Tobias Haar

Tobias Haar, born in Stuttgart in 1972, has been working as a lawyer since 1999 after studying and completing his legal clerkship in Heidelberg. He also holds international degrees in Legal Informatics (LL.M.) and Business Administration (MBA). He initially worked in the Communications, Media & Technology department of the major international law firm Clifford Chance until 2005. Since then, he has been an in-house lawyer and headed the legal departments at Gameforge (Karlsruhe) and Omio (Berlin), among others.

Since 2023, he has been General Counsel at the European AI startup Aleph Alpha, based in Heidelberg, and has been successfully leading its 500m USD Series B financing. He lectures on IT law issues at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and the Popakademie in Mannheim, among others. He has been publishing IT law articles in iX – the magazine for professional information technology – for over 20 years. For several years, he was Chairman of the Board of game – Verband der deutschen Games-Industrie e.V. based in Berlin and organizer of gamescom.