Hans Uszkoreit is Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin. He is co initiator and Steering Board Member of LEAM.AI as well as Founder and Scientific Advisor at UNICEPTA Corporate Intelligence (formerly GIANCE). Uszkoreit has worked in AI for more than 35 years as professor, research leader and entrepreneur. He has authored/co-authored more than 250 publications in AI and computational linguistics and he is Member of the European Academy of Sciences. He has coordinated many national and international confederated projects and an international masters program in language and communication technologies . For his work on language understanding, he received two Google Research Awards.