Hans Uszkoreit grew up in East Berlin and after getting into conflict with the DDR regularities and a short stay in prison he had to flee to West Berlin as he wanted to attend university. 

His initial goal was to become a journalist but after he found interest in the topic of linguistic he went on to have an astonishing career within the space of artificial intelligence making him one of Germany’s most interesting individuals within the space. 

In this episode we talk wiht Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl about Ethics in A.I and the difference between working at the forefront of technical research at world class institutions vs the German automotive industry. 

Gunnar is an incredible Entrepreneur who sold his first Start-Up to Airbnb back in 2011 and later helped Airbnb with their international expansion. With his current company Wunder Mobility, Gunnar and his team are building the backbone/ operating system of future mobility concepts. We had a gerat discussion about a lot of interesting topics from a business and technological perspective with a focus on the mobility vertical. Tune in to get a grasp from Gunnar's incredible experience. 

We visited the Lufthansa Base in Hamburg and recorded and interesting episode with Alexander Motzek who currently is leading the A.I Lab of the Lufthansa Industry Solutions.

We talk about the application of Machine Learning within the Lufthansa Group and the challenges in building out A.I competencies as a large corporate and why the GDPR is so important.

Lars has been active within the mobility space for many years. After spending time at Volkswagen Financial Services as the Head of Automotive Innovation working on Connectivity, E-Mobility and Mobile Services he joined the German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG as the Director for Mobility and Automotive building up a high-potential portfolio of investments at Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures (e.g. What3Words, Teralytics, Connected Signals, Ridecell, Coord, Renovo, GoKid, Trillium, Kepler Communications).

We talk about the mobility transformation, the mobility venture landscape and why a metropolis like Berlin does not need another 4-letter e-scooter company.

Claudia Pohlink is the Head of A.I at T-Labs and is working at the forefront of technological developments within this space. We talk about interesting use cases within the telco space and what it means to build out corporate innovation labs. Furthermore we dive into quantum AI and the dilemma of talent development and data literacy. 

Holger is somebody that is deeply embedded within the global mobility space. He sold his first start-up on wep-mapping and geolocation data to Nokia. With his current company German Autolabs he is building the platform for Automotive voice assistants. 

How do you take the silicon valley approach to challenging status quo and innovation to one of the largest chemical companies in the world? 

Tune in as we tackle this question with Henrik Hahn the Chief Digital Officer at Evonik. 

Uli Waltinger traveled 2 years across the globe and sat down with all the executives of Siemens and taught them most important things they needed to know in regards to Artificial Intelligence and all necessary digital topics. 

Tune in as we talk about this journey, the massive opportunities in Industrial A.I and the challenges in building out a corporate A.I Lab.

This is our first english episode. Listen to our talk with Carlo Torniai, who is the Director of Strategy, Planning & Digital Ventures House at FIFA. Carlo was responsible for building the first Data Science team within the Product Excellence organization at Tesla focusing on sensor data analysis and customer experience. Prior joining FIFA he transformed the traditional Italian company into a data driven organization with a strong Data Science team.