The class reunion for AI pioneers
The Rise of AI 2024 conference brought together leading experts, decision makers and influencers from the AI community to discuss the future of artificial intelligence in society, politics and business.
Hosted by Veronika and Fabian Westerheide, this conference in Berlin featured keynotes from prominent figures such as Dr. Fabian Mehring and Volker Wissing, as well as discussions on AI advances, commercialisation challenges, and Europe’s competitive position in the global AI landscape.
The conference emphasised the need for significant investment in AI startups and highlighted Germany’s position in AI talent and innovation.
This was our line-up of our speakers.
Bundesminister für Digitales und Verkehr
Non Executive Director of Airbus Group, Supervisory Board member of ZF Group
CIO Federal Ministry of Defense
Professor at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Head of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, UNITED NATIONS
Department Head AI at German Federal Ministry (BMBF) | Artificial Intelligence Founder | Board Member
Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser European Parliament
Co-Founder & CEO Europe of nyonic
Reporter Handelsblatt
Founder Merantix AG | Co-Founder AI Campus Berlin | Board Member KI Bundesverband e.V.
Bayerischer Staatsminister für Digitales | Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Digitales
Aerospace Coordinator of German Federal Government | Commissioner for Startups and the Digital Economy at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Präsident | Bundesverband der Unternehmen der Künstlichen Intelligenz in Deutschland e.V.
Co-Founder & CPO IQONIC.AI
Managing Director KI Bundesverband
Founder | Benthos.ai & Sustainable Ocean Alliance Germany
Deputy Director General AI, Data, Tech bei German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Science Fiction & Futures Expert
CEO & co-founder Silo AI
Vice President Digital and Member of the Management Team PIABO Communications
CSO and Scientific Director | nyonic and DFKI
Senior Policy Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations
Team Lead GenAI & ConvAI | Fraunhofer IAIS
Member of Bundestag
AI Lead | Deep Tech Innovation
Director SKAD AG
CEO & Founder ARX Landsysteme GmbH
CEO Cambrium
CEO | 21strategies GmbH
Counsel CMS Germany
Research Manager and AI Index Editor-in-Chief Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Co-Founder & CTO | Frontnow
Founder/CEO Transatlantic AI eXchange
AI Lead Campus Founders
Chief Expert AI | Deutsche Bahn AG
CCO | Codepan GmbH
Partnerin | Lead Digital Ethics at Deloitte
Managing Director | Lead AI Institute at Deloitte Germany
President of CroAI | Partnerships Mindsmiths
Team Lead Natural Language Processing | SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Senior Director Data Center Sales Germany | Dell Technologies
Director AI (Europe) | Start2 Group
Research Fellow | German Council on Foreign Relations
Director Azure Infrastructure | Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Data Scientist | SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Founder | AMBER AI & Data Science Solutions GmbH
Following guests and attendees have confirmed their public presence at Rise of AI:
MdB at Deutscher Bundestag - CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion
Competence Lead AI | macros Financial Technology Consult GmbH
Head of Data Intelligence Center | Deutsche Bahn AG
CEO | ZFHN
Venture Partner | Tola Capital
Managing Director KI.NRW / Fraunhofer IAIS
Stellv. Geschäftsführung | Bundesverband der Unternehmen der Künstlichen Intelligenz in Deutschland e.V.
Digital Innovations in Baden-Württemberg | Ministry of Economics BW
Investment Manager | DeepTech & Climate Fonds
CEO | TÜV AI.Lab GmbH
Director Startup Support / Head of Innovation and Co-Creation Technologiepark Heidelberg GmbH
CEO | QuantPi GmbH
Consultant | DACHSER SE
Director IT UnternehmerTUM
Computer Vision Scientist | TNO
Partner & Co-Founder | dla Digital Leaders Advisory
Innovationmanager IT | BVG Berlin
Artificial Intelligence Enthusiast
Computer Vision Scientist | TNO
Chief Technology Officer Bearcover GmbH
Senior AI Developer EnBW
Chief Product Officer | Significo GmbH
Principal Strategist, Data & AI | Thoughtworks
Senior Communications Consultant | PIABO PR GmbH
CEO | Technologiepark Heidelberg GmbH
COO | PIABO PR GmbH
Founder & CEO | HeyLara.de
Founder & CEO | CWF Change Consulting©
Product Manager ake.Product
General Partner | Atlantic Labs
AI Trainer AI Training Institute
Managing Director | Seedbox Ventures GmbH
Consultant | Senacor
Founder & CEO | Perian GmbH
Founder | Perian GmbH
CTO | Innomatik AG
CEO | OTL - Online Trainer GmbH
Senior Manager Strategy, Operations & Partnerships | TÜV AI.Lab
Founder & Managing Partner | Oseon
Domain Architect Systems | HUGO BOSS AG
Public Policy Manager | Meta Platforms
Domain Architect Digital Workplace | HUGO BOSS AG
Deputy Chairwoman of the Management Board of GMKI // AI Consultant + Future Manager | GMKI – Gemeinsam mit Künstlicher Intelligenz e.V.
