Petr Mahdalicek is the CEO and founder of Simplity, a data and analytics services provider and the company behind the data intelligence platform Accurity. He has a long-standing background in data-intensive projects, especially for banking and finance. In 2014 he was granted the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Stefan Ruhland is a Director in the German Risk Advisory practice of Deloitte, where he leads a market offering for data management. Stefan has more than 20 years of experience in management and IT consulting. He works with clients predominantly in the financial services industry in Germany as well as other European countries.

Dr. Torsten Priebe is a professor in Big Data Analytics at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and heads the Data Intelligence research group there. Previously, he was responsible for business intelligence at Capgemini in Vienna, worked as a solution architect at Teradata, and later took over the position of CTO at Simplity.