Eva Gengler, M.Sc.

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Eva Gengler is a doctoral researcher in Business Informatics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria. As part of the International Doctoral Programme Business and Human Rights – Governance Challenges in a Complex World, she is researching the intersection of power and artificial intelligence with a critical feminist focus on marginalized groups. Her work sheds light on how AI regulation, AI governance and feminist AI can drive social change. Her research is primarily qualitative, but she has also contributed to quantitative studies and written conceptual papers.

Her academic work has been published in journals, proceedings of international conferences and book chapters. As a role model at BayFiD, the network for Bavarian women in digital professions, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs, a juror for the AI Beyond Borders Award 2023 and a mentor at EXIST-Women, she is involved in a wide range of initiatives. Most recently, she was a board member of erfolgsfaktorFRAU e.V. and a delegate to the Bavarian State Women’s Council.

In addition to her scientific work, Eva is co-founder of the initiative and community feminist AI and co-founder and managing director of the organizational and IT consultancy enableYou. She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of AI, power structures and intersectionality.Eva has been interviewed by zdfheute, t3n, women.at, Bayern 2 and Frankenfernsehen, among others, and has been profiled by MARCCAIN, the Bavarian State Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Affairs and FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

After graduating, Eva worked as an IT consultant for BCG Platinion in Germany and abroad. She was involved in a major HR transformation and the digitalization of a Finnish gas company.
In 2021 and 2022, she raised third-party funding from the EU for projects related to women and AI and managed these projects with international partners until the end of 2023. Prior to that, she was a business analyst at CodeCamp:N – a spin-off of Nürnberger Versicherung – where she developed into product management of the insurance group’s central IT project. She also took over the management function of the business unit with a focus on IT consulting with 35 employees.

Eva studied economics with a focus on business administration at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2013 to 2016.During her time as a working student at Siemens Digital Factory, she already focused her work on IT.She continued this path with her Master’s degree in International Information Systems at FAU from 2016 to 2019.
Her six months in India at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur are particularly memorable. In addition to her working student activity at Senacor Technologies AG as a product owner, she was involved in the Junior Consulting Team e.V. as a board member for process management. She discovered her passion for artificial intelligence (AI) in her master’s thesis, which focused on the ethical implications of AI in recruiting.