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Robert Enslin, President, Global Customer Operations, Robert joined Google Cloud in April 2019. Prior to Google, Robert spent 27 years at SAP in leadership roles across sales and operations, most recently as President, Cloud Business Group and Executive Board Member. He developed and managed SAP's entire cloud product portfolio, led the field revenue and enablement efforts across multiple geographies, and oversaw core functions including professional services, ecosystem, channel, and solutions. Before joining SAP, Robert spent 11 years in various roles in the IT industry. An avid supporter of youth advancement and development, he serves as the honorary global Chairman of the Els for Autism Golf Challenge. Robert currently sits on the Board of Directors of Discovery Limited in South Africa and Docker in San Francisco, California.

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Robert Enslin, President, Global Customer Operations, Robert joined Google Cloud in April 2019. Prior to Google, Robert spent 27 years at SAP in leadership roles across sales and operations, most recently as President, Cloud Business Group and Executive Board Member. He developed and managed SAP's entire cloud product portfolio, led the field revenue and enablement efforts across multiple geographies, and oversaw core functions including professional services, ecosystem, channel, and solutions. Before joining SAP, Robert spent 11 years in various roles in the IT industry. An avid supporter of youth advancement and development, he serves as the honorary global Chairman of the Els for Autism Golf Challenge. Robert currently sits on the Board of Directors of Discovery Limited in South Africa and Docker in San Francisco, California.

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Ben Fried is Google's Chief Information Officer, overseeing the technologies that make Googlers go. He's the New York office Tech Site Lead, responsible for 8,200+ Googlers in the company's East Coast headquarters. Ben has a diverse background in systems engineering and software development. He led development of mission scheduling software for NASA at a Bay Area startup and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he rose to the level of Managing Director and led teams responsible for software development, internet infrastructure, and business intelligence. Ben is a graduate of Columbia University.

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Ben Fried is Google's Chief Information Officer, overseeing the technologies that make Googlers go. He's the New York office Tech Site Lead, responsible for 8,200+ Googlers in the company's East Coast headquarters. Ben has a diverse background in systems engineering and software development. He led development of mission scheduling software for NASA at a Bay Area startup and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he rose to the level of Managing Director and led teams responsible for software development, internet infrastructure, and business intelligence. Ben is a graduate of Columbia University.

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Since September 2018 Annette Maier is Managing Director, Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Google Cloud. She oversees Google's Cloud business growth in the DACH region. She supports customers in driving innovation and growth by using Google's unique network and leading Cloud solutions. She is known for disruption to make a change.

Annette looks back at more 15 years of management and sales successes in the IT sector. Prior to joining Google, she spent six years at VMware, where she most recently held the position of a Vice President & General Manager Germany. Annette drove VMware‘s business growth in the enterprise, commercial and partner ecosystems. She also held the position as Director of Global Accounts in CMEA and led the Enterprise Account Team.

Before that, Annette spend more than six years at Hewlett Packard, where she held senior manager positions like Vertical Lead for HP-Software Germany or Interim Country Manager HP-Software in Switzerland.

Annette holds a degree in business administration from the University of Cologne. As a mother of three she enjoys running, sailing in summer and skiing in winter with her family.

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Since September 2018 Annette Maier is Managing Director, Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Google Cloud. She oversees Google's Cloud business growth in the DACH region. She supports customers in driving innovation and growth by using Google's unique network and leading Cloud solutions. She is known for disruption to make a change.

Annette looks back at more 15 years of management and sales successes in the IT sector. Prior to joining Google, she spent six years at VMware, where she most recently held the position of a Vice President & General Manager Germany. Annette drove VMware‘s business growth in the enterprise, commercial and partner ecosystems. She also held the position as Director of Global Accounts in CMEA and led the Enterprise Account Team.

Before that, Annette spend more than six years at Hewlett Packard, where she held senior manager positions like Vertical Lead for HP-Software Germany or Interim Country Manager HP-Software in Switzerland.

