All Speakers and Moderators

Below are the speakers and moderators who have graciously contributed to our TAIX mission: Transatlantic Knowledge Sharing.

Government

Oliver Schramm

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Consul General of Germany in San Francisco

Pauline Kao

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Consul General at U.S. Consulate General Düsseldorf

Felix Neugart

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CEO of NRW.Global Business

Markus Blume

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Bavarian Minister of Sciences and the Arts, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament

Timothy Liston

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US Consulate General in Munich

Gerard de Graaf

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Head of Office, San Francisco; Senior Envoy for Digital to the US; Delegation of the European Union to the United States

Marco-Alexander Breit

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Head of Task Force Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies; German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs

Tina Kluewer

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Director AI at K.I.E.Z. by Science & Startups

Mark Maloney

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Consul at the US Consulate General in Hamburg, Former Investment Banker (Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities)

Darion Akins

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U.S. Consul General Hamburg

Federico Menna

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Chief Executive Officer at EIT Digital

Jayant Narayan

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Lead – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Technology Policy at The World Economic Forum

Dr. Anna Christmann

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Member of the German Parliament and Federal Government Commissioner for Aerospace. Signatory and Co-Founder for #SheTransformsIT

Investors

Ekaterina Almasque

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General Partner at OpenOcean.vc

Karolin Beck

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Venture Partner at Tola Capital

Daniela Caserotto-Leibert

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Investor at Speedinvest

Lidiya Dervisheva

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Partner at Next47

Benjamin Erhart

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Partner, UVC Partners Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners GmbH

Estelle Godard

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Investor at Promus Ventures

Bernhard Gold

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Venture Partner, Head of Corporate Partnerships at Relay Ventures

Jocelyn Goldfein

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Managing Director at Zetta Ventures

Rashmi Gopinath

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General Partner at B Capital Group

Jussi Hätönen

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Head of the EIC Unit at European Investment Bank (EIB)

Sam Hields

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Principal at OpenOcean

Olaf Jacobi

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Managing Partner at Capnamic Ventures

Benjamin Joffe

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Partner at SOSV

Sascha Karimpour

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Managing Director PlugandPlay Tech Center

Samir Kumar

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GM & Managing Director at M12- Microsoft’s Venture Fund

Dr. Yvonne Lutsch

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Investment Principal with Robert Bosch Venture Capital

Nardo Manaloto

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Managing Partner, Qubits Ventures

Jasper Masemann

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Partner at HV Capital

Eva-Maria Olbers

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Operating Partner at Point72 Ventures

Joerg Rheinboldt

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MD at APX Axel Springer Porsche

Cyriac Roeding

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CEO & Co-Founder Earli inc./Entrepreneur; Investor, Founder at Roeding Ventures

Dr. Rasmus Rothe

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Founder at Merantix; Founding Member KI Bundesverband

Mason Sinclair

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Principal at IQ Capital

Richard Socher

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Founder/Investor/Chief Scientist Salesforce; Author

Andreas Unseld

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Partner at UVC Partners

Radhika Iyengar

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Founding Partner at StarChain Ventures

Miko Matsumura

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Managing Partner at gumi Cryptos Capital

Karl Mjardsjo

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Partner at Arcane Group

Jill Richmond

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Founder and Managing Partner at Full Stack VC

Alexi Solit

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Managing Partner at Metamatic Group

Jorden Woods

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Founding Partner at StarChain Ventures

Start-ups/Entrepreneurs

Till Ammelburg

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Program Director China Market Discovery, German Entrepreneurship

Jonas Andrulis

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Founder & CEO Aleph Alpha

Dr. Afsaneh Asaei

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Head of Artificial Intelligence → Digital Product School of UnternehmerTUM

Zod B. Mehr

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Chief Supply Chain & Manufacturing Officer at Kreatize; Manufacturing the world loves. Ex-Apple, Ex-Dell, Ex-Uber/JUMP.

