Programme | 21 April 2021
Welcoming remarks (Hari Seldon Stage)
10:00–10:10
Opening of #BAS21 by Achim Berg, Bitkom
10:10—10:20
Opening keynote (German)
Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Hari Seldon Stage
10:20—10:35
Infinite opportunities from infinite data – the power of AI
Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board & CEO, Siemens & Digital Industries
Hari Seldon Stage
10:35—10:50
Apple’s machine learning and AI strategy
John Giannandrea, Senior Vice President Machine Learning & AI Strategy, Apple
Hari Seldon Stage
10:50—11:10
How to unlock the innovative potential of AI while adressing the risks? - AI policy in Germany with Q&A
Thomas Jarzombek, Economic Affairs Ministry’s Commissioner for the Digital Industry and Start-ups, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Moderation:
Susanne Dehmel, Bitkom
Hari Seldon Stage
11:10—11:30
Symbolic, statistical and causal AI
Prof Dr Bernhard Schölkopf, Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Hari Seldon Stage
11:10—11:30
Better digitize than electrify only: AI and public administration in the COVID crisis
Andreas Klug, AI Evangelist, ITyX
Grace Hopper Stage
11:30—11:50
Enterprise AI – injecting AI into business processes
Andreas Welsch, Vice President & Head of Intelligent Processes, SAP S/4HANA Product Management, SAP Labs
Hari Seldon Stage
11:30—11:50
Conversational AI @ ERGO: from an Alexa speedboat to a conversational strategy
Nicolas Konnerth, Head of Voice & Conversation, ERGO Digital Ventures
Malte Kosub, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Parloa
Grace Hopper Stage
11:50—12:00
Simulating human behavior in traffic with knowledge-based AI to make autonomous cars safer
Dr Isabelle Garzorz, Co-Founder, cogniBIT
Moderation:
Leonie Schneiderhöhn, Bitkom Servicegesellschaft
Hari Seldon Stage
11:50—12:10
MLOps – how AI learns to fly
Dr Ing Susan Wegner, Vice President Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics, Lufthansa Industry Solutions AS
Grace Hopper Stage
12:00—12:10
Digital Management of Atopic Dermatitis
Dr Reem Alneebari, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Nia Health
Moderation:
Leonie Schneiderhöhn, Bitkom Servicegesellschaft
Hari Seldon Stage
12:10—12:20
Advancing renewable energy with AI
Dr Sabine Auer, CEO, elena international
Christina Vogel, Founder & CEO, elena international
Moderation:
Leonie Schneiderhöhn, Bitkom Servicegesellschaft
Hari Seldon Stage
12:10—12:30
Xayn: re-inventing web search with convenient, controllable, and privacy-protecting AI + Meet the Speaker
Prof Michael Huth, Chief Research Officer, Xayn
Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, CEO & Co-Founder, Xayn
Grace Hopper Stage
12:20—12:50
Virtual AI Exhibition
Christian Mio Loclair, Creative Director, Waltz Binaire
Hari Seldon Stage
12:30—12:50
Machine Learning & Apache Kafka: the next generation of intelligent software
Kai Wähner, Field CTO & Technology Evangelist, Confluent Germany
Grace Hopper Stage
12:50—13:10
Data culture beyond your main performance KPIs – a Tableau Software use case
Michael Thüne, Senior Lead Business Analytics, FREE NOW
Hari Seldon Stage
12:50—13:10
A recipe for innovation: recommending recipes based on adventurousness
Robert Grieg-Gran, Co-founder, COO, Mindful Chef
Dr Kim Nilsson, Chair & Co-Founder, Pivigo
Grace Hopper Stage
13:10—13:30
How can AI contribute to a more sustainable future?
Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Co-Founder, PlanA.Earth
Dr Marc Schattenmann, Director, German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU)
Hari Seldon Stage
13:10—13:30
Reimagining business finance with AI
Prof Dr Martin Spindler, University Professor & Director, Economic AI & University of Hamburg
Helmut Wasserbacher, Head of Digital Finance Operations, Novartis
Grace Hopper Stage
13:10—13:50
Breaking the barrier – advanced analytics for everyone
Olga Kolcheva, Lead Solution Engineer, Tableau
Beate Krug, Solution Engineer, Tableau
Workshops
13:30—13:50
Bavaria’s AI strategy
Judith Gerlach, Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs
Hari Seldon Stage
13:30—13:50
Shadow processing of insurance claims
Dr Antje Fitzner, Team Lead Data Science, Eucon Digital
Dr Volker Meise, Director Portfoliomanagement & New Products, Eucon Digital
Grace Hopper Stage
13:50—14:10
Digitized presence in times of intelligent robot avatars
Prof Dr Ing Sami Haddadin, Director, Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence / Technical University of Munich
Hari Seldon Stage
13:50—14:10
Perspective edge AI: contributions of the semiconductor industry to artificial intelligence
Uwe Gäbler, Senior Director Development Center Dresden, Infineon Technologies Dresden
Grace Hopper Stage
14:10—14:30
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) Travelling further, revealing more
Jonathan Jessop Batty, IBM Corporate Narrative & Strategy, IBM
Don Scott, Chief Technology Officer, MarineAI
Moderation:
Jonathan Jessop Batty, IBM
Don Scott, MarineAI
Hari Seldon Stage
14:10—14:30
Audio AI in medicine - Is voice the new blood?
Dagmar Schuller, CEO & Co-Founder, audEERING
Grace Hopper Stage
14:30—14:50
Comparative validation of AI algorithms: common pitfalls and new concepts
Prof Dr Lena Maier-Hein, Head of Department Computer Assisted Medical Interventions, German Cancer Research Center
Hari Seldon Stage
14:30—15:15
Long live the database? Value your Data in Motion!
Mark Schulze, Practice Director Professional Services EMEA, Confluent Germany
Workshops
14:50—15:10
Uber’s path towards green and sustainable mobility and how AI can help
Anabel Diaz Calderon, Regional General Manager EMEA, Uber
Moderation:
Leonie Schneiderhöhn, Bitkom Servicegesellschaft
Hari Seldon Stage
15:10—15:30
The data lake engine: five minutes from lake to insights
Viktor Kessler, Sr. Solutions Architect, Dremio
Hari Seldon Stage
15:10—15:30
Manufacturing meets AI: technology transfer in the Cyber Valley
Prof Dr Marco Huber, Professor, Fraunhofer IPA
Grace Hopper Stage
15:30—15:50
Machine Learning in manufacturing
Carsten Riggelsen, Head of Data/AI DACH AllCloud , AllCloud
Hari Seldon Stage
15:30—15:50
Artificial intelligence in banking: supporting loan decisions with machine learning
Dominik Schmidt-Kiefer, Divisional Board Member, Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Commerzbank
Grace Hopper Stage
15:50—16:10
Pushing boundaries in intelligent automation: digital twins between AI, big data, and (I)IoT
Christian Stapel, Partner of the Consulting Services Cluster Data & Technology, MHP Management- and IT-Consultation
Hari Seldon Stage
15:50—16:10
Data-driven sustainability along the supply chain
Tomas Chroust, Partner Data & Analytics / AI, BearingPoint
Grace Hopper Stage
16:10—16:30
Data mesh in practice: how to set up a data-driven organization
Max Schultze, Data Engineering Manager, Zalando
Arif Wider, Professor of Software Engineering & Principal Technolgy Consultat, University of Applied Sciences for Technics and Economics Berlin & ThoughtWorks
Hari Seldon Stage
16:10—16:30
Analysing aerial images: object recognition and outline detection for land monitoring
Dr Dirk Michelsen, Executive Consultant, IBM
Dr Marcel Ziems, Staff unit Innovation 2025 , LGLN State Office for Geo Information and Land Surveying Lower Saxony
Grace Hopper Stage
