All-Hands-Meeting of the German AI Community

Oct 7, 2024, 9:00 AM → Oct 8, 2024, 4:00 PM Europe/Berlin

OSTRA-Dome and OSTRA-Studios (Zur Messe 9a, 01067 Dresden)

Gina Valentin (TU Dresden / ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig), René Jäkel (TU Dresden, ScaDS.AI)

From 07.-08. October 2024, the annual meeting of the German AI competence centers and the AI community takes place in Dresden, Germany. The All Hands Meeting 2024 is dedicated to the scientific exchange, the fostering of national and international cooperations, and intensive cross-institutional networking. The event will be held in English.

Hotel contingents

Pullman

• Prager Straße 2C, 01069 Dresden, Telephone: +49 351 48140
• Starting from 79,99€ per room/night, not incl. breakfast
• Normal booking with a discount of 12% on all public rates
• Booking: Without deadline via the booking link with the key word "AHM-KI"
• Cancellation: Deadlines depend on the booked rate. There are flexible rates (free cancellation up to 1 day before arrival), semi-flexible rates (up to 7 days before arrival) and non-flexible rates (can not be canceled free of charge). Cancellation costs are invoiced to the traveler.
• 5 minute walk to tram 10 (Direction: Messe Dresden)

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Penck

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Monday, October 7

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Registration

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Welcoming Addresses

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig: Center Highlights and 10 years Big Data

Speakers: Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig), Prof. Birte Platow (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig), Prof. Christian Mayr (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig)

10:25 AM → 10:50 AM BIFOLD: Center Highlights and 10 years Big Data

Speakers: Prof. Begüm Demir (BIFOLD), Dr Jack Thoms (BIFOLD), Prof. Konrad Rieck (BIFOLD)

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM DFKI: Center Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Krüger (DFKI)

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM Tübingen AI Center: Center Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Hilde Kühne (Tübingen AI Center)

12:00 PM → 12:20 PM MCML: Center Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Seidl (MCML)

12:20 PM → 12:40 PM Lamarr Institute: Center Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Christian Bauckhage (Lamarr Institute)

12:40 PM → 1:55 PM Lunch

1:55 PM → 2:15 PM AI Grid

Speaker: Laure Poirson (EIT ICT Labs Germany GmbH)

2:15 PM → 3:00 PM Keynote: The Alan Turing Institute 2.0: Grand Challenges at the UK’s National AI Institute

Speaker: Prof. Aldo Faisal (The Alan Turing Institute)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Workshops and Networking

WS 1: From foundation models to efficient, specialized models (Prof. Grégoire Montavon, BIFOLD)
WS 2: Digital Twins on the Moon (Andreas Bresser, DFKI)
WS 3: Ethics in AI (Dr. Benjamin Lange, MCML, Prof. Maximilian Kiener, TUHH &, Prof. Birte Platow, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig)
WS 4: AutoML meets Robotics: An Overview & Future Directions (Prof. Pascal Kerschke, Dr. Aaron Klein, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig & Dr. Oliver Urbann, LAMARR Institute)

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Get Together, Poster Session and Demo Stations

Tuesday, October 8

8:45 AM → 9:15 AM Registration

9:15 AM → 10:00 AM Keynote: Intelligent by Design: How Infineon is Driving AI Innovation from Silicon to Software

Speaker: Christoph Kögler (Infineon Technologies)

10:00 AM → 10:45 AM Reducing Barriers for AI: The AI Service Centers

Speakers: Florian Kieser (hessianAI), Prof. Julian Kunkel (KISSKI), Lasse Kohlmeyer (KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg), Laszlo Friedmann (WestAI)

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee Break

11:15 AM → 12:45 PM Workshops and Demo Stations

WS 5: Bringing AI Education Into Schools – Scalable and Nationwide (Cooperation with "KI macht Schule") (Auguste Schulz, Tübingen AI Center)
WS 6: Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (Prof. Simon Razniewski, Prof. Michael Färber, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig & Dr. Mehdi Ali, Lamarr Institute)
WS 7: AI Junior Research Groups (INTERNAL WORKSHOP, France-Audrey Magro, DLR)

12:45 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch and Poster Session

2:15 PM → 2:55 PM Keynote: Attention is not always (just) what you need

Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Asher (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT))

2:55 PM → 3:25 PM DAAD KI-Zuse School: SECAI

Speaker: Prof. Markus Krötzsch (SECAI)

3:25 PM → 3:40 PM DAAD KI-Zuse School: ELIZA

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Roth (ELIZA)

3:40 PM → 3:55 PM French National Strategy: Technological Focus and Ecosystem of Research & Innovation Actors

Speaker: Fabien Le Voyer (INRIA, GPAI Expert Support Centre, France)

3:55 PM → 4:00 PM Closing Remarks