Mr. Geisen has extensive international experience in Digital Business, especially due to his experience as co-founder and CEO at Dafiti México. He graduated at WHU in Business Administration and started his career in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. He has held Supervisory Board positions in various companies like iBood, OSÖM, Optimus Digital and AMVO (Mexican E-commerce association). He first joined CECONOMY (MediaMarkt Holding) as Head of Portfolio Management and became CDO at MediaMarkt Iberia in 2017 with the ambition to accelerate the digital transformation, modernization of marketing, and the omnichannel business.

Michael joined Zalando in 2011 at the perfect time just as tracking technology, big data analytics and data science began to break through and become an essential part of the company’s DNA. Michael has grown and developed Zalando’s digital analytics team and it is now the cornerstone for almost 100 teams, offering access to high quality click-stream data, a user friendly tech stack for various analytics cases and multi-level analytics education and enabling formats. At the end of 2017 he joined the AI program management team accelerating Zalando’s ambitious machine learning and AI roadmap. Together with subject matter experts and senior management, he identifies and implements necessary improvements across the Business Units to maximize the return on Zalando’s machine learning investments.

As Head of User Experience for one of the world’s largest online retailers, Jens and his team are dedicated to improving the user experience of the group’s many online shops and other digital applications through a wide portfolio of qualitative and quantitative user-research methods. Moreover, he functions as an evangelist for customer-experience topics within the Otto Group’s current culture-change initiative “Kulturwandel 4.0.”

In the last two years, Constance has successfully implemented game-changing projects for Otto in areas such as conversational commerce, blockchain and customer service.  Her team in the eCommerce Competence Centre are monitoring and evaluating new technologies on the market every day. 

Marina Sverdel is a marketing and digital executive with 15 years of experience in digital, multichannel, CRM, customer experience and branding. She is an acknowledged change agent in transforming business towards customer centricity and integrated, digitalized journeys. In her current role Marina Sverdel is working at METRO, professional b2b wholesaler, serving the needs of independent business owners of hotels, restaurants, caterers, traders, offices and institutions, operating across 26 countries. In her global role she is shaping concepts and enabling their deployment to deliver best in class measurable tailor-made experience for customers. 

Johan is focused on identifying all opportunities in the customer journey from acquisition, activation to retention to increase traffic and conversion. Tasked with transforming Intersport’s digital journey, Johan is responsible for the digital initiatives required to achieve the “’one buying experience” promised to their customer.

As the digital leader for one of Switzerland’s biggest retailers, Arnaud’s main objective is to transform the marketing department to enhance customer experience across all digital touch points and channels. He will share his insight on the work they have been doing automating their marketing department in order to better  understand their customers and deliver a seamless experience to them.

Peter Grebarsche is Head of Digital Strategy and CRM at L’Oréal Germany, the leading company in the German beauty market. His passion is the digital transformation and creation of innovative business models with sustainable added value for customers and shareholders. Since Peter’s arrival the digital transformation of the company’s business model and organisation has extremely accelerated. Beauty and Digital are seen as the perfect match! Consequently, the establishment of data-driven marketing is key to stay ahead in the digital age.

Curious senior practitioner in sales, pricing, and e-commerce, extensive general management experience with P&L responsibility, broad background in consulting, large-scale corporate functional excellence, and start-ups.

In Swarovski she is responsible for sales development via online channels, in cooperation with 3rd Party in Europe  - both online Pure Players (including marketplace platforms) and Omnichannel Partners. Bożena has been working in e-commerce and marketing industry since 2010. During her professional career she was responsible for planning and implementing on-line promotional campaigns, launching e-commerce platforms, preparation and implementation of sales and marketing strategies. She has gained experience in small and medium-sized companies operating on the Polish e-commerce market as well while working for a leader of this market – Allegro.pl. Than, in Carrefour Poland she was responsible for all commercial activities in the on-line channel, including the sale of food and non-food products, as well as the development of the Marketplace concept, the Collaborative Economy project and M-commerce, as part of the integrated Carrefour.pl platform. Bożena is also a trainer who runs on-line marketing and e-commerce trainings.

