EXPO Day
Program 6

Dr. Dennis Kolberg

CTO

Sparetech

Gero Adrian

Director Advisory R&D Industry 4.0

DXC

Matthias Arleth

Deputy Chairman

Webasto

Daniel Bareiß

Innovation Manager AI

Porsche AG

Sebastian Becker

Chief Commercial Officer

Riddle&Code GmbH

Dr. Harry Behrens

Head of Blockchain Factory

Daimler Financial Services

Raymond Chow

Senior Manager Business Innovation

Daimler AG

Philipp Csernalabics

CXO

neohelden

Johannes Ellenberg

Author

The Startup Code

Frank Feulner

Chief Business Development Officer

AX Semantics

Morten Freidel

Editor

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gruel

Professor Stuttgart Media University

Institute for Mobility and Digital Innovation

Tim Hampel

Futures Researcher

Daimler AG

Jens Heinrich

Co-founder & CEO

Naise

Bernd Jäger

Practice Lead for ICS/IoT Security at Telekom-Security

T-Systems

Sascha Karimpour

Managing Director

Plug & Play Germany GmbH

Sabria Lagoun

CEO

The Brainstorms scientific GmbH

Laurens Laudowicz

CEO & Founder

Stark Mobility

Anja Mertens

Mobility concepts & infrastructure / Smart Mobility

Porsche AG

Thomas Müller

CEO

evan GmbH

Andreas Mündel

SVP Innovation & Strategy

DPDHL

Jörg Oeser

General Marketing

Stadtwerke Stuttgart - Stella-sharing

Yannick Polchow

Editor

CarIT

Olaf Preissner

VP UX Design & Head of UX Automotive & Innovation

Luxoft

Marius Rüdt

Sustainability in Supply Chains

Porsche AG

Herbert Schüttler

Head of 5G Corporate Customers

T-Systems

Dr. Till Stenzel

MANAGING DIRECTOR ADVISORY/BOARD MEMBER OF COMFORTCHARGE GMBH

Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners Management GmbH

Frank Störmer

Security Principal

DXC

Dan Toma

Partner

Outcome

Martin Wahl

IT Innovation Manager

Daimler Financial Services AG

Lars Walch

Head of Strategy & Partnerships E-Mobility

EnBW

Roy Williamson

Vice President Advanced Mobility, BP PLC

BP

Jochen Kaßberger

Co-Founder

51nodes

We provide architectural and implementation know-how and capabilities for custom made blockchain-based software components. By planning, implementing, and integrating these components we enable our customers to become part of the crypto economy. In order to accomplish this, we use blockchain-technologies like Ethereum, corda, Stellar, Hyperledger Fabric, and others. In addition, we develop full stack with technologies like Ionic, Angular, nodes.js, Spring Boot, Docker, and many more. We are 100% focused on blockchain technology projects and independent in our technological choice. Therefore, we can provide our customers with the best technical solution for their blockchain projects. Check out their Website

Iwan Lappo-Danilewski

Founder & CTO

Aaron.ai

The workspace of tomorrow seamlessly integrates AI with human expertise. With Aaron.ai’s technology, this transformation can be started today: our voice AI allows companies to interact with their customers & employees through the most natural interface – speech - making both internal processes and customer service more efficient. Aaron.ai's tool suite empowers every employee to be a data scientists - to coach and individualize their AI "on the job". Partnering with Daimler, we provide an intelligent meeting assistant that can create meeting minutes on the fly. Aaron.ai’s award winning plug&play platform is production proven, processing 1000s of live calls daily from both SMEs, such as a medical practices, and corporates like E.ON and BVG. Check out their Website

Keehan Teixeira

Director of Special Projects

Alchemy

Alchemy is a company from Waterloo, Canada, making state-of-the-art coatings to prevent AVs from ever going blind. Bug splatter, bird droppings and ice are all commonplace obstructions that pose a risk for fully autonomous cars and their passengers. The nanotech company is working with OEMs and suppliers to implement coatings that can passively repel everyday obstructions and make AVs safer. The coatings repel water, dirt, and ice while maintaining the high transparency and mechanical durability specifications for advanced sensor systems. Alchemy has already built and commercialized their first product: a screen protector for cars. ExoShield is a razor-thin film already used by consumers in 10 countries to protect their windshields and the sensors now integrated behind them. Check out their Website

