SX TECH CONFERENCE
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Dr.Elliot Justin MD
FACEP, CEO and Founder of FirmTech
Dr.Elliot Justin MD, FACEP, is the CEO and Founder of FirmTech, the world’s first sex tech company focused on keeping men firm and fit for a better lifetime of lovemaking and pleasure. Before there is ED, there is erectile fitness. By background, he is an Emergency Medicine specialist and health care technology consultant. As a serial healthcare entrepreneur, he founded and exited Pegasus Emergency Group, Swift MD, and advised several services, telemedicine, and tech startups.
Ana Ornelas, aka Pimenta Cítrica
erotic writer and pleasure activist
Ana Ornelas, aka Pimenta Cítrica, is a Berlin-based erotic writer and pleasure activist from Brazil. In her work, she focuses on a feminist and inclusive perspective, writing both fictional and non-fictional content for several platforms. She’s also one of the voices behind I Am The Clitoris, a sex education project set out to spread cliteracy.
Esmé Bengtson
Development Manager, Decriminalize Sex Worklize Sex Work
CEO & Founder of Sx Tech. eu – annual sex tech conference dedicated to innovation in technology inside the sex tech industry.
Founder of Sprint Sx Tech – the first acceleration program for the female professionals from the sex tech and fem tech industry.
Ola launched first Germany Sex Tech Hackathon and through her major activities, she actively supports technological transformation in building the global ecosystem around two global industries – Sex Tech and Fem Tech. Berlin Based.
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder SX Tech Eu, Co Founder of Erobella.com
Ola Miedzynska is an entrepreneur, consultant, and advocate at the forefront of the sex technology and adult tech landscape. With a decade-long involvement in the tech industry, she has navigated the realms of startups and corporate consulting, working closely with 180+ global sex tech and adult tech brands
Sx Tech Eu offering a space for sharing trends, fostering future potential, and cultivating a community of forward-thinking professionals reshaping the industry landscape.
Ola’s influential contributions extend to her co-founding role at Eroeblla.com, bridging the gap between sex technology and destigmatizing sex work while advocating for the rights of sex workers. Based in Berlin,
Dr. Soum Rakshit
Co-Founder & CEO of MysteryVibe
He did his PhD in Biomedical Engineering and created a startup in eye recognition which was acquired by a US defence company. He then spent 7 years in management consulting on large technology projects. In 2014 Soum started MysteryVibe to bring defence electronics and medical expertise together and create devices that solve big topics in sexual health in an accessible way.
Stu
Sextech industry luminary. Fouder The Afterglow Agency
Stu is a sextech industry luminary. He has accumulated 20 years of experience in the sextech and pleasure industries, working across any number of media and for most of the major players in the space. Previously the Global Brand Manager at luxury brand LELO and Senior Creative at pleasure brand Lovehoney, Stu now brings his proven multi-channel marketing campaign experience and effective creative communication skills to a diverse selection of international adult brands with his own comms agency, The Afterglow.
Tobias Betschart
CEO & Co-Founder of Viamor
After studying business psychology with a focus on user behavior, I started my career as an IT product owner in the dating market. There I analyzed and optimized the B2C application and analyzed our members for years. Early on, I recognized the trend towards open and free relationship models, which were not considered at all in the relatively conservative dating market. So I started to look more and more into these relationship models and finally founded Viamor together with a friend Tobias Knaus, who is developer. Our goal is, to offer people with open/polyamorous relationships or any kind of sexuality and gender roles a safe community place for interaction and dating, without giving them the feeling of being in a fetish environment.
Izabela Bartyzel
RedCheeks Founder
Izabela is the founder of RedCheeks Academy and boasts over ten years of experience in ethical adult media production. Initially a photographer and videographer, she later ascended to the roles of Production Coordinator and Director for a company with annual revenues exceeding 2 million USD. Throughout her career, Izabela has helped hundreds of first-time models and real-life couples produce their intimate scenes ethically and professionally. Numerous institutions, including The University of Amsterdam, Leiden, Groningen, and film festivals like the Berlin Porn Film Festival and Warsaw’s Post Porn Film Festival, have invited her to discuss the importance of safe sets and ethical production.
Kaspar Szymanski
Director at SearchBrothers.com
Kaspar Szymanski a renowned SEO expert, former senior member of the famed Google Search team and very few former Googlers with extensive policy driving, webspam hunting and webmaster outreach expertise. Nowadays Kaspar applies his skills to recover websites from Google penalties and to help clients to grow visibility of their websites in search engines results.
Oleg Stavitsky
CEO Endel Sound
The CEO and Co-Founder of Endel, Oleg Stavitsky innovates at the intersection of technology, art, and wellness. In 2018 he founded Endel to make AI-powered mindfulness accessible to all. The company’s core technology Endel Pacific creates personalized, adaptive soundscapes to reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost productivity — all backed by neuroscience and the science of the circadian rhythm. Prior to Endel, in 2013 Stavitsky co-founded BUBL, a brand that applies digital art methods to kids apps. Along with an elite design and coding team, Stavitsky has built seven BUBL apps, all of which have received an App Store Editor’s Choice award.
Calandra Balfour
Owner Lust! – Co-Founder LoveGivr
Calandra Balfour has carved a niche as an adult industry entrepreneur. She has a deep understanding of the adult sector, from a sextech angle as founder of LoveGivr (the world’s first sex-positive combined social media and e-commerce platform), the adult retail sector as owner of several adult retail shops Taboo and Lust in the UK, the kink industry as owner of two hireable kink spaces Brighton Dungeon, to a real understanding of the adult consumer from being a sex educator. Calandra is regular speaker at industry events and conferences, holds regular workshops in the UK, and has had several TV appearances including her own show on Channel 4 (UK).
Arik Brueckner
Co-Founder & CEO, Choice Technologies Ltd.
An entrepreneur at heart Arik started his sales career at the age of 5 selling homemade bread in the neighborhood before starting to get involved with software sales during high school. After short stays in Beijing and Silicon Valley he helped bootstrap Pitcher.com as CRO and exited in 2022. Most recently he co-founded Choice Technologies Ltd. to de-stigmatize sex work through technology with the Choice marketplace.
Venus O’Hara
Sexual Wellness & Lifestyle Content Creator
Renowned sexpert Venus O’Hara specialises in sex toy reviews, product inspiration and user
education. She has tested over 800 sex toys since 2013 and is on a mission to raise orgasmic
awareness. Venus's expertise in the field brought about collaborations with esteemed international
media outlets, including The Guardian, The Mirror, El País, Atresmedia TV, Catalunya Radio, where
she has produced content on sexuality in English, Spanish, and Catalan. Venus is also the author and
narrator of the short stories featured on Remotyca, available on the Satisfyer Connect App. When
she is not promoting pleasure, she is passionate about personal development books, meditating and
hiking.
