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DAY 2 ― 3 MAY 2018

Conference Day & Club Night

08:30

09:30

“Let’s get it started – Latest market data and insights into blockchain startups and ICOs as well as AI and IoT” Keynote by Toby Lewis (novum insights)

Welcome Note by Andreas Thümmler (acxit)

“Investors’ approach to ICO – Changing parameters in perception, valuation and regulation” Panel with Laurenz Apiarius (blockwall), Dr. Heinrich Zetlmayer (lykke), Dr. Alex von Frankenberg (htgf), Maximilian Lautenschläger (iconiq lab) – Moderation: Axel Schiemannn (latham & watkins)

Open Doors

“ICOs – Party over or just the beginning?” Panel with Toby Lewis (novum insights), Lukasz Musialski (iconiq lab), Felix Hötzinger (gambio), Dr. Marcus C. Funke (latham & watkins), Carlos Moreira (wisekey) – Moderation: Eran Davidson (davidson capital)

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16:40

17:20

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19:15

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21:00

Lunch Buffet

Dinner Buffet and Whisky Tasting by St. Kilian

“Information, Communication, Commitment” Renowned business investigator Tamer Bakiner shares his best practices in times of digital transformation

“Evolution of AI” Keynote by Fabian Westerheide (asgard)

“AI / Cybersecurity” Panel with Dr. Sven Körner (thingsthinking), Marc Wilczek (link 11), Jan Andresen (cyber innovation hub), Frank Niehage (fintech group), Christophe Hocquet (brille2�), Charles Fränkl (smartfrog) – Moderation: Chris Boos (arago)

“Future of Traffic” Panel with Niclas Braun (cargodrone), Benjamin Erhart (uvc partners), Florian Petit (blickfeld), Christian Graf von Bentzel (tachoeasy), Michael Brecht (innovation factory) – Moderation: Christian Ramme (acxit)

Sector Pitch Battles – Presentation of the winners Moderation: Dr. Sebastian Schäfer (techquartier)

GrowthCon Club Night at Gibson Club

“FinTech” Panel with Michael Mellinghoff (techfluence), Stefan Roßbach (tme), Axel Apfelbacher (niiio), John Butler (lend & borrow trust), Ankur Kamalia (deutsche börse), Dr. Markus E. Krüger (latham & watkins) – Moderation: Marina Zubrod (bundesverband deutsche startups)

Closing Keynote by Andreas Thümmler (acxit)

“New Forms of Financing” Panel with Eran Davidson (davidson capital), Niko Wäsche (gmpvc), Paul Jozefak (ogds), Fabian Westerheide (asgard), Agnieszka Sarnecka (neufund) – Moderation: Christian Hoppe

18:45

“Finanzguru from Hackathon to DB investment – Disruptive cooperation to succeed” Case Study with Benjamin & Alexander Michel (dwins), Sven A. Weber (deutsche bank) and Dr. Markus E. Krüger (latham & watkins)

DAY 1 ― 2 MAY 2018

Check In, Pitch Battles & Reception

DAY 3 ― 4 MAY 2018

Tech Breakfast & IPO Workshop

13:00

Sector Pitch Battles – Moderation: Hannah KloseThe hottest FinTech and SportsTech startups will present themselves on stage at TechQuartier

Check In & Lunch

14:30

09:00

360 Degree IPO Workshop – How to prepare for an IPO: prerequisites, conditions, to-do’s and potential mistakes with deutsche börse, quirin privatbank and latham & watkins

Tech Breakfast – In the early Friday morning, we will host an after conference get-together for all participants, enabling workshops, break-out sessions and follow-up discussions

10:30

Cocktail Reception at Thurn ’N Taxis Palais21:00

14:00 Welcome Note by Andreas Thümmler (acxit) and Markus Koch (wall street correspondents)

“Blockchain – The next Internet?” Keynote by Dr. Alex von Frankenberg (htgf)

10:15 Welcome Note by acxit capital partners

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PROGR AM / TIMETABLE

It’s time again for 500 companies, found-ers, CEOs, investors and deal makers to meet up under one roof at the Auto-Klassikstadt in Frankfurt to exchange ideas, to network and make deals. As your hosts, ACXIT Capital Partners in cooperation with VCDE Venture

Partners invited Frankfurt based TechQuartier to the equation and extended the program from one day to three days. This gave us room for the additional “Tech Battle”, something that startups and investors alike are really excited about.

In a post-Brexit world, Frankfurt seems to profit from an ever accelerated inflow of international financial institutions and service providers, many of them coming from Asia doing business in the EU. This is a fantastic development for our financial center and it gives us a lot of optimism and self-confidence to expand our role as a financier and market for entrepreneurial growth in Germany and Europe as a whole. The decisive element of success in the fu-ture, however, will even more importantly be the velocity and scale of innovation within the financial technologies. How well are we prepared? Will banks, after all, lose their position and importance within a decade or even sooner? Will they be replaced or outper-formed by a breed of new “FinTechs”?

Will the blockchain technology change the world of financial markets? Are cryptocurrencies and ICOs presenting new opportu-nities? Will regulators agree and catch up with the high-speed de-velopments in this area? What about cybersecurity in this context? And how will the established 800-pound gorillas in the banking scene react? Will they neglect or participate? The markets obvious-ly are at a point where they need orientation and guidance simi-lar to this year’s GrowthCon participants and that is why we chose these topics and invited a whole set of experts and speakers to give us the necessary insights.

The teams of ACXIT, VCDE and TechQuartier would like to wish you lots of success and hopefully many new insights from our GrowthCon 2018! Please feel free to visit us anytime at our offices in Frankfurt but also in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Zürich or Hong Kong with your ideas or queries, we are always prepared to talk about M&A and growth financings. We love to assist you in your path of Growth.

Yours, Andreas Thümmler ACXIT Technology

DEAR GUESTS OF GROWTHCON 2018, CONTENT

1 PROGRAM / TIMETABLE › p. 02

2 LOCATIONS › p. 04

3 INTRODUCTION › p. 06

4 SPONSORS & PARTNERS › p. 08

5 SCHEDULE & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES – DAY 1 › p. 10



8 SPEAKER QUOTES › p. 26

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A B O U T A C X I T

WHAT IS GROWTHCON?

