DR. WERNER VOGELS, CTO, Amazon.com

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision.

As one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

KLAUS BÜRG, General Manager, AWS DACH

Klaus Bürg has significant and proven expertise in managing international enterprise type companies, developing go-to-market strategies and also has a strong affinity to cutting edge technologies.

Klaus has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including more than 15 years in selling and implementing business applications. Before joining AWS, Klaus was working 2 years at audius AG as Executive Vice President. Before that he worked 11 years at Microsoft in various management functions.

Klaus graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Esslingen. He also holds a master of science in computer science from the same university.

ELKE REICHART, Chief Digital Officer, TUI Group

As Chief Digital Officer, Elke Reichart is responsible for all TUI Group IT platforms and also the Chief Executive Officer of TUI's IT branch InfoTec. She joined TUI in February 2018 after having spent 26 years with HP before. In 2012, Elke moved with her family to Palo Alto as the Vice President in charge of HP's global transformation program.

Back in Germany, she was appointed to the supervisory board of Bechtle AG, Germany's largest IT reseller, in Dec 2017.

Elke Reichart holds a master in Roman Languages, Economics and Applied Information Science.

PATRICK KUA, CTO, N26

Patrick Kua is the CTO of the mobile bank N26 (Berlin, Germany), where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he is the author of three books, The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and most recently, Building Evolutionary Architectures.

Patrick is a frequent conference speaker, blogger and is passionate about bringing a balanced focus between people, organisations and technology.

MARKUS RAUTERT, VP Platform Engineering & Architecture, adidas Global IT

Markus Rautert, Vice President, adidas Global IT, leads the Platform Engineering & Architecture practice, which is dedicated to the design, creation, and operation of the next-generation architecture, technology services, and best practices that can be used by different product and project teams to create solutions faster and with higher quality.

As a technology enthusiast, Markus believes in the capability to co-create differentiating business solutions together with industry and software partners, combining cloud native and open source technologies with commercial platform offerings.

Markus has held several positions within adidas since 2006 in the European market organization, Sales, Marketing, and Enterprise Architecture. Previously, he worked for more than 7 years for Siemens AG in software development, architecture, and management consulting.

PROF. DR. DR. TORSTEN HAFERLACH, CEO, MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory

Prof. Dr. Dr. Torsten Haferlach is CEO at MLL Munich Leukeumia Laboratory and Head of the Cytomorphology Department.

Before cofounding MLL in 2005, Dr. Haferlach was a senior physician at the university clinics in Kiel, Göttingen, Munich-Großhadern, with habilitation in internal medicine and a specialization in hematology and internal oncology.

At the heart of his work is the responsibility for patients suffering from leukemia or lymphoma. His aim is to offer the best leukemia diagnostics at a global level, to make it available to all patients and to help extend their life expectancy with individualized treatment and improved quality of life.