Programme 2019

Dr Katrin Schleife, Strategic IT Consulting Public Sector – Smart City, Fujitsu

10:30 - 10:50 Industry 4.0 & IoT

IoT and Real-Time Services in City 4.0

Discovery Stage

10:30 - 10:35 Big-Data.AI Summit

Opening Remarks

Susanne Dehmel, Member of Executive Board, Bitkom e.V.

Black Arena

10:35 - 10:55 Big-Data.AI Summit

Artificial Intelligence: Between Science and Fiction

Prof Dr Prof h.c. Andreas Dengel, Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Black Arena

10:45 - 11:05 Connected World

The Next Level of Human Computer Interaction

Dr Judith Wiesinger, Management Team, MagicLeap

Red Arena

10:50 - 11:10 Industry 4.0 & IoT

A Trip Into Convergence: 11 Years of IoT and Beyond

Discovery Stage

10:55 - 11:35 Big-Data.AI Summit

Towards a European AI Strategy

Susanne Dehmel, Member of Executive Board, Bitkom e.V.

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director General, DIGITALEUROPE

Bertrand Pailhès, National Coordinator for the French AI strategy, Digital and ICT interministerial Directorate (DINSIC)

Prof Dr Christiane Woopen, Chairwoman, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies

Moderation: Natalie Barkei

Panel

Black Arena

11:00 - 17:00

FUJITSU Co-Creation Programme

Digital Transformation Center by Fujitsu

11:00 - 11:30 Digital Art

OrBeat: Making collaborative music in AR

Raphaël de Courville, Co-Founder, NEEEU

Moco Raffael Ziegler, Creative Director and Co-Founder, NEEEU

Anton Kathrein, CEO, Kathrein Group

11:05 - 11:25 Connected World

A Family Business on Innovation and Digitisation

Red Arena

11:10 - 11:30 Industry 4.0 & IoT

Cloud Meets Edge: Getting ready for meeting the demands of Industry 4.0 & IoT

Supriyo Bhattacharya, Manager Portfolio-, Program & Project Management Focus Innovation Management, iNNovo Cloud

Discovery Stage

11:25 - 12:00 Energy

Disrupting The Energy Sector

Yvonne Mertens, Founder & CEO, ATHION

Red Arena

11:30 - 12:00 Digital Art

Avatars in Augmented Reality

Giulia Bowinkel, Artist, Banz & Bowinkel

11:30 - 11:50 Industry 4.0 & IoT

Interoperability enables the next wave of intelligent, service-rich applications

Discovery Stage

11:30 - 15:00

Lunch

Plaza

11:30 - 12:00 Industry 4.0 & IoT

Meetup: Industry 4.0

Prof Dr Prof h.c. Andreas Dengel, Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

11:35 - 12:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Panel | AI 2030: The Blurring Line between Reality and Science Fiction

Moderation: Dr Nabil Alsabah

Black Arena

11:45 - 12:45 Powered by Accenture

Value Networks and Digital Business Models

Catharina van Delden, Founder & CEO, innosabi

Birgit Königsheim, Head of Advanced Services, Nokia

Prof Dr Svenja Falk, Managing Director Research , Accenture

Dr Joseph Reger, CTO CE & EMEIA, Fujitsu

11:50 - 12:10 Industry 4.0 & IoT

AI for Hybrid Cloud – HPE Intelligent Storage

Discovery Stage

12:00 - 12:20 Quantum Computing

A Bridge to Quantum Computing and why we need one

Red Arena

12:10 - 12:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Structuring Big Data and AI information as Digital Objects

Robert E. Kahn, Co-inventor of the Internet, CEO & Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Black Arena

12:10 - 12:30 Tech

Unrecognized Treasures - How Digital Asset Management became an Essential Part of Digitalization

Andreas Gölkel, Co-Founder and COO, pixx.io

Discovery Stage

12:20 - 12:45 Quantum Computing

Impact of Quantum Computing

Dr Rachid El Bansarkhani, Founder & CEO, Quanticor Security

Markus Braun, Managing Director, JoS Quantum

Red Arena

12:20 - 13:40

Introducing: One Centralized Platform For All Your Marketing Data And Decision Making

Masterclass Space 1

12:30 - 12:50 Artificial Intelligence

AI for everyone! But no "one-size-fits-all" strategy

Sabine Bendiek, Chairwoman of the Management Board, Microsoft Germany

Dr Bernhard Schwarz, Vice President Digital Solutions and Strategy, ZEISS Microscopy

Black Arena

12:30 - 12:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Automate the Boring Stuff with Machine Learning

Dat Tran, Head of Data, idealo.de

John McCarthy Stage

12:30 - 13:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

How to Scale Up Data Science Teams Effectively

Leo Marose, CEO & Co-Founder, StackFuel

Patrick G. Walch, Lead Data Scientist, Telefónica Germany

Masterclass Space 2

12:30 - 12:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

How Volkswagen Scales Value from Data Across Brands: Best Practices from Porsche and VWFS

Alexander Thamm, CEO, Alexander Thamm

Ingo Alzner, Platform Manager BI & Big Data, Porsche

Grace Hopper Stage

12:30 - 12:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Future of Added Value in the Data Economy

Joan Clarke Stage

12:30 - 12:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Prediction of Logistics Resource Needs Based on Smart Data Analytics

Dr Andreas Wierse, Managing Director, SICOS BW

Hari Seldon Stage

12:30 - 12:50

User Experience & Usability: The Human Factor in the Digital Factory

Discovery Stage

12:45 - 13:05 Digital Art

Impulse: Why companies should deal with art

Andreas Bauer, Head, Ars Electronica Center

Red Arena

12:50 - 13:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI Meets Fintech: Setup a Data Science Pipeline in a Highly Regulated Environment

