Sascha Lobo, born in 1975, studied social and business communication in Berlin. He works as an author, internet entrepreneur and lecturer on the topic of digitization of economy and society. Since 2011, he has written a weekly column on Spiegel Online called "The Man Machine", in which he looks on the events of the world from a digital perspective. His most important books include "Internet Blessing or Curse" (with Kathrin Passig, published by Rowohlt Berlin in 2012) and "We Call It Work" (with Holm Friebe, published by Heyne in 2006). Together with Christoph Kappes, he runs the Progress Factory, a project and consulting firm for digital transformation. In 2017, he made the film "manipulated" for ZDF, which deals with the impact of social media on society. Sascha Lobo did not understand Snapchat much earlier than most (2013), but has many followers on Twitter.

Artour Djanatliev has more than 10 years of e-commerce experience, including about 5 years with Amazon in purchasing for Consumer Electronic Articles about 4.5 years at Sportscheck (OTTO Group) as Head of Partner Program. For 1.5 years at Klingel Group as Head of Longtail Partner Program for the platforms Klingel.de, Wenz.de, HappySize.de, Diemer.de, Wellsana.de, Meyer-mode.de, AlbaModa.de - focus on the  range expansion

Dominik Grollmann is a proven connoisseur of the German online industry. He has accompanied the market since 1997 as a specialist journalist and developed the renowned trade magazine Internet World Business, which he headed as Editor-in-Chief for more than ten years. Since 2014 he analyzes the e-commerce development at the iBusiness service and identifies the trends of the future.

Dr. Horst Karaschewski lives in Achim near Bremen with his wife and 2 children. He is 52 years old and studied mathematics but has been into application development since his school days. Previously unfamiliar with the insurance sector he has been in his current position since 2006 at the HanseMerkur Insurance. Since 2013 he is also managing director of red6 enterprise software GmbH, a subsidiary of HanseMerkur for IT development, where new forms of organization are for example beeing tested.

Waldemar Sander began his career at LLOYD Shoes AG 14 years ago as an apprentice industrial clerk. After various advanced training courses (industrial specialist, e-commerce manager, scrum product owner), he worked as a sub-project manager frontend until the beginning of 2018. Today Waldemar Sander is employed as content manager e-commerce.

Christian Haltermann completed his education and part-time business administration studies with ter Hürne, one of the market leaders in development and quality products for floor, wall and ceiling made of wood.
He then moved to HolzLand in 2009: Category Management, Project Management & Sales, parallel to his Master's degree in Business Administration. Since 2013: Development of the HolzLand PIM (as a data aggregator of the industry) with highly enriched product data for the HolzLand members, which today represents a USP of the company. Construction of e-commerce area for the further implementation of the digitization strategy (including B2C marketplace holzland.de)