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  • Transatlantic Sync

    Germany & Silicon Valley: Shaping a shared digital future

    Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California

     

    October 27 - 29, 2019

     

    organized by the Young Professionals Team within the German American Business Association

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    Introductions and Keynotes

    The need for a new bridge between Silicon Valley and Germany in the age of AI

    HANS-ULRICH SÜDBECK, German Consul General of San Francisco - Intro

    PETER BEYER, M.P. & Coordinator for Transatlantic Relations, German Foreign Office - Keynote

    Innovation in the Age of AI

    OLAF GROTH, Ph.D.; CEO Cambrian Futures Inc.; Professor, Hult Business School - Intro

    ANDY V. BECHTOLSHEIM, Ph.D.; Co-founder, Sun Microsystems; Founder, Arista Networks- AI Based Innovation

    CHRISTOPH KEESE, Best-selling technology author; CEO, Axel Springer Hy - Digital Disruption

    HAUKE SCHMIDT, Ph.D.; Vice President, Research and Technology Center, Robert Bosch North American- Industrial AI

    Panel Discussion: AI-based Innovation

    Digital Democracy: Ethics, Responsibility, Transparency, and Privacy

    JOHN L. HENNESSY, Chairman, Alphabet; President Emeritus, Stanford University - Fireside Chat

    CAMILLE CRITTENDEN, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

    Panel Discussion: Ethics & Responsibility in the Digital Age

    JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times Journalist & Winner of the Pulitzer-Prize - Panel Intro

    SIEGBERT SCHEFKE, Journalist and leader of Germany's StaSi resistance - StaSi Surveillance and Resistance

    JOSH CHIN, National Fellow at New America and Beijing-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal - 21st Century Surveillance in China

    ANDREAS WEIGEND, Ph.D.; Member of the Digital Council to the German Government, former Chief Scientist, Amazon - Data Dilemma Transparency vs Privacy

    SHEILA COLCLASURE, SVP, Global Digital Responsibility and Public Policy at IPG Kinesso

    JEANETTE HOFMANN, Professor of Internet Policy at Humboldt University, Berlin (Institute of Networked Society) and Co-Founder of Weizenbaum Institute of Networked Society

    Panel Disussion: Digital Democracy

    Michael Göring, CEO of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius - Civil Society in Digital Age

    The Future of Work

    HAL VARIAN, Ph.D.; Chief Economist, Google - Keynote: Future of Work

    SIMON SCHUMACHER, Research Scientist, Fraunhofer IPA - Future of work 360 Case Studies

    ESTHER LEGANT, Head of KIT LINK, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Future of Work

    Panel Discussion: Work in the age of AI

    LUTHER JACKSON, Program Manager at NOVA (moderator)
    MARKUS DICKS, Ph.D.; Policy Lab Digital Work and Society, German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
    ASHER SINENSKY, Ph.D.; Palantir Senior Executive

     

    Health care in the age of AI

    LLOYD B. MINOR, Ph.D.; Dean, Stanford Medical School - Health care in the age of AI

    Panel Discussion: AI Health Care
    PAVLOS TSANTILAS, M.D.; Resident, University Hospital Munich

    PETER SCHARDT, Ph.D.; CTO, Siemens Healthineers

    GOTTFRIED LUDEWIG, Ph.D.; Director General Digitalisation and Innovation Federal Ministry of Health Germany

    BETH ROGOZINSKI, CEO, Signal2Health

    Supply Chain Security

    ANJA MANUEL, CoFounder and Partner, RiceHadleyGates LLC - Supply Chain Security 

    Panel Discussion: Supply Chain Security

    DR. GREGORY L. ROSSTON, Director of the Public Policy program at Stanford University
    DR. KENJI KUSHIDA, Japan Program Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
    QUENTIN HARDY, Head of Editorial at Google Cloud

    Startup Pitches

    VOLKER DAHM, Founder and CEO of KeyX - Pitch
    ROMAN WOLKOW, Co-founder and CEO of Mitakus Analytic
    SVEN PRZYWARRA, Founder of LiveEO
    ANDREJ SAFUNDZIC, Founder & Lead of Tech4Germany
    PHILIPP PETRESCU, CEO & Co-founder MVPF Technologies GmbH
    ADAM PROBST, CEO and Co-founder maiot GmbH

  • Press

    Transatlantic Sync Conference is in the German News!

    Technologisch fast abgehängt: Deutschlands Wohlstand in ernster Gefahr

    www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/technologisch-fast-abgehaengt-deutschlands-wohlstand-in-ernster-gefahr

     

    Studierende der Uni Kiel diskutieren im Silicon Valley über die digitale Zukunft

    https://idw-online.de/de/news726169

     

    Für attraktive Arbeitswelten der Zukunft: Deutsche und US-amerikanische Forschende vernetzten sich im Silicon Valley

    https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2019/10/31/fuer-attraktive-arbeitswelten-der-zukunft-deutsche-und-us-amerikanische-forschende-vernetzten-sich-im-silicon-valley/?groupcolor=2

     

    KI made in Germany? Was wir vom Silicon Valley lernen können

    https://blog.iao.fraunhofer.de/ki-made-in-germany-was-wir-vom-silicon-valley-lernen-koennen/

     

    Brauchen wir digitale Grundrechte? Vorstellung der Digital Charta in Kalifornien

    https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/aktuelles/detail/177

     

    Transatlantic Dialogue on Shaping the Shared Digital Future

    https://medium.com/@pawan.nandakishore/transatlantic-dialogue-on-shaping-the-shared-digital-future-2756948b18ab

  • We have a shared mission:

    Building a new transatlantic bridge 

    based on shared values and cooperation in new technologies and the digital economy

    Our conference

    • Creates a vibrant forum for a German-Silicon Valley dialogue about the impact of digital technologies on business and society
    • Builds a strong network for German-American collaboration in digital innovation, business, and policy-making
    • Excite, connect and inspire: Participants meet the movers and shakers of the digital future from business, academia, and politics

    Our Goal

    • Develop a shared vision for a prosperous digital future resting on a technology-focused Transatlantic partnership by bringing together leaders, experts and young talents from business, academia, and politics
    • Identify new opportunities for collaboration between Silicon Valley and Germany in business, research and policy-making to realize this vision
    • Inspiring insights on key topics: 
      • Future Technologies and Data-Driven Innovation 
      • Future of Work & Big Data for Policy Design 
      • Urban Life & Mobility 
      • Digital Human Rights & Governance
      • Digital Health & Human Enhancement
  • Want to dive right into the Transatlantic Sync topics?

    Read our white paper here
    (co-authored with Cambrian Futures)

  • Speakers

    The key minds and shapers of the transatlantic future

    Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim

    Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, First Investor in Google, Chairman of Arista Networks

    Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks, a leading vendor of cloud networking solutions.
    Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures.

    As a private venture investor, Andy has been involved in the funding of numerous companies including Google, VMware, Mellanox, and Brocade. He has served on the Board of Directors of over 25 companies, the majority of which went public or were acquired.

