AI & Data SummitSpeaker Lineup Kenza Ait Si Abbou AI expert and author, former CTO Fiege Logistik Ana Paula Assis SVP and Chair IBM EMEA and Growth Markets IBM Nicola Beer Vice President European Investment Bank Dr Daniela Brönstrup Vice President Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) Christopher d'Arcy Chief Data & AI Officer and Managing Director E.ON Digital Technology GmbH Kilian Gross Deputy Director of the AI Office, Head of Unit Artificial Intelligence - Regulation and Compliance European Commission Agnes Heftberger CEO Microsoft Deutschland GmbH Thomas Jarzombek Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr Rolf-Dieter Jungk State Secretary Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Prof Dr Antonio Krüger CEO German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Benjamin Revcolevschi CEO OVHcloud Roberto Viola Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) European Commission Tino Albrecht Director SAP for Startups MEE, Co-Founder SAP Hypergrowth Catalyst Program SAP SE Jonas Andrulis CEO & Gründer Aleph Alpha GmbH Dr Christian Anhalt IT Secrecy Protection Officer Federal Employment Agency Germany Vivien Bender Manager PwC Simon Betsch Managing Partner KMS TEAM Maria Börner AI Competence Center Lead Westernacher Solutions GmbH Mark Brakel Director of Policy Future of Life Institute Daniel Brusch Co-founder & CEO Honeysales GmbH Nemo Buschmann Public Safety & Defence Officer Bitkom e.V. James Coomer SVP Products DDN Lucy Czachowski Policy Officer AI & Cloud Bitkom Patrick O. Darby Chief of Staff Signal Iduna Markus Dietrich Head Sales Digital Enterprise G+D Netcetera Nicole Dreyer-Langlet HO Digital Workplace and VP Digital Germany; Member of the Board of Management of Airbus Operations Airbus Dr Tobias Ehlgen Head of AI for Systems and Control ZF Friedrichshafen AG Colonel (GS) Frank Endler Head of Branch CIT I 4 Digitalisation Federal Ministry of Defence David Faller VP Development and Managing Director IBM Germany R&D IBM Benjamin Feldmann AI Engineering Lead bakdata GmbH Ulrike Fischer AI Ethics Governance, Corporate Sustainability SAP SE Wolfgang Fresser Sales Data&AI-StreamSets IBM Deutschland GmbH Prof Dr Jürgen Freudenberger Director Key Technologies Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH Daniel Frick GenAI & Automation - Solution Architect IBM Deutschland GmbH Ingo Fuchs Chief Technologist, AI NetApp Enrico Gabriele Head of Data & AI Consulting STACKIT Sergio Gago Huerta Chief Technology Officer Cloudera Inc. André Garstka Senior Project Manager with Focus on GenAI & ET Materna Information & Communications SE Dr Benjamin Gmeiner Head Medical Data Strategy & Science Novartis Marco Goergmaier Vice President Enterprise Platforms and Services, Data, Artificial Intelligence BMW Group Bettina Görner Chief Data Officer ETERNO Evelyn Grass Head of the Artificial Intelligence Division Federal Ministry of Digitization and Government Modernisation Thimo Groneberg CCO Polarise Matthias Habel CEO & Founder alitiq GmbH Max Haeberlein Senior Partnership Manager IQM Quantum Computers Maximilian Hahnenkamp Co-Founder Scavenger AI Dr Sebastian Hallensleben Chair JTC21 / Chief Trust Officer CEN-CENELEC / Resaro Raafat Hantoush Founder & CEO CyberTide GmbH Maximilian Harms Sr. Director, Business Transformation, EMEA Lead Dataiku Dr Dan Hayden Director, Data Strategy TTC Labs @ Meta Anna Helle Innovation Design Lead DACH IBM