neuland.ai appoints an interdisciplinary future advisory board for responsible AI development

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neuland.ai appoints interdisciplinary Future Advisory Board for responsible AI development

Cologne, 18 March 2026 – The Cologne-based AI technology company neuland.ai AG has established an interdisciplinary Future Advisory Board as an independent body to support the development and use of Artificial Intelligence in Germany and Europe in a responsible and forward-looking manner. The Future Advisory Board sees itself as a think tank at the intersection of science, business, politics, ethics, and society. It will advise neuland.ai on strategic questions surrounding AI and provide impulses for an AI transformation oriented towards the common good.

At the heart of the Advisory Board's work is the question of how Artificial Intelligence is changing value creation, the working world, social systems, education, administration, politics, and social coexistence, and how this development can be shaped responsibly. The Future Advisory Board will analyse the impacts of AI from diverse disciplinary perspectives, identify opportunities and risks at an early stage, and formulate practical recommendations for action, both for neuland.ai and for businesses, politics, administration, and civil society.

With the appointment of the Future Advisory Board, neuland.ai is structurally anchoring interdisciplinarity and social responsibility into its corporate strategy. The members bring proven expertise from science, politics, public administration, theology, ethics, medicine, business, and AI research. The aim is to develop guardrails for a sovereign, innovative, and common-good-oriented AI development, and to accompany neuland.ai on its path to becoming a trustworthy, secure, and regulatory-compliant AI platform "Made in Germany".

The results of the Advisory Board's work are intended to flow directly into the further development of the neuland.ai HUB, the AI management and orchestration platform of neuland.ai. In this way, ethical, legal, and societal requirements are to be consistently integrated into the platform strategy, put into practice as "Ethics by Design". The neuland.ai HUB is thus to be systematically expanded as a secure, legally compliant, and data-sovereign AI platform that enables companies, organisations, and public institutions to use AI in a trustworthy manner.

Karl-Heinz Land, CEO and founder of neuland.ai AG: "With the neuland.ai HUB, we have developed an AI management and orchestration platform that enables companies, public administrations, and organisations to use AI in a legally compliant, secure, and productive manner. The Future Advisory Board complements this technological basis with a strong interdisciplinary perspective. We are delighted that high-ranking personalities from ethics, science, politics, medicine, and business are prepared to accompany us in a critical yet constructive manner. Their experience and foresight will help us to reconcile responsibility, innovation, and regulation, and to develop AI solutions that meet societal demands."

The Future Advisory Board works on an honorary basis. The committee brings together personalities who stand for professional excellence, social responsibility, and foresight in shaping the future of AI. The Future Advisory Board currently consists of:

- Prof Dr med Axel Ekkernkamp: Medical Director and Managing Director of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (until 30 June 2025), Professor Emeritus of Trauma Surgery at the University of Greifswald

- Prof Dr Armin Falk: Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and Director of the BonnEconLab – Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research

- Björn Franken, MdL (CDU): Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Chairman of the Enquete Commission IV "Artificial Intelligence – For a Smart State in the Digitalised Society" and spokesperson for digitalisation

- Dieter Härthe: Chairman 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: General Manager of Handwerk.NRW, Managing Director for Economic Policy and Trade Promotion at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Skilled Trades; Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Rostock

- Prof Dr Volker Kronenberg: Political scientist at the University of Bonn and the 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 of 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 director, company founder, and business consultant in Germany, the USA, and China

- Prof Dr Christiane Woopen: Heinrich Hertz Professor for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn and Founding Director of the Center for Life Ethics with the "Haus für junges Denken"

- Prof Dr Feiyu Xu: Professor of Industrial AI at the German University of Digital Science; Non-Executive Director of Airbus Group; Member of the Supervisory Boards of Siemens Energy, ZF Group, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) as well as Senior Advisor

The Future Advisory Board fits in particularly well with the strategic direction of neuland.ai: interdisciplinarity, responsibility and trust, innovative power, as well as network and impact. This allows members to bring their expertise, perspectives, and networks to the discussion on responsible AI development and contribute to neuland.ai further expanding its role as a provider of trustworthy AI "Made in Germany".

More detailed information about the Future Advisory Board and its members can be found at: neuland.ai/zukunftsbeirat

About neuland.ai:

neuland.ai is an AI technology company based in Cologne which, with the neuland.ai HUB, has developed a secure and scalable AI management and orchestration platform "Made in Germany". With comprehensive expertise in AI projects and digital transformation, neuland.ai offers reliable and trustworthy AI solutions tailored individually to the needs of its customers. The AI platform is already in use thousands of times across various sectors, enabling productivity increases, automated processes, and the secure use of AI. Customers include abcbank, the Archdiocese of Cologne, the Griesemann Group, the German Economic Institute, RÖDL, SKW Schwarz, SVT, and thyssenkrupp, among others. With over 50 employees, neuland.ai pursues the goal of making AI "Made in Germany" usable and strengthening the long-term digital competitiveness of business and public administration.