Olaf Hein, Department Head & Principal Consultant, ORDIX

Grace Hopper Stage

12:50 - 13:10 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Jobs

Michael Brehm, Managing Director & Founder, i2x

Terence Hielscher, Co-Founder and Managing Director, MoBerries

Black Arena

12:50 - 13:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Capacity Utilization Forecast in Supply Chain Optimization

Dr Julian Pychy, Data Scientist, REWE Digital

Hari Seldon Stage

12:50 - 13:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Capitalize on AI: Bridging the Gap Between Complex Products and Customers’ Requirements

Klaus Reichenberger, CSO, intelligent views

John McCarthy Stage

12:50 - 13:10

Listen with Curiosity - Digital Transformation in Line with your Customers

Discovery Stage

12:50 - 13:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Q&A | Bob Kahn

Robert E. Kahn, Co-inventor of the Internet, CEO & Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Joan Clarke Stage

13:00 - 14:00 Powered by Accenture

Harness the Power of Disruption

Dr Anastassia Lauterbach, Technology Entrepreneur,

Dr Julia Duwe, Head of R&D Production Platforms, Chief Agile Manager, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen

Ulrich Irnich, CIO, Unitymedia

Dr Nandani Lynton, Chief Transformation Officer, Siemens Gas & Power, Service & Digital

Catrin Hinkel , Senior Managing Director, Accenture

Ulrich Dietz, Chairman of the Administrative Board, GFT Technologies

13:05 - 13:35 Digital Art

More than decorative: The Benefits of Art for Companies

Jasmin Grimm, Program Director, Retune

Red Arena

13:10 - 13:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI & ML: Here’s What’s Next in Retail

Michael Feindt, Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Yonder

Hari Seldon Stage

13:10 - 13:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Data-Driven Financial Supervision

Moritz Kiese, Partner, d-fine

Ana Padrão, Senior Project Manager, European Central Bank

Grace Hopper Stage

13:10 - 13:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Direct Marketing Propelled by Big Data & Machine Learning at PAYBACK

Ansgar Schneider, Head of Product Mngmt. Direct Marketing and Data , PAYBACK

Joan Clarke Stage

13:10 - 13:25 Health

Interaction over Transaction - The Power of Digital Relationships

Dr Carol Wildhagen, CEO & Co-Founder, Ariana Digital Health

Black Arena

13:10 - 13:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Next Generation IT Capacity Management Utilizing Advanced Analytics

Alexander Kaffenberger, Senior Business Development Manager Analytics & AI, Fujitsu

Hendrik Müller, Research Associate, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

John McCarthy Stage

13:10 - 13:30 Mobility

Process Embedded Analytics at Daimler with Tableau

Discovery Stage

13:25 - 13:55 Health

The Path to Smart Hospitals and Precision Medicine

Maria Sievert, Founder, Managing Partner Engineering & Management, inveox

Veronika Schweighart, Founder & COO, Climedo Health

Moderation: Julia Hagen

Black Arena

13:30 - 13:50 Industry 4.0 & IoT

PopUp Next - our vision for a multimodal modular system as a future mobility solution

Ralph Hollmig, CTO Multimodal Urban Air Mobility, Italdesign-Giugiaro

Discovery Stage

13:30 - 13:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Don't Stop at Equality & Influencing! - Can AI being Even Better than Humans & Controlling our Life?

Stephan Reimann, Leading Technical Professional Big Data&Analytics , IBM

Hari Seldon Stage

13:30 - 13:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

How Mobile Assistants & AI Transform Traditional Administration into a C2B Economy

Marius Gerwinn, CEO, fileee

John McCarthy Stage

13:30 - 13:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Improved Execution of Data Driven Decisions with the Data Product Profile - on the Example of CEWE

Felix Kruse, Research Assistant , University of Oldenburg

Fatih-Mehmet Inel, Data Scientist , CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA

Joan Clarke Stage

13:30 - 13:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Instalment Detector: Revealing the Transaction Footprint

Grace Hopper Stage

13:30 - 14:00 Finance & FinTech

Meetup: Finance & Fintech

Moritz Simon Geist, Artist, Sonic Robots

13:35 - 13:45 Digital Art

Performance: Moritz Simon Geist »Tripod One«

Red Arena

13:45 - 14:00 Robotics

AI & Robotics in Retail

Bedeir Rizk, CMO, Qopius.ai

Red Arena

13:50 - 14:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI in Practice: How even Complicated Processes in Service and Back-Office can be Intelligently Automated

Andreas Klug, Chief Marketing Officer, ITyX Solutions

John McCarthy Stage

13:50 - 14:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Back to the Future: What we can Learn From HAL 9000

Stefan Holtel, AI Explainer, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Hari Seldon Stage

13:50 - 14:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Enterprise AI – Industrialize AI in an Enterprise Context

Sebastian Welter, Lead AI Architect DACH, Accenture

Jens Frühling, AI GTM Lead , Accenture

Joan Clarke Stage

13:50 - 14:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

How we All Can Benefit from Applying AI in Healthcare

Matthieu-P. Schapranow , Group Leader & Sc. Mgr. Digital Health Innovations, Hasso Plattner Institute

Grace Hopper Stage

13:50 - 14:05

Why Germany's chances lie in Deep Tech

Nils Seger, Project Lead Hub Agency & Co-Founder, RCKT

Discovery Stage

13:55 - 14:10 Health

AI and the future of personalised health

Daniel Nathrath, Founder & CEO, ada

Black Arena

14:00 - 14:30 Digital Art

Digitalism is dead

Jan Bernstein, Artist, Jan Bernstein

Rafael Hostettler, General Manager & Proud Dad of Roboy, Autodesk

14:00 - 14:15 Robotics

Giving Birthday to an Unexpected Unicorn

Roboy The Robot, Autodesk

Red Arena

14:05 - 14:25

Digital or dead. How are Germany's key industries digitizing?

