DLD Future Hub: Impact of AI

Dr. Hubert Burda is Chairman of the Board and Publisher of DLD owner Hubert Burda Media. He co-founder of the European Publishers Council (EPC) and set up the Hubert Burda Foundation with a view to promoting interdisciplinary exchanges on future trends. Dr. Burda has been awarded numerous awards and distinctions for his achievements in publishing and business.

Markus Blume is Bavarian State Minister for Science and Art. Previously he was Secretary General of the CSU party from 2018 to 2022. Blume has been a member of the Bavarian state parliament since 2008.

Miguel Chevalier has been a pioneer in digital art, using computers as a means of visual expression since the 1980s. His works engage in a constant dialogue with art history, aiming to explore and experiment with a new pictorial language. Miguel Chevalier has created exhibitions and installations for museums, art centers, galleries, and public spaces around the world.

Dr. Simon Kohl is a computer scientist and AI researcher who founded Latent Labs, a frontier AI lab enabling biotech and pharmaceutical companies to generate proteins and therapeutics through advanced machine learning. Kohl previously co-led DeepMind’s protein design team and was a senior research scientist on the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold2 project.

Eva Spannagl is a Director at OpenAI, leading the company’s startups business across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. She started her career at McKinsey Digital, where she supported corporates in digital transformation and digital strategy, before building the fintech startup Moss through its Series B.

As Chief Technology & Information Officer of o2 Telefónica Germany, Mallik Rao is responsible for the mobile and fixed networks as well as the company’s IT division. He began his career in 1993 at TATA Telecom and previously held management positions at Ericsson, Notel Networks, among others.

Yossi Matias is Vice President, Google, and Head of Google Research. Under his leadership, global teams are doing breakthrough research on AI, quantum computing, climate, sustainability, education and more. Previously a member of Google’s Search leadership team for over a decade, Yossi Matias is also the Founding Managing Director of Google’s center in Israel and a founding lead of Google’s AI for Social Good initiative.

Aldo Faisal is a Professor in AI & Neuroscience at Imperial College London where he leads the Brain & Behaviour Lab. He is also the Founding Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Healthcare, which aims to transform AI for Healthcare research. In addition, Aldo holds a Chair in Digital Health at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious UKRI Turing AI Fellowship.