Digitale Leute Summit

Name: Digitale Leute Summit 2025 · Cologne
Start: 2025-11-12
End: 2025-11-13
Location: Cologne

A cross-functional conference in Cologne for people who build digital software products, spanning product management, engineering and UX/Design.

Product DesignContent DesignAIDesign Leadership

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Next edition

November 2026

Location

Cologne, Germany

Format

In person

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

DL Education

About Digitale Leute Summit

The Digitale Leute Summit is an annual conference held in Cologne for people who build digital software products, positioned at the intersection of product management, engineering and UX/Design. The programme combines talks, interviews and panels with masterclasses and hands-on workshops..

UX and design form a distinct strand of the agenda, with sessions on UX writing, product design, design leadership and, more recently, the application of generative AI within design and product teams.

The event is organised by DL Education GmbH, the team behind the Digitale Leute editorial platform, and takes place primarily at the Palladium venue in the Schanzenviertel district.

Editions

Upcoming

Upcoming
2026
17–18 Nov
Cologne
23 speakers
2025
12–13 Nov
Cologne
52 speakers
Speakers in 2025Speakers at Digitale Leute Summit 2025
12–13 NovCologne
Abdul Rahman
Punchlines to Product Lines: How Stand-Up Comedy Boosted Abdul's Career
Aditya Talredja
When AI Becomes the Engineer
Ahmed Genaidy
Why Designers Still Matter in an AI-Driven World
Anna-Lena Kümpel
Ben Shih
Why Designers Still Matter in an AI-Driven World
Benedikt Stemmildt
When AI Becomes the Engineer
Benjamin Girr
From Expert to PM: Interhyp's Playbook for Talent Growth
Björn Schotte
The Great Reset: When AI Rewrites Your Role, Product, and Entire Setup
Boyan Dimitrov
How Design Systems and AI Agents Accelerate Product Delivery @ SIXT
Büşra Coşkuner
Strategic Prioritisation: What RICE Won't Fix
Campbell Orme
Design Prototyping for Emerging Technologies
Christian Georg
Application Security for the Sales Platform of Deutsche Bahn
Christian Popp
How AI Is Transforming Large Tech Teams – Predictions of the Future
Christoph Bresler
From Expert to PM: Interhyp's Playbook for Talent Growth
Christoph Rottler
The Trap of Perfectionism in Experimentation
Daniel Diener
Driving Customer Excitement at Porsche
Daniel Gebler
How Picnic Is Redefining Grocery with Tech, AI, and Radical Efficiency
Daniel Schmidt
From Idea to Impact
Dara Elavia
Welcoming Next-Gen CRO: The Hybrid Framework for 2026
Eddie Machado
From Chaos to Consistency
Felix Hettig
Felix Hoffmann
#Drinkyourownchampagne Running a 30+ Team Portfolio with EA
Gayatri Gopal
How to Get B2B Products from 0 to 1 and on the Path to Crossing the Chasm!
Gernot Starke
Finally, Good Requirements
Gertrud Kolb
From Filters to Conversations: Building HeyImmo
Jan Marks
Jeroen Kemperman
Successtimonies: What I Learned from Asking 225 People on How They Define Success
Johannes Mainusch
Choosing the Next Big Bet in Product Development
Julia Meyer
SAP X LeanIX: The 1+1=3 Equation for Turning Business Content Into Product Success
Karen Nino
From Chaos to Consistency
Katja Lake
Kay Hildebrand
What Really Works: AI in Business Between Success and Reality
Lisa Kleinman
How AI Is Rewriting Product & Design Collaboration
Lukas Heidemann
What Really Works: AI in Business Between Success and Reality
Manuel Möbes
The Millionaire's Dilemma: Choosing the Next Big Bet in Product Development
Markus Otten-Gambalat
Driving Customer Excitement at Porsche
Nadine Cordes
SAP X LeanIX: The 1+1=3 Equation for Turning Business Content Into Product Success
Nesrine Changuel
How to Delight Your Users
Olaf Gunkel
Technology Is Boring, Collaboration Is Key - About the Future of Software Engineering
Pavan Madiraju
The Power of Three: How Triads Drive Innovation in SAP LeanIX
Phil Hornby
Empowered to Succeed: Decision Making in Product
Sergio Morazán
Taming the Legacy Monster: A DDD-Driven Product Transformation
Shaun McCallum
Architecture to Spatial Computing
Snir Yarom
How Taxfix Is Building an AI-Native R&D Powerhouse to Fuel Fintech Innovation
Stavros Strogilakis
From Idea to Impact
Stefan Vosskötter
Steve Haupt
Update Your Mental Models, Not Just Your Tools – Thinking Clearly in the Age of AI
Thomas Riedel
Tim Schneider
Hype Meets Mindset: What Makes Product Teams Strong in the Age of AI
Waldemar Karcher
Hacking Testing Cycles in Real Time
Yariv Adan
GenAI for Businesses - Past, Present, and Future
Zamina Ahmad
The AI Experimentation Phase Is Over
2024
13 Nov
Cologne
57 speakers
2023
8 Nov
Cologne
41 speakers

