About Speaker

Rebecca Leger is the Director of the AI Song Contest, an international competition for collaborative songwriting between humans and artificial intelligence, where she has been involved since 2021 and has led the contest since 2024. In 2023, she also co-founded the jazzKI Award together with the Elbjazz Festival, providing a dedicated platform for AI-supported projects in jazz.

Alongside her work in music and AI competitions, Leger is a researcher in human–AI interaction at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS), where she has worked since 2021. She holds an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from the University of Bayreuth, focusing on humanities, law, and computer science, and conducts research on human–AI interaction in innovation processes as part of her doctoral dissertation.