Annette holds a degree in business administration from the University of Cologne. As a mother of three she enjoys running, sailing in summer and skiing in winter with her family.

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Previously Managing Director for Software AG's global cloud team, Emily Ryan joined Google in 2018 as Customer Engineering Manager in Frankfurt. Her team is responsible for technical sales in the Corporate Segment and Enterprise Retail vertical in Germany. She is also a community organizer for cloud with an AppDev focus, especially promoting the multi-cloud, open management benefits of Google Cloud's Anthos.

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Previously Managing Director for Software AG's global cloud team, Emily Ryan joined Google in 2018 as Customer Engineering Manager in Frankfurt. Her team is responsible for technical sales in the Corporate Segment and Enterprise Retail vertical in Germany. She is also a community organizer for cloud with an AppDev focus, especially promoting the multi-cloud, open management benefits of Google Cloud's Anthos.

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Since 1 March 2017 Timo Salzsieder is CSO (Chief Solution Officer) and CIO (Chief Information Officer) at METRO AG and Member of the Metro Cash & Carry Operating Boards, Düsseldorf Timo Salzsieder was born in 1969. He studied Computer Science in Constance in Germany, Nottingham in the UK, and Berkeley in California. In 1996 he graduated and started his professional career as a consultant at Oracle in Munich, Germany. Between 1999 and 2005, as a member of the management team responsible for IT at Loyalty Partner GmbH, he was involved in setting up Payback. Subsequently he switched to Bertelsmann arvato services, where he held responsibility for the financial, health and IT services sectors. From February 2008 until 2010, as Executive Vice President at D+S Europe AG in Hamburg, Germany, he was responsible for the expansion of the company’s e-commerce activities in Europe and overseas. Since 2009 he has additionally provided support in the areas of e-commerce und CRM as Senior Advisor at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

In July 2010, Timo Salzsieder became CIO/CTO of TOMORROW FOCUS AG. From July 2010 to November 2013 he was Managing Director at TFT - TOMORROW FOCUS Technologies GmbH. Since June 2013, he has been Managing Director at the newly established company TOMORROW Travel Solutions GmbH. In December 2013 he co-founded organize.me an online service for document organization and became Management Director of the company. In June 2014 Timo Salzsieder became CTO and in 2015 COO of HolidayCheck AG. On 1 September 2015 Timo Salzsieder had joined the Management Board of HolidayCheck Group AG (formerly TOMORROW FOCUS AG) in the position of COO. In his new role he had the overall responsibility for product development, product management and IT.

On 1 March 2017 Timo Salzsieder joined METRO AG, Düsseldorf, as CIO/CSO. He is responsible for the development of IT Architecture and Implementation of new processes regarding digitization of the organization.

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Since 1 March 2017 Timo Salzsieder is CSO (Chief Solution Officer) and CIO (Chief Information Officer) at METRO AG and Member of the Metro Cash & Carry Operating Boards, Düsseldorf Timo Salzsieder was born in 1969. He studied Computer Science in Constance in Germany, Nottingham in the UK, and Berkeley in California. In 1996 he graduated and started his professional career as a consultant at Oracle in Munich, Germany. Between 1999 and 2005, as a member of the management team responsible for IT at Loyalty Partner GmbH, he was involved in setting up Payback. Subsequently he switched to Bertelsmann arvato services, where he held responsibility for the financial, health and IT services sectors. From February 2008 until 2010, as Executive Vice President at D+S Europe AG in Hamburg, Germany, he was responsible for the expansion of the company’s e-commerce activities in Europe and overseas. Since 2009 he has additionally provided support in the areas of e-commerce und CRM as Senior Advisor at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

In July 2010, Timo Salzsieder became CIO/CTO of TOMORROW FOCUS AG. From July 2010 to November 2013 he was Managing Director at TFT - TOMORROW FOCUS Technologies GmbH. Since June 2013, he has been Managing Director at the newly established company TOMORROW Travel Solutions GmbH. In December 2013 he co-founded organize.me an online service for document organization and became Management Director of the company. In June 2014 Timo Salzsieder became CTO and in 2015 COO of HolidayCheck AG. On 1 September 2015 Timo Salzsieder had joined the Management Board of HolidayCheck Group AG (formerly TOMORROW FOCUS AG) in the position of COO. In his new role he had the overall responsibility for product development, product management and IT.