Tyson Barker

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Head, Technology and Global Affairs Program, DGAP

Markus Bohl

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Managing Director Europe at Intel Ignite | Serial Tech Founder | Early-Stage Investor | Forbes AI30 | Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Lynda Brown-Ganzert

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Founder & CEO of Curatio.me

Vanessa Cann

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Managing Director of the German AI Association

Raluca Crisan

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Co-Founder & CTO of ETIQ

Alois Eder

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CTO Intel Ignite Germany

Lutz Finger

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Improve Healthcare with Data & AI – President of Product & Development, Faculty @ Cornell, Author, Physicist

George Frangou

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Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer at Massive Analytic

Adam Patrick Fulham

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Founder of Startup Network Europe

Hendrik Kramer

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CEO and Founder of Fernride

Joerg Lamprecht

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Founder/Chairman DeDrone

Anastassia Lauterbach

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Managing Director EMEA The ExCo Leadership Group, NED, Professor for AI, Public Speaker and Writer, Leadership Coach

Dr. Andreas Liebl

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Geschäftsführer AppliedAI UnternehmerTUM GmbH

Riham Mansour

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Director of Engineering, Document AI @ Google, former Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, @ Intelus.ai

Regina Mehler

Moderator
Founder & CEO of 1ST ROW & WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION

Jan-Philipp Mohr

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Founder at Darvis

Prof. Matthias Notz

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CEO, German Entrepreneurship

Tero Ojanperä

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Co-founder Chairman of Silo.ai

Vern Paxson

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Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Corelight Inc; Vice-President of ICSI

Chiara Petrioli

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Founder & CEO, WSense - Professor, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma

Hedi Razavi, PhD

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Managing Partner at German Entrepreneurship

Robin Roehm

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CEO of Apheris

Tristan Rouillard

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Cofounder at Hasty.ai

Deva Senevirathne

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Co-Founder of Sonraí Analytics

Aleksandar Stojanovic

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Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of AVA

Travis Theune

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CEO at Thermify Ltd.

Roy Tuvey

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Founder & CEO at Vertice

Georg van Husen

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Co-founder and CEO at tenac.io GmbH

Vladislav Voroninski

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Co-Founder & CEO of Helm.ai

Tobias Wessels

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Chief Corporate Development Officer at Udelv, Inc.; formerly GoogleX

Janet Adams

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Chief Operating Officer at SingularityNET

Nicole Buettner

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Founder & CEO Merantix Momentum, Merantix Management Board, WEF Digital Leader for Europe, Supervisory Board Member, Investor

Tommaso DiBartolo

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Serial Entrepreneur with Exits, Author, Faculty, Investor, Philanthropist

Ian Eisenberg

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Head of AI Governance Research at Credo AI

Jesús Hormigo

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Chief of Cloud and AI Officer at Screening Eagle Technologies

Jesús Hormigo

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Chief of Cloud and AI Officer at Screening Eagle Technologies

Katharina Körner

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AI Governance, Privacy Tech, Responsible AI • Advisor, Researcher, Educator

Patty Lee

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CEO and cofounder Orbit Health

Camila Manera

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CoFounder & Chief Data Officer at LIBRODEPASES

Edo Segal

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Founder and CEO at Touchcast

University/Research Institutions

Michal Kosinski

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Associate Professor, at Stanford University

Nestor Maslej

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Research Manager at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Zahar Barth-Manzoori

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Head of DWIH San Francisco “German Center for Research and Innovation”

Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage

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Director, LAMARR Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Damian Borth

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Founding Co-Director of Sociovestix Labs; Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen

Beatriz Botero

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Co-Founder Edgelands Institute, Assistant Professor at Sciences Po Law School, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Joachim Hertzberg

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Professor (Computer Science, AI), Univ. Osnabrück and DFKI, Osnabrück

Holger Hoos

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Co-Founder & Chair of the Board of CLAIRE; Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen University; Professor of Machine Learning at Leiden University

Olaf J Groth, PhD

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CEO of Cambrian.ai; Author of Solomon’s Code; Professor at Hult IBS and UC Berkeley

Gregory LaBlanc

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Lecturer at Berkeley, Stanford, HEC, & Host @ UNSILOED podcast

Dr. Maximilian Poretschkin

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Head of AI Assurance and AI Certification, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS)

Dr. Lea Shanley, Ph.D.

