Dr. Sabine Wiesmüller

Sabine Wiesmüller, PhD, currently serves as the Director of the AI ​​Competence Center Europe at Start2Group (formerly German Entrepreneurship), a premier startup ecosystem platform serving as the ultimate destination for growth-oriented startups, corporations, investors, and governments to shape and scale ventures with growth potential. In addition, she continues as Managing Director of the Bodensee Innovation Cluster, which she has co-founded in 2018. Sabine is also an associated senior researcher and lecturer at Zeppelin University, teaching and conducting research about digital entrepreneurship, responsible innovation, AI governance & AI ethics.

Andreas Klinger

Andreas Klinger is a globally-active first-check/first-round investor having participated in 90+ deals including Remote.com, Lumalabs, Fly.io, and Acquire. Previously he was founding team & CTO of Product Hunt, VPE of CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck.

Mali M. Baum

Mali is the CEO of WLOUNGE and MAGDA GROUP, and Board Member at the European Innovation Council (EIC) at the European Commission. Mali brings over 20 years of entrepreneurial expertise, having founded multiple successful ventures. As a seasoned serial entrepreneur, Mali launched her first venture in 2007, specializing in global educational toys. On 2024 Mali was elected as a Board Member of the European innovation Council, EIC, European Commission and the EIC fund. Since 2019 she has been an active expert and Jury member at the European Commission EIC fund, involved in the EIC Green-Dealas a Jury. In addition, she is also an ambassador for the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises for StartUp Asia Berlin (SUAB) and Asia-Pacific Week Berlin (APW).

Niko Woischnik

Niko is the Founder & CEO of TOA, Europe’s leading Frontier Tech Festival. More than 100,000 people have attended TOA events in IRL. He is also the co-founder of Ahoy! Berlin and Openers. Before becoming a founder Niko worked as a Business Development Manager EMEA at Amazon Web Services and in educational publishing.

Mick Halsband