Rasmus Witt Jensen

Rasmus Witt Jensen serves as an Enterprise Architect at Norlys, Denmark’s largest integrated telecommunications and energy company. At Norlys, he plays a crucial role in steering the architecture of the energy business, ensuring its seamless fit within the shared landscape during fundamental changes to core systems.
His involvement in cross-company initiatives, including the integration of a major mobile company and large-scale agile transformations, exhibits his strategic vision and leadership.

Before stepping into his current role, Rasmus amassed invaluable experience as a Software Developer and Solution Architect. This foundation has equipped him with a deep understanding of software development processes and system design. With a Bachelor in ICT Engineering and a Master’s in Technology-Based Business Development, Rasmus has consistently merged IT with business insights to foster innovation and maximize business value. His career reflects a commitment to leveraging technology to drive organizational and sector-wide advancements.

Henrik L Sonnichen

Deeply motivated to drive digital transformative projects and organizational changes, Henrik L. Sønnichsen equips people and businesses with solid foundations to achieve their strategic goals and tackle complex challenges. As a visionary leader, he excels in articulating and aligning teams with a cohesive vision, fostering trust and commitment among both team members and diverse stakeholders. His strong interpersonal skills enable influential collaborations, paving the way for innovative change alongside key decision-makers.

With a robust multicultural background, honed through leading across three geographic regions in the pharmaceutical industry, his expertise encompasses managing complex cross-cultural negotiations, projects, and partnerships.

As the current head of the Enterprise Architecture Area at Norlys, he plays a pivotal role in steering the integration of Telia Denmark—one of Denmark’s most intricate integration programs—into Norlys, supporting its transformative success.

David Hohl

David Hohl is an expert in Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture. With over 25 years of professional experience, he bridges IT and business strategy in all its facets, drawing on his extensive knowledge in sectors such as retail and automotive. In his role at Materna, he advises clients in the Real Estate & Construction, Finance & Insurance, and Industry Markets sectors.
As an author, he focuses on sharing practical experience and combines his knowledge to deliver interdisciplinary insights.

Philipp Schneidenbach

Philipp Schneidenbach is an expert in Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk, and Compliance. In his current role at Materna, he brings together over 25 years of experience in consulting and line management across various industries, markets, countries, and economic regions. As an author, researcher, and speaker, he is actively involved in organizations and professional associations such as IEEE, ISACA, and MoreThanDigital.

Veroniek Vermeulen

Veroniek Vermeulen, founder of Silatha, is on a mission to create an equitable workplace where women feel accepted, trusted and valued. Helping companies to become more psychologically safe for women and their allies. Through education and support on the taboos around biases and realities like PMS, Fertility and Menopause.
Veroniek is an engineer by education and spent 20+ years in global marketing. She has received many awards during her career amongst that the Influential Leader Award by BrainzMagazine, next to stars like Jessica Alba, Jay Shetty, Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Wolfe Herd.

Nora Legittimo

Speaker Nora Legittimo Management Board | Corporate Transformation & Digitalization Marantec Group After graduating in business administration, Nora worked for two decades in various roles related to the transformation of companies with the help of IT and digitalization. For the past 4 years, she has been focusing on transforming the construction industry at Schöck Bauteile and, since 2025, the door and drive technology industry at Marantec. Both being „Open Champions“ in the producing, family-owned German Mittelstand. Her focus is on the implementation of digitalization in order to consistently align a company with customer benefits – because technology and innovation can only be put to good use, if they solve real problems and enable people and companies to succeed. SessionS About the courage to become an “Open Champion” – and the efforts to leave the world of “Hidden Champions” behind Lean Leader Summit 2025 The German Mittelstand is famous for its engineering skills, inventiveness, and social responsibility. Being called a “hidden champion” was a high honor – but is it one that will help us in a volatile economy, high cost and innovation pressure and lack of resources? At Marantec, we are certain: no! The future belongs to the “Open Champions”. Those who focus on the needs of the customer. Who focus on co-creation. Who invest in the potential of their employees and realize, that change starts at the top. Who know that transformation is only effective, if the goal is described in concrete terms and implemented in a comprehensible and consistent manner. This presentation will show that this is anything but easy and how to overcome the pitfalls. Company Marantec Group A new way to get there #together The art of engineering is the core of the Marantec Group: We manufacture intelligent drive solutions for both private and commercial use – made in Germany! Our headquarters are in East Westphalia, our products are manufactured in eight plants worldwide, and our Sales Department has a total of eight locations. To create new and innovative total solutions, all our employees and external partners contribute their individual strengths and expertise. We call this: a new way to get there #together. As an Open Champion, we are opening ourselves up to new ways of working together and setting an example for a new German SME!

Erika Glas

Speaker Erika Glas Principal Enterprise Architect Volvo Construction Equipment Erika Glas is a Principal Enterprise Architect at Volvo Construction Equipment, specializing in enterprise architecture, digital transformation, and change management. She focuses on optimizing product lifecycle management, data governance, Digital Threads, Model-Based Enterprise driving both efficiency and innovation. With experience in both strategic and hands on roles, Erika has experience of Modelbased Engineeering and Digital Twin implementations, improving operational performance across the full value stream and customer value. In the same time! As the founder of Chokeberry, she helped organizations streamline operations and adopt datadriven decisionmaking to support sustainable growth. She has pursued studies in Mathematics, Finance, and Decision Analysis and actively participates in architectural and business strategy forums to stay ahead of industry trends. Erika is passionate about simplifying complexity, fostering collaboration, and delivering impactful change in global organizations. SessionS How to apply Enterprise Architecture for increased revenue and higher quality throughout the lifecycles Lean Leader Summit 2025 Join this engaging session on implementing a connected architecture founded on an information-centric approach. This presentation will demonstrate how aligning business strategies with architecture, processes, having information enhances efficiency and drives innovation. The session will cover how to define a meta-model to develop traceable architectural models, and utilize advanced modeling tools to improve communication, streamline decision-making, and enable greater adaptability. The objective is to increase market share, enhance customer satisfaction, and optimize operations—ultimately leading to higher revenue, stronger customer loyalty, and more successful product launches. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore how enterprise architecture can transform your business and create a competitive advantage in the market! Company Volvo Construction Equipment Building Tomorrow Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is a global leader in construction solutions, delivering premium products and services that combine power and performance with a more sustainable way of working. We are a company driven by people and together we have a purpose: To build the world we want to live in. Founded in 1832 and with a distribution network across every major market, our many dedicated experts around the world are fulfilling our shared purpose through a focus on sustainability, electromobility and services. As well as our expanding range of electric machines and charging solutions, Volvo CE provides industry-leading haulers, loaders, excavators and much more, all built to suit the demands of our customers’ varied construction and infrastructure needs. Volvo CE benefits from being connected to the Volvo Group, which also offers trucks, buses, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Bea Schnarr

Ein Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung und den Betrieb von Projekten im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien spezialisiert hat und dabei auf einen Energiemix aus Photovoltaik, Windenergie, Biomasse und Geothermie setzt.

Karoline Stich

CIO

Martin Wilde

Senior Vice President IT – CIO