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                                                                               Süddeutsche Zeitung

SZ Economic Summit 2018

Building
trust
                      Dear ladies and gentlemen,                                                                                       3

                                                                                                                                      Editorial
                      I would be delighted to see you in Berlin in Novem-      maier, State Minister for Digital Affairs Dorothee
                      ber at the 12th Economic Summit of Süddeutsche           Bär, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and Trans-
                      Zeitung. If you have been our guest before, you          port Minister Andreas Scheuer.
                      know that we meet at the Hotel Adlon to discuss          The Chancellor will be our guest for the fifth time.
                      current events in politics and business with mana-       She will hold the dinner speech at the highlight of
                      gers and entrepreneurs, politicians and scholars         the SZ Economic Summit, the Night of the Euro-
                      as well as other personalities from Germany and          pean Economy at the German Historical Museum.
                      abroad.                                                  Afterwards, I will have a subsequent chat with her
                      This year‘s motto of our summit is: “Building trust“     on stage, which will not only be devoted to current
                      Wherever you look: The trust of many people is           issues.
                      dwindling – in politics and in those who shape it        We are also presently in contact with foreign
                      decisively; in our economic system and free world        heads of government; many presidents, prime mi-
                      trade. In the past, most people were convinced           nisters and important officials have already spo-
                      that they would be better off in the future; today       ken and participated in the discussions at the SZ
                      diffuse fears of the future, of losing jobs, prosperi-   economic summits in recent years. Jüri Ratas, the
                      ty and security are spreading. This has a lot to do      Prime Minister of Estonia, has already agreed to
                      with the fact that we live in a time of major change.    join us in 2018. This means the prime minister of
                      What seemed safe just ten or fifteen years ago is        a country from which Germany can learn a lot in
                      no longer so today.                                      terms of digitisation.
                      This crisis of trust is accompanied by the enor-         We are maintaining the concept of our economic
                      mous upheavals we are currently experiencing:            summit: We do not want to stage a large-scale
                      the political upheavals in Washington, Rome and          event, but rather offer a forum for discussion, re-
                      – in some respects also in Germany; with the tech-       flection and exchange. Two festive dinners with a
                      nological upheavals caused by big data and artifi-       programme round off the offer.
                      cial intelligence, autonomous driving and robots;        As editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung, the
                      but also with China‘s rise, Europe‘s self-doubt, the     highest-circulation quality newspaper with natio-
                      isolationism of the USA.                                 nal distribution in Germany, I would be very ple-
                      We want to discuss these momentous changes               ased if you could be there for one day or for the
                      with you.                                                entire three days, just as your schedule permits.
                      Once again, we expect more than 60 top-class
                      speakers, including the heads of global compa-
                      nies such as Siemens, Axa and Deutsche Bank –
                      but also more politicians than ever. The economic
                      summit will be opened by Jean-Claude Juncker,
                      President of the European Commission. Six mem-
                      bers of the Federal Cabinet have also pledged
                      attendance: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Vice Chan-
                      cellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Peter Alt-        Kurt Kister
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SZ Economic Summit 2018

Germany’s major
Economic Summit:
meet entrepreneurs,
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held in Germany and Europe. We will discuss current global and
regional challenges, digitisation and innovation, policy choices,
current events and what they mean for business leadership.
Süddeutsche Zeitung Economic Summit 2018 Building trust! - 12th - 14th November, Hotel Adlon, Berlin
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SZ Economic Summit 2018

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in the German capital:
discuss what moves
the economy
At the Economic Summit of Süddeutsche Zeitung, panel
discussions are just as important as fringe discussions –
during the breaks, over lunch and at the evening events.

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SZ Economic Summit 2018

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Enjoy exclusive
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If you are also interested in questions beyond the economy, then the
Economic Summit of Süddeutsche Zeitung is the place to be. Just as the
Süddeutsche Zeitung daily offers you more than the business pages, our
congress offers more than only debates on economic issues at the evening
events, for the first time at the German Historical Museum this year.
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                The programme
The programme

                * Subject to change prior to the start of the congress.
                Information on the confirmation of further speakers and the updated
                programme will be provided on www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de/en/,
                where you can also subscribe to our newsletter.
Sunday
11th November 2018
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                                                                                           The programme
17.00   Registration of the participants at the Hotel Adlon
        (possible at any time also on the other days of the
        congress)

from    Welcome-Night                                            Julian Nida-Rümelin /
19.30   For the congress kick-off, we invite our participants,   Professor of Philosophy
        especially all those who are taking part for the first
        time, to join us at the Factory Berlin, to get to
        know the moderators and the speakers and to forge
        first contacts. With our guest Julian Nida-Rümelin,
        we are going to discuss whether digitisation is de-
        stroying our future.