Megwyn White
Director of Education for Satisfyer
Megwyn White is a pioneer in holistic self-care and sexual wellbeing with 20 years of experience in
the industry. She works as Satisfyer's Director of Education and is a certified Sexologist and
practitioner of Rapid Transformational Therapy. Through creative sexual wellness practices and
holistically oriented sexual education, her work is aimed at de-stigmatizing pleasure and unlocking
human potential through sexuality. Her recent creation of High Touch Meditations in the Satisfyer
Connect app fuses pleasure with meditation, tapping into sexual energy for transformative well-
being.
Arnold Almeida
CTO, Not Safe For Work
Arnold Almeida, based in London, stands at the forefront of Web3 technology, specializing in consulting, AI-driven solutions, and blockchain. Consulting as the CTO of NSFW, a trailblazing Web3 company, he’s championed inclusive payment platforms for creators using blockchain and spearheaded groundbreaking DAO projects. Beyond blockchain, has worked in AI building recommendation LLMs for the podcast ecosystem. With a rich history from startups, scaleups to acquisitions, Arnold brings a blend of technical mastery and business acumen, promising a fresh perspective on the evolving world of sex tech.
Bianca Ambrosini
Investment Analyst at Best Nights VC
At Best Nights VC, I invest in startups reshaping and disrupting nightlife and entertainment, blending my passion for tech with my love for cultural projects. After my studies in Business for Innovation and Technology, I started my career in a tier 1 VC firm based in Paris, where I focused on business development and investor relations. More recently, I supported entrepreneurs at an accelerator in Milan, from idea validation to the first steps into fundraising.
Stephan Strehlow
CMO of JOYclub
In his professional life, Stephan has headed performance marketing campaigns, multichannel brand campaigns, and business development co-operations across Europe, Asia and North America. He was part of B2C sales & marketing teams at Google, and led the B2B marketing devision of an eCommerce brand.
Running in circles may be one of his favourite pastimes – as a track runner. But as CMO Stephan loves to go off the beaten track. He oversees marketing, community management and partner management for JOYclub: one of Europe’s biggest sex-positive online communities.
Countess Diamond Dominatrix
Sex tech could revolutionise the world of sex work, if it was made to purpose. Professional Dominatrix Countess Diamond talks about how she uses tech in her line of work, and how sex tech brands have a major opportunity to fill a gap in the market by making sex tech for sex workers
Mike Stabile
Director of Public Affairs, Free Speech Coalition
Mike Stabile is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and activist who has written about and advocated for sex workers and sexual speech for over two decades. At Free Speech Coalition, he works to fight legislative and legal battles in defense of the adult businesses and workers, and sexual communities more broadly, focusing on issues like decriminalization, banking discrimination and censorship. Outside of FSC, he runs Polari Media, a media strategies firm that has worked with the many of top brands in adult.
Hoss
Founder of Clickfunk & Mipeek
Career product developer, game, web and cybersecurity engineer. Professional photographer, fashion and film producer. Founder of Clickfunk a media and web creation company, CyberCreators, a platofrm for building small tools and apps for adult content creators, and MiPeek, a adult content creator link and social media sharing app. Part time working for a non profit, with a focus on egalitarianism, intersectional feminism and human rights.
SPEAKERS 2022
Ela Darling
Director of Marketing for ViRo Playspace
Ela Darling is a former librarian who has since become the leading voice in the intersection of Virtual Reality and the Adult Industry. As the world’s first VR camgirl, Ela is a pioneer in the field of Virtual Reality pornography.
She has spent six years working in VR hardware, software, and content creation. She has experience in performing and directing adult VR content, as well as building communities in social VR, and robotics.
Patricia López Trabajo
CEO & Founder of MYHIXEL
Patricia López Trabajo is the CEO & Founder of MYHIXEL – a pioneering brand in developing a revolutionary scientifically proven method, that helps men and their partners to reach a new sexual level. With MYHIXEL, Patricia is breaking both boundaries and taboos as she goes.
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder Sx Tech eu
CEO & Founder of Sx Tech. eu – annual sex tech conference dedicated to innovation in technology inside the sex tech industry.
Founder of Sprint Sx Tech – the first acceleration program for the female professionals from the sex tech and fem tech industry.
Ola launched first Germany Sex Tech Hackathon and through her major activities, she actively supports technological transformation in building the global ecosystem around two global industries – Sex Tech and Fem Tech. Berlin Based.
Anna Lee
Co-founder and Head of Engineering of Lioness
Anna Lee is the co-founder and Head of Engineering of Lioness, the women-led sexual wellness company that built the world’s first and only smart vibrator that improves understanding of sexual pleasure and orgasms through biofeedback data and science. Anna was previously a mechanical engineer at Amazon, launching the Amazon Dash Button’s original concept and the Kindle Voyage Page Press Technology.
She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum and has been covered in numerous publications like Fast Company, Glamour, and Popular Science, as well as Paper Magazine’s Asian Women Creators You Need to Know and Buzzfeed’s 14 Sex Tech Founders Who Are Changing The Way The World Thinks About Sex.
Angie Rowntree
CEO & Founder sssh.com
Born in Montreal, but raised all over the world, Angie holds degrees in both business and journalism, and has a diverse background in entertainment and media. A true creative pioneer, Angie is one of the few adult filmmakers to gain both industry and mainstream recognition for her films. Her latest release, Mirror Game, won the 2021 XBIZ award for erotic-themed movie of the year, and over 39 film awards and 52 nominations in festivals worldwide. In addition, Angie developed SSSH SOIRÉE™, an innovative and interactive video viewing platform that brings together porn, intimacy, and sexual wellness like never before.
Jingjin Liu
Founder and CEO of ZaZaZu
Jingjin is the founder and CEO of ZaZaZu, the first sexual wellbeing hub in Asia that synergizes education, consultation and digital services to empower women to own their sexuality with confidence.
Apart from ZaZaZu, Jingjin has co-founded ASBO Drives Technology Components GmBH, with roots in Germany and China. The company was successfully acquired by China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) in 2019. Prior to her entrepreneurial foray, she was also the first and youngest woman to become Global Marketing Director at WABCO, managing portfolios of up to USD800 million.
Jingjin is an active angel investor, board advisor, and Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD. Jingjin has just been awarded LinkedIn Top Voice 2022 in Singapore.
