Jens Müller is Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at Deutsche Glasfaser. He is responsible for Finance with Accounting, Taxes, Controlling and Treasury as well as Capital Market Communications, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Facility and Legal. He is also responsible for the IPTV...

Jan Backman is the country manager for Germany at Open Access provider VX Fiber with a background in business development and corporate venturing and M&A from companies like Siemens, Fujitsu and Ericsson.  He holds a Master in Business from Stockholm School of Economics and CEMS Master from...

Badiaa Bazarbacha has 24+ years of experience in the telecommunications industry. She has been Head of Sales at Vantage Towers since 1 September 2020. In this function she has responsibility for sales and commercial management in CEE (Central and Eastern Europe).Before moving to Vantage Towers...

Prof. Dr. Jens Boecker holds a chair for marketing at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg since 2000. He is focussed on the strategic positioning of highly innovative technologies. He is an expert in identifying future trends on the basis of market and competition analysis.Since 2001 ...

Florian Bogenschütz, consultant and ex-founder, is the CEO of Wayra Germany. Through his background he brings extended knowledge about company growth, processes, finances and 5G. In his role as CEO he aims to create a mutually beneficial venture-client relationship for Telefónica and...

André Borusiak, Head of Vodafone Global Enterprise GermanyWith 20 years of experience in the ITC industry, André has held various management positions within Siemens and Vodafone. He started his career in sales selling PBX systems. After several years in business...

Jan Georg Budden (Jahrgang 1968) ist seit 2020 CEO und Mitgründer der Deutschen GigaNetz GmbH, einem Anbieter für eigenwirtschaftlichen Glasfaserausbau in Deutschland.Bereits im Studium gründete er die „Euro Solutions“ und beriet in Partnerschaft mit der US-Botschaft in Berlin amerikanische IT- und ...

Björn Capens leads Fixed Networks in the Europe perimeter; his team’s accountabilities include business development, sales support, customer engineering and project delivery. The team is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium. Additionally, Björn was recently appointed site manager of the Nokia facility ...

Valentina Daiber has been Chief Officer Legal and Corporate Affairs of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG since August 2017. In this position she is responsible for the units Legal, Compliance, Corporate Securitq and Data Protection, as well as the regulatorq work of the company and the government...

REMOTE SPEAKER // VIRTUELLER REFERENTDr. Wilhelm Eschweiler is one of the two vice presidents of the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). His responsibility includes telecommunications and rail.In 2016, he served as Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications...

Wolfgang is an economist with 20 years of experience in the ICT-branch. He started his career as an assistant to deputies of the German Parliament. He was then serving as spokesman of a federal ministry in Germany before starting to work for ICT-enterprises and a German telco association. Since...

Nelson Killius ist seit Dezember 2018 Sprecher der Geschäftsführung beim führenden bayerischen Glasfaseranbieter M-net und seit Mai 2019 auch Mitglied des Vorstands beim Bundesverband Glasfaseranschluss e. V. (BUGLAS). Er verfügt über eine mehr als 20-jährige Führungserfahrung in der Medien- und...

Thomas Langer is co-founder and Managing Director of kawikani GmbH & Co. KG, a specialized M&A and advisory boutique. He is also a Member of the Board of  Di4 Digitale Infrastruktur, Investitionen, Innovation und Industrie e.V. Previously, Thomas was Head of the Tech & Telco Equity...

Jens Prautzsch has been CEO of Unsere Grüne Glasfaser (UGG) since June 2021. The business graduate was previously Managing Director Germany at the international data center operator Interxion, where he was responsible for the strategic development and expansion of the company in the German...

Mr. Norbert Westfal - managing director at EWE TEL GmbH and EWE Vertrieb GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany Since February 2011, the economist Norbert Westfal has been managing director of the commercial division at EWE TEL GmbH and, since April 2014, managing director of EWE VERTRIEB GmbH; both companies...

Since 2015 working for Calix Inc25+ years of industry experience in Technical sales, Account Management and Professional Services roles in Broadband Access,  Fixed and Mobile network solution for various companies.

REMOTE SPEAKER // VIRTUELLER REFERENTJochen Donauer is in charge of the ´5G Innovation Program´ and the mobile funding scheme of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.He has studied law at the university of Augsburg. He has more than 20 years professional experience in the...

Dr. Osvaldo Gonsa is the Head of the Advanced Connectivity Technologies group by Continental AG in Frankfurt, Germany. He has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Yokohama National University in Japan (1999) and holds an MBA from Kempten School of Business in Germany...