    Andy earned a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a Studienstiftung scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

    Donatela Bellone, PhD

    Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

    Donatela is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey focusing on Digital transformations and Sustainability including Decarbonization. She helps energy clients define their Digital vision and strategy, as well as implement highly impactful use cases and rolling out Digital solutions. Donatela earned an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley

    Peter Beyer LL.M., M.P.

    Special Rapporteur on Transatlantic Relations and the Western Balkans; Representative of Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas

    Peter Beyer, Member of the German Bundestag is a committed Atlanticist for many years. Beyer stands out among Members of the German Bundestag and hi party as one of the most committed advocates of a strong transatlantic relationship with the United States and Canada.

    He serves as parliamentary Special Rapporteur on Transatlantic Relations in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is an active member of Atlantik-Brücke, the Aspen Institute and United Europe in addition to numerous organizations in his district. Beyer is also Executive Vice-President of the Southeast Europe Association. In April 2018, Beyer was appointed Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation.

    Andreas Breiter

    Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

    Andreas leads McKinsey’s capital-investment work for advanced industries in North America as well as the company's Center for Future Mobility on the West Coast. In his advisory work, Andreas serves a broad range of companies in the automotive sector, including car and truck manufacturers and their suppliers, as well as companies in the utilities and renewables space. He helps executives make strategic choices around product development while reducing material costs and optimizing the purchasing function. With a big picture view informed by advanced analytics, Andreas helps companies take a fresh approach to capital investment as a springboard to future growth.

    Dr. Gerhard Casper

    9th President of Stanford University, Professor Emeritus of Law

    Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University. He is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor, Emeritus, and a Senior Fellow at both the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. Mr. Casper serves as a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin as well as a trustee of the Central European University in Budapest. He is a member of international advisory councils at the Israel Democracy Institute (chairman since 2014), the European University at St. Petersburg, and Koç University, Istanbul. His most recent book, The Winds of Freedom—Addressing Challenges to the University, was published by Yale University Press in February 2014. He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and occasional papers.

    Josh Chin

    National Fellow at New America and Beijing-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal

    Josh Chin is a National Fellow at New America and a long-time Beijing-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal covering Chinese tech and politics. He led a team that won the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting for a series exposing the Chinese government's pioneering embrace of digital surveillance. He is co-writing a book about the same topic for St. Martin's Press with Journal reporter Liza Lin.

    Sheila Colclasure

    SVP, Global Digital Responsibility and Public Policy at IPG Kinesso​

    Colclasure has extensive knowledge of laws governing the collection and use of information worldwide, and is regularly sought out by policy makers, regulators and government agencies for her views on the ethical use of data. She is recognized as a global authority on applied data ethics, consumer advocacy and information policy, and participates in numerous domestic and international efforts to help develop effective data policy, establish industry best practices and achieve maximum harmonization of information policy across the world.
    Colclasure is a 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholar and was recognized by CSO as one of “12 amazing women in security.” Colclasure serves on the advisory boards of the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF).

    Prior to joining IPG Kinesso, Colclasure was SVP Global Public Policy Officer for LiveRamp, the Global Chief Data Ethics Officer at Acxiom and previously worked for both the U.S. Senate and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Washington, D.C.

    Camille Crittenden​

    Executive Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute

    Camille Crittenden is Executive Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute, and co-founder of the CITRIS Policy Lab and the Women in Technology Initiative at UC. Prior to coming to CITRIS in 2012, she was Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, where she helped to develop its program in human rights, technology, and new media. She has written and spoken widely on these topics, as well as technology applications for civic engagement, government transparency and accountability, and the digital divide. She also chairs the State of California's Blockchain Working Group. She held previous positions as Assistant Dean for Development with International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley and in development and public relations at University of California Press and San Francisco Opera. She earned an MA and Ph.D. from Duke University.

    Volker Dahm

    Founder & CEO of KeyX

    Volker started his career as a Mechanical Engineer in specializing in processes and datas out of the University of Stuttgart in 1996. While founding his first startup in the area of production automation he earned the MBA of Business Administration at the HHL in Leipzig in 2009. He sold his startup to the biggest competitor in that technical field in 2013. In 2016 he founded his new company KeyX in the field of software system integration, process automation and data analytics. Based on that he developed the data analytics and integration platform MonaX4U which presents the Easiest, Safest and Most Predictive Platform to avoid Software Update Crashes.

    Lake Dai

    Partner at LDV Partners​

    Lake Dai is an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a partner at the venture capital firm, LDV Partners. For 20 years she has led product and engineering teams globally at Alibaba, Apple, Yahoo!, and Silicon Valley tech startups. She is a recognized expert in Search Engine, Ad Platform, Marketplace, Analytics, Mobile Platforms and Applications, holding 5 US patents in search algorithm, search tokenization, mobile data analytics, and mobile monetization.

    In China, Lake was employee #84 at Alibaba, led the product team launched the first generation of profitable products at Alibaba. At Yahoo! China, her team launched the first generation of web and vertical search products of China, tripling Yahoo!'s market share within one quarter. In the US, as a co-founder Shinect, a non-profit acceleration program designed to connect Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs to China's market, she has been helping companies build successful products and profitable businesses. She also mentors start-ups at various incubators including 500 Startups, Muckerlab, Lab360 and Shinect.
    As Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, she teaches Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Product Management courses at master programs in College of Engineering. She is on the Advisory Board of Women In Technology International (WITI), the premiere global organization empowering women in business and technology. She is also a Board Governor and Chairwoman of the US Chapter of QCH, a non-profit organization which fosters entrepreneurship for Alibaba alumni worldwide.

    Prof. Bruce L. Daniel

    Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering at Stanford University​

    Bruce L. Daniel MD is Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He received his B.A. in physics with highest honors from Williams College in 1985, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1990. His awards include being elected as a Fellow of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance, Distinguished Investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research, and most recently Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Recently he started and now co-directs IMMERS, the incubator for medical mixed and extended reality at Stanford.

    Dr. Markus Dicks

    Policy Lab Digital Work and Society, German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs

    Dr. Markus Dicks is Desk Officer at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) Policy Lab Digital Work & Society. The Policy Lab has started its work in October 2018. It is a new, interdisciplinary and agile organizational unit that observes technological, economic and social trends and helps to shape change together with academia, business and social partners. Within the German AI Strategy the BMAS and Policy Lab will take responsible for the topics work, society, technology assessment and regulation.

    He worked as Desk Officer at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in health management, industry 4.0 & AI (5 years) and worked 10 years in the industry (ThyssenKrupp, VDI Technologiezentrum).