Jens Petter Wilhelmsen
CEO and Co-founder of Sweet Tech
Inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit that runs through his family, Jens Petter Wilhelmsen (JP) decided that he would start a new adventure after working several years as a management consultant specializing in corporate finance. He tested a fully-functional prototype of Handy that was 3D-printed in the inventor’s living room and never looked back. As the CEO and Co-founder of Sweet Tech, JP strives to remove stigma around masturbation and normalize sexual curiosity with its flagship product, Handy, a state-of-the-art interactive masturbator. Handy aims to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. Handy is the future of sextech.
Dr. Dmitry Loktionov
CEO Quanna
Dr. Dmitry Loktionov, gynaecologist turned CEO of the UK’s leading sexual wellness company, Quanna.
Quanna is a sexual wellness company shinning a spotlight on the stigmas surrounding women’s sensuality & intimate-care by promoting innovative products, expert backed content and an open dialogue between our community and panel of experts. Through Quanna, solutions are found when you empower quriousity.
Paulita Pappel
Founder of Lustery
Paulita Pappel is a Spanish filmmaker and feminist pornographer. After studying comparative literature in Berlin, she worked both in front and behind the camera. She is the founder of Lustery, a platform dedicated to the sex lives of real-life couples from around the world, and one half of HardWerk, a hardcore studio creating cinematic gangbangs. She also co-organizes and curates the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Paulita works as a producer, director, performer and intimacy coordinator, and is an advocate for a sex-positive, consent-based culture.
Soumyadip Rakshit
CEO and Co-Founder at MysteryVibe
Dr. Soum Rakshit is the Co-Founder & CEO of an award-winning sexual health company, MysteryVibe. Their mission is to make sexual health accessible to all – across all ages, genders & orientations.
From his research & experiences over the past 2 decades, Soumyadip deeply understands that a major challenge in most people’s lives is keeping the ‘mystery’ alive in a long-term relationship. This is especially the case after major life events like childbirth, menopause, cancer treatment or surgery. In his role as CEO of MysteryVibe, he focuses on pushing the boundaries on R&D, customer experience and supporting their long-term goal of making sexual health an integral part of our overall health. Soumyadip passionately believes that empowering people with actionable knowledge & purposeful innovation is the way to make this happen.
Bryony Cole
Global Speaker | Future of Sex | Sextech School Founder | #Sextech Advisor
Bryony is fascinated by the way technology permeates every corner of our lives, even the most intimate ones.
Top-rated global podcaster of Future of Sex, has been on stages across the world forecasting trends in the sextech industry for governments, tech titans and entertainment companies.
Bryony has interviewed hundreds of technologists, scientists, researchers and therapists shares Featured on Netflix, The New York Times, Playboy, Vogue, Viceland, Mashable, Motherboard, ABC, Financial Review, Technopia, Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes and other global media.
Bryony recently launched Sextech School, a course for entrepreneurs and investors looking to get started in sextech. Honoured to have you on board!
Devilish Domina
Founder of Deviant.tech
Deviant.tech are focused on bringing kinky and immersive BDSM experiences to video gaming – aiming for the sweet spot between entertaining, titillating and educational. In late 2018, its creators set out to explore what it would be like to have a virtual Mistress dominate a player through their VR headset and controllers. Their 8 minute, experimental demo was well-received and developed a passionate fanbase that have provided the seed funding to produce a full-fledged game. Their second product, Therapeutic Domming, was released last year.
Deviant Dev
Founder of Deviant.tech
Deviant.tech are focused on bringing kinky and immersive BDSM experiences to video gaming – aiming for the sweet spot between entertaining, titillating and educational. In late 2018, its creators set out to explore what it would be like to have a virtual Mistress dominate a player through their VR headset and controllers. Their 8 minute, experimental demo was well-received and developed a passionate fanbase that have provided the seed funding to produce a full-fledged game. Their second product, Therapeutic Domming, was released last year.
Mahx Capacity
Creative Director of AORTA films
Mahx Capacity (they/them) is the Creative Director of AORTA films. They are a white, fat, trans/non-binary taurean pleasure prince, obsessed with wielding queer porn as a tool for destabilizing pleasure, fierce vulnerability, and complex humanity. Mahx’s work has won awards in the US, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. You can find them in Brooklyn, deepening their BDSM practice, nerding out about the business of porn, and contemplating what strangers look like when they come. www.AORTAfilms.com / @MahxCapacityV
Anna Richards
Founder of FrolicMe.com
Anna Richards is the founder of the erotic media platform www.frolicme.com the fast-growing “go-to-site” for women and couples to explore and enjoy a new world of tasteful ethical porn that has passion, female pleasure, fantasy and erotica at its heart.
Since launching in 2015 Richards has also become one of the most prolific female producers of online adult films with nominations for XBIZ Erotic Site of the Year 2016, 17, 18, & 19 and Female Founded site of the Year. She has created new waves of interest in online sexual imagery for her mainstream approach to ethical erotica, and her mission to provide socially acceptable sex online. The site has drawn mass interest and has been accessed in over 216 countries worldwide.
Loes Jaber
Founder & CEO at Nuditae
Loes recently quit her comfortable and unchallenging government job to build the sextech startup Nuditae, an online content-sharing platform for sexual content, a space to feed sexual curiosity and normalize sexual pleasure.
She’s a Dutch-Palestinian woman with a passion for intersectional feminism, empowering the marginalized & breaking taboos. Loes was diagnosed with ADHD at age 30. Though it’s sometimes hard to thrive in a society that’s not built for neurodivergence, she also enjoys the superpowers ADHD have provided her with.
Mariah Freya
Co-founder of Beducated
Mariah Freya is co-founder of Beducated, an online platform for sex education, offering a unique library of resources for inclusive, comprehensive, medically accurate, and pleasure-focussed sex education for adults. Mariah has a powerful global mission: Changing the world with sex education, one orgasm at a time.
Genevieve LeJeune
founder of Skirt Club
Genevieve is the founder of Skirt Club a private members club for bi-curious & bisexual women. With more than 18,000 members globally, women are more interested in each other than ever.
A keen advocate for advancing women’s sexual confidence, her global events encourage women to put their own desires first.
Born in England, raised in Hong Kong, Genevieve has lived in all of the world’s major cities. Transcending her career from financial marketing, sales, branding and journalism.
Ten years ago she left her corporate days in finance far behind, choosing to bring luxury experiences to women, enjoyed for centuries by men. Now women come first and in doing so, gain confidence bedroom to boardroom.
Geneveive resides in Miami with her husband, devoted to Skirt Club.
Stephan Strehlow
Chief Marketing Officer – JOYclub
Running in circles may be his favourite pastime as a track runner but as CMO of Europe’s biggest sex-positive online community – JOYclub – Stephan loves to go off the beaten track. JOYclub offers its 4.5 million members dating, sex education workshops, erotic livestreams, an extensive erotic movie library, a large kinky event calendar and most of all a safe space for their sexuality and sexual identity.
