Dr. Rainer Hoffmann
Chief Data Officer (CDO), Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW)
Dr. Rainer Hoffmann leads group-wide data and AI initiatives at EnBW, serving as the strategic link between the executive board and distributed teams. With a background spanning over a decade at EnBW, he previously headed Data & Analytics Excellence and led AI transformation projects. A recognized expert in responsible AI, he lectures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and advises companies on data strategy. Rainer holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and has studied at KIT Karlsruhe, additionally following lectures at MIT, UCLA, and the University of Toronto.
10.30 - 11.15
Monday | 29th Sep Plenary Agenda
Panel 2: Building Competitive AI Applications
- Why is it important for European AI applications to be trained on European data? Where are Europe’s key datasets and how can they be made accessible, standardised and interoperable, for example through national data libraries?
- Should European governments provide data as a public good? How can they balance public and private interests?
- How and why should public compute capacity be increased?
- Global competition: how do the EU, US and China compare in AI development and deployment?
- What can Europe and its industries learn from DeepSeek?