**FIRESIDE CHAT WILL BE IN GERMAN**

Till Ohrmann is the Co-Founder/CEO of the Pirate Summit which he started together with a group of likeminded people in 2010. In 2016 he and his team will organize 100+ events for more than 8.000 attendees in 40+ countries and evaluate more than 1.500 early stage pitches. He also is the ambassador of the Digital Economy in his home federal state Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany).

Manuel is a serial entrepreneur, advisor and business angel from Cologne. He is chairman of Pirate Summit and is growing the startup ecosystem with various initiatives such as Pirate Summit Global. Manuel uses his knowledge from the startup world to advise corporates on becoming more agile, innovative and implement startup dna. His focus as an angel investor is on machine intelligence startups.