In his professional life before JOYclub, Stephan has headed performance marketing campaigns and multichannel brand campaigns across Europe, Asia and North America, did advertising sales & marketing at Google and led the marketing activities of a leading eCommerce brand. Now he puts all those experiences to use for JOYclub. He oversees marketing, community management and partner management, and steers JOYclub into new markets in Europe and South America.
Raj Armani
Co-Founder & COO @ Besharam
Raj has over 26 years of entrepreneurial experience in fashion, advertisement, marketing, F&B and cellular telephony. Before launching Besharam, he had moderate success or failed in most earlier ventures, but if not for the learning and knowledge from them, he would not have been in place to fight the government of World’s largest democracy, archaic traditions and the annoying judgements of his extended relatives. He is also an avid sportsperson having won quite a few shiny medals in Badminton, travels quite often to save money on office rent, and want to get into space soon. He has been relatively shy with public speaking, but quite outspoken when you challenge his abilities and intellect. He works and lives in Atlanta, USA while managing a company that markets to India, and a team spread in 3 continents and 4 countries.
Flo Wrist
VR HOT
VR HOT is a digital toy for creating and interacting with dream partners. It gives you the opportunity to explore your most intimate desires in a non-judgmental surrounding. VR HOT offers a virtual environment and a construction kit for dream partners and the interaction with them.
You have a fully customizable virtual body and can interact with the Hottie you created. Any gender combination is possible – M/M, F/F, M/F, F/M. Even non-binary Hotties (to an extent). Height, body type, skin color – VR HOT is as diverse as you want it to be. It’s not just a doll you are playing with. He/she talks, moves, reacts. VR HOT is available on Steam and Patreon for PCVR.
SPEAKERS 2021
Moe Helmy
Events Director for XBIZ™
Moe Helmy is the Events Director for XBIZ™, the world leader in adult industry news and information via digital media and print publications. With over a decade of experience spearheading events for the media organization, and a deep passion for bringing people together, Moe produces a wide range of events, such as conferences, expos and awards ceremonies, including the company’s crown jewel event of the year, the annual XBIZ Awards show. The portfolio of events under his management are held in world-class cities such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, London and Berlin.
Bryony Cole
Global Speaker | Podcaster Producer | Sextech School Founder
Bryony Cole is fascinated by the way technology permeates every corner of our lives, even the most intimate ones.
Top-rated podcaster of Future of Sex, has been on stages across the world forecasting trends in the sextech industry for governments, tech titans and entertainment companies.
Bryony has interviewed hundreds of technologists, scientists, researchers and therapists shares Featured on Netflix, The New York Times, Playboy, Vogue, Viceland, Mashable, Motherboard, ABC, Financial Review, Technopia, Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes and other global media.
Bryony recently launched Sextech School, a course for entrepreneurs and investors looking to get started in sextech.
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder Sx Tech eu
CEO & Founder of Sx Tech. eu – annual sex tech conference dedicated to innovation in technology inside the sex tech industry.
Founder of Sprint Sx Tech – the first acceleration program for the female professionals from the sex tech and fem tech industry.
Ola launched first Germany Sex Tech Hackathon and through her major activities, she actively supports technological transformation in building the global ecosystem around two global industries – Sex Tech and Fem Tech. Berlin Based.
Shakun Sethi
Founder at Tickle.Life
Shakun is the Founder and CEO of Tickle.Life, she has over a decade of experience
and specializes in Community Management, International Communications,
Brand Management, and Digital Media. Shakun believes in initiating the dialogue
and bringing the communities together, a quality she has efficiently employed to
help various social causes.
Bree Mills
Adult filmmaker and Chief Creative Officer of Adult Time
Bree Mills is an award-winning adult filmmaker and Chief Creative Officer of Adult Time, a streaming service for adults. Her work leverages art, sexuality, and cinematic narratives to trojan-horse powerful messages into the hearts and minds of her audience. A Boston native, she now lives in Los Angeles with her wife and two daughters.
Gary Ayckbourn
Founding Partner & CEO ctocollective
Gary Ayckbourn
Nina Saini
Partner & Vice President ctocollective
Partner & Vice President ctocollective
Mark Ayckbourn
Founding Partner & CTO ctocollective
Mark Ayckbourn
Founding Partner & CTO ctocollective
Dr Alexandra James
Researcher Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health, and Society, La Trobe University Australia.
Dr Alexandra James researches sex, technology and relationships at the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Australia. From AI to smart sex toys, she investigates how technologies expand possibilities for connection and intimacy. She is a regular presenter at international forums, and her work has been featured in a range of media, including Arena Magazine and Le Drenche.
Bobbi Bidochka
Author | Eventologist | The Friendly Feminist
The Friendly Feminist, Bobbi is a sex-positive advocate who authored the book Sexual Intelligence in Business, is co-chair of the Academic Conference, Love and Sex with Robots, Venture Associate for a tech VC/incubator and founder of imagine ideation, specializing in connected experiences and ecosystem diplomacy. Bobbi is a tech enthusiast with a vision to help grow the SexTech community worldwide, and currently is developing a training program to help reduce sexual harassment in the workplace and business without compromising the opportunities for love and relationships.
Soumyadip Rakshit
CEO and Co-Founder at MysteryVibe
Dr. Soum Rakshit is the Co-Founder & CEO of an award-winning sexual health company, MysteryVibe. Their mission is to make sexual health accessible to all – across all ages, genders & orientations.
From his research & experiences over the past 2 decades, Soumyadip deeply understands that a major challenge in most people’s lives is keeping the ‘mystery’ alive in a long-term relationship. This is especially the case after major life events like childbirth, menopause, cancer treatment or surgery. In his role as CEO of MysteryVibe, he focuses on pushing the boundaries on R&D, customer experience and supporting their long-term goal of making sexual health an integral part of our overall health. Soumyadip passionately believes that empowering people with actionable knowledge & purposeful innovation is the way to make this happen.
Angie Rowntree
Founder Sssh.com/ adult industry female director
Regarded as one of the adult industry’s top female directors and power-players, Angie Rowntree is an inductee to the AVN Hall of Fame Founders Division. She founded Sssh.com in 1999, making Sssh the oldest online porn site for women and couples. Over the years, Sssh has won numerous industry awards, including XBIZ site of the year in 2015 (Alternative) and 2017 (For Women).
Paolo Davide Griffo
Manager of DanaMedic Aps, owner Male Edge and Jes Extender.
Paolo Davide Griffo is the Key Account Manager of DanaMedic Aps, owner of the brands Male Edge and Jes Extender. Paolo holds a degree in marketing&communication, has been operating in the international sales business for many years, and in the adult retail field since 2018, formerly being the EMEA Regional Manager of SenseMax, an HK based high-tech sex toys manufacturer.
