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Camille Canon is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, and ardent believer in the importance of social change. She has successfully led small teams to create e-commerce and affiliate platforms, launch native apps, and to develop real estate initiatives focused on community building and affordable housing. She recently joined the Purpose Foundation to support their US efforts, building out their communications and operations strategies. In her free time, Camille enjoys hiking in Northern California, tending to her plants, and cooking.

Armin is managing startup and investor relations at Humaniq, the blockchain solution for financial inclusion of the unbanked population. Humaniq team believes that with proper access to banking and financial services, the poorest 2 billion, will experience an unprecedented economic renaissance that will sustainably improve their lives. Armin‘s goal is working with startups and impact investors that are passionate about solving real-life problems of Africa and emerging world.

Alexander is an economist and investor. Alexander studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University of Oxford and University College London. Working for a leading economic consulting firm (NERA), he has advised international corporations, governmental organizations and financial institutions on matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, competition, finance, regulatory issues and Due Diligence.

Alexander co-founded Purpose Ventures e.G., a coop that invests in start-ups that are steward-owned and the Purpose Network gGmbH. In addition to his work at Purpose, he is an investment advisor for a family office with a 100% impact portfolio.

As an identical twin Adrian experienced the magic and opportunities of trust and real collaboration from his early years on. Adrian is a business psychologist and worked for a strategic brand consultancy (DEBA GmbH) advising national and international SMEs. He was part of the management board of a successful start-up (Absolventa GmbH) where he was responsible for a sales and customer support team with up to 40 colleagues generating strong and sustainable growth. He is proud to have co-created a very successful organisationa and especially a sales team that was completely build on long term thinking, trust and self-responsibility instead of short term pressure. As co-founder of Purpose Ventures and Purpose Network gGmbH he is proud to co-create purposeful organisation, and help to rethink ownership to transform the economy.

Born as an identical twin Achim is passionate about the power of relationships and trustful collaboration. Today he is a business psychologist and studied management and entrepreneurship. He worked for Startsocial – a program to transfer knowledge from the private sector to social projects. As a consultant and research analyst he worked in China, Singapore and the US for the management and culture development consultancy nextpractice. At Germany based company Traum-Ferienwohnungen (an online marketplace for holiday rentals) he was responsible for product management, company building and organizational development. Here he facilitated a transformational process to a bossless organization with 140 people. Achims passion is to improve the way companies work -building and scaling organizations that bring companies to the full potential and give employees control over their work. Achim co-founded purpose to enable companies to sustainably change their DNA and support value-driven organisations to co-create an economy that serves people and society.

Loic Le Pichoux is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Klear, a unique platform combining Peer-to-Peer Lending and Financial Education.

Loic brings in 20 years of experience in Cetelem and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, having occupied various C-Executive positions in many countries. He had been the CEO of Cetelem in Algeria and was the CEO of BNP Paribas Personal Finance in Bulgaria just before leaving this big banking group.

Gathering a team of experienced professionals from the industry having previously worked with him, Klear was created in Bulgaria with the idea to build a sustainable activity, fair and transparent.

With over 10 years experience in communications and five years dedicated to tech evangelism in Berlin’s startup scene, Liz’s passion lies in unearthing great work at the intersection of marketing and tech – and making sure the world hears about it.

Liz first joined DCMN as Head of International Communications in 2015 before shifting to work directly with the tech teams, where she is responsible for promoting the company’s state-of-the-art marketing analytics and automation tools. She is the voice of the company’s tech and product teams, ensuring that stakeholders both internally and externally get the most out of DCMN’s products.

Prior to DCMN, Liz worked in marketing and communications at SaaS company CloudControl, worked as a freelance journalist and political consultant, and gained her MBA from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Matthias Riedl co-founded DCMN with the mission of combining technology and media expertise to help digital businesses scale rapidly with trackable, ROI-driven offline and online campaigns.

At DCMN, he is responsible for strategic growth and manages key clients and partner relationships across the globe. Drawing from his experience as a serial entrepreneur in the e-commerce space, he knows exactly how to address the needs of digital businesses.

Before DCMN, Riedl founded and managed several e-commerce ventures, and previously worked as a product manager in the music industry. In 2010, he founded DCMN with long-time business partner Andreas Dengler. An early mover in performance-driven TV ad campaigns, DCMN has helped more than 170 digital brands scale their businesses.

Product strategist with a digital marketing background (9+ years). Currently leading Tapptitude to become Europe’s top mobile product agency

Ben Lee is a tech influencer, Inc. 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur, and cofounder of the digital creative studio Rootstrap.