GrowthCon is a Tech and M&A conference which offers a deep dive into the relevant topics of today’s tech business and entrepre-neurial challenges. Joining us on stage, many well-known investors and founders will discuss the hottest trends and give a picture of newest developments. As a networking platform, we expect more than 500 technology savvy founders, digital leaders, investors and corporates to mix into an inspiring crowd.

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MODERATION

Hannah Klose is a natural born host! Her tal-ent for authentic and charming moderation as well as hands-on stage training is unique and empowering.

In 2013 she started her trainer journey and has ever since done several certifications, also

as a business trainer. Starting in 2014 Hannah has been moderat-ing events focused on tech, digital, innovation and startups topics. Over the years her passion for personal growth development, net-working and events have become her daily work. Last summer, Han-nah started her own business in moderation and training/coaching. She is coaching speakers and those who want to become speakers, planning and organizing events and guiding clients through the jun-gle of social media, branding and marketing. First and foremost, her main topic of interest lies in communication.Hannah has designed her own public speaker program called STAGELOVERS. In November 2017 she became a student of the Scandinavian Institute of Communicology. This January, she also took on the role as the COO of ChangeworX, an interdisciplinary center of competence for health, performance and balance located in the heart of Munich.

Markus Koch has covered Wall Street and the stock market for well over twenty years, and is credited for becoming one the first report-ers to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He was nominated for the German Television Award, the Business

Journalism Award of the German Derivates Association, and recent-ly received the prestigious Friedrich-Vogel-Award for outstanding business journalism for one of his many behavioral finance-based web productions.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

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DAY 1 ― 2 MAY 2018


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Check In & Lunch

14:30



DAY 2 ― 3 MAY 2018


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Open Doors


09:45

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DAY 3 ― 4 MAY 2018


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14:00 WELCOME NOTE Andreas Thümmler ― acxit capital partners

Andreas Thümmler founded Corporate Fi-nance Partners Group “CFP” in 1998 in Frank-furt. CFP was a leading European Tech & In-ternet Corporate Finance advisor and was synonymous with expertise and execution in mid-cap Tech Corporate Finance advisory and

M&A transactions. Since its inception in Germany in 1998, more than 250 M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions in the Internet, Media, Telecommunications and Technology sectors were successfully executed by the CFP team.

As the acting CEO of CFP Group, Andreas expanded into the fund management sector in early 2008 and established VCDE Venture Partners, a leading growth equity investment fund with a clear focus on technology companies in the fields of software, in-ternet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.

In 2011, Andreas turned his hobby of collecting rare single malt whiskies into a business and started building St. Kilian Distillers, one of the largest German whisky productions to date.

In 2015, CFP merged with Acxit Capital Management to form ACXIT Capital Partners.

For many years, Andreas has been a key supporter, fundrais-er and member of the curatorium of the Hamburg based Steps for Children foundation.

Andreas holds a degree in Computer Science and Business Ad-ministration from European Business School – Schloss Reichart-shausen and has worked as an M&A specialist with Rothschild in Frankfurt and Warburg in London prior to establishing CFP.

Markus Koch ― wall street correspondents

Markus Koch has covered Wall Street and the stock market for well over twenty years, and is credited for becoming one the first report-ers to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He was nominated for the German Television Award, the Business

Journalism Award of the German Derivates Association, and recent-ly received the prestigious Friedrich Vogel-Award for outstanding business journalism for one of his many behavioral finance-based web productions.

14:30 SECTOR PITCH BATTLES

Hannah Klose

Hannah Klose is a natural born host! Her tal-ent for authentic and charming moderation as well as hands-on stage training is unique and empowering.

In 2013 she started her trainer journey and has ever since done several certifications, also as a business trainer. Starting in 2014 Hannah

has been moderating events focused on tech, digital, innovation and startups topics. Over the years her passion for personal growth development, networking and events have become her daily work. Last summer, Hannah started her own business in moderation and training/coaching. She is coaching speakers and those who want to become speakers, planning and organizing events and guiding clients through the jungle of social media, branding and marketing. First and foremost, her main topic of interest lies in communica-tion.

Hannah has designed her own public speaker program called STAGELOVERS. In November 2017 she became a student of the Scandinavian Institute of Communicology. This January, she also took on the role as the COO of ChangeworX, an interdisciplinary center of competence for health, performance and balance located in the heart of Munich.

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TME AG – located in Frankfurt/Main – offers Consulting, Development and Investments for financial services and is specialized in Digital Banking, Risk & Regulatory as well as Transformation Management. The team is active along the entire value chain – starting from the conception, proceeding via the transformation and ending at the implementation – dedicated especially to digital business models and their regulatory require-ments. Amongst the clients are banks and insurances but also fintechs and companies from the digital sector.

Digital Banking

Risk & Regulatory

Transformation Management

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SCHEDULE & SPEAKER BIOGR APHIES – DAY 1

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A S T R O N G E N G I N E

Launched in 2005, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a powerful engine that drives the success of high-tech startups. Armed with expertise, entrepreneurial spir-it and passion, the experienced team of investment managers and startup experts guide top companies on their journey from launch to success. HTGF focus-es on high-potential startups active in the sectors of software, media, internet, hardware, energy and au-tomation, life sciences (medical technology, diagnos-tics, biotechnology) and chemicals.

Over 490 High-Tech companies have been launched successfully since 2005. Next to the 886 Mio. € orig-inating from our own funds (HTGF I, HTGF II and HT-GFIII), so far, more than 1.6 billion Euro of additional capital have been raised into our portfolio in about 1,200 follow-on rounds of financing. Moreover, we successfully exited 91 of our portfolio companies in that same timeframe.

www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de

TRACK 2 ― FINTECH WILDCARD

The Fintech Wildcard has a disruptive value proposition and an innovative business mod-el. Coming from both Germany and abroad, the startups selected for this track leverage

cutting edge technology to address modern-day problematics faced by the financial services industry.

TRACK 3 ― SPORTSTECH

Technology is shaping our daily life and the digital transformation is disrupting whole in-dustries – even professional sports.

We were looking for an early-stage start-up working on a fresh solution to analyze and measure the perfor-mance of athletes, driving digital innovations in the medical and rehabilitation sector or perhaps rethinking the fan and stadium experiences.

