Faculty

Our Faculty consists of world-class thought leaders, international and national practitioners and experts from the hottest and most spectacular AI, data, and automation companies and institutions with world-class expertise on applying AI, robotics and data related technologies in practice.

Our Faculty is growing in number and in geographic coverage. Our faculty members are lecturing and giving active support across all our digital and physical education activities.

Machine & Deep Learning

Dr. Patrick Bangert

VP of Artificial Intelligence at Samsung SDS, Head of the AI Sciences and AI Engineering Teams
Former CEO at Algorithmica Technologies, a Machine Learning Software Company Serving the Chemicals, and Oil and Gas Industries
Lecturing Topic: AI Leadership and Machine Learning

Dr. Michael Menzel

Machine Learning Specialist, Customer Engineering at Google
Previously Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure Architect Amazon Web Services and Big Data and Cloud Engineer at SAP
Lecturing Topic: AI in Industrial Production

Dr. Alexander Del Toro Barba

Lead Machine Learning Specialist at Google
Lecturing Topic: Machine Learning, AI in Energy & Utilities

Fuat Beşer

Founder of Leading AI Talent Communities Like Deep Learning Türkiye
Thought Leader on Machine and Deep Learning; Google Developer Expert
Lecturing Topic: Machine Learning and Deep Learning

AI in Customer Interaction, Marketing & Sales

Daniel Leahy

EMEA Engagement Lead, Cloud AI Product Development at Google
Lecturing Topic: AI in Banking, AI in Insurance, AI in Marketing & Sales (Customer Engagement)

Dr. Christoph Mittendorf

AI Advocate / Regional Product Lead at Google
Lecturing Topic: AI in Vision, AI in Marketing & Sales, AI in Sustainability

Dr. Dorian Selz

Internet Entrepreneur and Founder of Data-Driven Companies Like e.g. local.ch
CEO of Squirro, a Leading AI Platform That Delivers Actionable Recommendations for Better Business Outcomes
Lecturing Topic: Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Christoph Bräunlich

Head of BSI AI
Previously worked for corporate research at ABB
Lecturing Topic: AI in Marketing and Sales

Data Science & Analytics

Claudio Mirti

Advanced Analytics & AI Specialist EMEA at Microsoft & Founder of Design Thinking and AI Courses in Higher Education in Switzerland and New York University
Lecturing Topic: AI in Leadership, Big Data, Analytics, IoT, Chatbot & Machine Learning

Computer Vision, Image and Speech Recognition

Shaun Moore

CEO and Founder of Trueface, the Leading Computer Vision Company That Creates Actionable Data from Existing Camera Feeds
Lecturing Topic: Computer Vision – Image Recognition and Image Processing

Dr. Julien Weissenberg

Founder of VisualSense AI, a Swiss-Based Boutique Advisory in Computer Vision and AI Providing Outstanding Services to Companies, Start-Up Incubators and Institutions
World Economic Forum Global Shaper
Lecturing Topic: Computer Vision – Image Recognition and Image Processing

Aniello Bove

CEO and Partner at Andrion Ag, a Swiss-Based Company Providing High Qualified Services and Solutions Within the Banking Industry
Lecturing Topic: Speech Recognition

AI in Life Sciences & Healthcare

Beste Selen Arıkan - MD

Head of Competence Centre Healthcare at AI Business School, Director Hub Malta
Lecturing Topic: AI in Healthcare

Jason Warrelmann

Global Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at UiPath
Former Engagement Leader at AVP Healthcare Enterprise Transformation
Lecturing Topic: AI in Life Sciences & Healthcare

Utku Şenol - MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology at Akdeniz University
PhD in Biostatistics and Medical informatics
Founder of HELCON HEALTH INFORMATICS Company and its Radinion initiative, which provides imaging informatics consultancy, project partnerships and teleradiology services
Lecturing Topic: AI in Healthcare

Katharina Fulterer

AI Entrepreneur and Automation Consultant
CEO of Boydak Automation, the Swiss Market Leader for RPA Design and Implementations
Lecturing Topic: Hyperautomation and RPA

AI in Financial Services

Elaine Mannix

Global Insurance Lead at UiPath
Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation Strategic Advisor / Insurance Industry Change Leader
Lecturing Topic: RPA in Insurance

Ashok Krish

Global Head, Digital Workplace Practice at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Previously Head of Social Media & Workplace Reimagination Practice and TCS Innovation Lab Web 2.0, Solution Architect, Project Lead, and Software Engineer at TCS
Lecturing Topic: Future of Work, AI in Insurance

