Frank Wernecke, Germany

Keynote Lecturer

Frank Wernecke is founder and CEO of DroneMasters GmbH, a Berlin based incubator for drone related startups and automated aerial mobility. With DRONEMASTERS, he has created one of the largest networks consisting of experts from business, science and public sectors, who are actively shaping the development and the use of drones, beyond traditional industrial and sectoral boundaries.

He is invested in several companies, organized the first major drone race in Germany with around 100,000 visitors at CeBIT and invented the Dronathon, a drone marathon for industrial drones. In September 2017 he hosted the first conference on air taxis, manned drones and flying cars in Europe.

His main concern is the acceleration of change. For more than 20 years he has been working at the crossroads of digitization, sustainability and communications. At the age of 26, he founded his first company.

Today, he also runs the business of laf.li, a digital agency and jkcampaign, a Berlin based campaigning company. He is founder of the bettermap foundation, a non-profit foundation to localize Points of Social Impact, member of the research group Ethical-Ecological Rating at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, partner of the steering committee of TEDxBerlin and founding partner of the entrepreneur network katapult: NOW.

He lives in Berlin, is married to a lawyer, is the father of three children and likes to run marathons.