Co-Chairs

  • Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City/ USA

Confirmed Speakers

  • Lorraine Anderson, Fund Manager, Development Gap Fund, Medical Research Council Technology, London/ UK

  • Martin Austin, Managing Director, TransformRx, Basel/ Switzerland

  • Timothy Barnes, Co-Founder, Lodestone IP; Executive Director, UCL Advances, London/ UK

  • Julian Cockbain, Senior Partner, Dehns Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Oxford/ UK
  • Stephen Dahms, President and CEO Emeritus, Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, Valencia/ USA

  • Janke Dittmer, Senior Director and Head of Strategy and New Business Development, Philips Healthcare Incubator, Eindhoven/ Netherlands
  • Frank Douglas, President and CEO, Austen BioInnovation Institute, Akron; Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City/ USA
  • Karl Max Einhaeupl, Chairman of the Executive Board, Charite - Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin/ Germany

  • Gerrit Fleige, Faculty Business Director, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin/ Germany

  • Gil Granot-Mayer, General Counsel, Yeda Research and Development Company, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot/ Israel

  • Bertil Guve, Director, Centre for Technology in Medicine and Health (Karolinska Institute, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)), Stockholm/ Sweden

  • Michiel de Haan, Founder, Atlas Venture; Founder and General Partner, Aescap Venture, Amsterdam/ Netherlands

  • Peter Heinrich, CEO, BIO Deutschland; CEO, MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, Berlin/ Germany

  • Friederike Hoffmann, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Media and Communication Management, University of St. Gallen/ Switzerland

  • Scott Johnson, Serial Entrepreneur (former President and CEO of three start-up companies); Former Partner, Boston Consulting Group; CEO, Myelin Repair Foundation; waiting for a cure to multiple sclerosis since 1976, Palo Alto/ USA

  • Jan Kratzer, Professor for Entrepreneurship, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin/ Germany

  • Magnus Klofsten, Founding Director, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Linkoeping/ Sweden

  • Andreas Lendlein, Entrepreneur and Vice Director, Berlin-Brandenburg Center of Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin/ Germany

  • Martin Mahn, Managing Director, HUMBOLDT-INNOVATION GmbH, Berlin/ Germany

  • Jürgen Meier, Partner, Vossius & Partner Patent and Trademark Attorneys, München/ Germany

  • John Mullins, Serial Entrepreneur and Associate Professor of Management Practice, London Business School, London/ UK

  • Dario Peirone, CEO, JStone Innovation Management srl; Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Torino/ Italy

  • Michael Rauhofer, Managing Director, INiTS Universitaeres Gruenderservice, Vienna/ Austria

  • Joachim Rautter, Partner, PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners and Charité Biomedical Fund, Berlin/ Germany

  • Christoph Regierer, Attorney, German Chartered Accountant and Tax Advisor, RoeverBroenner, Berlin/ Germany

  • Andreas Richter, Attorney at Law. Partner, P+P Poellath + Partners, Berlin/ Germany; President of the Executive Board, Postgraduate Course "Private Wealth Management - Family-owned Businesses Succession Asset Management", Universitaet Muenster
  • Walter L. Rust, Partner, Notary and Attorney at Law, Mock-Rechtsanwaelte Berlin/ Germany; Business Angel

  • Jens Schneider-Mergener, Founder and former CEO, Jerini AG; Professor of Immunology, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; CEO, Kusala Foundation; Berlin/ Germany

  • Klaus Stoeckemann, Partner, PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners and Charité Biomedical Fund, Berlin/ Germany

  • Falk F. Strascheg, Managing Shareholder, EXTOREL Private Equity Advisers, Munich/ Germany
  • Michal Preminger, Senior Director of Business Development, Harvard University, Cambridge/ USA

  • Tine Thygesen, Managing Director, Venture Cup, Copenhagen/ Denmark

  • Goetz W. Werner, Entrepreneur and Founder, dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG; Professor for Entrepreneurship, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe/ Germany

  • Stian Westlake, Executive Director Policy and Research, NESTA, London/ UK

  • Andreas Zaby, Serial Entrepreneur, Professor of Management and Entrepreneurial Finance, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin/ Germany