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 Technology, Siemens’ global research organization. He worked at the Artificial Intelligence department and the Center of Excellence of Cognitive Interaction Technology at the University of Bielefeld. He is curious about the foundations of computational intelligence, specifically methodologies that bridge the areas of connectionist and symbolic learning applied to real-world AI and NLP applications. He is passioned about enabling an open and interdisciplinary research and innovation culture with meaningful impact to people`s lives.