Summit 2021
The Queen's gambit - how to play for equality
13.03.2021
Our Speakers
Verena Pausder
Verena Pausder is a digital education expert, entrepreneur (ada, Fox & Sheep & HABA Digitalwerkstätten) and author (“Das Neue Land”). To promote educational equality she founded “Digitale Bildung für alle e.V.” in 2017. During the first lockdown in 2020 she initiated Germany’s largest educational hackathon #wirfürschule with over 6,000 participants. A strong supporter of female leadership, Verena also co-initiated #stayonboard to make boards more human and diverse by calling for a legal change to enable temporary absence for executive board and supervisory board members in case of parental leave or illness.
Tiaji Sio
Tiaji Sio is the founder of the diversity network Diplomats of Color. Her inspiration for founding the network was the lack of people of colour in German foreign services. Sio works as a diplomat for the Federal Foreign Office. With her passion for anti-racism and diversity, she was awarded the title of Forbes 30 under 30 for her dedication and is also a Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Award Internationalist. Making a difference in this world is one of her main drivers as she even secured the acquittal of two unjustly imprisoned people.
Isabel Bonacker
Since 2014 Isabel Bonacker leads the family company Dr. BABOR Cosmetics, the European market leader in professional skincare. Before becoming an entrepreneur herself, Isabel worked for the nonprofit-organization Ashoka in the field of social entrepreneurship and is still actively involved as a supporter. Isabel studied law and completed a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD Fontainebleau. She is married and a mother of three children and lives with her family near Frankfurt.
Katja Kraus
Katja Kraus is a German founder, ex soccer player, and author. After her successful career as soccer player, she became first member of the board of a male national league soccer club. In 2019, she founded "TAE Advisory & Sparring GmbH" together with her wife Dr. Katrin Suder. Together with several boards she works for more women in leadership and diversity.
Sophie Rendl
Sophie Rendl and Hannah Zach thought that something must be done to address structural inequality in society – so they founded „Frauendomäne“, a free database for female experts from all disciplines. Now, there’s no room for excuses that you couldn’t find a female expert anymore. They follow their vision to create equal opportunities and better framework conditions for more diversity.
Judith Dommermuth
Judith Dommermuth is a former model and now founder and brand owner of JUVIA. Because of all the traveling and stressful jobs, she founded JUVIA in 2013, a luxury loungewear brand that creates comfortable and at the same time fashionable-looking outfits.
Miriam Wohlfarth
Miriam Wohlfarth is a well-known founder, author and speaker. In 2009 she founded the Fintech “RatePAY”, the number one white-label provider in Europe. She supports transparency and networking within her industry and is involved in different projects that care about promotion of start-ups. Moreover, she founded the event “payment Exchange”, one of the most important events in the German fintech area.
Virginie Briand
Virginie Briand is Co-Founder and Managing Director of 19:13, which is an independent transformation and innovation consultancy. Having been BMW’s Head of International Advertising and started her own company, she was awarded the Digital Leader Award for Daimler AG digitalONE 2019 and was nominated for the Digital Female Leader Award. Briand strives for female equality at the workplace, equalizing pay and creating family-friendly time models at work.
Doreen Huber
Doreen Huber is a German Tech entrepreneur, investor and founder. She founded the Telesales service provider “Yield Sales & Services GmbH”, which she sold after 5 years. In 2012, she started working for Delivery Hero & Lieferheld and was responsible for international sales strategies. Later on, she founded the startup LEMONCAT, an online platform for business catering, and B2B Food Group, which is one of the world’s leading platforms in the business food sector. Today, she is a Non-Executive Director at Domino’s Pizza.
Claudia Vogt
Claudia Vogt joined Ford as a trainee in 1987. Since then, she has held various management positions in the German and European Ford organization. She has now a leading position for Commercial and large customer business at Ford Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since the car industry is mostly dominated by men, she has a lot of experiences with working in a male-dominated working environment.
Miljana Spasic
New in the job and directly global project and team responsibility: that describes how Miljana Spasic’s start in the BASF TOP START program looked like. This was followed by three exciting years with demanding tasks, a lot of responsibility and a unique experience abroad. Today, Miljana Spasic is “Head of Global Strategic Marketing Additives“ in Hongkong and knows: “In industry, female talents can shape their own path with motivation and engagement.”
Janina Mütze
Janina Mütze (born 1990) is co-founder and CEO of Civey. Before founding the company, the graduate economist represented the interests of venture capital and private equity investors in political Berlin, among other things as a consultant to the management. In addition to her work for Civey, Janina Mütze is a member of the supervisory board of Fintech Comeco and a member of the advisory board for start-ups at the Berlin University of Technology and Economics. She is also on the advisory board of the master program in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. In 2018, the German Forbes magazine named her “30 under 30”. In 2018, Capital magazine named her top 40 under 40 in the “entrepreneur” category.
Clara Streit
Clara Streit is a supervisory board member, investor, and management consultant. Clara works as an independent management consultant since 2011. As one of the first female senior partners at McKinsey in Germany, she remained in the consulting firm for more than 20 years. Besides pursuing her job as a consultant, she took on the role as an adjunct lecturer in management for the MBA program at Nova and Católica University in Lisbon from 2013-2015. Additionally, Clara has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse since May 8, 2019.
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