Rossen has 25+ years of international experience in Digital, Business, IT, Marketing and eCommerce. His career path includes positions at the United States Information Agency, Apple, the United Nations, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has led large scale global initiatives across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, EMEA and the Americas with a multitude of brands including Lego, IKEA, Starbucks, Ecco, and illy. In his current role of Digital Director for Pandora Jewelry’s Global eCommerce division – he is responsible for the company’s global solution design, development, deployment and operations of a range of end-to-end Digital initiatives including eStores, OMS and fulfillment, Endless Aisle, and Omni-channel. He is based in the UK with his wife and a true globetrotter. 

With a proven track record from several leading retailers and FMCG companies, Thorsten is working to improve the customer experience across all communication and sales channels, at Intertoys, the Dutch omni-present toy retailer with 400 stores and a webstore.

Patrick has lead customer data analytics projects for 25 years in a variety of industries and sectors.  He worked on the implementation of Nectar, the first multi-retailer loyalty programme in the UK, and has also spent time in the university sector, financial services and as a management consultant advising firms on the expert use of their customer data. 

Daniele is a dynamic and innovative marketing technologist with 15+ years of experience building marketing effectiveness through marketing and data technologies and innovative solutions. With Benetton, he oversees eCommerce technologies, UX, data, and performance marketing. He leads a cross-functional team, ensuring consistent design executions across desktop, tablet, and mobile that provide maximum customer impact.

Pelayo Pando is Director of Business Development for e-Commerce at NH Hotel Group, one of top-30 worldwide hotel chains. Since he joined the company in 2014, NH Hotel Group has step-changed its technology and business strategy to ensure a continuous growth of its digital business.

With ownership of the Nordic digital strategy and strategic roadmap (covering +60 hotels in five Nordic countries), Martin’s experience in driving scalable digital transformation projects and strategies at an international level has given him a strong base to implement new digital technologies, and develop analytics, performance and data driven frameworks. 

In her role as eCommerce and account manager at Fossil, Ulrike Hackl is responsible for building the brands’ eCommerce strategy for the Eastern European and Middle Eastern markets. Her key responsibilities are to capitalize on online sales through 3rd party collaborations, including Pure Players, marketplaces and Omnichannel retailers, to maintain and continue to build the brands’ image online and to spearhead digital projects. 

Matthias is a project manager at Interdiscount/Microspot, the number 1 retailer in home electronics in Switzerland. He is active as an author, keynote speaker and topic expert in the field of eCommerce and internationalisation strategies. 

An experienced CEO with a proven track record of leadership in the retail industry, Laurent is a strong business development professional skilled in marketing, retail, eCommerce, and international Business.

Wolfgang Röbig, born 1981, has been a member of the reBuy Management Board since 2015. As the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), he is responsible for Sales of Consumer Electronics and Media, Strategic Grading, B2B and Marketing. Wolfgang's experience as an entrepreneur includes the founding, management, and exit of Bigmobile GmbH & Co. KG, as well as the management board of Groupon Goods for 24 EMEA countries. His knowledge of Chinese languages, which he studied at the University of Cologne and the Jiao Tong University, is today, a competitive advantage for opening up global markets in the field of buying. In his free time, he enjoys playing the piano in addition to billiards and table tennis.

André Neubauer studied a masters programme with e-commerce and e-entrepreneurship as the major fields of study at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. As a certified computer scientist and technology-specialist for e-business, he already worked in leading positions for several companies such as ImmobilienScout24 and the German Post. His responsibilities working as a Vice President at the German Post included the management of the E-POST platform. At Mister Spex as a CTO, Neubauer is in charge of the IT division.

Stefan brings a strong academic background and experience of more than 10 years in general management, business development, sales, marketing and strategy in eCommerce. Leading the "Portfolio & Business Development” department of Digitec Galaxus, he has full ownership of the strategic, financial, operational and people components of the group. 

With over 10 years sales and online marketing experience in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Benno has gained experience in business development couponing, display advertisement and social media campaigns. At the moment he is the head of business development at Pepper.com, the world’s largest shopping community.

Prof. Dr. Christian Stummeyer is one of the leading e-commerce experts in Germany. He holds the professorship "Business Informatics and Digital Commerce" at the Technical University of Ingolstadt and advises numerous well-known large and medium-sized companies on the topics of digital strategy, e-commerce and digital transformation. He started his entrepreneurial career at The Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf, gained international corporate experience as senior executive at Siemens AG in Munich and, as Managing Director at UDG United Digital Group, was responsible for the entire management consulting business of the digital agency. In addition, Prof. Stummeyer is himself a successful founder in e-commerce and for over five years he was significantly shaping the growth strategy of a leading online retailer of premium designer furniture in the DACH region.