Christian Piechnick, Co-Founder and CEO, Wandelbots

Karolin Hewelt, Project Lead Hub Agency & Co-Founder , RCKT

Janina Kugel, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Managing Board, Siemens

Miriam Schröder, Startup Reporter, Handelsblatt

Jens-Philipp Klein, Managing Partner, Atlantic Labs

Discovery Stage

14:10 - 14:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI for Targeted Image Diagnostics - The Case for Narrow and Effective Business Cases

Jaroslav Bláha, CEO, CellmatiQ

Grace Hopper Stage

14:10 - 15:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Big Data and AI in the Cloud – Challenges, current status, future

Wilfried Hoge, Analytics Architect, IBM

Stephan Schnieber, Business Development Analytics, IBM

Oliver Lucht, Cloud Technical Sales and Solutions, IBM

Masterclass Space 2

14:10 - 14:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Cognitive Automation in the Professional Services: Practicing What You Preach

John McCarthy Stage

14:10 - 14:30 Virtual Experiences

Future of VR

Leen Segers, Founder, LucidWeb

Susanne Dickel, Founder, IntoVR

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

14:10 - 15:30

Learn how to build and scale intelligent service-rich applications with less custom code

Masterclass Space 1

14:10 - 14:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Model Driven Decision-Making

Dirk Lerner, Founder, TEDAMOH

Joan Clarke Stage

14:10 - 14:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Rise of the Mindless Machines

Matthias Plaue, Chief Data Scientist, MAPEGY

Hari Seldon Stage

14:15 - 15:15 Powered by Accenture

Be Digital or be Dead?

Joachim Bürkle, Product Owner and Head of ZERO.ONE.DATA, DB Systel

Frank Riemensperger, Chairman, Accenture Germany

14:15 - 14:35 Transforming the Industries

From „made in Germany“ to “operated by Germany”

Red Arena

14:25 - 14:50

Open Q&A- Digital or dead. How are Germany's key industries digitizing?

Christian Piechnick, Co-Founder and CEO, Wandelbots

Karolin Hewelt, Project Lead Hub Agency & Co-Founder , RCKT

Janina Kugel, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Managing Board, Siemens

Miriam Schröder, Startup Reporter, Handelsblatt

Jens-Philipp Klein, Managing Partner, Atlantic Labs

Discovery Stage

14:30 - 14:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI is Not Magic: It’s Time to Demystify and Apply

John McCarthy Stage

14:30 - 14:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Data Culture Development by Empowering Business Users with KNIME at Continental

Joan Clarke Stage

14:30 - 14:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Designing Ethical Innovation: New Methods for the Responsible Development of AI-Technologies

Simone Kaiser, Deputy Director, Center for Responsible Research and Innovation | Fraunhofer IAO

Johann Jakob Häußermann, Project Manager, Center for Responsible Research and Innovation | Fraunhofer IAO

Hari Seldon Stage

14:30 - 14:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Harnessing Memory-Driven Computing Architecture to Solve Critical Health Challenges

Hartmut Schultze, Memory-Driven Computing Evangelist und Engagement Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Grace Hopper Stage

14:30 - 15:00 Digital Art

Inbetween happenings: time-based landscapes

Carla Chan, Artist, Carla Chan

Tomek Grubba, Co-Founder & CTO, Umbrella Software

14:30 - 14:45 Virtual Experiences

SoccerBot360 = Technology × Football

Black Arena

14:35 - 15:00 Transforming the Industries

Transformation in the Finance Industry

Chris Bartz, CEO & Co-Founder, Elinvar

Arnulf Keese, CDO, DKB

Red Arena

14:45 - 14:55 New Work

Is New Work A Flop?

Black Arena

14:50 - 15:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI in the FUJITSU Factory: Practical Experiences, Hurdles, Gains and Learnings

Alena Fojtík, Senior Data Scientist, Fujitsu

Grace Hopper Stage

14:50 - 15:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Big Data & AI @ Commerzbank AG

Oliver Dörler, Managing Director – Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Commerzbank

John McCarthy Stage

14:50 - 15:10 Cyber Security

International Data Spaces: Enabling Sovereignty in Data Ecosystems

Discovery Stage

14:50 - 15:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Managing Complexity of Big Data Workloads in Multi-Cloud Environments

Christina Kraus, Founder & Product Manager, meshcloud

Johannes Rudolph, Founder & CTO, meshcloud

Joan Clarke Stage

14:50 - 15:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

We and the Intelligent Machines – How Algorithms Impact our Lives and How we Make them Serve us

Jörg Dräger, Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Hari Seldon Stage

14:55 - 15:30 New Work

Future of Work - Perspectives of Two Trailblazers

Catherine Gall, General Manager, thecamp

Moderation: Marlen Klaws

Black Arena

15:00 - 15:30 Digital Art

Guided Tour

Christian Seifert, CEO, Bundesliga

15:00 - 15:20 Transforming the Industries

The transforming power of world class sports

Red Arena

15:10 - 15:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

From Ideas to Production - Lessons Learned from our Machine Learning Projects

Adriana Menegozzo, Data Scientist, Data Insights

Joan Clarke Stage

15:10 - 15:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

How to Build an Enterprise Platform for AI Workloads

John McCarthy Stage

15:10 - 15:30 Cyber Security

Self-Sovereign Identity - using your ID card online

Discovery Stage

15:10 - 15:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Importance of Ethics in AI - Lessons Learned by Microsoft

