Steffen Holly has been working for many years as an expert at the intersection of music and technology. After working in areas including the product development of music software and music recommendation systems, he co-founded MusicTech Germany. As a founder, he was active in the field of privacy-protecting technologies for five years. For more than 10 years, he has been lecturing at the Popakademie Mannheim on metadata, blockchain and AI. He is a trained musician and electronics engineer. He currently heads the Business Development Department at Fraunhofer IDMT.