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WORKSHOP INSTRUKTORS,COACHES & MENTORS
OUR MENTORS & COACHES
HARDTECH INNOVATION ACCELERATOR
Daniel Shor
- Expert in design, research, mechanical engineering & emotionality and touch experiences
As Research Director, Europe at Innovobot, Daniel blends human contact and experiential context to build the future of haptic technology, focusing on developing devices that stimulate human connection and behaviors through vibrotactile feedback.
- MSc in Product Design Engineering
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- He lectures at TU Delft in the Faculty of Industrial Design and the HCI department at FH Salzburg.
Jana Mendelski
- Expert in design thinking, agile methods, organisational process moderation & startup coaching
Jana is a Berlin-based freelance innovation designer, coach and founder developing, shaping and introducing new product opportunities and agile methods and mindsets for organizations and companies
- Graduated in Free Art as well as in Business Administration
- Certified Design Thinking coach and facilitator at HPI Potsdam,
- Teacher at the Design Faculty at University of Arts Berlin
- Founder of compositive.bio.
Georg Meuser
- Expert in finance, financial modelling, business structuring, strategic management, pitching
Georg has 7+ years of experience in restructuring of SMBs and strategic business structuring of Startups, which combines a financial analysis and financial modelling together with strategic decision-making.
- Consulted over 300 Startups, mentored over 100 Founders & built his own consultancy
- Focus: Establishing a thorough understanding of a company’s financials + helping Startup founders understand, how to get funding for their ideas & developing financial plans
Daniel Flynn
- Expert in customer discovery, product iteration cycles, go-to-market strategy, fundraising strategy
Daniel spent ~9 years working with early stage technology startups. Most happy in the trenches of validating ideas, testing hypotheses and talking to customers.
- Experienced in the whole early stage business lifecycle of acquiring customers, planning go-to-market, managing stakeholders and preparing for fundraising.
- CEO & Co-Founder at Bearcover
Mark Caffrey
- Expert in healthcare, biomedical engineering, med tech, physics & neurotechnology
Mark is an applied physicist and biomedical engineer with significant experience building startups in MedTech and DeepTech. Mark has led the development of several innovative hardware technologies including medical imaging systems, brain-computer-interfaces, and oncology devices.
- CEO at Syntropic Medical, a VC backed startup developing a novel new treatment for major depressive disorder
Fernando G. T. Chorne
- Expert in technical strategy, product development, prototyping & robotics
Fernando started his professional career working on a concept using deep learning for driving assistance, successfully showcased to customers at Bosch. At the same time, he was publishing technical white papers on SLAM, AI and RL topics.
- CTO at Bearcover
- Looking forward to helping others grow to be technical leaders of the upcoming future
Selma Hadzic
- Expert in data science, stakeholder & project management, leadership, diversity & inclusion
Selma is a freelancer data tech lead with 10 years of experience and 5+ years of experience leading and scaling international teams.
- Professional coach and diversity & inclusion consultant, guiding tech companies to close the gender gap.
- Freelance Data expert
- Founder and professional coach for females in Tech
Dana Alpar
- Expert in venture capital, M&A and any other corporate law matters
Dana advises national and international investors, funds, technology-driven companies, and startups from early-stage to exit on venture capital and M&A transactions as well as other corporate matters.
- Focus = providing legal guidance to venture capital funds, startups & large corporations in technology-driven industries
- Associate at the international law firm Osborne Clarke
Will Fischer
- Expert in hardware prototyping, product-market fit, product development & team relations
Will is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He has founded companies in the hardware space, including smart furniture and robotics and is no stranger to more technical R&D, spending years in nanotechnology R&D and material science research.
- Master’s research at NASA & MBA from Chicago Booth
- Investor, advisor, startup coach & serial entrepreneur
Kailas Ahders
- Expert in operational business, finance, accounting and human resources & company formation
Born in Germany, grew up in India. Kailas has a German law degree and has set up businesses in different European countries.
- Head of Finance/Supply Chain Manager (Bearcover)
- one of the few people that actually appreciate German administration wholeheartedly
- loves helping startups navigate in German bureaucracy
Iva Jankovic
- Expert in B2B go2market, culture & change management, PoC, storytelling & pitching
Iva has been working in innovation in Germany for over 8 years, focusing on PoC and product development in collaboration between corporate and startups.
- Currently she is leading a product development unit within worlds 5th largest design agency, MetaDesign.
Arnas Bräutigam
- Expert in fundraising, business angels, B2B sales, LinkedIn & financial modelling
Before co-founding AddedVal.io and startupdetector, Arnas worked in international and startup banking for 10 years.