        Factory Berlin
        Rheinsberger Straße 76/77, 10115 Berlin
Monday
                12th November 2018
                10.45   Introduction to the congress                            Marc Beise, Ulrich Schäfer /
                                                                                Süddeutsche Zeitung

                10.55   Welcome                                                 Kurt Kister /
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The programme

                11.00   Opening address plus Q&A:                               Jean-Claude Juncker /
                        Where is Europe headed?                                 President of the EU Commission

                11.30   Panel 1: Europe and its champions                       Charles-Édouard Bouée /
                        • Trump, China, Silicon Valley:                         Roland Berger
                          Where are the greatest threats lurking?               Thomas Buberl / AXA
                        • How to handle protectionism?                          Markus Haas / Telefónica
                        • How do we build new European champions?               Gillian Tans / Booking.com

                12.15   Cross-examination                                       Christian Sewing /
                                                                                Deutsche Bank

                12.45   Lunch break

                13.15   Cross-examination                                       Christian Lindner / Free
                                                                                Democratic Party in Germany

                14.15   Cross-examination                                       Horst Seehofer / Federal
                                                                                Minister of the Interior

                14.45   Panel 2: What will become of Germany?                   Ann-Kristin Achleitner /
                        • Is the government on the right course?                TU München
                        • Is it doing enough for growth, jobs and innovation?   Frank Bsirske / ver.di
                        • What reforms need to be tackled?                      Joe Kaeser / Siemens
                                                                                Wolfgang Langhoff / BP
                                                                                Christoph M. Schmidt /
                                                                                Economic advisor

                15.45   Coffee break
16.15   Panel 3: Does social market economy still work?   Thilo Bode / foodwatch
        • Why is our economic system losing in support?   Katja Kipping /
        • How can trust in the social market economy be   Chairwoman Die Linke
          regained?                                       Achim Wambach / ZEW
        • What would Ludwig Erhard do today?                                                  15

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17.00   Speed-Dating: Pioneers of change                  Katharina Kreitz / Vectoflow
        • Four founders, four successs stories            Stephan Schambach / NewStore
          seven minutes each                              Karl Matthäus Schmidt /
        • What are the secrets of their success?          Quirin private bank
        • What can others learn                           Günther Schuh / e.GO Mobile

17.30   Cross-examination: Diesel, banks, food:           Klaus Müller / vzbv
        How much consumer protection is required?

18.00   End of the first congress day

19.30   Reception in the foyer of the Ballroom

20.00   Dinner and talk evening
                                                          Lisa Blumenberg / producer
        in the Ballroom of the Hotel Adlon
                                                          (e.g. Bad Banks)
                                                          Birgit Fischer / 27fold canoeing
                                                          world champion and
                                                          Germany’s most successful
                                                          Olympic medallist
                                                          Ina Müller / singer, music
                                                          cabaret artist, author and
                                                          television presenter

                                                          presented by
Tuesday
                13th November 2018
                9.00    Keynote plus Q&A: Germany’s opportunities                   Dorothee Bär / Secretary of
                        in digitisation                                             State for Digital Affairs

                9.30    Cross-examination                                           Wenshuan Dang / Huawei
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                10.00   Panel 4: Data protection and data security – what can       Marit Hansen /
The programme

                        companies do?                                               Date Protection Officer
                        • Cybersecurity: a task for experts – and for the company   Schleswig-Holstein
                          executives                                                Yvonne Hofstetter /
                        • Best Practice: how to protect against attacks             TERAMARK Technologies
                        • GDPR: sensible or a bureaucratic monster?                 Paul Kaffsack / Myra
                                                                                    Security

                10.45   Mixed doubles: Humility and care – the manager as a role    Valerie Holsboer /
                        model                                                       Federal Employment Agency
                        • Are the times of an authoritarian boss over?              Jochen Schweizer / Jochen
                        • What soft skills do managers need instead?                Schweizer Group
                        • How can executives take their staff on board better?

                11.15   Coffee break

                11.45   Panel 5: How intelligent robots change our life and work    Frederik Brantner /
                        • What can robots and cobots do – and what not?             Magazino
                        • How can humans and machines work together?                Pascale Ehrenfreund /
                        • What will robots be able to do in a few years, also       German Aerospace Centre
                          thanks to artificial intelligence?                        Till Reuter / Kuka
                                                                                    and three robots

                12.30   Dispute: Human or machine – are we running out of work? Markus Gabriel / philosopher
                        • Do we have to be afraid of clever machines?           Gesche Joost /
                        • Will humans be pushed aside at the end?               Berlin University of the Arts
                        • How can we adapt to the new technology?

                13.30   Lunch break

                14.00   Cross-examination                                           Olaf Scholz /
                                                                                    Federal Minister of Finance
14.30   Digital Europe: three countries and their vision                Ana Brnabic´ / Prime Minister
        • How do they drive digitisation?                               of Serbia
        • What have they achieved, what are the heading for?            Katrín Jakobsdóttir / Prime
        • What can Germany learn from them?                             Minister of Island
                                                                        Jüri Ratas / Prime Minister      17
                                                                        of Estonia

                                                                                                        The programme
15.45   Coffee break

16.15   Introductory presentation                                       Andreas Scheuer / Federal
                                                                        Transport Minister

16.30   Panel 6: Air taxi or e-car – the future of networked mobility   Nico Gabriel / Sixt
        • How do Big Data and new types of drive change transport?      Stefan Krause / EVELOZCITy
        • What forms of transport have the greatest potential?          Felix Kuhnert / PwC
        • Are the German manufacturers losing ground?                   Andreas Scheuer / Federal
                                                                        Transport Minister

17.15   Panel 7: The blockchain revolution – an opportunity for         Gilbert Fridgen / Fraunhofer
        companies?                                                      FIT, University Bayreuth
        • What can crypto-technology offer – and what not?              Claudia Otto / COT Legal
        • Industry, banks, logistics: how companies are using           Dominik Schiener / IOTA
          blockchain already today                                      Ralph Hamers / ING Group
        • How can Germany become the leading blockchain nation?

