Deutsche Telekom’s tech incubator hubraum has organized for the second time their sustainability award, this year focusing on energy efficiency and sustainability in telco networks. With their partners Deutsche Telekom, Orange, SK Telecom and Microsoft they have chosen 4 winners out of more than 200 applications. During this Network Sustainability Award ceremony, the award winners will be announced.

Leon Haupt is Co-Founder and Business Developer at phelas with more than 3 years’ experience in the energy sector. He specializes in energy storage project development for industries with focus on improving energy procurement cost while significantly lowering the ecological footprint. Leon is putting all his efforts in the improvement and development of the energy sector. With phelas he can be part of one of the biggest and most important change in the world: the energy transition!

Leon Haupt 2021

Leon Haupt

Andreas Frömmel heads the business of Sunfire Fuel Cells in his role as Commercial Managing Director. He has more than 20 years experience in the energy industry, including leading fuel cell and hydrogen companies such as FuelCell Energy Solutions. Based on his previous work on the board of Hydrogen Europe and the FCH-JU governing board in Brussels, Belgium, Andreas Frömmel is well connected within the hydrogen and fuel cell industry in Europe.

Andreas Frömmel 2021

Andreas Frömmel

Commercial Managing Director Sunfire Fuel Cells

Leading Deutsche Telekom’s strategic technology innovation areas of spectrum, patents, techno-economics, plus network related strategic initiatives like the energy efficiency and sustainability challenge. Building on three decades of experience in various technology leadership positions (NT + IT) of the telco business, driving transformation and leveraging a combined agile and traditional methodology-toolbox.

Leif Heitzer 2021

Leif Heitzer

Technology & Innovation / Technology Guidance & Economics Deutsche Telekom AG

Thierry Lamidieu is an entrepreneur and business developer motivated by healthy work environments where everyone does their best to have a positive impact on the economy and society. He is currently the founder and CEO of Inergys, which focuses on design and industrialization of products which capture renewable energies to produce electricity. Prior to this, Thierry was Managing Director at SDRC and Graitec in France. In 2007 he bought Somac and managed a team of 50 people manufacturing equipment for the automotive industry. He started his career as a product designer at Philips, Thomson and Computervison in the Netherlands, and subsequently became sales engineer at Racal and Schlumberger in the UK. Thierry currently resides in his native country France with his wife and three children.

Thierry Lamidieu 2021

Thierry Lamidieu

Axel Menneking is VP of Startup Incubation & Venturing at Deutsche Telekom, working from Berlin. In his role he leads the international innovation activities of the corporate tech incubator Hubraum and is Managing Director of the Startup Seed Investment Fund of Deutsche Telekom.

Axel Menneking 2022

Axel Menneking

VP Startup Incubation & Venturing, Managing Director hub:raum

Mark Chung is Co-founder and CEO of Verdigris Technologies. As a seasoned engineer with more than 25 years of experience, Mark has served as principal engineer at a number of famed Silicon Valley startups including NexGen, Pasemi, RMI and NetLogic. Mark has also co-developed some of the world’s most successful chips such as Opteron, XLP, and A7, among others. Mark is an advisor to several startups and was recognized as one of the “40 under 40” in 2017 by Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Network Sustainability Award

Speakersin Session: Network Sustainability Award

Andreas Frömmel

Axel Menneking

Leif Heitzer

Leon Haupt

Mark Chung

Thierry Lamidieu