WHAT ARE THE PITCH BATTLES ALL ABOUT?

The hottest FinTech and SportsTech startups will present them-selves on stage at TechQuartier.

We have selected startups to pitch in front of the GrowthCon audience and to a selected group of expert judges from the indus-try and investment space.

The participants get the chance to present their startup to a high-level audience, connect directly with high-profile investors, corporates and entrepreneurs at the Speakers’ Dinner, and win an investment readiness session with the experts of ACXIT and Tech-Quartier who will challenge their business strategy.

TRACK 1 ― FINTECH EARLY STAGE

We were looking for FinTech startups which were founded less than 2.5 years ago with less than EUR 1 million of funding.

In the definition we use, a FinTech startup is a company which leverages new technology to create new and better financial services for both consumers and businesses. It in-cludes companies of all kinds that may operate in personal financial management, insurance, payment, asset management, blockchain, security or wealth management.

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DAY 2 ― 3 MAY 2018


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Open Doors


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09:45 “Blockchain – The next Internet?” Keynote by Dr. Alex von Frankenberg (htgf)

DAY 1 ― 2 MAY 2018


DAY 3 ― 4 MAY 2018


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09:30 WELCOME NOTE Andreas Thümmler ― acxit capital partners



As the acting CEO of CFP Group, Andreas expanded into the fund management sector in early 2008 and established VCDE Ven-ture Partners, a leading growth equity investment fund with a clear focus on technology companies in the fields of software, internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.





09:45 BLOCKCHAIN – THE NEXT INTERNET?

Dr. Alex von Frankenberg ― high-tech gründerfonds

Dr. Alex von Frankenberg has been active in the world of venture capital and startups since 2000 and became Managing Director of High-Tech Gründerfonds in 2005. Prior to this, he was responsible for spin-offs from Siemens Corporate Technology in his role as

Venture Manager at the Siemens Technology Accelerator (STA). In 2001/2002, he was head of sales and marketing at an IT startup. Before taking on this role, he served as a Project Manager at Sie-mens Management Consulting, where his responsibilities included the establishment of an internal incubator. He started his career developing complex IT systems with Andersen Consulting.

10:15 LET'S GET IT STARTED – LATEST MARKET DATA & INSIGHTS INTO BLOCKCHAIN STARTUPS & ICOs AS WELL AS AI & IOT Toby Lewis ― novum insights

Toby Lewis, founder and CEO of the innovation monitoring company Novum Insights, is a high-ly energetic serial entrepreneur and prolific analyst, straddling the worlds of ICOs, technol-ogy startups, venture capital and data science.

Novum Insights is running its initial coin of-fering for its new research ICO Novum Coin.

He was one of the co-founders of media publication Global Corporate Venturing, where he led both the analytics team and its editorial efforts. Lewis has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal.

Lewis has spoken at numerous international technology con-ferences including during the World Economic Forum, Blockchain Week, Global Technology Symposium, South Summit, White Bull, Tech Tour and the many conferences of Global Corporate Ventur-ing.

10:45 ICOs – PARTY OVER OR JUST THE BEGINNING?

Eran Davidson ― davidson capital

Eran Davidson founded his seventh fund, Da-vidson Technology Growth Debt, in 2015, the first German fund to provide growth debt to mid/late stage IT companies in Europe. His ex-perience in Venture Capital investments goes back to 1996, when he co-managed three Is-raeli VC funds and was personally responsible

for over one hundred investments, with multiple IPOs and trade sales. In 2005, he moved with his family from Tel Aviv to Berlin to establish Prof. Hasso Plattner’s (SAP founder) first Venture Capital fund in Germany. He also founded and managed Hasso Plattner Capital (HPC), Mr. Plattner’s Family Office.

Eran founded HPV funds in Germany, Europe and South Africa, serving as President and CEO of those funds for 8 years. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Boston University.

Dr. Marcus C. Funke ― latham & watkins

Marcus C. Funke advises clients in all aspects of securities and corporate law, particularly in the areas of initial public offerings, rights of-ferings, and bonds, including high-yield bonds. As a member of the firm’s Financial Institu-tions Group, Marcus regularly advises financial

industry participants, including FinTech companies, as principals in securities transactions as well as in regulatory matters. Recent work highlights include trivago’s US$330 million IPO on NASDAQ, Galenica Santé’s CHF1.9 billion IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange, and the structuring and implementation of CrossLend’s crossborder mar-ket-based lending platform.

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Dr. Felix Hötzinger ― gambio

Dr. Felix Hötzinger began his career as an in-vestment analyst with a venture capital com-pany and is founder and co-founder of many FinTech companies. As part of a management buyout, he took over the majority of the com-pany builder Demekon, which he successfully

sold to Mountain Partners in 2017.Felix supports several companies as a board member including

PlayPass AG and Gambio Services AG and he is a member of the supervisory board of BNP Paribas Cardif. He is organizer of a block chain group and moderates ICO pitch meetings in Munich.

Toby Lewis ― novum insights

Toby Lewis, founder and CEO of the innovation monitoring company Novum Insights, is a high-ly energetic serial entrepreneur and prolific analyst, straddling the worlds of ICOs, technol-ogy startups, venture capital and data science.

Novum Insights is running its initial coin of-fering for its new research ICO Novum Coin.

He was one of the co-founders of media publication Global Corporate Venturing, where he led both the analytics team and its editorial efforts. Lewis has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal.

Lewis has spoken at numerous international technology con-ferences including during the World Economic Forum, Blockchain Week, Global Technology Symposium, South Summit, White Bull, Tech Tour and the many conferences of Global Corporate Ventur-ing.

Carlos Moreira ― wisekey

Carlos Creus Moreira is the Founder Chairman CEO of WISeKey. Before founding WISeKey he served as United Nations Expert on CyberSe-curity and Trust Models. He served during 17 years as UN Expert for many leading organiza-tions of the United Nations System including

ILO, UN, UNCTAD, ITC/WTO, World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP (83-99). He is recognized worldwide as an Internet Pioneer and has an unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diploma-cy experience and emerging technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted pro-tection of Identity, Trust and Security has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe.

He was also Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engi-neering RMIT Australia (95/99) and Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT.