16:30—16:50
Beyond the obvious: The hidden applications of artificial intelligence
Prof Dr Antonio Krüger, CEO, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Hari Seldon Stage
16:30—16:50
“Rules of engagement”: gamification & ethics
Melinda Jacobs, Founder & Co-CEO, Perkio
Grace Hopper Stage
Programme | 22 April 2021
10:00—10:30
Back to the future: AI turns 65
Dr John Cohn, Chief Scientist, MIT-IBM Watson AI Research Group
Hari Seldon Stage
10:30—10:50
Empowering digital innovation
Li Shiwei, Vice President Tencent Cloud Europe, Tencent Cloud
Hari Seldon Stage
10:50—11:10
Fireside chat: responsible AI development
Mustafa Süleyman, Co-Founder of DeepMind &Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Policy, Google
Moderation:
Susanne Dehmel, Bitkom
Hari Seldon Stage
10:50—11:10
AI based demand forecasting for B2B Manufacturer, using Amazon Forecast
Krupakar Singampally, Practice Lead - Advanced Analytics, Infosys Limited
Grace Hopper Stage
11:10—11:30
UAE strategy for artificial intelligence 2031
His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, UAE
Hari Seldon Stage
11:10—11:30
A team of rivals: business AI as a collaborative endeavor
Thomas Hahn, Chief Expert Software, Siemens
Grace Hopper Stage
11:30—11:50
Is government ready for AI?
Sana Kharegani, Head of UK Government Office for AI, UK Government
Antonia Schmidt, Moderator
Hari Seldon Stage
11:30—11:50
AI applications in the factory of the future - transforming the sheet metal industry
Dr Thomas Schneider, Managing Director Research + Development, TRUMPF Machine Tools
Grace Hopper Stage
11:30—12:10
An inspiring interactive session with leading practice examples around data-driven business models.
Tomas Chroust, Partner Data & Analytics / AI, BearingPoint
Martin Beck, Manager, BearingPoint
Workshops
11:50—12:30
How data science can transform banks and add value for clients
Dr Oliver Maspfuhl, Chapter Lead Data Scientist, Commerzbank
Lisa Sammer, Product Management, SAP
Lukáš Mazánek, Head of Data & Information Competence Center, Raiffeisenbank
Lukas Dvorak, Business Development Manager, PROFINIT EU
Lina Weichbrodt, Machine Learning Lead Engineer, DKB
Hari Seldon Stage
11:50—12:10
AI applications in action for better and personalized therapies: what do we learn from good examples?
Dr Ralf Angermund, Therapeutic Area Director Hematology & Solid Tumors, Janssen-Cilag Germany
Prof Dr Thomas Neumuth, CTO, Universität Leipzig, ICCAS
Laura Wamprecht, Managing Director, Flying Health
Grace Hopper Stage
12:10—12:30
Democratizing Enterprise AI - Leveraging the power of ML around platform use cases across industry 4.0, mobility, real-estate and retail
Christian Umbach, Co-Founder & CEO, Xapix
Grace Hopper Stage
12:10—12:50
Consummate customer insights: a problem fixed by AI
Dr Alexander Friedenberger, Educational Data Scientist, StackFuel
Workshops
12:30—12:50
How freelancer marketplace Malt is using automated data integration to grow their business
Olivier Girardot, Head of Data, Malt
Alexander Zipp, Commercial Lead DACH, Fivetran
Hari Seldon Stage
12:30—12:50
Cost-efficient AI technologies or why we cannot have enough AI platforms on the market
Dr Bernhard Niedermayer, Head of Emerging Technologies, Cloudflight
Grace Hopper Stage
12:50—13:10
Scalable workforce training – operationalizing data within large organizations
Leo Marose, CEO & Co-Founder, StackFuel
Hari Seldon Stage
12:50—13:10
Simplify analytics with an enterprise data fabric
Jörg Meiners, Principal Sales Engineer , Denodo Technologies
Grace Hopper Stage
13:10—13:30
Building data team resilience in a turbulent world with MLOps
Shaun McGirr, AI Evangelist, Dataiku
Hari Seldon Stage
13:10—13:30
From data to insights – how enterprises understand the story behind their data with natural language generation
Johannes Sommer, CEO, Retresco
Grace Hopper Stage
13:10—13:50
What is the value of a Data Catalog for your AI strategy?
