Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 | Bitkom Services | 10 April 2019 | Station Berlin, Luckenwalder Str. 4-6, 10963 Berlin, Germany

The Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 (#BAS19) is Europe’s leading summit for artificial intelligence and big data. #BAS19 is shaping up to become a gathering venue for 5,000 like-minded experts and practitioners keen on going beyond the hype and diving into the depths of the big data and AI revolution. Over the course of two days, the summit will feature over 100 presentations, workshops and keynotes.

Sessions will focus on three key areas:
• Cross-industry big data and AI strategies, technologies and trends that are advancing the digital transformation of companies.
• Concrete applications of big data and AI in leading industries, like health, finance and information security.
• Ethical and political questions currently dominating the societal debate on big data and AI.

2019 Speakers

Sharif Abdel-Halim
Big Data Technical Lead, adesso

Dr Guillaume Aimetti
Co-founder / CTO, Inspirient

Dr Nabil Alsabah
Head of Big-Data.AI Summit, Bitkom

Ingo Alzner
Platform Manager BI & Big Data, Porsche

Daniel Arnold
Project Lead, Daimler

Dr Hicham Aroudaki
Business Unit Lead, P3 communications

Jordan Baker
Manager, Sales Engineering, Northern Europe, Alteryx

Paul Balzer
CEO, MechLab Engineering

Felix Bauer
Managing Director, Aircloak

Sebastian Baumann
Founder & CEO, DATA|bility

Stephan Bautz
Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers WPG

Dr Arne Beckhaus
Head of Big Data & Digital Transformation, Continental Teves

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

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

Jaroslav Bláha
CEO, CellmatiQ

Klaas Bollhoefer
Founder & Chief Strategist, Birds on Mars

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director General, DIGITALEUROPE

Andreas Borchert
Managing Director, justaero & OpRiskSolutions

Dr Alexander Borek
Global Head of Data & Analytics, Volkswagen Financial Services

Laura Borsig
Senior Data Scientist, Commerzbank

Stephen Brobst
CTO, Teradata, Former Advisor to President Obama

Brendon Chamany
Head of Wipro HOLMES for Europe, Wipro

Susanne Dehmel
Member of Executive Board, Bitkom

Prof Dr Prof hc Andreas Dengel
Scientific Director of the Smart Data & Knowledge Services Research Department, DFKI

Florian Dohmann
Founder and Chief Creative, Birds on Mars

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

Dr Jörg Dräger
Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung

André Dörr
Data Engineer, Exasol

Dr Nicolai Erbs
Senior AI Consultant, INFOMOTION

Prof Dr Michael Feindt
Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Yonder

Natalia Fitis
Data Scientist, Telekom IT

Lars Fockele
Big Data Software Architect, Postbank Systems

Alena Fojtík
Senior Data Scientist, Fujitsu

Jens Frühling
AI GTM Lead, Accenture

Dr Bernhard Fuchs
Data Scientist, Telekom Security

Dr Oana Furtuna
European Central Bank

Marius Gerwinn
CEO, fileee

Dr Ralph Grothmann
Principal Consultant for Predictive Analytics, Siemens

Harald Gröger
Executive Analytics Specialist, IBM Deutschland

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

Olaf Hein
Department Head & Principal Consultant, ORDIX

Benjamin Hemminger
Key Account Manager - DACH Region, KNIME

Britta Hilt
Managing Director, IS Predict

Stefan Holtel
AI Explainer, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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

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

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

Dr Olga Ivina
AI Lead, Deloitte

Thorsten Jankowski
Product Owner Lifecycle Management, Voith

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

Dr Christoph Jung
Principal Architect, T-Systems International

Dr Björn Juretzki
Assistant to the Director-General of DG CONNECT, European Commission

Alexander Kaffenberger
Senior Business Development Manager Analytics & AI, Fujitsu

Robert E. Kahn
Co-inventor of the Internet, CEO – Corporation for National Research Initiatives

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

Marius Kaiser
Solution Consultant, Tableau Software

Andre Kalia
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Michael Kamp
Data Scientist, Fraunhofer IAIS

Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek
Federal Minister of Education and Research

Ralph Kemperdick
Digital Business Architect, Data, Microsoft Deutschland

Dr Moritz Kiese
Partner, d-fine

Caroline Kleist
Head of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, mayato

Ralf Klinkenberg
Founder & Head of Data Science Research, RapidMiner

Andreas Klug
Chief Marketing Officer, ITyX Solutions

Dr Mirko Knaak
Product owner AI, IAV Digital Lab

Christina Kraus
Founder & Product Manager, meshcloud

Felix Kruse
Research Assistant, Universität Oldenburg Abteilung VLBA

Dorothea Küttner
Head of Corporate Strategy and Innovations, LGI Logistics Group International