Oliver Naegele

CEO & Founder

Blockchain HELIX

Blockchain HELIX is developing a Digital Identity solution for citizens & enterprises driven by Blockchain technology, called helix id. helix id is here to restore trust with digital identity for a trusted and secure digital economy and society. We differ from other blockchain projects by focusing on the enterprises, their compliance needs, and covering all legal and regulatory commandments. helix id secures business transactions based on blockchain, encryption and digital signatures. Besides the enterprise aspect we are providing a digital identity app for consumers to make digital life secure, trustful, simple and to empower consumers to get full control over their private data. helix id services include authentication, verification, signature services and instant payment. Check out their Website

Konstantin Berezin

COO & co-founder

Caaresys

Caaresys connects passengers to the future cockpit. CAARESYS is an Israeli Startup company that develops passenger monitoring system based on RF technology (not a camera). CAARESYS system utilizes biometrics to detect the location, health conditions and state of each vehicle occupant. The algorithms provide an intelligent understanding of passengers & their unique human signatures. The solution minimizes the effects of human factors, and saves thousands of lives! The system monitors: • Cabin occupancy: seat belt reminder, child presence detection (HOT car) etc. • Passengers’ biometrics such as heart rate (HR), respiration rate (RR), respiration rate variability (RRV) and heart rate variability (HRV). The system is robust and can be integrated into various locations. Check out their Website

Christian Lang

CEO

Chargery

Chargery is a service provider for the future of mobility in urban areas. With services all around electromobility Chargery ensures that shared electric fleets can be operated effiently and profitably. Therfor Chargery developed as well software and hardware. One of Chargery's services is a mobile charging service. For this purpose the young start-up has developed a mobile charging station which is perfectly fitted to urban areas due to its construction on an electrified bike-trailer. Check out their Website

RJ Cobalt

CEO

Cobalt

Cobalt Industries is a next-generation automotive supplier that believes the future of mobility must be about people. Cobalt’s first product is an Intelligent Cabin solution built in cooperation with OEMs. Our solution delivers a premium in-cabin experience that combines real-time biofeedback, external factors and behavioral preferences. Cobalt’s software interacts with and adapts to passengers in real-time. This next-level of personalized experience is enabled by measuring the body’s real-time emotional indicators and subconscious desires using the sensors already in the production vehicles — camera, microphone, telemetry data and more. Cobalt Industries was established in 2018 and has offices in San Francisco, CA and Munich, Germany. Learn more at www.cobaltindustries.com. Check out their Website

Sascha Poggemann

COO & Founder

Cognigy

Cognigy is the leading Enterprise Conversational AI technology vendor. With Cognigy.AI, the company has developed a highly flexible Enterprise Conversational AI Platform for customer & employee support process automation. Available in both On-Premises and SaaS, Cognigy.AI enables enterprises to connect to their users on any conversational channel. COGNIGY.AI chatbots and virtual assistants communicate intelligently with customers and employees. Cognigy supports any organization incl. service, marketing, sales and HR to create outstanding user experiences, to guarantee 24/7 service and to increase revenue. The graphical toolset allows both non-technical users and developers to build and manage complex interactions that go far beyond simple FAQs towards automating complex business processes Check out their Website

Denis Guezelocak

CEO

CurveSYS

CurveSYS™ is an innovative and easy-to-implement solution for the entire transportation industry to improve traffic safety and increase comfort for the operator. (Automotive, commercial vehicles, aircraft, shipping, motorcycles, railway industry, etc.) Check out their Website

Slava Bronfman

CEO

Cybellum

An automotive cybersecurity company that helps car manufacturers and other automotive stakeholders to manage the security of all the automotive components received via the supply chain, and monitor their risk throughout their entire lifecycle. Giving full visibility into the supply chain, detection of vulnerabilities, control over risk, and continues monitoring which enables meeting compliance and enforcing organizational security policies. Cybellum’s solution is deployed in a variety of OEMs and Tier-1s across 3 continents. Check out their Website

Nir Krumer

Head of Product

CyberX

CyberX delivers continuous monitoring , asset discovery and vulnerability management with zero impact on operational networks. CyberX discovers and displays a complete network map of all your assets, reaching into all areas of production to give you a clear picture of all devices and how they communicate with each other. CyberX integrates with your SOC workflows and existing security stack to provide unified security governance across both IT and OT. Our automated ICS threat modeling technology is the first to predict the most likely paths of targeted ICS attacks via proprietary analytics. You can quickly visualize, prioritize and simulate mitigation actions to protect key “must-not-fail” functions that generate the most revenue or control your most essential services. Check out their Website

Frederik Ström

Partner Manager

Dataiku

Dataiku brings business analysts, engineers, and scientists together in a shared context. The software enables self-service analytics and operationalizes machine learning inline with Data Governance. Dataiku helps connect to existing technology stack in order to help abstract away from disjunct IT and rather focus on collaboration. Orchestrating technologies Dataiku helps over 250 customers actually put Data Lab prototypes into IT production. Efficient Collaboration on data helps innovate, reduce costs, shorten time-to-market and creates enduring competitive advantage. Check out their Website

