off the record

Alisa Kapic

speaker

Alisa Kapic is the Regional Vice President CEE at IWG (International Workplace Group) and country director for Austria. She’s been working in the serviced office real estate industry for 19 years across different geographies. Prior to that, Alisa worked for an American Telecommunications Distributor in Memphis, TN and moved to Europe as a Sales & Marketing Director responsible for developing CEE market. Alisa is a passionate athlete, devoted mother, spouse and leader. She has met all the challenges when working in new countries with people from different cultures and understands that flexibility and adaptability played key role in her success.

Renée Wagner

speaker

Renée is a C-level leader with 18+ years of experience in brand, growth, and operations across startups and scaleups in aviation, hospitality, SaaS, and regulated industries. Known for building aligned teams, driving strategic growth, and scaling founder-led companies, she brings clarity to chaos and structure to ambition. Renée started working full-time at 19 and never paused, except for a year of maternity leave. Her strengths lie in agile leadership, brand architecture, and designing scalable processes that stick. Fluent in English and German, she thrives in impact-driven, multicultural settings.

Judith Dobretzberger

speaker

Judith currently works as Strategic Partnerships & Startups Lead, #IamRemarkable Facilitator at Google Austria and is a member of the management team there. She has been with Google for > 8 years working in different roles and countries (IR/Dublin, DE/Hamburg, AT/Vie) and has gained a deep understanding of the tech & digital world as well as leadership skills to navigate through an ever changing environment. In her current role, she works as a strategic partnership manager with big retailers, StartUps and organizations like the female factor, to see how Google can help them achieve their business goals.

Nina Cante

speaker

Nina is a marketing & communications leader with 15 years’ experience designing global thought leadership programs for top tech brands. She specializes in translating complex topics like AI and digital transformation into high-impact events and thought leadership programs in and around top tier conferences (World Economic Forum, Cannes Lions, Mobile World Congress), as well as experience in international corporate Events (internal and external).

Mahdis Schubert

moderator

Mahdis is the co-founder & CEO of the female factor, a platform dedicated to empowering & developing a new generation of female leaders by providing knowledge-driven experiences around personal & professional development, a global mentoring program and a strong network in over 75 countries. Before starting the female factor, Mahdis served as one of the youngest and only female general managers of an international airline in Austria and Germany for over 7 years and led cross-border projects and teams in the Middle East, Europe and the US. She co-founded her first business at age 23 and also served in leadership roles at non-profit organisations such as the World Affairs Council, AustrianStartups and Female Founders. Mahdis is a passionate opportunity maker, diversity advocate, entrepreneur, mentor, podcast host and speaker with a love for business development, sales, negotiations, female leadership and diversity & inclusion.