Alexander Lange
Practice Lead Transport Analytics, Telefónica Germany NEXT

Dirk Lerner
Founder, TEDAMOH

Dr Steffen Link
Business Consultant, Fujitsu

Roman Lipski
Artist, Atelier Roman Lipski

Barbara Lix
Owner, Barbara Lix Consulting

Jørn Lyseggen
Founder & CEO, Meltwater

Manuela Mackert
Chief Compliance Officer, Deutsche Telekom

Prof Dr Klaus Mainzer
Emeritus of Excellence, Technical University of Munich

Diego Marcheselli
Senior Big Data Engineer, Data Insights

Leo Marose
CEO / Co-Founder, StackFuel

Alexander Martens
Solution Engineer, Hortonworks

Dominik Matula
Senior Data Scientist, Profinit

Dr Andreas Meier
Head of Smart Enterprise Strategy, Volkswagen

Adriana Menegozzo
Data Scientist, Data Insights

Sruthi Mohan
Solutions Engineer CEMEA, Cloudera

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

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

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

Saurabh Navalgaria
Big Data Engineer, Data Insights

Michael Niederée
Partner, Lighthouse, Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics, KPMG

Prof Dr Danko Nikolić
Chief Data Officer, savedroid

Dr Kim Nilsson
CEO, Pivigo

Nemanja Ninković
Software engineer, Zühlke

Ana Padrão
Senior Project Manager, European Central Bank

Bertrand Pailhès
Coordinator National AI Strategy for France

Petr Pascenko
Chief Data Scientist, Profinit

Dr Matthias Plaue
Chief Data Scientist, MAPEGY

Dr Oliver Pohl
Data Scientist, Schleswig-Holstein Netz

Dr Ruchir Puri
CTO and Chief Architect, IBM Watson

Dr Julian Pychy
Data Scientist, REWE Digital

Ulrich Pöttgens
Director Digital, Commerzbank

Thanos Rammos
Salary Partner, TaylorWessing

Klaus Reichenberger
CSO, intelligent views

Stephan Reimann
Leading Technical Professional Big Data&Analytics, IBM

Daniel Reppel
Scrum Master, IAV Digital Lab

John Riglar
Principal Solutions Consultant Opentext AI&Analytics, Opentext

Prof Chunming Rong
Head, CIPSI @ University of StavangerChair, IEEE CS STC Blockchain, Co-Founder, bitYoga.com

Johannes Rudolph
Founder & CTO, meshcloud

Benjamin Ruland
Senior Consultant, Computacenter

Sebastian Rücker
Team Lead Data Science, ADVISORI

Hitesh Sahni
Head of Big Data and Cloud Computing, Adastra

Gerhard Schagerl
Product Manager, AVL List

Gerhard Schaller
Senior Manager Factory Digitalization, ZF

Dr Matthieu-P. Schapranow
Group Leader & Scientific Manager Digital Health Innovations, Hasso Plattner Institute

Dr Benedikt Schmidt
Senior Scientist, ABB

Prof Dr Eberhard Schnebel
Group Risk Management, Commerzbank

Ansgar Schneider
Head of Product Management Direct Marketing and Data, PayBack

Dagmar Schuller
CEO and Co-Founder
audEERING

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

Dr Robin Senge
Data Scientist, inovex

Alexander Siebert
CEO & Founder, Retresco

Stefan Smolarek
Data and AI Scientist, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Matthias Spielkamp
Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch

Richard Stechow
Innovation Consultant, BMI Lab

Dr Achim Steinacker
Manager Presales, intelligent views

Simon Stiebellehner
Head of AI, craftworks

Alexander Thamm
CEO, Alexander Thamm

Frank Theisen
Vice President, IBM Cloud – Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Thomas Thiele
AI Expert, Deutsche Bahn

Dr Ahmet Toker
Chief Data Scientist, BANKSapi

Dat Tran
Head of Data, idealo.de

Markus Trzeciok
Senior Project Lead, European Central Bank

Arian van Hülsen
IoT / Analytics Field Engineering Manager, PTC

Lillian van Someren Greve
Data Scientist, Pivigo

Stefan Vienken
Product Manager Location Analytics, Esri

Dietmar von Bluecher
CFO, comdirect

Dr Peter Walde
Chief Executive Officer, MAPEGY

Dr Gero Walter
Data Scientist, DB Station&Service

Rebekka Weiß
Head of Data Protection and Consumer Law, Bitkom

Sebastian Welter
Lead AI Architect DACH, Accenture

Cornelia Werk
Consultant for Data Science and NLP, Neofonie

Jan Wichmann
Co-Founder, BANKSapi

Dr Sebastian Wieczorek
Head of Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation, SAP

Dr Andreas Wierse
Managing Director, SICOS BW

Dr Georg Wittenburg
Co-founder / CEO, Inspirient

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

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

2019 Sponsors

PREMIUM PARTNERS:
• accenture
• FUJITSU
• IBM
• KPMG

FURTHER PARTNERS:
• ADASTRA
• aircloak
• alexanderthamm
• alteryx
• BlueYonder
• cloudera
• ComputaCenter NetApp
• DATA INSIGHTS
• data iku
• databricks
• Deloitte
• esri Deutshland
• Fraunhofer
• i views
• INFOMOTION
• MeltWater
• PROFINIT
• pwc
• SMART DATA FORUM
• supper supper
• T systems
• teradata
• talend

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Behorden Spiegel
• BI Scout
• Bi Spektrum
• DIGITAL BUSINESS CLOUD
• UNTERNEHMER Akademie
• HANDELSKRAFT
• marketing Borse
• Netzpiloten