Deutschland GmbH Isabel Hernandez Cabrera Manager Ethics New Technologies & AI Mercedes-Benz Group AG Christian Hertlein Vice President Artificial Intelligence msg group Dr Maja-Olivia Himmer AI Lead @ CTO Office T-Systems International GmbH Julius Hollmann Founder & CEO digetiers Toni Horländer Founder ProductMap AI Nils Jahnke Research Associate Fraunhofer ISST Marek Janetzke Managing Director Lucid Labs Prof Dr Gesche Joost Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts Head of the Design Research eXplorations department at DFKI Dr Renata Jovanovic Deep-Tech Advisor, Angel Investor Elena A. Kalogeropoulos Senior Policy Advisor iRightsLab GmbH Prof Dr Martin Kaloudis EVP Bechtle AG Dr Christian Karaschewitz Product Management Lead SAP Willy Maximilian Kleinoth Senior Legal Innovation Manager Greenberg Traurig Germany LLP Florian Koch Head of Datamanagement Chamber of Commerce Berlin Alina Krämer Sales Engineer Esri Deutschland GmbH Nicolas Kremer CTO Polarise Edmund Kuras AI Solutions Engineer Weights & Biases Claus Lang Co-Founder & CTO Kodex AI Jacob Langner Department Manager FZI Research Center for Information Technology Margarita Lindahl Head of AI Panasonic Connect Europe Prof Dr Alexander Löser Director Data Science Research Center Berliner Hochschule für Technik Harald Lukosz Cosultant Product Area Stage Bosch Rexroth AG Linda Machwitz Managing Director Digital für Alle Dr Jana Mäcken Senior Data & AI Consultant Nortal AG Dr James Madden Head of Machine Learning Engineering Generali Deutschland AG Vivek Mahajan CTO and System Platform Fujitsu Jan Marquardt CEO & Co-founder Zive Andrea Martin CTO Ecosystem & Associations DACH - Expert in AI Advisory Board Bavaria IBM Martin May Director Technology and Innovation Management SCHUNK SE Walid Mehanna Chief Data & AI Officer Merck Martin Melzer CEO Melzer Kälte-Klima-Lüftung GmbH & ME AI.Support GmbH Elizabet Merissen AI Enterprise Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Larissa Mikolaschek Head of Tech Sest-Digital Dr. Nikolaj Moll Quantum Computing Scientist Boehringer Ingelheim Laura Möller Director Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum (K.I.E.Z.) Ewald Munz Head of Manufacturing, Automotive and Sustainability EMEA Cisco Systems GmbH Dr Kim Nguyen Senior Vice President Innovations Bundesdruckerei GmbH Thomas Paschke Senior Product Specialist GeoAI, Real-Time & Big Data GIS Esri Deutschland GmbH Bhawna Paul Head of Global IT Enterprise Data & platforms Boehringer Ingelheim Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Pehlken Head of Group OFFIS e.V. Anna Petschulies Project Coordinator DIN Dr Christoph Peylo Chief Cyber Security Officer Robert Bosch GmbH Marko Prisky CTO Esri Deutschland GmbH Daniel Privitera Executive Director KIRA Center Tobias Rebert Co-Founder Tentris GmbH Kirsten Rulf Partner & Associate Director Boston Consulting Group Simon Sack CEO NEUROLOGIQ Jürgen Schäfer Distinguished Engineer Infineon Technologies AG Dr Gundbert Scherf Co-CEO, Co-Founder Helsing Lennard Schmidt Founder & CEO Langdock Dr Dr habil Eberhard Schnebel Associate Director of Business Ethics Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Felix Schoenherr Head of Sales AWS Germany David Schönwerth Head of Data Economy Bitkom e.V. Leah Schrimpf Head of Digital Society Bitkom e.V. Dr Lars Schwabe CTO Lufthansa Industry Solutions Holger Schwesig Managing Director Fairplay Towage Group Angelo Sebastianelli