Experts

November 2016: Eyal Balicer is the former Head of Research and Analysis at the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office. We asked him about cultural differences and how this is related to Big Data and data protection.

June 2017: Amnon Bar-Lev is President of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. In our interview he talks about cyber security.

April 2019: Katarina Barley, SPD, Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection. She provides answers about digital consumer protection.

August 2018: Chris Boos founded Arago in Germany in 1995, pushing existing boundaries in AI technology to build a general AI.

February 2016: "In Germany, students learn how to use computers... in spite of schools," says Wilfried Bos, Professor of Educational Research and Quality Assurance at Dortmund University and Director of the Institute for School Development Research.

December 2017: Joana Breidenbach is co-founder of "betterplace.org" and founder of "betterplace lab". "For me, digitization first of all expands the playing field of humanity," she says. We talked to her about digitization.

January 2017: Pinhas Buchris is a recognised leader in the development of Israel’s military intelligence, cyber and technology capabilities (Ret. Brig. General) and an experienced investor. We asked him about cyber security.

June 2017: With a specialty in managing cyber risk to critical infrastructure systems, Michael Daniel is recognized as one of the world’s top cybersecurity experts.

November 2017: Michael Decker is Professor of Technology Assessment at the Institute of Philosophy of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His scientific work focuses on the methodology of interdisciplinary research and technology assessment in robotics and nanotechnology. We talked to Michael Decker about opportunities and risks of autonomous driving.

September 2016: The author of „Zero“ and „Blackout“ tells us his surprinsingly positive view on Digitization, talks about basic income, Big Data and stockpile and even the topic of his new book.

July 2016: Goldberg says, "When we look at robots (...) we gain an appreciation for what humans are very good at." We spoke with him about artificial intelligence and about the interplay between man and machine.

November 2019: David Hanson, founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, about Humanoid robots for better coexistence.

August 2019: Tristan Harris has been called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine. 

January 2016: "The self-determination of people is currently at stake… big nudging, citizen scores, and implants could lead to digitally enabled slavery", says Dirk Helbing, professor at the ETH Zurich.

August 2016: Steven Hill is a political writer, columnist, and lecturer. We talked to him about the sharing economy.

November 2016: In our interview the author of the awarded crime novel "Drone Country" talks about algorithms and personal responsibility.

August 2016: Yvonne Hofstetter is a lawyer and an essayist. She is also managing director of the company Teramark Technologies GmbH, which develops artificial intelligence applications. Information capitalism is the subject of this interview.

November 2017: Joe Huston is the Chief Financial Officer at GiveDirectly, a non-profit devoted exclusively to delivering unconditional cash transfers to the extreme poor.

September 2017: Bryan Johnson is CEO of Kernel, OS Fund and Braintree. We asked him about the human species, machines and cyborgs.

January 2016: Board member Claudia Nemat talks with Gesche Joost, Digital Champion of Germany, about big data and how to prepare the younger generation for the digital future.

November 2017: Ralf Lamberti is CEO - Daimler Brand & IP Management GmbH & Co. KG, Director Intellectual Property, Trends & Innovation. Most recently responsible for the pre- and series development of Connected Car & User Interaction at Mercedes Benz, Lamberti stands for the "car experience space".  He gave us insights into the new multifunctional space of autonomous cars.

June 2018: Susanne Lebkücher works for Telekom at the interface between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). She tests new developments such as digital assistants directly with customers, for example in workshops. We talked to her about artificial intelligence.

November 2016: A Renaissance Man for the 21st century, Jaron Lanier is a comput­er scientist, composer, artist, and author who writes on numerous topics. In his opinion we do not have to be afraid of intelligent machines.

May 2019: Melinda Lohmann, University of St. Gallen, discusses the objectivity illusion, transparency and legal certainty in relation to artificial intelligence (AI).

August 2017: Jeanette Manfra serves as the Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Thomas Kremer, Telekom board member for data privacy, legal affairs and compliance aks her about security.

