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We look forward to

Big Techday 26

Day of the event

May 22nd, 2026

Venue of the event

Speakers

Here, you can find the speakers at Big Techday 26, which will take place at Motorworld Munich on May 22nd, 2026.

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Dr. Sam Aaron

Sonic Pi, Creator

Dr. Sam Aaron is the creator of Sonic Pi, an internationally renowned live coding performer, public speaker, and science...

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Dr. Bernhard Altaner

Theoretical Physicist

Dr. Bernhard Altaner studied physics and mathematics in Konstanz and Cambridge and earned his PhD in Göttingen on the fo...

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Prof. Dr. Yuki Asano

Fundamental AI (FunAI) Lab, Technische Universität Nürnberg, Professor

Prof. Dr. Yuki M. Asano leads the Fundamental AI (FunAI) Lab at the University of Technology Nuremberg as a Full Profess...

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Lucas Atkins

Arcee AI, CTO & Head of Research

Lucas Atkins serves as CTO and Head of Research at Arcee AI, where he spearheaded the proprietary training stack behind ...

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Gilles Backhus

Tensordyne, Founder

Gilles Backhus has been driven by a passion for chip development since a young age. He earned his Master’s in Electrical...

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Laszlo Balazsik

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

László Balázsik is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting specializing in developing AI-driven data platforms ...

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Benjamin Balogh

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Benjamin Balogh is a Senior Consultant and branch manager at TNG Technology Consulting. He is building and analyzing lar...

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Christoph Bergemann

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Christoph Bergemann is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH. After studying mathematics at LMU Munic...

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Matthias Blübaum

Matthias Blübaum

Chess Grandmaster

Matthias Blübaum has been playing chess since he was 6 years old. He developed a passion for the game at an early age an...

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Dr. Julian Bollig

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Dr. Julian Bollig is a Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, focusing on AI applications in software develop...

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Dr. Adrian Braemer

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Dr. Adrian Braemer constantly seeks hard and novel puzzles. This quest led him to a dissertation on disordered quantum s...

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Florian Brand

Prime Intellect, Research Engineer, PhD student

Florian Brand is a Research Engineer at Prime Intellect and a PhD student in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The f...

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Kilian Bron

Kilian Bron

Professional enduro/freeride mountain biker

Kilian Bron discovered mountain biking at the age of 13, and it quickly became a central part of his life. What began as...

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Dr. Valentin Bruttel

Toleris Biotherapeutics GmbH, Bioengineer and Immunologist

Dr. Valentin Bruttel studied biomedical science and molecular medicine, earned his doctorate in tumor immunology, and is...

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Mathias Burger

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Mathias Burger is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting and primarily works on AI projects in the fields o...

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9:00 | Röhrl / Geistdörfer

Dr. Martha Büttner

DAMPSOFT GmbH, Lead Product Manager AI

Martha Büttner combines her expertise as a dentist with a strong background in AI. At Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berl...

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Dibya Chakravorty

Python generalist / AI researcher

Dibya Chakravorty is a Python generalist working across AI applications, backend systems, cloud architecture, and softwa...

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Sherif Cherfa

Sherif Cherfa

0xSero

Sherif Cherfa is an Educator and Applied AI Research Engineer focused on LLM compression and deployment. His work explor...

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Loris Cro

Zig Software Foundation, VP of Community

Loris Cro is VP of Community at Zig Software Foundation, the non-profit organization that develops the Zig programming l...

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Max Dietsch

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Max Dietsch is a Software Consultant specialised in Artificial Intelligence. He studied Computer Science with a deep foc...

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Konstantin Dunas

Konstantin Dunas

Prime Intellect, Research Engineer

Konstantin Dunas is a Research Engineer at Prime Intellect who is working on Reinforcement Learning with LLMs across the...

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Thomas Endres

TNG Technology Consulting, Managing Partner

Thomas Endres is a Managing Partner at TNG Technology Consulting in Munich. Besides his "normal" work for the ...

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Áron Erdelyi

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Áron Erdelyi is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, where he focuses on building AI-enabled systems and in...

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Johannes Esslinger

TNG Technololgy Consulting, Software Consultant

Johannes Esslinger is a Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting with a master's degree in Computer Science....

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Dr. Florian Gather

TNG Technology Consulting, Partner

After earning his PhD in Physics, Dr. Florian Gather transitioned to software development and joined TNG, where he curre...

