Innovation Driver events connect global corporates and SMEs, with the brightest minds from Factory Berlin’s community of startups, solopreneurs, creatives, and students, in order to develop impactful business solutions.

Christoph Bauer, Innovation Evangelist at Société Générale

Generalist with more than 10 years of experience in innovation, digital transformation, communications and change management. Catalyst, coach, evangelist, facilitator and speaker. Digital native and technology enthusiast with an extensive network of experts.

Niko Louris, Digital Health Lead at Lilly Deutschland

Niko Louris is a physician, digital health enthusiast and digital transformation strategist. Before joining Lilly, Niko helped building up the digital unit of one of the largest hospital groups in Germany, leveraging external innovation and working closely with many startups. In the past years he acted as a startup mentor, competition jury member and advocate of partnerships and co-creation. He holds an MSc in Management from Imperial College Business School.

The DO School enables companies and individuals to thrive in a purposeful economy that is sustainable and innovative. In times of disruption, we enable businesses to transform with purpose, empower people to gain new skills and mindsets online and offline and enable entrepreneurs to solve the big problems of our time.

Claudia Pohlink, Head of AI/ML at Telekom Innovation Laboratories

Having a background in Data Science, Data Management as well as Innovation Management, Claudia Pohlink seamlessly connects business and Data Science aspects of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Claudia’s team at T-Labs, the research unit of Deutsche Telekom, drives the adaptation of AI methods such as machine learning (ML) across relevant business areas. Main research focus is on the application of Quantum Computing, in the field of Cyber Security as well as around sustainability use cases. Since T-Labs has established AI as a core innovation area in 2017, the research facility of Deutsche Telekom is one of the most active players in AI in Berlin.

Claudia is a member of the Bitkom Board for Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, she plays an active role in Berlin’s AI/ML and start-up communities and regularly shares her knowledge as guest speaker at kids´ events, schools, industry events and reviewer at Berlin’s universities. In 2019, she was honored as one of the Global Women Leaders in AI.

Tobias Knobloch, Co-Founder and CEO of Civitalis GmbH

With twenty years of professional experience in the field of tech4good, Tobias co-founded Civitalis in 2020. The name „Civitalis“ is composed of the classical Latin word „civitas“ (collective of citizens) and the newly created Latin expression „homo digitalis“ (human being extended by digital technologies). Civitalis is helping governments and public administrations to unleash the full potential of technology by adapting their organisational setup and their mindset respectively. The overarching goal is to make the public sector as independent of external technology consulting and services as possible. Civitalis‘ vision is to empower public institutions to take the right strategic decisions at the right time and to also implement open source technologies without extensive and costly external support.

Daud Zulfacar, Founder of License.rocks

License.rocks is a blockchain-based approach to create, manage and trade licenses for digital products. We also believe in applying virtual twins and feature-based usage options to the more and more connected world of hardware.

Olla Jongerius, Founder of Ber.Learn

Olla is passionate about bringing people together: she’s an active ecosystem and community builder, organizing and producing international conferences and events all over Europe. She is a founder of BerLearn- a community of EdTech startups, HR professionals, L&D specialists, instructional designers, universities, trainers and coaches in Germany.

Kevin Voellmer, Founder & CEO, Deflect GmbH

Deflect works with manufacturers of IoT devices, organizations using them in their environment, and insurance organizations providing IoT-related coverage.

Hana Ahriz, Founder of Travelogue and Co-founder of Space & Pepper

Based in Berlin and Paris, Hana designs spatial experiences and communities. She follows a holistic approach building concept and design through human interaction. She was a former employee at airbnb, building the host community experience for France.

Hana also organizes one-of-a-kind employee experience for team events with her company Travelogue. Hana also co-founded Space & Pepper, an agency designing concepts for new living and working spaces through human-centered design.

Nadim Choucair, Founder & Ecosystem Lead at 2030 Cabinet

Nadim is a Lebanese – Canadian ecosystem builder based in Berlin, Germany. He’s on a mission to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda through partnerships. Before starting 2030 Cabinet, Nadim worked as an innovation consultant with a focus on public funding and policy in Montreal and more recently as ecosystem partnerships manager at etventure in Berlin. He holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid and a MALD (MA in Law & Diplomacy) from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston.

Nadim wrote his capstone about integrating the SDGs into a Design Thinking framework while at Fletcher. He initiated the Global Goals Jam in Berlin, and is a speaker and moderator at conferences and events such as the World Design Summit, Sense Camp, ToolFest, and the G-STIC series, raising awareness and sharing his work on the 2030 Agenda. He’s also an UNLEASH SDG Talent.

Perttu Ratilainen is a co-founder of the Radbahn, an urban transformation initiative in the heart of Berlin, and Paper Planes, a think tank focusing on sustainable urban development. He is a co-CEO of Reallabor Radbahn-project funded by the German Government and the Senate of Berlin. Furthermore, Perttu is the German ambassador for Amazon Sacred Headwaters-project that aims to protect the most biodiverse area of the Amazon-rainforest. Perttu supports female entrepreneurship in Arabic countries via WTSUP!-project. Perttu is a keen project builder and devotes his time on sustainability- and equality-driven activities.