Stewart Rogers is a journalist, analyst, public speaker, author, startup founder, musician, and “digital nomad.”

Rogers is the seventh most influential person in marketing technology globally. That makes him the James Bond of martech (007 out of 100), and yes, he’s British, owns a tuxedo, and is known for his gadgets. He both breaks the story and makes the news.

Rogers is best known for his speeches and work on mental health in the tech industry. He helps to shine a light on a serious issue and provides those that need it with the help and support required to stay alive and at their best. Other than his mental health keynote – which he delivers to audiences across the globe – every speech he gives is new and unique. A former analyst, Rogers uses the latest research and data to explain what is happening both now and next.

As the Managing Editor at Grit Daily, and Analyst-at-large at VentureBeat, he checks the pulse of marketing technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain technologies, as well as the video game industry and the future of daily life.

As a seasoned speaker, moderator, interviewer, and emcee/host, he’s delivered newsworthy talks at events including, Web Summit, Slush, Pioneers Festival, MobileBeat, CUBE Tech Fair, Capital Week, Engage Prague, Postback, Unbounce CTA, and more. His interviews span Hollywood stars, Oscar-nominated film-makers, CEOS of top tech companies, and platinum-selling musicians.

Before VentureBeat, Rogers managed several successful software companies and held global roles in sales and marketing for businesses in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K. He has contributed to several sales and marketing books, papers, and publications.

When he’s not talking (and telling jokes) on stage, he’s singing both his own and other artists’ songs and is as comfortable in front of audiences from 10,000 to 10.

JOIN is an early-stage VC based in Berlin that invests in the best pan-European entrepreneurs and engineers who apply smart technologies to enhance manual labour. We call this “Neue Industry”. We have a B2B focus, mainly investing in enterprise tech, property tech and industrial tech.

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Since 2018 she engages as Partner at net4tec. Her main job however is working as Key Account Manager for Switzerland at Microsoft. Driving the digital business for her manufacturing customers in the areas of modern workplace, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

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net4tec is the global career network for female careers and diverse teams within STEM and digital business.

Lukas is a data science consultant with four years of experience in various industries. He manages data science projects from solution ideation, design and development up to deployment. As lead for spatial analytics at mayato he is helping clients to use geodata and machine learning to solve hard problems elegantly.

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Dat is heading Axel Springer AI, the artificial intelligence unit of Axel Springer SE which is the largest digital publishing house in Europe. His goal is to make AI more accessible within Axel Springer and hence drive innovation within the group. His ultimate plan is to turn Axel Springer into an AI first company.

Dat’s interests are diverse from traditional machine learning, deep learning, AI in general to computer vision and NLP. He is a regular speaker and has presented at several renowned conferences. He also blogs about his work on Medium

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Axel Springer AI is the artificial intelligence unit of Axel Springer SE which is the largest digital publishing house in Europe. We’re also part of Axel Springer Ideas Engineering, the innovation unit of Axel Springer.

Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone within Axel Springer and hence drive innovation. We deliver end-to-end machine learning projects and conduct state-of-the-art AI research. Our research focus is mainly on Computer Vision and NLP problems.

Shlomi is a data scientist and educator. He works in the field of Responsible AI. He is a co-founder of the Israeli Cyber Education Center, where he development of nationwide educational programs in computing for kids and teens.

The center aims to increase the social mobility of underrepresented groups in tech, such as women, minorities, and individuals from the suburbs of Israel. Before that, Shlomi worked as an algorithmic researcher and a research team leader in cybersecurity.

While currently on sabbatical until Feb 2020, partly caregiving for his father, partly doing some side projects as investor, Helmut was heading Innovation Management within Deutsche Telekom Products & Innovation since May 2010 and was responsible for seeding and driving innovation dynamics & culture and thus supporting the setup of new business in products, services and platforms, such as currently Big Data, CyberSecurity and Global Cloud Education.

Deutsche Telekom’s annual Innovation Day, T-City from 2007-12 and today building an ICT Open Innovation Ecosystem just to name a few examples. Besides that various engagements as mentor and partner of entrepreneurial programs and consortia fostering cooperation between DT and start-ups of the digital space. Helmut actively shaped DT’s innovation and new business development since 2003. Before that, he helped set up Deutsche Telekom’s digital broadband cable business until 2002.

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Zuzana started her career as an early member of the GLOBSEC team that built its annual forum into one of the leading conferences on geopolitical security. In addition to that, Zuzana gained experience as a trainer and facilitator from her extensive collaboration with Dell where she led internal training sessions. Besides leading the education program for Slido clients, she is also involved with facilitating internal events and keeps on following her passion for people’s development at Slido or outside.

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Slido is an easy to use Q&A and polling platform. Slido helps people to get the most out of meetings and events by bridging the gap between speakers and their audiences. From internal communications professionals to trainers, team leaders, conference organizers and individual presenters, Slido is used by anyone looking to enable open conversation at a live meeting, whether in-person or virtual. Over 320,000 events around the world have already used Slido to create a two-way conversation between speakers and their audiences.