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

#drinkyourownchampagne Running a 30+ Team Portfolio with EA

Felix Hoffmann, Director of Product at SAP LeanIX.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

From idea to impact

Daniel Schmidt, Solution Engineer and Stavros Strogilakis, Miro Business Expert at Seibert.

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

The Power of Engagement

Jan Marks, Director Europe and Latin America at VWO.

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

From Filters to Conversations: Building HeyImmo – Immoscout24’s AI-Driven Real Estate Assistant

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

The Power of Three: How Triads Drive Innovation in SAP LeanIX

Pavan Madiraju, Sr Ux Designer and Felix Hoffmann, Director of Product at SAP LeanIX.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

What really works: AI in business between success and reality

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

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:35

From Chaos to Consistency

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

Main Stage Main Hall

From Expert to PM: Interhyp’s Playbook for Talent Growth

Christoph Bresler, Managing Director 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

Welcoming next-gen CRO: The Hybrid Framework for 2026

Dara Elavia, VP (EMEA) at VWO.

Conference Stage 3 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

Hype meets mindset: What makes product teams strong in the age of AI

Tim Schneider, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Railslove.

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

Update Your Mental Models, Not Just Your Tools – Thinking Clearly in the Age of AI

Steve Haupt, AI Expert and Software Engineer at andrena objects.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

15:20 - 15:55

How to Delight your users

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

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

SAP x LeanIX: The 1+1=3 Equation for Turning Business Content into Product Success

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

The Millionaire’s Dilemma: Choosing the Next Big Bet in Product Development

Johannes Mainusch, Interim VP Engineering & Platform and Manuel Möbes, Senior Product Owner at Douglas.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall

When AI Becomes the Engineer

Aditya Talredja, Head of Engineering Bootcamps at Digitale Leute and Benedikt Stemmildt, Founder of hackers&wizards.

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, joined by Snir Yarom (taxfix), Daniel Gebler (Picnic), Daniel Hauschildt (IMG.LY) and Christian Popp (andrena objects).

Main Stage Main Hall

The AI experimentation phase is over

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 and Christoph Rottler, Managing Director DACH at Kameleoon.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall

Driving Customer Excitement at Porsche

Markus Otten-Gambalat, Head of Design Bootcamps at Digitale Leute School and Daniel Diener, Senior Product Manager Mobility at Porsche Digital.

Conference Stage 3 Side Hall

17:45 - 18:20

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

Lisa Kleinman, Head of Product Design at Make.

Main Stage Main Hall

18:20 - 18:30

Wrap up by Digitale Leute Team

Stefan Vosskötter, Founder Digitale Leute (Main Stage).

18:30 - 23:59

Get-together with good music, food and drinks

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