Joerg Bienert is co-founder and president of the German AI Association (Bundesverband Künstliche Intelligenz e.V.) and participates intensively in the public discussion about the usage of AI in Germany. He is also partner at Alexander Thamm GmbH, a leading data and AI consultancy in Germany. After studying computer engineering and several stations in the IT industry, he founded ParStream in 2008, a big data startup based in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015.