18.00   End of the second congress day

19.00   Reception at the German Historical Museum

20.00   Night of the European Economy                                   Angela Merkel /
        at the German Historical Museum with dinner speech              Federal Chancellor

        Dresscode: Business

                                                                   presented by
        © Ulrich Schwarz
Wednesday
                                                                                                                         14th November 2018
                                                                                                                         9.30    Keynote plus Q&A                                      Jens Weidmann / President of the
                                                                                                                                                                                       Bundesbank

                                                                                                                         10.00   Keynote plus Q&A: the future of world trade           Peter Altmaier / Federal Economics
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                                                                                                                         10.30   Panel 8: How does a company remain agile and          Sir Tim Clark / Emirates
                                                                                                                                 innovative?                                           Philipp Depiereux / etventure
                                                                                                                                 • How important are executives for innovation?        Miriam Wohlfarth / RatePay
                                                                                                                                 • What are the best strategies for change?
                                                                                                                                 • Agility: sensible or overrated?

                                                                                                                         11.15   Coffee break

                                                                                                                         11.45   Trail Blazers – Germany’s best start-ups              presented by
                                                                                                                                 Six young companies present themselves with a
                                                                                                                                 pitch. The participants of the SZ Economic Summit
                                                                                                                                 select the winner with an app.

                                                                                                                         12.15   Panel 9: Why digitisation only works with diversity
                                                                                                                                 • Why are diverse teams more creative?                Fränzi Kühne / TLGG
                                                                                                                                 • How to get more women involved in digital?          Marika Lulay / GFT Technologies
                                                                                                                                 • What can politicians and companies do?              Hermann J. Merkens / Aareal Bank
                Information on the confirmation of further speakers will be provided under www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de

                                                                                                                         13.15   Lunch break

                                                                                                                         14.30   Panel 10: Europe, USA, China - who determines the     Gabriel J. Felbermayr / ifo
                                                                                                                                 rules of globalization?                               Institute – Leibniz Institute for
                                                                                                                                 • Customs: Do you need them - and how should          Economic Research at the
                                                                                                                                   companies deal with them?                           University of Munich
                                                                                                                                 • Investments: Who gets new factories and jobs?       Bernhard Mattes / Association of
                                                                                                                                 • Trade agreements: Which agreements are possible?    the German Automotive Industry
                The programme is subject to changes and amendments.

                                                                                                                                                                                       Yi Sun / Ernst & young

                                                                                                                         15.15   Cross-examination                                     Jan Heitmann / Germany’s
                                                                                                                                                                                       best-known poker expert

                                                                                                                         15.45   Closing-Keynote                                       Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović /
                                                                                                                                                                                       President of Croatia

                                                                                                                         16.15   End of the congress
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 1 ANN-KRISTIN ACHLEITNER (from 2016) She                 4 DR. LISA BLUMENBERG, 54, has been working
knows how to handle risk: The professor of eco-          for Studio Hamburg for more than twenty years;
nomics with a chair at the TU Munich has set her         initially as a television producer later as an executive
research emphasis on venture capital. She prob-          producer. In 2006, she was honoured with the VFF
ably is the most distinctive member of a supervi-        TV Movie Award for her production work, followed
sory board in the country, too. The industrious          by the Grimme-Preis and the Bayerischer Fernseh-
scientist (born in 1966) is part of the supervisory      preis for her novel adaptation “Neue Vahr Süd”. Over
committees of the German stock exchange, the             the past few years, Blumenberg has increasingly
reinsurance company MunichRe, the French                 dedicated herself to TV series. Last year, for exam-
energy group Engie and the gases company Linde.          ple, she was in charge of the German-Luxembourg
On top of that, she was a member of the German           co-production “Bad Banks”, inspired by the financial
Corporate Governance Code governmental com-              crisis of 2008. Following the great success, a second
mission for many years.                   Andrea Rexer   season is now in the works.                    David Denk

  2 PETER ALTMAIER, 60, is considered one of               5 THILO BODE doesn’t shy away from confronta-
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s closest advisors. He          tion. When he was head of Greenpeace, he took on
was Federal Minister of the Environment, Head of         the powerful oil industry among others. Today, he
the Federal Chancellery and was put in charge of         fights for consumer protection and citizen’s rights
the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and            with his organisation Foodwatch. Identifying critical
Energy this year. The passionate European born in        issues that are important to people, such as the
Saarland, however, has increasingly been grap-           controversial TTIP and Ceta free trade agreements,
pling with transatlantic relations as of late, with      comes naturally to him. He has also targeted banks
trade matters mainly.             Michael Bauchmüller    and insurances for food speculation. Silvia Liebrich

