Jakob von Lindern is Head of Tech Reporting at DIE ZEIT, Germany’s leading weekly newspaper. He manages and shapes coverage on a wide range of topics – from cybersecurity and digital sovereignty to personal tech, video games, and gadgets. His own reporting focuses on AI, digital policy, and the ways technology is transforming society. (Photo Marzena Skubatz)

Jannis Brühl heads the technology and finance reporting teams at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germanys leading national daily. He writes about how technology shapes our lives, our businesses and our politics, from encryption to artificial intelligence. His book Disruption is an investigation into the ideology of today’s tech oligarchs. (Image credit: Dominik Rößler)

Jasmin Güngör is a General Partner at Onsight Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on deep tech and exponential technologies, including quantum technologies, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. Jasmin has extensive experience across early-stage investing, technology transfer, and company building.

Jennifer L. Schenker has been covering the technology sector from Europe since 1985. She worked in various positions for the Wall Street Journal, TIME, and BusinessWeek. In 2016, she launched The Innovator, a website and subscription newsletter about digital transformation and sustainability that is read by the people responsible for innovation at some of the world’s largest companies. 

Jennifer Wilton is an award-winning German journalist and served most recently as editor-in-chief of the German national newspaper WELT. Prior to that, she headed the group’s investigative and features desks, built new departments like the digital storytelling unit and oversaw key projects spanning online, print, and television.

Jeremias Schröder is the current Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation, serving as the titular and unifying head of the worldwide Benedictine Order. Born in Bavaria, he joined the St. Ottilien Archabbey in Eresing, Germany in 1984, then pursued studies in philosophy, theology, history, and archivistics at Sant’Anselmo and St Benet’s Hall, Oxford.

Johanna Pirker is a computer scientist and Professor of N-Dimensional User Experiences at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, as well as an Associate Professor for Games Engineering at Graz University of Technology. (Photo: Matthias Rauch)

John Thornhill is one of the most senior journalists at the Financial Times. He writes an award-winning column on the impact of technology and is also the founder of Sifted, an FT-backed media site covering Europe’s startup world.