Ralph Kemperdick, Digital Business Architect, Data, Microsoft Deutschland

Hari Seldon Stage

15:10 - 15:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Up in the Cloud – Next Steps of Customer Support Enabled by Machine Learning for Aviation

Sebastian Baumann, Founder & CEO, DATA|bility

Grace Hopper Stage

15:20 - 15:40 Education & Innovation

connecting sparks of genius ... or how my family almost invented the TV

Catharina van Delden, Founder & CEO, innosabi

Red Arena

15:30 - 15:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

"From Nucleus to Mainstream" - How Advanced Analytics Became Reality @ ZF

Klaas Bollhoefer, Founder & Chief Strategist , Birds on Mars

Stefan Smolarek, Data and AI Scientist, ZF Friedrichshafen

Grace Hopper Stage

15:30 - 15:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Big Geospatial Data – Identifying Hazards with GIS Technology

Stefan Vienken, Product Manager Location Analytics, Esri

John McCarthy Stage

15:30 - 15:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Converting AI Technologies into New Business Value

Richard Stechow, Innovation Consultant , BMI Lab

Dr Naomi Haefner, Postdoctoral researcher and Head of the Emerging Technologies Lab, University of St. Gallen

Joan Clarke Stage

15:30 - 15:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Corporate Digital Responsibility and Decision Making - Guidelines on AI & Ethics

Rebekka Weiß, Head of Data Protection and Consumer Law, Bitkom

Hari Seldon Stage

15:30 - 15:50 Cyber Security

Data driven business models require trusted environments for secure data exchange

Discovery Stage

15:30 - 16:30 Powered by Accenture

Human & Machine

Dr Anastassia Lauterbach, Technology Entrepreneur,

Dr Julia Borggräfe, Director General "Digitalization and Work" Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs,

H. James Wilson, Managing Director of IT and Business Research, Accenture

Matt Morawski, Business Development Officer & Co-Founder, Deep Cube

15:30 - 15:40

Impulse

Black Arena

15:40 - 15:50

AI Technologies for Healthcare Diagnosis in Real Time

Black Arena

15:40 - 16:00 Transforming the Industries

Technology Innovation Hubs – What the Future Holds

Tim Zanni, Global Technology Sector Leader and Chair of Global TMT Line of Business, KPMG in the U.S.

Red Arena

15:50 - 16:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Augmented Intelligence - A Human-Machine Marriage on our Way to Complete Automation

Simon Stiebellehner, Data Scientist , craftworks

Hari Seldon Stage

15:50 - 16:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Creating Train Stations of the Future with IoT & Data Analytics

Oliver Brandmüller, Project Manager IT and Network Infrastructure, DB Station&Service

Grace Hopper Stage

15:50 - 16:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Robust and Scalable ETL on Big Data with Apache Spark

Hitesh Sahni , Head of Big Data and Cloud Computing, Adastra

John McCarthy Stage

15:50 - 16:10 Cyber Security

Seamless authentication - how to set a new benchmark

Discovery Stage

15:50 - 16:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence: Innovations, Investments and Strategies

Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel AI VP & CTO, Intel

Abigail H. Wen, Counsel for Office of the Artificial Intelligence Chief Technology Officer, Intel

Black Arena

15:50 - 17:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Using AI to unlock the value in unstructured content

Masterclass Space 2

15:50 - 16:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Voice-Based Scaling of Comdirects Business Model

Dietmar von Bluecher, CFO, comdirect

Joan Clarke Stage

16:00 - 16:30 Politics

AI, data and Europe’s place in the digital world

Dr Katarina Barley, Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection

Moderation: Susanne Dehmel

Red Arena

16:00 - 17:30

Career Speed Networking

Moritz Simon Geist, Artist, Sonic Robots

16:00 - 16:30 Digital Art

Making Music with Robots!

René Zoelfl, Business Development Director, Parametric Technology

16:10 - 16:30 Industry 4.0 & IoT

Achieving Digital Transformation through Technology Innovation

Discovery Stage

16:10 - 16:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI, European Sovereignty and French German Cooperation

Cédric Villani, Mathematician - member of the Academy of Sciences - 1st vice-president of the Parliamentary Office For Scientific and Technological Assessment (OPECST) – Member of Parliament Fields Medal,

Black Arena

16:10 - 16:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI-Based Disposition Using a Reinforcement Learning Approach

Grace Hopper Stage

16:10 - 16:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Future Roles in AI-enabled Organisations

Georg Wittenburg, Co-founder & CEO, Inspirient

Barbara Lix, Owner, Barbara Lix Consulting

Hari Seldon Stage

16:10 - 16:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Listening Between the Lines: Emotional Intelligence Based on Audio

Dagmar Schuller, CEO and Co-Founder, audEERING

Joan Clarke Stage

16:10 - 16:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Turning Data to Value - The Role of Knowledge Graph driven Digital Twins in Accelerating Digital Maturity

John McCarthy Stage

16:30 - 16:50

Digitization in the Hotel Industry - Combine Technology and Passion

Discovery Stage

16:30 - 16:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Exploiting vehicle measurement data to deliver novel data-driven services

Christian Kaiser, Senior Researcher and Deputy Team Leader of Group Contextual Information Systems and Management, Virtual Vehicle Research Center

