Florian Glatz
Blockchain LawyerFlorian Glatz has been a lawyer, software developer and consultant in the blockchain since 2014. He co-founded the Legal Tech Center and the German Blockchain Association, for which he serves as president. As a lawyer, Florian helps startups and corporations alike to navigate the uncharted waters of applied blockchain technology in a world of legacy legal systems.
Florian Glatz
Blockchain Lawyer
Stephan Breidenbach
Mitgründer des Legal Tech Center, Professor für ZivilrechtProf. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach is a law professor (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), University of Vienna) and a serial entrepreneur. He has acted as arbitrator (ICC, CAS) and mediator in numerous national and international disputes. For the German chancellor Angela Merkel he coordinated the Future Dialogue in 2011/12. For the last fifteen years Stephan has developed legal tech for legal practitioners. His company knowledgeTools© International develops contract and plea generators as well as knowledge management systems for large-scale litigations (Toll Collect) and legislation (German Federal Ministry of Justice). He is the co-founder of, amongst others, BE Food AG, BioWink (Clue), betterplace.org, Schule im Aufbruch and ReDI School for Digital Integration.
Stephan Breidenbach
Mitgründer des Legal Tech Center, Professor für Zivilrecht
Paul von Bünau
Managing Director, idalabDr. Paul von Bünau is the Managing Director of idalab, a Berlin-based data science agency specializing in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Modeling and Data Strategy. idalab advises a wide range of clients in banking, mobility, biotech and the digital sector. Paul von Bünau studied mathematics and computer science and holds a PhD. in statistical data analysis.
Paul von Bünau
Managing Director, idalab
Luis Ackermann
Mitgründer von Lex FerendaLuis Ackermann ist Data Scientist und IT-Architekt. Vor rund drei Jahren gründete er Lex Ferenda und entwickelt seither Systeme zur automatisierten Verarbeitung von juristischen Daten und Software zur digitalen Unterstützung von Rechtsanwälten. Seine Spezialisierung liegt in den Themenbereichen Machine Learning und Datensicherheit, also in der Entwicklung von Algorithmen die Erkenntnisse aus Daten gewinnen und dabei hohe Vertraulichkeitsanforderungen erfüllen.
Luis Ackermann
Mitgründer von Lex Ferenda
Cord Brügmann
Hauptgeschäftsführer des DAVDr. Cord Brügmann is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the German Bar Association. Prior to that, he was Director of the Legal Education Department of the German Bar Association. He is a member of the Berlin Bar. Cord was born in Minden/Westphalen, and he is married with two children. His past experiences include, amongst others, work for NGOs in Israel, the U.S. and Dachau, Germany, where he was director of an association for international youth exchange. Cord’s past charitable volunteer work includes working as a mediator in a Berlin inner city primary school. Cord studied law and history in München (Ludwig-Maximilians-University) an Berlin (TU Berlin). He acquired the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.), completing a thesis on legal action against anti-Semitic economic boycott during the Weimar Republic. He is President of the International Institute of Law Society Chief Executives (IILACE), a network of CEOs from all continents. Cord teaches law to BA students at a Berlin university.
Cord Brügmann
Hauptgeschäftsführer des DAV
Thomas Kohlmeier
Mitgründer und Co-Geschäftsleiter der Nivalion AGThomas Kohlmeier is one of the leading experts and innovators in the german and international litigation funding industry. Since January 2017 he is building a new Litigation Funder, Nivalion AG, Switzerland, with an initial investment volume of 250 Mio. € and the mission to develop and implement an innovative investment strategy and structure, making use of legal tech based processes and insurance linked solutions.
Thomas Kohlmeier
Mitgründer und Co-Geschäftsleiter der Nivalion AG
Friederike S. Bornträger
Psychologist & Organizational CounsellorDr. Friederike S. Bornträger is psychologist and works as organizational counsellor. Together with her clients she designs products and processes that fit people optimally. A „people fit“ increases quality, acceptance and robustness. With her expertise in human mind & behavior (LMU München), stakeholdermanagement (e.g. Olympic Bid Company Hamburg) and participation processes (e.g. Bundesliga International GmbH) she helps teams and organizations to adapt to new and ambigue situations – and to design them well.
Friederike S. Bornträger
Psychologist & Organizational Counsellor
Jan Stemplewski
Mitgründer Holiday HeroDr. Jan Stemplewski Entrepreneur, lawyer, management consultant. Co-founder of Holiday Hero, the legal assistant for holidaymakers. Holiday Hero's goal is to provide simple and risk-free help with a deficient holiday. The product is designed to make the handling of a holiday problem as easy as booking it. In addition, Jan and his brother Niclas founded the Legal Tech Team (legaltechteam.com). Together with other team members, they report first-hand on their founding experience in the field of legal tech.
Jan Stemplewski
Mitgründer Holiday Hero
Klaus-Lorenz Gebhardt
Partner Roever Broenner Susat MazarsKlaus-Lorenz Gebhardt has been with Mazars in Berlin for 14 years and is partner since 2010. As a lawyer and tax consultant, he advises on financial and supervisory law. The focus of Mr. Gebhardt’s work is on advising and designing investment funds and other financing instruments, especially for the real estate and energy sector. This includes the complete drawing up of a prospectus and the supervision of the approval procedure at the BaFin. He also advises investment funds, investment management companies on tax and legal issues. Furthermore, the topic crowdinvesting plays an important role; for example, in 2018, Mazars will host a one-month crowdfunding internship for young lawyers for the fourth time in Berlin.