November 2017: Alexander Mankowsky researches the future of mobility for Daimler. One of his areas of work is futurology: technical and social innovations are to be combined to create.

February 2016: Will artificial intelligence and human spirit become one? And if so, what are the consequences? Tim Höttges asks Rob Nail, CEO and Associate founder of Singularity University.

August 2018: What do I like to talk about most when I meet social opinion makers? We can shape the ongoing process of digitalization. We are not victims, we are architects. But we have to wake up. We need to discuss in detail and actively shape what artificial intelligence and robots mean for our work, education, health and social cohesion. An article by Claudia Nemat, Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management, Technology and Innovation.

September 2017: Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., is the Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Duke University Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience, and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering. He talks about interfaces between man and machine.

August 2017: Karsten Nohl is a cryptographer and security researcher. He says, that the digital world is becoming more and more like our physical world, which is not completely free of danger either.

April 2019: Mareike Ohlberg, Mercator Institute for China Studies, on the social credit score system, its current status, and what the Chinese think of it.

August 2016: The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Hamburg-based retail and services group Otto explains how the company successfully transformed from classical catalog business into a successfull ecommerce merchant.

March 2016: Can artificial intelligence outwit the human mind? "This question remains unanswered," says Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, talking to Tim Höttges.

August 2017: Frank Rieger is speaker of Chaos Computer Club. Thomas Kremer, Telekom board member for data privacy, legal affairs and compliance asks him about the security of networks.

November 2017: Jeremy Rifkin is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. He does not believe in a guaranteed income.

May 2016: Peter Schaar, data protection expert and former Federal Commissioner for Data Protection, talks to Thomas Kremer, DT board member for data privacy, legal affairs and compliance, about responsibility and data protection.

October 2018: Frank Schätzing, born in 1957, studied communication, worked as a copywriter in international agencies (BMZ, DDB) and is the co-founder of the Cologne-based adve-tising agency Intevi.

April 2017: For Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber, often described as the father of AI, it is given that emotional intelligence is already part of Artificial Intelligences.

August 2018: Susan Schneider write about the fundamental nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy of mind, AI, astrobiology, metaphysics and cognitive science.

November 2017: Gabriele Semino is project manager of a group of students at the Technical University of Munich who are building prototypes of the futuristic Hyperloop transport proposed by Elon Musk (Tesla) as part of the international "SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition". In summer 2018 his team won the main prize of the competition for the second time in a row. We talked to Gabriele Semino about the traffic of the future in the urban agglomeration.

May 2019: Interview with Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann, professor of business informatics and author in the field of digital ethics, about the development of artificial intelligence, its limits and our conception of man.

November 2017: Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right.

July 2016: The journalist and publisher of the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" speaks about the future of journalism.

April 2017: The CTO of Amazon believes that concerns regarding AI are unfounded.

January 2019: The comedian and physician known from radio and television about artificial intelligence in medicine.

November 2016: The politician is spokesperson for Internet policy for the German Green party Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN. With him we talked about cultural differences regarding data protection and data security.

January 2020: Martin Wezowski, Chief Designer and Futurist at SAP Innovation Center Networks, demands that we counter Hollywood’s horror scenarios with a positive image of the future.

November 2017: Daniel Wiegand wants to launch the world's first air taxi on the market. We talked to the founder of Lilium, who would even put his mother in the thing, about air taxis and the drones of the future.

August 2018: will.i.am, born William Adams, is a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, a seven-time Grammy Award winner, and founder of I AM ™.

November 2017: Abbot Primates Dr. phil. Notker Wolf, Order of St. Benedict, says that for some kind of work you need human empathy.

January 2017: About big data in healthcare we talked with Professor Woopen, Executive Director of the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres), University of Cologne.

April 2016: Ranga Yogeshwar completed his degree in Physics at Aachen University of Technology (majoring in Experimental Particle Physics and Astrophysics) and then joined the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln television station in 1987, where he produced science programs.