 3 DOROTHEE BäR, Born in 1978, she joined the              6 CHARLES-ÉDOUARD BOUÉE The world is his
young Union (JU) even when she was a pupil. She          home, always commuting between Europe, Amer-
has been a member of the party executive of the          ica and Asia. The Frenchman, with his main office
CSU since 2001 and was appointed Deputy Sec-             in Munich and a residence in Shanghai, has been
retary General in 2009. She has been a member            leading Roland Berger as a CEO since 2014. He
of the Bundestag since 2002. In 2013, she assu-          studied in Paris and at Harvard and started his
med the office of Parliamentary Secretary of State       career as an investment banker. Subsequently,
at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital         he switched his profession to business consul-
Infrastructure. Since March 2018, she has been           tancy, initially with Booz Allen & Hamilton and
State Minister for Digitisation on behalf of the         later with AT Kearney. Since 2001, he has been
Federal Government.               Helmut Martin-Jung     with Roland Berger.                   Caspar Busse
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                  7 FREDERIK BRANTNER, born in 1984, is                       10 THOMAS BUBERL, ´    CEO, AXA, 18 years ago,
                co-founder of the start-up Magazino. The mechan-             he was part of the Boston Consulting team that
                ical engineering company builds mobile robots for            contributed to the founding of HUK 24, a hugely
                logistics that relies on artificial intelligence. The        successful online insurance company. Experience
                management expert has so far lived in the USA,               is key: Buberl has no doubt that digitisation will
                Ecuador, South Africa, the Czech Republic and                radically change his industry. He trained as a
                Spain. He is a serial founder; already during his            banker, completed his business studies and PhD,
                time at uni, he set up the management consul-                worked as a consultant, and assumed his first
                tancy Denkleister.                     Elisabeth Dostert     Board position in 2005. In 2012, Buberl became
                                                                             head of AXA Germany. Based in Paris since Sep-
                 8 ANA BRNABIC, Born in 1975 in Belgrade, the                tember 2016, he has been managing the whole
                business economist was the first woman to be                 AXA Group. He is 45 years of age and likes to
                elected Serbian Prime Minister in June 2017. Only            design shoes in his spare time.     Herbert Fromme
                a year earlier, after working in the private sector,
                she had been appointed to the cabinet as Minister.            11 SIR TIM CLARK A member of the Emirates’
                As a political career changer, she remains inde-             founding team, he is one of the most powerful men
                pendent until now. She has focused her work on               in the airline industry. His words carry weight, after
                household renovation and digitisation in order to            all, since becoming acting head of Emirates in
                keep Serbia on course in the EU.          Peter Münch        2003 he has ordered over 142 Airbus A380s, and
                                                                             is also one of Boeing’s most important customers.
                  9 FRANK BSIRSKE has been chairman of the ser-              His airline has even unsettled Lufthansa to the
                vice trade union ver.di since 2001, which originated         extent that they have advocated removing Emira-
                from five individual trade unions. Starting out as           tes’ air traffic rights.                    Jens Flottau
                number one, ver.di is now only the second largest
                German trade union. Sixty-six-year-old Bsirske, son           12 PHILIPP DEPIEREUx, Born in 1977, he studied
                of a labourer and a nurse, studied political science         international business administration in Germany,
                and began his career with the Greens, before mak-            France and the USA. After that he founded his first
                ing it to the top in the Public Services and Transport       own consultancy firm Pepato and successfully
                (ÖTV) trade union, subsequently becoming head of             restructured the film manufacturer alesco. Since
                ver.di. Next year, the tea lover and tough negotiator        2010, he has been founder and managing director
                is going to retire.                      Henrike Roßbach     of etventure, a digital consultancy and cradle for
                                                                             start-ups and a digital consultancy; With his team,
                                                                             he develops digital business models both for large
                                                                             and medium-sized companies as well as for start-
                                                                             ups.                               Helmut Martin-Jung
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 13 PASCALE EHRENFREUND, 57, has been Chair-              16 GILBERT FRIDGEN, born in 1980, knows what
man of the Executive Board of the German Aero-           the future holds: his work at the University of Bay-
space Center (DLR) for almost two years. She stud-       reuth focusses on Blockchain technology on which
ied astronomy and biology at the University of           many currently pin their hopes. As Professor of
Vienna. In 2001, Ehrenfreund was appointed hon-          Information Systems, Fridgen is exploring poten-
orary professor of astrobiology in Amsterdam and         tial business applications of this new technology,
Leiden. Since 2008 she has been Professor of             such as the immutable storage of information. On
Space Policy and International Affairs at George         top of that, he is co-director of the Fraunhofer
Washington University.                   Jens Flottau    Blockchain Lab.                         Victor Gojdka

 14 GABRIEL J. FELBERMAYR, Blockades, tariffs,            17 MARKUS GABRIEL A book with the title “Why
trade wars: these are exciting times and Gabriel         the World Doesn’t Exist”, is quite a statement. The
Felbermayr helps us to understand them. The Aus-         philosopher, born in 1980, landed a hit with the
trian economist studied in Linz, did his doctorate       work. His school of thought is called “New Rea-
in Florence and habilitated in Tübingen. Felbermayr      lism”. He rejects the existence of a world in which
has been with the ifo Institute in Munich since          everything is connected to everything, instead
2010, where he heads the „Center for International       there are many different worlds and realities in
Economics“.                            Christoph Gurk    the form of excepts existing next to each other. In
                                                         2009 he was Germany’s youngest professor of
 15 BIRGIT FISHER With eight gold medals and four        philosophy to be appointed to the Chair for Epis-
silver medals, only to name her Olympic achieve-         temology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
ments, Birgit Fischer is the most successful German      at the University of Bonn. He has long been con-
Olympic athlete. The canoeist, born in 1962, has won     sidered one of the most important contemporary
many more titles. Since ending her sports career,        German philosophers.                     Jan Willmroth
however, she has been an entrepreneur above all.
The certified sports instructor runs a canoeing school    18 NICO GABRIEL , The business graduate, born
in Brandenburg and is committed to the fight against     in 1977, is one of the most intimate connoisseurs
drugs and for nature conservation. Katharina Kutsche     of Car-Sharing in Europe. He helped set up BMW’s
                                                         short-term rental service, called DriveNow, and
                                                         this spring switched to the longstanding partner
                                                         of this business, the car rental company Sixt.
                                                         There he is now to make the huge fleet of 200,000
                                                         rental cars fit for the digital world, ultimately also
                                                         for Car-Sharing.                            Max Hägeler
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                 19 KOLINDA GRABAR-KITAROVIC,      ´ In the summer of       22 MARIT HANSEN Born in 1969, she studied
                2018 she became known worldwide in her red and             computer science with a minor in medicine and
                white football jersey as the biggest fan of her            has been leading the ULD (Independent Centre
                national team at the World Cup in Russia. Before,          for Privacy Protection, Schleswig-Holstein) in
                the political scientist (born 1968) was elected Cro-       Kiel, the Data Protection Authority of Schle-
                atia’s first female president in 2015. The politician,     swig-Holstein, since 2015. Hansen is a sought-af-
                who comes from the ranks of the national-conserv-          ter expert on many a topic related to data protec-
                ative HDZ, already served as Foreign Minister and          tion and privacy and has also worked on a great
                later as Deputy Secretary General of NATO.        Peter    number of data protection research projects
                Münch                                                      funded by Brussels                Helmut Martin-Jung