Miro has been at the cutting edge of the digital industry for over 17 years and has founded or scaled a number of operationally successful online companies, including HomeAway, Zanox, Questico and Home24. A pioneer in digital product sales, marketplace development and online marketing, with X24Factory (founded in 2015), he set out to build the Booking.com for Furniture by leveraging leading edge A.I. data retrieval and VR/AR content to maximize user experience of a complex customer journey.

Matthias has created some of Germany’s most talked about campaigns of the decade. In return he has featured in the book "The 30 best Copywriters of Germany"​, and won 2 x D&AD Yellow Pencils, 2 x Eurobest Grand Prix, One Show Gold, Clio Gold, ADC Europe Grand Prix, ADC Grand Prix, AME Platin and the first ever Titanium and Integrated Cannes Lion for Germany. 

Andreas has gained his marketing experience all over the place, from marketing 5-Star hotels in Mexico, to being part of startups in California over to a Management Consultancy in Dubai. In the end he found his passion in the sport he always loved and is now one of the managing directors at Nitro Snowboards.

Markus Maczey is a 1976 born Bavarian creative director. After more than 10 years as a designer and art director in traditional advertising agencies like “Jung von Matt” and “start”.

He started 2008 at the Serviceplan Group as an executive digital creative director. In 2016, he was named CCO of the Plan.Net Group and oversees the creative output of the national and international offices. His work has been recognized at Cannes Lions, D&AD, LIAA, Eurobest, Webby and many more.

SJ (the Swedish national train operator) has gone from selling 50% of their tickets digitally to 97% in less than 10 years. To continue to stay relevant to the customer in the future, Ida is working on their digital roadmap to drive innovation. She launched SJs voice in the Swedish Google Assistant, and is now learning how customers are interacting with this technique based on artificial intelligence.

At windeln.de, Julia-Caroline is responsible for the expansion of the business in China. Prior to joining the company, Julia worked for August Storck KG in Singapore and Shanghai as Brand and Business Unit Manager. 

Max Laarmann (25) founded Emma Mattress in 2015. His aim has been to revolutionize the mattress industry with transparency and fairness and to demonstrate that a good mattress does not have to cost a fortune. Together with his team, he developed a mattress made of high-quality materials that optimally suits every type of sleeper. Emma offers a 100-night trial on their mattresses and a 100% money-back guarantee. In 2018, Max was awarded as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 in the category retail and ecommerce.

Jeanine Jost is CRM Manager at Manor AG, Switzerland's leading department store chain. She has experience in marketing, advertising, and sales with 10 years of experience across retail, travel, and finance. Jeanine has a degree in Marketing and Tourism.

Lisa Scholz is Head of Customer Communication at Manor AG, Switzerland's leading department store chain.Before joining Manor, she was a consultant at a global agency. Lisa is specialized in communications and CRM, with over 10 years of experience in marketing for the retail industry. She graduated with a degree in Marketing.

As a specialised dealer for high-priced, large-scale products like garden sheds, saunas or carports, A-Z GartenHaus strongly focusses on expertise and customer service. This has helped the company to profitably grow its revenues 20%+ p.a. over the last decade. Andreas has lead the eCommerce operations that have helped drive this growth.

Dainius is CEO at Pigu group, the largest eCommerce market participant in the Baltic States, with three online shops in the region: Pigu.lt in Lithuania, 220.lv in Latvia and Kaup24.ee in Estonia.

A former chemical engineer, Mexico-City-born Letizia earned her MBA from Columbia Business School before going on to work in diverse strategy and finance positions in multiple countries. Five years ago, upon encountering a Jean Prouvé sideboard—“it looked like art made by an engineer”— she fell head-over-heels in love with design. She went on to found Pamono where she now oversees marketing, content and analytics.

