Prof. Marco Huber, born on 12 January 1980 in Kehl, received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he headed the research group "Variable Image Acquisition and Processing" at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe. He then worked as a senior researcher at AGT International in Darmstadt until 2015. From April 2015 until September 2018, Prof. Huber was responsible for product development and data science services in the Katana division at USU Software AG in Karlsruhe. At the same time, he taught as a private lecturer in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since October 2018, he has held the professorship for cognitive production systems at the University of Stuttgart and is also head of the Centre for Cyber-Cognitive Intelligence (CCI) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. His research focuses on the topics of machine learning, sensor data analysis and robotics in the production engineering environment.

Professor Kristina Kögler heads the Department of Vocational, Business and Technical Education at the University of Stuttgart. Her research focuses on the dynamics and conditioning factors of vocational learning and experience processes and their outcomes, as well as quality issues in virtual and hybrid learning settings. Kristina Kögler is on the board of the Vocational and Business Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science and editor of the series Empirische Berufsbildungsforschung published by Steiner Verlag.