Introduction
This event is not a recruiting trade fair or an industry conference. On 29 September 2026, Kini co-founders Fabian Scheib and Julia Komkowski give a guest lecture about building Kini to an MBA class of Esade Business School in Berlin.
The lecture is a class session for Esade students, not a public conference. There are no tickets and no open registration. Both founders are based in Berlin, so if you work on an ATS platform, a job board, a recruiting agency or an enterprise HR team and want to talk to them, you can book a meeting directly.
TL;DR
- What: a guest lecture by Kini's co-founders to an MBA class of Esade Business School, about building Kini.
- When and where: 29 September 2026 in Berlin, Germany. The exact venue and time are not public.
- Who from Kini: Fabian Scheib (Co-Founder and CEO) and Julia Komkowski (Co-Founder and CTO).
- Access: a closed class session for Esade students, with no public agenda, tickets or registration.
- How to meet Kini: book a meeting through the Kini website. Both founders are based in Berlin.
What is the Esade MBA guest lecture on 29 September 2026?
Esade is a business and law school in Barcelona and Madrid. On 29 September 2026, Fabian Scheib and Julia Komkowski speak to one of its MBA classes in Berlin about how they are building Kini.
Berlin is a regular stop for Esade students who are interested in startups. The school's Full Time MBA page on entrepreneurship describes the options like this:
"Students who want to focus on the entrepreneurship route can customize their MBA journey via several special activities, such as focused Entrepreneurship Study tours and treks (in cities like Amsterdam and Berlin), founder talks and meet-ups, and focused career events and training."
Esade, Full Time MBA: Entrepreneurship
We found no public agenda for the session. This page therefore covers only what is confirmed: the date, the city, the speakers and the topic.
Who from Kini is speaking?
Both co-founders are speaking. Fabian Scheib is Co-Founder and CEO, and Julia Komkowski is Co-Founder and CTO. They started Kini in 2023 after meeting at JOIN, a European recruiting software provider.
Fabian studied at Esade, so for him the lecture is also a meeting with students from his own business school, this time from the front of the room.
It is not the founders' first meeting with Esade students in Berlin. In June 2026, Julia and Fabian were among the founders and investors who met Esade's MBA study tour to Berlin, as Jan Brinckmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Esade, listed in his thank-you post on LinkedIn.
What is the lecture about?
The topic is building Kini. For readers who are new to the company, here is the short version.
Kini is a managed connectivity layer for recruiting. It connects applicant tracking systems (ATS), job boards and recruiting agencies, and it runs the ATS integrations as an ongoing service: monitoring, retries, recovery and connector maintenance are included. Kini is built and operated in Germany by SmartConnect Technologies GmbH.
There are two products. Kini Core is the integration engine that connects an ATS with the systems it exchanges data with. Kini Shop is a job-board marketplace that distributes job ads to 1,500+ boards, including Indeed, StepStone, Kleinanzeigen and the Bundesagentur für Arbeit.
Why we call this category Managed Recruiting Connectivity, and not a unified API, is explained in Managed Recruiting Connectivity: a category explained.
Can I attend the lecture or meet Kini's founders in Berlin?
The lecture itself is closed. It is part of an Esade MBA class, not an open event, and there is no way to register for it.
Meeting the founders is easy, because both are based in Berlin. Good starting points for a conversation:
- ATS platforms: how your end customers connect their own ATS through a one-time magic link, so you never handle their credentials.
- Job boards: how jobs go out of the ATS to your board and applications come back into the ATS with a sync status on every record.
- Recruiting agencies: how Kini Core connects the ATS you work with, and how Kini Shop distributes job ads to boards such as StepStone, Indeed and the Bundesagentur für Arbeit.
- Enterprise HR: data hosted in the EU (Frankfurt) and a data processing agreement.
You can check which systems Kini already connects in the integrations directory, then book a meeting for a 20-minute call.
Book a coffee with the team.
Where can I find more about Esade and this lecture?
- Esade Business School: the school's main website.
- Esade Full Time MBA: Entrepreneurship: study tours, treks and founder talks, including Berlin.
- Esade Full Time MBA: International Experience: how Esade's company treks and study tours work.
- Kini on LinkedIn: where we share news from our events.
