Agenda
September 15th, 2026
All rooms
Main stage
Garden stage
Aquarium stage
Backstage room
All tracks
Leadership & Transformation
Revenue & Operations
Product & Development
Opening speech
09:00 - 09:15
Backstage
From Laggard to Pioneer: Why Tax Advisory Is Built for AI
09:00 - 9:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Silvano D'Agostino
Co-Founder & Managing Director


Melchior Neumann
Founder & Chief Transformation Officer

Aquarium
From Spreadsheet to Solution: How to Turn Manual Processes into AI-Powered Tools
09:00 - 9:45
Workshop
Revenue & Operations

Florian Fürst
Founder/AI Automation Consultant

Main Stage
Beyond Pilots: Enterprise AI Adoption in a 30-year-old digital company - The Good, the Bad, and the Useful
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.
09:00 - 9:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

David Gebhardt
Chief Technology Officer


Dr. Markus Schüler
Director of Data, Analytics and AI

SPONSOR PANEL
Main Stage
The Present and Future of AI
09:00-10:00
Sponsor panel
Leadership & Transformation

Mariam Hakobyan
Co-Founder & CEO

Main Stage
3 People, 1,800 Suppliers, and a Radical Rethink of Buy vs Build: AI-First Procurement at Personio
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.
10:00 - 10:30
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Nils Brauckmann
Head of Procurement

Garden Stage
AI-Coding a Company OS with Claude Code to power profitable growth
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.
10:00 - 10:30
Keynote
Product & Development

Alexander Rausch
Founder & Managing Director

Backstage
Guide to build an AI first product development team
10:00 - 10:45
Workshop
Product & Development

Miguel Coquet
CTO

Aquarium
Guide to build an AI first product development team
10:00-11:00
Workshop
Product & Development

Diogo Guerner
CEO


Vasco Guerreiro
Product Manager

Garden Stage
From “No-Code Isn’t Scalable” to Vibe-Coding Our Stack
The FINN story of rebuilding instead of buying — how the no-code pioneer is rebuilding everything with AI
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Maximilian Gebhard
Business Automation and AI Lead

Garden Stage
From "We Should Use AI" to Everyone Does - The HeyJobs AI Enablement Journey
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Katharina Menzel
Head of Recruiting

Main Stage
From 200 AI use cases to 2,500 - lessons from scaling AI across an entire company
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Ori Simantov
AI Transformation & Strategy

Aquarium
Agentic AI Development: Lessons from the Trenches
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Product & Development

Igor Araujo
Software Engineering Manager

Main Stage
Scaling an AI & Automation Infrastructure for the Real World
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
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Florian Kristof
Business Automation Manager
Aquarium
AI under regulation - and how AI helps you comply
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.
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote
Leadership & Transformation

Maximilian Beiche
Salary Partner

Garden Stage
The Van-tage Point: Turning Van-Spotting into Revenue Growth
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.
12:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Artur Gutjahr
Head of Revenue Operations

Main Stage
Scaling AI adoption in large Technology teams
Maxim Romanovsky leads AI & Product Engineering at Deutsche Bank, where he's rolling AI coding tools out to thousands of software developers working on decades-old systems. In this keynote he'll walk through what AI adoption actually means at that scale: the roadmap they're following, the problems and risks that show up along the way, and how they measure whether it's working.
12:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Product & Development

Maxim Romanosky
Head of AI for Tech in Investment Banking

Lunch & Network
13:00 - 15:00
Garden Stage
From Google Sheets to 1 Million Voice Calls
How Flatpay Built an AI Voice Analysis Product Without a Data Team
14:30 - 15:15
Fireside Chat
Revenue & Operations

Janick Tacke
Marketing Director


Jan Stemplewski
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Aquarium
Where's the Money? How to Make AI Projects Actually Succeed
15:30 - 16:15
Workshop
Leadership & Transformation

Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff
Co-Founder

Main Stage
40 People, Thousands of Customers, One Interface
15:30 -16:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Jesuena Estoque Reimer
Founder & CEO

Network Pause
16:30 - 17:00
Main Stage
When PE goes AI: Rolling Out AI Enablement Across an entire Portfolio
Private equity group enabling AI capabilities across all portfolio companies. Top-down view of how investors are thinking about AI transformation.
17:00 - 17:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Eugen B. Russ
Managing Partner
Garden
How to learn AI: lessons from training 20,000+ operators
17:00-18:00
Workshop
Leadership & Transformation