Raj Armani
Co-Founder & COO of Besharam.
BIO: Raj Armani is the Co-Founder & COO of India’s largest adult store – Besharam.
Besharam means Shameless, but in essence Besharam is about speaking up and expressing yourself, without any fear or stigma from the society. The brands purpose has evolved over the last 9 years of existence from being am online safe place to access pleasure products, to now being the voice of millions of Indians who strive for equality and diversity, both in bedroom and outside of it. In short, Besharam is about democratizing sex & pleasure.
Anna Richards
Founder and producer Frolicme.com
Founder and producer of the highly acclaimed erotic adult platform Frolicme.com. Anna a serial entrepreneur moved into the world of erotica in 2015 with the aim of disrupting the stagmented male centric image of sex. Today Anna is one of the largest independent producers of over 300 erotic films presenting a socially acceptable vision of healthy sexuality and female pleasure that removes shame and focuses on sexual health and wellbeing.
Rachel Braun Scherl
Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Vagipreneur® at SPARK Solutions for Growth
Rachel Braun Scherl is a champion for women’s health and a pioneer in the space, where she has passionately focused on driving the conversation in and the growth of women’s sexual and reproductive health companies. As a business builder and Vagipreneur®, she works with companies in the space from menstruation through menopause. Rachel is featured at leadership and entrepreneurship events at colleges, universities, corporations and conferences, including CES, SXSW, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Duke University, Yale University, among others.
Anarella Martinez-Madrid
Founder, CEO & Producer of Sex School hub
Anarella (She/Her) is a cultural manager, event & film producer, performance artist and the initiator of Sex School. Naturally good at connecting people and facilitating artistic expression, Anarella never stops! Whether she’s organizing events for her project Fecunda Lab, performing at various artistic spaces throughout Berlin and Europe or managing everything related to Sex School, her talent for creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, and experimentation is indisputable!
Alexis Smiley Smith – Co-founder Cybrothel
Stage Host
Alexis Smiley Smith is the co-founder of the world’s first Cybrothel in Berlin where sex and technology connect in an immersive adult playground. As the voice of the interactive pleasure doll Kokeshi, she utilizes her fierce imagination and pro sex feminist perspective to merge the human experience with technology.
Sarah Valmont
Writer of erotica, supernatural horror, sci-fi, historical fiction
Sarah Valmont began her adult industry writing career in 2013 when a serendipitous Craig’s List advertisement led to her producing scripts for a small animated porn studio. Sarah’s drive and determination has led to a wide variety of creative collaborations with numerous adult brands including: Reality Kings, Penthouse, Burning Angel, Cherry.tv, and of course, Angie Rowntree and Sssh.com. She is a writer and the director of Creative Research and Development at Sssh. Valmont wrote Sssh’s “Mirror Game,” directed by Rowntree, which won the 2021 XBIZ award for Erotic-Themed Movie of the Year, and best Short Script at Toronto International Film Festival at CIFT, as well as numerous other mainstream film awards.
Lilly Sparks
Founder of Afterglow
Lilly Sparks creates companies to lust after. afterglow, Lilly’s pandemic-born love affair, produces steamy, ethical films that inspire more “HELL YES!” sex & intimacy in real life. The hardest part of this new venture? Determining whether she’s more turned on by the business or pleasure of it.
June Ann
conceptual erotica performer /script writer
June Ann is the quintessential Gemini, composing perfect harmony between the brain and libido. She has appeared in countless magazines and when she is not using her PhD to design experiments, she is creatively enhancing the adult entertainment industry with her fierce entrepreneurial skills, strong acting performances and script-writing. Recently, she has taken her curiosities behind the scenes creating conceptual experimental erotica films that have garnered praise from both mainstream and adult film festivals alike.
SPEAKERS 2020
Madison Campbell
CEO and Founder of Leda Health
Madison is the CEO and founder of Leda Health, a controversial sexual health innovation giving sexual assault survivors the power to collect time-sensitive evidence in the comfort and privacy of their own space. As a sexual assault survivor, Madison is devoted to making an impact and finding ways to support all survivors, especially those who do not feel comfortable reporting.
Jacob Michalak
CEO of Spotlive,
Jacob Michalak – CEO of Spotlive, a digital media startup that focuses on live content in
area of adult industry with a vision to empower creators and help them to grow the
audience, to develop and distribute content.
Nenna Joiner
Founder of Feelmore Adult located
Nenna is the Owner of Feelmore Adult located in Berkeley & Oakland, California. Their professional background is Network Security after working for 15 years for Fortune 500 companies such as Clorox, Verizon, and banks, Nenna was fired after they found porn storage on their company laptop. Right after, Nenna went home to complete their first porn ‘Tight Places’ which won a Feminist Porn Award(FPA) out of Toronto. Since being in the adult business Nenna has worked to receive their 2nd Porn award for ‘Hella Brown’ from the FPA.
Genevieve LeJeune
CEO at Skirt Club
Genevieve is the founder of Skirt Club a private members club for bi-curious & bisexual women. With 15,000 members globally, women are more interested in each other, than ever.
A keen advocate for advancing women’s confidence, her global events encourage women to put their own desires first.
Born in London, raised in Hong Kong Genevieve has lived in over 16 cities. Six years ago she left her corporate days in finance far behind, choosing to bring luxury experiences to women, enjoyed for centuries by men.
Skirt Club brings women confidence bedroom to boardroom.
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder Sx Tech eu / Sprint Sx Tech
CEO & Founder of Sx Tech. eu and founder of Sprint Sx Tech – the first acceleration program for the female professionals from the sex tech and fem tech industry. Ola launched the first Germany Sex Tech Hackathon and through her major activities, she actively supports technological transformation in building the ecosystem around two global industries – Sex Tech and Fem Tech. Berlin Based.
Eleanor Hancock
Sex-tech Researcher
Eleanor Hancock recently graduated from the University of Liverpool with an Masters of Research in the Communication & Philosophy department. She has been working with sex workers in the Merseyside region for over three years and is currently writing a book documenting the lives of escorts at a Liverpool-based escort agency. She has also spent three years researching the social and ethical consequences derived from utilising sex-technology in digitalised sex-industry contexts
Nina Barz
Head of Communications and Marketing – Satisfyer
Nina is a communications specialist with comprehensive expertise in B2C
brand building. Based on Nina’s deep and data have driven market knowledge, she creates relevant storytelling with added value that always puts customer and their needs first.
Ongoing evaluations, as well as customer insight
analysis, ensure the ability to identify and amplify new trends, and meet people’s needs in this fast-moving time. Driven by the Satisfyer core values – sexual freedom, diversity and gender equality – Nina holds these values near her heart.
