About us!
Accelerate@HHL is the entrepreneurship event of Germany’s most entrepreneurial university – HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
The event is organized solely by a mixture of MSc and MBA students. Get to know them!
Largest entrepreneurship conference in Eastern Europe
Networking opportunities at digital career fair with exciting companies
Participants from nationwide universities, startups, VCs and corporates
Panel discussion, keynotes and workshops over two days – both in person and online
Our Team
Sponsors
Our sponsor team is responsible for finding partnerships and financing for the conference by handling sponsor recruitment and donations.
Our sponsor team includes six members: Andrea Vidal Carranza, Vu Ngo Xuan, Adrian Slowik, Sebastian Pusch, and Janek Rung
Speakers
Our speaker team works not only to identify speakers but also to ensure that the messages presented by the speakers are well-conveyed in the most impactful way.
Our speaker team is comprised of seven members: Merlin Gutter, Florian Proft, Florian Rost, Jakob Stroetmann, Joshua Dutt, Marc Walther, and Tarek Naboulsi
Marketing
Our marketing team makes sure to deliver the conference’s topic and speakers to you by connecting with you and communicating our key messages and activities on a regular basis. The team is committed to handling online marketing, social media, and web design.
Our marketing team includes five members: Mariana Lopes, Rodrigo Diaz Gomez, Paul Oetken, Shreya Sharma, and Quyen Nguyen
Operations
All activities related to creating and executing the conference are handled by our operations team. These include the production of pre-and post-event days and the coordination with external service providers.
Our operations team is comprised of nine members: Chun-Ling Fu, Josie Rühling, Lea Gruber, Shubham Patil, Harshita Sheshgiri, Kashyap Shubham, Priyadarshini Nath, Joshua Mathias, and Rana Yammine
Our Heads
Julian Mathes
Head of Initiative
Marvin Blome
Head of Conference
Andrea Vidal Carranza
Head of Sponsors
Merlin Gutter
Head of Speakers
Mariana Lopes
Head of Marketing
Chun-Ling Fu
Head of Operations
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