Anna-Vera Deinhammer

FH Wien & Circular Economy Forum Austria

FH-Prof. Dr.techn. Anna-Vera Deinhammer is a strategist and integral engineerscientist specializing in circular economy in construction, integral construction research, and engineering sciences, particularly for the development of sustainable and healthy living spaces. She is vice president and founding member of the Circular Economy Forum Austria. From June 2023 to 2028, she will hold the endowed professorship in Sustainable Real Estate Development at FHWien der WKW—the first professorship in this field to be fully funded by the private sector. Her work focuses on three areas of innovation: governance & building culture, economics & financing, and integral engineering.

Gerald Beck

Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H

DI Gerald Beck, MRICS has been Managing Director of Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H and ARE Austrian Real Estate GmbH since May 2024. Previously, he was Managing Director of UBM Development Österreich GmbH (2017-2024) and Raiffeisen evolution project development GmbH (2003-2017). He began his career at ILBAU GmbH/STRABAG AG, where he held various management positions from 1992 to 2003.

Gerald Beck studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated in 1991. He is vice president of the Austrian Sustainable Real Estate Association (ÖGNI), a member of the board of the Austrian Construction Technology Association (ÖBV), and a member of the executive committee of the Association of Austrian Project Developers (VÖPE). He is particularly committed to promoting ESG criteria and sustainable construction.

Stefan Graf

Leyrer + Graf Baugesellschaft m.b.H.

BM Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Graf studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2004, he passed the civil engineering examination and successfully completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of St. Gallen in the following years. In 2012, Stefan Graf passed the master builder examination and has been managing partner and CEO of Leyrer + Graf Baugesellschaft m.b.H. since 2013.

Stefan Graf is a member of the board of all major committees, such as iV NÖ, VIBÖ, and ÖBV. He is also chairman of the VIBÖ working group on the digitization of the construction industry. Since 2020, Stefan Graf has also been chairman of the Lower Austrian Construction Industry Association.

Andreas Fromm

Asfinag 

Andreas Fromm graduated in 2002 with a degree in cultural engineering and water management from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. He has been employed by ASFINAG since 2003 and, until 2018, held various positions within the company responsible for infrastructure project planning and maintenance management. In March 2018, he took over the position of managing director of ASFINAG Baumanagement GmbH.

Stephan Pasquali

3SI Immogroup

Stephan Pasquali has been firmly anchored in the real estate industry for 20 years in various management positions. His wide-ranging skills and expertise have helped him to successfully and sustainably (in both senses of the word) manage the new construction division of 3SI Immogroup as “Managing Director New Construction” for the past four years and to intensively drive forward the development of numerous new construction projects. In a short period of time, he has succeeded in positioning 3SI Immogroup as a serious player in the market in the new construction business. His professional achievements to date were recognized in 2024 with the Austrian Real Estate Award CÄSAR.

Steffen Robbi

Digital Findet Stadt

The digital transformation of the construction and energy industries must contribute to a significant increase in resource, energy, and cost efficiency. Against this backdrop, Dr. Steffen Robbi is the founder and managing director of the innovation lab Digital Findet Stadt, Austria's largest platform for the digitization of the construction and real estate industries. Prior to this, he was responsible for the Digital Building Technologies division as business manager and project manager at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. In addition to his professional activities, Steffen Robbi is a lecturer at Danube University Krems and a keynote speaker at specialist conferences. Digitalization and the transformation of the construction sector, sustainability of energy supply, and the affordability of innovative projects are three key drivers of his work. Dr. Robbi studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden and earned his doctorate as a research assistant at the Chair of Building Energy Technology and Heat Supply. At Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH, a young start-up at the time, he was able to help shape the rapid market penetration of innovative energy supply based on digital business models for the first time.

Paul Blazek

Co-Innovation Factory

Dr. Paul Blazek is a serial entrepreneur from Vienna and founder of the Co-Innovation Factory in the former Anker bread factory, a new hub for Austria's innovation ecosystem. Driven by curiosity and his passion for business model innovations that connect the digital and physical worlds, he has founded 12 companies over the past 25 years and gained extensive experience on his entrepreneurial journey. In addition to his work as a mentor at the European initiative enpact, he teaches at HSLU Lucerne, is an affiliate researcher at RWTH Aachen University, co-founder of the IIMCP, and a member of the Smart Customization Group at MIT, as well as a mentor in the Harvard Entrepreneurship Program.

