Carmen Heger heads the ‘Data’ department at Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH (SZDM) and thus drives the data-supported development of SZ’s digital products. She studied computer science and has been working on problems related to machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science for over 15 years. Before SZDM, she worked as a machine learning developer on machine translation at eBay in California, among others. She has always been enthusiastic about language and technology, likes to try out new things and loves turning concepts fresh from research into products.