Event Year: 2024

  • Beyond the Thesis – Das Leben nach dem Studium

    Beyond the Thesis – Das Leben nach dem Studium

     

    About the program: 

    This isn't your typical lecture series. It's an opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with others who've been or who are right where you are. Gain insights from those who've made these choices and are eager to share their experiences in academia and industry in a relaxed atmosphere. Hurry as space is limited to 30 participants!

    Three researchers in very different fields and roles are invited to debate and discuss, moderated by doctoral researcher Jonas Kneifl, the interesting topic of how to shape a career:

    • Inga Berre, Professor, Director VISTA Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics, University of Bergen
    • Florian Leucht, Steering Wheel Hub Platform R&D Manager at Valeo 
    • Luiz Chamon, Independent Junior Research Group Leader on Information Systems (ELLIS-SimTech)

    You are also invited to mingle and connect over refreshments following the panel. 

    Join SimTech for an evening of enlightening conversations and invaluable networking opportunities as you chart your course toward a fulfilling career. The event will be held in English and is specifically not restricted to SimTech researchers and students.

     

    When? 

    May 15, 2024 at 18:00 CEST (discussions commencing at 18:30 CEST) 

     

    Where? 

    Entrepreneurship Café frei[Raum], Pfaffenwaldring 45, 

    University of Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen 

     

    Interested?

    Please register here.

     

     

  • #KIdeasInMotion

    #KIdeasInMotion

     

    Programm – Praxisnahe Einblicke in die KI Welt

     

    11.45-13.15 Uhr: Workshop mit GEBIT Solutions

    Aktuelle Entwicklungen in KI und praktische Anwendung im Handel

    Erhaltet einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der KI im Handel. Von generativen und diskriminativen KI-Konzepten bis hin zu praxisnahen Anwendungsbeispielen wie intelligenter Artikelerkennung für Kassen und unternehmensinternen Wissensdatenbanken basierend auf Large Language Models (LLMs).

    Mit Matti Frind und Felix Kleinsteuber, Werkstudierende bei GEBIT Solutions.

     

    14.15-15.45 Uhr: Workshop mit Drees und Sommer

    Lösungsstrategien für die fünf größten Herausforderungen in der Bau- und Immobilienbranche 2035

    Wie kann die Bau- und Immobilienbranche der Zukunft gestaltet werden? Ob neue Ansätze für nachhaltiges Bauen oder der Einsatz von KI: Taucht ein in innovative Ansätze!

    Mit Frieder Blum, Junior Innovation Manager, und Selina Weigele, Innovation Manager von Drees und Sommer.
     

     

    16.15-17.15 Uhr: Keynote, Anja Unglaub von Bosch Power Tools und Bastian Kruse, Bosch Digital

    Vom Werkzeug zum Meisterwerk: KI in Vertrieb und Marketing bei Bosch PowerTools

    Freut euch auf eine inspirierende Keynote von Anja Unglaub, Senior Vice President bei Bosch Power Tools und Bastian Kruse, Chief Product Owner bei Bosch Digital. In ihrer Keynote teilen sie Einblicke in die transformative Kraft von KI im Business und zeigen, wie KI strategische Geschäftsziele unterstützt und die Zukunft gestaltet.

     

    Ab 17:15 Uhr: Networking mit Peers und Unternehmen

    Nutzt die Gelegenheit, euch mit anderen Studierenden zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und Kontakte für zukünftige Projekte und Karrieremöglichkeiten mit teilnehmenden Unternehmen zu knüpfen!

     

    Wo? 

    Universität Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen

     

    Wann? 

    2. Mai 2024, ab 11:45 Uhr 

     

    Anmeldung: 

    Die Anmeldung ist bis zum 28. April 2024 hier möglich.

     

     

     

  • Spinoff Summit 2024

    Spinoff Summit 2024

     

    About the Summit: 

    With an invite-only audience of around 150 hand-selected researchers, spinoff founders, universities, TTOs, VCs, industry, and ecosystem players, this summit is a launchpad for innovation, inspiration, and invaluable connections. We will bridge the gap between academia and entrepreneurship through talks, workshops, 1-on-1 meetings, panels, and a poster competition.

