SPEAKERS WILL BE:
Robert Joseph
Editor-in-Large MEININGER'S INTERNATIONAL
Robert Joseph is the award-winning author of over 25 wine books and lectures on wine marketing at institutes around the world. He is a member of the editorial board of MEININGER‘S INTERNATIONAL and a board member of MUNDUS VINI.
Ed Prinz
DLT Austria & loob.io
Ed Prinz heads the non-profit organisation DLT Austria (Austrian Association for Distributed Ledger Technologies), which supports and networks players in the blockchain sector. Prinz is also the co-founder of the NFT platform loob.io, on which digital assets are traded.
Hans-Christian Boos
arago
Hans-Christian Boos is one of the leading European authorities on the topics of digitalization and artificial intelligence. He was a member of the German government‘s Digital Council under Angela Merkel, and is founder of arago GmbH – a pioneer of AI for industrial applications – and consultant, author and podcaster on strategic digital topics.
Katerina Axelsson
Tastry
Katerina Axelsson is the founder and CEO of Tastry, a sensory science company that aims to revolutionize wine production and to redefine the wine buying journey by merging advanced AI, machine learning and chemistry with rich consumer data. Founded in 2016, Tastry has provided solutions for over 200 wineries,distributors and retailers across the United States.
Anthony Aubert and Jean-Charles Mathieu
Aubert & Mathieu
Aubert & Mathieu is the story of two friends, Anthony Aubert and Jean-Charles Mathieu, who met at school. They started their wine business journey with their first wine from Languedoc in March 2019. Their company is completely carbon neutral and B-Corp Certified– and technology friendly. They see themselves as part of the new French generation of winemakers.
Thomas Knüwer
live from South by Southwest
Thomas Knüwer worked as a business and digital journalist for many years and now runs his own consultancy for digital strategies, kpunktnull. He is a passionate marketing and media blogger and is also a wine and food podcaster with his show Völlerei & Leberschmerz.
Prof. Simone Loose
Head of the Institute for Wine and Beverage Management, Hochschule Geisenheim University
Since taking over as Head of the Institute in 2015, Simone Loose has established it as a major research address, both nationally and internationally. Mapping current market developments is one of her main areas of research, along with economic sustainability.
Felíx Solís Ramos
Felíx Solís Avantis
Felíx Solís Ramos is the International Commercial Director of Spain‘s second largest wine company, Felíx Solís Avantis, which recently made major investments in cellar technology. He has experience in large-scale distribution for international companies and holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid and an MBA from IESE in Barcelona.
Johannes Nielsen
Sommelier.bot
Johannes started his career with a food sales apprenticeship at KaDeWe in Berlin before emigrating to California to become a vineyard worker and cellar rat. He then moved to New York City to work in America’s oldest wine store. After earning an MBA from Yale University he returned to Europe to launch several companies, plus an AI sommelier.
Konstantin Baum MW
Konstantin is Germany’s youngest Master of Wine, an entrepreneur, and an educator. He runs the innovative online retail company baumselection.com, importing artisanal wines and distributing them throughout Europe. His YouTube channel is one of the biggest wine channels in the world with more than 145,000 subscribers and he communicates regularly with his 40,000 followers on Instagram.
Fabrizio Marinconz
Cavit
Graduated in 2005 at the Edmund Mach Foundation and Geisenheim University, with extensive experiences both in the Napa Valley and in New Zeland, Fabrizio started his cooperation with Cavit by initially looking after the agronomic part. At a later stage, he joined Cavit’s winemaking team. Cavit stands for Cantina Viticoltori del Trentino, a Coop which comprehends 11 associated wineries and around 5250 winegrowers.
Eric Weisz
Circly GmbH
Co-Founder of Circly GmbH, isn't originally a techy, but has a background in business law and then studied business management for SMEs in Krems an der Donau. He grew up nearby the Pfalz and then moved to the Wachau region, which cemented his preference for Riesling, Grüner Veltliner and Sauvignon Blanc. His professional career includes stints in auditing, legal advice and investment banking. However, he quickly realized that he belonged in self-employment. Before his current company, he successfully founded and sold a company in the gastro-tech sector. At Circly, he is responsible for consulting, sales, finance and legal matters. In addition to Circly, he is doing his doctorate at the Institute for Transport & Logistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business with the topic "How to smoothen the bullwhip effect by using AI".
Fernando Romero Galvan
Gold Lab/Cornell University
Fernando Romero Galvan is a Ph.D. candidate student at Cornell University with a B.A. in Geographic Information Science. His thesis focuses on detecting plant-microbe interactions with machine learning, geographic information science, and imaging spectroscopy – also in cooperation with NASA. Recently, his first chapter on detecting Grapevine Leafroll Virus on grapevines in California vineyards made headlines as it was the first time a pathogen was detected at the early asymptomatic stage in grapevine using remote sensing and highlighted the power of NASA earth observation data products.
Stefan Kolle
Futurelab
As one of the Founders of Futurelab, Stefan Kolle has spent the last 30 years passionately driving better experiences for customers. He has helped global consumer brands as well as larger B2B companies to create and implement strategies that, as he explains, “made customers happier, more loyal, and ultimately more profitable”. In total, we are talking about more than 500 Million consumers and over 1 million employees he was worked with and for.
Lorenzo Biscontin
Vinophila.com
Lorenzo Biscontin is the founder and CEO of Labhornet, the Italian start-up who created Vinophila Wine Expo: the 1st metaverse dedicated to wine and alcoholic beverages. Vinophila Wine Expo mission is to provide wineries with a new media to integrate and enrich their physical strategies and to better target their customers – especially a younger consumer group. Biscontin is also a consultant in the wine industry on marketing and business management and writes about these topics in several on and offline magazines.
The conference will be held exclusively in English, but don't worry - there will be a simultaneous interpreter on site to translate into German.