Drawing on great experience in digital solutions and eCommerce systems, Goran is currently driving a project to introduce automation across different departments, and make sure they select the right tech partners in order to make this change real  in the company. 12 years of experience in digital solutions development. Solution Architect, Product Lead, Team Lead, Software Engineer

Tobias is focused on the international synergies between on and offline sales, social media and platform economics (GAFA). At Rheinische Fachhochschule he taught eCommerce and HR as a visiting professor, and in his free time, he is a personal trainer, actively supporting executives as a personal trainer to maintain and expand their physical performance meaningfully.

Stefan has 10 years of experience in the eCommerce world, with a SEO/SEA background. Moebel has been rapidly expanding in recent years, with a launch into the French market a main highlight. In 2018, moebel.de undertook a big relaunch of their website to better serve the mobile customer and the needs of the digital market. 

Dr. Pascal Volz loves eCommerce, digital marketing and big data. He is the CEO of fischerAppelt, performance, the online marketing unit of the renowed German creative content group. Now and in his previous role as Vice President eCommerce at Air Berlin, he leads award-winning highly personalised campaigns based on statistical models exploiting all available data. 

Based in Berlin, Deniz is the strategic partner lead working with Google’s largest publisher clients in the eCommerce world. A long-time sales development and yield management professional, prior to joining Google he spent seven years in advertising sales at eBay. 

eCommerce expert focusing on UX and tech innovations. An avid speaker and a writer sharing knowledge on eCommerce trends, mobile-first solutions (like PWA, AMP, RWD and many more) and modern approaches to eCommerce. CEO at Divante eCommerce software house, Head of UX at Vue Storefront & Storefront Cloud. For over 10 years engaged in creating unique eCommerce solutions for worldwide brands including SAP, T-Mobile, ING, Highsnobiety.

Peter Potthast is country manager, DACH at Conversant Media. In this role, Peter is responsible for the media business of Conversant in the German speaking countries. Before joining Conversant, Peter held the role of founder at nonstopConsulting, an international performance marketing agency, as well as founder and managing director at United Digital Group (UDG). Peter Potthast has 15-years-experience in the digital marketing and media industry.

Dietmar Giese is responsible for the expansion of the iAdvize brand in German-speaking countries, the strategic further development of the iAdvize offering with the "ibbü" brand expert community, which is part of iAdvize, and the expansion of the team in the Düsseldorf branch. Dietmar Giese can look back on more than 15 years of experience in e-commerce and digiconomy. Prior to joining iAdvize, he was Executive Director eTrusted/SaaS at Trusted Shops, where he was responsible for the key account business. Prior to that, he founded the German subsidiary of the American software company Sprinklr and set up start-ups for international investors. The first stages of his career included management positions at Daimler and Jamba.

Jakub has more than 15 years of experience in digital, eCommerce, DXP, customer experience and collaboration. As Senior Account Manager for e-Spirit, the digital experience platform provider, Jakub and his team are committed to helping companies engage customers and increase revenue from personalized, content-rich digital experiences anytime, anywhere. Jakub is dedicated to ensuring that true customer engagement only takes place when content and commerce are strategically aligned across all channels.  

Bogdan is leading Stefanini’s Business Development Unit for Innovative Application Services across Europe, consulting and supporting Stefanini customers to transform their businesses, through cloud adoption and processes digitalization.

Al Lakhani founded IDEE GmbH in July 2015 and is leading the company as the CEO. He has 21+ years professional work experience with a focus on Forensic Investigations. Al founded the global forensics practice at Alvarez & Marsal, which he then lead for 12 years. He was involved in several projects with very high public attention. Additionally, Al was the interim COO at Rubicon Global, which is a unicorn in the waste management space in the US. Additional previous employers include Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Al acquired a degree in computer science from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. Al is the Co-Author of 3 patents for continuous authentication and identity management, which are part of the IP of IDEE.

Calvin Hoenes works for IDEE since 2017, he permanently joined in 2018 as Experience Engineer. He is responsible for UX, design and communication. Previously Calvin worked for numerous startups around the topics of innovation, business development and user experience. Apart from design and digital identity, Calvin is an expert in crypto currencies and blockchain. Calvin holds a bachelors degree in computer science from LMU Munich.

