Fabian Westerheide
Fabian J. G. Westerheide is recognised as one of the leading minds in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Germany and is valued for his visionary approach, which is based on his childhood passion for science fiction. His ambitious goal is to make Europe a strong and sovereign player in the global AI ecosystem. As […]
Vanessa Cann
I am on a mission to make the European AI ecosystem the best in the world through various ventures, policy making and education.
Adrian Locher
Adrian Locher is co-founder and General Partner of Berlin-based Merantix, an AI investment platform, and initiator of the AI Campus, a not-for-profit hub for the AI community in Berlin. He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for the past 20 years, founding more than 10 companies both in Europe and the US, in software, […]
Otto Yon
Marcel „Otto“ Yon is passionate about creating organisations and collaborative teams that are capable of driving innovation at scale. Otto is an AI serial entrepreneur and pioneer. He built three start-up companies from university spin-offs to global market leaders in security & defence, healthcare and automotive. He is also a pioneering public entrepreneur in the […]
Janette Wiget
Dr. Simon Haddadin
Dr. Simon Haddadin, CEO and Co-founder of Franka Emika, is a 33 years old innovative entrepreneur who earned his doctorate in safe physical human-robot interaction. Simon received the Deutsche Zukunftspreis by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in November 2017 and the Manager of the Year 2018 award from Markt&Technik. Besides that, he was able to bring […]
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Hans Uszkoreit is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of nyonic as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin. He is also a co-initiator and Steering Board Member of LEAM.AI. Uszkoreit has worked in AI for 40 years as professor, research leader and entrepreneur. He has authored more than […]
Dr. Rasmus Rothe
Dr. Rasmus Rothe, born in 1989, is an internationally recognised expert in AI and computer vision. He is co-founder and CTO of the venture studio Merantix, which is pioneering the transfer of AI research into real-world applications. He is also the initiator of the AI Campus, a hub for the AI community in Berlin. Dr […]
Veronika Westerheide
Greetings, I am Veronika – an experienced event management professional with a deep-seated passion for Artificial Intelligence. I’ve spent the past decade dedicating my career to the intersection of tech and event organization. My journey began with founding Pandora Events Berlin in 2013, an event agency specializing in the tech industry, serving renowned clients including […]
Dr. Benjamin Goertzel
Ben is the CEO of SingularityNET (a blockchain based AI platform company), and before that was Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics, a robotics company that creates the world’s most advanced humanoid robots. Ben also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, and the OpenCog Foundation. […]