Speakers

Nick, Founder and CEO, is widely considered as one of the world’s leading experts on digital trends and transformation in the field of tourism.

Küllike is an archaeologist. Apart from regular museum work, she is involved in the presentation of archaeology and cultural heritage in various ways.

Chiara is a German who was cool enough to embrace the Finnish way of life. She made Helsinki her home in 2020.

Ana is a champion when it comes to the use of design thinking and has set an unprecedented shift in the way in which we apply design to everyday tourism challenges.

Kaisa is an experienced, energetic and self-driven digital development, travel industry and B2B sales professional.

PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (Universitat Politècnica de València). Master in "Public Management" (INAP, 2012). Bachelor in Economic and Business Sciences (Universitat d'Alacant, 1989).

Brian is a digital marketer with 20 years digital experience.

Wendy Weijdema is responsible for creating actionable insights for MarketingOost and the province of Overijssel.

Chris is Head of Corporate Innovation at Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services, the world’s leading cruise specialist ground handler and port operations business.

Giannis is a 29-year-old marketeer working at Marketing Greece as a Content Marketing Manager.

With her company Sherpa's Stories she helps cities, regions, islands, and countries get ready for the future and to do marketing in the era we live in.

Ave Pill, Head of Digitalisation at the Estonian Tourism Board, has designed services and solved digitalisation issues in the travel agency and hospitality industries.

In 2020 he started a postion at the City of Stockholm to lead the digital transformation at Visit Stockholm with a culture and human centered perspective on digitalization.

Regis started his career in Big Data back in 2001, when the company he set up was creating machine-learning based recommendation engines for the entertainment industry.

Chris Duffey spearheads Adobe’s Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships across the Creative & Design enterprise space.

Credited with bringing a technology revolution to the wine industry, Heini founded Vivino because he was frustrated by not knowing which wine to buy.

Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, a SaaS company leveraging AI to drive economic gains through gender equity.

Michael is the President & CEO of Accion, a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing.

Christophe focuses on the Telecommunications, IT services, and Software verticals, with a specific track record on carve-out transactions.

Chris leads the Research and Innovation organization in the VMware Office of the CTO.

Erwin has over 20 years of experience in using digital to drive business transformation.

Oscar has developed his career in the energy sector, joining Iberdrola in 2000.

Ioanna is a writer at TNW. She covers the full spectrum of the European tech ecosystem.

Phill founded Boardwave in 2022, a not-for-profit, networking community for Software leaders to connect, share ideas, & build better businesses.

Nacho is a Managing Partner in bp ventures, investing in technologies that advance bp's net zero ambitions.

Janneke is founding partner at CapitalT, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and diversity advocate.

Teresa Parejo Navajas, PhD., serves as the Head of Sustainability and Social Corporate Sustainability with IBERIA since October 2019.

Marie Wallace has spent more than two decades building AI tech which today underpins such solutions as IBM Watson.

Sam was previously at BP Ventures, focused on transitioning the oil and gas giant towards the sustainable mobility and wider low-carbon innovation space.

David Pistoni is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Zeleros Hyperloop, the European company based in Valencia (Spain) leading the development of a scalable hyperloop system to move at 1000km/h and 0 direct emissions.

Cristina Criddle writes about technology for the FT and specialises in social media.

Harnessing collective intelligence augmented by increasingly intelligent digital technologies, to tackle our most pressing environmental and social challenges.

Juan de Antonio is the Founder & CEO of Cabify.

Lucas is the Group Environmental Officer and Head of ESG Reporting at Amadeus.

Alberto leads the Digital Transformation of R&D to maximize the value of data and AI for scientific discovery, process engineering, and new business models.

Explore helps Maersk navigate the startup ecosystem to find the best new technologies, products and services to support the business strategy and innovation.

Georg is an Entrepreneur and Business Angel based in Munich, Germany.

Dr Emilija Stojmenova Duh is the Minister of Digital Transformation at the Republic of Slovenia.

Juan is currently a Venture Capitalist investing in a broad range of sectors (Cybersecurity, IoT, big data, Artificial Intelligence, eCommerce, Enterprise SW).

Sara Ramis is Chief Client, Marketing & Sustainability Officer of Barceló Hotel Group (BHG), where she is responsible for the Group's International Corporate Marketing Strategy, leading the areas of innovation, brand development, customer experience, CSR, and communication.

Javier Espinoza has recently taken on the role as EU Correspondent in Brussels for the FT, focussing his coverage mainly on competition and technology issues.

Degree in Business Administration and Management, MSc in Port Management and Diploma in business incubation.

Marcus is managing partner at BMW i Ventures since 2018. In his role, he is responsible for the business strategy of BMW i Ventures and the successes of the fund.

PhD in Industrial Engineering, MSc in Port Management and Diploma in Digital Business.

Andrii has covered the European startup landscape for over a decade as a tech journalist, editor, and podcast host.

Corporate Venture Capital Investor focused on Energy and Climate Tech.

Alain is the Founder and CEO of SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy that provokes progress for companies, people and society at large.

Qualified chief executive in Enisa since 2018. Educated in Industrial engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and production & logistics engineering at the Technische Üniversitat München (TUM).