Grace Hopper Stage

16:30 - 16:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

How to Make your AI Ethics-Proof? A Primer

Matthias Spielkamp, Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch

Hari Seldon Stage

16:30 - 16:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

IKA – Intelligent Knowledge Assistant to Support the Process Industry

Dr Benedikt Schmidt, Senior Scientist, ABB

Joan Clarke Stage

16:30 - 18:00 Innovators’ Pitch

Innovators’ Pitch

Dirk Wagener, Chief Digital Officer, Cornelsen

Eva Zauke, VP Digital Supply Chain & Head of the SAP Startup Accelerator, SAP

Max Eichhorn, Siemens Mobility, Global Head of Business Development & Strategy

Stephan Dörner, Chief Editor, t3n Magazin - digital pioneers

Lucy Lynn-Matern, Seed Investor & Venture Hunter, Emerge Education

Dr Christoph Amma, CEO, Kinemic

Beres Seelbach, Founder, ONO

Amir Baradaran, Co-Founder, Foldio

Benjamin Federmann, CEO & Co-Founder, doks. Innovation

Johannes Riedel, COO, AIRPARK

Marie-Luise Klose, Senior Manager Venture Development, Deutsche Bahn

Moderation: Julia Gühlholtz

Red Arena

16:30 - 17:00 Digital Art

Lasermice Swarmrobots

So Kanno, Artist, So Kanno

Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister, Federal Ministry of Education and Research

16:30 - 17:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Mit KI die Zukunft gestalten

Black Arena

16:30 - 17:00 Powered by Accenture

Summary of the Day

Daniel Arnold, Project Lead , Daimler

16:30 - 16:50 Big-Data.AI Summit

Worldwide Gathering & Analysis of Large-Scale Measurement Data Presentation

John McCarthy Stage

16:50 - 17:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Panel | Social Consequences: How will AI shape work in the future?

Saskia Esken , Member of Parliament, German Bundestag

Karl-Heinz Brandl, Bereichsleiter Innovation und Gute Arbeit sowie Bundessekretär mti, ver.di

Moderation: Dr Nabil Alsabah

Hari Seldon Stage

16:50 - 17:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Making AI Real - A Practitioners Experience on Insurance Claims Transformation

Viswanathan Narayanan, Head - AI & Cognitive Digital Solutions , Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited - LTI

Joan Clarke Stage

16:50 - 17:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Predicting Car2X Connectivity: A Data Driven Deep Learning Approach

Paul Balzer, CEO, MechLab Engineering

Grace Hopper Stage

16:50 - 17:10 Big-Data.AI Summit

Quality Whisperer – Self-learning AI Improves Production Quality in Complex Variant Processing

Gerhard Schaller, Senior Manager Factory Digitalization , ZF

Britta Hilt, Managing Director, IS Predict

John McCarthy Stage

17:00 - 19:00

Dinner

Plaza

17:00 - 17:30 Digital Art

Guided Tour

Alexander Siebert, CEO & Founder, Retresco

17:10 - 17:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI and Bicycles: How to Make Bike Sharing Smart

Grace Hopper Stage

17:10 - 17:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Cancelled due to Taxi Strike - Using AI-Driven Communication to Streamline Compliance

Joan Clarke Stage

17:10 - 17:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Real-Time Face Anonymization Without Loss of Facial Information

Daniel Reppel, Scrum Master, IAV Digital Lab

Mirko Knaak, Product owner AI, IAV Digital Lab

John McCarthy Stage

18:15 - 18:30 Digital Art

Midissage

Jasmin Grimm, Program Director, Retune

Moritz Simon Geist, Artist, Sonic Robots

18:30 - 19:00 Digital Art

Performance: Moritz Simon Geist »Tripod One«

Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

19:30 - 00:00

Club Night

Club Area

08:30 - 10:30

Breakfast

Plaza

10:00 - 10:30 Opening

International Competitiveness in Times of Digitisation

Red Arena

10:30 - 10:50 Data Science

Death by corporate - Why startups shouldn't work with established companies

Eric Schott, Founder & CEO, Campana & Schott

Innovation Stage

10:30 - 11:30 EU Policy Pitch

EU Policy Pitch

Nicola Beer, Member of Parliament, FDP Secretary General, FDP’s lead candidate for the European elections, former minister of state,

Hildegard Bentele, Member of Berlin House of Representatives, Lead Candidate of CDU Berlin for European election 2019,

Gabriele Bischoff, Trade Unionist / Candidate for the European Parliament (SPD) ,

Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of the European Parliament (Greens / EFA) & Co-Chair of the European Green Party,

Prof Dr Angelika Niebler, Member of the European Parliament, Chairwomen of the CSU-delegation,

Carla Hustedt, Project Lead Ethics of Algorithms, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Prof Dr Moritz Helmstaedter, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt

Christina Kraus, Founder & Product Manager, meshcloud

Black Arena

10:30 - 11:00 Opening

Startup Success Stories

Verena Hubertz, Founder & Managing Director, Kitchen Stories

Daniel Krauss, CIO and Co-Founder, FlixMobility

Red Arena

10:50 - 11:10

What is work and what is human in a superhuman future

Martin Wezowski, Chief Designer and Futurist, SAP Technology & Innovation, Strategy, SAP

Innovation Stage

11:00 - 17:00

FUJITSU Co-Creation Programme

Digital Transformation Center by Fujitsu

11:00 - 11:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

How to Build an AI Nation

Jaap Zuiderveld, Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa, NVIDIA

Red Arena

11:00 - 11:30 Digital Art

Smell Lab Berlin

Klara Ravat, Artist, Klara Ravat

Dr Michael Müller-Wünsch, CIO, Otto

11:10 - 11:30 Voice

The responsibility of companies in digitisation using OTTO as an example

Innovation Stage

11:20 - 11:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Engineering the Future of AI for the Enterprises

