Amelia Kallman
Amelia Kallman is a leading London-based futurist, speaker, author and facilitator. She has spoken at over 100 conferences, facilitated more than 20 events, written industry-leading reports, addressed the House of Lords and the United Nations and regularly advises Fortune 500 companies. She was recently named one of the world’s top 20 futurists and speakers and one of the 25 most influential women in the Metaverse. Her clients include AT&T, Bloomberg, Allianz, Adobe, Financial Times, Puma, PwC, Unilever, JLL, Keywords Studios, Bending Spoons, Lloyd’s, Red Bull and the UK Parliament. She is a mentor and activist in the responsible technology movement and is currently writing her third book. (c) Amelia Kallman
Hannes Hofmann
Hannes Hofmann is Global Head of the Family Office Group at Citi in London and has more than two decades of experience in the international financial world. Previously, he worked at JP Morgan for 20 years, including as Head of the Multifamily Office and Intermediaries for Europe, Asia and Latin America. Today, he is responsible for over 1,800 family offices and private investment companies worldwide at Citi. He is a recognized expert for the globally growing family office segment and is a regular speaker at international conferences and in media such as CNBC, Bloomberg and Reuters. Hofmann holds an MBA from Stanford University, a CEMS Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Wolfsonian Institute in Miami. (c) Hannes Hofmann
Christoph Wirl
Christoph Wirl is co-founder and managing director of Superintelligenz GmbH, a Vienna-based consulting and training company that supports organizations in using artificial intelligence in a meaningful and effective way.As a true AI enthusiast, he combines technical knowledge with strategic thinking and a feel for the reality of everyday business life. In his workshops, he manages to convey complex technologies in an understandable, tangible and inspiring way – with a mixture of specialist knowledge, humor and practical relevance. (c) Christoph Wirl
Niklas Räther
Niklas Räther has been working for AEW since 2016 and serves as Head of Investment Germany. In his role, he is responsible for the acquisition of real estate for the German and pan-European fund mandates in the DACH region from the Düsseldorf office. After completing his Master’s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he initially worked for four years in the Real Estate M&A team at EY. (c) Jochen Rolfes
Florian Gschwandtner
Florian Gschwandtner grew up on a farm in the Mostviertel region and started an international success story from there. As co-founder and CEO of Runtastic, he wrote Austrian start-up history before building another successful global company with Tractive: the global market leader in GPS tracking for pets, with annual sales of over 100 million euros. Today, he is co-founder of Foxyfitness, author, judge on the TV show 2 Minuten 2 Millionen and has invested in more than 40 start-ups. His personal challenge: he has been doing 50-100 push-ups a day for over 700 days. A symbol of his ambition to constantly work on himself and his goals. With his experience, energy and down-to-earth attitude, he inspires people far beyond the start-up scene and is now bringing this entrepreneurial spirit to re.comm 25. (c) Florian Gschwandtner
Ian Goldin
Ian Goldin is one of the world’s leading experts on globalization, technological transformation and sustainable development. As a professor at the University of Oxford and founding director of the renowned Oxford Martin School, he has been shaping international futurology for more than a decade. Previously, he was Vice President of the World Bank, headed the Development Bank of Southern Africa and advised President Nelson Mandela. As a sought-after consultant, he has supported more than 50 governments and over 100 global companies. With his unique blend of scientific depth, political experience and visionary thinking, Ian Goldin is one of the most exciting voices in the global discourse on the future of our world. (c) Ian Goldin
Christian Baudis
Christian Baudis has successfully founded several European start-ups and worked for over 20 years in leading CEO positions in the European media & internet industry. He is also a trustee of the Goethe Business School (GBS) in Frankfurt a.M., Advisory Board member and guest lecturer of the MBA for digital transformation offered there. © epmedia advertising agency
Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer is one of Germany’s most prominent critics of growth and one of the most consistent thought leaders of our time on the path to a desirable future. He became famous with his bestsellers “Climate wars: What is being killed for in the 21st century” and “Think for yourself: A guide to resistance”. The charitable foundation he founded, “Futurzwei. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit”, a charitable foundation he founded, provides new food for thought and examples for a future worth living and “fit for grandchildren”.Harald Welzer (born 1958) studied sociology, political science and literature at the University of Hanover, where he gained his doctorate in sociology in 1988. He habilitated in social psychology in 1993 and in sociology in 2001. He has been an honorary professor of transformation design at the University of Flensburg since 2012.He is one of the pioneers of the school of thought critical of capitalism and believes that a small number of people can initiate change in any area. The motto of his foundation “Futurzwei” is: We will have done something. Welzer and his colleagues want to tell stories of exemplary projects that point to the future: ecological, social, not oriented towards growth and profit.The eloquent speaker is a committed advocate of a sustainable, personal lifestyle of “thinking along”. For Harald Welzer, it is clear that a “sustainable culture of living and doing business is not the result of scientific knowledge or moral appeals. We need visions of better, fairer, more sustainable lifestyles. Examples of how doing without is not only necessary, but can also be fun. © epmedia advertising agency
Rudolf Klausnitzer
The media and culture manager works as a general director and entrepreneur and gained great fame through his former TV and radio presenting. He managed the successful Austrian radio station Ö3 for ten years, where he created and presented the morning show “Ö3 Wecker”. In 1987, he took over the management and program direction of SAT1 and shortly afterwards was entrusted with the development of the German pay-TV channel “Premiere”. Klausnitzer has been a freelance media consultant since 2007 and develops Web 2.0 and social media projects with the design and digital communications agency DMC. In spring 2013, Klausnitzer published his book “Das Ende des Zufalls” (The End of Chance), in which he takes a critical stance on new technologies, mobile data flows and their future consequences. © epmedia advertising agency
Leonard Mlodinow
is an American physicist and author. Leonard Mlodinow is currently a guest lecturer at Caltech. Among other things, he wrote the book “When God throws dice: or how chance determines our lives” and together with Stephen Hawking “The grand design”. In addition to his physics research and popular science publications, Mlodinow has also written scripts for various television series such as Starship Enterprise: The Next Century and MacGyver. Copyright: epmedia
