Uwe Aßmann holds the Chair of Software Engineering at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has obtained a PhD in compiler optimization and a habilitation on "Invasive Software Composition" (ISC), a composition technology for code fragments enabling flexible software reuse, unifying generic, connector-, view-, and aspect-based programming for arbitrary program or modeling languages.

The startup Wandelbots.de, spun off from his chair, provides an innovative method for demonstration-based teaching of robotic coworkers, 10x faster than comparative methods. Aßmann's group took part in the research centre "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfAED)", working on novel code composition techniques for many-core architectures and modern hardware structures. In the subproject "Highly-Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing (HAEC)", the group develops energy autotuning (EAT), a technique to dynamically adapt the energy consumption of an application to to the required quality of service, the context of the system, and the hardware platforms. Both technologies, demonstration-based teaching and HAEC, rely on multi-layered autonomic systems.

Dr. André Bauer has been a research group leader and research assistant at the Julius-Maximilians-University at the Chair of Software Engineering (Computer Science II) in Würzburg since 2021. He completed his computer science studies and his doctorate at the University of Würzburg. Bauer completed his doctoral thesis on "Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases" summa cum laude. In addition to a straightforward scientific career, Bauer has numerous publications to his credit.

Dr. Franziska Brantner was born on August 24, 1979 in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg. She studied at Sciences Po Paris and completed her Master of International Affairs at Columbia University New York. Afterwards, Brantner earned her doctorate in International Relations at the University of Mannheim. She is a former member of the European Parliament as well as former parliamentary director and European policy spokesperson for the Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group. Since 2021, Brandtner has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate.

Björn Brundert is a Principal Technologist and part of the Central Europe, Middle East and Africa leadership team at VMware. As part of VMware's Office of the CTO, Global Field Organization he enables and supports continuous feedback between VMware R&D, VMware's Field Organization and customers and partners across Europe.

He works with a wide range of companies in various stages of their digital transformation and has spent several years focused on cloud-native technologies and methodologies around Kubernetes and DevSecOps. Björn joined VMware in 2010 and has always focused on the impact of technologies on business success, people and processes.

He is a regular speaker at industry events, user groups and meetups, as well as VMware internal and public events. In addition, Björn hosts the official podcast for VMware in German-speaking countries (https://bitly.com/dervmwarepodcast).

Chair and co-founder of the People Centered Internet, she convenes the Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy Informal Network, first chaired by Vint Cerf, and now chaired by Dr Nele Loesk, Estonia’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs. Mei Lin gave the closing keynote on Decade of Digital Transformation at the World Bank IFC Global SME Financing Forum October 2020. An early pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM) she brought from 5 years at Intel, OKR’s (Objectives & Key Results) to Oracle, working under Tom Siebel then Marc Benioff.  She was on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Digital Economy and Society and presented at the World Economic Forum’s first Digital Economics event in 2017.

As Socio-Technical lead for Federal Health Futures at the US Department of Defense, she led the development of new network leadership skills. Leading an Oklahoma State University team they won the American Competitiveness Society Award. She worked with Microsoft Telesales in China to begin turning around software piracy. Chair of the Technical Committee on Sustainability for IEEE SSIT (Society on the Social Implications of Technology), she serves on the Executive Committee for IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, chairing the Assessment Committee. Mei Lin is Singaporean, living in Silicon Valley who worked at Intel then Oracle. She chaired Douglas Engelbart’s Core Planning Committee.  She earned her BSc in Math from ANU, MBA in Finance from MIT where she studied under two future Nobel Economics Prize winners, Franco Modigliani and Robert Merton, also Fisher Black. Mei Lin believes in building networks of resilient communities and applying digital finance so people everywhere connect to thrive.

Tobias Gerbothe holds a degree in transport engineering and started his career in the field of air transport as a research assistant. After an initial scientific career focusing on simulation software for aviation, he decided to follow his passion for IT and fully dedicate himself to a career in the ICT environment. Since 2015, he has been working as a software developer at Otto Group Solution Provider (OSP) with a focus on eCommerce and webshop development. Making his own actions as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible is a daily priority for him. Thus, he is committed to establishing sustainability as an integral part of all corporate activities. He is currently working on building a platform that will provide knowledge and technological tools to help colleagues incorporate sustainability as a significant aspect of decision-making.

Dr. Philipp Herzig is Head of Intelligent Enterprise and Cross Architecture at SAP Product Engineering.

Together with his team, Herzig is responsible for engineering and enabling the Intelligent Enterprise, crafting cloud and mobile experiences, and defining architectural foundations. Before being appointed to his current role, he led an SAP unit focused on cloud native applications for SAP Real Estate products, SAP CPQ, SAP Health, SAP RealSpend, SAP Cloud SDK, and more. In this role, he drove topics including high automation, DevOps, continuous deployment, and fostered a culture of engineering excellence.

