Bjoern Schaettgen

Chief Growth Officer at Match-Maker Ventures

Speaker

As Chief Growth Officer at Match-Maker Ventures, my work is dedicated to rethinking how innovation and telecom grow together. The focus is on creating the conditions where innovative technology players and operators not only collaborate but achieve lasting impact. That means turning bold ideas into commercial traction, shortening long sales cycles, and proving that telecom innovation can be faster, less risky, and more rewarding for everyone involved.

Experience across strategy, growth, and corporate innovation has shown how easily promising ideas can stall when players with new, innovative solutions and large organizations struggle to connect. At Match-Maker Ventures, we work to close this gap by enabling structured collaboration, opening trusted executive access, and activating a global network in more than 30 markets. Partnerships have included technology companies in fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, customer experience, and network intelligence, as well as executives designing new strategies, business models, and transformations.

On stage, the role of speaker and moderator is a way to bring these perspectives to life. Conversations are designed to cut through jargon and focus on what truly matters: how to scale innovation in complex industries. Meaningful change happens when diverse voices meet, when innovators challenge convention, and when corporates embrace collaboration with clarity and purpose.