A graduate in business administration specialising in business informatics, she has around 20 years of professional experience. She started her career at Siemens AG and worked in various international corporate IT functions. After several years of self-employment, she moved to the VW Group in 2014, where she last worked as Head of IT Project Portfolio Management in Group IT. At the beginning of 2020, she joined the CIO Group division of Deutsche Bahn AG as Head of IT Operational Excellence and took over the newly created group function "Group IT Portfolio & Performance Management" in June 2019. Arlene Bühler has been CIO and CDO of DB Cargo since November 2021 and, in this role, is driving forward the digitalisation of Europe's largest rail freight company with a dedicated team. In addition to her experience in IT project management and SAP, she specialises in digital media and business transformation projects.  

Elmar Geese has been active as an IT entrepreneur and expert for many years and has been a member of the management team at Greenbone AG since 2018, and a member of the Executive Board since last year.  

He is particularly interested in the topics of management, security and the management of security. As a trained musician, he still enjoys playing various instruments and is a great fan of classical music. He experienced his AI socialisation a few years ago with Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher Bach - ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band". Since then, he has been interested in weak and strong AI, as well as its opportunities and risks. 

• born on 26 November 1984 in Jerusalem 

• Study of Law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the Humboldt University of Berlin  

• 2009: First state examination in Law  

• 2011: Second state examination in Law  

• 2012: Masters of Laws from Trinity College Dublin  

• 2016: Doctorate 

• 2013 until 2019: Worked as a lawyer 

• since 3 December 2019: State Secretary in the State Chancellery of Brandenburg, Commissioner for Media and Digitalization 

Mike Hart leads the CEE/Alps region for Google Cloud Security, which was formed by the merger of Google Cloud Security and Mandiant. Before the acquisition of Mandiant by Google Cloud, Mike Hart led the Western Europe region at Mandiant. Until the separation of Mandiant and FireEye, Mike was responsible for the CEE region at FireEye. Prior to joining FireEye, Mike spent 17 years at Symantec in various leadership positions, including responsibility for Global Accounts in EMEA and APJ as well as Specialist Sales in Europe. 

Jan Hoff is a Principal Industrial Incident Responder at Dragos, where he focuses on the use of digital forensics in incident response, helping to develop new attack detection capabilities. 

Prior to joining Dragos, Jan Hoff spent more than a decade protecting critical infrastructure both defensively (CERT/Forensics) and offensively (Red Team). He started his career as a consultant and system administrator for control centres and worked at KPMG as a consultant in national and international projects for the German administration and private companies. He then worked at two of the largest European energy companies (RWE and E.ON) on IT and OT network defence and information security organisation improvement. 

Jan also lectures at a university of applied sciences in Germany on forensics, incident response and offensive security. Jan holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems and a Master's degree in Practical Computer Science.

Wilfried Karl has been President of the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS) since 1 June 2017. From 1993 to 2017, Wilfried Karl was entrusted with various tasks within the Federal Intelligence Service's Technical Reconnaissance Division, most recently as acting department head. Prior to 1993, he worked as a freelancer for the former Grundig AG in Fürth. 

Mr Karl received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen. 

He was born in Lampertheim (Hessen) in 1965 and lives in the district of Munich. 

Klaus Landefeld is Board Member for Infrastructure and Networks at eco - Association of the Internet Industry.     

He is an expert on the topics of infrastructure and networks, net neutrality, data retention, telecommunications surveillance and IT security. He set up mailbox systems and LAN infrastructures back in 1984 and founded Nacamar Data Communications GmbH in 1995, one of the first independent IP service providers in Germany. After the sale of the Nacamar Group to World Online N. V., Klaus Landefeld became CTO of the pan-European technology and was responsible for 1,500 technicians in 17 national companies. Since 2013, Klaus Landefeld has been advising companies with nGENn GmbH on the development and operation of WLAN and broadband networks, data centers and IP-based services. He is also a data protection and security officer for various carriers.  

