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Since January 2013 Malu Dreyer is Minister President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Born in 1961 she passed her childhood in the region of Palatinate. In 1981 she began Law Studies at the University of Mainz, working as University Research Assistant in 1989 until 1991. She worked as Public Prosecutor of the City of Bad Kreuznach, than as Officer in the Research and Documentation Service of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. From 1995 to 1997 she was Mayer of the City of Bad Kreuznach, from 1997 to 2002 Head of Department for Social Affairs, Youth and Housing of the City of Mainz. Since 2002 Malu Dreyer is part of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate, until 2013 as Minister for Work, Social Affairs, Health, Family and Women and since 2011 also for Demography.

Minister President Malu Dreyer is married and lives with her husband in the Coty of Trier.

Dr Katarina Barley is Vice-President of the European Parliament and member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections in May 2019 she was the lead candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Prior to that, she was a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2019, during which time she was, among others, SPD Secretary General, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Acting Federal Minister for Labour and Federal Minister for Justice and Consumer Protection. Before her time in politics, she worked as a lawyer, research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court and as a judge at the Regional Court of Trier and the Wittlich District Court.

Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf has been Minister of Science, Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2016. He first learned a profession in the electrical craft, studied physics in Regensburg from 1984 and received his doctorate in 1994. After professional stations in science and business, he was appointed professor at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2001. In 2009 he was elected president of the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. From 2012 to 2014 he was chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Conference of University Presidents and member of the senate of the German Rectors' Conference.

Dr. Zweig is a professor at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, where she heads the Algorithm Accountability Lab. In the last years, she has focussed her research on how to open the black box of AI systems and pondered about the question under which circumstances this is actually necessary. In her bestselling book "Ein Algorithmus hat kein Taktgefühl" she has offered a differentiated regulative approach that discusses various levels of inspection. She consults unions, companies, and the government on multiple levels on how to ensure trustworthy AI systems without hampering innovations, e.g., as a member of the enquete commission on AI of the German Parliament.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ruskowski is Head of the Innovative Factory Systems research department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and is Chair of the “Department of Machine Tools and Control Systems” at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and chairman of the board of the technology initiative SmartFactory KL. His major research focus is on the development of innovative control concepts for automation, artificial intelligence in automation technology and industrial robots as machine tools. Prior to these positions, Ruskowski held several management positions at industrial firms, most recently as Vice President for Global Research and Development at KUKA Industries Group.

Georg Krausch was Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / LMU Munich from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, he was assigned to the Chair of Physical Chemistry at Bayreuth University. Since 2007 he is President of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Krausch was Chairman of the State University Presidents' Conference for Rhineland-Palatinate and a founding director of the Mainz Research Alliance. In 2020, Krausch was elected Chairman of the German U15 association of 15 large research-oriented universities, which he had served as Deputy Chairman from 2014 to 2020.

Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter has been heading the Software Technology Group at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK). His main research interests are in object-oriented programming, component modeling, formal program specification and verification techniques. He is (co-)author of a textbook on object-oriented programming. His professional services include positions in the German Informatics Association and the International Federation for Information Processing. Since 2020 he is President of TUK, which he had served before as Vice-president for Research and Technology for six years.

In 2011 Paul Lukowicz accepted the call to the TU Kaiserslautern and since then he has been Scientific Director and Head of the Research Unit “Embedded Intelligence” at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. Prior he was of Computer Science at the Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Hall (Tyrol) and University of Passau, where he headed the Chair of Applied Computer Science with a focus on Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing. His research focuses on cyber-physical systems, pervasive computing and social interactive systems.

Philipp Slusallek is Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken & Scientific Director of the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999, a principle investigator at the German Excellence‐Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” since 2007, and was Director for Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009‐2017. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. He is associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum, a fellow of Eurographics, a member of acatech, and a member of the European High‐Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Franz-Josef Pfreundt studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science resulting in a Diploma in Mathematics and a Ph.D degree in Mathematical Physics (1986). He was cofounder of the Fraunhofer ITWM and  is Divison Director and Head of the "Competence Center for HPC. He has been awarded  the Fraunhofer Research  and the IBM Faculty award. He is PI for a variety of parallel computing  research projects including the development of new parallel programming frameworks.  His main research focus are the various aspects of parallel computing especially the convergence of HPC –BIG Data-AI. Recent activities include the development of distributed energy management technologies for the renewable energy market.

Tobias D. Krafft is a PhD candidate at the chair "Algorithm Accountability" of Prof. Katharina A. Zweig at the TU Kaiserslautern. He is an expert in black box analysis and regulatory approaches for algorithmic decision systems. As holder of the Weizenbaumpreis 2017 of the Forum Informatiker für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, his research interests range from the (pure) analysis of algorithmic decision systems to discourse on their use in the social context. As part of his doctorate, he helped to develop the data donation project and carried out part of the data analysis. He is one of the speakers of the regional group Kaiserslautern of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, which has set itself the task of bringing the interdisciplinary course of studies of socioinformatics (TU Kaiserslautern) into society.

Thomas Reiter is the ESA Interagency Coordinator at the European Space Agency and Advisor to the Director General. He became Director of ESA’s Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations (D/HSO), responsible for managing Europe’s contribution to the ISS, the Agency's human spaceflight activities, the operations of ESA’s satellite missions and of the ground segment in 2011. During his second mission, ‘Astrolab’ from July to December 2006 he took up duties as Flight Engineer of the International Space Station and conducted 19 experiments in space on behalf of a number of European institutions and research centres. Thomas Reiter was holding the European record of 350 days in space for about 12 years – one of the most experienced non-American or non-Russian astronaut by time.

Carmen Hentschel (*18.11.1976) is a versatile and internationally experienced presenter. Her specialties are digitalization and leadership events. At numerous events and in panels she discusses topics such as the Internet of Things, Work 4.0, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Smart City and Virtual Reality as well as the effects and potentials of digitalization for the individual industries. She brings the experience gained from over 1,500 live appearances for DAX-listed companies, small and medium-sized businesses and ministries to the table.

Her LinkedIn channel is one of the most widely read in the German-speaking world, where she also provides insights both before and behind the scenes of major digital events.

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