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2026

Technology Conference on AI and Data
11 - 12 June

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Almato DevCon 2026

Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Universitätsstadt Tübingen

Boris Palmer
Mayor of Tübingen
Fri 16:10 - 16:40 | Mainstage Closing Keynote: KI und Digitalisierung als Lösung für den Bürokratiewahnsinn?
Speaker

Kriminalinspektion 5 - Cybercrime und Digitale Spuren

Daniel Lorch
Lead Cybercrime Investigator
Thu 18:15 - 18:45 | Executive Roundtable Cyber Crime 2026: Dynamiken der Bedrohung und strategische Handlungsoptionen für Entscheider
Speaker + Moderator

IHK Region Stuttgart

Thorsten Eller
CIO + Leiter Digital Solutions
Fri 10:25 - 10:50 | Public Sector Track LLM-gestützte Analyse und Klassifikation im öffentlichen Sektor – KI-Engineering mit politischem Impact
Speaker

Capgemini

Dr. Akhauri Prakash Kumar
Chief Strategy Advisor | Insights + Data North + Central Europe
Fri 13:20 - 13:45 | Executive Track Driving Business Strategy with Data Platforms, Agentic AI, and Semantic Graphs
Speaker

Eberspächer Group

Florian Duerr
VP AI + Digital Transformation
Fri 10:25 - 10:50 | Executive Track AI Transformation at Scale
Keynote Speaker

AI Edutainment

Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach-Lang
Founder + CEO
Fri 11:55 - 12:25 | Mainstage Keynote: Why AI Literacy Matters More Than Better Models
Speaker

Deutsche Telekom Service

Marco Einacker
Vice President Service IT
Fri 10:55 - 11:20 | Executive Track Agentic AI – Produktive Live Cases im Einsatz bei der Deutschen Telekom
Speaker

Almato

Stefan Dreher
COO
Fri 11:25 - 11:50 | Public Sector Track Souveräner Stack für Datenintegration und -Analyse: Palantir-Alternative für Staat und regulierte Organisationen
Speaker

Fraunhofer EMI

Dr. Michael Dlugosch
Head of Business Unit Automotive
Fri 10:25 - 10:50 | Data Science Track Hybrid is key – knowledge formalization as enabler for AI-driven engineering applications
Speaker

Lechler

Michael Ikemann
Head of Data + AI
Fri 10:25 - 10:50 | Developer Track Empowerment with AI: Domain-First Development
Keynote Speaker

AI Entrepreneur

Chris Boos
Thu 16:30 - 17:00 | Executive Roundtable Beyond GenAI: The Rise of Real AI
Fri 09:50 - 10:20 | Mainstage Keynote: Beyond GenAI: The Rise of Real AI
Speaker

VfB Stuttgart

Dr. Karoline Wild
Project Manager AI
Fri 11:25 - 11:50 | Executive Track KI Projekte im Profifußball: Wie KI abseits des Spielfelds messbaren Mehrwert schafft
Speaker

Aristech

Carolin Edler-Mende
Managing Director
Fri 15:40 - 16:05 | Executive Track Die Aristech AI-Suite - wie man Kundenkommunikation mithilfe von AI Agents in einer souveränen europäischen Cloud automatisieren kann
Speaker

Disy Informations-
systeme

Marcus Briesen
Chief Business Officer
Fri 11:25 - 11:50 | Data Science Track Daten verstehen, Muster erkennen: Mit Bardioc und Disy Cadenza räumliche Zusammenhänge sichtbar machen
Speaker

State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg

Björn Beck
Head of Innovation Lab, State of Baden-Württemberg
Speaker

Folivora Solutions

Dr. Maximilian Roth
Managing Director
Fri 15:10 - 15:35 | Executive Track From Semantic Data to Domain-Specific Operating Systems
Speaker

Telefónica Germany

Klaus Paul
Senior Manager Simplification
Fri 13:50 - 14:15 | Executive Track KI + RPA: Vom Hype zur echten Wirkung - Wie intelligente Automatisierung den Customer Service transformiert
Speaker

Ministerium des Inneren, für Digitalisierung und Kommunen Baden-Württemberg

Martina Schraml
Referentin
Fri 10:55 - 11:20 | Public Sector Track KI für smarte Verwaltung: Die Zukunft des Managements von Verwaltungsleistungen
Keynote Speaker

valantic

Laurenz Kirchner
Managing Partner + Co-Lead, AI & Data Division
Fri 14:20 - 14:50 | Mainstage Keynote: Digital Sovereignty & AI: Success Factors for Companies in 2026
Speaker

Deutsche Telekom Service

Olivier Plein
Head of Automation Operations
Thu 18:45 - 19:15 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Intelligente Steuerung und Orchestrierung von 3.000 RPA Bots - Erfahrungen aus einer der größten Bot-Farmen Europas ​
Speaker

Sonar

Mathias Conradt
Staff Solutions Engineer
Fri 10:55 - 11:20 | Developer Track Vibe, then Verify: Leveraging LLMs for Quality and Security in the AI Code Reality
Speaker

fastahead

Ralf Weygand
Partner
Fri 15:10 - 15:35 | Public Sector Track KI? Erst mal Daten aufräumen! Warum eine ehrliche Datenstrategie der Verwaltung mehr hilft als der nächste Hype
Speaker

