
Speaker AXDN//27 Dominic von Proeck
Founder of Leaders of AI · Headline Speaker AXDN//27
Dominic von Proeck is co-founder and CEO of Leaders of AI, an academy for AI transformation whose clients include around a third of all DAX companies as well as Google, Meta and Amazon. Long before ChatGPT, the computer science and physics graduate built the AI startup Punk Inc. and sold it to the WBS Group in 2022. Dominic von Proeck is a member of Microsoft Germany's AI expert council, a senator on the "Digital Future" commission of the German Senate of Economy (Senat der Wirtschaft) and editor of the book "KI mit Köpfchen" (Springer Gabler). The founder also writes the AI column for Business Punk and teaches at Leuphana University and Hochschule Fresenius.
01Expertise
- AI transformation of organizations
- Generative AI and AI assistants in business
- AI upskilling for executives and entrepreneurs
- The organization of the future with AI agents
- Learning at the intersection of education, neuroscience and AI
02At AXDN//27
- Time TBAHeadline Keynote
April 22, 2027 · KORN’S Nuremberg · Times are provisional and may change.
03Career
- since 2023Co-founder and CEO, Leaders of AI
- ·Member of the AI expert council, Microsoft Germany
- ·Senator, "Digital Future" commission, Senat der Wirtschaft
- ·Lecturer, Leuphana University Lüneburg and Hochschule Fresenius
- ·Co-founder, Brainscent (AI-driven scent dosing, patented)
- until 2022Founder, Punk Inc. (AI-based leadership training simulator; sold to the WBS Group in 2022)
04Highlights
- Editor of "KI mit Köpfchen: Die Organisation der Zukunft bauen mit ChatGPT & Co." (Springer Gabler, 2025), based on research with the University of St. Gallen
- Leaders of AI clients: around a third of DAX companies plus Google, Meta and Amazon
- Member of Microsoft Germany's exclusive AI expert council
- Senator on the "Digital Future" commission of the Senat der Wirtschaft
- AI columnist for Business Punk
- Developed the MBAI® training program with partners including Luther, EY, SAP and Hochschule Fresenius