Speakers and Chairs Bios

Christian is founder and managing director at etventure.
He is a specialist when it comes to corporate businesses and digitization and has extensive experience in business development and investment. He was employed by the Bertelsmann Group for over 10 years where he developed an in-house startup incubator, a corporate venture capital fund and corporate startups. He also developed new business ideas and innovation strategies for several multinational companies. Most recently, he directed the multi million dollar innovation fund of American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Together with two partners, Christian co-founded etventure, an innovation company that helps corporates to define future-proof strategies and to effectively execute digital businesses. etventure's activities include corporate consulting, executing digital transformation projects with large enterprises, startup building, innovation projects with public partners such as the EU-comissioned accelerator EuropeanPioneers, and executive education offered by the Berlin School of Digital Business. At etventure, Christian's mission is to enable corporate partners to rapidly execute their business ideas.