Sascha Guenther

Partner

Vorwerk Ventures

Jacques Bonin

Chief Medical Officer

Anicura

Leonor Ladeira

Vice President

L Catterton

Mo Haghighi

Distinguished Engineer

Discover Financial Services

Dr Mo Haghighi is a director of engineering/distinguished engineer at Discover Financial Services. His current focus is hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, application modernisation and automating application/workload migration across public and private clouds. Previously, he held various leadership positions as a program director at IBM, where he led Developer Ecosystem and Cloud Engineering teams in 27 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to IBM, he was a research scientist at Intel and an open source advocate at Sun Microsystems/Oracle. 

Mo obtained a PhD in computer science, and his primary areas of expertise are distributed and edge computing, cloud native, IoT and AI, with several publications and patents in those areas.

Mo is a regular keynote/speaker at major developer conferences including Devoxx, DevOpsCon, Java/Code One, Codemotion, DevRelCon, O’Reilly, The Next Web, DevNexus, IEEE/ACM, ODSC, AiWorld, CloudConf and Pycon. 

Asim Shah

Generative AI Research Engineering Lead

Citi Bank

Tobias Ehlgen

Head of AI

ZF Group

Stylianos Venieris

Senior Research Scientist

Samsung AI

Dimitri Metzger

Digital, Data, & IT for Medical AI R&D

Merck

Hannes Iserentant

Head of IP

Ceylad Oncology

Hannes Iserentant, Head of IP at Celyad Oncology, started his IP career in private practice Bird Goën & Co as member of the Life Sciences team. In 2008, he joined the tech transfer team of VIB, a dedicated life sciences research institute, as IP Manager. From 2013 to 2016, he was part of the Expert Group on patent law in the field of biotechnology for the European Commission. He joined Celyad Oncology in 2016, where he now is Head of IP. Hannes Iserentant holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Ghent University, is a qualified European Patent Attorney and European Patent Litigator.