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  • Green AI Day 2024

    Green AI Day 2024

     

    Was ist der Green AI Day? 

    KI-Produkte und Anwendungen bieten wertvolle Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeit von Geschäftsprozessen, zur Entwicklung von Lösungen für Umweltprobleme und zur Schonung endlicher Ressourcen. Das ist Green AI!

    
Zahlreiche Akteur:innen aus Stuttgart und der Region engagieren sich bereits aktiv in dieser Hinsicht und arbeiten an innovativen Ansätzen, um Green AI in die Praxis umzusetzen. Um einen Anstoß zu weiterführender Forschung, Vernetzung und Kooperation zu geben, haben die Wirtschaftsförderung der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart gemeinsam mit der Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH 2023 den Green AI Day ins Leben gerufen. Dieser soll die Sichtbarkeit des Green AI-Ökosystems und der Green AI-Projekte in der Region erhöhen.

     

    Für wen ist der Green AI Day? 

    Zielgruppen sind KI-Interessierte und Akteur:innen aus etablierten Unternehmen, Start-ups, Forschungseinrichtungen und Cluster-Initiativen mit Anknüpfungspunkten zum Thema Green AI.

     

    Was erwartet Sie? 

    Der Fokus des Green AI Days liegt auf der Vernetzung dieser Teilnehmenden. Darüber hinaus bietet das Programm interessante Inhalte rund um das Thema Green AI. Dieses umfasst Keynotes, Panel-Diskussionen, Start-up Pitches und themenbezogene Breakout-Sessions.

     

    Wo? 

    Fridas Pier, Stuttgart

     

    Wann? 

    26. September 2024, 12 – 21 Uhr 

     

    Interesse? 

    Mehr Information zum Green AI Day 2024 erhalten Sie hier. 

     

    Sie möchten dabei sein? 

    Falls Sie es noch nicht getan haben, können Sie sich hier anmelden unter: https://events.bwcon.de/events/green-ai-day/#Anmeldung

  • Silo AI and Cyber Valley forge partnership to advance multilingual open-source AI

    Silo AI and Cyber Valley forge partnership to advance multilingual open-source AI

    Helsinki & Tübingen, 21.06.2024 – Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, and Cyber Valley, the largest center for excellence in AI research, have established a strategic partnership. The joint initiative is aimed at strengthening Europe’s position in the AI landscape and building an open-source foundation for multilingual AI, covering all official European Union languages. Additionally, the partnership will explore cooperation with Cyber Valley’s industrial and scientific partners. 

    “We’re very happy to partner with the leading center for excellence in AI and modern robotics in Europe, with partners from both academia and industry. Silo AI’s existing research co-operation with the professors Frank Hutter and Matthias Bethge at the co-located University of Tuebingen and ELLIS Institute on open LLMs provides a good basis for collaboration among Cyber Valley’s industrial partners Amazon, BMW, IAV, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Bosch, and ZF”, says Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Silo AI. 

    Rebecca C. Reisch, Managing Director of Cyber Valley, adds: “This alliance represents a remarkable turning  point, not just for Cyber Valley and Silo AI, but for multilingual AI development. It resonates with our goal to assist in fostering an AI ecosystem that respects cultural and ethical values that we as the Cyber Valley Community stand for. We are excited to explore this and other opportunities with Europe’s leading private AI lab.”

    Together with partners, Silo AI is committed to developing a series of state-of-the-art, open-source and transparent foundation models for European languages, starting with all the official ones, and aiming to include other languages of significant economic and cultural value. The partnership will aim to support this objective and enable even tighter cooperation not just between Cyber Valley and Silo AI, but also with other research and industrial partners. Open-source models based on these LLMs will serve as platforms to leverage data for generating wider economic and societal benefits while upholding stringent standards of privacy, security, safety, and ethics.

    About Silo AI

    Silo AI is Europe’s largest private AI lab on a mission to ensure Europe has a flagship AI company. We’re a trusted AI partner that brings competitive advantage to product R&D. We build AI-driven solutions and products to enable smart devices, autonomous vehicles, industry 4.0, and smart cities. Silo AI provides its customers unique access to world-class AI models and expertise, as well as the SiloGen model-as-a-service platform. As part of SiloGen, Silo AI is currently building market leading open-source LLMst to ensure European digital sovereignty and democratize access to LLMs.

