Tech Show Frankfurt 2026 — the speakers, verified
Frankfurt, Germany · May 2026 · organized by CloserStill Media
138 speakers below were extracted from the event's public agenda, and Tech Show Frankfurt 2026 publishes its own site.
Who spoke, and about what
- Holger Schmidt — Editorial Director "Newsletters and Verticals" & Professor for Digital Transformation - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) / TU Darmstadt
- Beyond Productivity: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Wirtschaft (und Arbeit) transformiert source
- Björn Bartheidel — Regional CEO, Europe - Syntax Systems GmbH & Co. KG
- From Reactive Cloud to Intelligent Sovereignty: The Rise of AI-Native Operations source
- Anna Christmann — Founder & CEO - SAI Europe GmbH
- Europe's Digital Future: Turning AI, Cloud, and Regulation into Competitive Advantage source
- Sevinc Kader — Founder & CEO | AI Governance & Geopolitical Strategy | Certified Board Member - Forward 1919 Global Strategic Advisory
- Europe's Digital Future: Turning AI, Cloud, and Regulation into Competitive Advantage source
- Marcin T. Zakrzewski — Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - GEFA BANK GmbH
- Europe's Digital Future: Turning AI, Cloud, and Regulation into Competitive Advantage source
- Denise Holtschulte — Vice President - Capgemini Invent
- Europe's Digital Future: Turning AI, Cloud, and Regulation into Competitive Advantage source
- Sebastian Damrath — Manager Systems Engineering - NUTANIX
- Abstraktion statt Chaos – Infrastruktur Playbook für Cloud native und KI getriebene Unternehmen source
- Aurelius Lie — Vorstand - AI Frankfurt Rhein-Main e.V.
- AI Touch makes artificial intelligence tangible through real-world use cases – from education and serious play to industry and the public sector source
- Rinku Sharma — Board Member - AI Frankfurt Rhein-Main e.V.
- AI Touch makes artificial intelligence tangible through real-world use cases – from education and serious play to industry and the public sector source
- Dan Gora — OWASP Frankfurt Chapter Co-Lead - owasp
- Agentic AI Security: What Can Go Wrong When AI Acts on Its Own source
- Dominik Pataky — OWASP Frankfurt Chapter Co-Lead - owasp
- Agentic AI Security: What Can Go Wrong When AI Acts on Its Own source
- Christian Götz — CEO - Deltrian Filtration GmbH
- AI Automation als Wettbewerbsvorteil: Angebotsprozesse von Stunden auf Minuten reduzieren source
- Daniel Pötzinger — CTO - AOE Group
- AI Automation als Wettbewerbsvorteil: Angebotsprozesse von Stunden auf Minuten reduzieren source
- Thomas Niessen — Head Coordination Office, IPCEI-CIS - Kompetenznetzwerk Trusted Cloud e.V.