Lead Robotics Engineer Bearcover GmbH
PhD student Universität Rostock
CMO | Frontnow
CEO & Chairman | FEHRMANN Tech Group
COO | Bavarian AI Agency
Managing Partner | Digital Peers
Data Scientist | Atruvia AG
Community Manager | Bavarian AI Agency
Data Scientist | Atruvia AG
Innovator | AI Zeitgeist
Head of Science Relations | Bavarian AI Agency
Chief Digital Officer | Fehrmann MaterialsX
Principal, Techsales Manager for AI, Big Data and Open Source, DACH | IBM
Managing Director | acs plus GmbH
AI Manager at KI.NRW | Fraunhofer IAIS
Head of AI Governance | SKAD AG
Sales, Senior Account Executive | QuantPi GmbH
Founder | Kulturwerke Deutschland Sprachreisen GmbH
Clustermanagerin ICT Media Creative Industries | Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH
CEO | Data Science as-a-Service
Chief Data Officer | ETERNO Health
CEO | DIE CREW AG
Head of Public Policy Germany | NVIDIA
COO | Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg
Project Manager Innovation | Experience Designer | Community Manager German AI Association @ AI Village
Business Angel
Founder | trail GmbH
Co-Founder & CEO | CHAPTR
Head of Department NetMedia | Fraunhofer IAIS
Senior Project Manager Trustworthy AI and Digital Trust | VDE e.V.
Novelist
Partner, Lead AI&D Germany | Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Principal | i-potentials GmbH
VP Customer Relations | PIABO PR GmbH
CEO | Unfallopfer-Hilfswerk GmbH
Communications Director | PIABO PR GmbH
Doctoral Researcher in Machine Learning / Computer Vision at Technical University of Berlin
Consultant | Trilligent
Autorin
CTO | SUSI & James GmbH
Head of AI Consulting | b.telligent Deutschland
Director Digital & Application Innovation | Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Gründer, CEO, Selfmade Millionär | Investment Punk Academy
Program Director | KI Park
Product & Platform Strategy | IPAI
Head | Swiss Business Hub Germany
Senior Solution Architect | TÜV AI.Lab GmbH
Senior Advisor AI Ethics and Quality | TÜV AI.Lab GmbH
VP Sales AI | XU Group
AI Certification Advisor | TÜV AI.Lab GmbH
PR - Strategische Kommunikation +
Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and LMU-Director of the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI
Managing Consultant | Senacor
Head of Communications | Bavarian AI-Agency
Innovation Lab Director | senswork
Managing Director | appliedAI Institute for Europe gGmbH
CEO TellDear // Logeecom Deutschland GmbH
CEO | JUST ADD AI Group
Member of Parliament of Finland, Vice chair of Committee for the Future | Parliament of Finland
Client Solutions Big Data Analytics & IIoT | SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Technical advocate | SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Founding Partner | AI.FUND
Head of Business Relations | Bavarian AI Agency
CEO | Bavarian AI Agency
Senior Vice President - Head of Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence | Fresenius Kabi
Business Development Manager AI GER | Dell Technologies
CEO | BigFilter.ai
Senior AI Innovation Manager at Berlin Partner | #ai_berlin
Head of Innovation '& Data & Portfolio Manager | Berenberg
Founder & Co-CEO | Frontnow
Federal & Defense Lead | NVIDIA
Consultant for Deep Tech & AI | Senat for Economc Affairs (Berlin)
Director Tech & Operations, Prokurist | nexmart
Projektleiter | AI Village
Projektbegleiter | AI Village
CEO | aiterra GmbH
Sales Manager for Public Institutions in Germany | Dell Technologies
Partner / AI Initiative Lead | Deloitte
Project Lead @ AI Village | Regional Lead NRW German AI Association at German AI Association
Senior Investment Manager | High-Tech Gründerfonds
CEO / Founder / Academic at iqast & Lancaster University
Flagship Manager | KI Park e.V.
Finance at ONE High Tech Green Campus Neufahrn | AI
CEO at ONE High Tech Green Campus Neufahrn | AI
Teamleiter Online Unit | swb AG
Projektmanager | swb AG
Director | AI & Data Analytics at Deloitte
Co-Head of AI Office | GenAI Service Delivery Transformation Lead at Deloitte
Partner | Deloitte Legal
AI Transformation Marketing Community Lead EMEA | Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Member of the board | Nemetschek Innovationsstiftung
CEO | WeAreDevelopers
Regional President | Universal Robots
Principal Consultant Digital Transformation | BLUE Consult GmbH
Partner | Deloitte
Partner AI+Data | Deloitte
Partner | Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Deloitte.ai Lead | Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Director - Head of Intelligent Automation | Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Sen Director Business Development | Supermicro
GM Central & Eastern Europe | Supermicro
Forschungskoordinator | KI-Produktionsnetzwerk Augsburg at Universität Augsburg
Rise of AI Conference is hosted by and for the German AI Ecosystem:
Rise of AI connects diverse stakeholders from across Europe. Here, you’ll encounter key representatives from business, society, and research within the German AI ecosystem.