    Christian Djeffal

    Professor for Law, Science and Technology, Munich Center for Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich (TUM)

    Christian Djeffal works on the relationship of law, technology and society with a specific focus on emergent digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things. He focuses on a holistic perspective across legal regimes (constitutional law, regulative regimes, standardization) and across disciplines (law, STS, computer science). Before joining the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the TUM School of Governance at TUM, Christian coordinated the research group Global Constiutionalism and the Internet at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). He received his doctorate from Humboldt University of Berlin and studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and University College London. Christian is associated researcher at HIIG and the Institute for Technology, Society, and Law at University of Zurich.

    Daniela Geretshuber

    Risk Assurance Leader Industrial Services; Partner at PwC Germany

    Daniela Geretshuber is Head of Risk Assurance Solutions (RAS) of PwC Germany and has more than 18 years of professional experience. RAS supports their clients in building trust and security in areas of regulation and new technologies. Daniela’s main focus is to help her clients to embrace the opportunities of new technology for business process optimization while effectively managing risks. This includes discussing and establishing general governance criteria and frameworks to assure a robust and safe implementation of emerging technologies, in particular AI.

    She is Board Member of the German PwC foundation supporting the education of young people and Alumni of the Young Leaders Programme of the American Council in Germany.

    Prof. Dr. Michael Göring

    CEO of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

    Since 1997 Prof. Dr. Michael Göring has been executive member of the board and since 2005 CEO of the Hamburg-based foundation ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, one of the largest foundations in Germany. Central to its mission is the commitment to invigorate civil society in Germany and Europe and to promote innovative transatlantic programs, exchanges and perspectives. The foundation established the first private law school in Germany, the Bucerius Law School, in 2000. The Digital Charter is another initiative under the umbrella of the ZEIT-foundation.

     

    Michael Göring received his Ph.D. in English Literature and started his career as assistant professor in English Literature at the University of Munich. Since 2000, he has taught as honorary professor at the Cultural and Media Management Institute at the Hamburg School of Music and Drama. He is the author of various publications and has published four novels. As one of Germany’s philanthropic leaders, he is involved with numerous foundations and private organizations.

     

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    Olaf Groth, Ph.D.

    CEO Cambrian Futures, Inc., Professor Hult International Business School

    Olaf Groth is founder and managing partner of Cambrian Futures. He is also the Co-author of Solomon's Code, professor of strategy and economics at Hult International Business School and an executive for the evolving global innovation economy with 20 years of experience in corporations, consulting firms, and academia. Olaf Groth has helped build new ventures and change management initiatives for employers and clients in the energy, technology, aerospace and transportation sectors in 30+ countries.

    Quentin Hardy

    Head of Editorial at Google Cloud

    Quentin Hardy is the head of Editorial at Google Cloud, writing about the ways that cloud computing technology, and by extension the advent of computer intelligence at every point on the planet, is reshaping business and society.

    Previous to joining Google, Mr. Hardy was Deputy Technology Editor at The New York Times, where for many years he wrote about enterprise computing. He has also been National Editor of Forbes Magazine, and a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco and Tokyo, covering technology, banks, and financial markets. For 10 years he was part of "Forbes on Fox", a weekend economics and politics program on Fox News.

    John Hennessy, Ph.D.

    Chairman of Alphabet & Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford

    John L. Hennessy is the James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Stanford School of Engineering, and the Shriram Family Director of Stanford’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars, the largest fully endowed graduate-level scholarship program in the world. He is chairman of Alphabet and serves as a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Formerly the tenth president of Stanford, he is also a computer scientist who co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications. John is the coauthor (with David Patterson) of two internationally used textbooks in computer architecture. His honors include the 2012 Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award (jointly with David Patterson). John earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the Stony Brook University.

    Dr. Jeanette Hofmann

    Professor & Director at the Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society & Co-Founder of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society​

    Jeanette Hofmann's research focuses on Internet governance and regulation. Her current research areas concern digital democracy and the development of digital platforms. She teaches at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Free University Berlin and she heads a research group on 'Politics of Digitalization' at the Berlin Social Science Center. Jeanette is a co-director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Prinicipal Investigator at the recently founded Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.

    In addition to her academic work, Jeanette is a member of the expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. She also heads two national academic expert commissions on 'digitalization and democracy' (Leopoldina, National Academy of the Sciences) and on 'Young Engagement in the Digital Age' (Federal Government). Jeanette is one of the 27 co-authors of the Digital Charter Initiative.

     

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    Luther Jackson

    Program Manager at NOVA

    Luther Jackson is a program manager at NOVA, the non-profit, federally-funded workforce development agency in Sunnyvale, California. He is leading several initiatives that are creating accessible educational and career pathways for diverse populations into the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area’s innovation economy. He is a leader of Apprenticeship Bay Area, a regional workforce initiative to scale tech and other high-skill apprenticeships. Luther also staffs NOVA’s emerging trends task force and is a member of the “Future of Work” affinity group sponsored by the American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley. Luther is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and previously worked as a journalist in Detroit and as a union representative in Detroit and San Jose.

    Christoph Keese

    CEO of Axel Springer hy GmbH

    Christoph Keese is one of Germany's best-known thought leaders on digital transformation. He is a passionate innovator, serial entrepreneur, business angel, and keynote speaker. In addition, he authored bestselling books on digitization and economic policy ("Silicon Valley", "Silicon Germany", and "Disrupt Yourself"). As editor-in-chief and manager, he drove digital transformation at leading German newspapers (e.g., Financial Times and WELT) as well as at Axel Springer SE. Today he is CEO of Axel Springer hy, a digital consultancy in Berlin. Christoph Keese is one of the 27 co-authors of the Digital Charter Initiative.

    Kenji E. Kushida, Ph.D.

    Japan Program Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University

    Kenji E. Kushida is the Japan Program Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (APARC), Project Leader of the Silicon Valley – New Japan Project (SV-NJ). He is also an international Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), and Visiting Researcher at the Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University

    Kushida’s research streams include Information Technology innovation, Silicon Valley’s economic ecosystem, Japan’s political economic transformation since the 1990s, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He has published several books and numerous articles in each of these streams, including “The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries,” “Japan’s Startups Ecosystem,” “Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance,” and others. His latest business book in Japanese is “The Algorithmic Revolution Disruption: a Silicon Valley Vantage on IoT, Fintech, Cloud, and AI” (Asahi Shimbun Shuppan 2016).

    He has appeared in media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkei Business, NHK, PBS NewsHour, and NPR, and he advises companies and government.

    Esther Legant

    Head of KIT LINK and International Partnermanagement & Communication at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

    As Head of KIT LINK Esther Legant paves the way for the exchange of knowledge and transatlantic communication between individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) and the German Southwest, a transatlantic network for innovative high-quality research with future potential. KIT LINK represents German research at Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT) in the field of "The Future of Work", such as digitization, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, digital health, robotics, cloud services and open knowledge in SFBA as well as the establishment of a transatlantic network, together with several institutes and in cooperation with the strategic partner SAP. Exchange of knowledge and communication via minds. At best, partnerships to form to solve global issues of the future and drive innovation with purpose linked to the 17 UN Global Goals.