- From Infrastructure to Intelligence: Europas Weg von Cloud-Edge zu AI source
- Christian Weiss — Cloud Services, CTO Defense Cloud - T-Systems International GmbH
- From Infrastructure to Intelligence: Europas Weg von Cloud-Edge zu AI source
- Alessandro Pätow — Business Development Manager - Arrow ECS Germany
- KI-Assistenten und Datenkontrolle source
- Jason Audsley — Sales Engineer, Strategic Customers DACH region - Arrow Electronics
- KI-Assistenten und Datenkontrolle source
- Shelby Heard — Vice President of EMEA - Hack the box
- Beyond Human Skill: Benchmarking Cybersecurity Capability in the Age of AI source
- Meri Roboçi — Cyber Security & AI Enablement - DWS
- Andrea Thu Le — Business Resilience Manager - Allianz Global Investors
- When Security Fails: Building Operational Resilience for AI-Enabled Services source
- Redouane Boumghar — CEO - Celestical – The European Serverless Cloud
- Smart Spend for Smarter AI: Rethinking Cloud Economics source
- Carsten Bange — CEO & Founder - BARC GmbH
- Data Sovereignty 2026: Realität, Relevanz, Roadmap source
- David Wainwright — Chief Strategy Officer - PRODYNA SE
- From AI Use Cases to Business Transformation: What It Takes and How to Get There source
- Martin Heydorn — Innovation & Technology | Lead AI/ML Data Scientist - Louis
- Testfahrt bestanden: Erfahrungen aus dem Dremio Agentic Lakehouse Setup bei Louis source
- Max Maelicke — Head of Data Science - Midas Pharma
- 10.000+ Visualisierungen pro Monat, 99% der Antworten in unter einer Sekunde: Wie Midas Pharma mit ThoughtSpot Excel-Reporting durch Self-Service Analytics ersetzt hat source
- Karl Matzenbacher — Data Engineer - Midas Pharma
- 10.000+ Visualisierungen pro Monat, 99% der Antworten in unter einer Sekunde: Wie Midas Pharma mit ThoughtSpot Excel-Reporting durch Self-Service Analytics ersetzt hat source
- Sarah Büttner — Data Scientist - Midas Pharma
- 10.000+ Visualisierungen pro Monat, 99% der Antworten in unter einer Sekunde: Wie Midas Pharma mit ThoughtSpot Excel-Reporting durch Self-Service Analytics ersetzt hat source
- Katrin Rösing — Senior Customer Success Manager - ThoughtSpot
- 10.000+ Visualisierungen pro Monat, 99% der Antworten in unter einer Sekunde: Wie Midas Pharma mit ThoughtSpot Excel-Reporting durch Self-Service Analytics ersetzt hat source
- Erbin Lim — Director of Engineering and Development - Pfizer
- The Productivity Promise of Generative AI: Measurable Reality? source
- Yves Brunschwiler — General Manager Germany - Wonderful AI
- The Productivity Promise of Generative AI: Measurable Reality? source
- Sabina Kohlmann — Founder - AI for Future Women Leaders
- Artur Yatsenko — Director of Data Engineering - Urban Sports Club
- Oldriska Bursik Zikova — Senior Project Manager - GoodData
- Production-Ready Agentic AI for Regulated Industries: Secure, Governed, and Built to Scale source
- Roman Valovic — Senior Software Engineer - GoodData
- Production-Ready Agentic AI for Regulated Industries: Secure, Governed, and Built to Scale source
- Wolfgang Klein — Director Data-as-a-Service - Robert Bosch GmbH
- The Future is Conversational: Bosch's Integrated Data Product Ecosystem with Generative AI source
- Simeon Rilling — Chief Product Owner for the Data Mesh Ecosystem - Robert Bosch GmbH
- The Future is Conversational: Bosch's Integrated Data Product Ecosystem with Generative AI source
- Tiankai Feng — Data & AI Leader, Author
- From Excitement to Value: Success Criteria to Truly Scale AI source
- Petya Dasheva — Head of Global Digital Identities in the area of Cyber Security - Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Humanise to Realise: Turning Data Strategy into Human Strategy source
- Jörg Corsten — Group Lead Service, Solutions and Innovation - Roche
