Speakers & Thought Leaders
A special day needs special people. We bring exciting thought leaders, CEOs and entrepreneurs to Digital Demo Day. Meet our speakers.
Our Top Speakers 2023
Sara Nuru
Entrepreneur, Model & Co-Founder of the social business nuruCoffee and nuruWomen e.V.
Amiaz Habtu
Presenter and Rapper (known from "Die Höhle der Löwen") | DDD23 Main Stage Host
Ana Ivanović
Former Tennis World #1 & Founder of Ana Ivanović Natural Performance
Gunter Dueck
Mathematician, Ex-IBM, best-selling Author, Business Angel
Mona Neubaur
Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of NRW
Tillman Schulz
CEO, Founder & "Die Höhle der Löwen" Investor
Mareike Awe
Co-founder & CEO of intumind, Forbes 30 under 30
Michael Groß
Swimming Legend, multiple Olympic Champion & Entrepreneur
Andreas Breitfeld
Germany’s best known biohacker
All our exciting Speakers 2023
Best of #DDD. Our Hall of Fame.
Hendrik Wüst
Prime Minister of NRW
Klaus-Dieter Maubach
CEO of Uniper
Marie-Helene Ametsreiter
General Partner at Speedinvest
Dr. Klaus Hommels
Venture Capitalist
Charlotte Haunhorst
Member of the Editorial Board at Handelsblatt
Marc Sommer
VP Business Development of Meta
Dr. Anna Christmann
Member of the German Bundestag & Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Startups
Carsten Knobel
CEO of Henkel
Elisabeth Paehtz
Women's European Rapid & Vice European Blitz Chess Champion
Frank Thelen
CEO Freigeist / Co-Founder 10xDNA Capital Partners Freigeist Capital GmbH
Céline Flores Willers
Founder & CEO of The People Branding Company & LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 & 2019
Jonas Deichmann
Extreme Athlete & Word Record Holder
Dr. Suzanna Randall
Astrophysicist and Researcher at ESO (European Southern Observatory)
Ranga Yogeshwar
Science Journalist & Author