    Dr. Christoph Leuze

    Instructor at the Incubator for Medical Mixed & Extended Reality at Stanford Radiology; Founder of Nakamir

    Dr. Christoph Leuze is an instructor at the Incubator for Medical Mixed and Extended Reality at Stanford Radiology and founder of the augmented reality startup Nakamir that aims to help medics with patient care during outdoor prolonged field care scenarios. During his Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, he worked on high-resolution brain MRI measurements for which he was awarded the Otto Hahn medal by the Max Planck Society for outstanding young researchers. At the department of Radiology in Stanford Dr. Leuze has been working on ultra high-field brain MRI to measure and better understand tissue connectivity inside the brain.

    Dr. Gottfried Ludewig

    Director General Digitalisation and Innovation Federal Ministry of Health Germany

    Dr. Ludewig is a German Politician and since April 2018 Director General Digitalisation and Innovation of the German Federal Ministry of Health. Between 2011-2018 he has been member of the Berlin Parliament. There he served as speaker for health policy with focus on digitalisation in healthcare. With his current position at the German Federal Ministry of Health he aims to promote digitalisation and innovation in healthcare for a better and more efficient health care for patients in Germany.

    Anja Manuel

    CoFounder and Partner, RiceHadleyGates LLC​

    Former diplomat, author, and advisor on emerging markets, Anja

    Manuel is Co-Founder and Principal along with former Secretary of

    State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen

    Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in RiceHadleyGates LLC, a strategic consulting firm that helps US

    companies navigate international markets. She is the author of the critically acclaimed This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States, published by Simon and Schuster in 2016. From 2005-2007, she served as an official at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for South Asia Policy.

    Earlier in her career, Ms. Manuel was an attorney at WilmerHale

    working on corporate governance, international and Supreme Court cases, and represented special committees of major corporate boards before the US Congress, Department of Justice and the SEC. She was also an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in London. She currently serves on two corporate boards: Overseas Shipping Group, Inc., an NYSE listed transportation company, and Ripple Labs Inc., a leading blockchain payments company.

    John Markoff

    Science & Technology Journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

    John Markoff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote for The New York Times’ science and technology beat for 28 years, where he was widely regarded as the paper’s star technology reporter. He is currently a Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He has been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism, and an adjunct faculty member at the Stanford Graduate Program on Journalism. In 2013, Markoff was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team for Explanatory Reporting “for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.

    Lloyd B. Minor, MD

    Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine

    Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine has established a strategic vision to lead the biomedical revolution in Precision Health, a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that empowers people to lead healthy lives. Dr. Minor is also a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University. With more than 140 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. In 2012, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.​

    Simon Mueller

    Co-Founder and Vice President, The Future Society

    Simon co-founded The Future Society in 2014 while a student at Harvard Kennedy School because of his firm belief that the rapid development of technology in our days poses unparalleled challenges for public decision makers and corporate leaders. At Harvard, Simon focused on technology governance, advanced analytics and strategic decision making. At The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Simon advises CEOs and their teams in the domain of Robotics, Automation and Advanced Manufacturing (such as 3D-Printing and IoT). Simon has been a frequent speaker, moderator and panel participant on the topics of automation, technology governance and decision-making at conferences around the world.

    Daniel Opper

    Head of Bucerius Lab, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

    Daniel Opper is head of the Bucerius Lab of the Germany based ZEIT-Foundation, which deals with current issues of societal change — such as the effects of digitization on politics, civil rights, work and culture. Daniel studied politics, sociology and journalism in Göttingen, Germany and Berkeley, CA, and worked for various media. Recently, he co-curated the exhibition “Out of Office” about the future of work in the digital age. Daniel Opper is one of the 27 co-authors of the Digital Charter initiative.

    Philipp Petrescu

    CEO & Co-founder MVPF Technologies GmbH​

    Philipp is CEO and Co-founder of MVPF Technologies GmbH​. MVP Factory empowers the digitization of enterprises and SMEs. Combining technology with a network of freelancers to offer smart services at unparalleled quality. For our clients we design & build digital products and ventures by combining lean and agile processes with high-performing, scalable freelance delivery teams and industry-leading functional experts.

    Before that, Philipp co-founded and sold two startups being responsible for business development, product, engineering and fundraising. He also consulted a FTSE500 enterprise on their digital strategy, strategic start-up acquisitions and implementation, lead the founding of a tech start-up setup in a new entity. He advised a number of German SMEs on digital strategy, corporate venture building and IT fulfillment.

    Adam Probst

    CEO and Co-founder maiot GmbH​

    Sven Przywarra​

    Founder of LiveEO

    Sven Przywarra founded the earth observation start-up LiveEO together with Daniel Seidel in 2017. Before that he studied Business Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin with a strong focus on space engineering and entrepreneurship after working one year in India’s capital New Delhi. He has previously worked in the space industry and founded NewSpaceVision, Europe’s biggest new space event series with the goal to connect the industry. Daniel and Sven are leading a team of 20+ people working on bringing the insights of earth observation to the infrastructure sector. He is convinced that earth observation will have a positive impact on every major industry within the next 10 years.

    Hendrick Reese

    Thought Leader Trust in AI & Responsible AI; Director at PwC Germany

    Hendrik Reese is Director of Responsible AI at PwC in Germany. He has 18 years experience in IT consulting and has led numerous national and international projects. In the area of Emerging Technologies (i.e. Cloud Solutions and Artificial Intelligence), he has been focusing on supporting the transformation and ensuring trust for clients. Together with his highly skilled team, Hendrik is currently setting trust and audit standards for AI and building quality assurance solutions for AI models and data (bias, robustness, interpretability).

    Beth Rogozinski

    CEO of Signal 2 Health

    Beth Rogozinski is the founder and CEO of Signal 2 Health, a digital health strategy and production company located in SF. Beth is a serial entrepreneur, technology professional, and business strategist who has spent the last several years focused on digital medicine.

    Beth was a founding member of the internationally renowned Multimedia Studies Program at SFSU where she taught and published a book on multimedia. Beth was on the founding team at Pear Therapeutics, where she served as Chief Product and Content Officer and helped build the product and development teams and successfully led the design, development and commercialization of six sub-clinical products. She also led the development of Pear’s first clinical product, reSET, and the product team submission of the De Novo 510k to the FDA. reSET was cleared by the FDA on September 14, 2017 as the first ever prescription digital therapeutic.

    Dr. Gregory L. Rosston

    Director of the Public Policy program at Stanford University

    Gregory L. Rosston is Director of the Public Policy program at Stanford University, the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Professor of Economics (by courtesy). He teaches Economics and Public Policy courses on competition policy and strategy, economic policy analysis, and writing and rhetoric.

    Dr. Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission working on the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and helped to design and implement the first ever spectrum auctions in the United States. In 2011, he was Senior Economist for Transactions for the Federal Communications Commission for the proposed AT&T – T-Mobile transaction. He co-chaired the Economy, Globalization and Trade committee for the 2008 Obama campaign and was a member of the Obama transition team on economic agency review and energy policy.

