Thomas Weible
Thomas Weible is the creative brain of FLEXOPTIX. A real rebel who dreams up innovations such as the FLEXBOX. He dives deep into the inner life of optics and loves experimenting on real-life problems with our customers. For more than 18 years he has been part of the internet community and has specialized in optical networking.
Session
The network engineering industry is rich with technical talent but remains surprisingly underrepresented in the world of product-driven startups. In 2025 Thomas Weible (CTO and Co-Founder, FLEXOPTIX) and Moritz Frenzel (CEO and Co-Founder, EdgeOps) started to share their entrepreneurial journeys, each shaped by a deep technical background and a commitment to building products instead of pursuing the traditional consulting route.
One year later at EdgeOps (Y 2) and FLEXOPTIX (Y 18) a lot of things did happen in their product companies. The session offers an exciting journey surging awesome highlights and annoying pitfalls we've experienced in the last year timeframe. If you weren't convinced in the first edition of this workshop in 2025, maybe now?
This workshop aims to inspire and equip engineers, founders, and future entrepreneurs with the confidence and perspective to transition from services to products, still shifting from billing hours to building something that lasts, while also fostering connections between existing and aspiring founders.
On more thing, Bernd Sontheimer (formerly sdt.net, now TNG) committed to share his experiences of the merge and acquisition process in 2023.