Heiko Lenzing, Sales Leader DataOps, IBM
Stephan Schnieber, Sales Leader Cloud Pak for Data, IBM
Workshops
13:30—13:50
German Mittelstand: Any benefits from the AI hype?
Dr Ramin Assadollahi, CEO, ExB Labs GmbH
Hari Seldon Stage
13:30—13:50
AI transformation – just get started! Join a talk by Villeroy & Boch and SAP about AI-enabled business process automation
Dr Daniel Neuhäuser, Head of ERP Core Solutions, Villeroy & Boch
Dr Sebastian Wieczorek, Vice President – Artificial Intelligence Technology, SAP Data Intelligence
Grace Hopper Stage
13:50—14:10
Driving AI innovation through international cooperation
Jason Matheny, Deputy Director for National Security, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Hari Seldon Stage
13:50—14:10
How much data do i need?
Jörg Niestroj, CTO, Omni:us
Grace Hopper Stage
14:10—14:50
The global race for AI supremacy: China, United States, Europe
John Miller, Senior Vice President for Policy and General Counsel, Information Technology Industry Council
Prof Dr Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professor for Contemporary China Studies, University of Trier
Axel Voss, Member of the European Parliament
Moderation:
Dr Nabil Alsabah, Bitkom
Hari Seldon Stage
14:10—14:30
Detect data quality issues with Talend Trust Score
Arne Ottens, Senior Solutions Engineer - EMEA Central, Talend Germany GmbH
Grace Hopper Stage
14:10—14:50
Interactive step-by-step guide: How to centralize your data with automated data integration
Kevin Holler, Technical Lead DACH & Benelux, Fivetran
Alexander Zipp, Commercial Lead DACH, Fivetran
Workshops
14:30—14:50
Rolling out AI – From strategy to company wide AI integration in two years
Dr Thomas Thiele, Chief Expert AI & Programm Manager House of AI, Deutsche Bahn
Grace Hopper Stage
14:50—15:00
Towards a European AI strategy: introductory remarks
Kilian Gross, Head of Unit A2 Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission
Hari Seldon Stage
14:50—15:10
The dark side of the chatbot
Olaf Erichsen, CEO, Heldenkombinat Technologies
Aleksander Potrykus, Global Product Owner Chatbot & Chat, TUI
Grace Hopper Stage
15:00—15:30
Towards a European AI strategy: panel discussion
Dr Anna Christmann, Member of the German Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Susanne Dehmel, Member of Executive Board, Bitkom
Dr Jörg Wojahn, Head of the European Commission, Representation in Germany
Hari Seldon Stage
15:10—15:30
E-Mail routing with neural networks
Dr Nora Reich, Product Owner Big Data & AI, KfW Bankengruppe
Grace Hopper Stage
15:30—15:40
Ensuring Europe’s digital sovereignty with GAIA-X: introductory remarks
Marco-Alexander Breit, Head of AI Task Force, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Hari Seldon Stage
15:30—15:50
Machine learning – improving data harmonization
Grace Hopper Stage
15:40—16:10
Ensuring Europe’s digital sovereignty with GAIA-X: panel discussion
Dr Michael Bolle, Member of the Board of Management, Robert Bosch
Claudia Nemat, Member of the Board of Management, Technology and Innovation, Deutsche Telekom
Prof Dr Andreas Pinkwart, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Hari Seldon Stage
15:50—16:10
How data ecosystems will shape the AI landscape of our decade
Grace Hopper Stage
16:10—16:30
Being successful with AI – making your AI projects work
Prof Dr Stefan Wrobel, Chairman , Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance
Hari Seldon Stage
16:30—16:50
Accelerating industry transformation with the power of data & AI
Ulrich Homann, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Hari Seldon Stage