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Annika Grosse

Annika Grosse has been with IBM since 1997. She has a background in Business and IT Consulting and became Executive Partner in 2011. Three years later, Annika took over her current responsibility as Leader for Cognitive Business Solutions in Europe (GBS). Her industry background is primarily in Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Public. She is passionate about successfully implementing innovative and value-creating strategies and solutions, as well as accompanying businesses through their transformational journey. Originally studying Computer and Information Sciences, Annika Grosse also has an M.B.A. as well as a Diploma in Strategy & Innovation from the University of Oxford.

Ferdinand Foersch

Ferdinand Försch studied percussion, composition and electronic music at the Music Academies of Würzburg and Stuttgart, Germany. As a musician, composer, and fine artist, he has since 1982 pursued the invention and construction of New Musical Instruments, Sound Sculptures, and Installations. “Sound - Form / Form - Sound” is a focal theme of particular interest to him. To this day he has developed more than a hundred New Musical Instruments, Sound Sculptures, Objects, and Installations (Metal Drums, String Instruments and combinations, Sound Images, Drum Walls, Sound Walls, Sound Machines), building them from a wide range of materials. These works are presented to the public in concert performances and exhibitions. Ferdinand Försch has widely performed his solo concert “Sound Sculptures and New Musical Instruments”, e. g. at “Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival”; “World Drum Festival”, Hamburg; “The Kitchen”, New York; and “Shanghai Arts Festival”.

Frank Steinicke

Frank Steinicke is a professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg. His research is driven by understanding the human perceptual, cognitive and motor abilities and limitations in order to reform the interaction as well as the experience in computer-mediated realities. Frank Steinicke regularly serves as panelist and speaker at major events in the area of virtual reality and human-computer interaction and is on the IPC of various national and international conferences. He serves as the program chair for IEEE VR 2017/2018, which is the most renowned scientific conference in the area of VR/AR. Furthermore, he is a member of the Steering committee of the ACM SUI Symposium and the GI SIG VR/AR, and currently editor of the IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications Department on Spatial Interfaces.

Jay Tuck

US defense expert Jay Tuck was news director of the daily news program ARD-Tagesthemen and combat correspondent for GermanTelevision in two Gulf Wars. He has produced over 500 segments for the network. His investigative reports on security policy, espionage activities and weapons technology appear in leading newspapers, television networks and magazines throughout Europe, including Cicero, Focus, PC-Welt, Playboy, Stern, Welt am Sonntag and ZEITmagazin. He is author of a widely acclaimed book on electronic intelligence activities, “High-Tech Espionage” (St. Martin’s Press), published in fourteen countries. He is Executive Producer for a weekly technology magazine on international television in the Arab world. For his latest book “Evolution without us – Will AI kill us?” he researched at US drone bases, the Pentagon, intelligence agencies and AI research institutions. His lively talks are accompanied by exclusive video and photographs.

Louise Overgaard

Louise’s starting point is humans. They are the core of her work. Humans play, humans create, humans innovate. Humans create knowledge. Societies are built and evolve around humans. Libraries are meaningless without humans. Technology is only interesting if humans know what to do with it. When she works her focus is people’s motivation, skills and lifeworld. This focus comes from having a co-creative, user-driven, partnerdriven approach to her work combined with a background in religious sociology, psychology and organisational anthropology. Louise is a Culture, City and Service Innovator! Smart City and Library Geek! CounterPlayer! Coding Pirate! She navigates between cultural activists, grass roots, political and strategical city arenas and in European strategical settings and believes strongly in working across silos the open source way.