Since joining SAP in 2009, Herzig held several positions as software engineer, architect, and product owner at SAP's Innovation Center Potsdam. He ultimately headed flagship solutions including SAP RealSpend and SAP Cloud SDK, which he had initiated and built with great dedication throughout his career.

Herzig holds a PhD in Computer Science from Technische Universität Dresden

A globally recognized leader in standards development and intellectual property, Dr. Ing. Konstantinos Karachalios is managing director of the IEEE Standards Association and a member of the IEEE Management Council.

As managing director, he has been enhancing IEEE efforts in global standards development in strategic emerging technology fields, through technical excellence of staff, expansion of global presence and activities and emphasis on inclusiveness and good governance.

As member of the IEEE Management Council, he championed expansion of IEEE influence in key techno-political areas, including consideration of social and ethical implications of technology, according to the IEEE mission to advance technology for humanity. Results have been rapid in coming and profound; IEEE is becoming the place to go for debating and building consensus on issues such as a trustworthy and inclusive Internet and ethics in design of autonomous systems.

Before IEEE, Konstantinos played a crucial role in successful French-German cooperation in coordinated research and scenario simulation for large-scale nuclear reactor accidents. And with the European Patent Office, his experience included establishing EPO’s patent academy, the department for delivering technical assistance for developing countries and the public policy department, serving as an envoy to multiple U.N. organizations.

Konstantinos earned a Ph.D. in energy engineering (nuclear reactor safety) and masters in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart.

Robin Lamberti studied Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology and works for Frachtwerk GmbH as a Software Engineer, IT-Architect and Product Owner, specializing in distributed systems and web applications. There he designs modern software solutions for complex problems and implements these. What drives him personally is the potential that IT has for the life of individuals and society in the long term. For that, the sustainable and as-needed usage of technology and the impact it has is of special importance to him.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel is director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and was founding dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam. He is a C4 professor of computer science and heads the department for Internet Technologies and Systems. Meinel is, among other things, a member of acatech, the National German Academy of Science and Engineering, and a visiting professor at universities in Germany and abroad. He and his team developed the first European MOOC platform openHPI, led the development of the HPI School Cloud funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research from 2017 to 2021, which is now in use in many German states, and is program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner is President of the German Environment Agency since 2020. He previously served as Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security of United Nations University (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany, and Vice Rector of the United Nations University (UNU). Prior to becoming Director of UNU-EHS in October 2018, Prof. Messner had been Director of the German Development Institute from 2003-2018. Prof. Messner is an internationally recognised expert on globalisation / global governance, transformation pathways to sustainability, decarbonization of the global economy, sustainability and digital change, and international cooperation and societal change. Prof. Messner has also been a member of a number of high-ranking policy advisory councils, including co-chairing the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany and is member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).

After having achieved a degree in information engineering and management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Ferdinand Mütsch is working as a freelance software engineer and passionate open-source contributor to various projects. His focus is on design, architecture and development of efficient, scalable and robust software in the context of cloud-based web applications. Ferdinand strives for leveraging software to make a positive impact to society and is especially interested in sustainability in the context of information technology.

Mathias Renner works at Frachtwerk GmbH as an IT consultant, IT architect and product owner. He supports customers especially in the context of cloud-native data platforms with open source. As a business informatics specialist, he not only builds bridges between IT and business, but also between IT and ecology, in order to address the ecological challenges of our time in a technological context. He shares his knowledge as a lecturer at several universities, talks, and in various publications.

Bernhard Rohleder (born 1965) helped launch Bitkom e.V. at the end of 1999 and has been the association's Chief Executive Officer ever since.
Rohleder began his professional career with positions at ZF Friedrichshafen GmbH in Saarbrücken, the Ploetz press publishing house in Berlin and the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics in Potsdam. In 1994, he joined the Information Technology Association of the VDMA and ZVEI, Frankfurt/Main, as press spokesman and executive assistant. Three years later, Rohleder took over the position of deputy managing director there and shortly thereafter that of managing director. In 1997, he was simultaneously appointed Secretary General of Eurobit, the leading European IT industry association, based in Brussels and Frankfurt. In 2000, he merged Eurobit with the European Association of the Communications Technology Industry to form the new umbrella organization Digital Europe, and subsequently represented the German high-tech industry on its board. In 1997/1998, Rohleder also headed the General Secretariat of the International Information Industry Congress (IIIC), the world association of the IT industry, on a rotating basis. From 1997 to 2005, he also headed the market research institute European Information Technology Observatory (EITO) as Managing Director.
Rohleder is a member of the advisory board of the German Institute for Trust and Security on the Internet (Divsi) and of the jury for the "Made in.de" start-up prize. Among other things, he represents the industry on the relevant committees of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). In the 17th legislative period, Rohleder was a member of the German Bundestag's Enquête Commission on the Internet and Digital Society.
Rohleder studied political science from 1987, first at Saarland University and later at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, where he graduated in 1991. He received his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) from Freie Universität Berlin. Rohleder is married, has one child and lives in Berlin.

