Thomas Endres arbeitet in der Rolle eines Partners als IT-Consultant fürTNG Technology Consulting in München. Neben seiner "normalen" Tätigkeitfür die Firma und die Kundenprojekte entwickelt er zusammen mit demTNG-Hardware-Hacking-Team veschiedene Prototypen - darunter einTelepräsenz-Robotik-System, mit dem man die Realität aus den Augen einesRoboters erleben kann, oder aber eine Augmented-Reality-KI, die die Weltaus der Perspektive eines Künstlers zeigt. Er arbeitet an Anwendungen imBereich der AR/VR, KI sowie der Gestensteuerung, um damit beispielsweiseQuadrokopter autonom fliegen zu lassen oder berührungslos zu steuern.Darüber hinaus ist er in verschiedenen Open-Source-Projekten in Java, C#und allen Spielarten von JavaScript involviert.Thomas ist studierter Informatiker (TU München) und leidenschaftlicherSoftwareentwickler. Als Intel Software Innovator und Black Beltpräsentiert er weltweit neue Technologien wie KI, AR/VR und Robotik.Dafür erhielt er unter anderem einen JavaOne Rockstar-Award.
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Dr. Thorsten Bagdonat, Jahrgang 1972, promoviert in theoretischer Astrophysik, danach einige Jahre in einem kleinen Startup für industrielle Bildverarbeitung gearbeitet. Seit 11 Jahren bei Volkswagen in der Konzernforschung („Group Innovation“) tätig im Bereich Fahrzeugumfeldwahrnehmung für autonomes Fahren. Jetzt Teamleitung für „Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics“. Wir beschäftigen uns mit KI-Algorithmen zur Bildverarbeitung und allgemeinen Sensordatenanalyse z.B. zur Vorhersage von Batterielebensdauer oder des Nutzerverhaltens. Mein Hauptinteresse zielt auf Grundlagen der KI, insbesondere dem Thema „Bionic AI“, also KI, die sich an dem Vorbild der Natur/des Menschen orientiert.

Dr. Thorsten Bagdonat, born 1972, made a PhD in theoretical astrophysics. After that, worked in a small startup company for industrial computer vision. Has been working for 11 years at Volkswagen Research (“Group Innovation”) in the field of perception for autonomous driving. Currently heading a team for “Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics” working on AI-based algorithms for perception and general data analysis, e.g. for predictive maintenance or user behavior analysis. My personal interests focus on basic questions of AI particularly in the field of “Bionic AI” dealing with human-like intelligence and understanding.

Tina Lorenz came of age in a galactic society of hackers, but went on to study Drama and American Literature in Vienna and Munich. She has worked in the past as lecturer for theatre history at the Bavarian Academy for Performing Arts, as dramaturge at the Landestheater Oberpfalz and as specialist for digital communication at the State Theatre of Nuremberg. She is a founding member of two hackspaces (labs for technology enthusiasts), the metalab Vienna and the Binary Kitchen Regensburg and is part of the jury at the Dortmund Academy for Theatre and Digitality, awarding fellowships to promising artists in the field of performing arts and digital media. Since 2020, she is the Head of Digital Theatre at the State Theatre of Augsburg.
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Titusz Pan is an entrepreneur and open-source developer. He is the inventor and architect of the ISCC. As co-founder and CEO of Craft AG, he has been developing media technology projects and incubations since the year 2000.

Trent McConaghy co-founded Ocean Protocol, building decentralized tools to level the playing field for AI and data. He has worked on AI since the mid 90s, Python since the early 2000s, and blockchain since the early 2010s.

Crypto art and music duo Studio Nouveau formed in May 2020, intending to explore NFTs as a medium for the scarce ownership of music, multimedia video art, and as a means to decorate the metaverse with 3D digital sculptures. Studio Nouveau's genesis project was their multimedia music album "Audiovisual," released track by track on SuperRare between July and September 2020. Each track is a single edition audiovisual NFT.

Valerie Brunner is member of the Management Board of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and together with her team, manages RBI’s relationships with Corporate and Institutional Clients.
Overall, Valerie has >30 years of banking experience, of which she spent 18 years in senior management positions.
She holds a Master’s degree in International Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and an Executive MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.
Besides Banking, Valerie is passionate about psychology and currently pursues the Master Study Program Psychotherapy Science at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna.