- WHO WE ARE
Michael Brink
LAVAlabs moving images GmbH & Co. KG
Founder, CEO
LAVAlabs Moving Images is an innovative and creative studio for film, visual effects, animation and motion graphics with offices in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Berlin. We offer state-of-the-art VFX, 3D animation, motion design and product visualization for feature films, digital media and interactive installations. We have a broad network with agile, innovative and inter-disciplinary teams. Every project challenge is different — our solutions are just as unique.
Chérine De Bruijn
CORPORATE KITCHEN®
Founder, CEO
With CORPORATE KITCHEN®, Chérine De Bruijn (Executive MBA) combines her more than 13 years of expertise and passion in the fields of media, communication and networking - and stands by her customers as an igniter for strategies, concepts and target-oriented actions in the digital age.
Her intuition for innovative topics, her passion for successful communication and the professional talent to build a meaningful connection between people made her found her own company. In previous positions, Chérine De Bruijn worked as CEO and advanced the development of a large industry association as well as the expansion of the network of the digital economy in the Cologne region. In addition, she was responsible for many years as Head of Corporate Communications, among others for one of the largest owner-managed digital agencies in Germany, start-up investor and incubator.
Carolin Davidson
davidsonTV GmbH
Managing Partner
Based in Cologne, davidson TV is an all-round service provider to the TV industry. Over the past ten years, we have become one of the most wanted partners in the prime-time TV market. A core element of our business is devising challenges, developing game-show content, and finding and coaching celebrities and contestants for TV.
We have also provided participants for more than 1,000 quiz shows to date. In the process, we have been able to mine one of our most valuable resources: our high-quality database packed with potential candidates, performers, specialists, talent scouts and other multipliers, particularly in the field of sport.
Our success comes from our commitment to quality television and from our specialized and highly diversified team of long-term employees. We work with customers from all over the world, including Endemol Shine, ITV, Sony, UFA, the top ten German TV broadcasters and, most recently of all, JSBC on the shows Superbrain and Super Combat in China.
Prof. Dr. Mark Elsner
Echte Liebe – Programmatic Marketing Agentur GmbH
Managing Partner
www.echte-liebe.com
Echte Liebe ("Real Love") is a programmatic marketing agency. Founded in 2014, the company became one of the leading independent data driven marketing companies, with offices in Germany and in the United States. Echte Liebe offers the following services: audit, data intelligence, strategic marketing consulting and programmatic execution.
By developing data driven strategies adapted to clients' individual challenges and infrastructures, Echte Liebe helps US and European companies gain access to available data sources and use them to reach truly relevant customers. In addition, Echte Liebe helps to use the available digital data for the development of innovative products. Transparency and integrity have a high priority for the company.
Dr. Alex v. Frankenberg
High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Managing Partner
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 892.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and passion, its team of experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemicals and life sciences.
To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
Clemens von Gizycki
dreiform GmbH
Managing Director
Since 2001 we are creating innovation spaces and powerful knowledge tools, helping people to... communicate. experience. play. learn. collaborate. work. wow!
dreiform supports people and companies in creating experiencable knowledge and in
designing new, intuitive approaches to complex themes. We combine the qualities of a
physical space with digital, relevant, and individual content to develop a lasting personal,
multisensory experience for people.Our playground in our daily work is the connection between physical experience and digital expansion. Supported by the decreasing boundariesbetween the real world and virtual reality, new varieties of prototypes for the development of sustainable design and innovation are emerging for our customers.
Dr. Henrik Hahn
Evonik Industries AG
Chief Digital Officer
www.evonik.com
Evonik is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals. The focus on more specialty businesses, customer-orientated innovative prowess and a trustful and performance-oriented corporate culture form the heart of Evonik’s corporate strategy. They are the lever for profitable growth and a sustained increase in the value of the company. Evonik benefits specifically from its customer proximity and leading market positions. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world with more than 36,000 employees.
The goal of Evonik Digital – the group’s dedicated digital subsidiary – is to support and embed digitalization activities strategically at the level of all business lines in order to support the success of Evonik’s customers. Furthermore Evonik Digital fosters business model innovation connecting the physical and digital world following a build-own- operate-transfer approach.
Sebastian Hammer
HMR International GmbH & Co. KG
Project Manager
sebastian.hammer@hmr-international.de
HMR International is one of the leading consultancies for media companies in Germany. HMR was founded in 1995 and offers integrated consulting services in the media and television industry.
Intensive and ongoing observation of the international market and program developments combined with the companies distinguished contacts in the German and international media market from the basis of the company’s activities. HMR is currently operating in the following four business areas: Consulting, research, publications and events. National and international broadcasters, producers, distributors as well as associations, public institutions, banks and industrial companies are among HMR’s clients.
Thomas Knüwer
kpunktnull – Beratung für das Digitale Zeitalter
Founding Partner & CE
kpunktnull is digital consultancy at the borderline between strategy consultancy and online agency. From a long term perspective we develop digital strategies and help our client to execute them. Furthermore we are running social media presences. Another focus point is content marketing where we helped Henkel Beauty to bring to life the first big project in Germany in this area.
David Korte
DGT AG, DISCO Experiential Communication
CDO
DISCO is a DISruptive COllaboration and a virtual creative network.
We are 10 or 1,000 thinkers and makers. And we are ROI-driven creative craftsmen mixing relevant competencies, not capacities.
With our network and partners, we are able to deliver results of any size.
Therefore, DISCO is an innovative and fast forward-thinking partner for on- and offline experiences in Marketing and PR with a strong bond to start-ups and digital ecosystems.
This is why we are used to working in agile structures and processes worldwide:
In Marketing, PR, Digital Activation and Digital Ecosystems, Content Production, Design, and Architecture.
Our approach: we transform touchpoints into Experiential Communication.
Tim Lagerpusch
SUGARTRENDS GmbH
Founder and Managing Director
#SHOP LIKE A LOCAL - Sugartrends is the digital shopping platform connecting local independent retail boutiques and concept stores to global conscious consumers.
We are digitalizing the thousands of beautiful small retail brick and mortal micro-businesses.
We already connected 500 boutiques and concept stores with over 26,000 products.
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter @sugartrends
Nadine Louis
LAVAlabs moving images GmbH & Co. KG
New Business Development
LAVAlabs Moving Images is an innovative and creative studio for film, visual effects, animation and motion graphics with offices in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Berlin. We offer state-of-the-art VFX, 3D animation, motion design and product visualization for feature films, digital media and interactive installations. We have a broad network with agile, innovative and inter-disciplinary teams. Every project challenge is different — our solutions are just as unique.
Catharina Müller-Buschbaum
Evonik Industries AG
Managing Director Evonik Digital
catharina.mueller-buschbaum@evonik.com
www.evonik.com
Evonik is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals. The focus on more specialty businesses, customer-orientated innovative prowess and a trustful and performance-oriented corporate culture form the heart of Evonik’s corporate strategy. They are the lever for profitable growth and a sustained increase in the value of the company. Evonik benefits specifically from its customer proximity and leading market positions. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world with more than 36,000 employees.
The goal of Evonik Digital – the group’s dedicated digital subsidiary – is to support and embed digitalization activities strategically at the level of all business lines in order to support the success of Evonik’s customers. Furthermore Evonik Digital fosters business model innovation connecting the physical and digital world following a build-own- operate-transfer approach.
Ralf Nähring
dreiform GmbH
Managing Director
Since 2001 we are creating innovation spaces and powerful knowledge tools, helping peopl to... communicate. experience. play. learn. collaborate. work. wow!
dreiform supports people and companies in creating experiencable knowledge and in
designing new, intuitive approaches to complex themes. We combine the qualities of a
physical space with digital, relevant, and individual content to develop a lasting personal,
multisensory experience for people.Our playground in our daily work is the connection between physical experience and digital expansion. Supported by the decreasing boundaries between the real world and virtual reality, new varieties of prototypes for the development of sustainable design and innovation are emerging for our customers.
Mark Nierwetberg
Deutsche Telekom AG
Senior Vice President Transformation Office VTI
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies, with some 168 million mobile customers, 28 million fixed-network lines, and 19 million broadband lines.
We provide fixed-network/broadband, mobile communications, Internet, and IPTV products and services for consumers, and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for business and corporate customers.
Siamac Alexander Rahnavard
Echte Liebe – Programmatic Marketing Agentur GmbH
Managing Partner
Echte Liebe ("Real Love") is a programmatic marketing agency. Founded in 2014, the company became one of the leading independent data driven marketing companies, with offices in Germany and in the United States. Echte Liebe offers the following services: audit, data intelligence, strategic marketing consulting and programmatic execution.
By developing data driven strategies adapted to clients' individual challenges and infrastructures, Echte Liebe helps US and European companies gain access to available data sources and use them to reach truly relevant customers. In addition, Echte Liebe helps to use the available digital data for the development of innovative products. Transparency and integrity have a high priority for the company.
Dr. Martina Richter
HMR International GmbH & Co. KG
Managing Director
martina.richter@hmr-international.de
HMR International is one of the leading consultancies for media companies in Germany. HMR was founded in 1995 and offers integrated consulting services in the media and television industry.
Intensive and ongoing observation of the international market and program developments combined with the companies distinguished contacts in the German and international media market from the basis of the company’s activities. HMR is currently operating in the following four business areas: Consulting, research, publications and events. National and international broadcasters, producers, distributors as well as associations, public institutions, banks and industrial companies are among HMR’s clients.
Andreas Schaefer
Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Head of foreign trade consulting
Cologne is a major hub for the European media industry, boasting leading broadcasters and content producers. With its vibrant start-up ecosystem and laissez-faire attitude, Cologne attracts founders from around the globe.
The Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry is financed by traders, merchants and private companies; statutory membership and fees enable it to represent the general interests of industry, trade and the service sector. It provides one-stop services for both local and international companies.
Marco Zingler
denkwerk GmbH
Geschäftsführer
denkwerk is owner-managed and one of the most creative agencies in Germany. At its four locations (Cologne/Berlin/Munich/Hamburg), denkwerk employs 210 experts from 14 nations and shapes digital change for leading brands and companies. Customers include companies such as Deutsche Post, Lorenz, MediaMarkt, Motel One, OBI, Santander Bank, Storck, Ströer, Telekom and TUI.
IMPRESSIONS 2018
