Dr. Reiner Kraft

Reiner is a VP Engineering at Zalando in Berlin, building up and leading the technical direction of Zalando's core search platform, personalization technology, and data engineering platforms (overall org size ~300-350 people), as well as establishing Zalando Research as a world-class research organisation in the areas of machine learning and AI. Reiner is an expert on the topics of AI, how to organise it effectively, as well as enabling a culture of innovation and trust in organisations.

Leite Engineering im Bereich Search & Personalization, fokussierend auf Content Analysis und Knowledge Engineering

Reiner is a technologist and innovator, working at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA. During the past three years he managed engineering teams working on cutting edge search technology. His work focus in on semantic Web,including semantic search and content analysis. Reiner was instrumental in conceiving and delivering “Contextual Shortcuts”, a product that provides relevant contextual search results at the point of inspiration, used in Y! News and Mail by millions of users every day.

Reiner worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center for many years as a senior research software engineer. Reiner was a key contributor and engineer of IBM's OmniFind enterprise search product, and worked on many other search and web related technologies.

Web Information Retrieval