Speaker
Karoline Stich
CIO
With a background in IT and business leadership, Karoline has held senior positions in the energy sector for over 10 years, specializing in IT strategy and digital transformation. At Syneco, she was primarily driving the development of a SaaS platform that enables customers to fully integrate and automate their key processes. She has successfully driven the optimization of digital business strategies and organizational change, aligning technology with corporate objectives.
SessionS
AI in Software Development: Innovation vs. Resistance
Lean Leader Summit 2025
The integration of AI into software development promises increased efficiency, greater automation, and ongoing innovation. This transformative technology has the potential to fundamentally revolutionize the way we approach coding, software creation, and maintenance. But how do development teams respond to this change in practice? In this session, we share insights from our recent pilot, exploring its impact on coding, collaboration, and productivity. But technical results are only half the story — I also address a key challenge: overcoming skepticism and resistance among developers.
Company
Syneco Trading GmbH
Syneco was founded in 1999 as the energy service provider of the Thüga Group. Today, Syneco is one of the most important energy trading companies in Germany. Under the umbrella brand Thüga Solutions, we cover, in cooperation with the other Thüga Plus companies, the increasingly complex energy industry almost completely. We support municipal and medium-sized energy suppliers in energy procurement and marketing. We deal with efficient and sustainable ways of energy trading to support our partners with innovative software solutions, services and broad know-how and provide a significant contribution to the energy transition. Our software solutions offer the possibility to digitalize and automate processes of energy procurement and marketing. Our broad product portfolio enables the cost-efficient and transparent handling of trading in electricity, gas and CO2, as well as the associated energy logistics processes and risk management. Renewable energy products are also part of our portfolio. Together with our partners, we are constantly developing our products for automating procurement and marketing, thus adapting to market changes at an early stage. A trusting exchange with our partners is our top priority.