Dagny Valgeirsdottir |Creativity in innovation and entrepreneurship
Dr. Dagny Valgeirsdottir is a Postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark. She is conducting her research within the ‘Technology Leaving No One Behind’ project, based in DTU Skylab. Her fields of expertise are creativity research, co-creation in action and behavioral design.
Kristoffer Buch |Incubator Manager
Kristoffer is heading the Incubator internationally recognized DTU Skylab. He creates and operates acceleration programs and coaches deep tech startup teams. His passion and mission is to be part of building a strong innovation community that fosters collaboration and diversity.
Mrs. Diana Lundgren | Head of Ignite accelerator , DTU Skylab | Technical Uni of Denmark (DTU)
Value-driven, collaborative, problem-solver. Believer in technology-based entrepreneurship as a key driver of positive, disruptive change and societal progress. I currently run projects centered on generating and accelerate data/digital startups and building entrepreneurial competences to leverage digital tech for the good of people, society and planet. I have previously managed startup projects in and with teams in East and South Africa. I am co-founder and board member of Danish Impact Business Network that connects and strenghten the Danish ecosystem for techvelopment SMEs.
Reiner Braun |Professor for Strategic Entrepreneurship
Reiner Braun holds a Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the Technische Universität München (TUM) School of Management. His main areas of expertise include start-up financing, venture capital, and private equity. He is an active seed investor and gained further practical experience with Allianz Investment Management as an executive assistant to the Chief Investment Officer of the Allianz Group.
Oliver Alexy |Professor for Strategic Entrepreneurship
Oliver Alexy joined the TUM School of Management in July 2012 as Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship after holding several roles in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School in London, England. In his work, Oliver studies how to design organizations that effectively deal with extremely high uncertainty, such as high-tech start-ups, R&D units, online communities, and social enterprises.
Shulamit Levenberg |Head of the stem cells and tissue engineering lab at the Biomedical engineering department, Technion
Professor Shulamit Levenberg is the former Dean of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Technion. She serves as the director of the Technion Center for 3D Bioprinting. Levenberg conducts interdisciplinary research on stem cells, biomaterials and tissue engineering. She is co-founder of three start-up companies: Aleph Farms, Nanosynex and NurExone.
Gerhard Kramer |SVP Research & Innovation, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Prof. Kramer (born 1970) is professor for information technology at TUM and since October 2019 vice president of TUM for research & innovation.
Helmut Schönenberger |Co-Founder and CEO of UnternehmerTUM and VP Entrepreneurship, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Prof. Schoenenberger (born 1972) suggested in his diploma thesis to establish a center for entrepreneurs in Munich (which became finally UnternehmerTUM of which he is CEO) and since January 2020 he is vice president of TUM for entrepreneurship.
Claudia Doblinger |Assistant Professor of Innovation and Technology Management
Claudia Doblinger is an assistant professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where she primarily works on clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship. Her main focus is on understanding how political incentives affect the innovation and entrepreneurial activities of firms, especially in the context of clean energy and transportation technologies. She has previously worked at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Regensburg (Germany), and a German energy company.
Antoine Jourdan |Director Switzerland Innovation West EPFL
Graduated with an executive MBA and a Master in engineering, Antoine spent 15 years in the industry and held various Business Development positions for technological companies. Convinced about the role of technology in today’s world, he is delighted to support corporations in their innovation journey.
Robert Giezendanner-Thoben | Head of operations and corporate relations – Vice-Presidency for Innovation
He has a master degree in mechanical engineering from the EPFL and PhD from the Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics of the University of Stuttgart. In 1999 he started as a scientific researcher in combustion laser diagnostics at the German Aerospace Centre. In 2005, he joined Robert Bosch Corporate Research GmbH. As a senior expert in fluid mechanics and agile product development, and intrapreneur he developed new products for different companies of the Bosch Group. Parallel to his activities at Robert Bosch, he gave lectures in fluid mechanics.
Nadir Izrael | Co-Founder and CTO, Armis Security Yevgeny Dibrov | Co-Founder and CTO,, Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
Leads the vision and direction for Armis. Previously Head of Global Business Development for cloud security company Adallom (acquired by Microsoft). Graduate Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Itai Dabran | Chief Engineer – Interdisciplinary Center for Smart Technologies
Adjunct senior lecturer and Chief Engineer of the Interdisciplinary Center for Smart Technologies, CS faculty – Technion. His research is focused on state of the art implementations of IoT and communication protocols. In addition, Itai serves as the Chairman of IEEE Communication Society (ComSoC) in Israel, and as a Board Member of the Israeli Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.