March 18, 2026
Vision-X-Future
Data Summit
March 18, 2026
Vision-X-Future
Data Summit
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Vision-X-Future Data Summit: Where Data Meets Strategy
Join industry leaders and HICO experts at Vision-X-Future Data Summit Frankfurt 2026 to tackle real-world challenges with cutting-edge solutions in AI-driven planning, ESG integration, and future-ready data strategies. Gain hands-on insights, learn from proven BI success stories, and build lasting connections that turn innovation into impact.
Schedule
10:30 Registration and Marketplace Welcome Coffee
11:00 Thought-Provoking Keynotes
12:30 Marketplace Lunch
14:00 Customer Success Stories & Roundtable Q&As
15:45 Marketplace Farewell Coffee Break
16:30 End of Vision-X-Future Data Summit Frankfurt 2026
A Selection of Distinguished Attending Companies
This selection showcases distinguished companies that attended last year’s Vision-X-Future, reflecting the high calibre of organisations shaping the future of data, analytics, and digital transformation.
Network with your fellow attending companies and discover the peers shaping the future of data, analytics, and digital transformation.
Thought-Provoking Keynotes
Our thought-provoking keynotes deliver expert insights, leadership inspiration, and future-driven perspectives that empower organisations to innovate.
Iceberg Ahead! Can Open Lakehouse Stand up to MS Fabric?
A concise comparison between Qlik Talend Open Lakehouse (Iceberg) and Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse. We highlight the key differences, strengths and limitations of both approaches. Ideal as a guide for anyone who needs to make strategic architecture and platform decisions.
Benjamin Gnädig VP Data & Cloud, HICO Group
World in Flames - More Crisis-Proof Thanks to Smart Planning!
A world characterised by uncertainty, global crises and volatile markets requires agile and reliable control systems. Planning becomes a strategic success factor. We show how planning enables companies to react flexibly, model scenarios efficiently and create transparency across key control variables.
Stefan Spielvogel VP Planning, HICO Group and Olaf Siemon
Senior Solution Advisory Consultant, Jedox
Beyond Dashboards: The Next Generation of Data-Driven Value Creation
Data-driven value creation occurs when clear, consistent dashboards lead to measurable actions and improved business performance. Learn from practical examples how a common understanding of performance is created – and how these dashboards can directly trigger decisions via integrated automation and collaboration functions (e.g. via Microsoft Power Platform or Qlik Automations).
Peter Schmitz VP Analytics, HICO Group
From Vision to Value Creation: How to Successfully Implement Digital Transformation with a Proprietary AI Platform
Many digitalisation and AI projects fail not because of the technology, but because there is no central, scalable AI platform. We show you how to strategically plan, technically implement and organisationally anchor a proprietary AI platform so that AI does not get bogged down in isolated pilot projects, but generates value across the board without exceeding the budget.
Maximilian Kuhn AI Engineer Consultant, HICO Group
Inspiring Customer Success Stories
Our customer success stories highlight real results, proven strategies, and transformative outcomes that demonstrate how organisations achieve measurable impact.
More Than Just Technology: Our Journey to Cloud-Based Business Intelligence
A lack of collaboration, rising costs, and technical limitations forced us to rethink our approach and move to the cloud. A field report covering strategy, hurdles, and breakthroughs.
Björn Heinrichs Team Leader BI Reporting Services, Deutsche Glasfaser
From Excel Chaos to Structured Corporate Planning – How LOTTO Hessen Redesigned Processes, Budgeting, and P&L Planning with Jedox
How can companies move from manual Excel silos to an automated, digital, and standardized performance planning system? In this presentation, LOTTO Hessen demonstrates how the use of Jedox has sustainably optimized core planning processes.
The focus is on professionalizing budget planning, creating transparent and efficient profit and loss (P&L) planning, and consistently automating and digitizing existing workflows. Through clear standardization and simplified administration, the former Excel chaos was replaced with a future-proof planning platform that delivers greater transparency, speed, and control.
Tabea Larwig LOTTO Hessen
Engaging Roundtable Q&As
Our roundtable Q&As gather experts, practitioners, and decision-makers to exchange real-world experiences, practical strategies, and future-focused perspectives.
Are Reports Still Relevant?
Why Reporting Is Here to Stay
Dashboards, self-service BI, and AI-driven analytics dominate today’s data conversations. Reports are often dismissed as outdated, or even obsolete. Yet when it comes to compliance, operational reliability, and executive accountability, reporting remains indispensable.
This roundtable challenges the “reports are dead” narrative and explores why structured, automated reporting continues to play a critical role in modern organizations. We will discuss where reports deliver unique value, how they complement dashboards and AI, and why reporting is not disappearing - but evolving.
Key questions we will explore:
- If dashboards are everywhere, why are reports still in demand?
- Where do dashboards fall short in real-world business scenarios?
- How do automation, security, and consistency shape modern reporting?
- Can AI enhance reporting without replacing it?
Emma Camacho Head of Consulting, Mail & Deploy
Agentic AI and Decision Intelligence: From Dashboards to Decentralized Business Decisions
Many companies have well-established BI landscapes but are reaching their limits: How can insights be made widely usable and quickly turned into decisions?
Agentic AI and Decision Intelligence address this through autonomous systems that analyze data, simulate scenarios, and even act independently.
In this roundtable, we will discuss possible applications as well as topics such as data maturity, cultural transformation, and the impact on organizational structures.
Jan Wetzke Director Sales DACH - Commercial Accounts, Qlik
AI and Planning - Visionary Hype or Genuine Added Value?