DZ Bank

Julian Fuchs
IT Specialist
Thu 18:15 - 18:45 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Power Platform meets GenAI
Main Stage Host + Moderator

Professor of Business Informatics

Prof. Dr. Nils Herda
Thu 16:15 - 16:25 | Executive Roundtable Opening
Speaker

Ankura Consulting Germany

Khurram Husainy
Senior Director Risk Forensics and Compliance
Fri 13:50 - 14:15 | Data Science Track Why Graph Technology Matters in Risk Forensics
Speaker

valantic

Dr. Horst-Florian Jaeck
Partner + Managing Director
Thu 17:45 - 18:15 | Executive Roundtable Digitale Souveränität und KI: Erfolgsfaktoren für Unternehmen 2026
Speaker

valantic

Dr. Sebastian Koch
Manager Data + AI
Fri 15:10 - 15:35 | Data Science Track How to Move Beyond Black-Box AI
Speaker

NetCom BW

Markus Ilka
Digitalisation + IT Leadership
Fri 15:40 - 16:05 | Public Sector Track Wenn die Leitung steht, steht alles still. Sichere Datenkommunikation als Grundlage für resiliente Unternehmen
Speaker

ALH Gruppe

Oliver Heinz
Information Security Management
Fri 15:40 - 16:05 | Developer Track Beyond the AI Panic: Why Anthropic Mythos is the Wake-Up Call for Vulnerability Management
Speaker

Mercedes-Benz

Dr. Hannes Müller-Sommer
IT Manager
Thu 17:00 - 17:30 | Executive Roundtable Teamwork trifft Tempo - kollaborative Absicherung mit dem Mercedes Digital Factory Twin
Speaker

Aspen Bad Oldesloe

Stelios Sintoris
Digital Technology Infrastructure
Thu 17:00 - 17:30 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Use Case aus der Produktion: Unstrukturierte Maschinendaten mit Power Platform, AI Builder und LLMs verarbeiten
Speaker

Almato

Dr. Leonie Gehrmann
Data Exploration Consultant
Fri 10:55 - 11:20 | Data Science Track Understanding and Simulating Networks with Bardioc Data Explorer
Speaker

Almato

Thomas Sellner
Director Process Automation
Fri 13:20 - 13:45 | Developer Track Connect Data Sources to Bardioc Semantic Data Platform
Speaker

Almato

Andreas Schmid
CTO
Fri 11:25 - 11:50 | Developer Track Deploying Custom Applications on Bardioc Semantic Data Platform
Speaker

Almato

Karsten Schmöker
Director Application Engineering | Executive Officer
Fri 13:20 - 13:45 | Data Science Track Semantic Exploration of OSINT Data: Practical Experiences with Bardioc
Speaker

DATAGROUP

Michael Herfordt
Project Manager
Fri 13:50 - 14:15 | Public Sector Track Souveränität und Geheimschutz im Kontext wirtschaftlicher Rahmenbedingungen: Die DATAGROUP Defense Cloud
Speaker

DATAGROUP

Francesco Caprio
Head of Department Software Engineering
Fri 15:10 - 15:35 | Developer Track The EU AI Act and its impact on software development – Regulatory requirements, risk classification, and development team considerations
Speaker

Inn2

Andreas Mayer
Managing Director
Fri 15:40 - 16:05 | Data Science Track AI Developments in the SAP Ecosystem: Strategic Implications for Enterprise Adoption
Speaker

DATAGROUP

Ulrich Wetzel
SAP Business Transformation Manager
Fri 15:40 - 16:05 | Data Science Track AI Developments in the SAP Ecosystem: Strategic Implications for Enterprise Adoption
Host

DATAGROUP

Andreas Baresel
CEO
Fri 09:40 - 09:50 | Mainstage Welcome Address
Moderator

DATAGROUP

Dr. Lothar Ludwig
Head of Strategic AI Projects
Host

Almato

Christian Sauter
CEO
Thu 16:25 - 16:30 | Executive Roundtable Welcome Address
Fri 09:30 - 09:40 | Mainstage Opening
Moderator

Almato

Richard McCullough
Managing Director
Host + Moderator

Almato

Michael Arns
Director Process Automation
Thu 16:30 - 17:00 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Opening + Welcome Address
Thu 17:30 - 18:00 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Interactive Lightning Use Cases
Speaker

Almato

Patrick Röglin
Senior Software Engineer
Fri 13:50 - 14:15 | Developer Track Bardioc Reasoning: Making Non-Deterministic AI Systems Accessible to Enterprise Developers
Speaker

Almato

Peter Beckschäfer
Senior Manager
Thu 17:30 - 18:00 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Interactive Lightning Use Cases
Speaker

Almato

Marc Müller
Senior Manager AI
Fri 10:55 - 11:20 | Public Sector Track KI für smarte Verwaltung: Die Zukunft des Managements von Verwaltungsleistungen
Speaker

Almato

Florian Tröster
Deputy Manager Process Automation
Thu 17:00 - 17:30 | AI + Hyperautomation Forum Use Case aus der Produktion: Unstrukturierte Maschinendaten mit Power Platform, AI Builder und LLMs verarbeiten
Speaker

Baden-Württembergischer Genossenschaftsverband

Ralf Weikum
Head of Data Analytics + Audit Tools
Fri 13:20 - 13:45 | Public Sector Track KI-gestützte Transformation im BWGV: Warum Nachvollziehbarkeit entscheidend ist

more speakers to come