Speakers

Sebastian Hamann, the visionary co-founder of Shopware, has played a pivotal role in shaping the ecommerce landscape. He introduced the concept of storytelling by seamlessly blending content with commerce to create immersive online shopping experiences. Sebastian's entrepreneurial journey began at an impressive age of 15 when he, together with his brother Stefan, co-founded Shopware. As the driving force behind the company's creative vision, Sebastian's out-of-the-box thinking fosters innovative ecommerce solutions that inspire the entire industry to embrace a more emotionally connected and customer-focused approach to online shopping.

Guillaume Moigneu, alias G/, is Principal Technology Advocate at Platform.sh, a cloud applications platform dedicated to simplifying application deployment and operations. With a focus on AI and Sustainability, he strives to make running apps seamless for every developer.

As a longtime Shopware employee, Moritz has experience in all kinds of areas of our business. As former person responsible for community management and service, he has learned to respond to the challenges and wishes of our customers. This perspective makes him the perfect fit for our product leadership team: As Director Product Discovery, Moritz is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap and innovation at Shopware. Together with his team he ensures that our products are tackling market & customer needs while incorporating the feedback from our various target groups.

Mark Casidsid is an industry analyst at IDC specializing in B2B digital commerce. Leveraging his extensive background in manufacturing, Mark provides market intelligence and in-depth insights into key B2B commerce trends encompassing themes such as customer experience, operational efficiency, and revenue generation. Prior to joining IDC, Mark led research initiatives at the World Manufacturing Foundation and held roles at EY and Pirelli as a competitive insights specialist, analyzing transformative trends in the automotive industry.

Tim Jurchen is Product Manager at Shopware and has been working in the web hosting and e-commerce market for more than 10 years. Starting out at one of Germany's largest web hosters, he dedicated himself to agile working methods and was able to gain many years of experience as a product owner in online retail. He is currently responsible for various projects in the Data & Services department and is in the process of defining the Shopware services of tomorrow.

Sebastian Seggewiß is a principal engineer at shopware specializing in e-commerce technology and software development. Since joining Shopware in 2018, he has gained extensive experience building core features and extensions, with a strong focus on Shopware Administration and its extensibility. With deep expertise in Vue.js, Shopware Extensions, and Payment Providers, Sebastian plays a key role in shaping Shopware's developer experience. His close connection to the community gives him valuable insight into what developers love and need, making him a passionate advocate for intuitive and powerful development workflows.

With more than three years of experience as a Quality Engineer at Shopware, Florian has developed a real flair for the continuous improvement of product quality. He is a key driver of automated testing initiatives and, as a developer, ensures that the testing tools are always up to date. Florian is also fully committed to manual testing and is not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Soner Sayakci, Principal Software Engineer, works on core technologies at shopware and is also part of FriendsOfShopware. As a Shopware employee and highly active community member, he passionately drives innovation and excellence while constantly trying new things.

With over four years of experience in customer support at Shopware, Philipp Weitkamp transitioned into the role of Senior Technical Enablement Manager in 2025. In this position, he ensures that the support and sales teams always have the necessary resources and up-to-date knowledge about Shopware to perform their tasks effectively. In addition to his work as Technical Enablement Manager, Philipp has been actively developing with .NET Core (C#/Blazor) for four years on ShopDev – a tool that further enhances and optimizes the work of the support and sales teams.

Fabian Blechschmidt is co-founder of safefive a company offering long term support for Shopware 5 and the CEO of Winkelwagen GmbH, an ecommerce agency focused on Shopware development. He works on improving customer experience and optimizing internal processes for businesses. Currently, Fabian is collaborating on a TYPO3-to-Shopware integration and has developed a payment plugin for an Estonian company. In his free time, he enjoys bouldering, even though he’s afraid of heights.

Jordan Kniest is the Head of Development Shopware at basecom, where he collaborates with development teams various eCommerce sites, including both B2B and B2C sites. Over the past year, his primary focus has been on headless development, through which he gathered a ton of insights and learnings. In his free time, Jordan enjoys playing a round of CATAN or other board games, and when time permits, including a good video game.