Christine Regitz is Global Head of Women in Tech@SAP and a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE. After studying business administration and physics at Saarland University and Universita Degli Studi Bari (I), she started her career as a consultant at IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH and has held various management positions at SAP since 1994.

In an honorary capacity, she is, among other things, a member of the presidium and spokesperson of the business advisory board of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., a member of the industrial board of trustees of the Leibniz Centre for Informatics (Schloss Dagstuhl), the Council for Information Infrastructures, the board of trustees of the Steinbeis Foundation and the board of trustees of the German Museum. She has accompanied the AI Campus for a long time as a member of the advisory board.

Justin Gemeri is the founder and managing director of ekipa GmbH.
Founded 4 years ago, ekipa connects established organisations from business and politics with the digital generation of students, start-ups, research groups and young professionals via its own online platform, thus enabling the development of new innovations for social and economic challenges.
Already as a student, Justin Gemeri recognised the challenge of transferring knowledge from theory to practical application and developed ekipa as a solution for this. In this way, the enormous innovation potential of the digital generation can be unleashed.

As a former teacher, Hannes has experienced first-hand how positive the use of digital media in the classroom can be for learning success. In his current role, he promotes the use of EdTech solutions in education and training throughout Austria. In his previous role, he was responsible for the Bertelsmann Foundation’s digital education and 21st Century Skills initiatives as a project manager. Hannes has a Master’s degree in Education Policy from Harvard University.

Peter Greisler is head of the “Higher Education” sub-division at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His areas of responsibility include the German Research Foundation, higher education law, social issues of studying (BAföG), young academics, the internationalisation of universities and continuing education at universities.

Prof. Dr. Claudia de Witt has been head of the Department of Educational Theory and Media Education at the Institute for Educational Science and Media Research at the FernUniversität in Hagen since 2004. She researches and teaches in the areas of education and digitalisation, personalisation and artificial intelligence in higher education and innovative digital teaching-learning processes. Together with the AI Campus, she has published the white paper AI in Higher Education and organised events on this topic.

Georgi Dimitrov joined the European Commission in 2008 and was involved in setting up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and managing HEInnovate, an initiative by the European Commission and the OECD that supports entrepreneurial and innovative universities. Following a stint as as a policy advisor to senior management, in 2017 Georgi assumed the role of Deputy Head of Unit “Innovation and EIT” in DG EAC where he was responsible for the EIT and its strategic innovation agenda 2021-2027; the first Digital Education Action Plan; including business-university cooperation. In January 2021 he assumed the leadership of the newly created unit for Digital Education. Before joining the Commission, Georgi worked for a leading multinational telecommunication company in Germany. Prior to that, he worked in a software development company for four years in Germany. Georgi studied at the University of Bonn (MA), the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (PhD) and the Open University UK (MBA).

Niels Pinkwart studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Duisburg from 1995 to 1999. He received his doctorate there in 2005 with a dissertation on collaborative modelling systems in educational contexts. After a postdoctoral position at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he accepted calls for a junior professorship and subsequently for a regular professorship at Clausthal University of Technology. Since 2013, he has been working at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he holds the chair of “Didactics of Computer Science / Computer Science and Society”. He has been Vice President for Studies and Teaching at HU Berlin since October 2021. In addition to his work at HU Berlin, Prof. Pinkwart is active as the scientific director of the Educational Technology Lab at DFKI Berlin and is a member of the steering committee of the educational technologies section within the Gesellschaft für Informatik. He has a scientific track record of more than 200 publications, has given keynotes at numerous events in the field of educational technologies and is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Prof. Dr Olga Burkova has been Vice President for Digitalisation at HAW Hamburg since September 2017. In the context of digital transformation, she combines technical modernisation issues with digital cultural change, while at the same time strengthening the responsibility of higher education institutions in terms of their educational mission. In addition, she is particularly committed to cooperations with stakeholders from business, society and politics. She is a psychologist, educator and holds a doctorate in educational science. She has many years of experience in IT implementation in the social sector as well as in digital strategy development for universities.