List of speakers for the summit
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	Friday, 3:15pm John T. Preston President and CEO Atomic Ordered Materials LLC
Profile: John T. Preston, President and CEO of Atomic Ordered Materials LLC., senior lecturer and founder of the entrepreneurship seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and adviser to Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton, to the US Defense Department, NASA and to the National Science and Technology Board in Singapore

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Friday, 4pm Tony Philipp Founder iTransEuro.com

Philipp founded iTransEuro.com in December of 1999, with the purpose of helping US and European companies expand their Internet business throughout Europe. Mr. Philipp was formerly Chief Operating Officer for Lycos Bertelsmann in Germany. He joined Lycos in 1996 and under his leadership formed a Joint Venture between Lycos and Bertelsmann. Building on the relationship with licensing partners such as Grolier, BOL, Cdnow, Netscape, Microsoft, Freeserve, Lycos Bertelsmann has become the dominant Internet Pan European Navigation Service with offices and local products in Germany, France, UK, NL, Spain, Italy, and Sweden. Prior to joining Lycos, Mr. Philipp established the European Magellan in France, Germany and the UK, which was subsequently bought by Excite. Mr. Philipp also spent six years with AT&T;, building their European Global Account Management Program, as well as starting the Profile Initiative Program in Germany. Mr Philipp is a dual citizen in Germany and the USA, and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Clemson University , a Master of International Business (MBA) from the University of South Carolina, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne (Germany). Currently, Mr. Philipp serves on the board of the following companies: Camelotintl.com; Vavo.com; Lastavailable.com and Ziszas.com.

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Saturday, 9:50am Matthias Keudel Managing Director Multimedia, Bertelsmann New Media, Germany

Mathias Keudel will speak on "Start-up in Europe! - Market environment for start-ups in Europe and how Bertelsmann Valley can support you to become a successful entrepreneur". Current responsibilities and activities: Senior Vice President, Bertelsmann Valley: Provide infrastructure, funding and expertise to help entrepreneurs with their new media start-ups and develop new Bertelsmann businesses. Former responsibilities and activities: - Director International Development, GetMusic, New York - Manager Business Development, BMG Entertainment, New York - Consultant Corporate Development New Media, Bertelsmann AG Guetersloh - Junior Executive Development Program, Bertelsmann AG, Guetersloh - Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. TU Darmstadt, Germany - MBA Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, CA

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Saturday 10:20am Bernd Hardes CEO Econa

Bernd Hardes will speak on "Back to the roots - the curvey road from e-commerce to e-economy". Bernd Hardes born in 1969, studied at the University of Passau and at the University of Witten/Herdecke both in Germany. He received his diploma in business economics In 1996. Mr. Hardes began his career in Singapore as a project manager for Deutsche Bank. He later joined the advertising agency Scholz & Friends Berlin, where he was responsible for developing the newly founded consulting department. In 1997. Mr. Hardes co-founded bmp AG, Venture Capital, Berlin. Since 1997, he has been an active Business Angel for Internet start-ups. Mr. Hardes is currently CEO of Econa AG, Germany's first and largest Incubator for Internet start-ups. He founded Econa in 1999 along with partners from Aperto Multimedia GmbH and Scholz & Friends in Berlin. In 1999 he became partner of Aperto Multimedia GmbH Berlin.

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Saturday, 1:05pm Andreas Mueller Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder 12snap

Andreas Mueller will speak on "Revolution in Europe: M-Commerce". Current responsibilities and activities: Executive management board, 12snap AG Business development & international expansion Design overall company strategy (mobile commerce), initiate and foster discussions with strategic partners/alliances, drive international expansion and develop new 12snap mobile commerce applications/businesses Former responsibilities and activities: - Senior associate, McKinsey & Company, Munich, Growth strategies in telecoms and electronics industries - P.E.I. Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris - Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. TH Karlsruhe, Germany - M.S. Stanford University, CA