Trade & Logistics

Nadine Neubauer
Facebook / Instagram, Product Marketing Manager

Axel Niessner
ANGEL Last Mile, managing Director

André Pallinger
PAYBACK, Member of the Executive Board

Karl-Heinz Piotrowski
Digital Hub Logistics Hamburg, project Manager

Michael Plagge
Alibaba Cloud Germany, Business Development Director

Dr. Kirstin Pukall
Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Head of the Department of Trade and Advertising

Andreas Reß
DPD, Managing Director Sales & Customer Service

Gudrun Scharler
Unitymedia, Managing Director & Chief Operations Officer

Benedict Schmaus
PwC, Partner at PwC Strategy &, Head of Digital Transformation Retail & Consumer Goods EMEA

Dr. Csaba Singer
Hybrid Airplane Technologies, CEO

Max Thinius
AllyouneedFresh.de, futurologist

Catharina van Delden
innosabi, Bitkom Presidium, Founder & Managing Director

Stefan Weimann
DATEV, Consultant for chambers of commerce and industry associations

Martin Wild
MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group, Chief Innovation Officer

Sascha Wolter
Cognigy, Senior UX Consultant and Principle Technology Evangelist (Voice Services and Chatbots)

2018 Sponsors and Partners

PREMIUM PARTNERS:
• Datev
• DPD
• Payback

PARTNERS:
• All you need Fresh
• Amazon
• Ceconomy
• DEutsche Post DHL Group
• Digital Hub
• Digital Hub Logistic Hamburg
• Digital Hub Initiative
• GK Software
• H-aero
• LEAP
• Media Markt
• Microsoft
• PTV Group
• Saturn
• Shoutr Labs
• Unity Media

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Der Handel
• DVZ
• E-tailment
• Grunder Szene
• Lebensmittel Zeitung
• NGIN FOOD