Digitale Leute Summit 2025

Product

Tech

UX/Design

Main Stage

Main Hall

Conference Stage 1

Side Hall

Conference Stage 2

Side Hall

Conference Stage 3

Side Hall

08:30 - 09:00

Reception and Breakfast

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome to the Digitale Leute Summit 2025

Stefan Vosskötter, Founder Digitale Leute (Main Stage).

09:10 - 09:45

Opening Keynote: GenAI for Businesses – Past, Present, and Future

Yariv Adan, Founding General Partner at ellipsis venture. Former Senior Director of Products at Google.

Main Stage Main Hall

09:50 - 10:25

Strategic Prioritisation: What RICE Won’t Fix

Büşra Coşkuner, Founder of Producteer. Held roles at Doodle and home24.

Main Stage Main Hall

Finally, Good Requirements

Dr Gernot Starke, Fellow at INNOQ.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

Beyond the Panic: Why Designers Still Matter in an AI-Driven World

Ahmed Genaidy, Product Designer and Ben Shih, Senior Product Designer at Miro.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Successtimonies: What I learned from asking 225 people on how they define success

Jeroen Kemperman, Product Lead Account Security (Google Workspace) at Google.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

10:25 - 10:55

Morning Coffee Break

10:55 - 11:30

Design Prototyping for Emerging Technologies

Campbell Orme, Product Design Lead at Meta Reality Labs Research.

Main Stage Main Hall

SDK Productization: Serving the Needs of Many

Dr Daniel Hauschildt, CPO & Co-Founder at IMG.LY.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

Secrets of a Strong Tech Culture

Patrick Kua, Founder of the Tech Lead Academy. Held roles at ThoughtWorks and N26.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Fail Fast or Fail Forever: The Trap of Perfectionism in Experimentation

Christoph Rottler, Managing Director DACH at Kameleoon.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

11:35 - 12:10

How Taxfix is Building an AI-Native R&D Powerhouse to Fuel Fintech Innovation

Snir Yarom, CTO at Taxfix. Former Director of Engineering at Zalando SE.

Main Stage Main Hall

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Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

Application security for the sales platform of Deutsche Bahn

Christian Georg, Security Consultant at Cologne Intelligence.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Architecture to Spatial Computing

Shaun McCallum, Founder Fenestra. Former Product Design Prototyper at Meta Reality Labs.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

12:15 - 12:50

Transforming Work at Scout24: Our Journey with Claude and Model Context Protocol

Gertrud Kolb, CTO at Scout24.

Main Stage Main Hall

The Great Reset: When AI Rewrites Your Role, Your Product, and Your Entire Setup

Björn Schotte, Managing Director at Mayflower.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

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Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Kay Hildebrand, Organizational Developer and Systemic Business Coach and Lukas Heidemann, Data Science & AI at viadee.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:35

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From Chaos to Consistency

Karen Nino, Senior Software Engineer and Eddie Machado, Systems Designer at Miro.

Main Stage Main Hall

Product Management Talent-Strategy

Christoph Bresler, Head of Digitale Leute School and Benjamin Girr, Tribe Lead Customer Growth at Interhyp Gruppe.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

Technology is boring, Collaboration is key – about the future of software engineering

Olaf Gunkel, CEO & Head of Engineering at Spaceteams.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

14:40 - 15:15

Customer Consortiums and Coinnovation: How to get B2B products from 0 to 1 and on the path to crossing the chasm!

Gayatri Gopal, Sr Director Product Management, Public Cloud ERP at SAP Germany.

Main Stage Main Hall

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Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

Taming the Legacy Monster: A DDD-Driven Product Transformation

Sergio Morazán, Senior Technical Product Owner at OBI Group Holding.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

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Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

15:20 - 15:55

The new rules: How AI is rewriting product and design collaboration

Lisa Kleinman, Head of Product Design and Sebastian Mertens, Head of Applied AI at Make.

Main Stage Main Hall

Empowered to Succeed: Decision Making in Product

Phil Hornby, Product Leadership Coach at for product people.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

How design systems and AI Agents accelerate product delivery @ SIXT

Boyan Dimitrov, CTO at Sixt.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Mastering transformation with SAP Business Content and Accelerators

Julia Meyer, Product Expert and Nadine Cordes, Product Associate Content & Adoption at SAP Global Content Group.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

15:55 - 16:25

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:25 - 17:00

How Picnic is Redefining Grocery with Tech, AI, and Radical Efficiency

Daniel Gebler, CTO at Picnic.

Main Stage Main Hall

Johannes Mainusch, Interim VP Engineering & Platform at Douglas.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

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Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Punchlines to Product lines: How Stand-up Comedy boosted Abduls Career

Abdul Rahman, Senior Product Owner of Porsche Experience e-commerce platform.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

17:05 - 17:40

How AI is transforming large tech teams – predictions of the future

Stefan Vosskötter and guests.

Main Stage Main Hall

AI-Augmented Leadership: Leading with Heart and Algorithm in the Age of AI

Zamina Ahmad, AI & Data Strategist at shades&contrast.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

From Prompt to Test: Hacking Testing Cycles in Real Time

Waldemar Karcher, Head of Sales at Kameleoon.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

The Crossroads of UX: When the Digital and Physical Blends

Nadine von Seelen, Head of Insights UX/UI.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

17:45 - 18:20

Closing Keynote: How to Delight your users

Nesrine Changuel, Product Trainer and Advisor. Held roles at Google, Spotify and Microsoft.

Main Stage Main Hall

18:20 - 18:25

Wrap up by Digitale Leute Team

Stefan Vosskötter, Founder Digitale Leute (Main Stage).

18:25 - 23:59

Get-together with good music, food and drinks

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