CatalYm is a German clinical-stage biotech developing visugromab, a GDF-15 neutralizing monoclonal antibody designed to reverse immunotherapy resistance in solid tumors and address cancer cachexia.
Philipp Dettmer is the founder, CEO, and head writer of Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, the Munich-based animation studio and YouTube channel with over 25 million subscribers and 3.6 billion views. Starting as a university passion project in 2013, Kurzgesagt has grown into a 70-person studio that transforms dense scientific, philosophical, and technological ideas into visually stunning, widely-shared short films. Dettmer is also the author of 'Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive' (2021) and co-creator of the video game Star Birds, launched in early access in September 2025.
Scott Clarke is the CEO of CatalYm GmbH, a Munich-based biotech company developing visugromab, a monoclonal antibody targeting GDF-15 to reverse cancer immunotherapy resistance. With over 20 years in biopharmaceuticals - spanning Roche's global oncology partnering, BioMarin, Tizona Therapeutics, and Ambagon Therapeutics - Clarke joined CatalYm in January 2025 to lead the company's $319M-funded push through Phase 2b clinical trials, building on visugromab's striking Phase 1/2a results published in Nature showing durable responses lasting 28-32+ months in multiple solid tumor types.
David Pereira is a Brazilian-born product leader, author, and keynote speaker based in Munich, Germany. He is the creator of the 'Untrapping Product Teams' newsletter (23,000+ subscribers) and the author of the Pearson/Addison-Wesley book of the same name. With 10+ million readers reached since 2020 and 88,000+ LinkedIn followers, he is one of the most prominent voices in modern product management. His philosophy centers on cutting through 'bullshit management' to enable teams to create real value for customers and businesses.
Christoph Molnar is a Munich-based statistician-turned-ML-author who turned a side project into the field's most-cited book on interpretable machine learning. Author of six books including the canonical 'Interpretable Machine Learning' (3rd ed., 2025), he runs the Mindful Modeler newsletter and consults on making black-box models explainable. With 16,000+ Google Scholar citations and a PhD from LMU Munich, he sits at the precise intersection where statistical rigor meets machine learning pragmatism.