Ruchir Puri, CTO and Chief Architect, IBM Watson

Red Arena

11:30 - 11:50

Investing in the Digital Transformation of the European Economy

Harald Gruber, Head of Digital Economy and Innovation, European Investment Bank

Black Arena

11:30 - 15:00

Lunch

Plaza

11:30 - 12:00 Mobility

Meetup: Mobility

11:30 - 12:00 Digital Art

Neural Networks

Dr Michael Müller-Wünsch, CIO, Otto

11:30 - 12:10 Voice

Technology and Responsibility

Innovation Stage

11:40 - 12:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Digital Ethics - Values as the Hidden Key Success Factor for Al

Red Arena

11:50 - 12:20 Politics

How to foster entrepreneurship and innovation as a government

Pål T Næss, Director of Entrepreneurship and Startups, Innovation Norway

Huld Magnúsdóttir, CEO, The Icelandic New Business Venture Fund

Charles Ng, Associate Director, Invest Hong Kong

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

12:00 - 12:30 Big-Data.AI Summit

Panel | AI Ethics: Bridging the Gap Between Philosophy and Technology

Prof Dr Katharina A. Zweig, Head of Algorithm Accountability Lab, Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Prof Dr Christoph Lütge, Director of TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

Sebastian Wieczorek, Head of Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation, SAP SE

Red Arena

12:10 - 12:30 Voice

Regulations for the IT infrastructure - really only brakes?“

Innovation Stage

12:20 - 12:50 LegalTech

Advancing Legal Tech - Insights into the Disruption of an Industry

Zoë Andreae , CEO, LECARE

Kaisa Kromhof, CEO, Contract Mill, Finland

Moderation: Eva Juliane Stark

Black Arena

12:30 - 13:10 Voice

International Aspects of IT contracts – pitfalls and challenges

Innovation Stage

12:30 - 12:40 Artificial Intelligence

The Periodic System of Artificial Intelligence

Torsten Hartmann, Managing Director, Avantgarde Labs

Red Arena

12:40 - 13:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Autonomous Decision-Making, Machine Learning and AI: What Does It All Mean and Why Should You Care?

Stephen Brobst, Former Advisor to President Obama & CTO, Teradata

Red Arena

12:50 - 13:00 LegalTech

Privacy - a competitive advantage

Lisa Gradow, Co-Founder, Usercentrics

Black Arena

13:00 - 13:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Can AI Prevent Crimes? A Live Show.

Sebastian Rücker, Team Lead Data Science , ADVISORI

John McCarthy Stage

13:00 - 14:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Connecting Intelligences - What we Learned Developing an Inspirational AI | Pre-Registration Required

Roman Lipski, Artist, Atelier Roman Lipski

Florian Dohmann, Founder and Chief Creative, Birds on Mars

Masterclass Space 2

13:00 - 13:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Energy.AI - This is how AI is Reshaping Today the Energy World of Tomorrow

Juan Bernabé Moreno, Global Head of Advanced Analytics and AI, E.ON

Hari Seldon Stage

13:00 - 13:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Extracing Explanations from Deep Neural Networks

Marco Huber, Head of Center for Cyber Cognitive Intelligence , Fraunhofer IPA

Joan Clarke Stage

13:00 - 13:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Forecasting Customer Demand with Deep Neural Networks

Ralph Grothmann, Principal Consultant for Predictive Analytics, Siemens

Grace Hopper Stage

13:00 - 13:20 Artificial Intelligence

The Influence and Impact of AI - an Interview with a Data Scientist

Red Arena

13:00 - 13:10 Blockchain

The State of the Chain” - Or - “An Introduction to Web 3

Black Arena

13:10 - 13:30 Voice

Innovative impulses from the automotive industry for the economy

Innovation Stage

13:10 - 13:30 Blockchain

The Future of Blockchain - Implementation and Application

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

13:20 - 13:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Computing Across Data Silos Using Blockchain in Smart Cities

Chunming Rong, Head of the Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI), University of Stavanger (UiS)

Hari Seldon Stage

13:20 - 13:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Engineering of an Enterprise Grade Data Management within an Industrialized Cloud Based Self-Service Data Science Environment

Fabian Hefner, Head of Big Data, Deloitte

Joan Clarke Stage

13:20 - 13:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Moving to the Intelligent Enterprise: Targeted Use of Machine Intelligence

Sebastian Wieczorek, Head of Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation, SAP SE

John McCarthy Stage

13:20 - 13:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Pivigo and the Parts Alliance: Building a Pricing Engine in Five Weeks

Kim Nilsson, CEO, Pivigo

Grace Hopper Stage

13:20 - 13:45 Artificial Intelligence

Recognising Images and Mining the Process - The Strengths of Big Data and AI

Karina Buschsieweke, Co-Founder and COO, Lana Labs

Betty Brown, VP of Operations, nyris

Red Arena

13:30 - 13:50 Blockchain

Blockchain in Germany: Leading or lagging?