As a member of various committees worldwide, Klaus Landefeld advises and supports organizations and authorities. For example, he is a member of the Committee for Technical Regulation in Telecommunications (ATRT) of the German Federal Network Agency and a founding member of DENIC eG, AMS-IX and MINX. Klaus Landefeld is also a member of the supervisory board of DE-CIX Group AG. 

Klaus Lenssen is Chief Security Officer at Cisco and heads the Security & Trust Office Germany. He studied computer science with a focus on communications and business administration at RWTH Aachen University. During his studies, he gained practical knowledge in the field of parallel computing in image processing, as well as initial international experience through his involvement in the then newly created Multimedia Computing division of the IEEE. In his final thesis, he researched car2car communication in the field of telematics. After a stopover as project manager of the RACE II project EuroBridge, he moved to DeTeBerkom in Berlin, a research division of Deutsche Telekom, where he worked on various EURESCOM projects and ATM for Realtime Multimedia Systems. It was here that his interest in security issues was awakened, which ultimately led to a move back to North Rhine-Westphalia to help set up the newly founded company Secunet.  

Mr. Lenssen has been working for Cisco in Germany for more than 20 years in various positions with a focus on IT security. He began with strategic security consulting for large and public sector customers. He then spent several years managing the development of security product sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As Chief Security Officer of the German Cisco companies, he is responsible for coordinating cooperation with the security authorities in Germany. In 2017, he initiated the Cisco Security & Trust Office in Germany, a contact point for public and private sector customers to clarify strategic cybersecurity, data protection or data security requirements.  

Mr. Lenssen is also active in BitKOM, where he is on the board of the security policy working group, chairs the state security working group of ASW NRW and is a member of the board of the federal working group.

Marc Lindike, Chief Executive Officer of 222 Degree Consulting GmbH, has played a key role in shaping Munich Airport as Head of Information Security Assurance since 2001.He was appointed Chairman of the Cyber Security Taskforce of ACI (Airport Council International) Europe and spokesman for the international coordination of UP-KRITIS.He was Vice President of Operations and Services (Service Division Information Technology) until 2007 and then became Vice President of IT Consulting. 

During his more than 30 years of professional experience in IT, he worked as a software engineer (1984), administrator (1991) and technical director (1998) for the market research institute GfK before joining debis Systemhaus ISM GmbH as a senior consultant (1998).

Georg Mascolo is a bestselling author and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel and headed the research cooperation between NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung, which received numerous awards for its investigative research - including the Panama Papers. Since 2017, he has succeeded Wolfgang Ischinger as Dean of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance. 

Holger Münch joined the police force of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1978. After various assignments, he moved to personal security at the Federal Criminal Police Office in 1987. Münch returned to Bremen in 1991 and took on investigative and leadership tasks in various criminal investigation departments until 1993. After studying at the Police Leadership Academy in Münster, he held several management positions in the Bremen police force and was appointed police chief in 2009. This was followed in 2011 by the position of State Councilor at the Senator for the Interior and Sport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Holger Münch has been President of the Federal Criminal Police Office since December 1, 2014.

Hannes Munzinger works as an investigative journalist for the Munich-based investigative editorial team "paper trail media", whose research appears in Der Spiegel, ZDF, the Austrian Standard and the newspapers of the Swiss Tamedia Group. He previously worked for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", initially as a data journalist and most recently as an editor in the "Investigative Research" department. He has been involved in numerous international research collaborations, from the Panama Papers to the revelations about the systematic misuse of Pegasus spyware and the “Vulkan Files”. In 2023, he was co-host, author and reporter of the Spiegel podcast series "Putin's War on the Net". His research has won numerous awards. Munzinger studied economics in Heidelberg and journalism in Leipzig.

Kim Nguyen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen, Trinity College in Cambridge (UK) and the University/Gesamthochschule Essen. In 2001, he was awarded a doctorate in pure mathematics by the University/GH Essen (Chair of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Frey) for a thesis on the connections between classical number theory problems, elliptic curves and cryptographic systems.  

From 2001-2003, he worked at Phillips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) in Hamburg, where he was mainly involved in the secure implementation of asymmetric cryptographic algorithms on smartcards. 

