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Alberto Alemanno

Alpbach, Austria · Person

Italian legal scholar and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law at HEC Paris, founder of the civic advocacy organization The Good Lobby, focused on citizen participation and European democracy. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.

Person Public PolicyAcademia

Alexander Wrabetz

Vienna, Austria · Person

Alexander Wrabetz is Vienna's Commissioner for AI in Media and the former long-serving Director General of ORF, Austria's public broadcasting corporation. He is a prominent figure in Austrian and European media policy, having led ORF through major digital transformation phases over multiple terms. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he argued for cross-sector cooperation among public and private broadcasters to address economic pressures from advertising losses and accelerate AI adoption.

Person MediaPolicy

Bernhard Albrecht

Vienna, Austria · Person

Bernhard Albrecht is Co-CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, Austria's leading commercial broadcaster and digital entertainment group. He drives the company's AI strategy and digital transformation agenda across its portfolio of TV and digital channels. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he emphasized moving from AI buzzwords toward genuine practical implementations in media production and marketing.

Person MediaTechnology

César Rodríguez-Garavito

Vienna, Austria · Person

Colombian legal scholar and professor at NYU School of Law, chair of the Earth Rights Research and Action program, working on human rights, environmental law and the rights of nature. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and environmental law.

Person Public PolicyImpact

Cory Doctorow

Vienna, Austria · Person

British-Canadian author, journalist and digital-rights activist, a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and prolific commentator on technology, platforms and the open internet. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.

Person TechnologyMediaPublic Policy

Florian Kaps

Vienna, Austria · Person

Florian Kaps is an Austrian entrepreneur and analog media advocate, best known as co-founder of The Impossible Project, the initiative that saved Polaroid instant film from extinction and restarted global production of analog instant photography. He is also the founder of Supersense, a Vienna-based cultural concept store and event space dedicated to analog art, music, and photography. Kaps is a prominent figure in entrepreneurial ventures at the crossroads of analog culture and contemporary creative communities.

Person Creative IndustriesMedia & Entertainment

Geoffrey Hinton

Vienna, Austria · Person

British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist widely regarded as a godfather of deep learning, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics and Turing Award winner for his work on neural networks. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.

Person AIDeep TechScience

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Alpbach, Austria · Person

Nobel laureate economist and professor at Columbia University, former chief economist of the World Bank, known for work on information economics, inequality and globalization. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach in Tyrol.

Person EconomicsPublic Policy

Lars Reger

Vienna, Austria · Person

German engineer and technology executive serving as Chief Technology Officer of NXP Semiconductors, a leading global semiconductor company, with deep expertise in automotive, IoT and edge computing. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.

Person Deep TechHardware

Layla Hosseini-Gerami

Vienna, Austria · Person

Scientist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and drug discovery, focused on using computational methods to rescue and repurpose previously failed drug candidates. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and drug discovery.

Person AILife Sciences

Lea Ypi

Alpbach, Austria · Person

Albanian-born political theorist and Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an award-winning author writing on freedom, justice and democracy. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.

Person Public PolicyAcademia

Lisa Smith

Vienna, Austria · Person

Technology leader at Prewave, a Vienna-based supply-chain risk and ESG monitoring startup that uses AI to track disruptions and compliance risks across global supplier networks. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.

Person AISupply Chain

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter

Vienna, Austria · Person

Austrian venture capital investor and General Partner at Speedinvest, one of Europe's most active early-stage funds, with a focus on deep tech, industrial technology and hardware startups. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.

Person Venture CapitalDeep Tech

Mido Assran

Vienna, Austria · Person

AI researcher working on self-supervised learning and world models, contributing to advances in machine perception and representation learning at a leading AI research lab. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and world models.

Person AIDeep Tech

Nicholas Thompson

Vienna, Austria · Person

American journalist and media executive serving as Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic, former editor-in-chief of WIRED, and a frequent commentator on technology, AI and society. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and safety.

Person MediaAI

Peter Bosek

Alpbach, Austria · Person

Austrian banking executive and Chief Executive Officer of Erste Group Bank, one of Central and Eastern Europe's largest financial services providers, with a long career in retail and digital banking. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.

Person FinanceBanking

Peter Steinberger

Vienna, Austria · Person

Austrian software engineer and entrepreneur, founder of PSPDFKit and a prominent voice in AI agents and developer tooling, more recently building in the AI agent space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and agents.

Person AISoftware

Sabine Herlitschka

Vienna, Austria · Person

Austrian executive and Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies Austria, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, and a prominent advocate for research, innovation and industrial competitiveness in Europe. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.

Person Deep TechHardware

Salome Zourabichvili

Alpbach, Austria · Person

French-born Georgian politician and diplomat who served as President of Georgia from 2018, the first woman to hold the office, drawing on a long career in French diplomacy before entering Georgian politics. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.

Person Public PolicyDiplomacy

Stefan Kollinger

Vienna, Austria · Person

Stefan Kollinger is Chief Innovation Officer at ORF, Austria's public broadcasting corporation, where he leads innovation strategy and digital technology initiatives. He is a key executive responsible for driving ORF's transformation in the face of streaming competition and AI disruption. He participated as a speaker at the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, representing ORF's perspective on practical AI adoption within public media workflows.

Person MediaTechnology

Valeria Pettorino

Vienna, Austria · Person

Cosmologist and physicist researching dark energy and the large-scale structure of the universe, applying machine learning to astrophysical data and survey missions. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and galaxies.

Person ScienceAI

Wolfgang Ischinger

Alpbach, Austria · Person

German diplomat and former chairman of the Munich Security Conference, a veteran ambassador and foreign-policy expert who now leads the Munich Security Conference Foundation. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach on European security.

Person Public PolicySecurity

Yascha Mounk

Alpbach, Austria · Person

German-American political scientist and Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins University, a widely published author and commentator on democracy, populism and the future of liberal societies. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.

Person Public PolicyAcademia

Yukiyasu Kamitani

Vienna, Austria · Person

Japanese neuroscientist and professor at Kyoto University known for pioneering work on brain decoding and reconstructing mental imagery from neural activity using machine learning. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and the brain.

Person AIScience