Dr. Matthias Röder is an award-winning musictech visionary and director of the Beethoven AI project. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Mindshift, a consultancy on creative leadership and innovation strategy. Matthias currently serves as a board member of the Karajan Foundation and is the Managing Director of the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Mozarteum Foundation.

Classical guitarist turned technology strategist. Former Managing Director of the Herbert von Karajan estate, where he spent a decade managing one of the most iconic brands in classical music and learning how institutions adapt (or don’t) to technological change.

Then came Beethoven X. The project that changed everything. Leading a team that used AI to complete Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony, commissioned by Deutsche Telekom, premiered in Bonn, covered by 2,000+ media outlets worldwide. It proved that AI and human creativity aren’t just compatible. They’re better together.

Now, through The Mindshift, he brings that same approach to business: understand the technology deeply enough to know what it can really do, then help leaders make it work in their world.