Pirate Summit 2019 | Pirate Summit | 26 June 2019 | Odonien, Hornstraße 85, 50823 Köln, Germany

We had never organized events before and some of the basics like catering or registration were terrible. One thing that we did well — so we believe — was to get the right people together and set a context for them to meet in an authentic, intimate and non-transactional way. Over the years, as the group of participants got more diverse — that special atmosphere got kind of diluted.

2019 Speakers

Erik Ackner
Director of Growth / Country Advisor Germany, Mercku / Startup Grind

Salomé Andrade Pohl
Team Leader Product Management Digital Lifestyle Services and Partnerships, freenet AG

Catalina Antal
Business Functional Analyst dbAPI, Deutsche Bank

Moojan Asghari
Co-Founder, Startup Sesame

Kevin Baxpehler
Managing Partner, Remagine Ventures

Nikolaus D. Bayer
BeAI
Angel Investor

Hanne Beck
CPO, Brabbler

Rene Becker
Sales Manager, DocuSign

Boris Behringer
Founding & Tech and Mindfulness Rebel, mindful REBELS

Aleks Boskovski
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Xpertify

Stephanie Brennan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Evarvest

Jessy Brughmans
Founder, The Pink Enterprise

Matteo Cagnazzo
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, AWARE7

Scott Chacon
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Chatterbug

Christina Cramer
Head of Business Development Smart Start, KPMG

Raph Crouan
Investment Director, The Refiners

Bracken Darrell
Chief Executive Officer, Logitech

Cristian Dascalu
Founder / Advisor, Cluj Hub / Techcelerator

Moritz Dausinger
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Refiner

Vlad Dogaru
Startup Mentor, Techcelerator

Martina Dopfer
Founding & Mindfulness Rebel, mindful REBELS

Jannis Dorloechter
Founder, blookery

Florian Eckelmann
Co-Founder, MUYDOZO

Nils Eiteneyer
Head of New Ventures, FOND OF

Melinda Elmborg
Startup Coach, Action Metrics

Genna Elvin
Co-Founder, Tadaweb

Marcin Fejfer
Investment Manager, SpeedUp Group

Dustin Figge
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Homelike

Annemieke Frank
Founder, EduHeroes Club

Malte Goesche
Product Partnerships, Facebook

Sandra Golbreich
Chief Executive Officer, Baltic Sandbox

Lisa Haag
Chief Executive Officer, Founder, MJ_Universe

Martje Haverkamp
Founder, School for Ninja

Bernhard Hecker
Co Founder, Value.Digital

Helena Held
Project Manager, New Digital Ecosystem

Niklas Hellemann
Managing Director, SoSafe Cyber Security Awareness

David Henn
Chief Executive Officer, Cannamedical

Maria Hertleif
Strategy & Operations Manager, digihub Düsseldorf/Rhineland

Markus Hertlein
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, XignSys

Jakob Heyder
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Ventury Analytics

Lizzy Hodcroft
Founder & Director, Myndr

Fedor Holz
Chief Executive Officer, Primed Group

Claudio Huyskens
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fedger

Patrick Hümmer
Managing Director, Ventury Analytics

Charnez Jacobs
Business developer, Seedrs BENELUX

Stephan Jacquemot
Partner, STS Ventures

Lubomila Jordanova
Chief Executive Officer, Plan A

Jenny Jung
Founder, MindTheLeader

Tilman Kemper
Venture Developer, APX Axel Springer and Porsche

Irène Kilubi
Expert Advisor, European Innovation Council

Manuel Koelman
Partner, PIRATE.vc

Max Koziolek
Chief Executive Officer, Spectrm

Konstantin Krauss
Founder, Ciara

Tariq Krim
Founder, Dissident.Ai

Maurice Kügler
Investment Manager, HTGF

Niels Liebisch
Chief Technology Officer & Managing Partner, virtualQ

Philipp Liesenfeld
Business Development, 1. FC Koeln

Angela Lin
Client Solutions Manager - DACH, Facebook

Simon Lohmann
Investor Relations Manager, Cavalry Ventures

Björn Loose
Associate, Cavalry Ventures

Anna Löw
People Operations, Giant Swarm GmbH

Matilde Masciulli
Customer Relations Manager, MyEUConsulting

Enrico Mellis
Investment Manager, Project A

Borys Musielak
General Partner, SMOK Ventures

Mathias Ockenfels
Partner, Speedinvest x

Marius Oesterschlink
Analyst, DN Capital

Till Ohrmann
Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder, PIRATE.global

Eckhard Ortwein
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Lean-Case

Nick Papanotas
Chief Executive Officer, Geekbot

Alexander Peiniger
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, quintly

Daniela Peralta
OKR Expert, Perdoo

Julia Petryk
Head of PR, MacPaw

Dr. Jens Pippig
Chief Executive Officer, Seven Ventures

Manuel Pistner
Founder, Flash Hub / Bright Solutions

Pia Poppenreiter
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Ohlala

Taivo Pungas
Automation Lead, Veriff

Ralf Reichert
Chief Executive Officer, ESL

Björn Robbel
Produktmanager API Programm, Deutsche Bank

Anna Rojahn
Serial Pirate, Scaleup.de + enable2grow

Julius Ruessmann
Associate, Earlybird

Daria Saharova
Partner, Vito One

Sabrina Sasaki
Head of Marketing & Sales, Makers Boot Camp

Uzi Scheffer
Chief Executive Officer, SOSA

Helen Schlott
Project Manager, New Digital Ecosystem

Rene Schmidt
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Qwellcode

Tim Schumacher
Managing Director TS Ventures GmbH

Jochen Schwill
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Next Kraftwerke

Ela Slutski
Co-Founder, Holiday Sitters

Vinay Solanki
Channel 4
Head of Commercial Growth Fund

Benedikt Stolz
First Momentum Ventures
Founding Partner

Fabian Tausch
Program Director & Founder, Young Entrepreneurs‘ Program

Frank Thelen
Founder & CEO, Freigeist

Jan Thiel
Chief Executive Officer & Creative Director, A4VR

Ieva Upeniece
Head of Partnerships, Baltic Sandbox

Kartik Varma
Managing Director, Techstars

Johannes Velling
Head of Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy

Kristine Vilnite
Founder / Product Lead, Lingr

Salim Virani
Founder, Source Institute

Alain Visser
Chief Executive Officer, Lynk & Co International

Lukas Vogt
Investment Manager, Capnamic Ventures

Rob Walling
General Partner, Tinyseed

Dominik Walters
President, ASIF Ventures

Robin Wauters
Founding Editor, Tech.eu

Lina Wenner
Principal, firstminute capital

Victoria Wenzelmann
Research Associate, University of Siegen

Miriam Wiederer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Echte Mamas

Sean Wright
Director, Stanley Ventures

Gunnar Wrobel
Chief Technology Officer, JobMatchMe

Thierry Zois
Associate, Finch Capital

Esra van Beelen
Founder, School for Ninja

Henrik-Jan van der Pol
Chief Executive Officer, Perdoo

2019 Partners

COMMUNITY PARTNER:
• Stadt Koln

SAIING MASTER:
• Division5
• KMG
• Smart Start

MASTER GUNNER:
• Deutsche Bank API Program
• Erster Deutscher Fur Virtual Reality
• DocuSign
• Medien Netzwerk

FIRST MATES:
• Wirecard
• EY
• Facebook
• TechBoost
• DWNRW
• Comdirect

SAILORS:
• Capnamic Ventures
• DigitalHub Cologne
• NRW Invest
• Clinq
• LexRocket
• Coparion