Harald Gruber is head of the Digital Infrastructure Division at the Projects Directorate of the European Investment Bank based in Luxembourg. He oversees a team of experts involved in project appraisal. He also works on the Bank’s business strategy with respect to financing of broadband...

Als Vorstandsmitglied für Business Development bei der COCUS AG setzt sich Sascha Hellermann für zukunftsweisende Innovationen ein und hat bereits zahlreiche Mobilfunk basierte Lösungen mit Unternehmen aus verschiedensten Branchen umgesetzt. Er ist seit 2011 bei der COCUS AG beschäftigt und hat...

Norbert has been dealing with uncertainties to create enabling environments, in Berlin, in Johannesburg and elsewhere. Since 2017 Norbert has been handling startup-affairs at Berlin Government, Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. He is keen on better understanding and...

Stefan is a Managing Director at Commerzbank’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Sector Team in Frankfurt. He has more than 25 years of experience in international investment and corporate banking, with professional positions in Europe and Asia. Throughout his career, Stefan has...

Kerstin Larsson-Knetsch (born in 1976) has been Director Consulting & Customer Solutions in the Vodafone Business division since April 2018. Her team develops holistic digitalisation solutions for enterprise customers. Additionally, she is responsible for the 5G pilot programme for Vodafone...

Seit 2011 ist Herr Palm CEO der NetCom BW GmbH in EllwangenVon Juli 2019 bis April 2021 war er auch CEO der Plusnet GmbH.Bis 2011 war Herr Palm bei der EnBW ODR AG Mitglied derGeschäftsleitung (Prokurist) im Bereich Technik und Betrieb undzusätzlich zuständig für die Themen Marketing und...

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Mallik Rao has been Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO) of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG since end of October 2019 and is responsible for the mobile and fixed network as well as the IT of Telefónica Deutschland.   Mallik Rao has more than 25 years of experience in the...

Dr. Beate Rickert ist Geschäftsführerin des bei Frankfurt ansässigen Beratungsunternehmens KPR, welches glasfaserbasierte Geschäftsmodelle interdisziplinär für die öffentliche Hand, Energieversorger sowie Telekommunikationsunternehmen von der Konzeption bis zur Umsetzung etabliert. Bis zum...

Uwe Rüddenklau currently leads Standardization at Infineon Technologies, a top10 semiconductor company, headquartered in Germany.Uwe is Vice-chair of the new 5G–ACIA (Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation) – Working Group Liaisons & Dissemination, includes members from ICT and OT...

Marc is responsible for leading Vodafone’s IoT Product Management including flagship products like IoT Management Platform GDSP, Invent and Internet in the Car (IITC). In addition Marc is also responsible for Vodafone’s Mobile Private Network (MPN) business, which includes on-campus MPN...

Since 2021, Dr. Marc Schütze is Vice President Regulation, Group United Internet and 1&1 at 1&1 Versatel. In his role, he is responsible in particular for telecommunications law, regulation and antitrust law, both for fixed-network and wireless services. From 2016 to 2020, he was also a...

Borislav is the Senior Vice President in charge of the high-speed network rollout & operations in the region North with >15mn customers. Prior to being responsible for several thousand employees and three-digit million annual investments, he led major programs in >25 countries on 4...

Bernd Thielk ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der willy.tel GmbH, ein Inhaber- und familiengeführtes, Hamburger Unternehmen mit rund 130 Mitarbeiter*Innen. willy.tel ist Teil der Thiele Unternehmensgruppe zu der auch die Thiele Hauselectronic GmbH und die pentakom GmbH gehören.willy.tel -...

Caspar Preysing is Head of the Gigabit Office of the Federal Government and Director in the Digital Infrastructure Advisory practice at PwC. In recent years, he has supported the establishment and operation of broadband competence centers in several federal states and advised various market...

Oliver Weimann, Serial-Entrepreneur, Initiator RuhrSummit and MD ruhr:HUB and CEO EC3LOliver kommt aus der Beratung, gründete sein erstes Startup in 2007 und entwickelte diverse digitale Geschäftsmodelle. Mit der 360 investiert er in Startups, initiierte den RuhrSummit eine Top3 Startup-Konferenz...

Daniel Wolbers heads the bid & solutions management in product management at Media Broadcast, this includes the development of commercial and technical solutions for customer inquiries to Media Broadcast as well as product development. In addition, he represents Media Broadcast in various 5G...