                 20 MARKUS HAAS, born in 1972, started his                  23 JAN HEITMANN A good businessman is a good
                career in the legal affairs and regulatory division at     poker player. Or vice versa: There is a lot that can
                Telefónica in Germany in 1998 - at that time Viag          be learned from poker for corporate management
                Interkom- after his legal studies. Since 2017, Haas        - strategic, logical thinking or the intelligent han-
                has been CEO of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG,         dling of risks and data. Finds the best-known pro-
                the company in his hometown of Munich. In terms            fessional expert in Germany. He has played as a
                of internal digitisation, the hobby chef banks on          professional for 13 years and is now a native of
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                 25 VALERIE HOLSBOER, born in 1977, is the                 28 JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, has been shaping
                first woman on the Executive Board of the Federal         European politics for longer than most of his col-
                Employment Agency where she is responsible for            leagues. Born in Luxembourg in 1954, Jean-Claude
                finance and controlling. Previously, the lawyer           Juncker was Minister for Finance from 1989 to 2009
                was the Managing Director of the German System            and Prime Minister of his home country from 1995
                Catering Association and of the Food, Drink and           to 2013. And that’s not all: from 2005 to 2013, as
                Tobacco Employers’ Association. Holsboer wants            President of the Euro Group, he also chaired the
                to encourage women to take over executive func-           meetings of European finance ministers. Juncker
                tions.                             Thomas Öchsner         has been President of the European Commission
                                                                          since November 2014.                Alexander Mühlauer
                 26 KATRíN JAKOBSDóTTIR In March she met Ger-
                man Chancellor Angela Merkel and invited her to            29 JOE KAESER has been CEO of Siemens since
                Iceland for a walk. Now the Icelandic Prime Minister      August 2013. The manager, joined the company
                is coming back to Berlin: Katrín Jakobsdóttir, born       based in Munich in as early as 1980 and quickly
                in 1976, has been a member of parliament in Rey-          made a career for himself. In 2006 he was appointed
                kjavík for more than ten years, was previously Min-       Chief Financial Officer; he went on to inherit Peter
                ister of Education and has been head of government        Löscher’s post at the top of the group. Ever since,
                since 2017. In addition to equal rights, education        he has been restructuring Siemens rigorously,
                and environmental protection, digitisation is impor-      including the merger of businesses with competi-
                tant to her. Together with the other four Nordic          tors in the field of wind power and rail technology
                heads of government, she set herself the goal in          as well as going public with the medical technology
                spring of jointly promoting the 5G mobile commu-          business.                                 Caspar Busse
                nications standard in the Nordic countries and thus
                becoming a global pioneer.                Silke Bigalke    30 PAUL KAFFSACK, born in 1981, co-founded
                                                                          Myra Security, an IT security company based in
                 27 GESCHE JOOST Member of the Expert Advisory            Munich. Since 2013, the company has been pro-
                Board on Consumer Protection Issues as well as of         tecting websites from online attacks with its servi-
                the Supervisory Boards of SAP and ING-DiBa – these        ces. Customers include the car rental company Sixt
                are just some of Gesche Joost’s positions, who was        and the Baur mail order company. Politicians also
                born in 1974. Until June 2018, she promoted digital       trust in Kaffsack’s services: he thus protects the
                change throughout Germany on behalf of the Fed-           federal government websites and was in charge of
                eral government, as an Internet ambassador, or –          keeping the online presence secure at the G7 sum-
                more snazzy – Digital Champion. But above all, Joost      mit in Elmau. In his job, Kaffsack travels the globe,
                is a full-time professor of design research at the        from Silicon Valley to London.            Victor Gojdka
                Berlin University of the Arts, where she leads the
                Design Research Lab.                 Katharina Kutsche
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 31 KATJA KIPPING has been chairperson of The             34 FRäNZI KüHNE Fränzi Kühne co-founded the
Left party together with Bernd Riexinger since           digital agency Torben, Lucie und die gelbe Gefahr
2012. Born in Dresden in 1978, she completed a           (TLGG – Torben, Lucie and the yellow danger) with
degree in Slavic studies, American studies and law.      two friends ten years ago. Kühne (b. 1983) looks
In 1998, she joined the PDS party, and in 1999,          after finances and staff at TLGG amongst other
she went on to become a town councillor of her           things. In 2017, she joined the Supervisory Board
hometown and a member of the Saxon state par-            of Freenet as the youngest member of such a body
liament. In 2005, she was drawn to Berlin, where         in Germany.                            Felicitas Wilke
she has been a member of the German Bundestag
parliament ever since.           Jan Schwenkenbecher      35 FELIx KUHNERT is a partner at the auditing
                                                         and advisory firm PwC. Last autumn, the automo-
 32 STEFAN KRAUSE First, he was CFO at Faraday           tive expert rose to the position of Global Automo-
Future, the Californian high-flyer in the e-car sec-     tive Leader. Kuhnert, born in 1969, looks back on
tor, then he started his own business in the same        more than 20 years of experience in advising car
industry with Evelozcity: Stefan Krause. The cos-        manufacturers, dealer organisations and associa-
mopolitan founder, born in Colombia in 1962,             tions. He previously studied economics in Freiburg,
studied management in Würzburg, made a career            Bonn and Berkeley.                      Jan Willmroth
with BMW and Deutsche Bank and has been on
the Supervisory Board of Rocket Internet since            36 WOLFGANG LANGHOFF, born in 1960, is
2016. Starting in December 2017, he has been             Chairman of the Board of BP Europa SE. He is
his own boss.                        Katharina Kutsche   responsible for operating the oil company’s busi-
                                                         ness in Germany and six neighbouring countries.
 33 KATHARINA KREITZ Whenever Formula 1                  Thus, he is in charge of 3,900 Aral and BP petrol
tours around the world, Vectoflow tags along for         stations. As Chairman of the German Petroleum
the ride. The start-up from Munich supplies probes       Industry Association, the qualified engineer rep-
that measure the air flow, not only on race cars.        resents the interests of oil pipeline and refinery
Katharina Kreitz, born in 1987, is one of the foun-      operations in Germany.                Benedikt Müller
ders. After graduating, the engineer received
many a job offer from well-known companies. But
she refused to be “streamlined”. Elisabeth Dostert
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                 37 CHRISTIAN LINDNER His well-balanced polit-            40 ANGELA MERKEL She has been ruling Germany
                ical account is what the FDP party leader stands         since 2005: first as Chancellor of a grand coalition,
                out for the most. On the credit side, he success-        then as Chancellor of a rather small coalition with
                fully reintroduced the Free Democrats back into          the liberal FDP; since 2013, again as head of a grand
                the Bundestag. On the debit side, he shied away          coalition. From a reformer of domestic politics, she
                from assuming governmental responsibility.               has evolved to become Europe’s most important