Lukasz Musialski ― iconiq lab

Lukasz Musialski is the Portfolio Director of Iconiq Lab. Before co-founding Iconiq Lab he worked as a member of the investment team at FERI Trust, one of the largest non-bank al-ternative asset managers in Germany, where he worked in the private equity and venture

capital space. He previously gained financial expertise by working in large financial institutions such as UBS and GE Capital RE. Lukasz is an avid technologist and a podcaster. He holds a Master’s in Fi-nance degree from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Manage-ment.

11:25 INVESTORS’ APPROACH TO ICO – CHANGING PARAMETERS IN PERCEP- TION, VALUATION AND REGULATION

Axel Schiemann ― latham & watkins

Axel Schiemann’s practice focuses on financial regulation and compliance, including securi-ties-related compliance (including MiFID/Mi-FID II), prudential supervision of banks and in-vestment firms (including CRR/CRDIV), FinTech innovations and ICOs, mergers and acquisi-tions in the financial industry, issuance of reg-

ulatory capital instruments, regulatory proceedings and audits, as well as bank-related dispute resolution and investigations. Recent-ly, he has advised on various ICOs both in the German market and internationally. Axel was ranked #1 in the Financial Times European Innovative Lawyers Report 2016 in the category “Innovation in New Markets and Capital” for his work for FinTech start-up CrossLend, a cross-border lending and single loan securitization platform.

Laurenz Aparius ― blockwall

Founder and CEO of Blockwall Capital – the first German crypto investment fund focused on Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technolo-gies serving UHNWIs, Family Offices and In-stitutions to gain access to this asset class. He is also non-executive director in two family

businesses, which are a high-performance polymer producer and a manufacturer of rheological testing devices. His previous engage-ments were in various PE and VC investments. Educated in Germa-ny (EBS University), South Africa (University of Stellenbosch) and Scotland (University of St. Andrews). He is also a member of EO.

Maximilian Lautenschläger ― iconiq lab

Maximilian Lautenschläger is the Sourcing Di-rector and a Managing Partner of Iconiq Lab. Previously, he worked as a venture developer for one of the largest German company build-ers in the field of finance, where he worked on developing and launching two innovative

FinTech platforms. While working for a private equity and venture

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capital asset manager, his passion for the alternative investment space grew and he became a Chartered Alternative Investment An-alyst (CAIA) charterholder. Max has years of experience in business consulting, holds a BA in controlling and an MBA from the Frank-furt School of Finance and Management. Currently, he is advising several ICO projects and is working with the German Blockchain Association.


Dr. Alex von Frankenberg has been active in the world of venture capital and startups since 2000 and became Managing Director of High-Tech Gründerfonds in 2005. Prior to this, he was responsible for spin-offs from Siemens Corporate Technology in his role as

Venture Manager at the Siemens Technology Accelerator (STA). In 2001/2002, he was head of sales and marketing at an IT startup. Before taking on this role, he served as a Project Manager at Sie-mens Management Consulting, where his responsibilities included the establishment of an internal incubator. He started his career developing complex IT systems with Andersen Consulting.

Dr. Heinrich Zetlmayer ― lykke

Heinrich Zetlmayer is an active investor and board member of Lykke Corp., the global trad-ing platform based on blockchain technology.

Besides Lykke, he is engaged in several growth companies in FinTech, crowdtasking and other digital domains on board and oper-

ational level and as an investor. He has acted as Co-Managing Di-rector of Turtle Entertainment, the largest global eSports company and is also on its supervisory board.

Furthermore, he is a partner of MAS and focuses on the set-up and execution of growth and performance programmes where boards or owners wish to accelerate the development of their com-pany.

Formerly, he was a member of IBM’s Executive Board in Swit-zerland and Vice President and Country Leader of IBM Global Busi-ness Services. At IBM, he held several senior positions within IBM Global Business Services, including leading IBM’s Supply Chain and Operations Services in EMEA. Financial services industry was part of his responsibilities.

Prior to joining IBM, Heinrich worked at the international man-agement consultancy Arthur D. Little for seven years as Global Head of Operations Management Practice and as a member of its Global Management Committee. He helped several major global and na-tional companies in the US and Europe on revenue, cost and capital efficiency increases for competitive leadership and in turnaround situations. He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing) in Industrial Engineering and a diploma of Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University in Munich and has lived in several European countries and in the US. Born in Munich, Heinrich is a Swiss and German citizen, speaking German, English, Italian, Norwegian and French.

12:05 NEW FORMS OF FINANCING

Christian Hoppe

Christian, former CEO of Main Incubator GmbH, has been in the banking industry for over 18 years. He has co-authored several spe-cialist articles, edited a number of reference books, is a sought-after business angel and re-markably founded his first company at the age of only 21.

Eran Davidson ― davidson capital

Eran Davidson founded his seventh fund, Da-vidson Technology Growth Debt, in 2015, the first German fund to provide growth debt to mid/late stage IT companies in Europe. His ex-perience in Venture Capital investments goes back to 1996, when he co-managed three Is-

raeli VC funds and was personally responsible for over one hundred investments, with multiple IPOs and trade sales. In 2005, he moved with his family from Tel Aviv to Berlin to establish Prof. Hasso Plat-tner’s (SAP founder) first Venture Capital fund in Germany. He also founded and managed Hasso Plattner Capital (HPC), Mr. Plattner’s Family Office.

Eran founded HPV funds in Germany, Europe and South Africa, serving as President and CEO of those funds for 8 years. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Boston University.

Paul Jozefak ― otto group digital solutions

Paul Jozefak is Managing Director of Otto Group Digital Solutions and its Company Build-er Liquid Labs, where startups in FinTech and logistics are created. He has more than 15 years of professional experience. Prior to join-ing Liquid Labs, he was Managing Partner at

Neuhaus Partners until 2012. Previously, he was Head of SAP Ven-tures Europe since 2001. He also worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell, one of the leading international law firms and Andersen Consulting in the fields of software, telecommunications and utilities. Paul is a citizen of both the United States and Slovakia.

