Natalie Mackey

Co-Founder & CEO

Winky Lux

Sarah Lee

Co-Founder

Glow Recipe

Mike Loughran

CTO, UK & Ireland

Rockwell Automation

Daniel Weimer

Head of AI, Americas

Volkswagen Group

Daniel heads the AI department of Volkswagen Group, Region Americas located in Detroit, MI, United States of America.

Daniel built up and headed the Machine Learning Expert Center within Volkswagen Data:Lab in Munich, Germany, where his team’s job was to develop and deploy latest machine learning and AI algorithms into real processes along the whole automotive value chain.

Prior to that, he was a researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in the field of AI. Daniel is originally affiliated to the University of Bremen, where he worked as a Research Scientist and Ph.D candidate in the Intelligent Production Systems research division at BIBA - Bremer Institut fuer Produktion und Logistik GmbH.

Daniel’s work is on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Applications. One focus is on Deep Machine Learning, a great paradigm, which is entitled to bring machine learning closer to AI by learning powerful models from massive amounts of data (Big Data).

Michael Thierschmann

VP, Operational Excellence

KION