    About Cyber Valley

    Cyber Valley is Europe’s largest and leading center for excellence in artificial intelligence and modern robotics. Its mission and public mandate are to advocate for the research, development, application, and acceptance of technologies and methods in the field of intelligent systems. Cyber Valley encourages entrepreneurship by uniting scientific excellence with innovation and technology transfer. In addition, Cyber Valley facilitates critical reflection on the ethical and social implications of AI through public engagement. Cyber Valley envisions a future in which the full potential of intelligent systems is leveraged for the greater good of the world.   

    Press Contact Silo AI

    Heli Thoren
    heli.thoren@silo.ai
    +358 (0) 50 572 9377
     

    Press Contact Cyber Valley

    Rebecca Beiter 
    Rebecca.beiter@cyber-valley.de 
    +49 (0) 160 9448 1797

  • The AI Festival in Baden-Württemberg: Cyber Valley Days Begin!

    The AI Festival in Baden-Württemberg: Cyber Valley Days Begin!

    Stuttgart, June 19, 2024 – Our future will be shaped by the brightest minds of our time, especially through the use of AI. Experts from the German and international AI and robotics community will celebrate Cyber Valley Days from June 19 to 21. For today's kick-off event, entrepreneurs from the Cyber Valley Start-up Network, international AI experts from the Cyber Valley Community, and political representatives are gathering in Stuttgart at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.  

    “Our Cyber Valley Innovation Campus represents groundbreaking research and serves as a best-practice example of close collaboration between science and industry”, says Dr. Stegmann, Minister of State and Head of the State Chancellery. “Cyber Valley Days – with their numerous regional and international partners – show us the level of expertise in AI technology we already have here, as well as the significant untapped potential. The event proves the leading role of this internationally renowned research consortium. Through collective efforts, we are shaping the future of trustworthy AI in Germany and Europe to drive important innovations forward.” 

    “The Cyber Valley Days mark an important milestone: With our network, we have already established ourselves as an internationally recognized, excellent research location with spin-off dynamics. Our community is not only innovative – it is also growing, according to the motto #bettertogether. In this way, we are putting Baden-Württemberg on the global map in the field of intelligent systems in the long term,” says Rebecca C. Reisch, Managing Director of Cyber Valley GmbH.  

    The AI Incubator as a springboard for founders  

    At the Expo, the exhibition of the Cyber Valley Community, the public can get to know the minds behind the future of AI and gain an insight into Baden-Württemberg’s innovative power. With close to 70 AI companies, the Cyber Valley Start-up Network is active in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, construction, mobility, and agriculture. Established and leading AI companies from Baden-Württemberg include vialytics, Sereact and Computomics. Other network members such as preML, hydrop systems and Swarm Logistics Technologies will be showcasing the latest AI trends at their booths at the Cyber Valley Days opening.

    Pitches from the participants of the AI Incubator in the afternoon will provide an insight into what the AI business models of the future will look like. Through The AI Incubator program, Cyber Valley supports AI researchers and young entrepreneurs in expanding their start-up ideas and successfully implementing them in the market. Renowned entrepreneurs and start-up coaches are on hand to provide them with free advice and support. The program is currently in its fourth round with 25 AI founders. The AI Incubator is financed by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.  

    Cyber Valley Days are a three-day event in Stuttgart and Tübingen from June 19 to 21, 2024 to celebrate the Cyber Valley Community. Its program focuses on entrepreneurship and scientific innovation in artificial intelligence and modern robotics from Baden-Württemberg.  

    Information about Cyber Valley Days 

    cyber-valley.de/cyber-valley-days

    Photos of the Cyber Valley Days can be downloaded from 18:00 CEST. 

     

    About Cyber Valley 

    Cyber Valley is Europe’s largest and leading center for excellence in artificial intelligence and modern robotics. Its mission and public mandate are to advocate for the research, development, application, and acceptance of technologies and methods in the field of intelligent systems. Cyber Valley encourages entrepreneurship by uniting scientific excellence with innovation and technology transfer. In addition, Cyber Valley facilitates critical reflection on the ethical and social implications of AI through public engagement. Cyber Valley envisions a future in which the full potential of intelligent systems is leveraged for the greater good of the world.   

     

    About the Cyber Valley Start-up Network 

    The Cyber Valley Start-up Network builds and promotes a vibrant community of AI entrepreneurs. Members get access to exclusive events and a diverse network of AI researchers, investors, and other start-up founders. The prerequisite for membership is a connection to Cyber Valley, such as being members or alumni of the Cyber Valley Community, or a location in Baden-Württemberg. The business models must have intelligent systems at their core. Further information: cyber-valley.de/start-up-network. 