Agnieszka Sarnecka ― neufund

Agnieszka Sarnecka, VP Ventures at Neufund, has been part of the team since the very be-ginning. She is responsible for building and managing the ETO (Equity Token Offering) flow, and maintaining relationships with key partners and investors. Prior to that, she has

been working for 5 years for tech startups in the fields of Project, Product, and Operations Management for Zencap Deutschland, CHILICON IT, and Home24. Agnieszka studied Economics and Busi-ness at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Fabian Westerheide ― asgard

Fabian Westerheide is an entrepreneur, au-thor, speaker and investor with a passion for artificial intelligence. For years Fabian gives in-spiring talks about Artificial Intelligence. In the past, he has spoken for several TEDx confer-ences, the European Union, the German Par-

liament, international events, NGOs, universities and corporations. As an expert for artificial intelligence, Fabian has given several

interviews, guest articles and podcasts in various magazines, TV channels, blogs and podcasts.

With his own investment firm Asgard – human VC for AI, Fabian invests in young AI companies in the field of drones, robotics, lan-guage and process optimization.

Additionally, Fabian is the author of the entrepreneurship blog bootstrapping.me and organizes one of the world largest AI confer-ences every year called “Rise of AI”.

Fabian holds a Master degree in Strategic and International Management from the University of St. Gallen and a Bachelor de-gree in Business Administration from the University of Münster.

Niko Wäsche ― gmpvc german media pool

Niko co-founded German Media Pool, Ger-many's largest independent media for equity fund, in 2011. German Media Pools connects premium media groups with high growth e-commerce and consumer startups. Niko has over fifteen years of media industry expe-

rience, for example, as Global Industry Head for Media & Enter-tainment at GfK SE and Partner at IBM Global Business Services, leading IBM's European Media & Entertainment industry practice. Niko also worked in venture capital and for a corporate accelerator.

14:15 INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMITMENT

Tamer Bakiner ― business investigator

Tamer Bakiner is a business investigator, consultant, keynote speaker and bestselling author. Among his clients are energy corpo-rations, companies listed on the German Dax index, star lawyers, car manufacturers, celeb-rities, pharmaceutical companies, insurances,

banks and wealthy individuals.His domestic and international cases are spectacular, his in-

vestigation methods unique and success is virtually guaranteed. In 2007, Tamer Bakiner unraveled a major waste scandal in East Ger-many. Not only big business but also several high-ranking civil ser-vants as well as local and state politicians were involved.

In 2015, he landed another coup by exposing the brains of the Eastern European trash mafia who were also active in Germany. Both cases were supported and broadcast by the German TV show ZDF Frontal 21. In 2016, Tamer Bakiner was featured in the German primetime Saturday documentary on VOX “Kidnapped – a father fights for his daughter”.

Bakiner and his team have solved around 1,000 cases in 20 years. With his partner network, he operates all over Germany and in more than 50 countries worldwide.

15:15 EVOLUTION OF AI

Fabian Westerheide ― asgard

Fabian Westerheide is an entrepreneur, au-thor, speaker and investor with a passion for artificial intelligence. For years Fabian gives in-spiring talks about Artificial Intelligence. In the past, he has spoken for several TEDx confer-ences, the European Union, the German Par-

liament, international events, NGOs, universities and corporations. As an expert for artificial intelligence, Fabian has given several

interviews, guest articles and podcasts in various magazines, TV channels, blogs and podcasts.

With his own investment firm Asgard – human VC for AI, Fabian invests in young AI companies in the field of drones, robotics, lan-guage and process optimization.

Additionally, Fabian is the author of the entrepreneurship blog bootstrapping.me and organizes one of the world largest AI confer-ences every year called “Rise of AI”.

Fabian holds a Master degree in Strategic and International Management from the University of St. Gallen and a Bachelor de-gree in Business Administration from the University of Münster.

16:00 AI / CYBERSECURITY

Hans-Christian Boos ― arago

Chris Boos is a German entrepreneur, comput-er scientist, angel investor, corporate/political advisor and public speaker. He is a leading al-gorithm expert and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and strongly advo-cates for an interdisciplinary approach in sci-ence, particularly promoting the integration of

machine reasoning and machine learning.In 1995, Chris Boos founded Arago, initially to develop a gen-

eral AI. Over the last 20 years, Chris Boos has turned Arago into the leading company to sell a general and commercially proven AI platform for enterprise use.

Boos studied computer science at ETH Zurich and the Technical University Darmstadt. His ongoing research focuses on graph the-ory, graph algorithms, distributed systems, machine learning and machine reasoning. He is constantly challenging current thinking on AI and he is a frequent commentator on how AI will impact so-cieties.

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Jan Andresen ― cyber innovation hub, bundeswehr

Head of Engagement, Cyber Innovation Hub, German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). Born in 1976, Jan studied Business Administration and Engineering in Wedel, Germany and Skövde, Sweden.

Jan Andresen is a serial entrepreneur, who founded his first company elkware during his school years. The company specialized in computer games for mobile phones and became one of the international market leaders with subsidiaries and offices in New York and London. elkware was acquired in 2004 by Infospace Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP). After that, he became an active business angel with over 30 investments in Tech startups. In early 2010, Jan Andresen founded veeseo, the Business Growth Engine for publishers. The company developed its own speech recogni-tion and semantics for a fully automatic recommendation system. veeseo was active on three continents in 14 countries and was ac-quired by G+J and Bertelsmann in 2014.

Charles Fränkl ― smartfrog

Smartfrog CEO Charles Fränkl is an internet and telco veteran. Prior to Smartfrog, he was the CEO of Gigaset AG, a leading communica-tion technology company listed on the prime standard of German stock-exchange. Before that, Charles was CEO of ClickandBuy, CEO of

AOL Germany, CEO of Vodafone Telecommerce Group, Head of Technology of Vodafone, Member of the Executive Board of e-plus and a Managing Director of Swisscom.

Charles Fränkl, who hails from Switzerland, graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the ETH Zurich. He also holds a Master of Science in Management from the London Business School and speaks five languages.

Christophe Hocquet ― brille��

Christophe Hocquet is a passionate entrepre-neur. He started his career as an assistant to the Board at Bertelsmann, the German me-dia giant, where he established his first con-nections to Germany. After two years at the headquarters in Gütersloh, he founded his

first company Pixelpark in France. Christophe Hocquet was also co-founder of several companies across Europe. Since 2010 he fo-cuses on Brille24, where he successfully promoted shops in Bene-lux, France and Spain. In 2015, he was appointed CEO of the Brille24 Group. During this period, he advanced the new positioning of the company (hybrid model), the introduction of brand glasses and a complete relaunch with many other innovations.

