First Confirmed Voices 2025 Kenza Ait Si Abbou CTO & Member of the Board FIEGE Dr Maria Börner AI Competence Center Lead Westernacher Solutions Christopher d’Arcy Chief Data & AI Officer E.ON SE David Faller VP Development and Managing Director IBM Germany R&D IBM Dr Alexander Glätzle CEO and Co-Founder planqc Agnes Heftberger CEO Microsoft Deutschland Hanna Hennig Chief Information Officer (CIO) Siemens Holger Hornik Head of Artificial Intelligence msg group Dr Antonio Krüger CEO German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Walid Mehanna Chief Data & AI Officer Merck Larissa Mikolaschek Head of Tech SESTdigital Andreas Nauerz Member of the Board | CTO & EVP Bosch Digital Marko Prisky CTO Esri Deutschland GmbH Bernd Rattey CIO/CDO Deutsche Bahn Hendrik Reese Partner | Squad Lead Responsible AI PwC Dr Heike Riel IBM Fellow, Head Science of Quantum & Information Technology IBM Research Simon Sack CEO & Founder NEUROLOGIQ Wolfgang Wendt General Manager and Technology Leader IBM DACH Dr Ralf Wintergerst President Bitkom Barbara Wittenberg CTO 1KOMMA5° Dr Feiyu Xu CEO Amber Iris AI Consulting