    Dr. Rosston received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and his A.B. with Honors in Economics from University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Rosston has written extensively on the application of economics to telecommunications issues. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Stanford Federal Credit Union, as a Board member of the Nepal Youth Foundation and as an Advisory Board member of Sustainable Conservation and the Technology Policy Institute.

    Andrej Safundzic

    Founder & Lead of Tech4Germany

    Andrej founded and is leading Tech4Germany, Germany’s technology task force under Chancellor Merkel’s right hand and Federal Chief of Staff, Helge Braun. Tech4Germany is the government's tech startup that brings the best digital talents and creative minds together with different federal government entities.Before that, Andrej established two EdTech startups in East Africa, worked in product management and data science for leading German and US startups. He completed a degree in computer science and business as valedictorian at Technical University of Munich and completed his senior year at Harvard University.

    Dr. Peter Schardt

    CTO of Siemens Healthineers

    Dr. Peter Schardt has been Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Healthineers since October 01, 2018. The doctor of physics joined Siemens in 1995 as a project manager for X-ray tubes. There he developed high-performance tubes for computed tomography before taking over the management of the entire predevelopment for X-ray tubes in 2002. In 2009, Schardt assumed business responsibility for the Mechatronics Competence Center in Kemnath. This is one of the largest integrated development and manufacturing sites of Siemens Healthineers worldwide.
    In 2011, he moved to the Laboratory Diagnostics business unit as program manager for the Atellica Solution product family. In this role, he played a key role in the final development and market launch of the new system, which is a trend-setter in laboratory diagnostics. On January 1,2018, Schardt took over worldwide management of the X-ray Technology product division.

    Siegbert Schefke

    Journalist

    Siegbert Schefke is a German journalist and author of the book “Als die Angst die Seite wechselte”. He is famous in Germany for having secretly filmed the demonstrations in Leipzig 1989, where for the first time, the East German police did not intervene in open anti-government protests. With his friend he smuggled the film to the West, where it was broadcast the next day under the headline, "The beginning of the end of the Communist regime". It was activities like this that made him a prime target of the dreaded Stasi secret police.

    Dr. Hauke Schmidt

    Vice President, Research and Technology Center, Robert Bosch North America

    Dr. Hauke Schmidt leads Corporate Research for Robert Bosch in North America. Since June 2017, he is vice president of the Bosch Research and Technology Center with locations in Sunnyvale, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Schmidt, who is located in Sunnyvale, oversees the overall strategy, planning, operations and research direction of the three Research and Technology (RTC) locations in the United States.

    Prior to his current assignment, Schmidt founded the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence with locations in Bangalore, Sunnyvale and Stuttgart. He has held various leadership positions dedicated to developing artificial intelligence solutions for integration into Bosch products in areas such as user interaction and natural language understanding, service robotics, automated driving and data mining.

    Simon Schumacher

    Research Scientist at Fraunhofer IPA & Project Lead of Future Work Lab

    Simon Schumacher is a research scientist at the Competence Center Digital Tools in Manufacturing at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany. His research focuses on Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of industrial manufacturing, in particular the technological and organizational changes of labor on the manufacturing system level.

    Simon Schumacher is also the project lead of the Future Work Lab, a government-funded and widely recognized innovation lab for technical, social and organizational changes in industrial labor with more than 40 live use cases and over 10,000 visitors within the first two years.

    Prof. Kathryn Shaw

    Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

    Kathryn Shaw is Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Professor Shaw currently studies managing talent in high-performance firms, entrepreneurship, and the value that good bosses confer on their firms and workers. She particularly focuses on how firms attract and build star talent. In addition, she on how the firm’s choice of its human resource management practices can produce performance gains. She is identified as the co-developer of the field of “insider econometrics,” a research field within economics in which researchers go within companies and use insider knowledge to empirically identify the performance gains from management practices. Her research has been extensively funded by the NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations. Previously, Shaw was a Member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers (1999-2001) and was the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the business school at Carnegie Mellon University. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1981. In 2008, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists; in 2001 Shaw received the Columbia University award for the best paper on international business. At Stanford, she teaches People Management Strategy and Managing in the Age of AI, and has won teaching awards.

    Dr. Asher Sinensky

     

    Palantir Senior Executive

    Dr. Asher Sinensky is a senior member of Palantir’s executive team having joined the company in 2007 after completing his PhD In Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    During his tenure, Asher has been deeply engaged with all levels of Palantir’s operations including the Technical (Data Modeling, Product Management), Business (Founding Palantir’s European Presence), and Customer Engagement (Worked with many customers including acting as the Interim Chief Data Officer for a large media client).

    Asher has maintained a deep emphasis on how to understand and derive actionable meaning from data throughout his time at Palantir and continues to learn, speak, and teach about these topics.

    Lalit Singh

    Chief Operating Officer, Udacity​

    Malte Spitz

    Secretary General of the German Society for Civil Rights

    Malte Spitz, *1984, is a German activist, author, politician and Secretary General of the German NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights). He deals with the topics of future regulation in the digital age and focuses on data protection and civil rights. In 2014 and 2017 his books on data protection and digital regulation "What are you doing with my data?" and "Data - The Oil of the 21st Century? Sustainability in the Digital Age" were published. His lawsuit against Deutsche Telekom and the subsequent publication of the metadata of his mobil communications caused an international attention.

    In 2015, he co-founded the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights), which works for fundamental and human rights through strategic litigation. From 2006 to 2013, he was one of six members of the Federal Executive Board of the Green Party in Germany and has been a member of the Federal Board since 2013. Malte Spitz is one of the 27 co-authors of the Digital Charter initiative.

     

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    Hays Steilberg

    Executive Vice President Corporate HR at Bertelsmann​

    Hans-Ulrich Suedbeck

    German Consul General in San Francisco

    Before becoming Consul General of San Francisco Mr. Suedbeck was Head of the Western Balkans Division at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany. Prior posts had brought him to Afghanistan, Serbia, Ukraine, Brussels, and The Hague in the Netherlands.

    Pavlos Tsantilas, Ph.D.

    Resident, University Hospital Munich

    Pavlos Tsantilas is a resident for vascular surgery at the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Hospital Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He recently finished a research fellowship at the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Stanford University, California, USA. As a tech enthusiast, he strives to bring innovative and meaningful technologies to healthcare.

    Hal Varian, Ph.D.

    Economist at Google & Professor at University of California, Berkeley

    Hal R. Varian is the chief economist at Google. Since 2002 he has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy.

    Hal also holds academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.Hal is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was co-editor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

    Dr. Heinrich Wefing

    Head of the Political Department of the German weekly DIE ZEIT

    Heinrich Wefing was born in Hamburg in 1965. He studied History of Art and Law in Bonn and Freiburg and finished his studies with a dissertation in 1992. From 1995 on he volunteered at DIE ZEIT and FAZ, becoming feuilleton editor with the FAZ in 1996, first in Frankfurt, then Berlin, from 2001 to 2004 in San Francisco. From 2008 on he was editor at the political desk of the German weekly DIE ZEIT in Hamburg, in 2010 he became Deputy Head of the Political Department, in January 2018 Head of the Political Department. Heinrich Wefing is one of the 27 co-authors of the Digital Charter initiative.

