Melanie Gabriel is the co-founder and former CMO of Yokoy, a fintech company which provides AI-driven expense management solutions for medium-to-large enterprises globally. She co-founded Yokoy in 2019 with four other co-founders and rapidly grew it to 200+ employees, raising over $100M in Seed to Series B funding. After Yokoy, she co-founded Follow The Gradient, a platform for European founders and startup operators offering a weekly newsletter and podcast and other resources to address key startup challenges.

Christof is one of the co-founders of Scandit, an ETH spin-off scaleup using computer vision to make businesses more efficient in their data capture processes. Together with his two co-founders, Christof has been running Scandit for 14 and has successfully conducted several funding rounds with investors like Ariel Lüdi, Atomico, Google Ventures, NGP and Warburg Pincus. Nowadays they have 6 offices across the US, Europe and Asia. Christof’s role at Scandit has changed much throughout the years — currently, he’s the VP Engineering & CIO.

Viviana Gropengiesser is the CEO of Talent Kick,  a Swiss-wide program by the Kick Foundation bringing the most outstanding global talents together by leveraging the best Swiss universities to form interdisciplinary diverse teams and combine hands-on entrepreneurial experience with their studies. She has over 10 years of operational experience in startups and NGO environments as CEO, board member or co-founder, and as an investor for a family office.​​​​​​

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