    This is a continuation of First Momentum’s successful Clueless No More online panels that were attended by more than 150 aspiring scientist founders and joined by VCs like Lakestar, Earlybird, and UVC, as well as research-driven founders from Wandelbots, DeepDrive, and Kipu Quantum.

     

    Our Speakers: 

     

    Dr. Stephan Herrmann (Co-Founder & CEO at Reverion) 

    Stephan is a physicist and engineer and the strategic mastermind and inventor of Reverion’s technology. Formerly heading a research group at TUM, he is now CEO and managing director of Reverion. As spin-off from the TU Munich, Reverion is paving the way to 100% renewable, decarbonized future by making the most of biogas.

     

    Dr. Ana Koller (Head of Research at First Momentum)

    As a VC, Ana is interested in everything Climate Tech and Energy related. She has a background in Nuclear Fusion, doing her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and a research stint at MIT. Ana continued her career as an Engineering Lead at the world’s biggest fusion startup, Commonwealth Fusion Systems in the US, before joining First Momentum.

     

    Dr. Fleming Bruckmaier (Co-Founder & CTO at QuantumDiamonds) 

    QuantumDiamonds is building a global quantum sensing platform that enables advancements across a variety of fields, from semiconductor manufacturing to biotechnology and chemistry. With a PhD in Quantumsensing from the TU Munich, their CTO Fleming is responsible for improving existing and developing new diamond materials for quantum sensing applications.

     

    Barbara Diehl (Chief Partnership Officer at SPRIN-D)

    Barbara aims to facilitate new disruptive innovations from Germany and support scientists through public funding. Before SPRIN-D, Barbara was Director of Transfer and Innovation at the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, and leading early-stage investment programs and an executive education program at the University of Oxford's Entrepreneurship Centre and the Innovation Academy at the University College Dublin.

     

    Tom Nugent (Editor at Sifted)

    Tom is Sifted’s Digital Editor covering university spinouts. Sifted is Europe’s leading tech and startup media outlet. Backed by the Financial Times, its newsletter reaches more than 150,000 founders, VCs and other members of the startup ecosystem in Europe.

     

    Wolfgang Kerler (Editor-in-Chief at 1E9)

    Wolfgang is a co-founder of 1E9, creating optimistic journalism about future technologies and innovations, but also developing a new kind of tech journalism – journalism that is created together with the tech community. Before 1E9, he was a Burns Fellow at The Verge, a Vox Media brand, in New York, and Editorial Director of WIRED Germany.

     

    Where?

    ESO Supernova

    Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2

    85748 Garching, Germany

     

    When?

    4th of June, 2024. 9:00 – 18:00

     

    Registration: 

    More information for the event can be found here.

    Please register here.

     

     

  • How to InterText? Elevating NLP to cross document level

    How to InterText? Elevating NLP to cross document level

     

    About the talk: 

    While modern language models do a great job at finding documents, extracting information from them and generating naturally sounding language, the progress in helping humans read, connect, and make sense of interrelated long texts has been very much limited.

    Funded by the European Research Council, the InterText project brings natural language processing (NLP) forward by developing a general framework for modeling and analyzing fine-grained relationships between texts – intertextual relationships. This crucial milestone for AI would allow tracing the origin and evolution of texts and ideas and enable a new generation of AI applications for text work and critical reading.

    This talk will elaborate their intertextual approach to NLP using the scientific domain as a prototypical, challenging application area. Specifically, they will highlight two lines of our work. The first one is related to task design, practical applications and intricacies of data collection in the peer-review domain. The second one is about scientific text generation targeting (i) citation text and (ii) attitude and theme-guided rebuttals. To conclude, they will briefly describe our ongoing efforts towards fine-grained linking of multiple documents, temporal analysis of scientific datasets and research novelty modeling.

     

    About the speaker: 

    Iryna Gurevych (PhD 2003, U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany) is professor of Computer Science and director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at MBZUAI in Abu-Dhabi, UAE and an affiliated professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her main research interests are in machine learning for large-scale language understanding and text semantics.