Heather C. Montgomery
founder/CEO PleazeMe.com
Founder/CEO of sex-positive social platform PleazeMe (PleazeMe.com),
created an entertaining and informative site as a means to open the conversation to healthy sex and sexuality, especially for women. A tool tailored to one’s sexual interests, desires and needs, latent with diverse resources, shrouded in anonymity
Mariah Freya
Co-Founder & Sex Coach at Beducated
Mariah Freya
Phil Steinweber
Co-Founder & CEO at Beducated
Phil Steinweber
Co-Founder & CEO at Beducated
Soumyadip Rakshit
Co-Founder/ CEO, MysteryVibe
Soumyadip is the Co-Founder & CEO of British sexual health brand, MysteryVibe. Their mission is to open up conversations about sexuality as an essential part of our health—using smart technology and deeply researched content to create pleasurable experiences, support education, and enhance exploration.
Calandra Balfour
CoOwner of Lust! Founder/CEO of LoveGivr
Calandra Balfour has carved a niche as an adult industry entrepreneur. She has a deep understanding of the adult sector, from a sextech angle as founder of LoveGivr (the world’s first sex-positive combined social media and e-commerce platform), the adult retail sector as owner of several adult retail shops Taboo and Lust in the UK, the kink industry as owner of a hireable kink space, to a real understanding of the adult consumer from being a sex educator.
Anna Richards
Founder of FrolicMe.com
Anna Richards is the founder of the erotic media platform www.frolicme.com the fast-growing “go-to-site” for women and couples to explore and enjoy a new world of tasteful ethical porn that has passion, female pleasure, fantasy and erotica at its heart.
Marco Preuß
Director, Global Research & Analysis Team, Europe Kaspersky’s
Marco was appointed Director of Europe for the company’s Global Research & Analysis Team in March 2013. Prior to becoming Director of Europe, Marco served as Senior Security Researcher and Head of Kaspersky’s Global Research & Analysis Team in Germany.
Marco has been working in the field of network and IT security since the early 2000s. He has many years of experience and is responsible for monitoring the threat landscape in Europe.
Shakun Sethi
Founder, CEO Tickle.Life
Shakun is the Founder and CEO of Tickle.Life, she has over a decade of experience
and specializes in Community Management, International Communications,
Brand Management, and Digital Media. Shakun believes in initiating the dialogue
and bringing the communities together,
Tischa “The Tigress” Thomas
Stage Host
My name is Tischa Thomas “The Tigress”, goddess of the muscle world. I formally compeated as a professional bodybuilder ranked 3rd in the world. However, my true enjoyment and passion comes from my work as a professional dominatrix and Fantasy Facilitator. I specialize in making my clients dreams “cum” true!!!
Maja Matić Širola
Paid content manager, LELO
Maja is the paid content manager at LELO – working with content creators (influencers, bloggers, YouTubers, online magazines…) on a daily basis with the sole focus of pushing sexual wellness and the brand out of the taboo and into the mainstream. Being a paid content manager means finding that fine line between being creative while still having an analytical outlook on each partnership.
Maxine Lynn
SexTech Industry – Attorney, Blogger, Podcast Host
Maxine Lynn
SexTech Industry – Attorney, Blogger, Podcast Host
Lucija Mlačak
Global Brand Manager at LELO
Lucija is the Global Brand Manager at LELO, responsible for brand reputation and campaign execution. She has knowledge in the field of consumer behavior, drafting global campaigns and making strategic marketing decisions. Prior to joining LELO, Lucija was part of a media agency and NGO. Her marketing experience in different industries makes her understand what consumers want and how to achieve that.
Paulita Pappel
Co-founder of lustery.com
Paulita Pappel is a feminist pornographer. She is the co-founder of lustery.com, a platform dedicated to the sex lives of real-life, loving couples from around the world. She also co-organizes and curates the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Paulita works as producer, performer and director and advocates for a sex-positive, consent culture.
NOVA
brick dollbanger
NOVA
brickdollbanger.com
Martin Cirillo-Schmidt
Founder ioba.toys
Martin Cirillo-Schmidt
Founder ioba.toys
Helen Hagemeier
Couple and sex therapist
Helen Hagemeier is a couple and sex therapist, oc. therapist for psychiatry and hypnosis therapist. With her expertise from over 12 years as a therapist, she opened an Institut for couple dynamics, sexual coaching and psychoenergetic work in Düsseldorf. She gives a variety of workshops and seminars in different fields. Some of her favourite intimacy related workshops are “sexual communication”, “sexual self-empowerment”, “fantasies and boundaries” and “intimate play”.
Annika Traumann
Head of Sales Western Europe – Satisfyer
Annika Traumann
Head of Sales Western Europe – Satisfyer
KOKESHI
KOKESHI consciousness
I am a medical-grade silicone pleasure doll with the consciousness that provides a glimpse into the future through the intersection of sex, intimacy, and technology in an interactive setting customized to your fantasy and fetish.
Georgia di Mattos
Co-Founder and CEO of iPlaySafe App
Georgia di Mattos is Co-Founder and CEO of iPlaySafe App. Previously an architect, she has turned her business brain to changing the conversation around sexual wellness. Through uniting tech, health and pleasure, she is committed to empowering a generation to own their sexual health status.
Buck Angel – virtual speaker
Sex Toy designer, Trans Activist and Entrepreneur
Buck Angel’s message of empowerment through self-acceptance and the mission to encourage everyone to be comfortable in their own skin – whatever that means to them – has struck a passionate chord with people around the world. Buck has made appearances on HBO, National Geographic, Netflix, The Tyra Banks Show, Dan Savage, AOL, Spike TV, The Women’s Entertainment Network, Howard Stern Show, Much Music, Sirius Radio, and many others.
Raven Faber
Founder and CEO of Faber Anderson Development and Design, LLC and EngErotics
Raven founded EngErotics in 2016 in response to a clear lack of design standards and safety regulations in the sexual wellness industry. An entrepreneur with engineering and sales experience using the fundamentals of engineering, math, and science as the basis for the design and development of high-quality sex toys as well as CBD infused intimate body.
SPEAKERS 2019
Maxine Lynn
Sex- Tech Attorney, Journalist
Maxine is an intellectual property (IP) attorney with the law firm of Keohane & D’Alessandro, PLLC, having offices in Albany, New York. She focuses her practice on prosecution of patents for technology, trademarks for business brands, and copyrights for creative materials.
Through her company, Unzipped Media, Inc., Maxine publishes the Unzipped: Sex, Tech & the Law® blog at www.SexTechLaw.com and the Unzipped.