- Humanise to Realise: Turning Data Strategy into Human Strategy source
- Martin Paschmann — Director Data Strategy, AI & Data Science - Douglas Group
- Humanise to Realise: Turning Data Strategy into Human Strategy source
- Pheline Binz — Director Enterprise Architecture - Aareal Bank AG
- Metadata Management & Data Lineage: The Hidden Hero Behind Data Quality source
- Geoff Hodgkinson — Presales Consultant - Quest Software
- From Raw Data to AI-Ready Insight: Why Data Modelling Is the Backbone of Modern Data Strategy source
- Philipp Ziemer — Partner & Lead Data Management - INFORM DataLab GmbH
- One Stack Fits All? Architecture Lessons from Integrating SAP BDC with Open Data Platforms source
- Sascha Netuschil — Domain Lead AI & Data Science Services - bonprix
- Generating AI Images at Scale: From Experiment to Automated Production at bonprix source
- Philipp Schlechter — Principal Consultant, Data Engineering I Data Architecture I Data Culture - Qunis GmbH
- How Data Contracts Make AI Smarter – and Vice Versa source
- Benjamin Gnädig — VP Data & Cloud - HICO Group AG
- AI-Ready by Design: Die Datenplattform für produktionsreife KI source
- Maximilian Kuhn — AI Engineer Consultant - HICO Group AG
- AI-Ready by Design: Die Datenplattform für produktionsreife KI source
- Martin Jänicke — Head of AI Sync - Carl Zeiss AG
- AI products at ZEISS in 3D source
- Michael Strauß — CEO - IDEX.Q
- Von der Datenplattform zum Betriebssystem der Organisation. Wie MCP und KI-Agenten die Plattformfrage neu stellen - und warum Governance dabei alles entscheidet source
- Alexander Buchwald — Senior AI & Data Platforms Manager - CBTW
- Beyond Copilot: A Customer Case Study on GenAI for Complex RFP Processing with Human-in-the-Loop source
- Arved Cornelsen — Head of Digital - Novoferm Germany GmbH
- Beyond Copilot: A Customer Case Study on GenAI for Complex RFP Processing with Human-in-the-Loop source
- Jean Amedee Boni — Founder - smainos - smart ai innovation solutions
- Turan Pinar — Principal Solutions Engineer - Qlik
- Agentic AI in Action: Qlik Answers® und MCP-Server als Schlüssel zur KI-erweiterten Analytics-Plattform source
- Pawel Adaszewski — Data Solutions Architect - ZEISS Digital Innovation
- Correcting History at Scale: Apache Iceberg for Near Real-Time Industrial Reporting source
- Alexander Schmielau — Requirements Engineer - ZEISS Digital Innovation
- Correcting History at Scale: Apache Iceberg for Near Real-Time Industrial Reporting source
- Ed Atkins — Senior Customer Engineer - COLLIBRA
- Governing AI Agents Before They Govern You source
- Emmanuel Klinger — Head of AI & Data Tech Advisory - T-Systems
- Sebastian Nädtke — Managing Partner - LeitArt
- AI & Vibe Coding - Death or Extension of your BI Platform? source
- Achim Gnadt — Co-CEO - LeitArt
- AI & Vibe Coding - Death or Extension of your BI Platform? source
- Harry Enns — Vice President - INFOMOTION
- Intelligente Migration für SAP Analytics: AI als Enabler für den Weg von On-Prem nach Cloud source
- Jonas Holthuysen — Manager Data, Analytics & Planning - INFOMOTION
- Intelligente Migration für SAP Analytics: AI als Enabler für den Weg von On-Prem nach Cloud source
- Alexander Zorn — Lead LLM based Robot Control and Coding - Fraunhofer IAIS
- Agentic AI in Practice: Autonomous Coding for Everyone and the Rise of Physical AI source
- David Hennig — Head of Business Development - UNISERV GmbH
- The Hidden Power of Clean Data: Enabling AI, Automation and Real Insight source
- Melanie B. Sigl — Managing Consultant - Dataciders
- From Factory Floor to Agentic Company: Building the Foundation for "Talk to Your Data" source
- Marc Thormann — Head of Growth - myGPT
- KI Einsatz in der Praxis: Erfahrungsbericht im weltweiten GenAI Rollout an 1.200 Personen source