    Iryna’s work has received numerous awards. Those include the ACL fellow award 2020, the first-ever Hessian LOEWE Distinguished Chair award (2,5 mil. Euro) in 2021 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022 (2,5 Mil. Euro). Iryna is co-director of the NLP program within ELLIS, a European network of excellence in machine learning. In 2023, she was the president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

     

    When?

    May 8, 2024. 11:30am

     

    Where? 

    Universitätstraße 32.101, Campus Vaihingen of the University of Stuttgart 

     

    Find more information here.

     

  • KI und die Zukunft der Radiologie

    KI und die Zukunft der Radiologie

    About the Speaker:

    Since 2020, Daniel Rückert is Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical University of Munich. He is also a Professor at Imperial College London. He gained a MSc from Technical University Berlin in 1993, a PhD from Imperial College in 1997, followed by a post-doc at King’s College London. In 1999 he joined Imperial College as a Lecturer, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2003 and full Professor in 2005. From 2016 to 2020, he served as Head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College.

    When?

    Monday, July 29, 2024 at 03:00 PM

    Where?

    AI Research Building (MvL6), Lecture Hall

    Maria-von-Linden-Str. 6, 72076 Tübingen

    Additional information:

    IMBI Website

    Tübingen Talks

  • Vier Motoren für Europa – Künstliche Intelligenz als Chance für die Gesellschaft

    Vier Motoren für Europa – Künstliche Intelligenz als Chance für die Gesellschaft

     

    On the occasion of the handover of the presidency from Baden-Württemberg to Lombardy, a reception with a panel discussion will take place in the Mercedes-Benz Museum. With a special focus on “Artificial intelligence as an opportunity for society”, attendees will gain insights into examples of AI applications with social benefits from the regions of the Four Motors for Europe.

     

    When?

    Date: April 11, 2024

    Time: 18:00–22:00

     

    Where?

    Mercedes-Benz Museum
    Mercedesstraße 100
    70372 Stuttgart

     

    What?

    Welcome:
    Florian Hassler, State Secretary for Political Coordination and Europe in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg 

    Keynote:
    Dr. Wieland Brendel, Hector-endowed ELLIS Fellow, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen AI Center

    Panel discussion with moderation by Rebecca C. Reisch, Managing Director Cyber Valley

    • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: N.N.
    • Baden-Württemberg: Max-Frederick Gerken, CEO and Co-Founder, Optocycle
    • Lombardy: Sara Uboldi, Head of Solutions, Intellico s.r.l.

    Closing:
    Dr. Patrick Rapp, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affaris, Labour and Tourism Baden-Württemberg

     

    Registration

    Registration for this event is necessary, please register via this form.

  • Entrepreneurial Support for Scientists – Info Event

    Entrepreneurial Support for Scientists – Info Event

    Who to expect:

    Meet Cyber Valley:

    Discover Cyber Valley’s support for entrepreneurs and founders, from the Al Incubator program to our Proof of Concept and Innovation Fellowship grants.

    Introducing MAX!mize:

    Explore the opportunities to transform your research into a business with our comprehensive incubation program.

    Discover how we can support you in navigating the journey from laboratory innovation to successful startup launch.

    When and Where?

    April 10, 2024, 3:30 pm

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

    Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart

    Room Copper (2R04)

    April 11, 2024, 1:30 pm

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

    Max-Planck-Ring 4, 72076 Tübingen

    Room NO.002 (Ground Floor)

    We are looking forward to seeing you!

  • Lecture series in the ELLIS network

    Lecture series in the ELLIS network

    Find an overview of the different initiatives below and visit the units’ web pages for more information on upcoming sessions. Many of the talks can be joined online.

    Unit Stuttgart

    The ELLIS Unit in Stuttgart regularly invites outstanding scientists to present their latest research projects. Learn more about past and upcoming sessions and about how to join them here.

    Unit Alicante

    With the Distinguished Speaker Series, ELLIS Alicante invites top AI researchers from around the world to present their work to the team of ELLIS Alicante. In collaboration with the University of Alicante, the event is open to any student and researcher of the university. Find all the details here.