TechSales Data&AI-StreamSets IBM Deutschland GmbH Martin Signoux AI Policy Lead, Europe OpenAI Robert Simmeth Country Manager Germany & Switzerland SAS Institute GmbH Prof Judith Simon Professor Universität Hamburg Daniel Sohn Senior Legal Counsel IT Giesecke + Devrient GmbH Dr habil Jonas Soluk Senior Manager diconium strategy Pia Sombetzki Senior Policy Manager AlgorithmWatch Thomas Strottner VP Edgeless Systems Christiane Stützle Partner, Lawyer, Certified Specialist for Copyright and Media Law Forvis Mazars Dr Katharina Swinka Senior Management Group IT for Engineering Volkswagen Group Dr Benjamin Tallis Head of Thought Leadership Helsing Simon Temmen Project Manager KRONE Business Center DigITal GmbH & Co. KG Prof Dr Oliver Thomas Speaker Green-AI Hub Mittelstand Ralph Traphöner Principal Consultant Empolis Information Management GmbH Nikolaos Trikaliotis Process Punk & Architect of Digital Efficiency Ninox Software GmbH Nico Voigt Squad Lead GenAI Amprion GmbH Dr Thomas Volz Managing Director and CTO Quandela GmbH Patrick Walther Managing Director HI Factory eGbR Marie-Teresa Weber Head of Regulatory Policy Meta Franziska Weindauer CEO TÜV AI.Lab Wolfgang Wendt General Manager IBM DACH Marvin Wiedemann Team Leader Robotics Simulation and Learning Systems Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics Dr Ralf Wintergerst President Bitkom Barbara Wittenberg CTO 1KOMMA5° Dr. Yannek Wloch Director of Legal Operations Libra Dr Peter Wolf Head of Deep Tech Porsche Digital GmbH Lukas Wrede CEO koup AI Prof Dr Feiyu Xu Head of Industry AI German University of Digital Science Sarah Zech Head of Global Privacy Advisory & Data Ethics Allianz SE Dr Alexander Zumdieck CTO Technology Management BWI GmbH
Kenza Ait Si Abbou AI expert and author, former CTO Fiege Logistik Ana Paula Assis SVP and Chair IBM EMEA and Growth Markets IBM Nicola Beer Vice President European Investment Bank Dr Daniela Brönstrup Vice President Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) Christopher d'Arcy Chief Data & AI Officer and Managing Director E.ON Digital Technology GmbH Kilian Gross Deputy Director of the AI Office, Head of Unit Artificial Intelligence - Regulation and Compliance European Commission Agnes Heftberger CEO Microsoft Deutschland GmbH Thomas Jarzombek Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr Rolf-Dieter Jungk State Secretary Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Prof Dr Antonio Krüger CEO German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Benjamin Revcolevschi CEO OVHcloud Roberto Viola Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) European Commission
Tino Albrecht Director SAP for Startups MEE, Co-Founder SAP Hypergrowth Catalyst Program SAP SE Jonas Andrulis CEO & Gründer Aleph Alpha GmbH Dr Christian Anhalt IT Secrecy Protection Officer Federal Employment Agency Germany Vivien Bender Manager PwC Simon Betsch Managing Partner KMS TEAM Maria Börner AI Competence Center Lead Westernacher Solutions GmbH Mark Brakel Director of Policy Future of Life Institute Daniel Brusch Co-founder & CEO Honeysales GmbH Nemo Buschmann Public Safety & Defence Officer Bitkom e.V. James Coomer SVP Products DDN Lucy Czachowski Policy Officer AI & Cloud Bitkom Patrick O. Darby Chief of Staff Signal Iduna Markus Dietrich Head Sales Digital Enterprise G+D Netcetera Nicole Dreyer-Langlet HO Digital Workplace and VP Digital Germany; Member of the Board of