Dr. Christof Horn joins the AI² Advisory Board

The Association for Industrial AI (AI²) has appointed Dr. Christof Horn to its Advisory Board. Horn is a Managing Director at Accenture and leads Accenture's global Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) practice. He also heads Accenture's Automotive and Mobility business across the DACH region.

Horn has worked in technology consulting and the automotive industry for over 20 years. Before joining Accenture through its acquisition of umlaut in 2022, he spent 13 years as Managing Director of P3 Group, growing it into an engineering consultancy with roughly 3,500 employees worldwide. He holds a doctorate from RWTH Aachen University and dual diplomas in physics and mathematics.

He also co-hosts the #digdeep podcast with Prof. Frauke Kreuter, now part of the Brand Eins podcast family, with more than 140 episodes on digital transformation.

"The adoption speed in AI will make a decisive impact on competitiveness," Horn said. "Learning together multiplies learning and avoids costly dead ends."

Vlad Larichev, founder of AI² and Industrial AI Lead at Accenture DACH: "Christof built and scaled technology organisations in some of the hardest industrial environments in Europe. We need that kind of operational experience on the Advisory Board as AI² moves into its next phase — active expert groups, published output, and a growing membership."

With Horn on the Advisory Board, AI² gains someone who has both built engineering organisations from scratch and operated them at scale in automotive — a perspective that few advisory roles can draw on.