Dr. Holger Kenn holds a diploma degree in computer science from the Universitaet des Saarlandes. He graduated in 1997 with a thesis on network-based cryptographic key management. From 1997 to 2001, he worked and pursued his Ph.D. studies at the VUB AI Lab in Brussels with Prof. Luc Steels and Prof. Andreas Birk on autonomous embodied agents and embedded systems hard- and software. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 for a thesis on component-based operating systems for autonomous systems. In 2001, he became Lecturer of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the newly founded International University Bremen. His research focus was on autonomous mobile multi-robot systems for urban search and rescue, sensor systems and software architectures for adjustable autonomy and tele-operation. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as a senior scientist at the TZI at Universitaet Bremen on research topics in wearable computing, especially software architectures, context sensor systems, human machine interfaces and wearable-mediated human robot cooperation. In 2007, he joined Microsoft ATL Europe in Aachen where he works on system-level technology. In 2014, he transferred to the Developer Experience Group in Microsoft, where he worked with customers to implement Cloud, Open Source, Linux and IoT solutions. In 2016, he joined Microsoft's Partner and Device Solutions organization, where he worked on projects involving new operating system technology, IoT and AI. In 2019, he joined the Microsoft Business Development organization, working on AI, ML, mixed reality and silicon technology.