Speakers in 2025Speakers at Digitale Leute Summit 2025

12–13 NovCologne

Abdul Rahman
Punchlines to Product Lines: How Stand-Up Comedy Boosted Abdul's Career
Aditya Talredja
When AI Becomes the Engineer
Ahmed Genaidy
Why Designers Still Matter in an AI-Driven World
Anna-Lena Kümpel
Ben Shih
Why Designers Still Matter in an AI-Driven World
Benedikt Stemmildt
When AI Becomes the Engineer

Benjamin Girr
From Expert to PM: Interhyp's Playbook for Talent Growth
Björn Schotte
The Great Reset: When AI Rewrites Your Role, Product, and Entire Setup
Boyan Dimitrov
How Design Systems and AI Agents Accelerate Product Delivery @ SIXT
Büşra Coşkuner
Strategic Prioritisation: What RICE Won't Fix
Campbell Orme
Design Prototyping for Emerging Technologies
Christian Georg
Application Security for the Sales Platform of Deutsche Bahn
Christian Popp
How AI Is Transforming Large Tech Teams – Predictions of the Future
Christoph Bresler
From Expert to PM: Interhyp's Playbook for Talent Growth
Christoph Rottler
The Trap of Perfectionism in Experimentation
Daniel Diener
Driving Customer Excitement at Porsche
Daniel Gebler
How Picnic Is Redefining Grocery with Tech, AI, and Radical Efficiency
Daniel Schmidt
From Idea to Impact
Dara Elavia
Welcoming Next-Gen CRO: The Hybrid Framework for 2026
Eddie Machado
From Chaos to Consistency
Felix Hettig
Felix Hoffmann
#Drinkyourownchampagne Running a 30+ Team Portfolio with EA
Gayatri Gopal
How to Get B2B Products from 0 to 1 and on the Path to Crossing the Chasm!
Gernot Starke
Finally, Good Requirements
Gertrud Kolb
From Filters to Conversations: Building HeyImmo
Jan Marks
Jeroen Kemperman
Successtimonies: What I Learned from Asking 225 People on How They Define Success
Johannes Mainusch
Choosing the Next Big Bet in Product Development
Julia Meyer
SAP X LeanIX: The 1+1=3 Equation for Turning Business Content Into Product Success
Karen Nino
From Chaos to Consistency
Katja Lake
Kay Hildebrand
What Really Works: AI in Business Between Success and Reality
Lisa Kleinman
How AI Is Rewriting Product & Design Collaboration
Lukas Heidemann
What Really Works: AI in Business Between Success and Reality
Manuel Möbes
The Millionaire's Dilemma: Choosing the Next Big Bet in Product Development
Markus Otten-Gambalat
Driving Customer Excitement at Porsche
Nadine Cordes
SAP X LeanIX: The 1+1=3 Equation for Turning Business Content Into Product Success
Nesrine Changuel
How to Delight Your Users
Olaf Gunkel
Technology Is Boring, Collaboration Is Key - About the Future of Software Engineering
Pavan Madiraju
The Power of Three: How Triads Drive Innovation in SAP LeanIX
Phil Hornby
Empowered to Succeed: Decision Making in Product
Sergio Morazán
Taming the Legacy Monster: A DDD-Driven Product Transformation
Shaun McCallum
Architecture to Spatial Computing
Snir Yarom
How Taxfix Is Building an AI-Native R&D Powerhouse to Fuel Fintech Innovation
Stavros Strogilakis
From Idea to Impact
Stefan Vosskötter
Steve Haupt
Update Your Mental Models, Not Just Your Tools – Thinking Clearly in the Age of AI
Thomas Riedel
Tim Schneider
Hype Meets Mindset: What Makes Product Teams Strong in the Age of AI
Waldemar Karcher
Hacking Testing Cycles in Real Time
Yariv Adan
GenAI for Businesses - Past, Present, and Future
Zamina Ahmad
The AI Experimentation Phase Is Over