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After positions as Client Lead at Grey, BBDO, DDB, Saatchi & Saatchi and as Marketing Consultant for Digitas & Publicis Media, Dirk Otto has been responsible for the national & international marketing of Eurowings, the leading European value carrier of the Lufthansa Group, since 2018. There, he is agnostically responsible for all matters of brand, marketing strategy and activation driving the digital transformation of marketing and the repositioning of the brand in times of great crisis and change. He is a forward-thinking believer in a customer-focused & data-based marketing approach, that is not reduced to optimizing ad placements but always keeps people and insights in focus, with the goal of "creating value starting from the consumer."

Mit Soundcloud revolutionierte Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss die Musikindustrie. Er ist einer der Wegbereiter von Musik-Streaming und digitalen Abo-Modellen. Diese Transformation wiederholt er nun auf dem Feld der Mobilität. Gemeinsam mit seinem Soundcloud-Cofounder Alex Ljung und Christian Springub hat Quidenus-Wahlforss Dance gegründet. Das Berliner Start-up verkauft urbanen Pendler:innen stylische E-Bikes im Abo – und will dabei helfen, Städte von autogerecht auf nachhaltig zu trimmen.

After a stay as a mentor in a start-up accelerator in Canada, Stephan Uhrenbacher did what he never really wanted to do: In 2021 the serial founder (Qype, Avocadostore, 9flats, among others) initiated an accelerator program himself. At the Sustainable Aero Lab (SAL) in Hamburg, ideas are now being advanced to make aviation less harmful to the climate. The spectrum ranges from propulsion technology to the optimization of processes that have not been questioned for a long time.

The theme of sustainability runs through Lawrence Leuschner's founding vita. First, he established Rebuy, a second-hand platform for electronic goods. With Tier Mobility, which recently acquired Germany's largest bike rental company Nextbike, he is now demonstrating that mobility and sustainability go hand in hand - even in a competitive environment like micro mobility.

Pioneers have the longest way to go. In 2016, Sono Motors announced the Sion compact car. Its exterior surfaces are equipped with photovoltaic modules to extend the range of the electric car with solar energy. CEO Jona Christians experienced doubting experts, delays and setbacks, and bankruptcy threatened on several occasions. But Sono Motors keeps going - and has got an entire industry seriously discussing a new concept for sustainable mobility.

Anyone who occasionally uses car or scooter sharing services knows the problem that Sophia Rödiger wants to solve. Each provider has its own app. The start-up bloXmove wants to change this by linking the booking and billing processes of the individual providers in the background via the blockchain. Users will then have one app and be able to use all services - just like with cell phone roaming.

Since June 2021, Alexander Sixt and his brother Konstantin have been managing the globally active mobility provider, which has been consistently facing up to the challenges of digitalization for years. The next chapter will soon be opened: Together with Mobileye, Sixt will send Germany's first robot cab fleet on the road in Munich this year.

Every month, 1.7 million people visit the YouTube channel "The Car Crash Review". There, Thön presents a car every day. The vast majority of her audience are people who are interested in buying a new car. That - and soon a million followers on Instagram and Tiktok - make Thön Germany's widest-reaching and most influential automotive creator.

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Tony Fadell ist Investor und Unternehmer mit mehr als 30 Jahren Erfahrung in der Gründung von Unternehmen und der Entwicklung von Produkten, die das Leben der Menschen grundlegend verbessern. Er ist Principal bei Future Shape, einem Investment- und Beratungsunternehmen, das Start-ups im Bereich der Spitzentechnologie berät. Gegenwärtig betreut Future Shape mehr als 200 Start-ups, die bahnbrechende Technologien entwickeln. Er ist Gründer und ehemaliger CEO von Nest, dem Unternehmen, das Pionierarbeit für das "Internet der Dinge" geleistet hat. Tony war SVP der iPod Division von Apple und leitete das Team, das die ersten 18 Generationen des iPods und die ersten drei Generationen des iPhones entwickelte. Im Laufe seiner Karriere hat Tony mehr als 300 Patente angemeldet. Im Mai 2016 ernannte "TIME" den Nest Learning Thermostat, den iPod und das iPhone zu drei der "50 einflussreichsten Gadgets aller Zeiten". Er ist der Autor von "BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making".

Christine is an entrepreneur, consultant and versatile leader with 12+ years of experience in strategy, business model innovation and commercial & go-to-market execution. She is currently the Managing Director of the Lufthansa Innovation Hub based in Berlin and Singapore. Previously, she was the China CEO of Meero, a French AI-start-up, a Project Leader at BCG Digital Ventures and BCG and a Global Leadership Associate at Alibaba.