                Which is why he now sits in the Bundestag as a           head of government: internationally respected by
                faction leader and not as minister in the Ministry       many, but also attacked by many on the Euro and
                of Finance. Of course, having been born in 1979,         the refugee crises.                  Claus Hulverscheidt
                there is still plenty of time for Lindner to change
                that.                                 Cerstin Gammelin    41 HERMANN J. MERKENS His professional
                                                                         career started in 1985 at Deutsche Bank Group.
                 38 MARIKA LULAY She is one of the few CEOs              After holding a position at Deutsche Interhotel
                among the 160 Dax-listed companies. Since 2017,          Holding, he joined today’s Aareal Bank in 1999.
                Marika Lulay has been head of the listed IT service      Four years later he became a member of the
                provider GFT Technologies from Stuttgart. The            Management Board of the MDAX-listed property
                computer scientist, born in 1963, also wants to          financing specialist. He has been the Chairman
                improve the reputation of programmers: “Without          of the Management Board since 2015. Born in
                IT, hospitals would not function.”       Stefan Mayr     1966, he graduated from Berlin School of Eco-
                                                                         nomics with a diploma in business administra-
                 39 BERNHARD MATTES The manager appears                  tion.                                 Andrea Rexer
                quietly. His long-standing employer Ford shows
                that he nevertheless acts decisively: as head of          42 INA MüLLER, born in 1965, grew up on a farm
                Germany, the economist (born in 1956) repaired           and was a pharmacist before she made a career
                the poor brand. In the meantime, as president of         for herself as a cabaret artist. Today, she drinks
                the Association of the German Automotive Indus-          celebrity guests under the table in her award-win-
                try, he is responsible for the welfare of the entire     ning Hamburg talk show “Inas Nacht” (Ina’s Night)
                industry and has brought the abolition of car tariffs    and fills concert halls by singing Schlager music.
                between the USA and the EU into play. Max Hägler         She has also written several books, in Low German
                                                                         no less.                              Kristiana Ludwig
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 43 KLAUS MüLLER, 47, is the top consumer                   46 JüRI RATAS once he said that it only takes 20
watchdog in Germany. He has been in charge of the          minutes at most to set up a company in Estonia.
Federation of German Consumer Organisations                The 39-year-old reigns a thoroughly digitised state
since 2014. The graduate economist had made a              in which practically all administrative procedures
career for himself in politics before He was a mem-        can be handled online. At the age of 23, he became
ber of the Bundestag for the Greens and spokes-            economic advisor in the town hall of his native
man on financial policy for the parliamentary group.       Tallinn, and at the age of 27, he became Lord
In 2000, he made the move to Schleswig-Holstein            Mayor himself. From 2007, he was Vice-President
as Minister of Environment, Nature and Forestry.           of the Estonian Parliament. In his spare time, he
From 2006 to 2014, he was the Executive Director           plays basketball.                        Silke Bigalke
of the Consumer Protection Centre of the Federal
State North-Rhine Westphalia.            Markus Balser      47 TILL REUTER When he joined KUKA AG in 2009,
                                                           the Augsburg based robot and plant manufacturing
 44 JULIAN NIDA-RüMELIN if you grow up in a                company was knee-deep in a crisis. Today, the CEO
Munich family of artists, the path is probably sket-       is regarded as a margin robot: he increased the
ched out a little. Nida-Rümelin became a philoso-          share price from 10 to 110 euros. In 2016, the Chi-
pher and professor, worked in California, Beijing          nese appliance manufacturer Midea took over the
and St. Gallen and was Minister of State for Culture       company. This was highly controversial politically
in Gerhard Schröder‘s first cabinet. Most recently,        but very successful from a business point of view:
he was very much concerned with the refugee cri-           this provides KUKA with free admission to the Chi-
sis. “Thinking about borders” is the title of his          nese mega market.                        Stefan Mayr
book on the subject. What is at stake: a new
“Ethics of Migration”.                  Thomas Fromm        48 STEPHAN SCHAMBACH Raised in the GDR, he
                                                           is among the most successful German serial foun-
 45 CLAUDIA OTTO The lawyer from Frankfurt                 ders. The man from Jena established three popular
worked at a myriad of renowned law firms, including        companies, all related to e-commerce. In the late
Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Hengeler Mueller,          1990s, he got off to a flying start with Intershop on
before setting up her own firm. She wanted to be           the German Neuer Markt. He then moved to the USA,
more than an advisor, she also wanted to do                founded Demandware and sold the company to
research. The head of COT Legal law firm calls herself     Salesforce in 2016 for nearly three billion dollars.
a digital lawyer and specialises in IT security, but       For three years now, he has been growing NewStore
mainly in blockchain and the related smart con-            in Boston and Berlin and is fully committed to shop-
tracts. She regards the blockchain hype somewhat           ping on mobile devices.                    Ulrich Schäfer
critically                                Ulrich Schäfer
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                 49 ANDREAS SCHEUER, born in 1974, assumed                 52 KARL MATTHäUS At the age of 25, he founded
                office as Federal Minister of Transport and Digital       his first bank, Germany’s first discount broker Con-
                Infrastructure in Angela Merkel’s fourth cabinet this     sors. Today, Karl Matthäus Schmidt, born in 1969,
                March. Hailing from Passau, he already served as          is CEO of Quirin Bank. The early affinity for money
                Secretary General of the CSU and previously as Par-       business is not a matter of chance. The Upper Fran-
                liamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry     conian with his adopted home in Berlin is a banker
                for Transport, Building and Urban Development. He         in the sixth generation, a father of four and an occa-
                joined the CSU in 1994. After rising to the top quickly   sional Internet blogger.                      Uwe Ritzer
                within the party, Scheuer was elected to the German
                Bundestag for the first time in 2002. Nils Wischmeyer      53 OLAF SCHOLZ, born in 1958, assumed office as
                                                                          Federal Minister of Finance in the fourth Merkel cab-
                 50 DOMINIK SCHIENER claims he has “no private            inet this Spring. He knows the Chancellor from the
                life”. Otherwise, the career of the young entrepre-       period of 2007 to 2009 already, when he was Federal
                neur would hardly have been possible. In early 2012,      Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. Therebetween,
                at the age of 16, he first heard about the crypto         he reigned as the widely respected mayor of Hamburg.
                currency Bitcoin. In 2015, he founded his own pay-        In the aftermath of the riots at the G20 Summit 2017,
                ment system IOTA, which is ranked the tenth largest       his reputation took a bit of a hit, however. He is con-
                digital currency in the world. Currently, Schiener is     sidered a pragmatic SPD politician; for instance, he
                working on a data marketplace with companies such         assisted former Chancellor Schröder in implementing
                as Telekom and Deutsche Bahn.              Janis Beenen   the controversial Hartz IV reforms. Harald Freiberger

