Dr. Ursula Feindor-Schmidt, LL.M.
Dr. Ursula Feindor-Schmidt, LL.M. is a senior partner at the media and technology law firm LAUSEN. She holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in intellectual property law as well as a specialist title in copyright and media law. She advises national and international clients on their digital strategies and is entrusted with high-profile test […]
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 […]
Ronja Kemmer, MdB
Ronja Kemmer studied Economics in Germany, Sweden, and Italy, and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2014. In 2025, she was elected Vice Chair of the CDU/CSU Bundestag group for Digitalization, Public Sector Modernization, Research, Technology, and Space. Since 2025, she has also been a deputy member of the Digitalization and Public […]
Thomas Heilmann
Thomas Heilmann is an Internet entrepreneur and fully qualified lawyer. Before he went into politics, he founded many companies, such as an advertising agency, which was later merged into Scholz & Friends, one of europes largest independent communication network. Heilmann became known as a co-founder, start-up financier and small shareholder of various start-ups (including mytoys, […]
Mario Brandenburg
Mario Brandenburg holds a master’s degree in business informatics. He was recruited in 2009 by Europe’s largest software company, SAP SE, where he worked until 2017, first in various positions ranging from Development to Sales. In 2017, he became a member of the German Bundestag for the Liberal Democrats (FDP). He served as spokesman for […]
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. Ulli Waltinger
Ulli Waltinger is the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence & New Technologies at Siemens Advanta and a Fellow of the Siemens AI Lab. Prior he was the Vice President for Artificial Intelligence & IoT at Siemens Advanta and Technology Head of the Siemens AI Lab and Head of the Machine Intelligence Research Group at Siemens […]
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 […]
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Kirchner
Frank Kirchner is speaker of the DFKI Bremen and in charge of the research department Robotics Innovation Center with more than 100 employees. Founded in 2006 as a DFKI laboratory in Bremen, the institute is building upon the fundamental research of the Robotics Research Group led by Kirchner at the University of Bremen. Since 2002, […]
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 […]