Klaus-Lorenz Gebhardt
Partner Roever Broenner Susat Mazars
Lilian Breidenbach
Mitgründerin von Legal OSLilian Breidenbach is co-founder and managing director of Legal OS. She builds software and is a trained anthropologist.
Lilian Breidenbach
Mitgründerin von Legal OS
Philipp Caba
Rechtsanwalt & Venture Developer bei Gansel Rechtsanwälte; Co-Founder GDR GmbH“Philipp Caba, lawyer and venture developer, leads the service vw-verhandlung. de as Head of Legal of the cooperation between tha law firms of Gansel Rechtsanwälte (Berlin) and Baum, Reiter & Collegen (Düsseldorf). He is also managing director and shareholder of the newly founded Gesellschaft für die Digitalisierung des Rechts LI mbH. Former co-founder of the Forum Finanzwacht. de platform.“
Philipp Caba
Rechtsanwalt & Venture Developer bei Gansel Rechtsanwälte; Co-Founder GDR GmbH
Manon Goo
IT-Experte, Berater und Mentor bei DG-iManon Goo ist IT-Experte, Berater und Mentor bei DG-i.
Manon Goo
IT-Experte, Berater und Mentor bei DG-i
Fabian Vogelsteller
Entwickler bei Ethereum FoundationFabian is long term open source developer, author and developer of many open source projects including Ethereum's Mist browser and the Ethereum Wallet. Together with Vitalik Buterin he proposed the ERC20 token standard, which spurred a new era of tokenised investment and crowd ownership.
Fabian Vogelsteller
Entwickler bei Ethereum Foundation
Myke Näf
Investor; Co-Founder DoodleMyke Näf is the co-founder of Doodle, the leading online date planner application which he led to more than 25 million monthly active users, profitability and a successful exit. Today he is active as n investor and advisor to startups.
Myke Näf
Investor; Co-Founder Doodle
Dr. Alexander Steinbrecher, LL.M.
Head of Contracts & Legal Affairs BOMBARDIERDr. Alexander Steinbrecher, LL.M. is a lawyer and Head of Group Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Legal Affairs at Bombardier Transportation in Berlin. The Legal 500’s General Counsel Powerlist recognizes him as one of the most influential and innovative in-house counsel in Germany. Alexander is interested in legal tech for a simple reason: legal tech can support legal teams in focusing on their key objective, namely providing added-value to the business.
Dr. Alexander Steinbrecher, LL.M.
Head of Contracts & Legal Affairs BOMBARDIER
Tobias Freudenberg
Chefredakteur NJWTobias Freudenberg is a lawyer and journalist in Frankfurt am Main. From 2000 to 2010 he worked in various positions for the media company Otto Schmidt in Cologne, including editor-in-chief of the magazines ``Die Aktiengesellschaft`` and ``GmbH-Rundschau`` as well as head of legal journals. Since 2010, he is responsible as editor-in-chief for the ``NJW`` and the entire NJW product group at the publishing company C. H. Beck. He has published numerous articles on professional and commercial law topics including as author of the business paper ``Handelsblatt``.
Tobias Freudenberg
Chefredakteur NJW
Andrea Thilo
ModeratorinAndrea Thilo ist die Moderatorin der Berlin Legal Tech 2018.
Andrea Thilo
Moderatorin
Tom Braegelmann LL.M
BBL Bernsau BrockdorffTom Braegelmann is an attorney at BBL Bernsau Brockdorff & Partner and was previously General Counsel at Leverton in Berlin. Before that, he was working as a lawyer for many years in major international law firms in Germany, and also for more than three years as a lawyer in New York City. He's closely following the latest technological developments which are currrently transforming the legal sector.
Tom Braegelmann LL.M
BBL Bernsau Brockdorff
Ulrich Schellenberg
Präsident des DAVRAuN Ulrich Schellenberg ist Präsident des DAV.
Ulrich Schellenberg
Präsident des DAV
Kathrin Mehler
Legal Counsel for Digitization and Innovation, Commerzbank AGDr. Kathrin Mehler is legal counsel for digitization at Commerzbank AG. In this function, she is responsible for the digitisation of the bank's legal department, where she is responsible for Legal Tech, Change Management and Mindset. She also advises the Commerzbank Group's business units on legal issues relating to digitisation projects.
Kathrin Mehler
Legal Counsel for Digitization and Innovation, Commerzbank AG
Markus Hartung
Direktor des Bucerius Centers on the Legal ProfessionMarkus Hartung ist Direktor des Bucerius Centers on the Legal Profession (CLP) bei der Bucerius Law School. Seine Forschung beim CLP dreht sich um Marktentwicklungen und Trends, Management, strategische Führung und Corporate Governance sowie neue Geschäftsmodelle durch Legal Tech.
Markus Hartung
Direktor des Bucerius Centers on the Legal Profession
Max Schrems
Founder of NOYBMaximilian Schrems (usually referred to as Max Schrems) is an Austrian lawyer, author and privacy activist who became known for campaigns against Facebook for privacy violation, including its violations of European privacy laws and alleged transfer of personal data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the NSA's PRISM program. Schrems is the founder of NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights and has published a copy of his personal data revived from Facebook and documents relating to legal procedures on europe-v-facebook.org.
Max Schrems
Founder of NOYBe