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Executive Director and CEO at International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA

Caroline Simard, PhD

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Managing Director at Stanford University – VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab

Philipp Slusallek

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Professor & Scientific Director, Research Area “Agents and Simulated Reality”, DFKI Saarbrücken

Dr. Christian Temath

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Managing Director, KI.NRW

Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster

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Professor of Computer Science; CEA of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Fabio Cuzzolin

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Director of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Laboratory @ Oxford Brookes University

Antonio Krüger

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CEO DFKI GmbH, Professor for Computer Science, Saarland University

Corporations

Patrick Bangert

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- SVP of Data, Analytics and AI at Searce Inc. - Former VP of AI at Samsung SDS America

Courtney Bowman

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Global Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering, Palantir Technologies

Joseph C. Curley

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VP & GM Intel Software Products & Ecosystem

David Carmona

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General Manager, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation at Microsoft, Author, O’Reilly’s “The AI Organization”

Ria Cheruvu

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AI Ethics Lead Architect @ Intel

Suraj Gajendra

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Vice President, AI Systems Architecture and Strategy, Data Center & AI Group at Intel Corporation

Mark Hawkins

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President & CFO Emeritus at Salesforce (formerly CFO AutoDesk, Logitech)

Aamar Hussain MSc.

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- Leader in Cloud, Data & AI Transformation
- Former Microsoft & Google Leader

Johann Jungwirth

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Vice President of Mobility-as-a-Service at Mobileye; former CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.; Chief Digital Officer of the Volkswagen Group

Ari Kaplan

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Global AI Evangelist at DataRobot

Ted Kwartler

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VP of Trusted AI at DataRobot

Dr. Markus Leberecht

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Manager EMEA Cloud Service Provider Technical Sales – Intel Germany

Zack Weisfeld

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VP & GM Ignite: Intel for Startups

Andreas Welsch

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- VP - Artificial Intelligence at SAP
- Generative AI. Speaker
- Thought Leader
- Host of “What’s the 𝘉𝘜𝘡𝘡?” Live Stream & Podcast

Gunther Wobser

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CEO Lauda

Raghu Banda

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Sr. Director, AI Product Management at SAP Labs

Eman Barhoumeh

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AI Product Management at Meta

Nestor Camilo

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Cloud Adoption Director at Oracle

Jasmin Dave

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Senior Director of Global Corporate Events at nVIDIA

Kavitha Prasad

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GM, Perimeter Protection at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Arun Subramaniyan

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GM, Perimeter Protection at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Dr. Vinesh Sukumar

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Senior Director, Head of AI/ML Product Management, at Qualcomm

Terra Terwilliger

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Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Google DeepMind

JP Vasseur, PhD

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Cisco Engineering Fellow

Prasanna Venkatesh Jayaprakash

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Innovation Head - HCL-ATSS Wave4IOT Lab - Riyadh at HCL Engineering and R&D Services

AI Experts

Jörg Bienert

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President/Founding member KI Bundesverband

Kay Firth-Butterfield

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Head of AI and Member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum

Mario Herger

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Technology Trend Researcher; Author

Matthias Hohensee

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Bureau Chief Silicon Valley Wirtschaftswoche

Ragnar Kruse

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Successful entrepreneur, Co-founder AI.FUND, Co-founder AI.HAMBURG

Manuela Mackert

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C-Level Executive for Compliance, Digital Ethics, iGRC, HR, Legal and ESG-T (Technology); Formerly Chief Compliance Officer of Deutsche Telekom