Stephanie Fischer

Co-Founder and Managing Director

datanizing

datanizing has invented a method for automatic text analysis which involves a variety of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. It’s called NIZE. The NIZE technology is specialized in two use cases: With NIZE research companies execute automatic online research (desk research) and e.g. persona models are generated. NIZE requirements helps companies automatically find cost drivers and synergies within all of their requirements. Our vision is to close the gap between what customers want (NIZE research) and what companies actually build (NIZE requirements). Check out their Website

Michael Martinek

CEO

e-laborate

The team from e-laborate Innovations has developed “AutoCrear” – the first software to provide robust and efficient clearance and creepage analyses on the CAD data of electric assemblies. The mandatory process of documenting the compliance with electric safety regulations, taking days or even months without a tool such as AutoCrear, can now be performed within minutes. The increased accuracy of an AutoCrear analysis compared to manual measurements allows a designer to robustly detect and eliminate all safety violations in the early design stage. This prevents a manufacturer from the worst-case scenario of delivering a norm-violating product, which results in high costs and damage to the corporate image. Check out their Website

Philipp Koppe

CEO

emproof

Emproof protects embedded systems such as control units against industrial espionage. We combine adapted code transformations with innovative methods from systems security academia to achieve an efficient defense. Our software product is a compiler extension that easily integrates into development environments and applies the protection automatically. It renders software reverse engineering, product piracy and one-to-one copies of embedded systems uneconomic. The underlying technology is an execution environment aware, static analysis framework, which performs state-of-the-art program analyses and transformations in a robust way. USP: an exceptionally small overhead as low as 5% that enables the use in resource constraint microcontrollers. Check out their Website

Florian Waubke

CEO

FairFleet

FairFleet is the Full-Service-Provider for drone powered solutions, covering the entire process on a single platform: from consulting and flight approvals to data capturing and subsequent data analysis. B2B clients from industries such as real estate, insurance, energy, agriculture or infrastructure advisory benefit from solutions offered by FairFleet, guaranteeing absolute legal certainty by obtaining official permits - globally. Check out their Website

Bernhard Bobosch

CEO

FDX Fluid Dynamix

The platform set up by FairFleet empowers various industries to receive relevant aerial solutions and autonomous drone missions through a one-stop-shop. With more than 2000 verified, insured and professional drone pilots in over 50 countries, FairFleet is the largest European network, optimizing the use of local pilots with the latest equipment. Check out their Website

Matthias Wolf

COO

Firstbird

Firstbird is Europe’s leading digital employee referral program trusted by more than 1,000 companies. Packed with gamification and communication features, as well as the mobile referral app Firstbird2Go, we keep employees more engaged, appreciated and rewarded for their referral activities. The result is highly suitable candidates, making your recruiting faster and significantly reducing your headhunting costs. Check out their Website

Benedikt Ilg

CEO

Flip

Flip is a messenger based employee app that connects the entire company. It allows to share top-down information with two clicks or to communicate quickly and easily via 1:1 chats. Flip ensures GDPR-compliant communication between frontline and desktop workers, and also enables all employees to be informed reliably. Flip can also be integrated into your existing intranet. The technology in use is a progressive web app, which can be totally adapted to the companies needs, processs and styles. Paired with an ease of use Flip is the company's own messenger based employee app, hosted by Deutsche Telekom or on premise. Check out their Website

Chad Boulanger

Managing Director, EMEA

FogHorn

FogHorn is a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and video analytics operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s investors include Bosch, Dell, GE, Honeywell Ventures, Intel Capital, and Yokogawa. The FogHorn Lightning™ platform is the world’s most compact, advanced and feature-rich complex event processor (CEP), enabling high-performance edge computing in-vehicle, advanced analytics, Machine Learning, and AI to be activated in highly constrained environments Check out their Website

Nils Wollny

Co-Founder & CEO

holoride

More immersive, highly adaptive and causing less nausea – holoride establishes an entirely new entertainment category. Therefore, it’s called Elastic Content. It translates real events into real-time stories in XR. Various content can be experienced, from gaming to entertainment to educational. The core innovative idea is to grasp the car as a moving data collector and to translate all data into events of the story you see with your XR-devices. holoride involves as many data sources as possible to distinctively enrich the individual user experience. This includes car data like acceleration or steering, the actual traffic situation, or navigational data. Check out their Website

