Keynote Speaker Announcement

We are very pleased that we could win Manouchehr Shamsrizi for a keynote speech on digitization, deeptec and innovation. Manouchehr is considered "among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany's younger generation“ (Washington Post), "well positioned to assess emerging trends" (Monocle Magazine), and an "allrounder in the digital world" (Germany's Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations).

A former Global Justice Fellow of Yale University and Ariane de Rothshild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship at University of Cambridge, he is Co-Founder of gamelab.berlin at Humboldt-Universität's Cluster of Excellence, Co-Founder of The Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values at Leuphana University Lüneburg (co-initiated by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus), and Co-Founder of the award-winning Digital-Health-StartUp RetroBrain R&D. Over the past year, he was delegated as an Advisor on Digital foreign policy and Gaming to the German Federal Foreign Office.

Manouchehr was one of 100 handpicked European Founders invited to President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University and was selected as a "Top 40 under 40 entrepreneur“ of business magazine CAPITAL, a "Global Shaper" of the World Economic Forum, and as part of "Next Generation Stifterverband".

Manouchehr Shamrizi will speak in the opening plenary the 1st day of the DBT (28 March). In addition, you can expect two attendance days with an extensive conference programme, an industry exhibition, delicious food and an entertaining evening event.