On 1 March 2017 Timo Salzsieder joined METRO AG, Düsseldorf, as CIO/CSO. He is responsible for the development of IT Architecture and Implementation of new processes regarding digitization of the organization.

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Michael Girg acts as Chief Cloud Officer of Deutsche Börse Group, with a team of experts he drives the technical implementation as well as the organizational and regional readiness of a cloud multi-vendor portfolio. He is overall responsible for steering the various cloud adoption projects throughout Deutsche Börse Group.

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Michael Girg acts as Chief Cloud Officer of Deutsche Börse Group, with a team of experts he drives the technical implementation as well as the organizational and regional readiness of a cloud multi-vendor portfolio. He is overall responsible for steering the various cloud adoption projects throughout Deutsche Börse Group.

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Oliver Beck is Senior Vice President Development Landscape Management (DLM) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Delivery in the Product Engineering organization at SAP. In his role as the head of the DLM team, Oliver is responsible for the complete lifecycle of development system landscapes for internal development groups. The team currently runs more than 4.600 SAP systems which are used to maintain existing releases and to develop new versions of SAP’s software products.

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Oliver Beck is Senior Vice President “Development Landscape Management (DLM) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Delivery in the Product Engineering organization at SAP. In his role as the head of the DLM team, Oliver is responsible for the complete lifecycle of development system landscapes for internal development groups. The team currently runs more than 4.600 SAP systems which are used to maintain existing releases and to develop new versions of SAP’s software products.

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Thomas Meyer joined IDC in January 1999 and is currently responsible for managing IDC's IT Research in Europe. This includes coverage of software, services and hardware markets focused on topics such as datacenter transformation, cloud computing, virtualization, business continuity, sustainability and print services. Additionally Meyer also manages IDC Europe's cross-domain Practices which provide insight and advisory on 3rd Platform industry transformation such as Internet of Things, Cloud, Mobility, Big Data and Customer Experience IT to ICT vendors and end users.

Meyer frequently speaks at IDC, industry, customer and CIO events such as CeBIT, IDC's EMEA CIO Summit Series, IDC's Datacenter and Cloud Conferences and the Mobile Commerce Conference. He often contributes to articles in publications across Europe, including the Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Focus, Le Monde Informatique, and IT Week, and has also appeared on the BBC World Business Report and Breakfast Business Update.

Before joining IDC, Thomas Meyer worked as an IT media analyst. He holds degrees from the University of London in economics and German and an MA with a focus on European management concepts.

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Thomas Meyer joined IDC in January 1999 and is currently responsible for managing IDC's IT Research in Europe. This includes coverage of software, services and hardware markets focused on topics such as datacenter transformation, cloud computing, virtualization, business continuity, sustainability and print services. Additionally Meyer also manages IDC Europe's cross-domain Practices which provide insight and advisory on 3rd Platform industry transformation such as Internet of Things, Cloud, Mobility, Big Data and Customer Experience IT to ICT vendors and end users.

Meyer frequently speaks at IDC, industry, customer and CIO events such as CeBIT, IDC's EMEA CIO Summit Series, IDC's Datacenter and Cloud Conferences and the Mobile Commerce Conference. He often contributes to articles in publications across Europe, including the Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Focus, Le Monde Informatique, and IT Week, and has also appeared on the BBC World Business Report and Breakfast Business Update.

Before joining IDC, Thomas Meyer worked as an IT media analyst. He holds degrees from the University of London in economics and German and an MA with a focus on European management concepts.

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Frederik's passion is to develop the capacity to innovate in everyone and he believes creativity exists in all of us.

