With its first two editions a roaring success, the Ada Lovelace Festival is now gearing up for its third iteration in Berlin in October 2017. Following the tradition of the previous years we have compiled the next collection of interviews with speakers of #ada17 and asked them which (digital) topics are important to them, to the tech industry, and to society as a whole.
„My expectations on chatbots were too high”, Heike Scholz admits. In this interview the founder of mobile zeitgeist furthermore predicts: the smartphone will be dead sooner than we think.
CODE is the first private university for programmers in Germany. We talked to CODE founder Thomas Bachem about his opinion on Germany’s educational systen, German Tech talent and diversity as key to success. Continue reading
Do women have to approach a career (in Tech) differently than men? In this interview Jörn Hendrik Ast, founder of Superherotraining, gives us several good reasons why his prognosis for a career in Tech is: the future is female! Continue reading
A massive gender gap, a premature fear of robots and human stereotypes applied to machines — the field of robotics is dealing with a lot of issues. Still, Andra Keay, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Robotics, loves being a woman in robotics. In this interview she explains why.
Take a look at the merchandise of Ada Lovelace Festival: You can buy shirts & hoodies with the Ada Lovelace logo or an EAT SLEEP <CODE> REPEAT slogan in our online shop. Continue reading
Can Tech solve “fake news”? And will robots replace journalists? We talked to Léa Steinacker, Chief Innovation Officer at WirtschaftsWoche, about the biggest digital opportunities and threats in journalism. And she has excellent reading recommendations for anyone hesitant about being a feminist.
German space flight has, up to now, been an exclusively male domain. The project “Die Astronautin” wants to put the first German woman into space using crowdfunding. We talked to Claudia Kessler, initiator of “Die Astronautin” and speaker at #ada17. Continue reading
We are so excited to announce the dates for #ADA17! On October 19th and 20th the ladies of the tech industry will come together in Berlin at the Ada Lovelace Festival.
What’s new this year?
