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Adjunct Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner

Managing Director (CVO) ZUKUNFT.unternehmen gGmbH, Adjunct Professor University of Oldenburg

Stephanie Birkner is a full-time CVO on the management board of ZUKUNFT.unternehmen gGmbH. Together with the team, she is building an innovation village that supports people from different systems (science, business, society) in physical and digital spaces to use their ideas to shape not only products and services, but also the economy of tomorrow - and thus society - collectively for the common good. As a co-founder, facilitator/speaker, and in various advisory board roles, she advocates for the issues of entrepreneurial diversity and gender-reflective innovation in startup ecosystems. She also teaches and conducts research on these topics as an adjunct professor at the University of Oldenburg.