Vaitheeswaran Thirugnanam

Global Head – Insurance Industry Advisory Group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Previously Head of TCS Innovation Lab
Lecturing Topic: AI in Insurance

Reni Parameshwaran

Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – Research & Innovation
Creates Next Generation Solutions in the Insurance Space
Lecturing Topic: AI in Insurance

Dr. Dmitry Borisenko

Expert in Quantitative Finance and Data Science
Lecturing Topic: Machine Learning and Deep Learning

AI in Arts

Refik Anadol

Media Artist, Director, and Pioneer in the Aesthetics of Machine Intelligence
Lecturer and Researcher for UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts
Recipient of Various Awards and Prizes Including Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award, Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award
Lecturing Topic: AI in Arts

AI in Procurement and Supply Chain

AI in IT

Geoffrey Guilly

Founder and CEO of Aitenders, a French-Based Company Optimizing Tender Management Processes With AI
Former CEO, CFO and Innovation Director in Engineering and Transportation Industry
Lecturing Topic: AI in Procurement

AI in IT

Daron Yöndem

Microsoft Azure Application Development Lead for MEA HQ
Regular Speaker at International Conferences on AI, Serverless, and Engineering Culture
Lecturing Topic: AI Leadership and Serverless AI

Hyperautomation and Robotics

Daniel Turi

Head of Financial Data Management at Allianz Suisse
Popular Author and Speaker
Lecturing Topic: RPA

Florian Bislin

RPA Business Development, and Project Manager and Delivery Head at Boydak Automation, the Swiss Market Leader for RPA Design and Implementation
Former Area Manager at Lidl Schweiz AG
Lecturing Topic: Hyperautomation and RPA

Social Impact, Ethics and Regulation

Dr. Thomas Ramge

Award-Winning, Best-Selling Author With Special Focus on AI
AI Researcher
Lecturing Topic: AI Ethics and AI-Based Decisioning

Dr. Leon Tsvasman

Author and Academic Teacher in Germany and the US
Lecturing Topic: Latest Thinking in AI Research and Science

Digital and AI Leadership

Ulrich Hoffmann

Former Head Group Operations at UBS
Lecturing Topic: Automation and AI in Banking

Andreas Kaelin

Founder and Owner of ICPRO GmbH, Service and Consulting Company for Business Management and Information Technology
President of ICT Vocational Training Switzerland
General Manager of ICTswitzerland, the Largest Swiss IT Association
Lecturing Topic: Digital Transformation – IT Strategy and Security

Dr. Kurt Mäder

Former Top Executive and COO in the Banking Industry
Ph.D. Degree in Physics from ETH Zurich
Lecturing Topic: AI in Leadership

Ralf-Dieter Wagner

Senior Business Development Executive leading the Go-to-Market for AWS AI/AML Services in GSA
Former Partner at Accenture and General Manager EMEA at US-based AI Start-up r4
Lecturing Topics: AI Strategy & Leadership, AI in Insurance, Banking, Retail and Manufacturing

Ayisha Piotti

Co-founder & Managing Partner of RegHorizon, a leading Swiss based strategy consulting company
Former Senior Director for Business Development, Public and Regulatory Affairs at Philip Morris International
Alumna of the London School of Economics & Political Science, Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, MIT’s Sloane School of Management, and INSEAD.
Lecturing Topic: AI Leadership, AI Governance, and AI Ethics
Director AI Policy at ETH Zurich

Otto Bitterli

Former Top Executive and CEO in the Health Insurance Industry
Lecturing Topic: AI in Healthcare and AI Leadership

Gion-Pieder Pfister

Former Senior Vice President & CEO, Swissport International Basel
Lecturing Topic: Leadership in the AI Age, AI in Mobility

Peter Sany

Former Top Executive in Pharma, Healthcare, Technology and Banking Industries
Acknowledged CIO of the Year and Member of Various Boards, e.g. Chairman of the Advisory Board at Fraunhofer Institute for AI
Lecturing Topic: AI Leadership

Selçuk Boydak

International AI Entrepreneur, Company-Builder and Investor
Founder of the AI Business School
Lecturing Topic: Introduction-level AI Courses, AI in Healthcare and AI Leadership

Kamales Lardi

CEO at Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH
Teaching Fellow and Chairperson of the MBA Advisory Board at Durham University Business School
Chair of the FORBES Business Council Women Executives
Lecturing Topic: Digital Transformation and AI Leadership