He initiated a community of over 500 Google Innovation Evangelists and is co-founder of “The Garage” and creator of Google's first Innovation Laboratory (CSI:Lab), which is used by 600+ teams/year across Alphabet/Google from YouTube, Hardware, Android to Sales and Cloud, the HR team to [x] to solve big problems creatively, generating and testing hundreds of new-to-the-world ideas, fast.

As an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka: d.school) at, he teaches graduate courses like: “Hacking your innovation mindset” or “Design for AI-powered futures” and feels lucky to empower students through Design Thinking so that they can invent cool things that matter in the world. He was nominated as a visiting scholar at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University and research scholar at EdLab, Columbia University where he researched the convergence of design, technology and education.

He is founding faculty of The Google School for Leaders and currently amongst the “top ten most influential Germans in Silicon Valley” (SZ, Focus) and has developed an approach to innovation culture, creative leadership and future technology that has been used around the world by startups, schools, nonprofits, and governments as well as Fortune 500 companies plus organizations like the UN, NASA, DFB and NBA. He got featured in over 90 articles in international newspapers, magazines and documentaries like FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, Times Magazine, WirtschaftsWoche, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, Capital, Manager Magazin, brandeins, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, The Telegraph, Arte TV, VOX TV and ARD.

With his award-winning approach (New Work Award), he currently serves as Innovation Consultant to the United Nations (UN) and is Innovation Coach of the German Soccer Association (DFB). The “Pope of Creativity” (Focus) is founder with his wife Angela of Germany's kids maker space: “Tüftelei”. Living in Silicon Valley, he draws inspiration from the playfulness and explorer mindsets of his three children.

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Frederik's passion is to develop the capacity to innovate in everyone and he believes creativity exists in all of us.

He initiated a community of over 500 Google Innovation Evangelists and is co-founder of “The Garage” and creator of Google's first Innovation Laboratory (CSI:Lab), which is used by 600+ teams/year across Alphabet/Google from YouTube, Hardware, Android to Sales and Cloud, the HR team to [x] to solve big problems creatively, generating and testing hundreds of new-to-the-world ideas, fast.

As an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka: d.school) at, he teaches graduate courses like: “Hacking your innovation mindset” or “Design for AI-powered futures” and feels lucky to empower students through Design Thinking so that they can invent cool things that matter in the world. He was nominated as a visiting scholar at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University and research scholar at EdLab, Columbia University where he researched the convergence of design, technology and education.

He is founding faculty of The Google School for Leaders and currently amongst the “top ten most influential Germans in Silicon Valley” (SZ, Focus) and has developed an approach to innovation culture, creative leadership and future technology that has been used around the world by startups, schools, nonprofits, and governments as well as Fortune 500 companies plus organizations like the UN, NASA, DFB and NBA. He got featured in over 90 articles in international newspapers, magazines and documentaries like FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, Times Magazine, WirtschaftsWoche, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, Capital, Manager Magazin, brandeins, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, The Telegraph, Arte TV, VOX TV and ARD.

With his award-winning approach (New Work Award), he currently serves as Innovation Consultant to the United Nations (UN) and is Innovation Coach of the German Soccer Association (DFB). The “Pope of Creativity” (Focus) is founder with his wife Angela of Germany's kids maker space: “Tüftelei”. Living in Silicon Valley, he draws inspiration from the playfulness and explorer mindsets of his three children.

close Sarah is a culture and transformation specialist, focused on helping customers make the most out of the cloud. Sarah has traveled to 60+ countries. developing a passion for combining diverse minds and perspectives to solve big problems. Prior to joining Google, Sarah was a management consultant where she helped retail, financial services and public sector clients with digital strategy and customer experience, workplace and cloud transformation programs.

close Sarah is a culture and transformation specialist, focused on helping customers make the most out of the cloud. Sarah has traveled to 60+ countries. developing a passion for combining diverse minds and perspectives to solve big problems. Prior to joining Google, Sarah was a management consultant where she helped retail, financial services and public sector clients with digital strategy and customer experience, workplace and cloud transformation programs.