Christian Steinberg

Global Market Executive | WAREMA

Christian Steinberg, former Managing Director of Hansgrohe Deutschland GmbH and Vice President Sales Central Europe has been a member of the Management Board of Warema Renkhoff SE since 2019. As Chief Global Market Officer, he drives the Warema Group’s strategy in the Sun & Living Spaces division, which covers sun and weather protection to living space design.

www.warema-group.com

Ralf Kern

CEO | RADEMACHER

As Head of Development, Key Account Manager and CTO at Rademacher Geräte-Elektronik GmbH, Ralf Kern played a key role in driving the growth strategy of the medium-sized company for many years and helped develop pioneering smart home products. Since March 2019, he has been CEO and spokesman for the Rademacher management board.

With the HomePilot smart home system developed in-house, RADEMACHER is a force to be reckoned with in the growing home automation market segment and, as a system provider, is actively shaping the future of smart living. Ralf Kern has been CEO of the company since 2019 and is primarily responsible for the company’s product strategy and technology. Under Kern’s leadership, Rademacher launched a comprehensive innovation and product offensive in 2007, which resulted in more than 100 new products.

www.rademacher.de

DI Georg W. Reinberg

Architekt Reinberg

Architect Georg W. Reinberg has been running his architectural office with a focus on solar and ecological architecture, low-energy and passive concepts since 1982 and has since realized more than 100 projects. The office stands for an ecologically thinking building culture, which wants to create a so-called “wealth for everyone” in a resource-saving way, with the help of the unlimited resource sun.

www.reinberg.net

Markus Szotrell

CEO | Sonne Licht Schatten

Markus Szotrell, a long-time Sattler manager and most recently Managing Director of Sattler Germany, has been Managing Director of the specialist trade cooperation SLS | Sonne Licht Schatten since January 1, 2020. In his keynote speech, he will present current challenges from the point of view of retail partners and important elements in the cooperation between retailers and manufacturers, as well as providing input on digital sales and the changes to be expected in this field.

www.sonne-licht-schatten.at

Günther Ohland

Chairman | Smart Home Initiative

Günther Ohland is a trade journalist and author of the books “Der neue SmartHome Bauherrenratgeber”, “Jetzt mache ich mein Heim selber smart”, “keine Angst vorm smarten Heim”, “Smart Living” and currently “Bits und Bytes statt Moleküle – Wie Corona uns zwingt, längst bekannte Technologien zu nutzen”.

In 2009, Günther Ohland and other SmartHome pioneers founded the SmartHome Initiative Deutschland as a cross-trade federal association. Ohland is chairman of the association’s board. The main focus is on the application integration of building technology, multimedia, telemonitoring, and SmartHome security. With lectures and workshops, Ohland informs consumers, industry, trade, commerce, politics and administration about the benefits of smart technology and the realization of smart projects.

www.smarthome-deutschland.de

Ing. Peter Berger, BA, CMC

CEO | TEAM-Vertriebserfolg

For almost 35 years, Ing. Peter Berger BA CMC has been dealing with the question of how to optimize sales for products and services that require explanation. With over 200 sales optimization projects, the founder of the TEAM-Vertriebserfolg consulting group is one of the most experienced experts in the field of sales. His reference book on the subject of “Technical Sales” and his activities as spokesman for the Sales Consulting Working Group in the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, but above all his absolute focus on the success of his clients, have made him one of the most frequently booked experts and lecturers on the subject of sales success in Austria.

www.team-vertriebserfolg.com

Dr. Frederik Lehner

CEO | Interconnection Consulting

For more than 20 years, Dr. Frederik Lehner has been managing the marketing and market research institute Interconnection Consulting, which develops individual solutions in the field of strategy, sales optimization and B2B marketing and whose core competencies include pricing and customer segmentation. In the field of B2B market research, Interconnection is one of the leading institutes for sun protection markets in Europe.

www.interconnectionconsulting.com

Andreas Danler

Member of the Management / Lightning Applications | Bartenbach

Andreas Danler has been working in the lighting design office of Christian Bartenbach since 1989. After a technical education in daylight and artificial lighting technology as well as psychology of perception, he has been involved in numerous daylight and artificial lighting projects as a project manager for more than a decade. He was a lecturer at the University of Stuttgart (Institute for Interior Design) and has been a member of the management team at Bartenbach for the Lighting Design division since 2003. Since 2004, Andreas Danler has been a lecturer at the Bartenbach Lighting Academy. He is a speaker at numerous specialist conferences and training courses and has been head of the extended Lighting Applications division since 2012.

www.bartenbach.com