The final NEXT 100 are elected! Together with our partners Daimler and WirtschaftsWoche we were searching for the top digital trendsetters. Today, the German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche announced the leading names in the digital industry. Alexander Ljung (founder and CEO of Soundcloud) made it to the top of the list.

The NEXT 100 – TOP 20

Alexander Ljung    Co-Founder & CEO, Soundcloud
Philipp Schindler    Vice President Global Business Operations, Google
Christophe Maire    Founder & CEO of txtr, Partner Atlantic Ventures
Lars Hinrichs    Founder & Executive Geek, HackFwd
Oliver Samwer     Rocket Internet, European Founders Fund
Jens Begemann    Founder & CEO, Wooga
Florian Heinemann    CEO Marketing, Project A Ventures
Heiko Hubertz     Founder & CEO, Bigpoint
René Obermann    CEO, Deutsche Telekom
Sven Külper    Founder & CEO, myTaxi (Intelligent Apps GmbH)
F. Scott Woods    Commercial Director DACH, Facebook
Ralph Dommermuth     Founder & CEO, United Internet
Ralf Kleber     CEO Germany, Amazon
Tobias Ragge    CEO, HRS
Stephan Uhrenbacher     Founder & CEO, 9flats
Mike Butcher     European Editor, TechCrunch Europe
Peter Schaar    Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Germany
Claudia Nemat    Board of managers, Deutsche Telekom
Conrad Fritzsch    Founder & CEO, tape.tv
Lukasz Gadowski     Founding Partner, Team Europe

The complete list of the NEXT 100 can be found in the printed version of WirtschaftsWoche and at wirtschaftwoche.de (from May 8). It was created by combining the results of both, a public voting and the rating of the NEXT 100 jury: The digital community had the opportunity to propose and vote for its top digital trendsetters. A high profile jury consisting of ten investors, entrepreneurs, start-up experts and executives from other industries then decided on their NEXT 100. Each jury member was able to appoint their favourite people among the nominees by distributing between 1 and 10 points per nominee. They could also add a person they thought was missing.

Many representatives of the NEXT 100 will attend the NEXT conference in Berlin on May 8 & 9. Among them will be for example: Rowan Barnett (Twitter Germany), Felix Haas (Amiando), Christian Reber (6Wunderkinder), Christophe Maire (txtr, Atlantic Ventures), Sven Külper (myTaxi) and many more. Some NEXT 100 like René Obermann (Deutsche Telekom), Mike Butcher (TechCrunch) and Claudia Helming (Dawanda) will also be speaking at the conference.

Meet the NEXT 100 and register now at nextberlin.eu/tickets.