Dominik Deschner studied Business Administration in Nuremberg, complemented by a study abroad program in Economics in Detroit, and earned a doctorate in Information Systems. He then held various senior positions, initially at an IT systems company and later as CIO of a subsidiary of a major German mobility service provider. From October 2023 to September 2024, he also served, in a dual role, as one of the two managing directors of Soluvia IT Services GmbH at MVV Energie AG.

Helena founded her first digital start-up company at the age 18, while still studying
Computer Science. She started her Intel career in 2005 as an Application Engineer
within the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), developing good understanding of
software products and the ISV market. She moved on building a SW lab supporting
internal engineering community as well as external customers. Initially starting out as a
local service unit, she lastly was managing a worldwide operating SW enabling lab,
supporting, with her constantly growing team, a variety of SSG and SMG (as in press
and marketing support) departments along the way. She gained marketing experience
during a 6-month rotation to Portland where she was responsible for the definition of an
application harvesting process for scale media apps and games, definition of benefits
and the design and implementations of a program for ISVs and Intel.
Since 2010 Helena was leading the HPC Market in Germany. Working with the in-
country resources as well as collaborating and leveraging off the central enabling,
marketing and platform teams to grow German HPC business.
In 2018 Helena received the prestigious Intel Achievement Award for her contribution to
HPC. She has Doctorate in Economics (“Strategic change management in post crisis
environment”) as well as formal education in Business Administration and Computer
Science.
In 2018 Helena received a tenured position as a full Professor of Computer Science at
her Alma Mater, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), where she is building a
new HPC department. Helena is also the director of the IT-Centre in charge of University
IT.
Helena founded the first HPC/QC Technology master courses at the DIT in autumn 2021
with a high demand of students.
As of 1 st of June 2023, Helena founded a new Institute of Future Technologies in
Deggendorf as part of the DIT, being its director since then.

Dr. Rebekka Reinhard is a philosopher and the founder of the magazine "human" about humans and AI. She earned her doctorate in 2001 at the Free University of Berlin in contemporary American and French philosophy ("summa cum laude") and has been an international speaker for organizations across all industries since 2007. Since 2025, she has also been a member of the advisory board of the KI.M AI Competence Center for Media. The SPIEGEL bestselling author has published numerous books, most recently The Art of Being Good (Random House).