This year's Speakers
Leading voices from industry, policymakers and experts from across the sustainability and compliance spectrum will take the stage to share how to improve efficiency through technology and AI, and building more resilient and sustainable supply chains. Register now for SoS.26 to be part of the discussion and learn from the experts in 20+ deep dive stages:
Lisa Marie Koop
Lawyer
Lisa Marie Koop specialises in international human rights law. She advises companies on compliance with due diligence obligations along the supply chain and on compliance standards. She also represents her clients before authorities and in court proceedings. To this end, she gained valuable experience at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, at GIZ in the area of regional human rights and at a Berlin-based NGO in the area of business and human rights. She also worked for the UN Trade Commission in Vienna.
Speaking about:
#EUDR #Supply Chain Due Diligence #Circular Economy #Product Compliance
Max Jürgens
Lawyer
Max Jürgens advises national and international clients on all trade compliance issues. His legal practice focuses on advising on sanctions and embargoes, EU and US export control law, customs law issues and international human rights protection in supply chains, including deforestation-free supply chains and under the EU Forced Labour Ban. Max Jürgens is a regular lecturer in the field of trade compliance.
Speaking about:
#EUDR #Supply Chain Due Diligence #Regulatory Advisory #Trade Compliance
Franziska Kaiser
Lawyer
Franziska Kaiser specializes in all aspects of trade compliance and specific sustainability requirements in the supply chain. Her practice focuses on customs and anti-dumping law, including special customs procedures, customs authorizations, and tariff classification issues. She also specializes in export controls, embargoes, and sanctions, including goods classification and licensing procedures before the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK).
Speaking about:
#ETrade Compliance #Economic Security #Sustainability #Embargos and Sanctions
Franziska Zibold
Policy Officer at DG GROW
Franziska is currently a Policy Officer at DG GROW. She has a diverse background, having worked at Siemens and different international law firms on EU and competition law as well as commercial law matters. She also worked as a case handler at DG COMP and as a cabinet member at the Portuguese Competition Authority.
Speaking about:
#DPP #Product Compliance
Matthias Conze
Senior Strategic Buyer and Sustainability Manager
Dr. Matthias Conze earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich in the field of technical logistics. For his work in transport optimization, he was awarded the VDA Logistics Award in 2018. Dr. Conze has held leadership positions in various industrial companies in the areas of procurement and logistics. He is currently Senior Strategic Buyer and Sustainability Manager in Procurement at Thüga. In addition, he is actively involved in the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) and, for example, contributed to the development of a SCoC for the energy sector.
Speaking about:
#Supply Chain Due Dilligence #NIS-2 #Collaborative sustainability approach
Nils Koch
Head of Corporate Procurement
Procurement in Healthcare Sustainable and Value-Driven Procurement Supply Chains and Sustainability Process Optimization Standardization and Harmonization
Speaking about:
Supply Chain Security
Wolfgang Trunk
Team Leader at Directorate “Competitive circular economy & clean industrial policy”
Dr. Wolfgang Trunk graduated in agronomy from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Subsequently, he did his PhD thesis about “Economic evaluation of strategies to reduce emissions of harmful gases, including greenhouse gases, from dairy farms”. In May 2023, he was appointed team leader for the Waste Framework Directive, including related waste streams such as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. In October 2025, he was appointed team leader for plastics and packaging in Directorate “Competitive circular economy & clean industrial policy”
Speaking about:
#PPWR #Circular Economy #Clean Industrial Policy
Thomas Schulte
Senior Vice President - Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health and Safety
Dr. Thomas Schulte is Senior Vice President at BOSCH. Over 20 years, he has held various international operative & strategic roles within supply chain and purchasing. Besides implementing award winning approaches for supply chain sustainability, his focus is set on functional excellence, enabling transition, and solutions for competitive yet resilient supply chains. Since mid of 2024 he is in charge of sustainability and EHS at Bosch.
Speaking about:
#Corporate Sustainability #Due Diligence #Supply Chain
Juliana Duarte
Global ITO Mobile Lead
Global Mobile Lead with around 10 years of experience leading digital products and enterprise platforms in complex international environments, Specialized in aligning business strategy with technology execution, driving scalable solutions to deliver operational value. Product Lead for Osapiens at Nordex owning the global mobile product vision and roadmap across different business areas.
