The European AI Summit 2023
Connecting American and European AI Experts in DeepTech and Sustainability
August 17, 2023
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Cost
FREE for online participation
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for in-person participation
Venue
This will be an hybrid event.
Physical in-person address is
Areal Böhler, Hansaallee 321,
40549 Düsseldorf, Germany
Time & Date
August 17, 2023
7:30 a.m. PDT / 16:30 p.m. CEST
Event Description
Join us at the European AI Summit 2023 – A groundbreaking event that aims to bridge the gap between AI professionals from Europe and the United States.
The primary goal is to facilitate knowledge exchanges, achieved by a unique format based on feedback from our audience. Understanding the value of time, each of the 15 speakers have a short and precise opportunity to convey their views and experiences within a tight 3-5 minute timeframe. This focused approach ensures that attendees receive a diverse range of insights and perspectives from renowned experts across various domains of AI.
The European AI Summit 2023 has garnered exceptional feedback from past attendees, who have applauded the concise yet impactful speaker sessions. The overwhelming demand from the audience prompted us to repeat this one-of-a-kind arrangement, creating an unparalleled experience for all participants.
Target Audience: This event is targeted towards european tech startups, founders, investors, and incubators.
Registration will open soon.
Event Description
Join us at the European AI Summit 2023 – A groundbreaking event that aims to bridge the gap between AI professionals from Europe and the United States.
The primary goal is to facilitate knowledge exchanges, achieved by a unique format based on feedback from our audience. Understanding the value of time, each of the 15 speakers have a short and precise opportunity to convey their views and experiences within a tight 3-5 minute timeframe. This focused approach ensures that attendees receive a diverse range of insights and perspectives from renowned experts across various domains of AI.
The European AI Summit 2023 has garnered exceptional feedback from past attendees, who have applauded the concise yet impactful speaker sessions. The overwhelming demand from the audience prompted us to repeat this one-of-a-kind arrangement, creating an unparalleled experience for all participants.
Target Audience: This event is targeted towards european tech startups, founders, investors, and incubators.
Registration will open soon.
Agenda
Setting out the event agenda, and giving an overview of the AI Scene in Europe
7:30am PST / 16:30 CET: Webinar Opening by co-moderators Regina Mehler and Thomas Neubert
Thomas Neubert
• Founder/Evangelist Transatlantic AI eXchange;
• Co-founder WowDAO
Thomas is Executive Director Strategic Business Development & Innovation @ Intel Datacenter Incubation Group, is building new, transformative lines of business as potential new revenue sources. Adopting the venture capital playbook to form new IOUs (independent operating units) that act like start-up companies and facilitate their success in an agile, fail-fast environment. He built a global sales team, focused on scaling and accelerating time-to-market Artificial Intelligence solutions. He established an validation program giving global leading application and algo developers access to new silicon/platform technologies. Since moving from Germany to Silicon Valley in 1991 Thomas spent 20+ years building up international subsidiaries and domestic start-ups from ppt to IPO. As VP/GM at Deutsche Telekom he led the North America activities for innovative partnering. Thomas is founding member and Chair of GABA “German American Business Association” and also co-founder and coach of SVMC “Silicon Valley Marathon Club”.
Regina Mehler
Founder & CEO of 1ST ROW & WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION
Regina Mehler is the CEO and founder of 1ST ROW & WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION.
The personal branding expert develops leadership brands for executives and company management.
Her goal is the visibility and equal participation of women in business. Most recently, she established a networking platform and recruitment service for female leaders.
Regina Mehler has more than 20 years of professional experience, mainly in leadership roles in the IT industry: In companies such as Siebel, Software AG and Adobe, she was responsible for innovative marketing and change management.
Government / Organizations
7:35am PST / 16:35 CET: Transatlantic collaboration connecting eco-systems
Felix Neugart
CEO of NRW.Global Business
Felix Neugart is a political scientist with many years of expertise in foreign trade and has held various management and consulting positions in Germany and abroad:
- CEO of NRW.Global Business GmbH
- Managing Director International at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- CEO of the Emirati Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Delegate of the German Economy for Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Iraq
- 2014 to 2016: Member of the Advisory Board of the EU Commission on the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement in Brussels
- 2006 to 2016: Several positions at the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Berlin
Pauline Kao
Consul General at U.S. Consulate General Düsseldorf
Pauline Kao assumed duty as Consul General for the U.S. Consulate General in Düsseldorf, covering the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in August 2021.
Before her assignment to Germany, Ms. Kao was the Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, China.
Her first diplomatic posting was as Vice Consul for Economic and Consular Affairs in Tokyo, Japan, from 2002 – 2004. Thereafter, she served as Assistant Information Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Staff Officer for the Secretary of State in Washington D.C., and Political Officer at the U.S. Mission to NATO, in Brussels, Belgium. Ms. Kao also served as the Deputy Chief of the Economic Section at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, and as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Special Operations Command, Indo-Pacific (SOCPAC) in Hawaii. From 2011-2012, she was the Transatlantic Fellow at the German Federal Foreign Office, working at the International Organizations Human Rights Directorate.