Thomas Zimmermann has been CEO of FREE NOW, Europe's super app for mobility, since April 1, 2022. Previously, he was Chief Marketing Officer at the company since 2018, responsible for communication and marketing activities, marketplace performance as well as the data and growth teams. Prior to joining FREE NOW, the business graduate held various management positions at company builder and investor Ioniq Group and online and mobile games developer Goodgame Studios, among others.

Oliver Mackprang has been working for the mobility revolution for over ten years. In 2012, he founded CarJump in Berlin, an aggregator app for car sharing providers, which later became free2move. After holding positions at the management consultancy Kearny and the ridepooling provider Moia, Mackprang has been head of the Berlin-based carsharing provider Miles Mobility since fall 2019. As he did most recently in the FUTURE MOVES podcast, he is clearly in favor of dismantling privileges that promote private car ownership and thus creating fair conditions for new players in the mobility sector.

Der US-amerikanische Produzent, Unternehmer und Tech-Investor will.i.am wird den FUTURE MOVES – New Mobility Summit als Headliner anführen. Er wird exklusive Einblicke in seine Sichtweise auf Technologie geben und berichten, welche Trends ihn derzeit am meisten faszinieren. Außerdem erzählt will.i.am von seiner Faszination für Automobile und verrät, wie er sich die Mobilität der Zukunft vorstellt.

Christian Lindener is co-founder of Reflex Aerospace, a Munich-based company that develops and manufactures the world's most advanced digitized satellite technologies. Reflex Aerospace's hottest project at the moment is UN:IO, a joint initiative with startups Mynaric and ISAR Aerospace to drive the realization of Europe's own secure satellite constellation. Previously, Lindener was head of Airbus Scale, Airbus' central innovation unit. In this role, he led and drove the company's internal and external innovation activities.

After holding positions at Deutsche Bahn and Austrian Railways, among others, Anna-Theresa Korbutt has been Managing Director of the Hamburg Transport Association (hvv) since April 2021. Her clear mission is to accelerate the mobility revolution. This is evident not only in a complete redesign, a new app and innovative fare ideas that have been given to the world's oldest transport association in recent months. Korbutt is also driving the transportation turnaround debate on LinkedIn with transparent and personal insights into her work.

Taco Carlier founded the dutch e-bike brand VanMoof together with Ties Carlier in 2009, the two brothers who dreamt up the perfect city bike. Today, its sleek, multi-award winning e-bikes offer a high-tech and feature-rich experience for a global community of almost 200,000+ riders. VanMoof sells its e-bikes directly to riders online, with Brand Stores in over 20 cities worldwide. And the e-bike pioneers are just getting started. As the world’s fastest growing and most well-funded e-bike brand, VanMoof is on course to redefine the future of urban mobility and get the next billion on bikes.

Bastian Raschke ist seit 2015 bei Meta (damals noch Facebook) und leitet seit 2021 die Bereiche Automotive, Mobility und Travel im deutschsprachigen Raum. Raschke und sein Team beraten Automobilhersteller, Mobilitätsdienstleister und Reiseanbieter, wie sie die von Meta betriebenen Plattformen Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp nutzen können, aber auch, welche künftigen Use-Cases das Metaverse bereithält.

Mobilize was founded by the Renault Group in January 2021 to bundle the New Mobility Services in which the Group has high expectations. To this end, activities from the fields of mobility, energy and data were combined under the new brand. As COO, Fedra Ribeiro bears operational responsibility for ensuring that the Renault subsidiary achieves its ambitious goal. Prior to this, Ribeiro spent nine years in management positions at Bosch, most recently in the "Progressive Mobility" unit.

The 21-year-old racing driver sat in a kart for the first time at the age of four. She went on to win numerous German and international races, often with the distinction of being the youngest winner and first girl. In 2015, she switched to automobile racing, where she competed in Formula 3 and the DTM, among others. In 2022, Flörsch will compete in the European Le Mans Series and the legendary 24-hour race. Her goal, which she always has in sight: to make it into the highest class of motorsport. More than a million followers accompany her on her social media channels.

Tina has more than 20 years of experience in various leadership positions, including payments, customer loyalty, automotive industry, and new mobility. Most recently, she was Managing Director at Opel Finance SA. Tina joined SAP in June 2021 and advises clients in the automotive industry on all aspects of customer experience.

After initial positions in the automotive and tech industries, Tobias has been responsible for the development of the IT ecosystem in his role as Lead Product Owner at smart Europe GmbH since August 2020. Together with his team, he relies on a flexible architecture paired with data insights to shape the smart customer experience in the long term.