Anwar Mirza is a globally recognized expert in Data Strategy, Governance, and Management, with over 33 years of experience, including at FedEx Express. For the past 15 years, he has spoken at numerous international events, offering a blend of business and IT insights. Anwar developed a unique Data Governance methodology, widely adopted by organizations across the USA, Australia, Asia, and Europe.
He has also dedicated the last 10 years to university lecturing, aiming to integrate Data into mainstream education through practical, gamified assignments.

Benjamin Kurczyk is the Head of Data Engineering at Sky Deutschland GmbH. He is working within Sky Data since joining the company in 2020. He is focused on leveraging technologies that enable fast, flexible and value-driven usage of data across Sky. With a strong background in Big Data and Data Engineering, which have been central to his work since his academic studies, Benjamin has implemented several high-profile data related products. These projects involved using technologies like the Hadoop-Stack, Kafka, Cloud-based Services and traditional Datawarehousing tools. He held the roles of Senior and Principal Engineering as well as Solution Architecture with a big focus on driving requirements to serve business needs. His main focus is building robust data architectures beyond temporary technology trends.

Data is a universal, but sometimes overlooked, driver in almost all aspects of business, industries and human interactions. Therefore we long left behind the times where data departments merely provided reports and Excel Sheets. Instead data is now involved in internal and external process, value creation, business development and the greater vision of the whole company. This fact drives my passion for what I do as it allows me to dive into so many different facets of my company and work with a diverse set of stakeholders to create value.
Sky specifically acts within an extremely dynamic market and competes with big players world wide. This creates many interesting challenges and enables a flexible and dynamic culture that fits my way of working a lot. We are all about solutions to problems and do not shy away from changing plans when the world around is changing.
This also allows my area of responsibility to be flexible in our ways of working and the tools we use, be it on-premise, in the cloud or both.

After studying electrical engineering, Guido Van Husen worked for 10 years at Danet GmbH in various roles, specialising in large database projects in the telecommunications environment. Since 2007, he has been working for DB Systel GmbH as a senior architect in the field of business intelligence projects. In recent years, he has focussed heavily on big data projects. He was very involved in setting up a data lake at DB Systel and is currently working in the ZERO.ONE.DATA area.

FedEx connects people and possibilities through our worldwide portfolio of shipping, transportation, e-commerce and digital supply chain services. For decades, we’ve been innovating to deliver more for you. Strengthening supply chains with our global network. Simplifying logistics. Enhancing tracking and visibility. And using data from every journey to make your experience better. Our people are the foundation of our success, and FedEx has consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers. We inspire our global workforce of more than 575,000 team members to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards, and the needs of their customers and communities.

With 23 million customers in six countries, Sky is Europe's leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast Group. Our 34,000 employees help provide our customers with the best entertainment, sports, news and arts, as well as our own local, original content. Following the success of Sky originals such as Chernobyl, we plan to double our investment in original content by 2024.

DB Systel GmbH, based in Frankfurt am Main, is a wholly owned subsidiary of DB AG and digital partner for all Group companies. With our holistic, customer-specific offering, which meets the highest IT standards, we are successfully driving forward the digitalisation of all DB AG companies in an integrated and value-creating way. To this end, we develop effective and efficient customer solutions based on innovative topics such as the cloud, big data, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. As a long-term partner, we contribute our in-depth railway and IT expertise and act in a vendor-neutral manner for the common goal. Around 4,400 Systel employees currently work at our main locations in Frankfurt, Berlin and Erfurt. We have been supporting the process of digital transformation within the DB Group from the very beginning. In order to find and implement the right solutions for the internal railway companies, we rely on a comprehensive, market-oriented product portfolio and a high level of consulting and methodological expertise. We also operate our own ventures such as ZERO.ONE.DATA as well as open data platforms and Skydeck, Systel's own innovation lab. We are also active on the external market with selected services and products.