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Germany • Foolish Futures GmbH
Marcel Melzer
Expertise
- Supply Chain & Operations
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
- Aerospace & MRO
- Geopolitics & Trade Risk
- Industrial Mittelstand
Marcel Melzer is the founder of Foolish Futures GmbH, built on the conviction that most foresight work fails for a boring reason: it produces documents instead of decisions. His background is operational — he ran greenfield MRO factory projects for MTU in Poland and Serbia and led Operational Excellence for supply chain at Mars — and today he advises industrial companies and associations on strategy under uncertainty. That combination shapes what interests him: not predicting the future, but the moment a decision is actually made. He writes and speaks on Decision Latency, the gap between when information arrives and when an organisation acts, and uses AI as an analytical engine to turn foresight into something a leadership team can decide on in days rather than quarters. Foolish Futures commits 5% of net profits to organisations working on social mobility. What drives him is the belief that too much potential, in people and in companies, is administered rather than shaped.
Germany • Quynta
Sabine Wiesmüller, PhD
Expertise
- AI Strategy & Enterprise Transformation
- Responsible AI, Governance & Ethics
- Startup Scaling & International Growth
- Innovation Ecosystems & Partnerships
- Entrepreneurship & Technology Adoption
Sabine Wiesmüller, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Quynta, a Munich-based B2B SaaS venture currently operating in stealth mode. She brings more than fifteen years of experience across artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and ecosystem development. As Director of AI Europe at Start2 Group, she founded and scaled the European AI Competence Center, supported more than 150 AI startups in entering international markets, and worked with companies including Siemens and BMW on AI strategy, AI adoption, and corporate innovation. She also co-founded and led the Bodensee Innovation Cluster for multiple years, building connections between over 800 established organizations ranging from industry to SMEs, startups, and academia. Alongside her entrepreneurial work, Sabine continues to research and teach innovation, entrepreneurship, and AI governance at Zeppelin University and Deggendorf Institute of Technology. What drives her is the belief that Europe’s future in AI must be ambitious, self-reliant, and values-driven — and that technological progress has to be translated into ventures, ecosystems, and practical solutions that create lasting economic and societal value.
Germany • CinqC
Kristen Davis
Expertise
- Technology
- Strategic Foresight
- Business Models
- Geopolitics
- Democracy & Media
Kristen Davis is a strategist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and geopolitics, with a focus on strategic foresight, digital sovereignty, and democratic resilience. Her work centres on designing strategic dialogues that enable governments, international organisations, and business leaders to navigate technological disruption and its implications for security, governance, information ecosystems, and society. She is the Founder and CEO of CinqC, a global strategic advisory firm working with multinational companies, European institutions, and international organisations on AI strategy, technological transformation, and long-term strategic positioning in an era of rapid geopolitical and technological change. Previously, she held senior international leadership roles at The New York Times, where she led technology transformation, innovation initiatives, cybersecurity, and international operations during a period of significant structural change in global media and information ecosystems — experience that continues to inform her work on the relationship between technology, information integrity, and democratic resilience.
Germany • Demokratie-Wegweiser
Klas Roggenkamp
Expertise
- Civic Tech
- UI/UX
- Data Visualisation
- Monitoring
Klas Roggenkamp is a Berlin-based digital entrepreneur and civic tech builder working at the intersection of technology, open data, and democratic participation. In 2002, as a political science student, he conceived, designed, and built the Wahl-O-Mat, Germany’s most-used election tool. He later founded compuccino, a digital agency acquired in 2014, and co-founded the Open Data Network, Germany’s leading advocacy group for open government data. He is co-founder and Head of Product of Demokratie-Wegweiser, an interactive map that shows citizens who holds political responsibility for their address, and co-founder of WikiRADR, which converts online civic engagement into offline political action.