Innovation Stage

13:30 - 13:40 Digital Art

Live Tech Demonstration: AR for Cultural Institutions

Raphaël de Courville, Co-Founder, NEEEU

Elena Kountidou, Head of Communications, Konzerthaus Berlin

Katharina Fendius, Project lead museum4punkt0, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

13:30 - 14:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Meetup: Big Data & AI

Dr Oliver Pohl, Data Scientist, Schleswig-Holstein Netz

13:40 - 14:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Data-Driven Prediction of the Evolution of Distributed Energy Resources

Hari Seldon Stage

13:40 - 14:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

How E-Commerce can Benefit from Artificial Intelligence

Cornelia Werk, Consultant for Data Science and NLP, Neofonie

Grace Hopper Stage

13:40 - 14:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

How Machine Learning will Enable Data-Driven Corporate Decision-Making

Jørn Lyseggen, Founder & CEO, Meltwater

John McCarthy Stage

13:40 - 14:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Operationalization of Business Analyses and Architecture Patterns using a Knowledge Graph

Stephan Bautz, Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Joan Clarke Stage

13:40 - 14:00 Digital Art

Through the Looking Glass: How AR & VR transform Cultural Institutions

Raphaël de Courville, Co-Founder, NEEEU

Elena Kountidou, Head of Communications, Konzerthaus Berlin

Katharina Fendius, Project lead museum4punkt0, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Black Arena

13:45 - 14:00 Digital Transformation

Australia’s Digital Transformation Journey

Randall Brugeaud, CEO, Digital Transformation Agency, Australian Government

Red Arena

13:50 - 14:10

The future of Early Stage Funding – and how to facilitate it

Boris Hardi, Angel Investor, Capmatcher

Innovation Stage

14:00 - 14:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Edge Computing for Machine Learning

Michael Kamp, Data Scientist, Fraunhofer IAIS

Joan Clarke Stage

14:00 - 14:25 Cyber Security

Enhancing and Scaling Cyber Security

Susanne Dehmel, Member of Executive Board, Bitkom e.V.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Ambassador at Large for Cybersecurity, Estonia

Black Arena

14:00 - 14:30 Digital Art

Immersive Soundscapes

Felipe Sánchez Luna , CO-Founder, kling klang klong

Klaus Mainzer, Emeritus of Excellence, Technical University of Munich (TUM)

14:00 - 14:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Machine Learning, Big Data, and Responsibility

Hari Seldon Stage

14:00 - 14:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Postbank Goes Big Data: How Postbank Uses Big Data to Automate and Optimize Its Processes

Lars Fockele, Big Data Software Architect, Postbank Systems

Grace Hopper Stage

14:00 - 14:15 Digital Transformation

Singapore's Digital Transformation Journey

Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer, Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Red Arena

14:00 - 14:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

This is AI. How we Keep Changing Automation Processes

Kim Dressendörfer, AI and Data Expert, Cognitive Solution Architect, IBM Deutschland

John McCarthy Stage

14:10 - 14:30 Data Science

How to move an industry into the age of AI.

Christopher Kränzler, CEO, Lengoo

Innovation Stage

14:15 - 14:25 Digital Transformation

Dialogue: Digital Transformation Journeys of Governments Worldwide

Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer, Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Randall Brugeaud, CEO, Digital Transformation Agency, Australian Government

Red Arena

14:20 - 14:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Bring Big Data Up to Eye Level

Joan Clarke Stage

14:20 - 14:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Human in the Loop Machine Learning: Application to Financial Transaction Augmentation

Ahmet Toker, Chief Data Scientist, BANKSapi

Jan Wichmann, Co-Founder, BANKSapi

Grace Hopper Stage

14:20 - 14:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Learning About AI with AI – Automating Workshops and Creating Exit Games

Nicolai Erbs, Senior AI Consultant, INFOMOTION

John McCarthy Stage

14:20 - 14:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Wie kommt die Ethik in den Rechner? - in German

Prof Dr Katharina A. Zweig, Head of Algorithm Accountability Lab, Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Hari Seldon Stage

14:25 - 14:45

Game Of Trolls - How To Fight Hate Speech & Conspiracy Theories Online

Richard Gutjahr, Journalist

Red Arena

14:25 - 14:45 Cyber Security

The Future of Cyber Security

Karsten Desler, CTO, Link11

Katharine Jarmul, Co-Founder, KIProtect

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

14:30 - 15:00 Digital Art

Virtual Reality and spacial media

Harald Gröger, Executive Analytics Specialist, IBM Deutschland

14:30 - 14:40 Digital Transformation

Welcome

Moderation: Mario Günter

Innovation Stage

14:40 - 15:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI Requires Governance and Ethics to be a Chance Instead of a Risk

Hari Seldon Stage

14:40 - 15:00 Digital Transformation

How to boost Continuous Change in times of digitalization

Innovation Stage

14:40 - 15:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Introducing AI solutions into Industrial Production – Requirements, Good Practices and Lessons Learned

John McCarthy Stage

14:40 - 16:00

The Periodic System of Artificial Intelligence

Masterclass Space 2

14:40 - 15:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Using Smartphone Crowd Data to Answer New Questions in Divers Industrial Fields

Grace Hopper Stage

14:45 - 15:00

Make the Future Come Sooner

Mathias Sundin, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Warp Institute

Black Arena

14:45 - 14:55 Tech

The future of authentication and biometrics

Dr Antje Venjakob, Co-Founder & CEO, Oculid

Red Arena

14:55 - 15:10 Mobility

Solid-State LiDAR for the mass market

Red Arena

15:00 - 15:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

AI - Ethical or Legal?