He has been working at Bundesdruckerei GmbH in Berlin since 2004. Here he took on various tasks in the areas of development and marketing and was also involved in the implementation of the electronic passport and the new ID card.  

From 2012 until 2023, he also took over the management of D-Trust GmbH. In May 2015, he was awarded the title "Fellow". In January 2024, he moved to the innovation department of Bundesdruckerei as Head of Division. 

Claudia Plattner has been President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) since 1 July 2023. 

Claudia Plattner was born in Mainz in 1973. She has more than 20 years experience in IT roles for companies and institutions. Most recently she served as Director General for Information Systems at the European Central Bank and previously held leadership position as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of DB Systel GmbH, the internal IT service provider of Deutsche Bahn. 

Claudia Plattner holds a degree in mathematics (TU Darmstadt) and a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Tulane University (USA). 

Ambassador Rainer Rudolph has been Vice-Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) since 2023. 

He is a German diplomat and most recently served as envoy at the German Embassy in Vienna until 2023. In his previous postings abroad, he worked at the Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and at the German embassies in Warsaw and Washington, DC. In Berlin, he worked twice in the Federal Chancellery, including in the European Department as Head of Division for EU External Relations, EU Enlargement, Relations with EU Member States and Brexit. 

Rainer Rudolph studied history and German studies in Tübingen, Berlin and Aix-en-Provence. He is an Associate Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations. 

Fred-Mario Silberbach has been a criminal investigator at the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden since 1988. After various roles in combating terrorism/extremism, organized crime, and in the management staff of the BKA, Mr. Silberbach has undertaken various tasks related to combating cybercrime since 2008, with a focus on situational awareness, strategy, national and international cooperation, cooperation management, analysis, and investigations. From 2016 to 2023, he headed two units in the Serious and Organized Crime Department (SO) at the BKA Wiesbaden, focusing on "Cybercrime Investigations" and "Situation, Policy, Organized Crime Strategy, Organized Crime Coordination Office." In January 2024, he took over the leadership of Group CC1 "Strategy and Service" in the Cybercrime Department (CC) of the BKA. 

Dr. Tim Stuchtey is an economist and expert on economic issues of (cyber) security. He studied economics at the University of Münster and earned his doctorate in economic and infrastructure policy at the Technical University of Berlin. 

He began his career as the personal assistant to the president of the TU Berlin. Subsequently, he worked in economic policy for a leading association of the German economy. In 2001, he moved to Humboldt University of Berlin, where he initially headed the staff unit for strategic development and planning and later became head of the presidential office. In 2007, he joined the American-German Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, as a Senior Fellow and Program Director for Business and Economics. 

In 2010, Dr. Stuchtey took on the role of Managing Director of the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) in Potsdam. He is a non-resident fellow at the American-German Institute, and his research focuses on the economics of (cyber) security. He regularly writes a column for Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity and participates in or leads several national and European research projects in the field of civil security. 

Philipp Trinius is a cyber security expert with more than 15 years of experience in various areas of IT security. His areas of expertise include malware analysis, IT early warning systems, IPv6 security and cloud security. In recent years, he has particularly focused on the secure use of public cloud platforms and the development of sovereign cloud solutions such as Gaia-X and GCP Sovereign Cloud. Prior to his current position, he was responsible for technical security at Deutsche Telekom Group as Head of Cloud, Network and IT Security. Since mid-2023, Philipp Trinius has been Head of Cyber Defense & Cloud Services at Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH. 

Professor Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she researches the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet and platform regulation. Her current research focuses on profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, diversity, and fairness, as well as governmental surveillance, predictive policing, human rights online, and health tech and medical law. At the OII, Professor Sandra Wachter leads and coordinates the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies. 

Martin C. Wolff, residing in Berlin, combines an interdisciplinary background in digital technologies, geopolitics, European economics, and corporate strategies. He is a co-founder, board member, advisor, and scholar. Through cross-departmental red-teaming training, he supports the development of comprehensive societal defense capabilities. With the "Digital Collection Plate," he digitized church collections. As the head of the International Clausewitz Center at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College and the Clausewitz Network for Strategic Studies, he connects the leading strategic minds in the German-speaking world.