Canada • Perceptful.AI
David Jonker
Expertise
- Foresight
- Corporate Intelligence
- AI
- B2B
- Marketing
David Jonker is the co-founder and CEO of Perceptful.AI, an AI platform for corporate intelligence teams and their networks of vendors and decision-makers. Prior to founding Perceptful.AI, he was Vice President, Corporate Marketing at SAP, where he led the Insights research center, global brand campaigns, and influencer marketing. Earlier at SAP, he led brand awareness, product marketing, go-to-market, and product teams for the company’s analytics, Big Data, and database offerings. David’s career also includes more than ten years across sales, business development, software R&D, and user experience research. He holds a master’s degree in strategic foresight from the University of Houston and a bachelor’s degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Germany • Viva Ventures
Claudius Jablonka
Expertise
- Investing
- Fundraising
- Deeptech
- AI
- Internationalization
Claudius Jablonka is a technology investor, operator, and founder advisor with more than a decade of experience backing early-stage companies across Europe and the US. He was a General Partner at Volkswagen-backed Leitmotif and co-founded 10x Founders, which raised €160 million from 200 entrepreneurs and angels and invested in 70 startups, including Cylib, Ixana, and Magic. Earlier, he established Plug and Play’s Munich office, led AI and deep-tech investments such as Recogni and Presize.ai, and ran innovation programs with major corporations. As Chief of Staff at notebooksbilliger.de, he helped scale the business to €800 million in revenue, and at CDTM he managed an entrepreneurship program whose alumni founded Personio, Trade Republic, Forto, Razor, and Cellares — where he remains a lecturer and advisor. Claudius holds a doctorate in Economics from LMU Munich, and he supports founders with fundraising, strategy, international expansion, scaling, and access to an extensive European and US tech network.
Germany • J3D.AI (Jedi) Labs
Yip Thy-Diep Ta
Expertise
- Strategy
- Emotional Intelligence
- Cybernetics
- Asia
Yip Thy-Diep Ta is CEO of J3D.AI (Jedi), an AI-enabled platform for catalyzing human-centric collaboration, driven by a vision to make peace more profitable than war. She is known for her award-winning work bridging the gender equity gap in AI and Web3, particularly through co-founding women-centric education and upskilling initiatives. She holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School.
Portugal • Strelux
Felipe Gil Gutierrez
Expertise
- Maritime Trade Compliance
- Sanctions Exposure & Screening
- Beneficial Ownership Analysis
- Large-Scale Systems Engineering
- RegTech (Regulation Meets Engineering)
Felipe Gil Gutierrez is the Founder and CEO of Strelux, a company that helps banks, insurers, and traders identify who really owns and controls the ships they trade with — and whether that ownership trail leads to sanctioned entities. Based in Ericeira, Portugal, he spent thirteen years building large-scale systems before founding Strelux, including multi-country platform work at MediaMarkt Saturn. Working at the intersection of regulation and engineering, he draws on a background in infrastructure and large-scale systems to assess whether a compliance requirement is actually implementable and what it will cost to run. At Strelux, he focuses on sanctions exposure in maritime trade, ownership structures, and the gap between what a screening system flags and what a compliance officer can act on.
Germany • Moving Parts
David Beyersdorffer
Expertise
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems
- Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
- Innovation & Technology Adoption
- Future of Travel & Mobility
- Technology Governance & Regulation
David Beyersdorffer is co-founder of Moving Parts, a Munich-based planning firm for autonomous systems in human environments. He brings over twelve years of experience spanning mobility, infrastructure, capital goods, medical, and consumer products across a wide range of project settings. As Innovation Lead at a major greenfield airport in the Middle East, he led an interdisciplinary team for more than two years, where he repeatedly observed autonomous systems entering real environments without anyone planning for them across vendors, systems, and the people meant to use them. Moving Parts grew out of that gap, founded to give such systems a human-centred plan before they arrive. He is driven by the conviction that the future of automation is being shaped right now and must be planned deliberately, so that it works for the people who will live with it.