Wabwire is a new breed of a creative Entrepreneur in Africa. Founder of KQ Hub Africa a virtual African CreativeArts Hub.

Co-Founder, Community Builder & Communications Manager in Education on a mission helping learners discover their superpowers.

Before starting Anivo, Alex was a Manager with Accenture and Principal with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the insurance practice

Vinay Solanki is Head of Commercial Growth Fund at Channel 4, the “media for equity” division of the UK broadcaster.

The “media for equity” is an alternative way for earlier stage companies to access prime media advertising inventory for small equity stakes, instead of cash.  This alleviates a pain point in the advertising ecosystem; TV advertising is prohibitively expensive and difficult to understand too.  Since launch in 2015, Channel 4 has completed over 10 investments in consumer digital companies, including Eve Sleep plc, Readly and Job Today, investing directly alongside VCs such as Octopus Ventures & Accel Partners amongst many others.

Vinay has 15+ years’ experience working in M&A, strategy or investments, mostly in media related businesses including Getty Images, the largest photo business in the world, and Liberty Global, the largest cable operator in Europe.  Vinay holds degrees in UCL and Imperial College London.

Jan Miczaika joined HV Holtzbrinck Ventures as a partner in 2017. Previously Jan was COO at Wooga, a Berlin-based developer of mobile games (and a HV investment). Straight out of university Jan co-founded Hitmeister, an e-commerce marketplace later sold to Real – METRO Group. Since 2007 Jan has also been an angel investor in almost 20 companies including Blacklane, Audibene (sold to EQT/Sivantos), MAR (sold to Grünenthal Pharma), Homelike, Wooga and Jodel. Jan studied Business Administration at HHL in Leipzig and in the Ph.D. program at WHU.

Alain is founder and managing partner at Expon Capital, a VC firm based in Luxembourg, focusing on early stage exponential ventures.

Till has been doing magic for over 30 years – with shows all around the world. He has perfected the skill of artfully weaving together imagination, story telling, psychology, misdirection and sleight of hand wizardry. This turned out to be very helpful on his journey as an entrepreneur. It helped him create 7 companies and captivate millions of users. Now he is teaching what he has learned to others, explaining how to imagine a future that is impossible today, and then to go out and create it, either through technology, science, or just plain old magic.

Teddy Funger is an American living in Holland. Since the age of 10 he has been fascinated with technology and entrepreneurship. Dilly dilly!

– Studies in mechanical and industrial engineering
– R&D at TU Berlin for 7 years
– IoT & Industry 4.0 expertise

Serial entrepreneur since the late 90‘s, exited four companies in the dotcom era. Active as business angel for 10 years.

After nearly 10 years as a US Army officer all over the world, I am searching for ways to care for the people that most of the world forgot.

Peter is the CEO and co-founder of SponsorMyEvent, the marketplace for sponsorships.
Serial entrepreneur since 2001.

I design and market in the day, video, VC, proponent of tech inclusion for startups and brew craft beer with craft popcorn while painting

Director & Member of the board of The European Young Innovators Forum and Director of EU Startup Services

Jeff is a first-generation Canadian of German/Austrian parents. His mission is contributing to the sustainable advancement of humanity.

Christian Sauer is the CEO of Webtrekk, a leading German customer analytics company, with 130 employees and offices in five countries.

Musician since age 4, wrote a hip-hop song chronicling #startuplife after co-founding 2 tech companies & raising funds from 3 investors.

Maria is an Investment Director at Beringea VC and has been investing in businesses for 10 years. She was also previously MD of Birchbox UK.

Started off as a securities lawyer in Toronto, then had C-suite jobs with international life insurers.
Set up Community Life in 2015.

Originally Spanish/Austrian, joined BlaBlaCar to do International expansion & Head of strategy in 2013, now at London-based VC Balderton

Founder & CEO of softgarden from 1999 until 2017. Now member of the board at softgarden and Founder & CEO of Granola Studios GmbH.

Nerd, serial entrepreneur and StarCraft amateur
❤ Lisp, bootstrapping, user experience, machine learning, blockchain tech and tea.

Meeri Rebane is the co-founder of insurtech start-up INZMO, which was also awarded as the Best Fintech Startup in Europe in 2017.

Serial Entrepreneur and Founder 7percent Ventures
Co-Conspirator The ICE List not-for-profit entrepreneur group. Lover of flying and film.

I ❤ network effects
Partner @ Speedinvest x |
Alumni: Uniplaces, PointNineCap, Naspers, ricardo |
Passion for startups, 🥊🥋 🏃 🏍 🍫 ☕

Community Builder and Growth Marketing Strategist by nature. I love networking and meeting, creative people. From Chile living in Estonia.