Dr. Sven J. Körner ― thingsthinking

�Life's a rock show – better be on stage� – fol-lowing his mantra, Sven J. Körner tries to get the best of both worlds by combining academ-ic and corporate life.

Sven is a cognitive/semantic/DeepLearn-ing/MachineLearning/NLP computing and

cloud expert, an early adopter of new technologies and AI re-searcher. He gives talks and keynotes about the latest technology and is one of the advocates for demystifying AI. Sven worked on artificial intelligence �before it was cool�.

Sven has a PhD in computer science and 13+ years of experi-ence with NLP/AI/Machine/Deep Learning and the associated ap-plications such as Virtual Assistants, Robotic Process Automation, LegalTech, InsurTech, and FinTech. He published his work in IEEE, ACM, and high-ranked conferences around the globe. Sven is part of program committees in his main research field.

Next to his academic profession, Sven also roamed the �real world� working for a number of software companies in different teams across the globe. His focus was on business development, partners, and PreSales. He worked with the leading vendors such as Salesforce, Amazon, SAP, Microsoft, Google, etc.

As a team lead, Sven is described as an enabling leader. To name a few, Sven established development (test) teams, technical writing teams, started a cloud technology team before the cloud hype and ran PreSales.

Frank Niehage ― fintech group

Frank Niehage has vast experience across all segments of retail and commercial banking, having previously been Managing Director at Goldman Sachs until August 2014. In previous positions, he was instrumental in the growth of Bank Sarasin AG as CEO in Germany. Prior

to this, he had served in various senior positions at Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, UBS and international law firm Beiten Burkhardt, both in Germany and internationally, especially in Asia. Frank is an attorney at law in Germany and has received his Master of Laws majoring in international economics from the University of Hous-ton Law Center.

Marc Wilczek ― link 11

Marc Wilczek is a business leader with more than 20 years of experience in helping mar-ket-leading ICT companies to transform them-selves, expand into new fields of business and geographies, and accelerate their growth.

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16:40 FUTURE OF TRAFFIC

Christian Ramme ― acxit capital partners

Christian Ramme is an investment and corpo-rate finance professional with more than 15 years of transaction, investment and M&A ex-perience. He joined ACXIT Capital Partners in 2014 and became Managing Director in 2016 focusing on transactions within a range of subsectors in the technology space including

Software, B2B and B2C commerce, digital media and others. Prior to joining ACXIT, Christian held various positions at ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Ernst & Young as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers. He main-tains a broad network of contacts in the venture capital, startup and digital community in Germany and Europe. He is a tech enthu-siast, startup mentor and a true petrolhead. Christian holds a Mas-ter in Economics from the University of Maastricht.

Niclas Braun ― cargodrone

With the development of a VR B2B software platform and many successful projects with large companies, such as Siemens, Volkswa-gen and Procter & Gamble, he quickly became aware of the limitations of the technology and decided to change to the skyrocketing trans-

portation industry in 2017.

Michael Brecht ― innovation factory

Michael Brecht is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in IT and New Media. After successful exits to interna-tionals such as GE Capital, he now consults large corporates on mobility and last mile topics, as well as helps founders grow their re-

spective startups or innovation projects.

Benjamin Erhart ― uvc partners

Benjamin Erhart is Partner at Munich based Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners). UVC Partners focuses on in-vestments in the areas of industrial technolo-gies, smart enterprises and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5–3m initially

and up to € 12m in total per company. A cooperation with Un-ternehmerTUM, Europe’s leading innovation and business creation center in Garching/Munich, enables UVC Partners to offer startups unique access to talent and industry customers.

Before joining UVC Partners, Benjamin Erhart was Investment Director at the High-Tech Gründerfonds, responsible for hardware and industrial software investments such as Cumulocity (sold to Software AG). Today, he serves on the investment board of HTGF and supports numerous startup initiatives as a mentor.

Benjamin is an industrial engineer by training and holds a de-gree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Florian Petit ― blickfeld

Florian Petit is an entrepreneur and roboticist. He studied and worked at TU München, Stan-ford University, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich in the field of human aware robotics. After taking a break to sail the world, he founded the LiDAR

startup Blickfeld. His mission is to give sensor eyes to machines by building a scalable, high-performance LiDAR technology, thus en-abling the success of IoT applications and autonomous driving.

Christian Graf von Bentzel ― tachoeasy

Christian Graf von Bentzel, CEO of TACHOeasy, has more than 15 years of professional experi-ence in the information and communications industry as well as in the venture capital busi-ness. He has a broad management experience along the whole value chain and extensive in-

ternational and inter-cultural experience on top and senior man-agement level.

17:20 FINTECH

Marina Zubrod ― bundesverband deutsche startups

Marina Zubrod studied and worked in Mel-bourne, Stockholm, Frankfurt and London. She is building innovate products for Schufa Hold-ing AG, ex-CEO asuro, worked in venture capi-tal at CommerzVentures, and has her roots in M&A for financial institutions. She is a strong networker with a great sense for connecting

people and businesses. Moreover, Marina is a member of the ad-visory board of Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. and board member of the alumni association EBS Alumni e.V. of her alma ma-ter EBS in Oestrich-Winkel.

Axel Apfelbacher ― niiio

Axel Apfelbacher is a digital banking strategist with a liking for disruptive business models. He has been focusing on the development of FinTech models and technology since 2011, evaluating new business models ranging from Personal Financial Management systems, P2P

payments and lending platforms, Open Bank API standards to the recent developments around P2P financial systems (distributed ledgers / blockchain), cybersecurity, ID validation and authentica-tion, Roboadvisory, RegTech and InsureTech. He is constantly moni-toring the global startup environment, discussing business models, monetisation strategies and emerging technologies with FinTech entrepreneurs, technology & banking executives.