I live at the intersection of business and technology -- understanding and enabling the links between business strategy and information technology. I spent the early part of my career deeply hands-on with bleeding-edge technology, and continued to product management, where I learned how to run a P&L and deal with the entire lifecycle of a product/service, giving me an understanding of markets, business drivers, and strategy. I have always been someone who is interested in doing each and everything around software based products, invent them, create them, bring them to life, watch them grow, let them go. I’ve been into product management during almost my entire career and have a deep understanding of various methodologies and techniques. Innovative - sometimes disruptive - mostly curious

Anoop Vasisht is the Vice President of Dynamic Yield based in Germany. He was previously the Director for International Investments at ProSiebenSat.1, one of Germany's leading media groups focusing on Partnerships, Investments & Business Development for Consumer, Data & Analytics sectors. He also developed operating expertise in CRM, Data & Analytics while at Rocket Internet as the Head of CRM based in Berlin covering e-commerce & marketplaces assets. 

Daniel Volož is a Business Development Manager DACH at RTB House. He is a digital business development professional with an entrepreneurial approach and a 9-year background in the online marketing and ad-technology industry.

Jan is CEO and co-founder of Locarta. Locarta was founded in 2015 with the goal of making the real world as measurable as the digital one by analysing location and other sensor data from a large smartphone panel. Retailers use Locarta's data to gain a better understanding of who visits their physical stores, and whether ad campaigns have driven store traffic. Prior to Locarta, Jan worked as an investor for tech, media and telecom hedge funds Criterion Capital and Eastwind Global (which he helped found) in the Bay Area and New York. He holds a BA from Yale University in Economics & Mathematics as well as East Asian Studies, and has studied Mandarin at Qinghua University

As product owner for e-Spirit AG's e-commerce solutions, Christoph is responsible for the solutions that directly generate added value for retailers. Due to many years of experience in numerous e-commerce projects, he knows how to combine the professional requirements with the technical feasibility for the benefit of the customer.

Sebastian has more than 10 years of experience in the Customer Experience Management aerea. At the end of 2018 he joined the Solution Engineering Team of e-Spirit AG where he is focusing on the topics eCommerce and DXP. Sebastian is convinced that personalized and relevant content is one of the central building blocks of an eCommerce strategy. Together with his team he wants to help companies to make their customer's shopping experiences unique across all channels. 

Marcus Rolfes has been Sales Manager for eCommerce and Marketing Software at IBM Deutschland GmbH for four years. Together with his team, he is responsible for software distribution for this product area in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The focus is on the retail and consumer goods industries. In addition to large, well-known customers from the trading segment, he and his team are also successfully working with medium-sized companies on the realization of digital projects based on IBM technology. He brings a broad expertise from a variety of customer projects and is appreciated as an expert by the customers.
Prior to that Marcus worked in various sales functions as well as in the software service area of ​​IBM. Marcus is married and has a son.

With over 10 years in software sales Alina Gleiss has extensive experience in SaaS and cloud technologies. In her current role as Sales Manager, EMEA Central at Zendesk - awarded as leading CRM & Customer Support solution provider by Gartner - Alina shows businesses how they can develop their customer service for a best-in-class customer experience.

IT innovations which foster positive change in society are her passion.

As a Senior Solution Consultant at Bazaarvoice, Julia has been working the largest European retailers and brands throughout their digital transformation over the past four years.

Her extensive experience in eCommerce enables her to provide Bazaarvoice clients with customer-centric recommendations on CGC (consumer-generated content) based on the digital challenges they face in their respective industries. 

Julia is also an expert of the Bazaarvoice solution and a strategic advisor for her clients when it comes to integrating the solution into existing processes and enabling teams across departments and markets to leverage consumer content. 

Tatjana Biallas has been working in the media industry for over 10 years. In her role as the Country Manager DACH, Tatjana is heading up the growth of the DACH region. Her media & sales career started in Cologne working for the largest German broadcaster Mediengruppe RTL, where she learned the basics of why content is king. She has degrees in business administration and media & communication from the City University of London.

Dalia Lasaite is the CEO and co-founder of GCTrader, the world's leading provider of 3D content. The company provides photorealistic 3D models for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality e-commerce applications that increase sales conversion while reducing product returns. CGTrader works with more than 150 Fortune 500 companies including blue chip customers such as Shopify, Ashley Furniture, and Wayfair.

More than 4 years experience in process- and marketing automation for companies of all sizes to optimize resources and increase revenue. International background in retail, production and IT businesses.