Kata Illes

CEO

Indivizo

Data-driven recruitment to hire top talent - Cloud-based software with Automated Video Interviews, Gamified assessment , and ATS with Felexible Workflow Management Indivizo offers an AI-powered hiring platform with automated recruitment tools to help HR-professionals hire top talent faster. Their solutions fit every different hiring needs - it is available as a fully customisable end-to-end ATS platform, as a ready-to-use plug&play hiring process or as standalone automated recruitment tools. Their focus is always on giving applicants a chance to showcase their talent in an unbiased, objective way, resulting in better, data-based hiring decisions. USP:Competency- and AI-based assessment tools•Various, automated and semi-automated screening tools in one flexible recruitment system. • Check out their Website

Jouni Halme

CEO

Ladimo

The most accurate 3D Sensor for autonomous driving to be utilised inside and outside the car. Enabling external vision and driver monitoring solutions. We combine two measuring methods, to achieve a superior quality and repatability spatially and in depth direction. Without moving parts, Ladimo is reliable in harsh environments. Check out their Website

David Alain Bloch

Co-Founder & CEO

Legartis

The Legartis SaaS-solution enables companies to identify, classify and understand contracts within seconds, pulling up-to-date data any time. Thanks to our legal AI based on machine learning and natural language processing, contract analysis and management have never been this convenient and efficient. • Pre-Signature: Legartis enables you to review contracts up to 85% faster by recognising unacceptable or missing provisions according to its Contract Playbook. Legartis Solution reads and analyses contracts suggesting edits based on a company’s legal policies, ensuring full compliance across the enterprise. • Post-Signature: Legartis provides an instant insight into one's legal data to ensure an organisation can proactively manage contracts and is able to mitigate contractual risks. Check out their Website

Kamil Kula

COO

MoonVision

MoonVision automates counting and inspection tasks using advanced Artificial Intelligence. Customers benefit from a higher quality with less trainingsdata, simple handling and a web-interface for training and improvement tasks. Check out their Website

Philipp Csernalabics

Co-Founder

neohelden

Meet Neo, our digital AI-assistant for business! You can think of Neo as Alexa, but for business: Instead of controlling lights or music, you can access and query systems like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce – using text and voice, on any device, and even On-Premises! With Neo, for example, complex database-queries turn into simple questions – how many sales did we have in the US last month? – and Neo delivers the answer; directly from your systems. This allows for intuitive software interaction if information is caught in silos or traditional software fails. With our Conversational Platform, conversations and workflows are created using a drag & drop interface without requiring coding skills. If needed, you can integrate third-party systems using our SDKs available in 18 programming languages. Check out their Website

Jason Rudd

VP Sales & Marketing

Neteera

Neteera is the global pioneer in introducing a first of a kind seamless & contact-free Vital Signs sensing system based on a combination of two disruptive technologies - Proprietary algorithms (that enable tracking of human vital sins, even in motion-rich environments) and a SMD high-frequency micro-radar-on-chip(sub-THz). Our unique "Motion Compensation" algorithms uniquely high integrity vital signs data in real-world environments. Check out their Website

Adam Friedmann

Product Owner German Chatbot Projects

Passage.AI

Industry leading conversational AI platform with deep integration of information retrieval and content automation approaches to enable even complex chatbot text/voice use cases. Complex use cases are voice commerce on 20,000+ products with many description attributes, user manual content automation (automated scraping into our platform) or tire changing appointments with CRM/ERP information lock-up (e.g. tires stored in tire hotel). Additionally, we offer out-of-the-box elements for smart conversations, e.g. go back, automatic disambiguation or coreference resolution ('turn the light on.' 'turn it off again'); a very mature bot building console (no coding required) and the same solution can be deployed across all relevant platforms, e.g. website, app or messaging platforms plus IVR. Check out their Website

Christian Effert

Territory Manager Central Europe

RealWear

RealWear has built the first 100% hands-free ruggedized head-mounted wearable device for industrial workers, the Head-Mounted Tablet HMT-1. The RealWear HMT-1 is a reliable and intuitive knowledge transfer tool, made to connect workers with more capabilities and increase safety and productivity, all the way to the frontline where work happens – from the back office, to the road, into the field and all of the hardest to reach places where no other device can go. Check out their Website

Mikus Jacek

CEO

Robonetica

We are approaching the 4th industrial revolution. The internet has given us the ability to access knowledge whenever we need it. Everyone can get information about anything. But they cannot get experience. Robonetica is an educational platform aimed to teach teenagers how to code robots. With our gamified method, we are changing the world by democratising education in robotics and AI to be accessible to anyone with a phone and an internet connection. Check out their Website

