Co-Founder & CEO, Magazino GmbH

Frederik Brantner (CEO) started his first company at the age of 16. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Management/CEMS. He started Magazino as a project end of 2011, incorporation 2014 and grew the robotics company to the largest team in perception driven robotics in Europe. He was selected as "Innovator under 35" in 2016.

Vice President Market Sector Industry, SSI SCHÄFER

After completing his mechanical engineering studies at the TU Dresden, Ronald Brade worked in leading positions in transport material security and material flow companies. Mr. Brade joined SSI SCHÄFER in 2012 and has been Vice President Market Sector Industry for Business Development and Project Management since 2017.

Vice President Complete Vehicle Manufacturing, Magna Steyr

Studies in Process Engineering at TU Graz. 1992 start of his career at Magna Steyr, in 2008 he was appointed General Manager with responsibility for Magna Steyr’s paint and body technology worldwide and the AMG project in Graz. In 2012 he was appointed VP Complete Vehicle Manufacturing, responsible for all production areas of Magna Steyr in Graz/A, Hambach/F and Heilbronn/D.

Head of Development, F&M Werkzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH

Martin Müller-Turner is head of development at F&M Werkzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH. He co-founded F&M in 2010 during his study at TU Berlin (Bsc. Mechanical Engineering, Msc. Production Technology) and had been CEO of F&M until the taking of a majority stake by Hch. Perschmann in December 2017.

Vice President Development Engineering, Manufacturing and Energy Sector, DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation

Dr. Klaus Dohrmann is Vice President Development Engineering, Manufacturing and Energy Sector for DHL Customer Solutions and Innovation (CSI). In this role he is responsible for setting the global sector strategy, identification of new business opportunities, support of product development and execution of selected strategic initiatives.

Founder & Managing Director, Sinfosy GmbH

Karsten Königstein is the founder and managing director of SINFOSY GmbH.
With over 10 years of management consulting experience at shopfloor level, in his current position he focuses on Plug & Play solutions for Industry 4.0. The solutions of Sinfosy GmbH are characterized by a "go live without investments" within hours - no extra IT project needs to be initiated.

Geschäftsführer, Attenio GmbH

Dr. Fedor Titov founded together with two colleagues the company attenio GmbH in 2016. He is responsible for sales and marketing as a general director of the company. Before he finished his PhD at the Hamburg University of Technology.

Co-founder und COO, MotionMiners GmbH

Sascha Kaczmarek studied logistics at the TU Dortmund from 2007 to 2012. From Oct. 2012 to Dec. 2015 he was a research associate at the Chair of Materials Handling and Warehousing at the TU Dortmund. From Jan. 2016 to Apr. 2017 he worked as a Process Engineer at Vanderlande Industries. Since Oct. 2017 he has been the Co-founder and COO of MotionMiners GmbH.

Plant Engineer Transport Logistics, Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Werk Berlin Marienfelde

Emanuel Ihm studied mechanical engineering in Romania and worked there first in prototype production. He started to work at Daimler AG in 1990, where he started by working as a production- and toolplanner. In the end of the 90s, he changed to the logistics planning department and supervised many Innovation projects. Since 2013, he works as the operating logistics engineer.

Managing Director, FORMHAND Automation GmbH

Christian Löchte is co-founder of FORMHAND Automation GmbH and one of its managing directors. Since 2011, he has been working on flexible handling as part of his research at the TU Braunschweig. Since 2016 he has been working in an EXIST project on research transfer, which led to product development and finally to the founding of FORMHAND Automation GmbH.