Ulli Waltinger is the Head of the Machine Intelligence Research Group and the founder and Co-Head of the Siemens AI Lab at Siemens Corporate Technology. Prior to this, he worked at the Artificial Intelligence department and the Center of Excellence of Cognitive Interaction Technology at the University of Bielefeld. His primary interests are combining data-driven and semantic technology-driven machine learning algorithms for AI, information retrieval and NLP challenges. Ulli Waltinger has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, text technology and cognitive science. Over the last years, he pushed and guided within Siemens various AI initiatives, such as the Core Technology Initiative on Deep Learning and AI, or the various Hackathons on Artificial Intelligence in and outside of Siemens.