Jan Meinecke
Co-Founder
Network + Afterparty
19:00 - 22:00
Agenda
September 15th, 2026
All rooms
Main stage
Garden stage
Aquarium stage
Backstage room
All tracks
Leadership & Transformation
Revenue & Operations
Product & Development
Opening speech
09:00 - 09:15
Backstage
From Laggard to Pioneer: Why Tax Advisory Is Built for AI
09:00 - 9:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Silvano D'Agostino
Co-Founder & Managing Director


Melchior Neumann
Founder & Chief Transformation Officer

Aquarium
From Spreadsheet to Solution: How to Turn Manual Processes into AI-Powered Tools
09:00 - 9:45
Workshop
Revenue & Operations

Florian Fürst
Founder/AI Automation Consultant

Main Stage
Beyond Pilots: Enterprise AI Adoption in a 30-year-old digital company - The Good, the Bad, and the Useful
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.
09:00 - 9:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

David Gebhardt
Chief Technology Officer


Dr. Markus Schüler
Director of Data, Analytics and AI

SPONSOR PANEL
Main Stage
The Present and Future of AI
09:00-10:00
Sponsor panel
Leadership & Transformation

Mariam Hakobyan
Co-Founder & CEO

Main Stage
3 People, 1,800 Suppliers, and a Radical Rethink of Buy vs Build: AI-First Procurement at Personio
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.
10:00 - 10:30
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Nils Brauckmann
Head of Procurement

Garden Stage
AI-Coding a Company OS with Claude Code to power profitable growth
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.
10:00 - 10:30
Keynote
Product & Development

Alexander Rausch
Founder & Managing Director

Backstage
Guide to build an AI first product development team
10:00 - 10:45
Workshop
Product & Development

Miguel Coquet
CTO

Aquarium
Guide to build an AI first product development team
10:00-11:00
Workshop
Product & Development

Diogo Guerner
CEO


Vasco Guerreiro
Product Manager

Garden Stage
From “No-Code Isn’t Scalable” to Vibe-Coding Our Stack
The FINN story of rebuilding instead of buying — how the no-code pioneer is rebuilding everything with AI
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Maximilian Gebhard
Business Automation and AI Lead

Garden Stage
From "We Should Use AI" to Everyone Does - The HeyJobs AI Enablement Journey
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Katharina Menzel
Head of Recruiting

Main Stage
From 200 AI use cases to 2,500 - lessons from scaling AI across an entire company
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Ori Simantov
AI Transformation & Strategy

Aquarium
Agentic AI Development: Lessons from the Trenches
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.
11:00 - 11:45
Fireside Chat
Product & Development

Igor Araujo
Software Engineering Manager

Main Stage
Scaling an AI & Automation Infrastructure for the Real World
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
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Florian Kristof
Business Automation Manager
Aquarium
AI under regulation - and how AI helps you comply
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.
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote
Leadership & Transformation

Maximilian Beiche
Salary Partner

Garden Stage
The Van-tage Point: Turning Van-Spotting into Revenue Growth
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.
12:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Artur Gutjahr
Head of Revenue Operations

Main Stage
Scaling AI adoption in large Technology teams
Maxim Romanovsky leads AI & Product Engineering at Deutsche Bank, where he's rolling AI coding tools out to thousands of software developers working on decades-old systems. In this keynote he'll walk through what AI adoption actually means at that scale: the roadmap they're following, the problems and risks that show up along the way, and how they measure whether it's working.
12:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Product & Development

Maxim Romanosky
Head of AI for Tech in Investment Banking

Lunch & Network
13:00 - 15:00
Garden Stage
From Google Sheets to 1 Million Voice Calls
How Flatpay Built an AI Voice Analysis Product Without a Data Team
14:30 - 15:15
Fireside Chat
Revenue & Operations

Janick Tacke
Marketing Director


Jan Stemplewski
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Aquarium
Where's the Money? How to Make AI Projects Actually Succeed
15:30 - 16:15
Workshop
Leadership & Transformation

Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff
Co-Founder

Main Stage
40 People, Thousands of Customers, One Interface
15:30 -16:00
Keynote
Revenue & Operations

Jesuena Estoque Reimer
Founder & CEO

Network Pause
16:30 - 17:00
Main Stage
When PE goes AI: Rolling Out AI Enablement Across an entire Portfolio
Private equity group enabling AI capabilities across all portfolio companies. Top-down view of how investors are thinking about AI transformation.
17:00 - 17:45
Fireside Chat
Leadership & Transformation

Eugen B. Russ
Managing Partner
Garden
How to learn AI: lessons from training 20,000+ operators
17:00-18:00
Workshop
Leadership & Transformation

Jan Meinecke
Co-Founder
Network + Afterparty
19:00 - 22:00