Matthias Wehr holds a diploma in economics and has many years of experience in the management of European-wide leading conferences, trade conferences, seminars, fairs and symposiums, both on national and on international level. He worked in leading positions for EUROFORUM/informa, VDI Wissensforum GmbH as well as for Springer Science and Business Media. Here he successfully built up the conference department "ATZlive" of the automobile-technical magazine ATZ.