Speaking about:
#ProductDevelopment #Sustainability #EndtoEndProcess
Thomas Fell
CEO
Thomas Fell has been Managing Director of GS1 Germany GmbH since 2017, an organization known for the EAN barcode and its collaboration between industry and retail. As a recognized retail expert, Fell drives standardization in e-commerce and other industries, incorporating innovative technologies such as blockchain and the Internet of Things. Previously, Fell served as Executive Vice President of Retail at Diebold and Wincor Nixdorf, as well as Managing Director at IBM.
Speaking about:
#Corporate Sustainability #Transparency #Supply Chain
Alberto Zamora
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Alberto Zamora is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of osapiens. He initially studied Journalism and Communication Sciences (MSc.) at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca in Spain. After further studies in Economics at the Universidad de Educacion a Distancia UNED, Alberto worked as a developer and consultant at SAP SI and SAP AG. In 2006, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Movilitas Consulting AG. Before founding osapiens, Alberto also co-founded Movilizer GmbH in 2013, a software company that expanded to the USA in 2015. In 2018 he founded osapiens together with Stefan Wawrzinek and Matthias Jungblut.
Speaking about:
#Transparency #Efficiency #Product Compliance #Megatrends #AI
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Ms Henna Virkkunen is tasked with combatting the increasingly complex security threats facing the EU, whilst at the same time strengthening our external borders and our internal security. This goes hand in hand with her responsibility to ensure our freedoms, justice and democracy are strengthened too. Furthermore, she is responsible for the Digital and Frontier Technologies portfolio. This entails leading Europe’s efforts in shaping a competitive, resilient and inclusive digital future.
Speaking about:
#Digitalization #Tech Sovereignty #Security #Democracy
John Turner
CEO
John Turner leads XBRL International, the global not-for-profit standards development organisation responsible for XBRL. He works with regulators, governments and the private sector to drive forward digital, data-centric reporting, enhancing accountability and transparency and improving business performance worldwide. John has been involved with XBRL in high-level roles from its inception, from both commercial and regulatory perspectives. He is a passionate advocate for the use of standards to make everything work better, and a constant experimenter in the latest digital possibilities.
Speaking about:
#Transparency, #Trust, #DigitalReporting
Dorothee Arns
Fecc Director General
Director General of Fecc since 2019 and an experienced business and public affairs leader.
Speaking about:
Value chain, supplier intelligence and collaboration
Fabrice Bach
Global Sustainability Manager
Fabrice Bach is Global Corporate Sustainability Manager at Joyson Safety Systems, leading global sustainability reporting, ESG governance and audit ready disclosure structures across the organization.
Speaking about:
#DigitalSustainability#ESGData#ESGCompliance
Gunther Beger
Managing Director, Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation, UNIDO
Gunther Beger heads the Directorate for SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation, advancing services in agro-industry, sustainability standards, fair production and climate technologies, as well as new cooperation models, financing and partnerships. He previously served as Executive Director for Germany at WBG and as Director General at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, following leadership roles at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Earlier, he worked at the German Embassy in Moscow.
Speaking about:
#Sustainability #Product Compliance
Max Jungmann
CEO
Dr. Max Jungmann is the CEO of Momentum Novum and FALK Momentum, advising organizations on strategy development, ESG compliance, and transformation management. He also serves as Executive Manager of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment at Heidelberg University, coordinating interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges. His work focuses on sustainability governance, corporate strategy, and international climate policy.
Speaking about:
#ESG Strategy #CCF #CSRD #DMA #ESRS #VSME #ISSB #GRI #EmpCo
Lars Hillmann
Rechtsanwalt | Counsel
Lars Hillmann is a lawyer at Cattwyk, specializing in CBAM, customs and trade law. With a deep understanding and first hand knowledge of the perspectives of both EU buyers and third country suppliers, Lars advice his clients on legal strategies to mitigate risks. He has extensive experience in representing clients before national authorities, the EU Commission, and in court. Further, he advises trade associations on policy matters and legal challenges of new regulations in the field of trade and decarbonization.
Speaking about:
#CBAM, #Decarbonization, #Trade
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