Ute Schmid is a full professor for cognitive systems at University of Bamberg. She has more than 20 years experience in research and teaching in AI. She is director at the Bavarian Research Institute of Digital Transformation (bidt), member of the Bavarian AI council, co-speaker of the working group 1 of the Germany's Platform for Artificial Intelligence, and head of the working group AI and School of the German Informatics Society (GI). With university diplomas both in Psychology and Computer Science she has a suitable interdisciplinary perspective for computer science and AI education for tailored to different target groups. For your long-standing commitment to promoting women and young talent in computer science and in the area of AI Ute Schmid has been honored with the Minerva Gender Equality Award of Informatics Europe and with the Rainer-Markgraf-Award.

Ute Schmid holds the Chair of Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg. For more than 20 years, she has been teaching and conducting research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. From 2020 to 2025, she led the Fraunhofer IIS Comprehensible AI project group. She heads the SME AI Experience Centre, funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, and is a member of the board of directors at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). Ute Schmid is internationally recognised in the areas of human-like machine learning, neuro-symbolic AI and explainable machine learning. She also conducts research in the field of AI and education. In addition to a degree in Computer Science, she has also obtained a degree in Psychology and has many years of experience in empirical research.