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Johannes Kirschner is an Investment & Portfolio Manager at the Impact Ventures Team of EIT Urban Mobility. He brings profound experience in the mobility sector and has worked with startups, corporates, and venture capital firms all around Europe. After his Master of Science in Management of Innovation & Business Development at the Copenhagen Business School he has worked for different mobility startups and corporates and has grown as an expert in technology scouting and investment trends, particularly in the areas of sustainable city logistics, future mobility, and mobility and energy.

Dr. Olga Nevska is Managing Director of Telekom MobilitySolutions and a member of the Board of Directors at T-Mobile Czech Republic. The economics and law graduate from Ukraine earned her doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin and joined Deutsche Telekom in 2009. Olga stands for digitization as an enabler for connected, sustainable and demand-driven mobility and is responsible for the transformation of one of Germany's largest corporate fleets into an innovative mobility provider. She is a guest lecturer at the Institute for Mobility at the University of St. Gallen. Handelsblatt named her one of the 100 Women driving Germany forward.

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jochen Siegemund, architect and urban planner, leads an interdisciplinary office for architectural and urban design in Bonn, Germany. At the Technical University of Cologne he heads the Research and Development Center Corporate Architecture in research and teaching. His work includes practical work, consulting, teaching, research and development.

Born in 1959, he studied, after high school and an internship, architecture and urban design at the Technical University of Stuttgart, architecture at the HFT Stuttgart, architecture at the School of Architecture in Leicester, United Kingdom and restoration and archeology at the ENAIP Veneto, Italy. Due to its good performance he was stipendiant of the Fulbright, Robert Bosch and ENAIP foundations. After university studies he worked in teaching and research as a university assistant, scientific collaborations and as a assistant professor in the subjects; architectural design, construction and building design, design theory and interior design.

In 1989 he founded the office "Siegemund Architekten Stadtplaner", which he leads since 1992 in partnership with Dipl.-Ing. Elke Siegemund architect and town planner. In addition to numerous prizes in architectural and urban development competitions, the office is working on priority during the design and development of architectural and urban design and planning of industry and public buildings, fairs and exhibitions.

In 1995 Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Siegemund became professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Cologne. Holding the position as the director, he is the chairman for the master program corporate architecture of architecture studies and the director of the Research & Development Centre City, Architecture, Human & Mobility I SAM2. This architectural und urban design specialisation in Smart City Development is a unique selling point of the Faculty of Architecture in Europe.

Silvia Fischer is one of the founding members of Mobility Allstars e.V. and brings along 15 years of experience in leading commercial positions across the mobility industry, e.g. at FREE NOW, Interrail and Deutsche Bahn. Additionally, the mother of 2 girls has founded Weinkules and works as an Executive Coach.

Mobility Allstars e.V. is a non-profit association, that is pursuing the goal of accelerating the mobility transition in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To increase the quality of life and the attractiveness of the location. Each mode of transport has its own situational justification.

Mobility Allstars e.V. are promoting sustainable mobility solutions by constructively creating pressure for change among decision-makers in politics and business. Sustainable mobility solutions are geared towards the common good: They are sustainable, needs-based and simple and thus represent the core element of the mobility transition.

The network is a platform for doers and thinkers of the mobility industry and help them to benefit from each others experiences and perspectives and to make their voices being heard. Mobility Allstars support selected projects with a high impact on the transformation of mobility and attract public attention. For this they strive for a close cooperation with science, businesses and politics.