    Media Contact: 
    Rebecca Beiter 
    Rebecca.beiter@cyber-valley.de 
    +49 (0) 160 9448 1797 

  • Cyber Valley Research Fund’s self-supervised robot project

    Cyber Valley Research Fund’s self-supervised robot project

    Led by Prof. Dr. Jörg Stückler, Research Group Leader, and a dedicated team of researchers, the project, “Self-supervised learning of mobility affordances for vision-based navigation", has advanced the field of mobile robotics. They believe that mobile robots, whether in logistics or autonomous vehicles, should be able to properly adapt their navigation actions according to the surrounding environment. 

    The Cyber Valley Research Fund supported the project from March 2020 until its conclusion in October 2023. In this project, the team investigated novel approaches for adapting kinematic and dynamics models of wheeled mobile robots in a self-supervised way. The team’s goal was to develop modularized perception and motion control methods that allow dynamics models to learn through interaction with the environment. Stückler’s team created a method that uses camera images and inertial measurements to estimate the robot's motion.  

    They improved two types of robot platforms: one for indoor and one for outdoor use. Initially, they focused on a motion model for indoor wheeled robots controlled by setting target velocities. Then, they expanded this method to adjust parameters for a robot with car-like, steerable front wheels. Evaluating their online adaptation techniques showed better trajectory estimation and prediction accuracy compared to offline calibration or visual-inertial trajectory estimation without motion model information. 

    The Cyber Valley Research Fund, supported by six partners, has invested five million euros in fostering innovation and scientific excellence. Research groups were invited to submit project proposals, with ethical and societal considerations playing a crucial role in the evaluation process.   

    This project has yielded the following peer-reviewed publications: 

    • Li, H., Stueckler, J. Tracking 6-DoF Object Motion from Events and Frames. In Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561760 

    • Li, H., Stueckler, J. Visual-Inertial Odometry with Online Calibration of Velocity-Control Based Kinematic Motion Models. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3169837 

    • Li, H., Stueckler, J. Online Calibration of a Single-Track Ground Vehicle Dynamics Model by Tight Fusion with Visual-Inertial Odometry. Accepted for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2024). Preprint arXiv:2309.11148. 

    • Li, H., Stueckler, J. Observability Analysis of Visual-Inertial Odometry with Online Calibration of Velocity-Control Based Kinematic Motion Models abs/2204.06651, CoRR/arxiv, 2022 

  • Unveiling anomalies for safer connections

    Unveiling anomalies for safer connections

    Six partners within the Cyber Valley Community have generously contributed to the Cyber Valley Research Fund, totalling five million euros, to facilitate independent basic research. Research groups were invited to submit project proposals for the Research Fund, which the Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board evaluated, taking into account scientific excellence, as well as ethical and societal considerations.

    The research project’s core objective was anomaly detection within networked datasets, primarily focusing on identifying abnormal behavior across diverse network types, including social, communication, and transportation networks. The project thereby aimed to provide early warnings of potential threats or irregularities.

    The research introduced a novel approach that combined community structure with anomaly detection, enabling the identification of anomalies as edges that deviate from regular patterns. This innovative technique leveraged the structure of dynamic networks over time and inferred anomalies by integrating domain knowledge, such as community membership, into the analysis.

    The project yielded promising results, showcasing the model’s accuracy in capturing both community and anomaly structures, and its significant performance in predicting links within networks. The developed ideas and methodologies hold pertinent applications, particularly in fields such as cybersecurity and social network analysis, offering promising avenues for addressing critical challenges like fraud detection and network security enhancement. This includes applications such as uncovering fake users on social media platforms and detecting fraudulent activities in financial transactions.

    Furthermore, the research provided valuable insights into the dynamics of real-world networks by leveraging community structure alongside dynamic patterns of edge additions and deletions. Ultimately, the project not only advanced scientific understanding of network dynamics but also holds substantial potential for meaningful real-world impact. These discoveries herald new possibilities for addressing complex issues and enhancing the security and efficiency of various network systems.

