Women's AI Breakfast - High-Risk AI Under the EU AI Act 🇩🇪

High-Risk AI Under the EU AI Act

High-risk AI sits at the intersection of impact, responsibility, and scale—and founders in this space are shaping what trusted AI looks like in practice.

Over breakfast, we’ll explore what it truly takes to launch, scale, and stay compliant when regulation is embedded in your product roadmap. The conversation will surface the hard founder questions: when to design for certification, where teams underestimate risk and complexity, and how early compliance choices impact speed, funding, and market access, and insights on turning regulatory requirements into a strategic advantage—without slowing down what matters most: building great products.

Speakers

🎤 Diana Heinrichs, CEO & Founder of Lindera.

🎤 Franziska Weindauer, CEO of TÜV AI Lab

🎤 Gigi Laan, Quality Manager at Tesla Gigafactory

🎤 Moderated by Nicole Büttner, CEO & Founder of Merantix Momentum.

About the Series

The "Women's AI Breakfast" is a movement that propels women to the forefront of innovation. With each session, we aim to create a space where female leaders converge, sharing experiences, insights, and opportunities. It's more than just a breakfast; it's a melting pot of ideas, a catalyst for collaboration, and a celebration of the incredible impact women make in the world of technology.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:15 Arrival & Breakfast

9:15 – 10:00 Panel Discussion

10:00 – 10:15 Q&A

10:15 – 11:00 Networking

⚠️ Door close at 09:15 sharp! Arrive before then.​​

About the Speakers

Franziska Weindauer is the CEO of TÜV AI.Lab, a joint venture founded by some of the largest and most important companies in the certification industry in Germany and beyond. The TÜV AI.Lab is paving the way for trustworthy AI by developing conformity criteria and test methods for AI systems. Previously, Franziska Weindauer has been a senior advisor on digital policy in the German Federal Chancellery, head of policy at Bitkom and an advisor to a key MEP in the European Parliament. She has a background in European Studies from Universities in the Netherlands, UK and Turkey.

Diana Heinrichs is the CEO and founder of LINDERA, is at the forefront of integrating AI with healthcare since 2017. At LINDERA, with her team, she creates AI-models, utilizing smartphone cameras to provide accurate gait analysis, crucial for fall prevention in age. Prior to LINDERA, Diana refined her technological and application skills at Microsoft. Her academic journey, encompassing linguistics and psychology, took her through the Universities of Bonn, Florence, and Oxford. She also completed an MBA at the University of St. Gallen.

Gigi Laan is a Quality Manager at Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, where she leads a team integrating AI to minimize cost of poor quality in the manufacturing process. She joined Tesla in 2019 as a taskforce engineer with a focus on getting the factory ready for production, building the machine that builds the machine. She thereby helped achieve a successful ramp of production of the Model Y in record-time. After two years, she moved into Quality, shifting from hands-on fixes to building systems that scale. Before Tesla, she studied Civil and Space Engineering at TU Delft, where she was part of the university's Hyperloop team competing in SpaceX's Pod Competition in Los Angeles.

About your hosts

​​​Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries.