Claudia Lemke is Professor of Business Informatics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin). She has been working on the effects of digitalisation and networking on the economy and society since the end of the 1990s and has published and lectured extensively on this topic, as well as advising companies on digital transformation. More recently, she has focused on ethical issues in dealing with transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Monett Diaz studied computer science at the University of Havana in Cuba from 1987 to 1992, where she also completed her master's degree in computer science from 1995 to 1998. She has lived in Germany since 1999 and initially worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Computer Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2002 to 2005. While teaching at the HWR Berlin from 2003 to 2010, she completed her doctorate in computer science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2005 in the field of agent-based configuration of metaheuristic algorithms, also in the context of artificial intelligence.In the following years, she taught and researched again at the Humboldt-Universität before being appointed professor of computer science at the HWR Berlin in 2010. There she was involved in various projects, including e-learning, a study on the use of big data in human resources and, in 2016/2017, in the interdisciplinary project Bot@HWR, which aimed to expand the research focus on robotics at the HWR. She is also a member of the management team of the "Competence Centre for Digitalisation" at the HWR.
Dr. Sven Schmeier is Chief Engineer and Deputy Head of the Speech & Language Technology research area at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He lectures on data mining, machine learning and information retrieval at TU Berlin, Saarland University, FOM, Bitkom Akademie and DHBW, among others.
Dr. Sylke Piéch is Senior Research Manager at the Educational Technology Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI. There she is responsible for the field of work: AI and Leadership. She also heads the Institute for Leadership & Human Resources Management at the International Academy Berlin, founded at the Free University of Berlin.
Dr. Alassane Ndiaye has been a senior software engineer (R&D) and project manager at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) for more than 20 years, working on research as well as industry and transfer projects. Among other things, he uses machine learning in forecasting methods for the energy industry and electromobility.
Dr Matthieu Deru is a senior software engineer (R&D) and UX designer for interactive systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI). His project experience covers topics as diverse as the application fields of AI, from intelligent user interfaces to complex prediction models for electromobility.
Niels Pinkwart is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Scientific Director of the AI Campus. He is also Scientific Director of the Educational Technology Lab research area at the DFKI Project Office Berlin. He studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Duisburg, where he completed his PhD studies in 2005 with a dissertation on collaborative modeling systems in education. After a post-doctoral researcher position at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, he accepted offers for Assistant Professor and Associate Professor positions at Clausthal University of Technology. In 2013, he moved to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where he heads the research group "Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society".
Kerstin Ritter is Junior Professor for Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Charité - Universitätsmedizin) and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. For more than 10 years, she has been researching AI in medicine - especially on current issues of brain research in the diagnosis of neurological and mental diseases.