Speakers

Alessandro Wärzner works as Senior People Development Manager at refurbed. Alessandro studied psychology at the University of Vienna and did research in the area of flexible working at the TU Wien (Vienna, Austria). He worked for over 10 years in the field of personal assistance for people with disabilities in Hamburg (Germany). Before joining refurbed in September 2021, he worked as a psychologist, trainer and coach at the Jewish Vocational Training Center in Vienna.

Dr. Felix Schernhammer is Head of IT Applications at Austrian Power Grid AG. He strives to provide innovative and robust IT solutions that will play a key role in enabling Austria’s transition to sustainable energy sources.

APG – THE BACKBONE OF AUSTRIA’S ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.

Power generation is based on an essential principle: in every second, exactly the same amount of electricity must be generated as is being consumed. Unless the balance between electricity supply and demand is kept within precise parameters, the system will fail and no power can be supplied.

As Austria’s independent transmission system operator (TSO), APG’s primary responsibility is to maintain the supply-demand balance at all times.

Martin Froehler, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Morpher, is a mathematician, veteran quant, and former hedge fund manager. Having spent over a decade in quantitative finance, Froehler experienced the numerous inefficiencies of the financial industry first-hand. Realising the industry consists almost entirely of middlemen who charge obscene fees for bad service, Martin embarked on a mission to fix finance.

Markus Nistelberger is an experienced Software Engineer and team lead, who has been working with NETCONOMY for more than 8 years! In his presentation he wants to highlight how NETCONOMY is approaching remote and distributed work nowadays. With locations all over Europe (Graz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Zurich, Berlin, Dortmund, Belgrade, Novi Sad) home office and distributed work had little impact on the daily business because NETCONOMY was already equipped with a strong tool set to manage such challenges. Today Markus will present NETCONOMY’s tool set and highlight the ups and downs that come with it.

Cornelia Habetler joined the startup enspired from the very first day of existence when the path ahead was still unclear. Two years later, enspired counts 43 employees with plans to grow, reaching the 100-employee mark in 2023.

Cornelia significantly contributed to building a work environment from scratch and setting up the finance department on the side.

Starting as a Linux and network administrator created the base for her career in tech. After switching to an IT outsourcing provider, Cornelia quickly became a team leader and was able to combine technical expertise with management skills. She found herself in versatile positions like Service Delivery Manager, Service Architect and People Manager in local and international departments. In 2015, Cornelia started as Head of Operations in VisoTech, until destiny and her love for numbers and people intervened. Acting as a stand-in for the role of Head of Finance, HR & Business Administration, she decided it was time for a career change. And here we are: introducing her as the CCFO of enspired, a fully digital power trading-as-a-service company.

Currently, Cornelia puts her experience and passion into building the foundation of the enspired culture and community. Creating a work environment everyone enjoys, sticking to the vision of the company and getting all employees involved in the process are major key points for a startup to grow – the right way. Putting it in Cornelia’s words: “We want to empower our community to leverage their joy of development and to make our innovation journey a shared success.”

Andrew is a Managing Principal Consultant with Sourced Group, a rapidly-growing global cloud consultancy. Founded in 2010, Sourced provides technology consulting services to help large, security-conscious organizations in financial services, healthcare, aviation, media, and telecommunications adopt public cloud at scale.
With nearly 25 years of technology experience and 10 years helping large organizations to accelerate cloud adoption, Andrew has led Sourced’s customers to their goals through cloud technology analysis, strategy, implementation, and organizational change management initiatives.