ZEISS Gruppe

Details about the speaker Inkeri Klomsdorf
Vita: “HR gone Tech”: After studies in economics, the first decade of Inkeri's career focused mainly on her HR specialism with various positions at Mercedes Benz, Lidl and ZEISS before leaping into the tech world, managing and engineering medical devices, and later, software and cloud platforms. After a decade of her new expertise in tech, Inkeri has many learnings, growing responsibilities and a pouring passion for tech. She's never looked back. Now heading the digital portfolio of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Inkeri's work impacts patients in Ophthalmology, Dental, Hearing and Neurosurgery. As a mom of an 11-year-old daughter, Inkeri has many passions including initiating a foundation for equal rights in educational access for women and girls and is a female role model at ZEISS for Women in Tech, working parents, women in leadership and unusual career paths in tech without STEM studies.

Details about the speaker Sandra Subel
Vita: Sandra Subel is a passionate changemaker who values growth, integrity, and curiosity. Her mission is to help people unleash their creative confidence and enable businesses to leverage the potential of their employees. Currently she serves as Head of People Experience and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging at Zeiss. In her pivotal role as the global head of diversity and inclusion at Axel Springer since 2020, Sandra has dedicated over four years to fostering and enabling diversity and inclusion strategies across the group, aligning them with the company’s objectives and the broader ESG agenda. Prior to this, she spent nine years at Accenture, mentoring teams and leading transformation programs. Since 2018, she has been a visiting lecturer at the Poznań University of Economics and Business, teaching MBA students about leadership and unconscious bias. Sandra actively contributes to several initiatives and platforms, including the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Diversity Officers, Perspektywy Women in Tech, and the #IAmRemarkable initiative. As a Forbes Women Polska columnist, she discusses DEI, leadership, and change management. She has degrees in Spanish philology, political science, marketing, and service design. She completed her executive MBA at Poznań University of Economics and Business with honors and has received numerous accolades, including the MBA Giant award and the Female Champion of Change award. In 2020, she received a scholarship from the 30% Club to complete the ESMT Executive Transition Program. In 2023, she attained associate certified coach status from the International Coaching Federation.

Details about the speaker Dr. Nancy Hecker-Denschlag
Vita: A Physicist with Passion: Nancy completed her physics studies in the USA at the University of Michigan (B.S.) and Harvard University (M.S. and PhD). She moved to Austria (Universität Innsbruck) working as a postdoc and then to Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) on the professor track. After leaving the academic path for industry, she worked first at Siemens in the telecommunications field as a scientist. Then she moved into management as the Managing Director of both a start-up in Innsbruck and an optical measurement company in Ulm. Then she delved into sales as a Key Account manager, before returning to her roots as a physicist at Carl Zeiss Meditec in Oberkochen. Today she is a Principal Scientist in the Expert Ladder at Zeiss where she works primarily with a team designing microscopes for eye surgery. She also promotes the Expert Ladder as an alternative career path to management and encourages women at Zeiss to reach for the stars. Nancy is passionate about her work in physics especially as a career path, because of its endless possibilities as represented in her own career and also because it is so fulfilling! Outside of work she enjoys learning about quantum physics from her husband (a physics professor), adores her two boys, and is spearheading the initiative to found an Albert Einstein Discovery Center in Ulm (his birthplace). As the president of this non-profit (see www.einstein.center), she feels it is her destiny to establish a ‘museum’ dedicated to the world’s most famous physicist and to promote STEM fields for young people.