Dr. Christian Temath
Dr Christian Temath has been managing director of the competence platform KI.NRW since September 2020. KI.NRW is the central contact point for artificial intelligence (AI) in North Rhine-Westphalia. At the Fraunhofer IAIS in Sankt Augustin, he and his team are working on establishing the “AI made in NRW” brand and strengthening the technological sovereignty of […]
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sabina Jeschke
Prof. Dr. Sabina Jeschke is a manager, founder and scientist. After more than 3 years as a board member for Digitization and Technology at Deutsche Bahn AG and a 12-year career as a university professor (Berlin, Stuttgart, Aachen), she founded the start-up Quantagonia GmbH (Quantum Computing) in December 2021. Since 10/2021 she is acting CEO […]
Alexandra Beckstein
Co-founder of QAI Ventures, a company focused on investment and acceleration of Quantum and AI startups. She is leading the investment activities and is also heading the company. In the QuantumBasel project, out of which the company was born, she was responsible for the strategy development as well as building the startup ecosystem. A geoscientist […]
Thomas Neubert
Thomas Neubert is driving forward the transatlantic exchanges on AI, particularly supporting start-ups and medium-sized companies in Germany and the USA. He is an entrepreneur and global go-to-market expert who has founded several successful companies, including Transatlantic AI eXchange (TAIX), WowDAO and JellySpace. TAIX, founded in January 2021, is a platform aimed at improving the […]
Olly Salzmann
Lara Sophie Bothur
I’m Lara, a tech curious communication expert and perpetual learner. As part of Deloitte, I’m lucky to have – and I’d love to open this world up to YOU! Do you want to join my journey as I meet with and find out about innovators & technology experts and their groundbreaking ideas and projects in […]
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 […]
Claudia Pohlink
Claudia Pohlink has over 20 years of professional experience in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence and innovation management. As Director Data & AI at FIEGE Logistik, she is centrally responsible for data and AI topics.Until summer 2024, she headed the Data Intelligence Center at Deutsche Bahn and was responsible for the group’s data […]
Dr. Andreas Liebl
Dr. Andreas Liebl is Managing Director of the appliedAI Initiative and the appliedAI Institute for Europe with the goal to Shape Europe’s innovative power in AI by working on advancing organizations to highest levels of AI maturity and by creating state of the art AI applications. He is Steering Committee member in the Global Partnership […]
André Loesekrug-Pietri
Chairman of J.E.D.I., former Special Advisor to the French Minister of Defence, founder of ACAPITAL André Loesekrug-Pietri, French-German nationalities, held leadership positions in private equity, government, industry and as an entrepreneur. Starting as assistant to the CEO of Aerospatiale-Airbus, he then spent 15 years in private equity and venture capital, including 10 years with China, […]