Steffen Holly

Business and Strategy Development | Fraunhofer Institute IDMT

Steffen Holly has been active for many years as an expert at the interface of music and technology.

After his time in product development of music software and music recommendations at the Fraunhofer Institute, among others, he was one of the co-founders of the MusicTech Germany association. As a founder, he has been active in the field of privacy enhancing technologies for 4 years and as an interims CEO for a Swiss music AI startup.

For more than 10 years he has been giving lectures at the Popakademie Mannheim in the areas of metadata, blockchain and AI.

As a studied musician and trained electronics engineer, he is also intensively involved in the interrelationship of technological progress and artistic creativity in his private life. Currently he is leading the Business Development at Fraunhofer IDMT.