8:30am     Registration & Breakfast

 

9:00am   Welcome and Introduction

 

• Mark Tomkins, President & CEO, German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc.

• Prof. Dr. Mathias Müller, President, Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Martin Richenhagen, Chairman of the German American Chambers of Commerce of the U.S. (GACCs)

• Thomas Metz, Staatssekretär, Hessisches Ministerium der Justiz

• Anke Goebel, Director, State of Iowa European Office, Frankfurt & Mike Kirchhoff, President & CEO, Clinton Regional Development Corporation

 

9:30am   Opening Panel: German-American Business Relations

 

• W. David Braun, Partner, Quarles & Brady LLP 

• Caroll H. Neubauer, Chairman & CEO, B. Braun of America Inc. 

• Andreas Povel, General Manager, American Chamber of Commerce in Germany

• Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President & CEO, AGCO Corporation

 

10:30am   Coffee Break

 

11:15am  WORKSHOPS

 

1. Energy & Environmental Technologies

• Dr. Severin Beucker, CO-Founder & CEO, Senior Researcher, Borderstep Institut für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit

• Dr. Stefan Hardt, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter, MeteoViva GmbH

• Florian Andreas Kolb, Managing Director, RWE New Ventures LLC

• Walter Lamparter, CEO, MICRODYN0-NADIR Group

 

2. Fintech

• Christian Hoppe, Founder Director, main incubator

• Dr. Jochen Biedermann, Senior Advisor, Frankfurt Main Finance

• Moritz von der Linden, Vorstand Vertrieb, Produkt & IT, CRX Markets AG 

• Ramin Niroumand, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, FinLeap

 

3. Future of Mobility

• Stefan Erdmann, Technischer Geschäftsführer, Aluminium Norf GmbH

• Frank Leimbach, Bereichsleiter, DEKRA Technology Center, DEKRA Automobil GmbH

• Dipl.-Ing. MBA Gerhard Pluppins, Internationaler Business Development Manager, Ubimax GmbH

• Dr. Joachim Taiber, Chief Technology Officer, International Transportation Innovation Center

 

4. Medtech

• Marius Balger, CEO, BIT Analytical Instruments GmbH

• Caroll H. Neubauer, Chairman & CEO, B. Braun of America Inc. 

• Dirk Treiber, Vorstand Vertrieb International, Bauerfeind AG

 

12:45pm   Lunch Break and Networking

 

2:15pm   WORKSHOPS

 

1. CFO Panel

• Wolfgang Hoffmann

• Barbara Lang, CFO, MAN Diesel & Turbo North America Inc.

• Andy Stecher, CEO, Plasmatreat USA

• Crispin Teufel, CFO, Lincare Holdings

 

2. International Development Institutions

• Karsten Fuelster, Representative for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, International Finance Corporation

• Dipl.-Ing. Wolf-Dietrich Geitz, Managing Partner, Railistics GmbH

• Eeva Karsta, Director Government Relations, Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA

 

3. Legal Framework & Risks

• Ralph Hartwig, Geschäftsführer, Materna GmbH

• Sebastian Jagsch, Geschäftsführer, eluminocity GmbH

• Rainer Kunst, CEO, Kunst und Kollegen Kommunikationsagentur GmbH

• Dr. Haiko van Lengen, COO & CFO, Market Logic Software AG

 

4. Sales Strategies

• Jörg-Tilman Heyl, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter, Gebrüder Heyl Analysentechnik GmbH & Co. KG

• Torsten Korb, CEO, Müller & Schmidt Pfeilringwerk GmbH & Co. KG

• Dr. Walter Maisel, President & CEO, KOSTAL North America, Inc.

• Peter Riehle, President & CEO, WITTENSTEIN Inc.

5. Startups

• Gitte Bedford, Vice President, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH

• Karsten Böhrs, CEO, simpleshow

• Matthias Notz, Geschäftsführer, German Entrepreneurship

• Ludwig Preller, Gründer & Geschäftsführer, CLEVIS Research GmbH

• Dr. Alexander von Frankenberg, Managing Director, High-Tech Gründerfonds

 

3:45pm    Coffee Break and Networking

 

4:15pm  Closing Session

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Detlef Zühlke, Direktor Innovative Fabriksysteme, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH

 

5:00pm    End of Event