Speakers 2021

François Grosdidier was born in Metz in 1961. He graduated with a law degree, master’s degree in public law, and a postgraduate degree in municipal administration. He then became general secretary of the district of the North of the Metropolitan […]

Sascha Rank is a research associate and PhD student at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research interests include privacy-preserving machine learning approaches. He is involved in the […]

Dr.-Ing. Julius Pfrommer is head of a research group at Fraunhofer IOSB and the scientific lead of the Competence Center KI-Engineering (CC-KING). His group works on the application of AI in challenging industrial environments, particularly in the interface of machine […]

Niclas Hörmann is a Data Science Consultant at esentri AG. During his master studies in industrial engineering, he specialized in data science applications. Processing and modeling data from sports analytics and the IoT environment are his specialties.

Matthias Wurdig has been working as a Data Scientist since 2011. During this time, he has managed and been responsible for numerous data science projects. He has in-depth data science expertise, particularly in the automotive, retail and telecommunications sectors, and […]

Thomas Usländer holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a PhD in Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is head of the department “Information Management and Production Control” at Fraunhofer […]

Cameron Schuler is the Chief Commercialization Officer & Vice President, Industry Innovation at the Vector Institute. He is the former Executive Director of Amii (amii.ca), where, for 8 years, he led one of the top-ranked Machine Learning and AI groups […]

Robert Pesch leads a team of passionate Data Engineers and Data-Scientists as Head of Data-Driven AI Solutions at inovex. Robert holds a PhD in bioinformatics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a MSc in computer science. His research […]

Christian’s objective is to make the robots more adaptable to their environment with Artificial Intelligence in order to pick & place without any programming. This will ease the customer’s journey in the installation process. Christian has 20 years of expertise […]

Fabian has been a working student at inovex for three years and is mainly involved with machine learning. He graduated from the University of Hamburg in 2019 with a B.Sc in Human Computer Interaction and then switched to a Master […]