Arkady Volozh is the Founder and CEO of Nebius, one of the largest independent infrastructure providers to serve the rapidly growing global AI industry. Previously, Volozh co-founded the search engine Yandex and ran it as the CEO for 25 years.

Auguste von Bayern is a zoologist who seeks to understand how animals think. Her research interests comprise innovative and flexible reasoning skills and vocal learning abilities of parrots. Auguste graduated in Zoology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Bastian Burger is Director for Software & AI at the TUM Venture Labs, a not-for-profit network of DeepTech and Life Sciences labs that supports early-stage ventures across various fields. He leads over 100 startups in areas such as AI, Cybersecurity, Web3, and FinTech. In addition, Bastian Burger lectures on AI in Entrepreneurship at both TUM in Munich and HHL in Leipzig.

As CEO of Octopus Energy Germany, Bastian Gierull has given himself the mission to revolutionize the German energy market by bringing greener, fairer, and more affordable energy to all. He has been with Octopus Energy since its German market entry in 2020.

Benedikt Franke is Vice-Chairman and CEO of the Munich Security Conference. Previously he worked as Special Assistant for the former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Laureate, Kofi Annan. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Bill Gross is Founder & Chairman of Idealab, one of the first technology incubators which he launched in 1996. He is also a pioneering renewable energy entrepreneur who has created more than 150 companies with more than 50 IPOs and acquisitions over the past 30 years.

A renowned researcher and entrepreneur in the field of digital health, Björn M. Eskofier heads the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU). He has made significant contributions to the development of a “Digital Health Ecosystem” that connects patients with stakeholders through digital support tools.

Björn Ommer is a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He heads the Computer Vision and Learning Research Group which developed the AI model Stable Diffusion. Previously a professor Heidelberg University, Ommer received his diploma in computer science from University of Bonn and his PhD from ETH Zurich.