Nils Brauckmann runs Procurement at Personio with a 3-person team responsible for 1,800 suppliers. In this keynote he'll share the AI-first playbook behind it - including a fully autonomous contract negotiation agent already in production, a supplier monitoring system that has clawed back roughly $85K in seven months, and the build-not-buy logic that led them to replace SaaS tools with n8n-based workflows their own team owns.

Alexander Rausch is a serial operator - ex-COO at Amorelie and Joblift, founder of Chronext - who built Certa, an independent real estate appraisal firm operating in one of Germany's most analog industries, without an engineering team.

He started with heavy automation, and recently moved to coding Certa's entire company OS himself - with Claude Code. CRM, sales prioritization, financials, OKRs, bonuses, forecasting, and the AI agents that step into customer conversations before churn happens.

In this keynote he'll show what a non-technical operator can realistically ship at each stage - and how this allows Certa to grow 150%+ YoY with only 3 net new hires.

The FINN story of rebuilding instead of buying — how the no-code pioneer is rebuilding everything with AI

Katharina Menzel is Head of Recruiting at HeyJobs and co-leads the company's AI enablement program with their CTO.

In this fireside chat she'll break down HeyJobs' playbook: the tiered operator/builder model, the AI ambassadors network, and the decision to bake AI fluency into performance reviews. The honest version of how "we should use AI" became something everyone actually does.

Ori Simantov, Director of AI Transformation at HiBob, built an internal AI transformation team from scratch and led the company to 90%+ AI adoption - scaling from early agent experiments to 2,500+ Custom GPTs across departments, with 200+ integrated into real daily workflows.

In this fireside chat he'll walk through the full journey: how the team is structured, how HiBob governs bottom-up AI adoption without killing momentum, how the goalposts shifted from "build agents" to "prove ROI", and lessons from open-sourcing AgentsOrg, the governance platform he built internally to discover, score, and manage every GPT across the organisation.

Igor Araujo, Software Engineering Manager at AWS, works everyday with Kiro - AWS's agentic IDE focused on spec-driven development. In this fireside chat he'll share what he's seen inside a major cloud provider building coding agents: where spec-driven development pays off, where agents fall apart on real codebases, and the parts that never make it into a launch post.

Florian Kristof from Peter Park will explain how the company automated physical, real-world processes with automation platforms and AI to optimize the installation of parking spaces

Maximilian Beiche is a Tech & AI lawyer and Counsel at WIPIT Legal, advising founders, C-levels, and AI transformation leads on what the EU's AI regulation stack actually means in practice. In this keynote he'll cover both sides of the same coin: which AI rules (AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, product safety and liability, Data Act) actually bite when you deploy AI at scale - and how AI itself can be used to meet those obligations.

How Plancraft's RevOps team used AI and automation - including an unconventional van-spotting channel - to scale their sales team from 10 to 30 reps and drive thousands of qualified leads and significant ARR.

David Gebhardt is CTO of Mobile.de, one of Germany's oldest digital companies. In this fireside chat he'll walk through what it actually took to move AI adoption beyond pilots inside a 1,000+ person, 30-year-old organisation - why they bet on Langdock, what it unlocked across teams, and where the hardest blockers turned out to be people and process, not technology.

How Flatpay Built an AI Voice Analysis Product Without a Data Team

In mid-2024, most organisations were drowning in AI ambition and short on execution. Competing priorities, fragmented workforces, and shrinking budgets made meaningful AI adoption feel impossible — especially at scale.

This session tells the story of how a global People team cut through the noise and turned ambiguity into a structured, business-aligned AI capability strategy — reaching over 8,000 employees across Europe, the US, and ANZ without a single euro of incremental budget.

Jessica Kafka will walk through the real roadmap behind HelloFresh's "Own Your Growth, Share Your Recipe" program - from diagnosing a fragmented learner landscape, to securing a landmark Google partnership and embedding AI adoption directly into the company's efficiency agenda rather than running it as a parallel initiative.

The key insight: AI upskilling only works when it is owned by the business, not the L&D function. This session gives People and business leaders a practical framework for doing exactly that.

Private equity group enabling AI capabilities across all portfolio companies. Top-down view of how investors are thinking about AI transformation.