Uli Köppen

Chief AI Officer, public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany)

At ISOJ 2025, Uli is a speaker for the panel “Beyond the hype: The real impact of AI on newsrooms,” happening on Thursday, March 27, at 11:00 a.m.

Uli Köppen is chief AI officer for German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. She leads AI strategy for BR and is responsible for the journalistic data and AI teams working on algorithmic investigations and journalistic products. As a Nieman Fellow 2019, she spent an academic year at Harvard and MIT, and she was part of Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator 2022. Together with her colleagues, she has won national and international awards.