Jan Nintemann
CEO & Founder TransformIT Europe
The initiator of TransformIT Europe, Jan Nintemann, has over 25 years of trade fair experience in leading tech industry exhibitions through his agency, Global Fairs TT-Messe. Based in Osnabrück, Germany, Global Fairs has organized thousands of exhibitors and visitors in specialized B2B theme parks at major trade fairs like CeBIT Hannover, IFA Berlin, and the sister fairs Light + Building – ISH Frankfurt, and ISE Amsterdam, offering full-service concepts from A to Z. Jan Nintemann, father of four, founded Transform IT Europe GmbH in 2024 as the legal entity organizing the Brussels fair. For years, the initiator has passionately advocated for more climate- and environmentally-friendly solutions in the tech industries and is the driving force behind TransformIT Europe.
Bob Snyder
Event Advisor, Industry Editor & Speaker
As an editor and expert in the high-tech industry, Snyder has worked as the editor of more than 30 official trade fair daily newspapers, each supporting the mission and marketing in close collaboration with the trade fair management. He is an award-winning speaker on high-tech channels, having served as a keynote speaker at events for vendors, distributors, market research analysts, and industry associations for several decades. Having lived in Brussels for over 20 years, Snyder is well-acquainted with the European high-tech markets for consumers, businesses, governments, and OEMs.
Günther Ohland has been working for various international tech companies and as an
independent consultant for more than 30 years. In 2009, Günther Ohland and other SmartHome pioneers founded the SmartHome Initiative Deutschland as an interdisciplinary federal association. The association's vision is to promote the development and spread of smart applications in the areas of living, working and mobility in a world shaped by globalization, digitalization and sustainability. Smart technology is a prerequisite for recording and reducing the energy consumption of living, working and transportation. Ohland is the author of several
books on the topics of smart homes, smart buildings and smart living.
Desireé Schneider
TransformIT-Team
Desiree Schneider is a certified event moderator, video presenter and PR expert and
has been working primarily in the smart home and building environment for years and
is well connected there. After various positions as a TV reporter and mobile journalist for a regional news platform as well as in corporate communications, Desiree
Schneider has been a self-employed video editor and presenter since 2016 and has
focused primarily on moderating live events since 2024. She works with the dialogue-
based moderation technique from TalkingBridges, which relies on versatile interaction between the actors on stage and the audience. This also includes active participation in the stage program in order to get the maximum added value from every event for everyone involved.
TransformIT initiator Jan Nintemann and Desiree Schneider know each other from
numerous events in the smart building sector and have already worked together successfully on several occasions.
Liam McSherry
Conference & Partnerships Manager
Liam McSherry has been in the technology events industry for over 20 years, gaining extensive experience in launching and developing conferences, trade shows, and premier business development events worldwide. McSherry has worked on major events for companies like Gartner, United Business Media, and Infopro Digital, and most recently held a senior position focused on strategic business development and partnership building for the consumer technology and IT industry.
Eric Dauchy began his career in journalism, working for the U.S. news agencies UPI and Reuters before becoming an editor at several tech publications. He was the editor-in-chief of the first pan-European monthly magazine for the tech distribution channel. In 1998, he founded the Constellation Group to support the tech industry with international marketing communication programs. As a marketing communication consultant for CTA, he helped the CES trade show evolve into the industry juggernaut it is today. Through his work with various trade and investment agencies in Europe, as well as with hundreds of startups and SMEs, Eric is a well-known marketing communication expert, driven by his curiosity about tomorrow's technology.
Fatbardha Aliaj (Faddi)
Media Manager
Rüdiger Kriete
CEO & Founder TransformIT Europe
Dominik Wesely
Event Advisor, Industry Editor & Speaker
Petrus Lahm has been professionally active in various industries since the 1980s, starting as a regional sales manager in the mobility sector. He dedicated himself to sustainability early on, being one of the inventors of the "Green Dot" in Germany and a founding member of "PDR Recycling" in 1993 (now with 40,000 collection points in trade, industry, and municipalities). As the sales and marketing director in global trade and the personal assistant to a founder of OBI, Europe's largest DIY store chain, Petrus gained extensive experience in world trade. He was also the first European employee of Collins Co Limited, Taiwan's largest general merchandising company, and participated in more than 250 trade fairs worldwide across over 40 industries.
Jacky Khilani
Media Manager