     

    ©Vera Tammen

    Andreas Weigend

    Former Chief Scientist, Amazon; Member, Digital Council to the German Government​

    Dr. Andreas Weigend’s expertise is to turn data into decisions. He was the chief scientist at Amazon where he worked with Jeff Bezos on the company's data strategy. In 2018, Angela Merkel appointed him to Germany’s Digital Council ("Digitalrat") to help create a positive mindset towards digital transformation ("Digitalisierung").

    Andreas studied electrical engineering, physics and philosophy in Karlsruhe, Cambridge and Bonn, before moving to Stanford for his Ph.D. in neural networks. His book “Data for the People” (2017) has been translated into eight languages. He has taught at NYU/Stern, Stanford, UC Berkeley and in China. He lives in San Francisco, Bangkok and on http://aweigend.com.

    Dörte Wickenhagen

    Director Learning Culture & Transformation at Bertelsmann​

    Roman Wolkow

    Co-founder & CEO of Mitakus Analytics

    Roman Wolkow is the Co-founder and CEO of Mitakus analytics, a German SaaS-Startup providing accurate forecasts and recommendations to commercial food service providers.
    Previously, Roman has been involved in the Initiative "Wir retten Lebensmittel" / "We save Food" launched by the Bavarian Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, supporting various startup projects and other projects aiming to prevent food waste.
    Shortly after finishing his M.S. in Management & Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) he saw the business opportunity and social value in implementing a solution to fight food waste and launched Mitakus. The startup since then has developed it's own forecasting & recommendations platform for food service providers, tested and launched the product with several German customers.

    Fehmi Yüksel

    Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

    Fehmi joined McKinsey in Germany in 2012 focusing on large transformation programs mainly in the Advanced Industries and Automotive sector. Fehmi serves a wide range of clients in topics related to Product Development and Engineering, Global Quality Management, or Sales and Pricing. In his work, he identifies and translates global trends in specific strategic alternatives and also helps his clients in implementing these in their operating models or products. Fehmi holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from RWTH Aachen University having also studied at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich. Leading the Recruiting activities of McKinsey Germany in the US West Coast, he is one of the key contacts for students and young professionals who seek a career at McKinsey in Germany.

  • Participants and Community

    Become part of a community that is passionate about shaping our shared digital future through building new bridges across the Atlantic

    Who participates in Transatlantic Sync?

    Scientists and Students

    Young and established scientists as well as graduate students from leading universities and research institutes:

    • Stanford
    • Berkeley
    • Harvard 
    • Technical University of Munich (TUM)
    • The Hyperloop Team of TUM
      (also showing at our Innovation roadshow!)
    • University of Kiel
    • Fraunhofer IAIS
    • and many more.. 

     

    Policy Makers

    German and American policy makers, policy researchers and politicians, e.g.:

     

    • The Future of Work Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    • German Federal Foreign Office
    • German Federal Ministry of Health 
    • German Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs
    • Authors of the Charta of Digital Human Rights of the European Union from the ZEIT-Stiftung
    • German Consulate General of San Francisco 

    Business Leaders

    Startup founders and business leaders from big industry players to successful high-tech SMEs, e.g.:

     

    • Members of the German American Business Association 
    • Network of the German American Chamber of Commerce, West Coast
    • Entrepreneurs and founders from Silicon Valley and Germany
    • CEOs from German 'Mittelstand' (SMEs)

    Other participants include journalists, media professionals, venture capitalists,..

    Transatlantic Sync is not only about listening to top speakers on stage. True to Silicon Valley spirit, the goal of the conference is for you, our participants, to share your ideas, ask questions, connect over topics you care about and to inspire each other. The result is a new dynamic transatlantic community for technology collaboration - made by you!

    Interactive formats include:

    • Targeted networking and match-making

    • Collaborative breakout sessions and interactive Q&A sessions

    • Innovation exhibition: Startups and industry leaders showcase the latest digital prototypes

    • Student researchers’ poster exhibition and start-up prototype presentation (apply below): Up-and-coming talents present projects in AI/ CS and related fields, and on their impact on society

    • Fun evening events

    And more!

  • Organizer: The German American Business Association

    GABA is an established partner for German-American cooperation in Silicon Valley

    GABA is a member-driven non-profit organization that fosters transatlantic knowledge sharing and networking among German-American and Californian business and tech communities. The GABA programs address critical business, Alutechnik and leadership issues, with specific industry programs.

    Share knowledge. Gain insight. Expand connections.

    Non-profit organization, founded in 2003

    • Ca. 400 paying members
    • Corporate (~120) as well as individual members (~280)
    • Mailing list of over 10,000 contacts
    • More than 50 events per year
    • Over 3,500 attendees per year

    GABA promotes:

    • German-American business and trade
    • Extensive US/German network of industry professionals
    • Extended platform to build industry specific relationships
    • Local networking events with high visibility
  • The Volunteer Team: The Young Professionals at GABA

    We are a group of digital enthusiasts

     

    Transatlantic Sync is a grassroots project initiated and lead by Young
    Academics and Professionals: Our motivation and drive will ensure quality
    and success

    Katharina Lix

    Co-President

    Katharina is a Ph.D. Candidate in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford focusing on Computational Social Science. She works with several industry partners to study team interactions using Artificial Intelligence.

    Lars Thorben Neustock

    Co-President

    Lars is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, where he works on computer-aided design for additive manufacturing of charged particle device. Moreover, he teaches creativity in research at Stanford's d.school and is an ERP scholar.

    Vincent Sitzmann

    Director

    Vincent is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford working on Computer Vision and a Fulbright Scholar. His passion is to connect modern Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with Imaging.

    Richard Gruner

    Director

    Richard works as an Autonomous Driving Engineer for Mercedes-Benz in the Bay Area. His work focuses on machine learning based techniques and robotics for self-driving cars.

    Nikolaus Volk

    Director

    Nikolaus is the tech lead of UMI.systems, an early stage AI mobility startup. Prior to that, he graduated with a Master's Degree in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University and worked as a Machine Learning Software Engineer at Uber.

    Dr. Henrike Steimer

    Director

    Henrike is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Susan Athey's lab at the Stanford University. In her research, she is interested in the economics of digitization and the intersection of machine learning and causal inference.

    Jonas Metzger

    Director

    Jonas is a Ph.D. Student in Economics at Stanford University. He is interested in econometrics, game theory and reinforcement learning. He holds a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

    Robert Ruhlandt

    Director

    Robert is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering at Stanford University. His research interest are smart cities. He worked as a consultant for Bain&Company after the completion of his Master's Degree in Management Science & Engineering and before starting his Ph.D.