He is Chief Strategy Officer and executive member of the board at niiio finance group AG, helping to position the business as a lead-er in platform development for digital wealth advisory services for B2B customers. Prior to this, his career steps included corporate

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finance advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers, management and senior management position at BPO-provider Xchanging, a stint at Deutsche Bank and Executive Consulting for banks, (Fin)Techs and private equity funds, helping with strategy design, digital platform development & implementation and due diligence processes. He is one of the co-authors of the first crowd-sourced FinTechBook (April 2016) published by Wiley and a frequent commentator on blockchain, crypto-currencies and future business models in the financial services space.

John Butler ― lend & borrow trust

John Butler is the Chief Executive Officer of the Lend and Borrow Trust, the world's first and only fully-regulated P2P lending platform on which all loans are secured by physical, allocat-ed, investment-grade gold and silver bars, en-abling borrowers to reduce their cost of funds

while simultaneously reducing the credit risk borne by lenders.Prior to joining LBT, he was the Head of Wealth Services for

Goldmoney, Inc (TSX: XAU) the world's leading gold-backed finan-cial services and technology firm. He has previously held Managing Director positions at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers, over-seeing teams responsible for product development and investment strategy.

A California native, John has worked in New York, London and Germany during his 25-year financial services career. He is also the author of The Golden Revolution (2012) and The Golden Revolu-tion, Revisited (2017), books exploring the causes and consequenc-es of the 2008 global financial crisis and the implications of gold remonetisation for asset allocation and investment strategy.

Ankur Kamalia ― deutsche börse group

Ankur Kamalia joined Deutsche Börse Group in November 2015 as a Managing Director to take up the newly-created role as Head of Group Venture Portfolio Management and currently heads DB1 Ventures, DBG’s strategic investment arm. Prior to joining the Group,

Ankur managed an investment portfolio for a family office and for a hedge fund in Asia. He also acted as a Managing Director at UBS, responsible for strategy for the Global Investment Banking division in London and worked in Corporate Finance/Capital Markets in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Ankur holds an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Dr. Markus E. Krüger ― latham & watkins

Markus E. Krüger specializes in complex struc-turings and M&A transactions, with a partic-ular focus on the financial industry and on FinTech. Markus has significant expertise with bank and financial regulatory matters. His cli-ents include domestic and international banks,

and FinTech companies, as well as private equity sponsors. Recent work highlights include advice regarding Deutsche Bank’s coop-eration with, and investment in, award-winning FinTech Start-up

Dwins, and advice to the management shareholders of 360T in con-nection with the acquisition by Deutsche Börse.

Michael Mellinghoff ― techfluence

Michael Mellinghoff is a seasoned investment professional with over 15 years of experience, spanning both the traditional banking and Fin-Tech world. Michael’s career covers a 10 years span in traditional banking, where he held a variety of managerial positions in asset man-

agement and investment banking in Germany and abroad, includ-ing management board and supervisory board appointments in Commerzbank Asset Management and DZ Bank Group. Since 2010, Michael has been working in the FinTech area, including more than three years experience as Managing Director at German Fintech pioneer sharewise.com, a stock-centric community for individual investors, where he has gained vast experience in running a start-up. Michael’s experience gives him unique insights into the finan-cial markets scene and ability to scout new trends in the financial sector. Since the trade sale of sharewise, he has been active in the UK and German FinTech scene, advising founders and startups as well as acting as Senior Advisor and mentor with FinTechForum in Frankfurt as well as various accelerators. Since 2015 Michael is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Digital Banking and since 2016 Member of the Supervisory Board of niiio finance group AG, Germany’s first listed FinTech with solutions for the wealth management industry.

Michael’s focus of interest are FinTech startups in digital wealth management and social investment. Mellinghoff is author of vari-ous articles on #FinTech related topics, for example, The FinTech-Book and TheWealthTechBook, published by Wiley.

Stefan Roßbach ― tme

Stefan Roßbach is the co-founder and mem-ber of the board of directors of TME AG, as well as the chairman of TME Institute. Before co-founding TME AG, the experienced banker demonstrated his expertise by working for in-ternational consultancy firms, where he inter

alia built up the advisory business for Retail Banking of IMG St. Gal-len in Germany. With his experience of over 20 years in the financial services industry, he is an expert in Digital Banking with focuses on the development of innovative business models and solutions in the field of Digital Banking and in the setup of FinTech collabo-rations.

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18:45 SECTOR PITCH BATTLES – PRESENTATION OF THE WINNERS

Dr. Sebastian Schäfer ― techquartier

Sebastian has a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation. With many years of practical experiences in different positions in and out-side of academia he has gained valuable in-sights and has developed a unique perspective of how to design and foster dynamic ecosys-tems. Together with his team and his partners,

Sebastian aims at promoting the startup scene Frankfurt Rhine-Main as one of the leading Startupand Fintech Hubs in Europe.

19:15 CLOSING KEYNOTE Andreas Thümmler ― acxit capital partners



As the acting CEO of CFP Group, Andreas expanded into the fund management sector in early 2008 and established VCDE Ven-ture Partners, a leading growth equity investment fund with a clear focus on technology companies in the fields of software, internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.





18:00 FINANZGURU FROM HACKATHON TO DB INVESTMENT – DISRUPTIVE COOPERATION TO SUCCEED

Dr. Markus E. Krüger ― latham & watkins

Markus E. Krüger specializes in complex struc-turings and M&A transactions, with a partic-ular focus on the financial industry and on FinTech. Markus has significant expertise with bank and financial regulatory matters. His cli-ents include domestic and international banks,

and FinTech companies, as well as private equity sponsors. Recent work highlights include advice regarding Deutsche Bank’s coop-eration with, and investment in, award-winning FinTech Start-up Dwins, and advice to the management shareholders of 360T in con-nection with the acquisition by Deutsche Börse.

Alexander Michel ― dwins

Alexander founded dwins (short for “digital wins”) together with his twin Benjamin Michel in 2015. The Company specializes in transac-tion analysis for banks and has advised many major banks and direct banks in the develop-ment of big data analytics and mobile banking

applications, e.g. Postbank, Volks- & Raiffeisen Bank Group and ING-DiBa. With “Finanzguru” dwins offers a product specifically developed for end-consumers, assisting them in their financial and contract management, based on banking transaction data and ar-tificial intelligence.

