AI MENTORS & EXPERTS OF THE KI-GARAGE
Successful entrepreneurs and hands-on AI expertise for your success

Support us as an AI expert or coach

As a supporter of the KI-Garage, you get direct access to the latest AI ideas from Baden-Württemberg and help develop Baden-Württemberg into one of the most innovative regions in the field of artificial intelligence.


As an AI MENTOR, you regularly exchange ideas with one of our startup teams on AI topics and provide valuable tips for their strategic development. Are you a successful founder:in the AI field yourself or do you have years of managerial experience in industry or research? - Effort: approx. 2-3h per month - Contact us  

As an AI EXPERT you are ready to help our teams with specific questions. You are an expert in a specific field and want to get as close as possible to the new AI ideas in Baden-Württemberg? Then become part of our expert pool - Effort: depending on the needs of the startups & your availability - Apply here.

As a STARTUP COACH, you will accompany young AI teams from Baden-Württemberg, as part of our 3-month Network Accelerator. You will regularly exchange ideas with 1-2 teams and help them develop their business model. You are an experienced startup coach and want to work with innovative founders of tomorrow? - Effort: approx. 2h per week - Contact us

AI Mentors

Successful AI founders and leading AI researchers share valuable tips for the technical development of our teams.
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Startup coaches

Experienced startup coaches accompany our AI teams during the 3-month Network Accelerator.
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AI Experts

A pool of leading AI experts helps our teams with specific questions.
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    AI MENTORS

    JÖRG BIENERT

    President @KI Bundesverband

    CARSTEN KRAUS

    Serial AI-Entrepreneur, Member @Forbes Technology Council

    KI-Garage Mentorin Naja von Schmude

    NAJA VON SCHMUDE

    Founder & CTO @Peregrine.AI

    SEBASTIAN HEINZ

    Founder & CEO @statworx GmbH

    DR. WOLFGANG FAISST

    Co-founder & CEO @ValueWorks.ai

    JÖRG RUPP

    General Manager @Dorucon

    KI-Garage Mentorin Julia Hoxha

    JULIA HOXHA

    CEO & Co-founder @Zana

    KI-Garage Mentor Patrick Baier

    PATRICK BAIER

    Professor Machine Learning - HS Karlsruhe

    KI-Garage Mentor Vince Madai

    VINCE MADAI

    Senior Healthcare AI Researcher @Charité Berlin

    KI-Garage Mentor Ruben Nuredini

    RUBEN NUREDINI

    Research Associate @Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences

    CLARISSA VOGELBACHER

    Founder & Managing Director @carrot data

    JAN OEVERMANN

    Co-Founder & CEO @plusmeta GmbH

    KI-Garage Mentor Oliver Wasenmueller

    OLIVER WASENMÜLLER

    Professor for AI & CV @Hochschule Mannheim

    KI-Garage Mentor Justus Thies

    JUSTUS THIES

    Independent Research Group Leader @Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

    KONSTANTIN SCHMITZ

    CTO @predori GmbH

    MIRKO ROSS

    CEO @asvin GmbH

    DAVID LENZ 

    CTO @istari.ai

    PAVEL ROMANENKO

    Manager @Capgemini Invent and Founder of Future Atelier

    ANDREAS MIELKE

    Managing Director @Deloitte Digital GmbH

    MICHAEL DIETZ

    Customer Engineer @Google

    BENEDICT LINDNER

    Co-Founder @synthavo GmbH

    RALPH DEBUSMANN

    CTO and Co-Founder @Forecasty.AI

    ANDREA FRAHM

    Israel Repräsentantin @Israel Office of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, Innovation Lead. Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft

    KI-Garage Mentor Christoph Garbe

    CHRISTOPH GARBE

    CEO @HD Vision Systems GmbH

    AMINE ÜNAL

    CEO @Aynami

    DARINA ONOPRIENKO

    CEO @Agrivero.ai

    KARSTEN KRISPIN

    rabbitAI GmbH

    ANDREAS NIERLICH

    AI Expert I Retail I Leader I Startup Coach & Mentor @ensquare Consulting 

    ANDREAS SCHMIDT

    Self-employed, AI, Innovation & Change Consultant

    MICHAEL BÄSSLER

    Breakwater Solutions a Repario Company, Chief Software Architect & Development Director

    PHILIPP BLETZER

    Lecturer for Entrepreneurship @Hochschule Mannheim

    NIKLAS GOBY

    MHP - A Porsche Company

    BENEDICT LINDNER

    CTO & Co-Founder @synthavo GmbH

    FABIAN MÜLLER

    statworx GmbH, COO

    STARTUP COACHES

    LAURA KOCH

    Enabler Corporate Entrepreneurship @Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen

    JULIA PIECHOTTA

    Co-Founder @Spoontainable

    THOMAS NEUMANN

    Head of New Ventures, Shareholdings & Incubators @Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

    DR. DESIREE-JESSICA PELY

    Co-Founder & CEO@Loyee.io

    AMINA DACA

    Project Manager @University Heidelberg

    ALINA GREBE

    Project Manager Smart Region @BadenCampus

    MARCEL WERLE

    Startup Coach @University of Stuttgart

    DR. BIRGIT ROGELL

    Productmanager CustomBiotech EMEA-LATAM @Roche Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH

    SASCHA KARSTÄDT

    Managing Partner @AI Founders

    Florian Fischer

    Founding Partner @Styx Urban Investments

    Paul Becker

    Startup Support Manager @Technologiepark Heidelberg GmbH

    Alexander Graf

    Lead StartupSecure Kastel @Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    Eduard Sabelfeld

    Transfer and Partner Manager @Design Factory Pforzheim

    Nicolai Droll

    Startup Consultant @CyberLab IT-Accelerator / CyberForum

    Eliska Mastrakova

    Coordinator Accelerator Programs @Up2B Accelerator & Next Mannheim

    Benjamin Braun

    Venture Manager @Campus Founders

    AI EXPERTS

    KATHARINA KILIAN-YASIN

    Professor @Pforzheim University

    MICHAEL VÖSSING

    Postdoctoral Researcher & Data Scientist @KIT & IBM

    JÜRGEN PAHLE

    Group Leader @Heidelberg University

    DR. MARIA Börner

    Program Managerin @adap

    THOMAS KEIL

    Director Marketing @SAS Institute GmbH

    ENKELEJDA KASNECI

    Professor for Human-Computer Interaction @University of Tübingen

    ALEXANDER GRAF

    Head of Regional Cyber Security Program @Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

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