Walter Haberfellner

Swietelsky AG

As divisional manager and driver of digital transformation at Swietelsky, Walter Haberfellner talks about the role of artificial intelligence in construction—and the role of humans in it. He advocates solutions that really work on the construction site, rather than oversized systems that fail in practice because they overwhelm people. Together with his team, Walter Haberfellner develops scalable innovations at the interface between technology and construction practice – deeply rooted in the reality of European construction sites, with a clear focus on people, processes, and impact.

Jörg Reinold

Wienerberger

Since 2017, Jörg Reinold has played a key role in shaping the digital transformation at Wienerberger, initially as Chief Information & Digital Officer and, since 2022, as Senior Vice President for New Business & Ventures. Prior to that, he worked at IBM in the area of corporate strategy and digitalization in Europe and Asia. In his role, he has supported international companies in various industries in their transition to digital enterprises. In addition to strategy development, the concrete implementation and the necessary cultural change were key areas of focus.

Katharina Plank

Siemens

Katharina Plank is responsible for Digital Service Sales at Siemens Austria and specializes in building technology, combined technology, and data for efficiency and saving valuable resources. What drives her is the pursuit of optimization and an interest in new technologies and services to help customers achieve their business and sustainability goals. Her studies at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland in the field of building and energy technology round out her expertise.

Nikolas Neubert

LAND Research Lab

He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of digital and sustainable urban development. Nikolas holds degrees in urban and regional planning, architecture, and urban design, and is a certified sustainability expert (DGNB, World Bank Cert.). He has worked as a consultant and project manager for ministries, municipal governments, and private institutions. His focus is on the strategic development of cities, regions, and metropolitan areas at the intersection of digitalization and sustainability. In his work, he uses innovative approaches and tools such as artificial intelligence to enable the creation of sustainable urban living spaces and to make sustainability measurable and thus an integral part of every project. During his time as department head at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), he opened the world's first AI-supported urban planning laboratory, pioneering new forms of science-based consulting for resilient urban development. Nikolas is a lecturer in advanced studies at ETH Zurich, the Institute for Advanced Architecture Catalunya (IAAC), and the University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication in Vienna. He currently heads the LAND Research Lab and serves as CIO for the LAND Group.

Theresa Fink

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

DI Theresa Fink is Business Manager in the field of digitally resilient cities and regions at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in the Center for Energy. She works at the interface between research and industry and cooperates with cities and real estate developers to promote decarbonization, adaptation to climate change, and the development of resilient and sustainable neighborhoods. She graduated in architecture from Graz University of Technology and passed the real estate trustee qualification exam in 2023. In addition to project experience in international architecture firms (Herzog de Meuron, Baumschlager Eberle), she brings expertise from numerous projects at AIT.

Daniel Horak

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Daniel Horak MSc. studied renewable urban energy systems at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien and is now a junior research engineer at AIT in the field of decarbonization of cities and municipalities and a doctoral candidate at BOKU (graduation planned for 2025). His work focuses on the development of modeling tools for the techno-economic optimization of scenarios for the transformation of urban energy systems, taking spatial limitations into account. In addition to this core area, he is working on other projects dealing with, among other things, the circular economy in the construction sector (CREATE project), plus-energy neighborhoods (ASCEND project), and digitalization in the energy sector (DIGICITIES project).

Valentin Grabner

Österreichisches Bundesheer 

Valentin Grabner, MA BA, has been deputy project manager in the CONRAD working group and consultant for special construction in Directorate 7 Infrastructure/Construction and Building Technology at the Federal Ministry of Defense since 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a local building inspector in the same directorate from 2018. He began his professional career after graduating from HTL in 2005 as a professional soldier, serving for 13 years in domestic and foreign missions. At the same time, he completed part-time studies in facility and real estate management as well as in the field of digitalization in the construction industry, specializing in BIM. Valentin Grabner combines technical expertise, leadership experience, and comprehensive knowledge in construction and real estate management.