Management of Airbus Operations Airbus Dr Tobias Ehlgen Head of AI for Systems and Control ZF Friedrichshafen AG Colonel (GS) Frank Endler Head of Branch CIT I 4 Digitalisation Federal Ministry of Defence David Faller VP Development and Managing Director IBM Germany R&D IBM Benjamin Feldmann AI Engineering Lead bakdata GmbH Ulrike Fischer AI Ethics Governance, Corporate Sustainability SAP SE Wolfgang Fresser Sales Data&AI-StreamSets IBM Deutschland GmbH Prof Dr Jürgen Freudenberger Director Key Technologies Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH Daniel Frick GenAI & Automation - Solution Architect IBM Deutschland GmbH Ingo Fuchs Chief Technologist, AI NetApp Enrico Gabriele Head of Data & AI Consulting STACKIT Sergio Gago Huerta Chief Technology Officer Cloudera Inc. André Garstka Senior Project Manager with Focus on GenAI & ET Materna Information & Communications SE Dr Benjamin Gmeiner Head Medical Data Strategy & Science Novartis Marco Goergmaier Vice President Enterprise Platforms and Services, Data, Artificial Intelligence BMW Group Bettina Görner Chief Data Officer ETERNO Evelyn Grass Head of the Artificial Intelligence Division Federal Ministry of Digitization and Government Modernisation Thimo Groneberg CCO Polarise Matthias Habel CEO & Founder alitiq GmbH Max Haeberlein Senior Partnership Manager IQM Quantum Computers Maximilian Hahnenkamp Co-Founder Scavenger AI Dr Sebastian Hallensleben Chair JTC21 / Chief Trust Officer CEN-CENELEC / Resaro Raafat Hantoush Founder & CEO CyberTide GmbH Maximilian Harms Sr. Director, Business Transformation, EMEA Lead Dataiku Dr Dan Hayden Director, Data Strategy TTC Labs @ Meta Anna Helle Innovation Design Lead DACH IBM Deutschland GmbH Isabel Hernandez Cabrera Manager Ethics New Technologies & AI Mercedes-Benz Group AG Christian Hertlein Vice President Artificial Intelligence msg group Dr Maja-Olivia Himmer AI Lead @ CTO Office T-Systems International GmbH Julius Hollmann Founder & CEO digetiers Toni Horländer Founder ProductMap AI Nils Jahnke Research Associate Fraunhofer ISST Marek Janetzke Managing Director Lucid Labs Prof Dr Gesche Joost Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts Head of the Design Research eXplorations department at DFKI Dr Renata Jovanovic Deep-Tech Advisor, Angel Investor Elena A. Kalogeropoulos Senior Policy Advisor iRightsLab GmbH Prof Dr Martin Kaloudis EVP Bechtle AG Dr Christian Karaschewitz Product Management Lead SAP Willy Maximilian Kleinoth Senior Legal Innovation Manager Greenberg Traurig Germany LLP Florian Koch Head of Datamanagement Chamber of Commerce Berlin Alina Krämer Sales Engineer Esri Deutschland GmbH Nicolas Kremer CTO Polarise Edmund Kuras AI Solutions Engineer Weights & Biases Claus Lang Co-Founder & CTO Kodex AI Jacob Langner Department Manager FZI Research Center for Information Technology Margarita Lindahl Head of AI Panasonic Connect Europe Prof Dr Alexander Löser Director Data Science Research Center Berliner Hochschule für Technik Harald Lukosz Cosultant Product Area Stage Bosch Rexroth AG Linda Machwitz Managing Director Digital für Alle Dr Jana Mäcken Senior Data & AI Consultant Nortal AG Dr James Madden Head of Machine Learning Engineering Generali Deutschland AG Vivek Mahajan CTO and System Platform Fujitsu Jan Marquardt CEO & Co-founder Zive Andrea Martin CTO Ecosystem & Associations DACH - Expert in AI Advisory Board Bavaria IBM Martin May Director Technology