Prof. Dr. Ralf Herbrich

Ralf Herbrich leads the group on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam since May 2022. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Builder Platform & Artificial Intelligence at Zalando (2020 – 2022), Managing Director of the Amazon Development Center in Germany with its locations in Berlin, Dresden, Aachen and Tübingen and […]

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu is an AI expert whose career is distinguished by leading positions in research and industry. Prof. Dr. Xu is CEO of Amber Iris AI Consulting. She also serves as member of supervisory board of the ZF Group. She is Non-Executive Director of Airbus Group, ChainIQ Group and Zühlke Group. Pro. Dr. […]

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber

Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber Director, AI Initiative, KAUST Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE ——————– Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire. His lab’s Deep Learning Neural Networks based on ideas published […]

Tanja Schindler

Tanja Schindler has been a passionate and internationally recognized futurist for over seven years with experience in foresight, innovation, leadership and strategy. She holds a dual Master’s degree MBA/Master of Strategic Foresight with distinction from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to the Master’s, she also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in […]

Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting

Kristian Kersting is a full professor for AI and ML at the TU Darmstadt. After receiving his Ph.D. from U. Freiburg in 2006, he was with MIT, Fraunhofer IAIS, U. Bonn, and TU Dortmund. His main research interests are (deep) probabilistic programming and learning. Kristian has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles. He is an Fellow […]

PhD Jesse Lehrke

Jesse Paul Lehrke, PhD. is a Researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin where he works on state-business relations and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration from 2010 to 2018. His research and teaching activities fall within the fields of Security, Strategic, and Military […]

Assist. Prof. Dr. Beril Sirmacek

I received my PhD degree in 2009, officially from the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Istanbul. During my PhD, I have worked as a teaching assistant at University of Trento and Technical University of Munich. After my PhD degree, I continued living in Munich. I have worked at German Aerospace Center (DLR) […]

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 […]

Prof. Teemu Roos

Teemu Roos is the lead instructor of the Elements of AI online course that has a pivotal role in Finland’s unique, inclusive AI strategy, with over 250 000 participants to date. Roos is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. He is also the leader of the AI Education programme at the […]

Prof. Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at […]