    Unit Cambridge

    The Cambridge ELLIS Unit Seminar Series holds talks by leading researchers in the area of machine learning and AI. Learn more about upcoming sessions here.

    Unit Helsinki

    The distinguished lecture series organized by the ELLIS Unit in Helsinki is open for everyone and can be joined online. Find all information and registration details here.

    Unit Jena

    The ELLIS Unit Jena organizes the AI4Good hosted online webinar series “AI for Earth and Sustainability Science”. The series highlights seminal and recent progress in AI-enabled modelling and understanding of the Earth system from local to global scale and AI-science based diagnosis, prediction, and remedy of environmental crises. Interdisciplinary researchers from academia, industry, UN and government agencies as well as NGOs will talk about tackling systemic real-world challenges with AI, including disaster risk reduction and preparedness, environmental degradation, climate change, societal impacts and dynamics, and the sustainable and responsible use of natural resources such as water and energy. The webinar series is curated by the ELLIS Unit Jena and the ELLIS Program “Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences”.

    Unit Lisbon

    The ELLIS Lisbon & Unbabel seminars on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, organised jointly by members of the ELLIS Unit Lisbon & Portuguese translation start-up Unbabel, aim to provide, on a regular basis, an outlet for discussion of the latest research on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing by researchers and students from all over the world. The seminars are open to all and streamed online. Find all details and information here.

    Unit Munich

    The Munich AI Lectures are a joint initiative of the ELLIS Unit Munich, the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) at TUM, the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at LMU, and the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI). On a monthly basis, they invite top-level AI researchers to give the audience a glimpse into their work and the future of AI. Join them for the next sessions here.

    ELLIS Student & Postdoc Reading Groups

    As part of its educational activities, ELLIS aims to connect PhDs and postdocs in the network and supports them in creating opportunities to discuss science. Currently, two student-led reading groups on machine learning-related topics (Human-Centric Machine Learning & Mathematics of Deep Learning) meet regularly to discuss a paper the group previously voted on. ELLIS Reading Groups are initiated and organized by ELLIS PhD students and postdocs across Europe. Take a look at this page for details and upcoming sessions.

    Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Academy (AIDA)

    AIDA, the Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Academy, has been created to nurture a new generation of AI talent by offering knowledge and expertise in AI through educational and training activities. It’s a joint initiative of the EU-funded projects ELISE, AI4media, VISION, HUMANE AI and TAILOR. ELLIS Fellows often participate in the AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series. Find a list of upcoming sessions here and an overview of past sessions here.

  • The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 2

    The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 2

     

    Q&A Dates:

     

    The AI Incubator 2024

    The AI Incubator encourages scientists, technologists, and business talent to found their own businesses and be part of the next generation of AI start-ups. 

    Our six-week program encourages researchers to consider how they can transfer their cutting-edge AI and robotics research into products and applications. Topics include:

    • Product-market-fit
    • Business strategy
    • Funding opportunities

    We want to equip participants with knowledge, tools, and skills while connecting them with a network of experts, mentors, investors, and other founders to inspire their AI start-up journey. At the program's conclusion, every team will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a jury.

    If you're interested in taking part in The AI Incubator, join one of our Q&A sessions to ask us about the application process, the program, or anything else. You can find more information on the application process and all the dates here.

  • The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 1

    The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 1

    Q&A Dates:

    The AI Incubator 2024

    The AI Incubator encourages scientists, technologists, and business talent to found their own businesses and be part of the next generation of AI start-ups.

    Our six-week program encourages researchers to consider how they can transfer their cutting-edge AI and robotics research into products and applications. Topics include:

      • Product-market-fit
      • Business strategy
      • Funding opportunities

    We want to equip participants with knowledge, tools, and skills while connecting them with a network of experts, mentors, investors, and other founders to inspire their AI start-up journey. At the program’s conclusion, every team will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a jury.

    If you’re interested in taking part in The AI Incubator, join one of our Q&A sessions to ask us about the application process, the program, or anything else. You can find more information on the application process and all the dates here.