HUMAN & AI

Dirk Hartmann is Senior Principal Scientist for Simulation and Digital Twin at Siemens. We called him at Princeton, New Jersey. Find out what combines the two fields of ML and Simulation? How to bring them closer together? What was Newton doing in Home Office? Sounds interesting for you? Listen to our brand new Podcast series. Every week we provide you a short Episode recorded with a genius mind. Stay tuned. There is so much more to come.

We are Vera Eger, Arberie Hakaj and Ulli Waltinger - the moderators of today´s podcast episode. Tune in and get a brief glimpse behind the scenes. Find out that our purpose is to provide a platform for our genius minds at Siemens, to see what fascinates and motivates them and learn what aspects of their daily inspiration can contribute to problem-solving in the field of AI. Listen to how we started the podcast from scratch and what challenges this self-made format brings with it. Stay tuned - there is so much more to come. Stay #bold #committed #open-minded

Today´s genius mind is the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation for Siemens in Berkeley, California and has been awarded as one of the MIT Tech Review innovators under35 2019 Europe in the Pioneer category. Leading a team of researchers and engineers in the area of Robotics and AI they specialize in searching for, building relationships with and working elbow-to-elbow with the best university researchers in the US, creating the future of automation. Find out what their toolbox of End to End automation is, why the next revolution of robots will be about learning to learn and which will be first, autonomous cars or flying cars?

Today's genius mind is Julia Gottfriedsen. She is a purpose-driven team player with an intrapreneurial spirit and experience in the fields of Data Science and Engineering. We reached out to Julia in April in her home office for Siemens Corporate Technology in Berkeley, US* where we started the conversation grounded in the field of environmental sciences and then even set off for space. Find out what fascinates her about Machine Learning, how to bridge the gap between different fields of technology, and how important it is for her to be on the lookout for answers that will be relevant to all of us.*Since May 2020 she works as a Doctoral Researcher for Department of atmospheric physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR) to apply deep learning to climate data to better understand extreme weather events and abrupt climate change.

Today’s genius mind is Mareike Kritzler. She is Head of the Smart Machine Vision and Visualization Research Group in Berkeley, California* and studied Geoinformatics in Germany. Mareike is comfortable in both research- as well as a release-driven development environment. Tune in to this episode to find out more about why Virtual Reality is still a thing, why AI is both an opportunity and a challenge, what makes the AI ecosystem in the US so unique, and how Augmented Reality can help you in finding the right furniture. *The interview was conducted in April 2020 shortly after the coronavirus outbreak started and she was Head of the Artificial and Human Intelligence Research Group in Berkeley, California. We apologize for the partly bad audio quality and have tried all our skills to make it sound less metal.

Today's genius mind is Kai Hermsen from Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich. He is the Global Coordinator for the Charter of Trust and driving the Siemens Cybersecurity Strategy. Tune in to learn what a good Cybersecurity approach is about, why we should try to make a difference in the world and what it means to involve humans into the whole game.

Today's genius mind is Franziska Dolak from Smart Infrastructure in Zug. She is a human-centered, inspiring and passionate leader who never gives up creating new opportunities. Discover her view on how to bring people together by shaping their ambiance, why we need to stop playing the innovation theater and start creating real digital movements.

Today's genius mind is Henning Ochsenfeld, Head of Data Science & ML-Engineering at Siemens Digital Industries. Find out his views on why explainable AI will play a crucial role in the future; what great potential simulation and Reinforcement Learning offers the industry; and what AI has to do with beer brewing.