    Dr. Pavlos Tsantilas

    Director

    Pavlos is a former postdoctoral scholar at the Division of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University focusing on atherosclerotic disease. He strives to bring innovative and meaningful technologies to healthcare.

    Lars Jebe

    Director

    Lars is a M.Sc. candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is specializing in signal processing for computer vision. Prior to Stanford, he studied at the RWTH Aachen.

    Carolin Thomas

    Director

    Carolin is a Visiting Student Researcher at the Graduate School of Business. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Economics at Stockholm School of Economics.

     

    Maximilian Zoller

    Director

    Maximilian is an MBA candidate at Stanford Universities Business school. He is interested in the intersection of tech and clean energy and has worked as the Managing Director of Thermondo Energy prior to his time at Stanford.

    Marc Brunssen

    Director

    Marc is an MBA candidate at Stanford Universities Graduate School of Business. His interest is the future of the automotive industry. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group and co-founded an Ed Tech start-up.

    Dr. Christoph Leuze

    Director

    Christoph is an instructor in Mixed Reality in Medicine at Stanford University where he works on the visualization of MRI data using virtual and augmented reality devices and founder of Nakamir, a medical augmented reality startup.
    His interest in data privacy issues stem on the one hand from his work in digital health where he has to handle sensitive data on a daily basis and on the other hand from his time as a student in the “Heldenstadt" Leipzig, where he experienced and met people whose lives were strongly impacted and restricted by the constant surveillance during the GDR.

    Jana Meiser

    Director

    Jana is a Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry at Stanford University. Her research is in the Dynamics of Photon-Catalyzed Reactions. Prior to Stanford, she studied and worked at the Leibniz University in Hannover.

    Steffen Dibke

    ​Director

    Steffen studies Economic Geography at the Leibniz University in Hannover, focusing on start-up and innovation ecosystems. He currently works as Marketing & Operations Manager at German Silicon Valley Innovators.

    Samuel Loebell

    Samuel is a medical student at the Heidelberg University. He pursued his doctoral research in Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) at the Stanford University Medical School.

    Dr. Caroline Zeisbrich

    Caroline is the Medical Director at Vave Health, a start up for connected and personal assessment tools.

    Dr. Christoph Olivier

    Christoph is a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Center for Clinical Research.

    Jan Felix Heyse

    Jan is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, doing his research in the Flow Physics and Computational Engineering group. Prior to his graduate studies, he received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

    Dr. Lisa K. Simon

    Lisa is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at Stanford GSB working at Susan Athey's lab. Her current research looks at the impact of automation and AI on labor markets and the future of work.

    Philipp Reineke

    Philipp is a Ph.D. candidate in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Before arriving at Stanford, he worked at INSEAD France and studied at the London School of Economics.

    Conference Team

    Other Members

    • Constantin Dory, Ph.D. Student (Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University 
    • Izzy Ernst, MBA Candidate at Stanford University 
    • Dr. Anna Katharina Heid, Consultant at McKinsey
  • We look forward to hearing from you.

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    Notification And Changes
    
    
    If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so our Customers are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Customers should check this policy frequently to keep abreast of any changes.
     
    For questions about this privacy statement, contact us at:
     
    German American Business Association of California, Inc.
    775 Glenborough Dr., Suite 101
    Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
    Represented by: Caroline Raynaud
     
    +1 (650) 386-5015
    info@gaba-network.org
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    Privacy Policy
    For the Transatlantic Sync Conference, October 27-29, 2019:
    
    
    Thank you for being part of the Transatlantic Sync community at this event hosted by the German American Business Association, Inc., doing business as GABA (“GABA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policies or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@gaba-network.org. 
    
    By registering for our event and filling out our surveys, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we describe what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you have questions about, please reach out to us. 
    
    This privacy policy applies to all information we collected through the registration for “Transatlantic Sync” (via “Eventbrite”) and through surveys (using “Surveymonkey”) that you have answered or may answer in the future. 
    
    
    What Information do we collect? 
    
    We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us such as name, contact information, occupation, and other information contained in files you agree to share with us, e.g. CVs/ resumes that you upload or have uploaded. We collect personal information that you provide to us when registering for our event, as well as during any exchanges with us or our team members, for example via email and through surveys. 
    
    This personal information can include name and contact data: We collect your first name and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
    
    All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. 
    
    
    How long do we keep your information? 
    
    We keep your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless otherwise required by law. Once we no longer have an ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete it or anonymize it. If this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. 
    
    
    How do we use your information? 
    
    We process your information for purposes based on legitimate interest of GABA and/or your explicit consent.  We use the information we collect or receive to: 
    
    Send you marketing and promotional materials relevant to the conference and its key topics. 
    Send you administrative and logistical information about the conference.
    Create materials for the conference, such as name tags. We may also process the data you provided to inform and design interactive conference elements to design a conference experience tailored to the specific interests and needs of our audience.
    Inform our press and research publications pertaining to the conference (your data will be aggregated and anonymized for this purpose).
    
    We may process and use your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate interest. 
    
    Moreover, we share your information with our sponsors by transferring files you have uploaded or information that you have provided to us in our surveys. These sponsors include the following companies: Bain & Company Inc; Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA; McKinsey & Company; Palantir Technologies, Inc.; PricewaterhouseCoopers International; QuantCo, Inc. 
    These sponsors will receive and see the data you provide to us and may reach out to you to invite you to events taking place during, immediately before, or immediately after the conference days. These events may include dinners, networking events, recruiting talks, company presentations, workshops, coffee chats, and other similar events. The aforementioned sponsors may use the contact information you have provided us in order to reach out to you with invitations.
    
    We share your data with the cloud services Google Drive, Google Sheets and Google Docs for Data Backup and Security as well as Data Transfer. 
    
    As an American Non-Profit organization, we may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own. Our servers are located in the United States. If you upload your data outside of the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed by us and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information, in Germany, the United States, and other countries. 
    
    
    During the conference
    
    Participants of the conference agree, by agreeing to this privacy policy, that they may be recorded in video, audio and photo during their presence at the conference. The recorded material can be used in future publications about the conference, including but not limited to the conference website, social media channels and press publications. If you do not want to be part of any material recorded during the conference, please reach out to us individually using the contact information provided in this statement. 
    
    Other
    We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under the age of 18 years. 
    
    A privacy breach occurs when there is unauthorized access to or collection, use, disclosure or disposal of personal information. You will be notified about data breaches when GABA believes you are likely to be at risk of serious harm. 
    
    We may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by directly sending you a notification. 
    
    We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements). 
    
    
    What are your privacy rights? 
    
    You may review, change, or terminate your data storage agreement at any time. If we are replying to your consent to process and share your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing and sharing before its withdrawal. Please use the contact information provided to do so. 
    