We examine whether the use of AI in planning is already creating sustainable added value or whether many promises are still stuck in visionary hype. We discuss practical application scenarios, the limitations of current technologies, and the question of how companies can make the transition from experiments to real benefits.
Stefan Spielvogel VP Planning, HICO Group
Our Expert Speakers
Our expert speakers bring deep industry knowledge, hands-on experience, and future-focused perspectives that inspire meaningful transformation.
Olaf Siemon Jedox
Olaf Siemon has 29 years of experience in a global industrial company, covering roles from SAP helpdesk and project management to reporting and corporate performance management. His expertise lies in building efficient reporting and planning landscapes. Since 2012, he has led the implementation and expansion of Jedox as a central CPM platform, scaling it from 10 to 600 users across Europe. Since July 2025, he has been a Senior Solution Advisory Consultant at Jedox, leveraging his deep experience in consulting, solution design, and performance management.
Björn Heinrichs Deutsche Glasfaser
Jan Wetzke Qlik
Jan Wetzke’s passion lies in data and in exploring how analytics can become accessible, trustworthy, and value-creating for everyone in an organization. With Qlik/Talend since 2011, he currently leads the Commercial Account Team for the D/A/CH region, focusing on BI and data transformations. Before that, Jan spent more than 10 years in the data and integration market in consulting and sales roles at companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, SeeBeyond, and PwC.
Emma Camacho Mail & Deploy
Emma is Head of Consulting at Mail & Deploy and brings her years of Qlik experience, Mexican roots and enthusiasm for data to her work. She inspires with captivating demos, shares practical use cases and provides solutions for (almost) every support request related to Mail & Deploy.
Tabea Larwig LOTTO Hessen
Geneve Schwan HICO Group
As a key advocate for IBCS-compliant reporting, Geneve Schwan drives TRUECHART’s vision for clear, standardized business communication. She also leads the HICO AI team, developing innovative AI products like HICO VAULT.
Benjamin Gnädig HICO Group
Benjamin Gnädig, VP Data & Cloud at HICO Group, specializes in transforming data into strategic value through scalable architectures and cloud solutions. With a strong background in consulting, he drives innovation in data engineering, analytics, and cloud transformation.
Stefan Spielvogel HICO Group
Stefan Spielvogel, VP Planning at HICO Group, brings extensive expertise in enterprise planning, performance management, and business intelligence. With a strong background in implementing integrated planning solutions, he helps organizations optimize decision-making processes through smart data modeling, planning automation, and modern BI tools.
Peter Schmitz HICO Group
Peter Schmitz, VP Analytics at HICO Group, is an expert in turning data into actionable insights through advanced analytics and business intelligence. With a deep understanding of data strategy, visualization, and KPI-driven reporting, he supports organizations in making smarter, data-informed decisions.
Maximilian Kuhn HICO Group
As an AI Consultant Engineer at HICO Group, Maximilian Kuhn is leading the development of the HICO AI Competence Center and plays a key role in shaping the AI platform HICO Vault. He supports companies in defining and implementing AI strategies, with a focus on AI strategy, requirement engineering, and solution architecture.
Our Partners
Meet our partners at the Vision-X-Future Data Summit in Frankfurt!
Jedox is the world's most adaptable platform for corporate planning and performance management, enabling companies to create business plans that exceed their previous results and expectations. More than 2,900 companies in 140 countries rely on Jedox to model any scenario, integrate data from different sources, and simplify planning across the enterprise and across systems. Jedox creates an environment where users can collaborate better, respond faster to change, make informed decisions, and realize previously unrecognized opportunities.
Mail & Deploy is the all-in-one reporting solution that automates BI reporting for Qlik, Power BI, Snowflake, and SQL—without additional licenses and without manual effort.
Qlik helps teams get more out of Al with data they can rely on and control. It delivers trusted data products, a powerful analytics engine, and Al agents.
This helps teams reduce risk, keep operating costs in check, and scale Al responsibly as needs evolve. Used by 75% of the Fortune 500, Qlik supports customers worldwide. Qlik works with the systems and partners customers already use, so teams can stay flexible without lock-in.
Impressions of the Vision-X-Future Data Summit 2025
Get a glimpse of the energy and innovation at the Vision‑X‑Future Data Summit 2025 in Frankfurt!
Attendee Voices of Vision-X-Future
Our attendee voices capture authentic impressions, key learnings, and real experiences from participants.
More Details on the Vision-X-Future Data Summit
Do you have any more questions?
The event targets professionals and executives from controlling, IT, data & analytics, ESG management, digital transformation, and business intelligence—especially from mid-sized and large enterprises as well as public institutions.
The conference focuses on how organizations can strengthen their resilience and value creation through smart planning, data-driven decision-making, and artificial intelligence. Sessions highlight agile planning in times of global uncertainty, next-generation dashboards that turn insights into actions, and strategies for building scalable AI platforms that drive sustainable digital transformation.
Participation is free of charge, but space is limited. Early registration is recommended.
Yes! Multiple participants from the same company are welcome. Please register each person separately via the online form.
Meet Your Hosts
Say "Hi" to Michael Schwan and Bastian Lossen!
Michael Schwan HICO Group
As co-founder and CEO of the HICO Group, Michael Schwan is the visionary force behind the company's growth and innovation. With over 20 years of experience in business intelligence and data strategy, he guides enterprises on their digital transformation journey and ensures HICO’s solutions align with real-world business goals.
Bastian Lossen HICO Group
As Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Partner at HICO Group, he oversees strategy, finance, sales, marketing, and internal functions. He drives HICO Groups strategy and initiatives, fosters partnerships, and expands the portfolio, integrating AI and enhancing solutions like TRUECHART and KPI-Chat.
