Christian Ude, Lord Mayor of the city of Munich, will be addressing the audience of the FTTH Conference 2012 in Munich during the official opening ceremony.

Christian Ude (born October 26, 1947 in Munich) is the current Lord Mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party.
After his career as a journalist and lawyer, he was elected as Deputy Mayor of Munich in May 1990. In September 1993, he was elected as Lord Mayor and re-elected three times.
Between 2005 and 2009 he was President of the German cities association and was again elected to this post in May 2011 (he was Vice-President in between).
October 2011 Christian Ude was announced the SPD's leading candidate for the upcoming Bavarian state election in 2013.

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Also Stefan Kapferer, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, will be addressing the audience of the FTTH Conference 2012 in Munich during the official opening ceremony.

Stefan Kapferer (Born 6 November, 1965 in Karlsruhe) is since June 2011 State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. He is a member of the Free Democratic Party.
2009 to 2011 he was State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health and carried a similar position 2008 to 2009 at the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Transport of Lower Saxony.
2003 to 2008 he was Director General at Lower Saxony's State Chancellery and, as such, head of the representation of the Land of Lower Saxony to the Federation.
Stefan Kapferer studied administrative science in Konstanz and worked after his graduation on a research project at the Treuhandanstalt, the agency charged with privatisation of former East German state property. Within his party he functioned from 1994 until 1998 as manager and press spokesperson of the FDP in Lower Saxony. In 1999 he moved to the FDP parliamentary group, where he held the position of Head of the strategy and campaigns department at the FDP's federal headquarters.

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