- Heiko Butz — Head of AI Strategy - BUHLMANN Group
- KI Einsatz in der Praxis: Erfahrungsbericht im weltweiten GenAI Rollout an 1.200 Personen source
- Noha Salama — MBA PMP, Germany Chapter Director - Women in Tech - Global Movement
- AI at the Edge: Where Latency, Cost, and Scale Start to Break Traditional Architectures source
- Chantal Spleiss — Co-chair AI Safety - Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
- Jack of all Trades: Designing Meta-Cognition for Agentic AI source
- Gold Darr-Hood — International Business Strategist - Cultural Infusion
- Push When They Should Pull: How Data Marketplaces Shape Governance source
- Dean Richards — Geschäftsführer & Co-CEO, Global Businesses - Piller Group GmbH (Langley Power Solutions Divn)
- THE POWER BEHIND AI. GRID-FREE POWER. ALWAYS ON. source
- Thomas Weber — Co-Founder and CSO - Etalytics
- Smart Energy Meets Smarter AI: Optimising Infra with Infra source
- Tobias Best — Geschäftsführer - Alpha-Numerics
- Smart Energy Meets Smarter AI: Optimising Infra with Infra source
- Helmut Kreiser — Leiter IT-Core-Services & Infrastructure & Leiter des Green IT Cube - GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
- Smart Energy Meets Smarter AI: Optimising Infra with Infra source
- Michael Omondi — Senior Manager - Global Risk Audit and Monitoring Tech - Amazon
- Europe's AI Infrastructure Moment: Build, Lead, or Fall Behind? source
- Lasse Kari — Global Resources & Energy Research Lead - Accenture
- Europe's AI Infrastructure Moment: Build, Lead, or Fall Behind? source
- Stefan Frenzel — MD - Independent Consultant DME
- Europe's AI Infrastructure Moment: Build, Lead, or Fall Behind? source
- Anton Immerz — Geschäftsführer - Airsys Deutschland GmbH
- Zukunft Rechenzentrum Deutschland: Zwischen Energiekrise und KI-Boom – Strategien für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit bis 2030 source
- Volker Kaufmann — Managing Director / Vorstand - INZEPTER GmbH / VIRZ® Verband Innovatives Rechenzentrum e.V.
- Zukunft Rechenzentrum Deutschland: Zwischen Energiekrise und KI-Boom – Strategien für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit bis 2030 source
- Sebastian Stegmann — Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter - GePlan Ingenieure GmbH & Co. KG
- Zukunft Rechenzentrum Deutschland: Zwischen Energiekrise und KI-Boom – Strategien für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit bis 2030 source
- Raúl Álvarez — European Market Development Manager - Open Compute Project Foundation
- Open Path Ahead – The Open Compute Project and the Open AI Fungible Data Center source
- Jeroen Burks — Data Center Consultant - ThermoIT
- Open Path Ahead – The Open Compute Project and the Open AI Fungible Data Center source
- Pius Albisser — Senior Engineer Data Centre Solutions - Dätwyler IT Infra AG
- Wie weit reicht meine Bestandsverkabelung für Higher-Speed- und KI-Anwendungen? source
- Gerd König — Senior Account Manager - HUBER+SUHNER AG
- Potential und Entwicklung bei HPC, KI und Quantencomputern source
- Ralf Ploenes — Sales Director EMEA - Sunbird Software
- Potential und Entwicklung bei HPC, KI und Quantencomputern source
- Thomas Pfützenreuter — Managing Director - Securance-iAP GmbH
- Potential und Entwicklung bei HPC, KI und Quantencomputern source
- Roland Wagner — Niederlassungsleiter Süd - GePlan Ingenieure GmbH & Co. KG
- Potential und Entwicklung bei HPC, KI und Quantencomputern source
- Mark T. Hofmann — Crime- & Intelligence Analyst ('Profiler') - www.mark-thorben-hofmann.de/en
- Dark Side of AI – How Hackers Use AI and Deepfakes source
- Marie Kilg — AI Advisor & Host of "Der KI-Podcast" (ARD)
- Effective AI in an Age of Insecurity: How Trust, Culture & Infrastructure Shape Real Adoption source
- Kyle Forster — Founder / CEO - RunWhen