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Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner

Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner is a Professor of AI with over 15 years of experience across academia and industry. Formerly a...

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Prof. Dr. Daniel Grün

LMU Munich, Professor for Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Daniel Gruen is Professor of Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich. Prior to this...

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Lukas Hauser

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Lukas Hauser has been passionate about professional software development for more than ten years. After completing his c...

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Marcus Hennig

Dr. Marcus Hennig

planqc, Chief Business Officer

Dr. Marcus Hennig, Chief Business Officer at planqc, is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of ...

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Keith Hoodlet

1Password, Director of Security Research

Keith Hoodlet is an experienced leader and practitioner in the field of Offensive Security, holding both the Offensive S...

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Maximilian Huber

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Maximilian Huber is an Open Source compliance nerd and Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, where he is sp...

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Dr. Thomas Hugle

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Thomas Hugle is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, specializing in Agentic AI and frontend development. H...

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Dana Sophia Hylla

LoreBary, JanitorAI, Founder, Developer

Dana Sophia Hylla is the founder of LoreBary and a developer at JanitorAI. She launched LoreBary with the goal of making...

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Stephan Ilaender

STACKIT, Field CTO

Stephan Ilaender has been Field CTO at Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG, the cloud provider of Schwarz Group, sinc...

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David Ji

David Ji

MiniMax, Senior Solution Architect

David Ji is a Senior Solution Architect at MiniMax, helping enterprises evolve from simple single-call LLM applications ...

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Talk

10:05 | Röhrl / Geistdörfer

Jannick Jones

Intel Corporation

Jannick Jones is the GPU Technical Sales Specialist at Intel, working with customers on evaluation, integration, and sup...

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Dr. Fabian Klemm

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Fabian Klemm completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in discrete mathematics and applied...

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Daniel Klingmann

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Daniel Klingmann studied Mathematics before joining TNG as a Consultant. In previous client projects, he built driver-as...

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Markus Knall

Markus Knall

IPPEN.MEDIA, Chefredakteur / Editor-in-Chief

Markus Knall is one of the defining figures of the German media transformation. As Editor-in-Chief of IPPEN.MEDIA, he ov...

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Talk

13:45 | Kohlebunker I

Christopher Köhldorfer

Christopher Köhldorfer

Bank Frick, Head of Business Transformation

Christopher Köhldorfer is Head of Business Transformation at Bank Frick. He has held various leadership roles at Bank Fr...

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Kevin Kron

Kevin Kron

Boston Dynamics, Accociate Director GTM Europe

Kevin Kron brings over six years of experience in leading and executing complex robotics projects and has played a pivot...

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Levin Küng

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V., Team & Technical Lead

Levin Küng is studying Aerospace Engineering at Master’s level at the University of Stuttgart. He previously completed a...

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Dr. Tetyana Kyrey

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

With a scientific background in medical physics, Dr. Tetyana Kyrey began her career in data-driven analysis of complex s...

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Dr. Marcel Lippmann

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Marcel Lippmann is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, specializing in software architecture as w...

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Fabian Lübbe

TNG Technology Consulting, Junior Consultant

Fabian Lübbe is a Junior Consultant at TNG in Innovation Hacking and is studying computer science with specializations i...

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Tobias Lübbe

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Tobias Lübbe is a Software Consultant in TNG’s Innovation Hacking team. His work focuses on Physical AI and the developm...

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Debsankha Manik

Dr. Debsankha Manik

Theoretical physicist

Dr. Debsankha Manik is a theoretical physicist by training who completed his PhD on nonlinear dynamics of complex networ...

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Dr. Waldemar Martens

ESA - European Space Agency, Mission Analyst

Dr. Waldemar Martens received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2011. He then...

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Dr. Moritz Maus

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Moritz Maus received his PhD in biomechanics before moving into software development. After working in industrial ro...

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Jonas Mayer

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Jonas Mayer works in TNG’s Innovation Hacking Team, where his main focus lies on creating innovative showcases and proto...

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Dr. Benjamin Merkel

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Dr. Benjamin Merkel is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. He is responsible for the smooth operation o...

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Lenny Miao

Lenny Miao

MiniMax, GTM EMEA

Lenny Miao is GTM EMEA at MiniMax and considers himself an AI native. He has five years of experience working across rev...

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10:05 | Röhrl / Geistdörfer

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Thorsten Nieser

OXG Glasfaser GmbH, Head of IT

Thorsten Nieser is Head of IT at OXG Glasfaser GmbH and drives digitalisation in the fibre optic sector. With over 10 ye...