- He has a degree in economics
- Loves cycling and cooking
- Topics he covers: fundraising & financial models
Merijn Sanders
- Expert in user needs definition, product design & engineering, value added simulations (CFD, FEA)
Merijn is a seasoned professional with over a decade of invaluable expertise in product development.
- With a diverse and extensive background, he has made substantial contributions across a broad spectrum of industries
- From cutting-edge medical devices to high-power battery systems
Niclas Fritz
- Expert in product development, design, electronics, firmware, funding, scaling, marketing & sales
After supporting accelerators Hardware.co and TechFounders, as well as organizing events for hardware startups, Niclas founded BatchOne to support founders to bridge the gap between first prototype and mass production.
- Started his career in the innovation department of T-Systems MMS, where he helped co-found the DTAG spin-off, Couchfunk
- Later: associate partner at PULSAR Consulting with focus on innovation management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate venturing, and fundraising
- Co-founder of the retail IoT company, rapitag
Richard Markoff
- Expert in supply chain management & operational business
Richard Markoff is a supply chain professor, author, coach, consultant, and entrepreneur based in Geneva.
- Worked in supply chain for L’Oréal for 22 years, in different countrys, spanning the entire value chain from manufacturing to customer collaboration
- Co-founder and operating partner of the venture capital platform Innovobot
Philip Gottschlich
- Expert in product retail sales, telesales, storytelling, building sales structures & CRM implementation
From building up sales structures, automated processes, CRMs and teams for startups, to product retail and trade fair sales, Philip is a professional in all areas around sales.
- CEO/MD/Sales Coach (Gottschlich Produkt & Vertriebs GmbH) & ind. Head of Sales (Valkental)
- Question techniques & storytelling in Sales
- Prospecting – finding your dream client leads
- He can teach startup sales teams how to get more clients to the exhibition stand than they can actually handle – and close business right away
Kai Jonas
- Expert in product design process, purpose evaluation, business process review, project management
With around 20 years of experience in the tech-/healthcare business and two self-founded companies, Kai is a professional in business processes, structures and project management.
- CEO kalucare GmbH & KEJ Digital Care Solutions UG
- Focus on tech-strategy consulting and complex system integrations; owner of software for healthcare environments
- Certified IT-security auditor
- Passion for useful technology & innovative ideas
- Startup advisor
HARDTECH EXPERTS
INNOVATION NETWORK & COMMUNITY
HARDTECH EXPERTS
INNOVATION NETWORK & COMMUNITY
Leonard Gabriel
Successfull product development with professional CAD
- Expert in design with Fusion 360 CAD-software
- Wide experience in industrial engineering, management, product development & CAD coaching
Get professional support for your individual project in order to realize a parametric and well-structured CAD design.
Veronica Louis
How to lead a team with creative leadership techniques
- Expert in creative leadership training
- Wide experience in energizing team-building, communications & storytelling
Veronica offers you a whole new, creative perspective on leading teams and creating an energizing team-building experience.
Sebastian Brehm
Successful process management & certification
- Expert for process management & certification
- Keen on supporting founders from underrepresented communities, female founders & queer founders
Anna Beatrice Dantas
Outstanding prototyping & product strategies trough Design Thinking
- Expert in Design Thinking & prototyping
- Wide experience and background in industrial design & product strategies
David Riding
High quality development of electronics & PCB design
- Expert in electronics & PCB design
- Wide experience and backround in product development, engineering, power, wireless, IOT & DFM
Pooja Channaveerappa
Product development with Design Thinking and engineering
- Expert in Design Thinking & mechanical engineering
- Wide experience and backround in engineering, product development, low fidelity & feasibility prototyping
Vieran Hodko
Effective growth strategies and brand building
- Expert for growth hacking, partnerships & branding
- Wide experience in international growth, pitching, brand building & positioning
Jonathan Eade
How to: Investment readiness & business development
- Expert for investment readiness & business development
- Wide experience and background in business strategies, ESG, impact & sustainability
Tayla Sheldrake
Strategic startup business management, analysis & validation
- Expert for startup strategies & business coaching
- Wide experience in Customer analysis, market validation, pitching, financial strategies & revenue models
Ishan Bhat
How to build user engagement strategies & business processes
- Expert for business process design & user engagement strategy
- Wide experience in hardtech design thinking, business processes & integrative sustainability
Duncan Cornes
Development trough successful prototyping & product design
- Expert for prototyping, mechanical calculations & product design
- Wide experience in design for production & manufacturing & mechanical calculations (thermal, fluid, or stress)
Aswin Ramachandran
How to: Full hardstack development of hardtech solutions
- Expert for full hardstack development, IoT & robotics
- Wide experience in hardstack development, robotic sensors, perception, planning & autonomy & IoT user experience
