Thirteen experts from research, ethics, politics, public administration and business independently advise on how neuland.ai develops and uses AI.
Pioneering for an intelligent future
The neuland.ai Future Advisory Board brings together leading minds from academia, business, politics, ethics, medicine and society. As an independent, interdisciplinary body, it supports the development and use of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe: critically, constructively and with foresight.
The Advisory Board brings together expertise from research, business, politics, public administration, ethics, theology and medicine. This ensures that the impact of AI on value creation, the world of work, social systems, education, public administration and social coexistence is considered comprehensively.
The Future Advisory Board analyzes the opportunities and risks of AI, develops guardrails for an AI transformation that serves the common good and complies with regulations, and provides practical recommendations: for neuland.ai, businesses, policymakers and society.
The members are exceptionally well connected and contribute their perspectives, contacts and multiplier effect to the strategic development of neuland.ai and to the public debate.
“AI is bringing lasting change to society, the economy and politics. How, why and to what end? Reflecting on this in an interdisciplinary way and building a bridge between theory and practice represents an exciting opportunity for a political scientist who sees himself as committed to the science of democracy as a practical discipline.”
Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg
Our mission and the 13 members
With the neuland.ai HUB, neuland.ai is developing a secure, scalable and data-sovereign AI platform “Made in Germany”. The Future Advisory Board ensures that ethical, legal and societal requirements are integrated from the outset (“Ethics by Design”). In this way, we enable companies, organizations and public institutions to use AI in a trustworthy manner.
Karsten Schwanke
Meteorologist and ARD weather presenter. Science journalist and keynote speaker on climate change and extreme weather. Founder of WQ Media, co-founder of MeteoCloud.
Prof. Dr. med. Axel Ekkernkamp
Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (until June 30, 2025), Emeritus Full Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Greifswald.
Prof. Dr. Armin Falk
Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and Head of the BonnEconLab, Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research.
Björn Franken MdL (CDU)
Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Chair of Commission of Inquiry IV “Artificial Intelligence: For a smart state in the digitalized society” and spokesperson for digitalization.
Dieter Härthe
Chairman of the Executive Board of the Senate of Economy International and Honorary Chairman of the Senates in Germany and Austria, Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Senegal, and Managing Partner of härthe relations GmbH.
Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Hennecke
Political scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Rostock with a focus on economic and skilled trades policy; combines academic perspectives with practical experience in politics and advocacy.
Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg
Chair of the Advisory Board; political scientist at the University of Bonn and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences; Director and Spokesperson of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath
Director of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) at the University of Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Sautermeister
Professor of Moral Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn and member of the German Ethics Council.
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin; active in AI research for four decades as a professor, research leader, company founder and business consultant in Germany, the USA and China.
Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen
Heinrich Hertz Professor of Life Ethics at the University of Bonn and Founding Director of the Center for Life Ethics with the “House for Young Thinking”.
Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu
Professor of Industrial AI at the German University of Digital Science; Non-Executive Director of the Airbus Group; member of the supervisory boards of Siemens Energy, ZF Group and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), as well as Senior Advisor.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Falcke
Occupational physician and former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the North Rhine-Westphalia state government; for many years a driving force of digital transformation in public administration and healthcare at state and municipal level.
Guardrails in the product
What the Board sets out as a guardrail, you configure yourself in the neuland.ai HUB: three principles, all three verifiable.
Certificates, the DPA, TOMs and further evidence are available in the Trust Center.
FAQ
Yes, the Future Advisory Board is an independent, interdisciplinary body. All 13 members are listed by name and institution, including a member of the German Ethics Council and the chair of the AI Commission of Inquiry in the NRW State Parliament. The Board accompanies the development and use of AI in Germany and Europe critically, constructively and with foresight.
The Board is chaired by Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg, political scientist at the University of Bonn and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, and Director and Spokesperson of CASSIS at the University of Bonn.
Two things. You get recommendations from seven disciplines, not from a legal department alone. And the Board ensures that ethical, legal and societal requirements are built into the neuland.ai HUB from the start.
The neuland.ai HUB delivers what your assessment needs: every tool call is logged with arguments, response and duration, write actions wait for a human, and permissions apply per role. Your organization assesses which obligations your use cases trigger; the DPA and TOMs are available in the Trust Center.
Yes, the Academy offers a two-day workshop for supervisory and advisory boards. Like every format, it delivers, among other things, a ready-to-use AI agent of your own. Details under Workshops and trainings.
Thirteen members from universities, DFKI, the state parliament, state administration, business and science journalism, for example Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI), Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen (Life Ethics) and Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu (Industrial AI).
It analyzes the opportunities and risks of AI, develops guardrails for an AI transformation that serves the common good and complies with regulations, and provides practical recommendations for neuland.ai, businesses, policymakers and society.
In three principles you configure yourself in the neuland.ai HUB: human approval before write actions, role-based permissions and a complete audit trail. You agree with your works council and data protection team who may evaluate the audit trail.
From AI strategy to day-to-day operation: we support you with the Academy, the platform and evidence.
After your request