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Dr. Miguel Obando Leitón

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Miguel Obando is a Senior Consultant at TNG, with a background in physics and neuroscience. He has been working at TNG s...

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Dr. hab. Andrzej Odrzywołek

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Theoretical astrophysicist

Dr. hab. Andrzej Odrzywołek is a theoretical astrophysicist at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian Univer...

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Steven Palma

Hugging Face, LeRobot Tech Lead

Steven Palma is an established engineer with over six years of experience successfully delivering end-to-end robotics pr...

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Miriam Payne

Seas the Day, Ocean Rower

Miriam Payne is an astrophysics graduate with a love for adventure and a knack for pushing limits. In 2022, she rowed so...

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Daniel Petró

Verlag C.H.Beck GmbH & Co. KG, Software Developer

Daniel Petró is a software developer at Verlag C.H.Beck GmbH & Co. KG, where he works on beck-chat, an AI-powered to...

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Prof. Dr. Steven Pinker

Harvard University, Professor of Psychology

Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social r...

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Dr. Andreas Rabenstein

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Andreas Rabenstein is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting and holds a PhD in physics. After completing ...

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Laurin Rendgen

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V., Head of Autonomous Systems Team

Laurin Rendgen is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in software engineering at the University of Stuttgart. A...

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Jonathan Rohland

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Jonathan Rohland is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. After starting his career as a full-stack devel...

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Dr. Fabian Roll

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Dr. Fabian Roll holds a PhD in mathematics and works as a Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. During his d...

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Jessica Rowe

Seas the Day, Ocean Rower

Jess Rowe is an outdoor enthusiast, Atlantic Ocean rower and former yacht crew member with an insatiable appetite for ad...

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Gregor Schmalzried

Author & AI expert, e.g. "Der KI-Podcast" (ARD)

Gregor Schmalzried is a consultant and journalist with a focus on generative AI. He is host and team lead of „Der KI-Pod...

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Talk

9:00 | Kohlebunker I

Heinrich Schmidt

Heinrich Schmidt

ARRK Engineering, Senior Consultant Digitalization

Heinrich Schmidt is a Senior Consultant for Digitalization at ARRK Engineering with nearly 17 years of experience in aut...

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Davin Schneider

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Davin Schneider is a senior full-stack developer. He is enthusiastic about agentic coding workflows and uses them in his...

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Tim Schüle

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V., Head of Marketing and Management

Tim Schüle is studying for a bachelor's degree Integrated Product Design at Stuttgart Media University. Prior to his...

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Dr. Dennis Schulz

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Dennis Schulz is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. He holds a PhD in low temperature physics from th...

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Markus Schüttler

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Markus Schüttler is Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. From OR planning systems at the University Hospit...

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Dr. Sebastian Stamminger

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Dr. Sebastian Stamminger is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting and has over 20 years of experience in a...

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Dr. Maxim Stykow

TNG Technology Consulting, Principal Consultant

Dr. Maxim Stykow is a Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, bringing deep expertise in Agentic AI, Cloud Se...

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Marc Eric Vogt

Dr. Marc Eric Vogt

BMW Group, Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Overall Vehicle

Marc Eric Vogt is a PhD engineer and AI innovator at BMW. He combines vehicle engineering, simulation, and generative AI...

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Dr. Wolfgang Wein

ImFusion GmbH, CEO

Dr. Wolfgang Wein has worked in medical image computing research for over 20 years, conducting numerous projects from ea...

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Tobias Weyer

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Tobias Weyer is a Senior Consultant at TNG working on the integration of Physical AI for industrial clients. Beyond clie...

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Marius Wichtner

Kilo Code, Software Engineer

Marius Wichtner is a freelance software engineer based in Germany. He consults with Kilo Code, an open-source agentic en...

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David Winderl

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

David Winderl works as a Software Consultant at TNG, where he implements generative AI solutions and cloud-based data in...

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Dr. Jannis Zeller

TNG Technology Consulting, Software Consultant

Dr. Jannis Zeller studied physics (B.Sc.) and subsequently mathematics, physics, and education sciences (M.Ed.) at RWTH ...

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Sebastian Zett

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Sebastian Zett is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, specializing in the design and implementation o...

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Gregor Ziegltrum

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Gregor Ziegltrum is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, specializing in innovative AI solutions. His work ...

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