Nicole Büttner is an entrepreneur, economist and tech optimist. Her passion is to make new technologies useful to companies and people. Nicole is co-founder and CEO of MerantixLABS, a leading AI solutions firm and member of the management board of Merantix. She is Digital Leader at the World Economic Forum and was nominated as Young Leader by the Aspen Institute. Nicole trained as an economist and econometrician at the University of St.Gallen, Stockholm School of Economics and Stanford University and holds a MA in Quantitative Economics and Finance.