Benjamin Michel ― dwins

Benjamin founded dwins (short for “digital wins”) together with his twin Alexander Mi-chel in 2015. The Company specializes in trans-action analysis for banks and has advised many major banks and direct banks in the develop-ment of big data analytics and mobile banking

applications, e.g. Postbank, Volks- & Raiffeisen Bank Group and ING-DiBa. With “Finanzguru” dwins offers a product specifically developed for end-consumers, assisting them in their financial and contract management, based on banking transaction data and ar-tificial intelligence.

Sven A. Weber ― deutsche bank

Sven is part of Deutsche Bank's New Digital Ecosystem team. He is responsible for the identification and development of new "be-yond banking" solutions. The implementation and orchestration of these solutions is based on close collaboration with startups, leverag-

ing dbAPI as a technical interface. He has been with Deutsche Bank for three years. Previously, he was responsible for strategic proj-ects at Allianz and Roland Berger and is enthusiastic to tread new paths in banking.

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After conference get-together for all participants, enabling work-shops, break-out sessions and follow-up discussions at TechQuartier.

10:15 WELCOME NOTE By ACXIT Capital Partners.

10:30 360 DEGREE IPO WORKSHOP

Renata Bandov ― deutsche börse group

Renata Bandov has been working for Deutsche Börse Group since 2009. The syndicate lawyer heads the Listing & Issuer section within the group and is responsible for the entire listing process as well as the support of issuers and new customers. Previously, Renata Bandov

worked in legal departments of various financial institutions.


Marcus C. Funke advises clients in all aspects of securities and corporate law, particularly in the areas of initial public offerings, rights of-ferings, and bonds, including high-yield bonds. As a member of the firm’s Financial Institu-tions Group, Marcus regularly advises financial

industry participants, including FinTech companies, as principals in securities transactions as well as in regulatory matters. Recent work highlights include trivago’s US$330 million IPO on NASDAQ, Galenica Santé’s CHF1.9 billion IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange, and the structuring and implementation of CrossLend’s crossborder mar-ket-based lending platform.

Holger Hinz ― quirin privatbank

Holger Hinz helps to achieve goals for enter-prises and entrepreneurs – be it a successful IPO, an effective financing of a restructuring measure or a successful bond issue. The en-terprises he deals with are as multifaceted as are the challenges they present. When Holger

was 20 years old, he was already an entrepreneur himself. He es-tablished PCA Capital Advisors which was sold and integrated into Quirin Privatbank in late 2007. Currently, he is heading the Capital Markets business and has executed numerous German and inter-national share, bond and convertible issues. Prior to the outlined said Bankgesellschaft Berlin, BHF-Bank and Consors Capital Bank were important institutions in his career.

Carsten Peter ― quirin privatbank

The stock market took Carsten Peter in when he was still with Gemini Consulting and it has continued to intrigue him ever since. In 2000, at the time of the new economy, he started his career in the financial markets department with BHF-BANK, over the years working in var-

ious posts related to the stock market. After more than 10 years he was ready to meet new challenges and new ideas in a vibrant new bank. He thus decided in 2011 to join Corporate Finance at Quirin Privatbank.

Oliver Seiler ― latham & watkins

Oliver Seiler has broad experience in interna-tional equity capital markets transactions, par-ticularly IPOs, capital increases (rights issues), blocktrades, and equity-linked transactions. He is currently advising on Siemens Health-ineers’ IPO. Recently, Oliver has advised on a

significant number of market-leading deals, including the IPOs of HelloFresh, Dermapharm Holding and the capital increase of E.ON (by way of an accelerated bookbuilding). Oliver is consistently rec-ognised as a “leading name” for equity capital markets by legal di-rectories. Clients and competitors describe him as “one of the best ECM lawyers” and a “skilled negotiator”.

“GrowthCon for me is what’s needed most in Germany – growing companies, growth capital and growth know-how. I am here to provide a solution!”

Eran Davidson ― davidson technology growth debt

“At GrowthCon, the slogan �meeting influential minds� is more than a claim on the website. Exchanging

thoughts on well-selected topics in an inspiring atmosphere makes GrowhtCon unique.”

Benjamin Erhart ― uvc partners

“We are looking forward to meet forward-thinking and open-minded people, which are interested in bridging the gap between the crypto and the traditional financial ecosystem.”

Patrick Lowry ― iconiq lab

“GrowthCon offers the opportunity to interact with like-minded people and discuss the latest tech and

entrepreneurial challenges. To me, the event means catching up with people and exchanging ideas about

the latest trends in the market. GrowthCon is an event not to be missed if you want to be at the relevant

events taking place in Germany.”

Paul Jozefak ― otto group digital solutions

“I’m especially looking forward to the diversity of GrowthCon and thus learning about fascinating new business ideas outside my own area of expertise.”

John Butler ― lend & borrow trust

“Die GrowthCon bietet eine hervorragende Plattform für Investoren, FinTechs und Banken, um

das Frankfurter FinTech-Ökosystem gemeinsam mit dem TechQuartier nachhaltig nach vorne zu bringen

und Frankfurt als FinTech-Standort Nr. 1 in Europa weiteren Rückenwind zu geben.”

Stefan Roßbach ― tme ag

“Die GrowthCon vereint Fachwissen und Investoren unter einem Dach. Hier kann man als Startup seine Ideen testen und gleichzeitig konkret Geschäfte machen.”

Dr. Sven J. Körner ― thingsthinking

“Die Growthcon ist für mich kondensiertes Know-how, top Netzwerke und sehr gute Stimmung”


“Der Kern der Growthcon sind für mich die Gespräche und der Erfahrungsaustausch mit anderen Gleichgesinnten und immer wieder neue Geschäftsmodelle kennenzulernen, die inspirieren.”

Heinrich Zetlmayer ― lykke

“GrowthCon 2017 was very inspiring and a true thought leadership event. As sponsors and

speakers, all of us are very much looking forward to being at GrowthCon 2018 and engaging with entrepreneurs to explore new digital frontiers.”


“I look forward to many great interactions with people sharing the same passion with me – that is, scaling business and delivering exceptional growth.”

Marc Wilczek ― link 11

“No wind favors he who has no destined port. So we are proud of joining GrowthCon 2018 – the place to be for entrepreneurs and investors coming to Frankfurt.”

Holger Hinz ― quirin privatbank

“GrowthCon…legendary!”

Michael Mellinghoff ― techfluence

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