Pauline Kao obtained her Master of Laws as a Fulbright Scholar at the Alexander von Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She holds a Juris Doctorate and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. Before joining the State Department, Ms. Kao practiced corporate law at a German law firm in Berlin. The most unusual job she held was as a whitewater rafting guide in the Pacific Northwest.
Gerard De Graaf
Senior EU Envoy for Digital in the US and Head of the EU Office in San Francisco
Senior EU Envoy for Digital and Head of the new EU Office in San Francisco, Gerard de Graaf has worked for more than 30 years in the European Commission across a wide range of policy areas. Until his recent appointment, he was director in DG CNECT, responsible for the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts (DSA/DMA), two landmark pieces of legislation which have been recently adopted in the European Union to keep the Internet safe, protect fundamental rights and enhance competition in digital markets. Previously, Gerard de Graaf was responsible, inter alia, for the EU’s telecommunications and audiovisual policy (including copyright), cyber security, ICT standardisation, Startup Europe, ICT and green, and international relations. He has been co-chairing two of the Trade and Technology (TTC) Council Working Groups, on greentech, and on data governance and technology platforms. Before joining DG CNECT, he worked in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, in DG Research and Innovation and in DG Internal Market. From 1997 to 2001, he was trade counsellor at the Commission’s Delegation to the United States in Washington DC. He joined the European Commission in 1991, having worked for the Benelux Economic Union and the Schengen secretariat on free movement within the EU. Gerard de Graaf is from the Netherlands. He studied Economic Geography and Regional Planning (cum laude) at the Free University in Amsterdam and European Economics and Law (magna cum laude) at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium). Married with two children, he is an avid sports fan and distance runner.
VC / Investors
7:50am PST / 16:50 CET: Expectations and Insights from global investors
Jussi Hätönen
Head of the EIC Unit at European Investment Bank (EIB)
Jussi heads the EIC Investment Services Division at the European Investment Bank which is responsible for the operational implementation of the EIC Fund. EIC Fund is the largest deeptech VC fund in Europe with EUR 4.0bn of committed capital and over 150 investments to date. He joined the EIB in 2009 and previously has been closely involved in developing the EIB’s venture debt practice together with other new products to finance innovation and growth. Before taking responsibility to ramp-up the EIC practice at EIB in 2020, Jussi headed the EIB’s growth capital unit focused on later-stage growth investments. In addition, he has extensive experience in venture and growth investing through financial advisory and at a private investment fund. Jussi is a graduate of, and holds a doctoral degree from, the Turku School of Economics (TSE). Between 2018 and 2020 he held a position of Professor of Practice at TSE.
Nardo Manaloto
Managing Partner at Qubits Ventures
Nardo Manaloto is the Managing Partner of Qubits Ventures, a VC firm investing in pre-seed / seed stage quantum tech startups. Nardo is a computer scientist, deep tech executive and startup entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in the full innovation life cycle, emerging technologies, startup ecosystems development, startup acceleration and scaling, digital transformation, business readiness, and enterprise system transition from legacy systems to modern architectures. Nardo is excited about solving complex global problems using quantum technologies and computing.
Karolin Beck
Venture Partner at Tola Capital
Karolin Beck is an internationally experienced business and marketing executive with a proven track record of bringing new products and services to a global market and developing, managing, and executing results-driven go-to-market plans and strategies.
Prior to joining Tola, she was the Chief Marketing Officer at thinkproject, the leading European SaaS provider for construction and engineering projects, where she transformed the Marketing Team into a modern, data-driven organization and led the ESG strategy for the firm.
During her tenure at Sauce Labs in San Francisco, she was responsible for the self-service business introducing the company to a product-led growth strategy before moving back to Germany in 2019 to drive the EMEA growth strategy as VP Marketing.
At the open-source company Chef Software, she led community engagement and held various marketing leadership positions working with large enterprise customers to adopt a DevOps culture and drive digital transformation.
From 2002 to 2013, she worked at Microsoft in Germany and at its headquarters in Seattle on new and emerging technologies and programs for the developer ecosystem.
Estelle Godard
Investor at Promus Ventures
Estelle is an investor on the Promus Ventures team, focused on early-stage deepetch investments. She previously worked for the European Space Agency, CNES, and the United Nations. Estelle holds a Dual Bachelor’s in Social and Political Sciences from Sciences Po Paris and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (UBC), and a Master’s in Economics and Public Policy from Science Po Paris.
Eva-Maria Olbers
Operating Partner at Point72 Ventures
Eva-Maria Olbers is an Operating Partner at Point72 Ventures in San Francisco where she focuses on Artificial Intelligence and DeepTech investments. She works closely with AI startups in the US and globally, including in the Robotics, Natural Language Processing, and Voice AI space.
Originally from Germany, Eva is passionate about connecting the startup and VC ecosystems between Berlin and Silicon Valley. Prior, Eva worked at The Boston Consulting Group, the Machine Learning startup Knewton, and at the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in London. She holds masters degrees from the London Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
While at Harvard, Eva co-founded STEMgem, an IoT company aiming to engage teenage girls in the STEM fields and winner of the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge. Eva is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and a selected invitee to the Annual Meeting in Davos. She is conversational in seven languages, including Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese.
Startups / Entrepreneurs/Experts
8:15am PST / 17:15 CET: AI/Deeptech/Sustainability - Use cases, opportunities and intl networks
Chiara Petrioli
Founder & CEO, WSense - Professor, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma
Holger Hoos
Alexander von Humboldt Professor in AI
Co-founder and Chair of the Board of CLAIRE
RWTH Aachen University
Joerg Bienert
Partner at Alexander Thamm GmbH
President of German AI Association
Joerg Bienert is partner at Alexander Thamm GmbH, a leading data and AI consultancy in Germany. He also is co-founder and president of the German AI Association (Bundesverband Künstliche Intelligenz e.V.)and participates intensively in the public discussion about the usage of AI in Germany. After studying computer engineering and several positions in the IT industry, he founded ParStream in 2008, a big data startup based in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015.
Kamini Aisola
Director for EMEA Business Development at Amazon Web Services
Kamini Aisola, Director for EMEA Business Development at Amazon Web Services, leads a pan-EMEA organization of business development, and technology specialists responsible for AWS EMEA go to market mechanisms and programs focused on large-scale migrations, business outcomes unlocked by innovations in technology (and using Amazon’s Working Backwards strategy), vertical industry specialization, cloud economics/value engineering, transformation and sustainability. Prior to this, Kamini led the AWS Benelux organization for nine years, focused on driving cloud adoption among global enterprises, mid- and small-sized companies, and hyper-growth start-ups in Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. She brings over twenty years’ experience in the technology sector and holds a Master in Business Administration degree from IMD in Switzerland.
Joerg Bienert
Partner at Alexander Thamm GmbH
President of German AI Association
Joerg Bienert is partner at Alexander Thamm GmbH, a leading data and AI consultancy in Germany. He also is co-founder and president of the German AI Association (Bundesverband Künstliche Intelligenz e.V.)and participates intensively in the public discussion about the usage of AI in Germany. After studying computer engineering and several positions in the IT industry, he founded ParStream in 2008, a big data startup based in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015.
Research Institutions
8:45 am PST / 17:45 CET: Transatlantic collaboration in research and development
Christian Temath
Managing Director KI.NRW
Dr Christian Temath has been managing director of the competence platform KI.NRW since September 2020. KI.NRW is the central contact point for artificial intelligence (AI) in North Rhine-Westphalia. At the Fraunhofer IAIS in Sankt Augustin, he and his team are working on establishing the “AI made in NRW” brand and strengthening the technological sovereignty of North Rhine-Westphalia. A PhD in Business Informatics, he has many years of experience in management consulting in the field of technology as well as in the practical application of AI technologies at an international e-commerce company.
Philipp Slusallek
Professor Computer Graphics @ Saarland University; Scientific Director "Agents and Simulated Reality" @ DFKI Saarbrücken
Philipp Slusallek is Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken & Scientific Director of the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999, a principle investigator at the German Excellence‐Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” since 2007, and was Director for Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009‐2017. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. He is associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum, a fellow of Eurographics, a member of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering), and a member of the European High‐Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Prof. Slusallek co‐founded the European initiative CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe) in 2018.
He originally studied physics in Frankfurt and Tuebingen (Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in Computer Science from Erlangen University. His research covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, simulated/digital reality, real‐time realistic graphics, high performance computing, motion synthesis, novel programming models for CPU/GPU/FPGA, computational science, and others.
After show Party
18:00 CET (in person only)
4:30p.m. – 4:45p.m. CET: Webinar Opening
Topic: Setting out the event agenda, and giving an overview of the AI Scene in Europe
4:45p.m. – 4:55p.m. CET: Panel Discussion – Research Institutions / Universities
Topic: Research Institutions / Universities
4:55 p.m. – 5:15p.m. CET: Panel Discussion – AI Leaders in Europe & The USA
Topic: How America and Europe are building competitive ecosystems, and how they can learn from one another
5:15p.m. – 5:30p.m. CET: Panel Discussion – VCs in Europe & The USA
Topic: Startup Trends for 2023; key elements VCs look for in Startups
5:30p.m. – 5:45p.m. CET: Panel Discussion – Startup & Scaleup Founders
Topic: What matters most – value creation
5:45p.m. – 6:00p.m. CET: Panel Discussion – International Start-up Program4
Setting out the event agenda, and giving an overview of the AI Scene in Europe
7:30am PST / 16:30 CET: Webinar Opening by Founder of Transatlantic AI eXchange
Co-Organizer
Supported By
Sponsor
Transatlantic AI eXchange Partners
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