Handelsblatt Industry Summit 2023 | Euroforum Deutschland | 22 December 2023 | TBA, Gipfel

Day-to-day crisis management took a lot of energy, but it also opened up opportunities. Now it's time to concentrate on the core business: Positioning yourself for the future. The Handelsblatt Industry Summit is not a look back. The aim of the summit is to take a clear look at the strategic future prospects of German industry.

Industry in the new world economic (dis)order
• The effects of the turning point and the simultaneity on the German economy
• Decoupling the world powers: re-shoring and friend-shoring
• Free trade and freedom - why new cooperations are becoming more important

Industrial transformation: green and digital
• Germany on the way to becoming the first climate-neutral industrial country
• German industry needs a clear ESG roadmap
• Ambitious climate policy and the industry's room for maneuver - growing profitably and sustainably
• Investments in key technologies and alternative production processes

Circular economy & resource efficiency
• Raw materials made in Europe, chip resilience: the golden age of semiconductors
• Decarbonization, dematerialization and digitization for better competitiveness

Shortage of skilled workers and new cooperations
• Transformation from a shortage of skilled workers to securing skilled workers
• The human focus on the way to Industry 5.0
• Collaboration: Interface management replaces silo thinking

2022 Past Speakers

prof. Will van der Aalst
Chief Scientist, celonis

dr Dirk Abendroth
Chief Executive Officer, Customcells

Dr. Katarina Barley
Vice-President of the European Parliament

Jochen Bechtold
EVP, Market Unit Head Manufacturing & High Tech, Get hold of it

Dr.-Ing. Grischa Beier
Research group leader digitization and transformation to sustainability, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)

Dr. Attila Bilgic
Chief Executive Officer, KROHNE Group

Marc Dassler
CEO & Co-Founder, Energy Robotics

dr Heike Denecke-Arnold
Chief Operations Officer, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe

Bernhard Dietrich
Head of Centre of Competence for Climate, Enviornment and Noise Protection in Aviation, House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM)

Jörg Eigendorf
Chief Sustainability Officer, Deutsche Bank AG

Philip Engelkamp
Managing Director, INERATEC

Jan-Christoph Gras
General Partner, Planet

dr Anne Marie Grossman
Member of the board of directors, Georgsmarienhuette Holding Group

dr Wolfgang Gruendinger
Chief Evangelist, Enpal

Marie Christine von Hahn
Vice President Corporate External Affairs, Aurubis

dr Felix Hanisch
Head of Process & Plant Safety, Bayer AG, CEO, Namur

Robert Härtel
Vice President Business Development, frequency

Dr. Carsten Hinn
Member of the Board, duisport – Port of Duisburg

Kerstin Hochmuller
Chief Executive Officer, Marantec Company Group

Prof. Dr. Michael Huether
Director, Institute of the German economy

Christian Jerusalem
CEO & Co-Founder WiseForce Advisors, Co-Founder, Rocket50

Ina Karabasz
Head of Podcast, Live and Video Department, Handelsblatt

Dr. Johannes F. Kirchhoff
Chief Executive Officer, KIRCHHOFF Ecotec, Chairman of the Board, BDI Initiative Circular Economy

Stefan Klebert
Chief Executive Officer, GEA Group

Frank Koch
CEO, Swiss Steel Group

dr Joachim Kreysing
Managing Director, Infraserv Highest

Christian Lehner
Head of Customer & Commercial Excellence, Siemens Healthineers

Arena Lin
Chief Transformation and Talent Officer, Bayer

Dr. Ralph Marquardt
Chief Innovation Officer, Evonik

Annett Meiritz
US-Korrespondentin in Washington, Handelsblatt

Rolf Najork
Managing Director, Robert Bosch

dr Gitta Neufang
Corporate Senior VP Global R&D, Beiersdorf

Magdalena Oehl
CEO and Founder, TalentRocket

doctor Peter Podesser
Chief Executive Officer, SFC Energy

Marco Prüglmeier
Gründer, CEO & CTO, Noyes Technologies

Gerhard Raffling
Vice President DACH, Medallia

Dr. Ariane Reinhart
Board Member for Human Resources and Sustainability, Labor Director, Continental

Gerrit Richter
Co-Founder & CEO, Civey

Marion Rövekamp
Head of Human Resources and Legal Affairs, Labor Director, EWE

Prof. Dr. dr Bert Ruerup
Chief Economist of the Handelsblatt and President, Handelsblatt Research Institute

Ulrike Sapiro
Chief Sustainability Officer, handle

dr Klaus Schaefer
Chief Technology Officer, Covestro

Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schall
Founder & CEO, Black Semiconductor

Rudolf Scharping
Federal Minister a. D., former Prime Minister, board member & founder, RSBK AG

Mikhail Stahlhut
Chief Executive Officer, Hupac Intermodal

Prof. Dr. Markus Taube
Director, IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies University of Duisburg-Essen and Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr

Frauke Thies
Executive Director, Agora Energiewende

Andreas Urschitz
Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Marketing Officer, Infineon

Dr. Petra Wicklandt
Head of Corporate Sustainability, Quality and Trade Compliance, Senior Vice President, Merck

Judith Wiese
Board Member for Human Resources and Sustainability, Labor Director, Siemens AG

Hendrik Wüst MdL
Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia

dr Christopher Zee
Co-Founder und CCO, C1 Green Chemicals

MODERATORS:

Ina Karabasz
Head of Podcast, Live and Video Department, Handelsblatt

Kevin Knitterscheidt
Deputy Head of Podcast, Live and Video, Handelsblatt

Kirsten Ludowig
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Handelsblatt

Sebastian Mathes
Editor-in-chief, Handelsblatt