After a BSc in Cognitive Science, a MSc in Neurosciences and a PhD in Machine Learning (ML), Felix Biessmann was appointed Assistant Professor for ML at Korea University, Seoul. From 2014 to 2018 he has been with Amazon Research. Since 2018 he is professor for Machine Learning at Einstein Center Digital Future. His research focus is on developing ML methods and applications with a focus on automation for data quality, transparent ML and ML applications supporting our sustainability goals.

She holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry and leads betteries research, technology and innovation programs. Her work is instrumental to develop and secure betteries market position as an upcycling technology leader. She has more than 15 years of experience combining research positions and technology transfer activities. She has worked as scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology or the Max Planck Society and as innovation consultant supporting European deep-tech start-ups.

Jens Gröger is senior researcher at the Oeko-Institut Berlin in the Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division. His research focuses on sustainable information and communications technology. He develops methods for assessing the energy efficiency of computers, software, telecommunications networks, and data centers.

Lynn Kaack is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the Hertie School. Her work focuses on methods from statistics and machine learning to inform climate mitigation policy across the energy sector, and on climate-related AI policy. She is also a co-founder and chair of the organization Climate Change AI. Previously she was Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Energy Technology and Policy Group at ETH Zürich.

Christian Mayr received the Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering in 2003, his PhD in 2008 and Habilitation in 2012. Since 2015, he is full professor at TU Dresden, head of the Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI Systems and Neuromorphic Circuits. He is a PI in two excellency clusters, in the federal German AI compute center Scads.AI and in the EU flagship Human Brain Project. He has co-founded three startups. His research interests include comp. neuroscience, bio-inspired AI and system-on-chip
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Frithjof Nagel is Deputy Director of the GI Berlin Office. After studying rhetoric and sociology in Tübingen, journalism and political science at the Free University of Berlin and social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, he worked for several years in communication agencies with a focus on science and innovation communication.

As the European head of the world’s largest technical professional organization, Dr. Neppel is dedicated to supporting and advancing human-centric and sustainable innovation. She contributes to issues regarding the technology policy of several international organizations, such as the OECD, European Commission, and Parliament or the Council of Europe. She is Independent Director of the Supervisory Board of European Institute of Technology Digital and is part of several other advisory boards.

After finishing his studies at the HPI, Michael did his dissertation at the HPI research school 2013. After that, he joined the SAP and was the head of Chairman and Strategic Projects. In this role, he led technology-focused development teams for high-priority inquiries from the Executive and Supervisory Board. In 2020, he received the request for a special strategic project, and he returned to the HPI to direct the department of Professor Plattner and to strengthen the collaboration with SAP.

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He has more than 25 years of research experience, and more than 150 scientific publications.

Bernhard Schölkopf's scientific interests are in machine learning and causal inference. He has applied his methods to a number of different fields, ranging from biomedical problems to computational photography and astronomy. Bernhard studied physics and mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 1997, becoming a Max Planck director in 2001. He has (co --)received the Berlin Brandenburg Academy Prize, the Royal Society Milner Award, the Leibniz Award, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awa rd, and the ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award. He is Fellow of the ACM and of the CIFAR Program "Learning in Machines and Brains", a member of the German Academy of Sciences, and a Professor at ETH Zurich. He helped start the MLSS series of Machine Learning Summ er Schools, the Cyber Valley Initiative, the ELLIS society, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research, an early development in open access and today the field's flagship journal. In 2023, he founded the ELLIS Institute Tuebingen, and acts as its scientific director.

Professor Soibelman is the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor at USC. He obtained his BS and MS Degrees from UFRGS, Brazil and worked as a construction manager for 10 years before he obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from MIT. During the last 25 years as a professor at University of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon University and now at USC he focused his research on advanced data management construction and operations of smart buildings and advanced infrastructure systems.

Cordelia Thielitz is Schneider Electric’s Europe Operations Strategy Vice President. Cordelia has almost 20 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, M&A and Strategy. Before joining Schneider Electric in 2022, she worked from 2019 till end of 2021 at Rolls-Royce Power Systems as VP Microgrid Solutions, building and leading a new business unit. Prior to that, she spent 14 years at the Bosch Group and held multiple leadership positions in various countries.

Director (and CEO) of BIBA (Bremen Institute of Production and Logistics at the University of Bremen / Germany. Main research activities include but are not limited to the application of information and communication technologies (incl. AI) to support cooperative processes and environments with a specific focus on smart/intelligent products engineering, IoT, collaborative robotics, and product and systems lifecycle management.

Kilian is our deputy team lead for Policy & Advocacy. His research and advocacy work focuses on the use of algorithmic decision-making in the public sector and on the sustainability of AI. Before joining AlgorithmWatch, Kilian worked on the topic digital rights and surveillance at the think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, in particular on the rights-based regulation of government access to data and effective intelligence oversight.

Dr. Feiyu Xu is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of nyonic. Nyonic is developing generative AI technologies and large language models. Dr. Xu is member of supervisory board of the ZF Group. Dr. Xu was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at SAP from May 2020 to June 2023. Dr. Xu was leading the AI strategy of SAP and its holistic implementation. From March 2017 to March 2020, Dr. Xu was Vice President of Lenovo Group, Head of the AI Lab, Lenovo Research.