ZP FACES

Julia Bangerth

HR Innovation Award Jury Member
Chief Operating Officer, DATEV eG

Julia Bangerth has been a member of the Board of Management of DATEV eG since 2018, responsible for the topics of value-added management and HR. Her function as Chief Operating Officer (COO) includes controlling the product and solution portfolio, product and partner strategy, enterprise architecture, product design, quality management, workstream enablement and HR. DATEV eG is the software house and IT service provider for tax consultants, auditors and lawyers, but also for their clients, such as medium-sized companies, municipalities, associations and institutions.

The HR director focuses her HR work in particular on the topic of Future of Work: organisational culture, agile working, leadership, new forms of learning and networked cooperation. Julia Bangerth is a lawyer with many years of international experience in the fields of human resources, finance, law, communication and marketing. In various management positions she has worked on strategy, organizational and personnel development, developed and implemented new processes, carried out restructuring and led change projects.

Chris Boos

CEO, Arago 

Chris Boos has a mission: empowering human potential, freeing up time for creativity and innovative thinking through artificial intelligence (AI). To that end, Chris founded Arago in Germany in 1995, pushing existing boundaries in AI technology to build a general AI. Since then, Chris has led Arago to become a key partner and driver for the established economy, positioning Arago’s AI HIRO™ as a platform for companies to reinvent their business models in the digital age. But his ambitions go far beyond: a strong believer in integrating machine reasoning and machine learning, Chris is constantly challenging current thinking on AI. As a strategic corporate and political advisor, as well as angel investor, Chris’ multifaceted engagement for AI makes him a much respected public speaker and thought-leader on issues of global importance, such as the man-machine-relationship, the way societies deal with information and the future of labor.

Dr. Lars Janzik

CEO, Vertikal Media GmbH 

Since January 2018, Dr. Lars Janzik is CEO of Vertical Media. Until then, from March 2015, he was responsible for the digital products of the media brand WELT, an Axel Springer company. Previously, he served as Senior Director Product Management CE for the online recruiting specialist Monster, as well as in various executive positions for the software manufacturer Magix. Furthermore, in 2011 Lars completed his PhD on user innovation in online communities.

Alexandre Pachulski

Co-founder of Talentsoft and author