Dr. Thomas Rietmann
Since 03/2025 – Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence Lead @ Windmöller & Hölscher KG Lengerich2014-2025 R&D & Head of HMI & Assistance Systems for Printing and Finishing @ Windmöller & Hölscher KG Lengerich2011-2013 R&D & Product Lead Vacuum Optics @ VACOM GmbH Jena1999-2011 Surface Physics Diploma & PhD w/ Data Science @ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Dr. Eva Gengler
Eva Gengler, a business informatics specialist, conducts research and works with an intersectional-feminist perspective at the intersection of power and AI. Her research on feminist AI was conducted at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg within the doctoral program Business and Human Rights. She is a speaker and co-founder of the feminist AI Community and of enableYou. She has […]
Prof. Yvonne Hofstetter
Yvonne Hofstetter, 1966, lawyer and essayist, started her IT career in 1999 for a US software provider and with Distributed Artificial Intelligence. In 2020, she co-founded 21strategies and has been its CEO ever since. 21strategies transforms how organizations make strategic and tactical decisions under uncertainty. To aim at that mission, the company provides next-gen artificial […]
Dr. Katharina von Knop
Very busy finding and devloping and executing innovative AI products. Leading three AI projects: 1. At Deploy AI we are building the platform for trustwothy AI on behalf of the EU Commission. We are 28 Partners and I am leading the team which is responible for building trustworthiness software testing tools. (Digital Service Act, EU […]
Nestor Maslej
Nestor Maslej is a Research Manager at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). In this position, he manages the AI Index and Global AI Vibrancy Tool. In developing tools that track the advancement of AI, Nestor hopes to make the AI space more accessible to policymakers, business leaders and the lay public. Nestor’s work […]
Prof. Dr. Katharina Zweig
Katharina studied biochemistry. While studying bioinformatics, she did her PhD in theoretical computer science. As a postdoc, she delved into statistical physics at the ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. After leading a junior research group at University of Heidelberg, she joined the TU Kaiserslautern as a professor in 2012. She is researching how humans can make […]
Dr. Yorck Hesselbarth
Yorck has been researching and working in Artificial Intelligence for more than 7 years and is an expert in strategic technology management and global organizational transformation. His experience ranges from start-ups to large corporates. He led several innovative, cutting-edge AI projects for the German Armed Forces and advised executives in delivering solutions that kept companies […]
Johannes Otterbach
Dr. Nicolas Flores-Herr
Manager Foundation Models & GenAI Systems I am the Site Lead of Fraunhofer IAIS in Dresden, where I head an interdisciplinary team working since 2022 on the development and application of sovereign and open source large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. Our expertise spans the full lifecycle: from dataset creation, pretraining and continued pretraining […]
Prof. Dr. Joanna Bryson
I am an academic qualified in both natural and artificial intelligence. My current scientific research focus is how technology and governance impact key human cooperative behaviour. Topics include political polarisation, economic inequality, punishment and public goods investment. I also have both more basic and more applied research programmes. My PhD (MIT) is in AI, primarily […]