Germany • Climedo Health
Veronika Schweighart
Expertise
- Digital Health
- Healthcare
- Mental Health
- Productivity & Focus
- Partnerships & Business Development
Veronika is the founder of two international startups in the productivity and health-tech sectors. As Co-Founder and COO of Climedo, she spent over eight years building the company from scratch to more than 60 clients, 200+ projects, and seven-figure annual revenue, including the first big-pharma client and a partnership with the world’s largest CRO. She personally managed the end-to-end sales process while simultaneously building and leading a 10-person sales and marketing team, and navigated the company through several strategic shifts. After more than a decade as a founder and leader, she is deeply engaged with the question of how entrepreneurs and executives can improve their cognitive performance in a persistently fragmented digital world, driven by her personal mission to enable founders to achieve success and to help shape Europe as a strong hub for AI.
Germany • Leegle
Dr. Anne Greul
Expertise
- Innovation Strategy
- Legal Tech
- AI-First Operations
Dr. Anne Greul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Leegle, a platform revolutionizing enterprise product compliance through Agentic AI. While establishing a research hub in Boston for Audi in cooperation with MIT, she observed a recurring pattern: promising technology projects frequently failed due to regulatory complexity. To solve this, she co-founded Leegle, transforming manual compliance bottlenecks into autonomous AI workflows. Anne holds a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from TU Munich and conducted research at Stanford University, with her work featured in the Harvard Business Review. Having evaluated tech trends from a macro-strategic perspective at McKinsey Digital and as Managing Partner of the California Innovation Fund, she now operates in the trenches as a tech founder, allowing her to connect the dots between global investment themes, academic research, and the operational reality of building B2B software.
Germany • Impact Hero
Dijana Galijasevic
Expertise
- Responsible Leadership
- World Regeneration
- Climate Tech
- Impact Technology
Dr. Dijana Galijasevic is the Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Hero, a Berlin-based impact technology company helping businesses embed measurable environmental and social impact into everyday operations. Through partnerships with more than 600 companies worldwide, Impact Hero has enabled the planting of over 3 million trees and supported a range of regeneration initiatives across the globe. Alongside her entrepreneurial work, Dijana is a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission and holds a PhD from HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, where her research focused on kindness in business leadership and responsible leadership practices. Having experienced war and displacement firsthand, she is driven by a vision of building more regenerative, responsible, and human-centered systems that create long-term value for both people and the planet.
Germany / Estonia • J3D.AI
Kevin Varend
Expertise
- Public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Neuroscience
- Mindfulness
- Cross-border business
- Entrepreneurship
Kevin Varend is the Founder and Managing Director of J3D.AI, a group operating across Tallinn, Munich, and Mumbai with the vision of making collaboration more profitable than competition. His work centres on strategic advisory that accelerates public-private partnerships (PPP), and on curating platforms that bring governments and business together, such as the flagship House of Collaboration with over 800 delegates and the Estonian Leap Program. He is the Founding Curator of Global Shapers Estonia, a World Economic Forum initiative focused on empowering young leaders and strengthening Estonia’s presence in global innovation networks, and a Founding Member of the Estonian Leap program endorsed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economics and Trade.
Germany • Moving Parts
David Beyersdorffer
Expertise
- Robotics & autonomous systems
- Human-robot interaction (HRI)
- Innovation & technology adoption
- Future of travel & mobility
- Technology governance & regulation
David Beyersdorffer is co-founder of Moving Parts, a Munich-based planning firm for autonomous systems in human environments. He brings over twelve years of experience across mobility, infrastructure, capital goods, medical and consumer products, in a wide range of project settings. As Innovation Lead at a major greenfield airport in the Middle East, he led an interdisciplinary team for over two years. Time and again in that work he saw autonomous systems enter real environments with no one planning them across vendors, systems and the people meant to use them. Moving Parts grew out of that gap, founded to give these systems a human-centred plan before they arrive. What drives him is the belief that the future of automation is being shaped right now and has to be planned deliberately, so that it works for the people who will live with it.
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