    This project has yielded three peer reviewed publications:

    • “Anomaly detection and community detection in networks”, H. Safdari and C. De Bacco, J Big Data 9, 122, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-022-00669-1, 2022.
    • “Anomaly, reciprocity, and community detection in networks”, H. Safdari, M. Contisciani and C. De Bacco, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033084, https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033084, 2023.
    • “Community detection and anomaly prediction in dynamic networks”, H. Safdari and C. De Bacco, work in progress, 2024. Paper and preprint expected to be submitted by April 2024.

    It also yielded two inventions:

  • Cyber Valley Days: Day 2

    Cyber Valley Days: Day 2

    Apéro & Cyber Valley Days Meet-up

    Cyber Valley is happy to host the Cyber Valley Days – an exceptional three-day forum for the Cyber Valley Community. Focused solely on AI, Cyber Valley Days features a wide program that emphasizes entrepreneurship and scientific innovation originating from Baden-Württemberg.

    Join us for Day 2 of Cyber Valley Days – Apéro & Cyber Valley Days Meet-up.

    We look forward to meeting you, sharing some food, and drinks, and stimulating conversations!

     

    When

    20 June 2024 | 18:00–20:30

     

    What

    Apéro & Cyber Valley Days Meet-up

     

    Where

    MPI Tübingen

    Max-Planck-Ring 4

    72076 Tübingen

     

    Register for Apéro & Cyber Valley Days Meet-up.

     

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    By registering for this event, I grant permission to Cyber Valley GmbH and ELLIS Institute Tübingen gGmbH to use pictures, videos, and electronic media images in any promotional presentation within its community – offline and online, exclusively for non-profit-making purposes.

    During the Cyber Valley Days, pictures will be taken and videos will be recorded. These materials may be sent out to the media and used for internal and external communication purposes. These files will be stored in a secure location and only authorized staff will have access to them. They will be kept as long as they are relevant and after that time, they will be destroyed or archived.

    Further information on Cyber Valley data protection can be found at: https://cyber-valley.de/en/privacy-policy

     

  • Cyber Valley Days: Day 2

    Cyber Valley Days: Day 2

     

    ELLIS Institute Tübingen – Scientific Symposium & Opening Ceremony

    We are thrilled to invite you to the grand opening ceremony of the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen!

    Founded on the broader vision of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is the first ELLIS Institute in Europe, set to become a world-class center for outstanding and free research in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

    We look forward to welcoming you to an engaging program featuring scientific presentations, distinguished guests, and insight into the vision of the ELLIS Institute, as well as the future of AI in Tübingen and Europe.

     

    When

    20 June 2024 | 09:00–18:00

     

    What

    09:00 | Arrival & Registration

    09:15 | Scientific Symposium I

    12:00 | Lunch

    13:30 | Scientific Symposium II

    16:30 | ELLIS Institute Tübingen – Opening Ceremony

    18:00 | Apéro & CVD Meet-up (please register here for Apéro)

     

    Where

    MPI Tübingen

    Max-Planck-Ring 4

    72076 Tübingen

     

    Register to attend the ELLIS Institute Tübingen Symposium & Opening.

    ______________________________________________________

     

    By registering for this event, I grant permission to Cyber Valley GmbH and ELLIS Institute Tübingen gGmbH to use pictures, videos, and electronic media images in any promotional presentation within its community – offline and online, exclusively for non-profit-making purposes.

    During the Cyber Valley Days, pictures will be taken and videos will be recorded. These materials may be sent out to the media and used for internal and external communication purposes. These files will be stored in a secure location and only authorized staff will have access to them. They will be kept as long as they are relevant and after that time, they will be destroyed or archived.

    Further information on Cyber Valley data protection can be found at: https://cyber-valley.de/en/privacy-policy

     

  • Cyber Valley Days: Day 1

    Cyber Valley Days: Day 1

     

    Connecting AI in the länd

    Cyber Valley is happy to host Cyber Valley Days, an exceptional three-day forum for the Cyber Valley community.

    Focused solely on AI, Cyber Valley Days features a wide program that emphasizes entrepreneurship and scientific innovation originating from Baden-Württemberg.

     

    When

    19 June 2024 | 09:30 – 17:00

     

    What

    09:30 | Arrival & Registration

    10:00 | Welcome & Opening

    12:00 | Lunch

    14:00 | AI Incubator Demo Day

    16:00 | Networking

     

    In parallel, you can meet the Cyber Valley Community at our EXPO from 10:00 to 14:00.

     

    Where

    MPI Stuttgart

    Heisenbergstraße 1

    70569 Stuttgart

     

    Register for the Opening, Community Expo & AI Incubator Demo Day.