Soumendra Mohanty, EVP & CDAO - LTI, Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI)

Hari Seldon Stage

15:00 - 15:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Airline Data Intelligence - How to Unlock the Power of Data and New Technologies

Mirco Bharpalania, Senior Director Data, Analytics and Middleware, Deutsche Lufthansa

Grace Hopper Stage

15:00 - 15:30 Digital Art

Guided Tour

Arian van Huelsen , IoT / Analytics Field Engineering Manager, PTC

15:00 - 15:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

How AI unlocks Value for the Industrial Internet of Things

John McCarthy Stage

15:00 - 16:30

Startups meet Corporates

Kiran Prakash, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks

15:00 - 15:20 Digital Transformation

The Curse of the Data Lake Monster

Lucy Chambers, Senior Consultant, ThoughtWorks

Joan Clarke Stage

15:00 - 15:30 Diversity & Empowerment

Women in AI

Natascha Zeljko, Founder & CEO & Editor-in-Chief, FemaleOneZero (F10)

Asumpta Lattus, Editor, Deutsche Welle

Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini , Senior Manager for Robotics & Artificial intelligence, Deutsche Telekom

Black Arena

15:10 - 15:30 Mobility

Reimagining Urban Transport - Smart Vehicles in a Smart World

Sarah-Jayne Williams, Director, Smart Mobility, Ford Europe

Red Arena

15:10 - 15:30 Digital Transformation

Welcome to a digital learning journey

Innovation Stage

15:20 - 15:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Modernization of the factory shop floor

Sruthi Mohan, Solutions Engineer CEMEA, Cloudera

John McCarthy Stage

15:20 - 15:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Smart Vehicle Diagnostics

Gerhard Schagerl, Product Manager, AVL List

Grace Hopper Stage

15:20 - 15:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Innovation Graph: Decision Support for Innovation and Technology Management

Matthias Plaue, Chief Data Scientist, MAPEGY

Peter Walde, Chief Executive Officer, MAPEGY

Joan Clarke Stage

15:20 - 15:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Seven Myths of Anonymisation

Hari Seldon Stage

15:30 - 15:40 Diversity & Empowerment

Breaking Prejudices: on Visibility and Women in Tech

Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Executive Director, The Ethical Tech Society

Black Arena

15:30 - 15:50 Industry 4.0 & IoT

Fast Tracking IoT

Oliver Steil, CEO, TeamViewer

Red Arena

15:40 - 16:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Artificial Intelligence, Smart Health and Data Protection Law

Thanos Rammos, Salary Partner, TaylorWessing

Grace Hopper Stage

15:40 - 16:00 Digital Transformation

Digital perspectives: What companies currently have to deal with

Mario Günter, CEO, DSAG

Innovation Stage

15:40 - 16:10 Diversity & Empowerment

Diversity in Tech / Diversity as Innovation-Driver

Stuart B. Cameron, CEO, UHLALA

Aletta Gräfin von Hardenberg, Director, Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter)

Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Executive Director, The Ethical Tech Society

Moderation: Nikki Dean

Black Arena

15:40 - 16:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

From Digital to Intelligent Services

Achim Steinacker, Manager Presales, intelligent views

Thorsten Jankowski, Product Owner Lifecycle Management, Voith

John McCarthy Stage

15:40 - 16:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Analytic Blue Screen of Death: Why Your Analytics Are Crashing

Jordan Baker, Manager Sales Engineering Northern Europe , Alteryx

Joan Clarke Stage

15:40 - 16:00 Big-Data.AI Summit

Unlocking the Power of Mobile Network Data with Advanced Anonymization for Sustainable Mobility

Alexander Lange, Practice Lead Transport Analytics, Telefónica Germany NEXT

Hari Seldon Stage

15:45 - 16:15 Industry 4.0 & IoT

The Future of IoT

Janina Stork, Head of Sales, Hawa Dawa

Dr Richard Büssow, CEO & Co-Founder, Industrial Analytics

Red Arena

16:00 - 16:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

1x Predictive Maintenance to Go, Please!“ - About the Role of Strategic Digital Business Development

Caroline Kleist, Head of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, mayato

John McCarthy Stage

16:00 - 16:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

Big Data and AI: Doing Data in an Ethical Way

Prof Dr Eberhard Schnebel, Group Risk Management, Commerzbank

Hari Seldon Stage

16:00 - 16:30 Digital Art

Fashion Tech

Lina Wassong, Artist, Lina Wassong

Mario Günter, CEO, DSAG

16:00 - 16:20 Digital Transformation

How can Germany survive the digital transformation?

Marco Lenck, Chairman, DSAG

Innovation Stage

16:00 - 16:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

How can Regulators Assure the Quality of AI Systems in Health Care?

Klaus Juffernbruch, Professorship for Health & Social Management, FOM University

Grace Hopper Stage

16:00 - 16:20 Big-Data.AI Summit

The Elements that Ensure Success in a Customer's AI & Automation journey

Brendon Chamany, Sr. Director and Geo Head (Europe) , Wipro HOLMES, AI & Automation

Joan Clarke Stage

16:10 - 16:30 Closing

How Technology is Challenging Our World - And What Must We Do About It

Johannes Diebig, VP, CMO Germany and Austria, Salesforce

Red Arena

16:20 - 16:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Automatically Predicting Assembly Plans for New 3D Product Designs with Machine Learning

John McCarthy Stage

16:20 - 16:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Big Data and Machine Learning for Cyber Security: Three Use Cases

Bernhard Fuchs, Data Scientist, Telekom Security

Natalia Fitis, Data Scientist, Telekom IT

Hari Seldon Stage

16:20 - 16:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

How to Establish an Internal AI Strategy in a Company like Volkswagen?

Joan Clarke Stage

16:20 - 16:40 Big-Data.AI Summit

Would You Like a Transition? Big Data Becomes Smart Data

Martin Peuker, CIO, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Martin Zünkeler, CEO, KAIROS

Grace Hopper Stage

16:30 - 17:00 Digital Art

Joyn Machine - how to build a Digital Arts Lab

Simon Deeg, Co-Founder, studio milz

Aya Jaff, Founder, CoDesign Factory

16:40 - 17:00 Closing

Closing Keynote

Red Arena

17:00 - 18:00

Closing Drinks

Plaza

17:00 - 17:30 Digital Art

Guided Tour