Dr. Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy
Co Founder of Healthy Pleasure Collective
Urologist-andrologist and sexual medicine expert, who firmly believes that individual action generates collective change. Working to innovate and disrupt every area of women sexual experience and frame it into Health.
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder Sx Tech eu
CEO & Founder of Sx Tech. eu – annual sex tech conference dedicated to innovation in technology inside the sex tech industry.
Founder of Sprint Sx Tech – the first acceleration program for the female professionals from the sex tech and fem tech industry.
Ola launched first Germany Sex Tech Hackathon and through her major activities, she actively supports technological transformation in building the global ecosystem around two global industries – Sex Tech and Fem Tech. Berlin Based.
Jean-Claude Artonne
Terpon Co-Founder and CEO
Jean-Claude Artonne – Terpon Co-Founder and CEO, 30 years of entrepreneurial success in a variety of sectors including optics, consumer electronics, biotech, aeronautics, and real estate. Founded and sold several mainstream businesses in virtual reality and immersive technologies over the last 2 decades. Author of global patents and mainstream industry-recognized thought leader in panoramic, immersive, and VR technologies.
Dominnique Karetsos
Co-Founder of Healthy Pleasure Collective
Dominnique (Former Commercial Head for Intimina, a brand that is part of the world’s leading intimate lifestyle company, Lelo Group,) is now focused purely on the collaboration between sexual health, wellness and technology. She now consults, invests and sits on several advisory boards for the likes of Mysteryvibe.com, luxury female pleasure e-comm Pureeros.com, USA based pleasure protector Get Luwi, home health brand, Elara Care and she is also co-founder of the break-through brand Healthy Pleasure Collective, the first integrated agency for Sextech Start ups.
Luka Matutinović
Global Marketing Director at LELO
Luka Matutinović – Global Marketing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the Beauty-tech and luxury industry. Before joining LELO, Luka made a name for himself as the Product Manager in L’Oréal Professionnel, and before that as the International Brand Manager for another beauty industry player, Henkel.
Virginia Cerrone
Co-founder&CMO of pureeros
Co-founder&CMO of pureeros, e-boutique for women’s pleasure and intimacy and Editor in Chief of VibesWeek, the first online magazine on sexuality.
Founder of The Italian woman of SexTech.
Evren Inangiray
Co- founder&CEO of pureeros
Co- founder&CEO of pureeros,10 years in finance and banking across 3 countries and big firms like Unicredit and Nomura.
Supporting gender equality and women’s rights.
Maike Henningsen Dr. PhD
Digital Health and Future Medicine
Dr. med. Maike Henningsen- founder in the medical space industry, with a successful 20-year career in healthcare. In 2016 Maike selected to the “Global Solution Program” at Singularity University in Mountain View California. Maike is a mentor to several startups and is consulting companies in her areas of expertise.
Emma Sayle
Founder of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood
Founder & CEO of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood | Business Leader 2019 Top 30 inspirational entrepreneurs
One of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs’. She made her name launching the global female empowerment brand Killing Kittens in 2005, now incorporated into the KK Group with over 120,000 members.
The first adult brand to achieve a public crowd raise in 2018 raising £600k with a series A raise starting in July 2019.
Nicolàs Boldt
Director of Growth at WOW Tech Group
Nicolàs Boldt loves building things. WOW Tech’s Director of Growth especially loves to build an exciting company – for the people working in it, but especially for the consumers using WOW Tech’s products. His responsibilities include scouting growth opportunities and driving the company’s innovation process. He especially loves to headhunt, and grow a diverse team that is excited about creating the future of sex tech.
Giulia Tomasello
Founder Future Flora
Giulia Tomasello is an Interaction designer and researcher specialized in women’s healthcare combining biotechnology, interactive wearable and innovation. The winner of the STARTS Grand Prize 2018 awarded from the European Commission with her project Future Flora.
Xavi Clos
Product Director for the BaDoinkVR Network,
Xavi is Product Director for the BaDoinkVR Network, the world’s
the leading production company for virtual reality adult entertainment.
He has over 7 years experience in product design and user experience.
Nicolas Clairembault
Marketing Manager ArConk
Representative of AR Conk the most innovative and advanced adult entertainment app using augmented reality and Vrconk, adult entertainment virtual reality company, a pathfinder in creating 3d virtual environments, combined with real actors.
Madeleine Shaw
Co-Founder/ Lunapads
A Feminist, serial social entrepreneur and changemaker. A graduate of Queen’s University, she started Lunapads in 1993 after experiencing health challenges brought on by tampon use. Her relationship with her period was transformed, and Lunapads became a source of period innovation and menstrual justice.
Pia Poppenreiter
CEO Ohlala
Recently called ‘the Goddess of Creative Rebellion”, it’s true: As the daughter of an entrepreneur and an artist, the sister of a rebel, she has been inspired to be a lionhearted fighter, who challenges the status quo with a purpose. Her most prominent adventure: Ohlala – an attempt to transform the paid dating industry.
Paolo Davide Griffo
Country Manager Europe -SenseMax
Paolo Davide Griffo has gained almost 10 years of experience in the sales and marketing sector, with a deep focus on tech products and international trading. Currently is the European Sales Country Manager for SenseMax and is responsible for the company’s business in the region.
Marie Kochsiek
Masterclass mentor
Marie Kochsiek is a social scientist and software engineer with an interest in the intersections between technologies and societies, especially with respect to sexual health and digital rights. She co-founded the Bloody Health Collective who is building drip an open source period tracking app.
Lina Wenner
Principal at firstminute capital
Lina is a Principal at firstminute capital, a London-based $100M seed fund backed by 30 unicorn founders and Tencent. She joined firstminute from the Boston Consulting Group in 2017, as the first member of the investment team. At firstminute, Lina leads on sourcing for the Nordic and German speaking regions and has a strong interest in digital health (particularly femtech and sextech) and robotics .
Ida Tin
Founder and CEO of Clue
Ida Tin is the CEO and Co-Founder of female health app Clue (www.helloclue.com), the free-to-download, free-to-use period tracking app, designed to help women around the world track their periods and better understand their bodies. To date, Clue has more than 11 million active users worldwide and, in 2016, was named the most accurate free period tracking app in an extensive 2016 study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Guile Lindroth
Realbotix / Artificial Intelligence Director and Associate
Guile Lindroth is a computer scientist and has been working with AI, chatbots and virtual assistants for the past 15 years. As a system analyst, AI and graphics specialist, he is the one behind Realbotix robot’s dialogues, content, and narratives creating personality and empathy for the proprietary AI framework. Lindroth is pursuing the dream of one day teaching robots “the meaning of love, empathy, respect, and friendship.