At our conference, decision-makers are in the majority. Most of our attendees hold top-tier positions such as CEO, CIO, CTO, or Managing Partner. At Rise of AI, leaders converge.
We also facilitate vital interactions with innovation drivers. 21% of our guests are Heads of AI, Transformation Managers, or Heads of Digitalization, underscoring our commitment to fostering progress.
Research and development of AI are strongly represented as well, with 11% of our guests being esteemed professors and senior researchers. We champion knowledge exchange at the highest level.
In addition, key roles like Data Scientists, Developers, Engineers, and AI Architects make up nearly 10% of our participants, enriching our professional tapestry.
With our AI Ecosystem Pass, we open doors for promising young talents, offering them an opportunity to engage with potential future employers or project partners.
Moreover, AI startups and companies are presented with invaluable opportunities to network with reputed investors and economic influencers, making Rise of AI an essential hub for AI advancement.
PERFECT MIX BETWEEN CONTENT AND NETWORKING
Your attendance at Rise of AI Conference 2024 paves the way to the frontline of European AI expertise, enabling direct interaction with leading speakers and key figures in the industry. We ensure you have ample private spaces, breaks, side events, and lounges for meaningful networking.
NETWORKING
Our focus is on fostering genuine and valuable connections. To facilitate optimal networking, we carefully design our conference with ample time and space for interactive dialogue. Instead of impressing with high attendance numbers, we value quality over quantity in interactions.
We believe in building lasting connections that fuel progress and collaboration. To maintain this intimate networking environment, we limit the participant count to 200.
WORKSHOPS
Experience the thrill of exploring vital topics in an informal, small-group setting. Our workshops, consistently a favorite among attendees, allow for hands-on exploration and learning. In 2024, we’ll continue this tradition with live workshops on various topics in Berlin.
APPLIED AI STAGE
Our Applied AI Stage centers on practical insights into launching, scaling, and going global with AI businesses; securing funding; hiring talent; and adopting best practices for integrating market-ready solutions.
META STAGE
At the Meta Stage, we delve into overarching policy and business concerns such as the Geo AI Strategy and the European AI Act. We also focus on critical aspects of AI Sustainability, AI Security and the ongoing wave of Generative AI.
SPEAKER
We will select our speakers until December 2023. If you would like to recommend a speaker, send us an email to contact@riseof.ai – or apply directly with your abstract via our typeform.
PARTNERSHIPS
If you would like to support the rising european AI network and get seen by the relevant companies and people a partnership with Rise of AI is the right answer. We offer a wide range of opportunities for all budgets.
Over the years, we have succeeded in creating a wide, interactive AI network with real interpersonal connections. It is a personal wish of Fabian and Veronika to be there for the Rise of AI community before, during and after the event.
We are very happy to hear that founders and investors meet at Rise of AI, or that researchers won new project partners. We have countless of these stories. Therefore the best thing is to attend and experience it for yourself.
We personally take care, that Rise of AI is sustainable as an event for itself.
Our min contribution is streaming the event for free. Thousands have and will attended Rise of AI without the need to travel.
However for our 250 physical guests, we provide a high quality experience.
Our catering is vegan-first, we offer gluten free options and our partners source only organic products.
Due to working for years with the same partners, we reduce waste and improve energy efficiency.
Our print materials are recycled, we only use reusable porcelain and avoid useless give aways.
Furthermore, we only use living plants for decoration and plant them in our forest afterwards.
Rise of AI started with 10 people discussing the Singularity in 2014. Today Rise of AI is Europe’s most influential platform for the growing Artificial Intelligence industry.
Our mission is to build a thriving European ecosystem. We aim for AIs, which serve us and all human benefit with a longer and happier life.
Therefore we organize the yearly Rise of AI Conference. Furthermore, we educate, create awareness, advise and invest within the young but growing AI industry.
Our CEO, Fabian Westerheide, is an international expert on Artificial Intelligence strategy, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. An avid sci-fi lover from childhood, Fabian has turned his lifelong passion for technology and human progress into his mission.
As CEO of Pandora Events Berlin and Co-Founder and COO of Rise of AI Conference, Veronika Westerheide has many years of experience in organizing high-quality, exciting tech and AI events. She is well-connected with leading AI companies, associations and other stakeholders and is also committed to the European AI ecosystem as Director Events & Network at KI Park e. V..
WRITE US: CONTACT@RISEOF.AI