Dr. Martin Schulte is the Global sector leader for consumer goods at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, as well as a member of the German management team. Martin advises consumer electronics clients globally on questions related to the commercial and digital transformation. He is specialized in business model innovation, platform strategies and eCommerce offerings.

Prof. Dr. Ronny Alexander Fürst is managing director and chancellor of AKAD University. As editor of Handelsblatt Management Forum professors from leading business schools (e.g. Harvard, Yale, ISEAD, St. Gallen) followed his call for collaboration and his books are reviewed and honored by Harvard Business Managers, Federal Ministers and industry executive boards (IBM, Lufthansa, Hugo Boss).

Sara Warneke is Managing Director of gfu Consumer and Home Electronics GmbH and holds a Ph.D. in Economics. gfu is the industry organization of select manufacturers of Consumer and Home Electronics which owns the trademark rights to IFA.

Business activist and innovation expert Jule Bosch helps companies to transform from a problem for the planet into a lever for the regeneration of ecosystems in a way that is both ecologically and economically sustainable and successful. She is the founder of the award winning biodiversity startup HOLYCRAB! and author of the book “ÖKOnomie”, which can be translated with ECOnomics, published by Campus Verlag.

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Melanie Vogelbach completed her studies in international relations and global affairs in Dresden, Chile and New York. Since June 2019 she has been Head of International Economic Policy and Foreign Trade Law at the DIHK, where she was previously Federal Managing Director and press spokeswoman for the Wirtschaftsjunioren Deutschland (WJD).

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Kristina Bonitz is a strategist, business designer and CEO of the agency diffferent. For twelve years, she has been advising, accompanying and inspiring companies with her mindset, helping them to achieve a sustainable impact, both entrepreneurially and socially. Whether with a new strategy, a new business model, new products, new services, new portfolios or a customer-centric orientation. Since the beginning of 2022, Kristina Bonitz is CEO & Managing Director of diffferent, leading both our 120 employees and over 40 customers into the future with new growth.

Dr. Mauricio Vargas wrote his dissertation with focus on international financial stability and currency crises. Until 2020, responsible for economic analysis of the European Monetary Union and country risk assessment at Union Investment. Since 2021, responsible as Lead Economist for economic and financial issues at Greenpeace Germany.

Dr Joyce Gesing is CEO and Chairwoman of the Management Board at SEVERIN Elektrogeräte GmbH. She is responsible for Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Category Management & Innovation, Project Management and Transformation. As a transformation expert, she previously worked as management consultant and in various senior leadership roles at thyssenkrupp.