Laurens Laudowicz

CEO & Founder

Stark

Vehicle shares are acquired by hosts, yet the fleet is operated by us. This model moves the depreciating hardware CapEx from our books and allows for sustainable expansion typical of a two sided marketplace. It has the potential to disrupt the the individual vehicle ownership model. It also allows us to leapfrog the missing EV charging infrastructure. Check out their Website

Eitan Grosbard

VP of Business Development and Account Management

Tactile Mobility

Tactile Mobility is a mobility data company that adds the missing sense of touch (tactility) to smart and autonomous vehicles, making vehicles smarter, roads safer and maps more reliable By tapping into data from nonvisual sensors already existing in the vehicle, Tactile Mobility provides data solutions that monitor and analyze the vehicle-road dynamics, providing actionable insights that maximize safety, user-experience, and driving efficiency in the mobility industry. It leverages tactile data to provide solutions for OEM’s/ Tier-1s, Road Authorities and municipalities, Fleet Managers. Check out their Website

Sven Körner

CEO

Thingsthinking

Most data is unstructured. Processing unstructured data requires semantic understanding. Our software semantha® is able to read, understand, compare, and remember the meaning of written text, regardless of its wording. USP: semantha® requires only handful of examples OUR MISSION: Help humans by making all unstructured data (text) semantically accessible Check out their Website

Fazlul Hoque

Co-Founder - software architect

Trailer Dynamics

Trailer Dynamics has developed innovative solutions to reduce CO2 emissions within long haul trucking. Especially in the field of long hauling new technologies have to ensure reliability, efficiency and particularly high operating radii for the heaviest vehicles. To improve the efficiency and performance we habe developed an electric Drivetrain that we placed into the semi trailer, we have developed adaptive aerodynamic solutions for the trailers and invented an efficiency software. All three developments and innovations will help our customers to significantly reduce emissions in long hauling. Trailer Dynamics innovative plug-in-hybrid system is the most promising bridge technology for the sustainable transport mobility of tomorrow! Check out their Website

David Oren

CSO

UVEye

UVeye - the future standard of vehicle inspection. The company provides high-end solutions for automatic external inspection of vehicles. UVeye's deep learning algorithms enable detection of a wide variety of anomalies from leaks, rust, dents, scratches to brakes or engine problems for the automotive industry, and unlawful object, bombs or threats for access control and the security market. The use cases for UVeye's technology cover the entire life-cycle of the vehicle. From the manufacturing lines, for in-line to end-of-line inspection, continuing to logistics (transportation of vehicles) to dealers (PDI) through maintenance, car rental, sharing and leasing companies and until the used-cars auction/marketplaces, all use UVeye's technology and platform for vehicle inspection. Check out their Website

Felix Meißgeier

Co-Founder

Viscopic

VISCOPIC Pins constitutes an augmented reality authoring-software for enterprises that allows to easily create AR workflows per drag&drop without requiring programming skills. With this solution the user is able to easily create Point-of-interest-based guidance for standard procedures such as daily care, maintenance and more. Furthermore, we integrated a web-based license-, user- and content management system to scale and distribute AR content to company wide for many usecases. All workflow content can be visualized using HoloLens or iOS (ARKit enabled) devices using VISCOPIC Pins Viewer App Check out their Website

Darius Pajouh

Co-Founder & CEO

Visualix

Visualix enables for the first time centimetre precise and robust AR at large scale up to 20.000 sqm. With their patent-pending visual mapping and localisation technology, the company has solved the problem of merging physical spaces with digital content with centimetre precision. Developers can build their own applications using the Visualix SDK. Based on your technology, usecases from large scale AR, to visual track and trace can be enabled. Check out their Website

Tobias Rasche

Co-founder & CEO

YPTOKEY

YPTOKEY provides a solution for mobile and digital access based on Blockchain technology. It combines assets/vehicles/locks, mobile devices and decentralized networks. Its solution will change the experience around opening and sharing access of assets. First, the users' identities become the key for everything. Second, businesses gain the opportunity of cross-industrial service innovation due to easy third-party-integration. The current solutions around digital access are server-orientated. Hence users and businesses are depending on centralized databases. Our online- and offline-solution is user-centric so that users receive autonomy over their assets. The permission-based Blockchain validates the anonymized identities and ensures a trustful basis between the parties involved. Check out their Website

Matthew Lowe

Co-Founder & CEO

ZeroKey

Breakthrough IIoT sensor technology (18+ patents) enables high accuracy real-time wall-to-wall 3D tracking of assets, personnel, gestures/workflow, and equipment in large industrial environments. Provides completely new and actional data source that flips industrial workflow paradigms on their head. Check out their Website