    
    Contact
    German American Business Association, Inc. 
    755 Glenborough Dr., Suite 101
    Mountain View, CA 94041
    United States 
    Executive Director: Caroline Raynaud 
    
    +1 (650) 386-5015
    info@gaba-network.org
    
    For Website Users: 
    
    Privacy Statement
    
    
    German American Business Association California (“GABA CALIFORNIA”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by our members, customers of our web site and services, subscribers to magazines, registrants for our events, recipients of our e-mail newsletters and all of our customers (collectively, “Customers”). We created this policy with a fundamental respect for our Customers’ right to privacy and to guide our relationships with our Customers. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for all products and services owned and/or provided by GABA CALIFORNIA.
    
    
    
    Information And Use
    
    
    GABA CALIFORNIA collects information from our Customers. In this section of our privacy policy, we will describe the type of information we collect and how we use it to provide better services to our Customers.
    
    
    
    Registration and Ordering
    
    
    When attending our on-line or off-line events or trade shows, participating in our webcasts, using our website and signing up for certain selected services, Customers must first register. During registration, Customers are required to give their contact information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number). We also may collect demographic information (such as job title and purchasing responsibilities, company information and professional certification). For internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with Customers and provide requested services, and, for our website visitors, to provide a more personalized experience on our sites. We use aggregate demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry reporting purposes.
    Many of our products and services are free to subscribers who meet certain demographic criteria. Independent auditors may need to certify the eligibility of these subscribers. In order to do that, we may collect unique identifiers (such as mother’s maiden name) that we disclose to the auditors strictly for industry reporting and audit verification purposes.
     
    For our services that require payment (such as certain events, products and subscriptions), we also collect credit card or similar information (such as account name, number and expiration date), which is used for billing purposes only, and is not otherwise shared.
     
    
    
    E-mail Newsletters
    
    
    If Customers wish to subscribe to our e-mail newsletters, we ask for contact information (such as name, e-mail address and, occasionally, demographic information). We use this information in the same manner as we use contact information in the registration and ordering process described above. Recipients of our newsletters can unsubscribe using the instructions listed at the end of the e-mail newsletter.
     
    
    
    Surveys and Contests
    
    
    From time to time we invite Customers to provide information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether to disclose requested contact information (such as name and mailing address) and demographic information (such as zip code or job title). In addition to other uses set forth in this policy, contact information collected in connection with surveys and contests is used to notify the winners and award prizes, to monitor or improve the use and satisfaction of the site, and may be shared with sponsors of such surveys or contests.
     
    
    
    Interactive Features
    
    
    We may offer interactive and community features such as discussion boards, webcasts and user profiles. Note that all personal information sent or posted via such features becomes public information for which we are not responsible.
     
    
    
    Customer Referrals
    
    
    If Customers elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about GABA CALIFORNIA and our services, we may ask them for the friend’s name, job title and e-mail address. GABA CALIFORNIA will store and use this information to send the friend an invitation. This information may also be used to provide information about our company and related products and services. The friend may contact us as specified in the customer referral message to request that no further communications be sent.
     
    
    
    Communications with Us
    
    
    We have features where Customers can submit information to us. Letters to the editor and similar submissions may be made public. Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. We may retain e-mails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes, and to help us to serve customers better.
     
    
    
    Communications from Us: Service Updates, Special Offers
    
    
    In order to best serve our customers, we may send updates that contain important information about our sites and services. For example, we send new members a welcoming message, and verify password and username for our password-protected sites. We may also communicate with a user to provide requested services and for account-related issues via e-mail, phone or regular mail.
     
    We offer our Customers the option to receive information about GABA CALIFORNIA, related products, services and special deals. Customers can choose not to receive these communications, as set forth in our Permission section below.
     
    
    
    Automatic Data Collection
    
    
    Our web sites have features that automatically collect information from Customers, to deliver content specific to Customers’ interests and to honor their preferences. This information assists us in creating services that will serve the needs of our Customers.
     
    We use “cookies,” a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies benefit the user by requiring login only once, thereby saving time while on our site. If Customers reject the cookies, they may be limited in the use of some areas of our site. For example, the user may not be able to participate in sweepstakes, contests or drawings. Additionally, we may note some of the pages the user visits on our site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). The use of cookies and pixels enable us to track and target the interests of our Customers to enhance the experience on our sites.
     
    Some of our business affiliates use cookies on our sites in ads or promotions. However, we have no access to or control over these business affiliates’ cookies; we urge Customers to read their privacy policies for information.
     
    For our internal purposes, we may gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify Customers personally. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.
     
    We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide general profiles, in aggregate non-personally identifiable form, about our Customers and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. We may share this composite information with our advertisers and business affiliates to help them better understand our services.
    
    
    
    With Whom Your Information Is Shared
    
    
    We may share (provide and receive) personal information of Customers with GABA CALIFORNIA’s members for promotional and marketing purposes. Personal information from our members (name, business address, company affiliation, telephone, telefax, email address) may be published in a GABA CALIFORNIA member directory, which may by publicly available online and in print. We do not share credit card information with such third parties.
     
    In particular, please note that information collected in connection with events or services sponsored by third parties, will be shared with the sponsor of the particular event or service. These sponsors will use the information according to their own privacy policies, and we urge participants to read those policies and be aware of their privacy practices before registering.
     
    At GABA CALIFORNIA’s website, emails, and on-line newsletters, information may be shared with selected advertisers if a user affirmatively clicks through on a link/ad to such advertiser at those sites or in e-mails.
     
    On occasion, we may provide targeted lists of names and offline and online contact information for marketing purposes to third parties, subject to our Permission policies. We give Customers the option of not having their name or contact information disclosed to third parties, as set forth in the Permission section.
     
    Other than as set forth above, we do not share personally identifiable information with other companies, apart from those acting as our agents in providing our product(s)/service(s), and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information secure and confidential. We will also disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property. Customers should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, might have the authority under certain circumstances to permit personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties without permission.
     
    We may share aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include usage and demographic data, but it will not include personal information.
    
    
    
    Correction/Updating Personal Information
    
    
    If a Customer’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code), or if a Customer no longer desires our product(s)/service(s), we provide a way to correct or update that user’s personal data. The Customer should contact Customer Support for the applicable product or service.
    
    
    
    Security
    
    
    We use commercially reasonable precautions to protect our Customers’ personal information and to store it securely. Sensitive information that is transmitted to us online (such as credit card number) is encrypted and is transmitted to us securely. In addition, access to all of our Customers’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
    
    
    
    Links
    
    
    Our web sites contain links to other sites. GABA CALIFORNIA is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our Customers to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site to which we may link that may collect personally identifiable information.
     
    
    
    Notification And Changes
    
    
    If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so our Customers are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Customers should check this policy frequently to keep abreast of any changes.
     
    For questions about this privacy statement, contact us at:
     
    German American Business Association of California, Inc.
    775 Glenborough Dr., Suite 101
    Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
    Executive Director: Caroline Raynaud
     
    +1 (650) 386-5015
    info@gaba-network.org
    
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