neuland.ai appoints an 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 deployment 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 interface of science, business, politics, ethics and society, and will advise neuland.ai on strategic AI-related issues while providing impetus for a common-good-oriented AI transformation.

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

By appointing the Future Advisory Board, neuland.ai is structurally embedding interdisciplinarity and social responsibility in its corporate strategy. The members contribute proven expertise from academia, politics, public administration, theology, ethics, medicine, business and AI research. The aim is to develop guardrails for sovereign, innovative and common-good-oriented AI development and to support neuland.ai on its path towards a trustworthy, secure and regulation-compliant AI platform “Made in Germany”.

The results of the board’s work are intended to feed directly into the further development of the neuland.ai HUB, neuland.ai’s AI management and orchestration platform. In this way, ethical, legal and societal requirements are to be consistently integrated into the platform strategy and “Ethics by Design” implemented in practice. The neuland.ai HUB is thus to be systematically expanded as a secure, legally compliant and data-sovereign AI platform that enables businesses, organisations and public institutions to use AI in a trustworthy way.

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 administration and organisations to deploy AI in a legally compliant, secure and productive way. The Future Advisory Board complements this technological foundation with a strong interdisciplinary perspective. We are delighted that distinguished figures from ethics, academia, politics, medicine and business are willing to support us in a critically constructive manner. Their experience and foresight will help us bring responsibility, innovation and regulation into harmony and develop AI solutions that meet societal expectations.”

The Future Advisory Board works on a voluntary basis. The body brings together personalities who stand for professional excellence, social responsibility and foresight in shaping the future of AI. The current members of the Future Advisory Board are:

- Prof. Dr. med. Axel Ekkernkamp: Medical Director and Managing Director of Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (until 30/06/2025), 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 North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament, Chair of Enquiry Commission IV “Artificial Intelligence – For a Smart State in a 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, as well as Managing Partner of härthe relations GmbH

 - Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Hennecke: Chief Executive of Handwerk.NRW, Managing Director for Economic Policy and Trade Promotion at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts; adjunct professor of political science at the University of Rostock

- Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg: 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 Catholic Theological Faculty 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 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 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 is a particularly strong fit with neuland.ai’s strategic direction: interdisciplinarity, responsibility and trust, innovative strength, as well as network and impact. Members contribute their expertise, perspectives and networks to the discussion on responsible AI development and help ensure that neuland.ai can continue to expand 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 that has developed the neuland.ai HUB, a secure and scalable AI management and orchestration platform “Made in Germany”. With extensive expertise in AI projects and digital transformation, neuland.ai offers reliable and trustworthy AI solutions tailored to its customers’ individual needs. The AI platform is already in use thousands of times across industries and enables productivity gains, automated processes and secure AI deployment. Customers include, among others, abcbank, the Archdiocese of Cologne, the Griesemann Group, the German Economic Institute, RÖDL, SKW Schwarz, SVT and thyssenkrupp. With more than 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.