Speaker

Philipp Töbich is Global Head of Governance in the SAP Government Security division. His team oversees global governance and risk management in the area of national security for regulated services such as SAP Sovereign Cloud. He began his career as a career officer in military intelligence and went on to work in cybersecurity and risk management consulting before joining SAP.

Global Head of Governance – SAP

Christian Winkelhofer is Accenture’s Country Managing Director and is responsible for the company’s continued growth in Austria. He has been with Accenture since 2007 and most recently served as Managing Director in charge of new technologies. Christian Winkelhofer studied Business Informatics and Global Management at JKU Linz in cooperation with Oxford Brookes University, as well as at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in partnership with the University of Minnesota. He has been engaged with technological developments and their implications since his college days.

Country Managing Director – Accenture

Georg List is responsible for corporate strategy at AVL List GmbH. This includes the strategic development of the company’s three business divisions and the leadership of the Research & Technology function. He also launched AVL’s startup initiatives with “Creators.” Georg List was born in Graz and studied at ETH Zurich and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the University Council at Graz University of Technology and chairs the Research and Innovation Working Group at BusinessEurope in Brussels.

Vice President – Corporate Strategy, AVL List GmbH, Austria

Elmar Pichl was born in Graz in 1973, studied law at the University of Graz, and worked as a research assistant at the university’s Institute for Public Law. Other professional positions included roles at World University Service Austria and the ÖVP federal party. In early 2007, he moved to the Ministry of Science, where he first served as chief of staff to Federal Minister Dr. Johannes Hahn and subsequently as division director in the Higher Education Section. Elmar Pichl has headed the Higher Education Section since August 1, 2013. Other positions and memberships include: Supervisory Board of OeAD-GmbH, Styrian Research Council, General Assembly of AQ Austria, Board of Trustees of GeoSphere Austria, and Board of Trustees of the Diplomatic Academy.

Elmar Pichl, M.A., BMFWF

Christian Rechberger has been a professor at Graz University of Technology since 2015. Prior to that, he was a professor, visiting researcher, and postdoctoral fellow at DTU in Denmark, Microsoft Research in the U.S., ENS Paris in France, and KU Leuven in Belgium. He is known for his work on the design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms. The deep-tech startup TACEO has emerged from his research group since 2022.

University Professor & Co-Founder of TACEO – Graz University of Technology

Andreas Diensthuber, founder and CEO of DaphOS.ai, has a background in radiology technology and health economics. Even before completing his studies, he founded his first company, Solgenium, which focused specifically on “AI in Healthcare” and was highly research-oriented. As part of these research activities—including collaboration with the University of Graz—the foundations were laid for DaphOS.ai, a decision support platform for the healthcare sector. Today, the DaphOS platform offers a wide range of services in the areas of operations and resource management through its integrated AI core.

Founder and CEO, DaphOS.ai

Sabine Proßnegg earned her law degree and doctorate from the University of Graz (KFU Graz) and completed a postgraduate master’s degree in commercial law at the University of Glasgow.
Her professional career path took her from a judicial clerkship in the Graz judicial district to an internship with James R. Knowles in Glasgow, then to the law firm Wolf, Theiss & Partner in Vienna, and finally to Graz, where she joined Steirische Wirtschaftsförderung GmbH. She has been a faculty member at FH JOANNEUM GmbH (Kapfenberg) since 2017.

Associate Professor (University of Applied Sciences), FH JOANNEUM

Alexander Pröll, LL.M., is State Secretary for Digitalization, Constitutional Affairs, the Civil Service, Coordination, and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism.

State Secretary, Federal Chancellery

Stefan Mangard is a professor and director of the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology. His research focuses on hardware security, cryptographic engineering, and the design of secure system architectures. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on side-channel security in processors and is the author of a textbook on power analysis attacks as well as more than 150 scientific publications. Before joining Graz University of Technology as a professor, he worked as a Leading Security Architect in the Chip Card and Security Division at Infineon Technologies in Munich. He earned his PhD and his master’s degree (MSc) in Computer Engineering from Graz University of Technology in 2004 and 2002, respectively.