                 51 CHRISTOPH M. SCHMIDT born in 1962, went                54 GüNTHER SCHUH The company founder com-
                to the States in the late 80s, worked for Angus           pleted his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University
                Deaton, who would later win the Nobel Prize, and          and habilitated himself at the University of St. Gal-
                earned his Ph.D. from Princeton. As a specialist in       len. Here, he was Professor of Production Manage-
                econometrics and labour market research, he was           ment until 2002. Eventually, he became Chair of
                appointed professor in Heidelberg and later               Production Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.
                moved to Bochum, where he still leads the RWI             He sold his electric vehicle company Streetscooter
                (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research) today.          to Deutsche Post; he now builds compact electric
                As chairman of the German Council of Economic             cars with e.GO Mobile.                 Valentin Dornis
                Experts, he has been the voice of regulatory rea-
                son since 2013.                        Jan Willmroth
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 55 JOCHEN SCHWEIZER He loves adventure: as                 58 YI SUN A danger to some, a matchmaker to
an extreme sportsman, stunt man, and entrepre-             others, the 42 year-old regards herself “simply
neur. And he keeps his cool at all times. In his auto-     as a deal maker”. The Germanist and business
biographical book „Der perfekte Augenblick“ he             graduate is head of the China Team at the con-
describes how, through setbacks he has learnt to           sulting firm Ey and locates appropriate takeover
be resilient. His corporate group employs over 500         targets in Germany for Chinese investors. She
staff, sells adventure vouchers, invests in start-ups,     advised the Chinese state-owned company
and since February 2017, operates an adventure             ChemChina during their acquisition of Krauss-Ma-
arena including artificial surf waves to the south of      ffei. Born in Shanghai, she studied German,
Munich. As one of five “Lions” the native of Ettling       French, Japanese and English at an elite boarding
(born 1957) shaped the Vox channel’s business              school. At the age of 20, she moved to Germany.
founder show “Höhle der Löwen” over the course                                                      Elisabeth Dostert
of three years                            Ulrich Schäfer
                                                            59 GILLIAN TANS has been with Booking.com
 56 HORST SEEHOFER, born in 1949, was once in              since 2002. She was the first permanent
charge of the Berlin departments of agriculture and        employee of the start-up company in Amster-
health as Federal Minister. In 2008, he left the           dam. The Dutch national made a career for her-
German capital to return to Munich as Minister             self and has been the CEO of the company since
President of Bavaria. Since March, he has been             the end of April 2016. The hotel-booking portal
managing the mega department in Berlin, which              Booking.com is one of the most successful online
seems to be almost too big – even for someone as           companies with more than one million custom-
experienced as Seehofer. Particularly since the            ers per day.                         Caspar Busse
head of CSU is still busy acting as Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s strongest critic – especially when         60 ACHIM WAMBACH Chairman of the Monopolies
it comes to migration.               Cerstin Gammelin      Commission, which advises the Federal Government
                                                           on all matters competition, he initially studied physics
 57 CHRISTIAN SEWING born in Bünde, West-                  and mathematics and only later found his way to eco-
phalia, in 1970, he has been CEO of Deutsche               nomics. Wambach, born in 1968, was professor of
Bank since 8 April. For several years, he had been         economics in Erlangen and Cologne, and has been
a member of the management board of the finan-             President of the Mannheim Centre for European Eco-
cial institution. In Spring, however, he moved to          nomic Research (ZEW) since 2016. He is also co-foun-
the very top unexpectedly, after his predecessor           der of a Munich consulting firm               Caspar Busse
John Cryan had to resign prematurely. Sewing
has been working for Deutsche Bank for almost
thirty years.                         Meike Schreiber
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                 61 JENS WEIDMANN Born in Solingen in 1968,
                the President of the Bundesbank has a reserved
                public demeanour but can be adamant when push
                comes to shove. His colleagues in the Council of
                the European Central Bank have had a taste of this
                in recent years, as has the Federal German Govern-
                ment. As a former business advisor to Angela
                Merkel, he considered the ECB’s rescue measures
                to be one step too far. Perhaps Weidmann’s job
                will entail putting an end to the policy of easy
                money. He is a potential successor to ECB’s Pres-
                ident Mario Draghi, whose mandate will run out in
                November 2019                           Markus Zydra

