Tania Peitzker

Dr. phil. Tania Peitzker is an interdisciplinary Adjunct Professor with extensive experience at the intersection of AI coding for chatbots, innovation management, business development and strategic marketing. She's known for her cutting edge tech work at the University of Silicon Valley (USV, formerly known as Cogswell College). Her European Greenfield Pilots in cognitive interfaces, immersive tech, AI chatbots embedded in XR [Extended Reality] have been covered by podcasters, tech commentators and AI industry experts.

Dr Peitzker's second book on Emerging Tech with Business Expert Press addresses a broader, mainstream audience looking for ways to deal with the worsening climate crisis, the pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence in Emerging Technologies and the challenging social issues surrounding these events. This new, commissioned work is titled: "AI. Civility. Climate. Ways to Move Forward." The ebook & paperback editions were released in August 2026.

Her first book on the “Uses & Risks of Business Chatbots: Guidelines for Purchasers in the Public and Private Sectors” (2020) was also commissioned by Business Expert Press in New York after one of their European talent scouts signed her up. This was during the decade Peitzker spent on her family farm in North Kent on the Greater London Border, travelling frequently to the EU, EEA, Australia and Asia.

Until the mid 2020s, Peitzker self-published numerous Kindle ebooks and KDP paperbacks for her creative works (novellas, plays, poetry and short stories), picture books with prose, essays, her dissertation at the University of Potsdam and travelogues. As of 2026, Tania Peitzker is being signed by an American talent management agency who will be representing her new works of fiction and non-fiction, as well as managing the licensing for her back catalogue of creative publications, essays on tech, scholarly writing and microfiction.

HISTORY OF INNOVATION AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Tania Peitzker's Australian origins led to her Conversational AI tech venture in Munich livestreaming their multilingual, interactive holograms from Lake Constance to Frankfurt, Sydney and other locations for the German Australian Business Council (GABC) in 2020. Her team created "pandemic proof" XR humanoid avatars to support hospitality and retail venues hit by COVID by augmenting the human staff when they were unable to work or deal with the increased influx of domestic tourists and visitors in multiple languages and providing various services - from FAQs about the venues, their opening hours, products, services, menus etc to "live" public transport timetables, weather reports, sightseeing recommendations and bespoke info about locally produced food and drink.

The key innovation became known as the interactive AI holograms "Birgit am Bodensee" who was a multilingual, Augmented Reality avatar - both lifesized and "hand luggage size". Holographic 3D and online 2D Birgit as a NLP chatbot had an alter ego called "Kylie from Sydney" to promote various cities, regions and countries as Tourism Destinations. You can find the log books and videos on the YouTube channel for her Münchener start up "AI Bots as a Service"; it was also logged as public-facing AI experiments in the field on ResearchGate.

In 2023, she was a guest speaker at the US Department of Commerce's NIST [National Institute for Standards and Technology] livestreamed from Washington DC (she participated from remote, rural, tropical Australia!). Other highlights: 2024 guest speaker on "AI in Switzerland" for FOSSUK, the Swiss expatriates associations in the UK under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy in London; 2024-2025 JCU [James Cook University] start up mentor at the Ideas Lab, Cairns Campus where she gave a series of pro bono Q&As and guest lectures on global innovation, Artificial Intelligence, new ventures & entrepreneurship.

Tania's keynotes, live AI demos and webinars range from the Davos Digital Forum, CeBIT in Hannover and Cambridge Judge Business School to Mannheim Business School's Executive Education program in Shanghai, Germany's prestigious OOP Konferenz for developers held annually in Munich and HAMK Uni’s School of Entrepreneurship & Business at their annual “Freezing Week” exploring New Technologies in Helsinki, Finland. She’s consulted on AI for the UK Government's Crown Commercial Service and given the end of year seminar for the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Department within the Ministry for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Her keynote at the International Trade Council, also livestreamed from DC, attracted over 2000 participants at the end of the pandemic!

Tania's first ever Creative Industries venture was an art showroom in Berlin, the first to promote Australian galleries i.e. artists, animators & sculptors in Europe which was supported by the Australian Embassy in Germany; her second was a capital raising consultancy for entrepreneurs and investors in New & Emerging Technologies. Ironically, Peitzker's creative work in the arts, academia, PR and research was already considered "notable" when - at the young age of 22 - her papers were acquired for the "Tania Peitzker" collection in the Notable Australians archive at Fryer Library, University of Queensland. It has since grown over the years with her oeuvre, as represented by the works published and showcased here on Amazon.