Helmut Spiehs

b-solution

Helmut Spiehs has more than 30 years of experience in the development, production, and global distribution of solid wood products and construction solutions. While studying industrial engineering at Graz University of Technology (Austria), Helmut was involved in the early development of cross-laminated timber (CLT). From 1998 to 2006, he developed and established Europe-wide marketing and sales for one of the world's first CLT manufacturers. Since 2006, Helmut has been managing director of the Austrian binderholz Group and is responsible for all global developments in the field of timber construction products, structures, and building solutions. Together with his fellow managing directors, Helmut is responsible for 500 employees at two binderholz CLT BBS production sites, a sales, engineering, and research site, and the b_solution production unit.

Ruth Schiffmann

NEVARIS Bausoftware

Ruth Schiffmann is an experienced technology executive with an impressive career in sales and business management.
She has held various management positions at renowned companies such as OpenText and TeamViewer. After joining the Nemetschek Group as Managing Director of Bluebeam GmbH in 2021, she has been working with the team since July 2022 to take NEVARIS to the next level of digitalization in the construction industry. Ruth is a thought leader and inspires all our teams.

Alexander Redlein,

Technische Universität Wien

Dr. Alexander Redlein is a professor of real estate and facility management at TU Wien and an international teaching staff member of ME310 at Stanford University. After completing an interdisciplinary education at TU Wien and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, he has been involved in research and teaching in the field of real estate and facility management for around 25 years. As head of the Real Estate and Facility Management (IFM) department at the Vienna University of Technology, he and his 10 employees are primarily involved in basic research and technology transfer within the framework of research and consulting projects for companies in the CEE region. In this context, he has developed numerous FM strategies for international companies in recent years, optimized processes in the field of FM, and created IT concepts and strategies for space management. As a researcher, he conducts surveys among leading companies in the CEE region on the status quo and trends in FM, as well as potential for value enhancement. His areas of expertise are digital transformation, workplace management, and sustainability in real estate. Thanks to Prof. Redlein's personal network, IFM also acts as a bridge to Eastern Europe, Asia, and the USA.

Janine Schulyok

M.O.O.CON

After several years as a manager in retail, Janine Schulyok decided to study facility management and subsequently change careers to FM consulting. In her current role as Senior Consultant for M.O.O.CON, she is an expert in sustainable FM organizations and systems, a board member with a focus on “people-centered” issues at IFMA, Austria Chapter, and an active member of the FMe community – Frauen managen excellent.

Nina Königshofer

M.O.O.CON

Nina Königshofer has been a BIM expert at M.O.O.CON since 2021 and is passionate about digital transformation. Starting with her architecture studies, moving on to applications in BIM excellence at PORR Design & Engineering GmbH, and now in her role in BIM management, she oversees building development projects throughout their entire life cycle with the aim of continuously optimizing building operations.

Georg Molzer

shadowmap.org

At the age of 16, while still attending HTL Spengergasse, Georg Molzer landed his first job as a programmer and designer for a Viennese health startup. Four years later, while studying visual computing at TU Wien, he founded his first consulting company. In 2015, he became co-founder and CTO of kiweno, an Austrian health tech startup, where he gained important entrepreneurial experience and went through the typical (and perhaps also less typical) founder's journey. His subsequent burnout and his love of the sun led him to follow his heart and work on an idea he had had six years earlier during a dark Viennese winter: an app that reconnects people with the sun—Shadowmap. Georg is convinced that the sensible use of solar energy would solve many global problems in no time: better architecture, more livable living space, healthier and happier lives, higher, sustainable energy yields. His passion for the topic has turned Shadowmap into a globally leading product within a few years, which is used with joy by several hundred thousand people worldwide every month and is now also integrated into large real estate portals.

Simone Grassauer

Scale

Simone Grassauer is the managing director of the newly founded consulting firm SCALE GmbH. The start-up combines digital methods with implementation expertise and offers BIM-based life cycle assessments for real estate using specially developed software, as well as consulting and support in implementing EU taxonomy requirements with a particular focus on the requirements of the circular economy in the field of construction and renovation.

Lukas Lauda

Repark