                 62 MIRIAM WOHLFARTH is among the most
                famous women in the German Fintech scene. In
                2010, she founded RatePAy, offering instalment
                payments in e-commerce. In May 2018, profits
                reached the one million mark for the first time. As
                a founder, Wohlfahrt has demonstrated how to
                build a successful financial technology business
                defying any obstacles.                    Marc Beise
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Please register at www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de/en/anmeldung
Dates:                                                 Participation:
12th November 2018, ca. 10.45 am to                    The participation fee is € 3,345.- plus VAT.
14th November 2018, ca. 4.30 pm                        This includes a conference portfolio, refreshments,
                                                       lunch and participation in the Welcome Night and
Venues:                                                the two evening events – Talk Evening and Night of the
Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin                           European Economy.
Unter den Linden 77, 10117 Berlin
Please book your hotel room in good time using         The fee for accompanying persons at the evening events
the keyword „Süddeutsche Zeitung Wirtschaftsgipfel“.   is € 190.- plus VAT. The fee for a day‘s participation
Phone: +49 (0) 30 2261-0, fax: +49 (0) 30 2261-2222,   incl. an evening event is € 1,650.-
E-Mail: reservation.adlon@kempinski.com                plus VAT.
www.kempinski.com/berlinadlon
Dresscode: Business Casual                             Please note that due to the limited number of places,
                                                       participation shall only be reserved for you once you receive
Welcome Night, 11th November 2018:                     confirmation of registration and an invoice from us. May we
Factory Berlin                                         kindly ask you to settle your invoice before the start of the
Rheinsberger Straße 76/77, 10115 Berlin                event.
Dresscode: Business Casual
                                                       Target group:
Night of the European Economy, 13th November 2018:     The congress addresses management and supervisory
Deutsches Historisches Museum                          board members, managing directors, top executives and
Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin                       entrepreneurs.
Dresscode: Business
Registration and up-to-date information:

www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de
Congress managers and programme
Marc Beise, Head of Economics Department, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Ulrich Schäfer, Head of Economics Department, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Organiser
Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH
Hultschiner Straße 8,D – 81677 Munich. Registered office: Munich.
Registered at the District Court Munich, under HRB 7685. VAT ID: DE 129470827.
CEOs: Stefan Hilscher, Dr. Karl Ulrich

Süddeutscher Verlag Veranstaltungen GmbH
Hultschiner Straße 8,D – 81677 Munich. Registered office: Munich.
Registered at the District Court Munich, under HRB 184524. VAT ID: DE 811286041.
CEO: Dieter Ohlenhard

Project leader
Marcus Dworak, Head of Events Süddeutsche Zeitung

Registration and information
Jana Bumann
Telefon: +49 (0) 8191 / 125-104
E-Mail: jana.bumann@sv-veranstaltungen.de
Internet: www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de

Photos: Robert Haas / Johannes Peljak /
Stephan Rumpf / Johannes Simon / Mathis Wienand
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