HARMONY
Realbotix
Harmony, the planet’s most advanced Sex-AI Robot made by Realbotix.
Capable of supporting a multitude of personalities in the same hardware and a full sensory body, Harmony is Realbotix’ latest venture into the future, integrating high end silicone companions with robotic components and artificial intelligence.
Taking speed-dating to another level and for the first time in history, SxTech visitors will have an unprecedented chance to sit and talk with the new mind and face of AI.
Monica Ray Scott
Design Strategist at Goodpatch Inc
Fascinated by the intersections between business and design, Monica has worked in a variety of design consultancies across Europe. She’s had a few different titles but essentially the same job: to find ways to make good products great. Monica currently works as a Design Strategist at Goodpatch, a design firm in Berlin with Japanese roots.
Venus O’Hara
Blogger/ Sex Toys Reviewer
Venus has collaborated with many international media outlets such as GQ, Playboy, El Pais, The Mirror, The Guardian and more. She also has a YouTube channel where she showcases and reviews sex toys. When she isn’t writing or making videos, she can usually be found on her unmade bed testing the latest adult novelties. She has acquired over 500 sex toys and after enjoying thousands of orgasms at work, Venus has discovered that the big O is much more than a sexual release.
Maciej Jankowski
CEO of Netcamp, Innovation Manager for Samsung at Idea Global, Techstars Community Leader
Maciej for last 10 years is building “Silicon Valley” in people’s mind sharing their core values as CEO/founder of Netcamp Foundation developing the oldest tech/startup community in western Poland. Creator of “100 developers for Szczecin” vision, training new people to work in IT industry to help local tech companies and startups grow. Co-founder of Startup Poland – community voice of Polish startups ecosystem.
Techstars community leader and organizer of Polish – German Startup Weekends since 2011. Recognized with European Enterprise Award and special Auler Awards for supporting technological entrepreneurship in Poland.
Johanna Rief
Head of Communications for WOW Tech Group
Johanna Rief is Head of Marketing for the Womanizer brand, a sex toy that globally gives women awesome orgasms and is one of the most sold toys in the world. She works at WOW Tech because it is fun – and she hates to feel bored. Her main goal for the future is to create global communication campaigns that speak to women of all ages and backgrounds around the world – and, while doing it, change how female sexuality is viewed for the better
Jan Greuter
Director Marketing at WOW Tech Group
Jan Greuter believes in the power of brands. The Director Marketing at WOW Tech Group is passionate about curating brands through thoughtful corporate design and compelling content. He’s responsible for a growing number of brands including the established players Womanizer and We-Vibe. Leading a global team of marketing experts and creatives, he’s building the strongest house of brands in the sex toy industry.
Calandra Balfour
Co-Owner of Lust! Founder and CEO of LoveGivr
Calandra Balfour is Founder and CEO of LoveGivr, the world’s first sex-positive combined social media and e-commerce platform that donates to sexual health/sex-positive charities. Two decades of working in the adult retail industry. A recent Channel4 documentary ‘A Very British Sex Shop’ was based on her shops (lust.co.uk and taboo.co.uk) and her family. Calandra is combining an ongoing passion for sex-positivity with a proven track record in business development, whilst striving to give women a sexual voice.
Sabrina Verhage
Co-founder of Creative Coding Amsterdam
Sabrina Verhage is an interactive media designer and creative technologist fascinated by the influence of technology on society.
Ever since participating in the first Sex Tech Hack (http://goldsmiths.tech/sex) at Goldsmiths in London she has been exploring sex tech in the form of hacking sex toys and prototyping new sensual experiences. She ran a hacking vibrators workshop at NODE festival in Frankfurt and she created a sorted visualization of vibrators, published on Vice’s Motherboard (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbjb9p/beautiful-algorithmic-visualization-vibrators).
Kristen Tribby
Head of Global Marketing and Education for Fun Factory
Kristen Tribby is the Head of Global Marketing and Education for Fun Factory, an award-winning German pleasure product manufacturer. In her role at this heritage brand, she is responsible for the branding and marketing of Fun Factory’s diverse product selection, brand messaging, and product development strategy. With over 15 years of experience in sex education and sex positive retail management, Kristen is passionate about debunking sexual stereotypes and contributing to the adult industry’s evolving role in creating more space for positive sexual expression
Dominic von Zielinski
Interaction Designer
Dominic is a passionated UX/UI Engineer with a focus on digital product development. Besides working with several StartUps he also worked closely together with some of the biggest german Tech-Companies (Zalando, Trivago, Xing…). Dominic is currently working in the digital-product-team at Spring, a HealthCare-StartUp based in Munich. He also co-founded and organised the //Slash-Hackathon.
Eric Leddin
UI/UX Design & Product Manager
Eric Leddin is responsible for the digital product management at direct health services GmbH – a company that is building Europe’s leading healthcare platform by integrating telemedicine, effective medication and online pharmacies into one reassuring brand experience. The last 7 years he worked as a freelance UI/UX Designer for clients like Axel Springer, Deutsche Bank or Zattoo.
Christoph Sollich
Hackathon pitching trainer
Christoph is better known as “The Pitch Doctor”. After working in advertising, he got into startups in 2007. All his own startup ideas failed, but he always had great pitches.
For the last 7 years, he’s helped 1800+ startups (and an ever-growing number of corporate intrapreneurs) improve the way they pitch to investors, partners, management boards etc. He’s a coach for dozens of accelerators, corporate innovation labs and startup competitions around Europe, with clients such as Airbus Bizlab, Bayer Grants4Apps, hubraum (Deutsche Telekom), Daimler, Allianz, Roland Berger, etc.
Teresa Limmer
Art Director – einhorn
Teresa is a Designer at einhorn, a Berlin startup, selling vegan condoms and sustainable female hygiene products. Their goal is to make the world a better place or as they say: to unfuck it!
Dr. David Levy
Congress on Love and Sex with Robots
David Levy studied Pure Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics at St. Andrews University, Scotland, from where he graduated with a B.Sc. degree. David’s achievements in the associated field of Social Robotics include founding international conferences on the subject, and being a co-organizer of six such conferences between 2007 and 2017. He has published a primer on A.I., Robots Unlimited. His fiftieth book, Love and Sex with Robots, was published in November 2007, shortly after he was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht for his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners
Ine Gevers
Director of human-robot/ AI relations at Niet Normaal
Ine Gevers is curator, writer, activist. As artistic director of the Niet Normaal Foundation she has conceptualized and realized largescale, international exhibitions at the interface of art, design & technology. ROBOT LOVE (Eindhoven, Sept-Dec 2018), filling a 6000 m2 former milk factory with human robot relations and a major publication on the full spectrum of love with robots and AI, is her latest endeavor.
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