Johannes Rudolph is co-founder and CTO of meshcloud GmbH. His professional focus is on building cloud foundations for the successful implementation of multi-cloud strategies. From this perspective, he looks not only at the technological possibilities of the cloud, but also at the potential to use them for organizational, social and environmental improvements. Johannes has a M.Sc. in Business Informatics (TU Darmstadt) and a soft spot for building efficient and scalable software systems.

Since October 2019, Jan Peter Schemmel is Chief Executive Officer at the Öko-Institut e.V. Within the Executive Board he is amongst other responsible for the research areas of Sustainable Products & Material Flows, Resources & Transport and Environmental Law & Governance and coordinates the digitalization strategy of the institute. Prior to this position he was Head of Division for Funding Programs at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit gGmbH (GIZ). During this time, from 2015-2019, he was also Director of the Program Office of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Environment Ministry.

From 2010-2013 Mr Schemmel served as Resident Director of GIZ in Mexico, responsible for overseeing the implementation and development of the German bilateral technical cooperation portfolio. Focus areas of the portfolio were sustainable energy, climate, urban environmental management, and biodiversity. Over this time he also served as head of program for several cooperation programs. Prior to moving to Mexico and beginning in 2007, Mr Schemmel was responsible for the development and implementation of GIZ’s corporate climate strategy. During this time, he also headed a project to develop an online adaptation information platform together with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and coordinated a research team at the stiftung neue verantwortung on Foreign Technology Policy.

Before focusing on Climate Change, Jan Peter Schemmel, from 2001 onwards worked within GIZ in support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development with a focus on sustainable development strategies, representing the Ministry in various donor coordination forums and in the negotiations of the Rio+10 Johannesburg Process.

Stefan Schnorr has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport since 2021. Prior to that, he worked at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, where he headed the "Digital and Innovation Policy" department, and had previously worked in various other departments at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology since 2010. Schnorr studied law and began his career at the Trier Administrative Court.

Oliver Süme has been Chairman of the Executive Board of eco - Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. since 2017.
Previously, he had been Vice Chairman of the association's Executive Board since 2000 and was responsible for the Policy & Legal department. From 2013 to 2018, Süme was also President of the world's largest provider association, EuroISPA, based in Brussels. He has been a lawyer since 1997 and is a partner in the international law firm Fieldfisher in Hamburg. Süme advises companies in the Internet and IT sectors, and life science companies in particular, on data protection law. He is a specialist attorney for IT law and a member of the IT law committee of the Hanseatic Bar Association. Süme is also a co-founder of Hamburg Top-Level-Domain GmbH (registry for the ".hamburg" domain extension).

Prof. Dr. Maik Thomas has been W3 Professor of ”Modelling of Fluid Dynamics in the Earth System“ at Freie Universität Berlin since 2013 and Head of the GFZ Section: "Earth System Modeling" at Helmholtz-Zentrum in Potsdam since 2007. He completed his diploma in oceanography at the Department of Geosciences in Hamburg, as well as his PhD, which he graduated summa cum laude. His main research topics include the numerical simulation of spatio-temporal variations of mass distributions in the Earth system under consideration of consistent mass, momentum and energy fluxes, especially between atmosphere, ocean and continental hydrosphere.

Ingobert Veith is responsible for public policy in the management of Huawei Germany. The focus of his work is on political and regulatory issues relating to digitization, particularly the expansion of digital infrastructures. To this end, Ingobert Veith regularly contributes to relevant bodies, such as the chair of BITKOM's Communications Technologies Working Group, speaks at relevant conferences, and engages in dialog with policymakers and the media. Previously, Ingobert Veith accompanied infrastructure projects in the energy and gas industry as a senior consultant at Prognos AG. Ingobert Veith holds a Master's degree in International Politics from the University of Edinburgh and Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Philosophy & Economics.

Jurg is a lead advisor on the technology roadmap of the SDIA. As a senior cloud expert - he has 3 O'Reilly books under his belt - and CEO of two successful startups, he is bringing his expertise to enable a Sustainable Digital Economy. Jurg is responsible within his business - Aknostic - for  supporting the wider community  to develop for example, the SDIA's sustainable cloud test-beds, and others.