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Niklas Fehrm is the Chief Revenue Officer at Scrive. He has a solid experience with driving change, growth and revenue by creating structure, clear objectives and customer-centric cultures with the opportunity for people to challenge and add value for customers. With Scrive’s deep connections with the world of automotive finance, Niklas has had the pleasure of working with some of the biggest brands in the industry, helping them deliver better service, securely and efficiently. Niklas is a former athlete and coach with a degree in psychology and economics, and is using his theoretical insights and knowledge by turning strategy into sales effectiveness.

Stefan Schetter is a proven expert in the field of finance. The graduate engineer has been working in the financial sector for almost 20 years. After working for SHS Viveon and Experian, he joined CRIF GmbH as Sales Director Special Accounts and Automotive. In his position at CRIF, Stefan Schetter is mainly responsible for the areas of risk management, system and process solutions for the financial sector and KYC.

Having had a normal weight in childhood, obesity entered my life when I had my child in 1993. I gained a total of 40 kg over the next 14 years despite diet monitoring, physical exercise and obesity medication available back in time. No matter what I did I couldn’t stop putting on weight… I was almost 100 kg in 2007 and the consequences of so much weight were so clear: pain in lower back, ankles and knees, fat in my liver but even more scary – high blood sugar levels. I was a single mother and my only concern was that my health would deteriorate so badly that I’d leave my kid an orphan. As nothing less invasive seemed to help me in losing my body weight, I decided to have bariatric surgery. Although I’m having a normal weight for the last 11 years, I still struggle every day to keep it in control. Today I use my story to advocate for the cause of defeating Obesity together with my scientific background. I am a pharmacist contributing that better and effective drug treatment for losing weight is available to an affordable cost to all people in need of it. The collaborative relationship between patients living with a chronic disease and pharma is a win-win situation. Patient experiences, perception and opinions are heard by the companies behind new therapeutic options that hopefully will bring more quality to patients’ life. This close dialogue helps to educate and raise the awareness of the burden caused by these diseases both on an individual and society perspective. The potential products can show exciting results in the laboratory and animals but only patients have the actual experience in their disease control. By giving the patients the opportunity of sharing their feedback from beginning of a product development the companies are able to make available better treatment options that meet patients’ expectations on a faster fashion.

Christian Friis – (Strategic Trial Planning Manager) brings more than 20 years of experience from the industry. Christian has worked in Regulatory, as CRA in a CRO and as International Trial Manager in Biotech for close to eight years. In 2010 Christian joined Ferring where he has had several roles with increasing responsibilities and latest he progressed into the role as Clinical Project Leader, in Global Clinical Operations. In 2021 Christian joined Global Trial Planning at Novo Nordisk and he is responsible for country allocation of the haemophilia trial portfolio.

Tim Chapman FRICS is a Managing Director at Hickman Shearer who provide capital asset valuation, management and sales across Europe working with many different equipment lessors. Having enjoyed 15 years in the machinery & equipment auction and valuation business he left the industry and gained an MSc is Sustainable Design from Cranfield University subsequently working in a sustainability consulting role within industry. He returned to valuation in 2010 joining KPMG as the Director responsible for EMEA capital asset valuation. He has published articles on the potential proliferation of stranded assets and the resulting impact on capital asset balance sheet values as a result of climate change. Recently, he also worked with lessors in identifying and valuing ‘green assets’ and the benefits and challenges in building a circular economy for different categories of capital assets. In 2021 he worked with lessors and the insolvency practitioners in unravelling the Arena Television asset fraud.

A passionate car nut, Stephen has held Senior positions in Nissan, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep, and Chrysler, among others. He has a wealth cross functional expertise encompassing Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Logistics, Used Cars, and Light Commercial Vehicles specialisation. In 2012 he co-founded LUMINOSTY; creating digital solutions for real-world challenges he’d encountered in automotive. In 2015, they launched SOAR their pioneering digital inventory (self) auditing solution, and based on its success, the company was acquired in 2021 by Sopra Banking Software. Rebranded SFP Digital Audit, it continues to be the industry leader; now joined by further solutions, with more coming.

Federico Pirovano is the Chief Data Officer at KyaEdge, an AI-enabled platform for the leasing and rental industry that helps companies manage asset portfolios, assess risk, and enable ESG-compliant, pay-per-use business models through IoT and machine-learning technologies. He is also the Founder & CEO of Dynius, a Swiss AI consulting firm officially recognized as an ETH Zurich spin-off for its contributions to data-driven innovation.

He holds a Master’s degree in Data Science from ETH Zurich and a Bachelor’s in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, both earned with top honors.

Federico has previously taught management strategies at the University of Bergamo and served as a teaching assistant in Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control at ETH Zurich. His research in artificial intelligence and machine learning has been published in leading venues such as NAACL and MLG.