Uli Köppen

Uli Köppen is a journalist focusing on automation, digital investigation and strategy. She is Head of the AI + Automation Lab and Co-Lead of the investigative data team BR Data at German Public Broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. In this role she’s working with interdisciplinary teams of journalists, coders and product developers specializing in investigative data stories, interactive storytelling and experimentation with methods such as bots and machine learning. As a Nieman Fellow 2019 she spent an academic year at Harvard and MIT and was part of Online News Association's Women's Leadership Accelerator 2022. Together with her colleagues she has won several international awards.