Astrid Maier is Editor in Chief of XING News, the leading business network for German speaking communities. Astrid has previously worked as a tech reporter for legacy media brands such as Financial Times Deutschland, manager magazine and WirtschaftsWoche. She led the tech desk for Wirtschaftswoche and helped build ada, a new media and learning platform, for Handelsblatt Media Group. Astrid was a John S Knight 2015 Fellow at Stanford University and the co-founder of Dvers Media, a non profit aiming to spur diversity and innovation in newsrooms.