and Innovation Management SCHUNK SE Walid Mehanna Chief Data & AI Officer Merck Martin Melzer CEO Melzer Kälte-Klima-Lüftung GmbH & ME AI.Support GmbH Elizabet Merissen AI Enterprise Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Larissa Mikolaschek Head of Tech Sest-Digital Dr. Nikolaj Moll Quantum Computing Scientist Boehringer Ingelheim Laura Möller Director Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum (K.I.E.Z.) Ewald Munz Head of Manufacturing, Automotive and Sustainability EMEA Cisco Systems GmbH Dr Kim Nguyen Senior Vice President Innovations Bundesdruckerei GmbH Thomas Paschke Senior Product Specialist GeoAI, Real-Time & Big Data GIS Esri Deutschland GmbH Bhawna Paul Head of Global IT Enterprise Data & platforms Boehringer Ingelheim Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Pehlken Head of Group OFFIS e.V. Anna Petschulies Project Coordinator DIN Dr Christoph Peylo Chief Cyber Security Officer Robert Bosch GmbH Marko Prisky CTO Esri Deutschland GmbH Daniel Privitera Executive Director KIRA Center Tobias Rebert Co-Founder Tentris GmbH Kirsten Rulf Partner & Associate Director Boston Consulting Group Simon Sack CEO NEUROLOGIQ Jürgen Schäfer Distinguished Engineer Infineon Technologies AG Dr Gundbert Scherf Co-CEO, Co-Founder Helsing Lennard Schmidt Founder & CEO Langdock Dr Dr habil Eberhard Schnebel Associate Director of Business Ethics Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Felix Schoenherr Head of Sales AWS Germany David Schönwerth Head of Data Economy Bitkom e.V. Leah Schrimpf Head of Digital Society Bitkom e.V. Dr Lars Schwabe CTO Lufthansa Industry Solutions Holger Schwesig Managing Director Fairplay Towage Group Angelo Sebastianelli TechSales Data&AI-StreamSets IBM Deutschland GmbH Martin Signoux AI Policy Lead, Europe OpenAI Robert Simmeth Country Manager Germany & Switzerland SAS Institute GmbH Prof Judith Simon Professor Universität Hamburg Daniel Sohn Senior Legal Counsel IT Giesecke + Devrient GmbH Dr habil Jonas Soluk Senior Manager diconium strategy Pia Sombetzki Senior Policy Manager AlgorithmWatch Thomas Strottner VP Edgeless Systems Christiane Stützle Partner, Lawyer, Certified Specialist for Copyright and Media Law Forvis Mazars Dr Katharina Swinka Senior Management Group IT for Engineering Volkswagen Group Dr Benjamin Tallis Head of Thought Leadership Helsing Simon Temmen Project Manager KRONE Business Center DigITal GmbH & Co. KG Prof Dr Oliver Thomas Speaker Green-AI Hub Mittelstand Ralph Traphöner Principal Consultant Empolis Information Management GmbH Nikolaos Trikaliotis Process Punk & Architect of Digital Efficiency Ninox Software GmbH Nico Voigt Squad Lead GenAI Amprion GmbH Dr Thomas Volz Managing Director and CTO Quandela GmbH Patrick Walther Managing Director HI Factory eGbR Marie-Teresa Weber Head of Regulatory Policy Meta Franziska Weindauer CEO TÜV AI.Lab Wolfgang Wendt General Manager IBM DACH Marvin Wiedemann Team Leader Robotics Simulation and Learning Systems Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics Dr Ralf Wintergerst President Bitkom Barbara Wittenberg CTO 1KOMMA5° Dr. Yannek Wloch Director of Legal Operations Libra Dr Peter Wolf Head of Deep Tech Porsche Digital GmbH Lukas Wrede CEO koup AI Prof Dr Feiyu Xu Head of Industry AI German University of Digital Science Sarah Zech Head of Global Privacy Advisory & Data Ethics Allianz SE Dr Alexander Zumdieck CTO Technology Management BWI GmbH