Eric Schätzlein is founder and CEO of exgenio, a provider of online training, excellence programs, and consultation, based on the holistic approach of sustainable transformation. Schätzlein is also Member of the Advisory Committee of nic.at in Vienna and Salzburg/Austria. In 1994, he was responsible for the development...

As of October 2018, Michael Beilfuss, as Senior Vice President International Events, is responsible for the international event business of IDG outside of the USA. Prior to this, he was Chief Revenue Officer and member of the management at IDG Germany. With the creation of the new position of Senior Vice President International...

Paul Alpar is Professor for Business Administration and Business Informatics in the faculty of economics at the Philipps University, Marburg. He is also Co-Director of the Marburg Institute for Innovation Research and Start-up Support (MAFEX). After completing his doctorate at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, he worked...

Soeren von Varchmin is CEO of CloudFest and Namescon, the largest series of events for the cloud and hosting industry in the world. Alongside this position, he is also lead guitarist and singer in the rock band “Lords of Uptime”. He is an investor and adviser of several successful start-ups and he supports the non-profit...

Jürgen Seeger, born in 1953, gained his initial journalistic experience at a weekly newspaper in Hanover. Since 1984, the certified pedagogue has worked for Heise, initially for “Input 64”, a magazine for the Commodore 64. In 1988, Seeger was involved in the development of the idea and concept for iX, and he has been...

Since 2015, Dana Heide has been a correspondent for the Handelsblatt in Berlin, with reporting focusing on: the German Federal Ministry for the Economy, digital policy, cyber-security, SMEs, and the FDP. In 2016, she became an Arthur F. Burns-Fellow at The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. Prior to this, she was...

The draft for an immigration act introduced by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior last week could entice more specialists to move to Germany.

Hessian state government appoints Harald Summa, DE-CIX CEO and CEO of eco, to its newly-founded Council for Digital Ethics. As voice of the Internet industry, eco Association takes on social responsibility for an ethically-oriented digitalization.

DISCOUNT eco members receive a special 15% discount off tickets!

Frankfurt has one of the densest data networks in the world and is an established location hub for Data Centers and Connectivity. While Germany as a whole, has rapidly modernised with advanced technology driving its place as one of Europe’s largest telecom markets. These merging sectors coupled with high demand from our top-level clients e.g. DCs, Network Operators, Service Providers and ICT players who wish to explore new opportunities in the region has resulted in the Draleo Group returning to Frankfurt for its second annual event in the city.