Henry Michels
IVU Traffic Technologies AG
Henry works mainly as an IT Project Manager at the Logistics Department of IVU Traffic Technologies. Beginning of 2013 Henry joined the IVU in Berlin and was concerned with the development of Web-based applications. In 2014 he changed to project management and started with the functional and technical administration of several customer and research projects related to the topics Routing, Navigation and Location Intelligence. Besides, he is part of the business development team where topics like sales, business strategy and product management are addressed. Technically, he is deeply ingrained in the GeoIT world due to his graduation in Geoinformatics. Nevertheless, Henry has a hidden passion for project management methodologies, how they evolve and how they are best applied.
Oliver Schaefer
IVU Traffic Technologies AG
Oliver (born 1974 in Berlin) is business development manager in the logistics field at IVU Traffic Technologies AG in Berlin . He studied geography, business administration and cartography at the Free University of Berlin and specialized in digital cartography and geoinformatics. He has been employed at IVU since 2000 and has acquired extensive experience in both project management and divisional management roles. His work priorities are the deployment of GeoIT software solutions for geoinformatics and geomarketing in the private sector, in addition to their use by government authorities and in public administration.
Babak Toloue Tehrani
Geocom Deutschland GmbH
Babak is responsible for transport and logistics projects and products at Geocom Deutschland GmbH. His main focus is on integrating geo-functionality into applications and processes for the logistics industry. The customization of street data for routing and optimization tasks within ArcGIS based on specific use cases has been the focal point of his work in the past decade.
Sebastian Zickau
Technische Universität Berlin
In 2002, Sebastian Zickau submitted his diploma thesis during a project at the IT-Service-Center of the Technische Universität Berlin (tubIT) where he worked as a student research assistant. The focus of the thesis was on e-mail encryption using smartcards. After he received his diploma, he continued to work at the tubIT Service Center as a research assistant. During this time, he contributed to several security, policy, and access control projects, such as TUBIT. In 2008, Mr. Zickau started to work at the University of Reading in England for two years. There he joined the EU-funded Hydra Middleware project (now LinkSmart middleware) in a research group at the School of Systems Engineering. My main focus was on security and policy aspects and context functionalities during the realization of the Hydra software along with work on project demonstrators and general research. In March 2012, Sebastian Zickau joined the Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin, as a research scientist at Prof. Dr. Axel Küpper’s chair Service-centric Networking (SNET). He contributed to the BMWi- and BMBF-funded projects: TRESOR (Cloud Computing in the health sector), Curcuma (location-based access control) and the running PARADISE. His research in PARADISE focuses on ubiquitous computing, location-based access control, and privacy aspects within an anti-doping use case. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis about these topics.
Marian Pufahl
Synfioo
Marian Pufahl is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Potsdam-based Synfioo. He has an IT and Business background, worked for small and large consultancy companies, and is mainly responsible for Sales and Marketing at Synfioo.