AI Media Leaders
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AIM FOR THE FUTURE
AI Media Leaders is the forum for strategic exchange on artificial intelligence in the media and digital industry. Leading minds meet here to establish new collaborations, provide impetus and shape the future together.
When?
12.11.2026
Where?
Factory Hammerbrooklyn | Stadtdeich 2-4 Hamburg
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AI Media Leaders
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Albert Bozesan
Creative Director AI Media, Storybook Studios
Alois Krtil
CEO, Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg (ARIC) e.V.
Andreas Prost
Head of picture editing, DIE ZEIT
Angela Broer
General Manager Operations, Believe Digital
Anna Pramila Meissner
Executive Creative Director, TLGG Agency
Arne Kittler
Product Leadership Consultant, Product at Heart
Arne Totz
Executive Creative, 27km
Astrid Maier
Deputy Editor-in-Chief & Head of Strategy, dpa deutsche Presse-Agentur
Bruno Alexander
Actor, producer, screenwriter and director, founder and managing director of Kleine Brüder GmbH
Christian Kroll
CEO & Founder, Ecosia
Christoph Zimmer
CPO & Head of Product and Sales, Der Spiegel
Cigdem Boom-Aker
Partner & Program Manager, nextMedia.Hamburg
Dan Maag
Film producer, Storybook Studios
Dr. Carsten Brosda
Senator, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Dr. Carsten Mönning
Vice President Technology & Bertelsmann AI Hub Lead, Bertelsmann
Dr. Christian Heise
President & CEO, Hamburg Media School
Dr. Christopher Krauß
Media & Data Science Lead, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Dr. Florian Drücke
Chairman & CEO, German Music Industry Association (BVMI)
Dr. Florian Harms
Editor-in-Chief t-online & Managing Director Ströer News Publishing GmbH
Dr. Frederike Fritzsche
Chief Tech Transformation Officer, Otto Group
Dr. Lisa Steigertahl
Director Cloud & AI, Deloitte
Dr. Rainer Esser
CEO, ZEIT Publishing Group & Managing Director, DvH Medien GmbH
Dr. Ralf Kiene.
Co-CEO, OS Data Solutions GmbH
Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Schmidt
Head of Business Unit "AI4Media", Fraunhofer IAIS, involved in openGPT-X
Egbert Rühl
CEO, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
Eric Lehmann
Head of Digital Marketing, Constantin Film
Fabian Massah
Entrepreneur, Film Producer & Strategic Advisor, Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days
Gordon Nüsch
AI Director, Rowohlt Verlag
Henning Beck
Neurologist and author
Holger Volland
CEO, brand eins
Jens Redmer
Principal, New Products Google
Kemal Görgülü
CTO/Technical Director, ARTE
Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini
Engineer, AI consultant & bestselling author
Kristian Meinken
Managing Director, pilot Agency Group
Madhav Chinnappa
Advisor, Human Native AI & Freelance Media Consultant
Marc Recker
Managing Director, fischerAppelt relations
Marcel Semmler
Global Chief Product Officer, Bauer Media Group
Marco-Alexander Breit
Head of Department for Digital Policy and Economy, Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization
Marlies Bayha
Executive Creative Director, Territory
Martina Feuring
Head of Growth & Partnerships, OS Data Solutions GmbH
Max Mattis Harder
Producer, screenwriter and actor, founder and managing director of Kleine Brüder GmbH
Michelle Zou
Head of EU Publishing, AviaGames
Nurhan Şekerci-Porst
Film producer, Constantin Film
Philipp Westermeyer
Founder and Managing Director, OMR
Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda
Managing Director, ARTANA & specialist lawyer for copyright and media law, IT law
Rhys Nölke
Chief Data Officer, Bertelsmann
Sandra Harzer-Kux
Publishing management, Carlsen Verlag
Saskia Dupré
GenAI Program Lead, Otto Group
Sonali Verma
Generative AI Initiative Lead INMA & Executive Consultant
Sonja Schünemann
Personnel Development Officer with AI, ZDF
Sven Wiesner
Founder & Managing Director, Neon Gold Innovations
Tatjana Anisimov-Wippermann
Head of Content Innovation & AI Products, RTL NEWS
Thomas Brouwer
Ph.D. Machine Learning, Freelance AI & ML Product Manager
Yves Bollinger
Co-Founder & General Manager, Plan.Net.Studios
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Voices from the network
"Artificial intelligence is changing how we work and how we do journalism. We want to play an active role in shaping this development - responsibly, transparently and in dialog with other media companies. AIM Leaders offers a relevant platform for this."
