TechFor™ at the DLD Conference 2025 in Munich

In the course of his professional career, Dr. Diess has acquired extensive skills in various areas of global business life, such as manufacturing and production, marketing, sales and distribution, as well as human resources and organizational development. Furthermore, as the former Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen AG, he also has wide-ranging strategic skills, valuable expertise in future-related topics such as electromobility, and a broad network of contacts in business, industry associations, and political institutions in Germany and abroad.

Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel is a German political economist and an influential voice for a sustainable transformation of society, working at the intersection of economy, politics and society. A policy advisor and bestselling author, she teaches sustainability transformations at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

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Markus Lienkamp (*1967) is an engineer and researcher in the area of electromobility, autonomous driving and mobility. He is Professor of the Institute of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was involved in the CREATE project in Singapore. After studying mechanical engineering at TU Darmstadt and Cornell University, Prof. Lienkamp obtained his doctorate at the TU Darmstadt in 1995. He worked at Volkswagen in an international trainee program and took part in a Joint Venture between Ford and Volkswagen in Portugal. Back in Germany, he led the brake testing at the utility vehicle development in Wolfsburg. Later he headed the ‘Electronics and Vehicle’ research department at Volkswagen, with a focus on driver assistance systems and vehicle concepts for electromobility. Since November 2009 Prof. Lienkamp is Head of Chair for Automotive Technology.

Andreas Urschitz, CMO at Infineon Technologies, has been with the company for 30 years and has always driven technological solutions to shape the decarbonization and digitalization of the world. Infineon's energy efficiency technologies enable energy savings along the electrical conversion chain, from green energy generation to lossless transmission and less consumption. He has always had the firm conviction that technical development should not be an end in itself, but should make life better, protect the future of humanity and even make the world safer and more livable. Andreas grew up on a farm and learned early on how important it is to make sustainable choices. 

The conference takes place each January in Munich, shortly before the World Economic Forum in Davos, and is internationally renowned for attracting the best and the brightest in the world of digital. DLD attracts over 2,000 change-makers, entrepreneurs and visionaries from around the globe. It presents insights from business and politics, science and art with the goal to spark conversations that cross boundaries and bring participants together in a common search for answers to the most challenging questions. 

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