- How Agentic Automation Is Reshaping Engineering Operations, Teams, and Outcomes at Scale source
- Alexandra Wander — Program Manager - Responsible AI - ZEISS
- Tech Talk: Inside ZEISS’ KI-Reise source
- Andreas Kalverkamp — Head of People and Organizational Development - ZEISS
- Tech Talk: Inside ZEISS’ KI-Reise source
- Michael Hase — Manager EuroCloud - eco - Association of the Internet Industry
- Workshop zu: Souveräne industriespezifische KI-Modelle aus Deutschland (Workshop) source
- Christian Schmitz — CEO - LEAM GmbH
- Workshop zu: Souveräne industriespezifische KI-Modelle aus Deutschland (Workshop) source
- Hauke Timmermann — Head of Digital Business Models – Member of the Executive Board - eco - Association of the Internet Industry
- Workshop zu: Souveräne industriespezifische KI-Modelle aus Deutschland (Workshop) source
- Bertie Müller — Associate Professor - Swansea University
- Iris Hollick — Head of Data Science - Breuninger
- Beyond the Model: Turning AI Ownership & Governance into Measurable Value source
- Richa Sharma — Data Scientist - Breuninger
- Beyond the Model: Turning AI Ownership & Governance into Measurable Value source
- Ales Zeman — Sales Engineering Director EMEA - Quest Software
- From Data to Decisions: Building Trusted Data Products with Purpose and Governance source
- Nhi Le — Manager, Solutions Consulting | AI & Aviator Execution Across Business Units - OpenText Software GmbH
- Operationalising Enterprise AI: From Strategy to Scalable Execution source
- Michael Foy — VP, Solutions Consulting | AI Strategy & Global Presales Leadership - OpenText Software GmbH
- Operationalising Enterprise AI: From Strategy to Scalable Execution source
- Dominick Romano — Contributor, AI For Radiology, AI for Health UN Global Initiative - United Nations
- Trust by Design: Trustworthy AI for Health and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing source
- Christoph Goertz — Head of Business Intelligence - Techem Energy Services GmbH
- SPOT-ON in der Cloud – Datenqualität als Grundlage für BI & KI: Techems Weg zu einer KI-fähigen Datenplattform source
- Andreas Pfangert — Senior Solutions Engineer DACH - Qlik
- SPOT-ON in der Cloud – Datenqualität als Grundlage für BI & KI: Techems Weg zu einer KI-fähigen Datenplattform source
- Ofure Obazee — Associate Director, RQS Digital Capability & AI Enablement - Merck Healthcare KGaA
- Sustainable AI Adoption: Enabling Humans to Work WITH Intelligence, Not Under It source
- Florian Bigelmaier — Analyst Data & Analytics - BARC GmbH
- Datenmanagement mit und für KI-Agenten: Vom Daten-Dschungel zur Wertschöpfungs-Oase source
- Ömer Adigüzel — Senior AI & Generative AI Specialist - Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Scaling GenAI Beyond Pilots: Governance, Reuse & Production-Ready Delivery in a Regulated Enterprise source
- Luca Wiesmaier — Senior Data Scientist - Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Scaling GenAI Beyond Pilots: Governance, Reuse & Production-Ready Delivery in a Regulated Enterprise source
- Steffen Kandler — Senior Data Strategist and Enterprise Architect - DB Fernverkehr AG
- Nächster Halt „Data-Mesh-Bric“ - Die Reise zu einer modernen Datenarchitektur beim DB Fernverkehr source
- Rakibul Haque — Data Specialist - DB Fernverkehr AG
- Nächster Halt „Data-Mesh-Bric“ - Die Reise zu einer modernen Datenarchitektur beim DB Fernverkehr source
- Michael Flower — Director, Solutions Architect - Dremio
- The Missing Layer: Why Your Modern Data Stack Is Lying to You source
- Alexander Zschaler — RVP, DACH & CEE - Fivetran
- Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Data with Snowflake & Fivetran source
- Harald Erb — Regional Principal Solution Engineer - Snowflake
- Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Data with Snowflake & Fivetran source
- Nico Baum — Head of Solutions and Head of AI - Berenberg
- Culture of Caution vs Culture of Confidence source
- Anastasios Fountis — Professor - Guglielmo Marconi University (IT)
- Alexander Lammers — Researcher & Lecturer - FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
- The T+1 Countdown: How DataOps Keeps Settlement From Breaking source
- Semone Noel — CEO & Founder - PPA LeaderTek
- The Next Generation Data Team: Roles, Skills & Culture source
- Stephen Nwoye — PhD, Senior Data Engineer - National Health Service (NHS) England
- The Next Generation Data Team: Roles, Skills & Culture source
- Laura Moritz — Country Director Germany - Global Women TechLeaders
- The Next Generation Data Team: Roles, Skills & Culture source
- Clemens Rabe — Solution Architect for Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Catalogue Solutions - Pentaho
- Governed AI-Driven CDC Data Pipelines: Timely, Trusted Data for Faster Insights and Smarter Decisions source
- Philipp Heck — Head of Technical Solutions & Customer Success - it-novum GmbH
- Governed AI-Driven CDC Data Pipelines: Timely, Trusted Data for Faster Insights and Smarter Decisions source
- Joachim Hefner — Lead BI & Data Engineer - Verivox
- The Great Data Debate: Stirbt klassische BI bald aus – und ist Agentic Analytics echter Fortschritt oder nur ein Hype? source
- Jochen Olbrich — Country Manager Central EMEA - ThoughtSpot
- The Great Data Debate: Stirbt klassische BI bald aus – und ist Agentic Analytics echter Fortschritt oder nur ein Hype? source
- Patrick Keller — Principal Consultant, Data & Analytics Strategy - Qunis GmbH
- Data Engineering im Zeitalter von AI Agents source
- Ashwinth Solomon — Senior Evangelist - Zoho Analytics - Zoho Corporation
- Transformative Power of Agentic Analytics source
- Erlend Kühnel — Manager IT-Department - MinebeaMitsumi Technology Center Europe GmbH
- Deploying AI in Regulated Enterprises: Turning Complex Data into Scalable Knowledge Agents source
- Sara Jourdan — Co-Founder - Genow GmbH
- Deploying AI in Regulated Enterprises: Turning Complex Data into Scalable Knowledge Agents source
- Thomas Howert — Co-Founder - inics
- The New Operating Logic of Agentic Analytics source
- Gijs Bos — Head Of Sales And Partnerships - Copla
- The Path to Sovereign AI source
- Rohit Bhosale — CEO - Synapze GmbH
- The Path to Sovereign AI source
- Veera Babu Manyam — Global Agentic AI Enterprise Architect - E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
- Key Considerations for Scalable Agentic AI in Data‑Driven Enterprises source
- Naveen Kanneganti — Global Lead Data & AI Enterprise Architect - E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
- Key Considerations for Scalable Agentic AI in Data‑Driven Enterprises source
- Igor Grdic — Regional Director Central Europe - Vertiv
- DSX and the Future of AI source
- Vladimir Prodanovic — Principal Program Manager - NVIDIA
- DSX and the Future of AI source
- David Gyulnazaryan — Executive Consultant - Impleon
- How to Optimise AI Infrastructure for Heat Reuse & Decarbonisation? source
- Maarten Trautmann — Project & Business Development Lead - Oleon
- How to Optimise AI Infrastructure for Heat Reuse & Decarbonisation? source
- Ricardo Penzin Monteiro — Regional Growth Manager EMEA - Midas Immersion Cooling
- How to Optimise AI Infrastructure for Heat Reuse & Decarbonisation? source
- Thomas Hofbauer — Head of Product Management - SCHÄFER IT-Systems
- How to Optimise AI Infrastructure for Heat Reuse & Decarbonisation? source
- Duncan Brown — Business Development Director - Reconext
- How to Optimise AI Infrastructure for Heat Reuse & Decarbonisation? source
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