Laura Seiffe
KI Project Management, ZEIT Publishing Group
"Artificial intelligence is a revolution. And, like the internet, it will not change the core task of journalism. With the AIM Leaders Conference, we want to address the use cases between the extreme statements and explore the question of what will change for us media, democracy and politics."
Christoph Zimmer
Head of Product & Sales, DER SPIEGEL
"AI affects us as a digital music company in many ways: artistically, legally, but of course also in terms of our organization, processes and procedures. We are currently dealing with this intensively, so the conference comes at exactly the right time."
Angela Broer
General Manager Operations, Believe Digital
The ongoing development of AI opens up a wide range of opportunities for media companies, but also presents us with common challenges. AIM Leaders offers the ideal platform to discover synergies through open dialog and industry-wide exchange and to successfully shape the future of the media landscape together.
Yannik Franke
AI Teamleader, dpa
"AI Media Leaders provides a suitable framework for discussing the strategic and responsible use of AI in the media and digital industry. As BVDW, we are also committed to breaking down barriers and developing viable solutions together. AI Media Leaders makes a valuable contribution to this."
Katharina Jäger
Head of Innovation & Technology, Federal Association of the Digital Economy (BVDW)
"It is extremely important for all media companies to be able to continuously adapt their business model to the highly disruptive topic of artificial intelligence. To do this, we need to exchange ideas with other media and technology companies. This is another reason why we are delighted to be helping to shape the launch of a cross-industry network with AIM Leaders."
Holger Volland
CEO, brand eins
With AIM Leaders, Hamburg offers a unique platform where thought leaders, decision-makers and innovators come together to discuss and shape one of the most important future trends in the media and digital industry on the topic of AI
Kristian Meinken
CEO, pilot Agency Group
"From innovation to the catalyst to new performance requirements - AI is putting many structures in agency-client relationships to the test. AIM Leaders offers us as an agency the opportunity to work with the industry to develop a consensus on how we can combine creation, innovation and client reality with responsible action."
Marius Darschin
Chief Growth Office, TERRITORY
"AI is fundamentally changing the film industry: it opens up creative scope and facilitates technical entry, but also brings with it numerous challenges in terms of copyright, quality and diversity. For film funding, this means initiating discourse, promoting innovative formats and shaping the future of storytelling together."
Helge Albers
Management, MOIN Filmförderung
"We are committed to AIM because we recognize that AI and media have become inseparable, and the skills required in both fields are increasingly converging."
Alois Krtil
CEO, Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg (ARIC)
Hamburg as a hub for AI in the media and digital economy
AIM Leaders is organized by nextMedia.Hamburg - an initiative of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft - and the Ministry of Culture and Media and sets an example for the further development of the media and digital location.
With AIM Leaders, Hamburg is positioning itself as a central meeting place for artificial intelligence in the field of content and technology. Hardly any other city combines creativity, media diversity and technological expertise as closely as Hamburg. With leading publishing houses and agencies, strong digital companies, the ARIC Hamburg innovation center and a clear political commitment to transformation, the Hanseatic city is the ideal starting point for AIM Leaders.
The involvement of industry partners demonstrates a shared interest in tapping into the economic potential of AI and helping to shape the location in the long term.
Contact person
- Cosima Ostan
- Project manager
- T +49 40 / 23 72 43 536
- Cindy Ta
- Kommunikationsmanagerin
- T +49 40 / 23 72 43 523
