Britta Weddeling

Britta has served as a communications, strategy and public affairs manager, as well as an advisory board member in various positions. At IPAI, Britta is helping to build one of the most ambitious projects for AI in Europe, the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, a unique, innovation-promoting platform on which different partners come together to work on future-relevant AI solutions to help European companies take a leading role in AI value creation. Earlier, Britta spent five years as Handelsblatt’s Silicon Valley correspondent in San Francisco. Most recently, she was the Head of Communications and Strategy at the Bavarian Ministry of Digital Affairs.

For her work in journalism Britta has received numerous awards, including the Georg von Holzbrinck Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik 2018 & 2019 and the Friedwart Bruckhaus-Preis of the Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung. Britta is a Young Leader of Atlantikbrücke.