Programme 

 

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20 September 2023
 

Grace Hopper Stage
Alan Turing Stage
Workshop Room

10:00

Opening

  • Dr Marianne Janik (Member of the Executive Board, Bitkom)

10:10

Keynote

  • Dr Marco Buschmann (Federal Minister of Justice)

10:20

From AI to Quantum Computing: Building Ecosystems, Empowering Innovation, Strengthening Sovereignty

  • Mario Brandenburg (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

10:30

Train and Trust Your Parrot: Industry Examples for the Use of Generative AI in Complex and Critical Use-Cases

  • Jonas Andrulis (Aleph Alpha)

10:50

Foundation Models, Generative AI, and Classic Bots: Where Is the Best Trade-Off? Use Cases, Possibilities for Integration and the Example of "Customer Service”

  • Dr Wolfgang Hildesheim (IBM Technology DACH)

11:10

Setting Your Generative AI Appetite: Evaluating Risks and Opportunities

  • Katharine Jarmul (Thoughtworks)

11:30

How Product Thinking Helps to Unlock the Value of Data

  • Christin Schink (HelloFresh)

11:50

Regulatory Sandboxes – Enabling Innovation & Advancing Regulation

  • Dr Sibylle Grabert (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)

12:10

Lunch

13:00

Policy Discussion | AI Act & AI Policy

  • Evelyn Graß (Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection)
  • Jens Redmer (Google)
  • Julia Sterling (Commerzbank)
  • Kai Zenner (European Parliament (MEP Voss))
  • Kai Pascal Beerlink, Bitkom

13:40

Panel discussion | The Deep Tech Dilemma: Is Germany Poised for Success or Stuck in Innovation Quicksand

  • Dr Anna Christmann (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)
  • Nico Kelling (Infineon Technologies)
  • Dr Frederick Struckmeier (Trumpf SE + Co. KG)
  • Susanne Dehmel, Bitkom

14:20

Data Literacy – Cultivating Essential Skills for Tomorrow

  • Dr Christian Zinke-Wehlmann (Competence Center Artificial Human Intelligent (KMI) at the Institute for Applied Computer Science at the University of Leipzig)

14:40

Panel discussion | More Similar than Expected? Data Offices in the Public and Private Sector

  • Dr Franziska Brecht (Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action)
  • Faruk Tuncer (Polyteia)
  • Dr Sebastian Werner (Thoughtworks Deutschland)
  • David Schönwerth, Bitkom

15:20

Trust your Data, Trust your AI

  • Varun Jaitly (Cloudera)

15:40

Mastering Roadworthiness of Autonomous Driving

  • André Rauschert (Fraunhofer Allianz Big Data and AI)

16:00

Build the future! Build Data Products!

  • Ludwig Ehlert (One Data)

16:20

Harnessing AI in Healthcare

  • Dr Marion Cornelia Legler (Bayer)

16:40

Beyond ChatGPT: Democratizing Generative AI, Democratizing Innovation

  • Jupiter Bakakeu (Alteryx)

17:00

Panel Discussion | Beyond the Hype: Understanding the Real-World Impact of Generative AI

  • Dr Martina Flatscher (ZF Group)
  • Claire Helffer-de Soyres (Nvidia)
  • Jacqueline Liu (Allianz)
  • Ramin Mirza (Aleph Alpha)
  • Kai Pascal Beerlink, Bitkom

17:40

Scaling Generative AI to All Employees and beyond

  • Clemens Siebler (Microsoft)

 

End of Day 1

 

Start: 10:20

10:20

Turning Your (Maritime) Data into a Profit with Gaia-X

  • Sönke Liebau (Stackable)

10:40

Opportunities and Risks of LLMs

  • Dr Raphael Zimmer (Federal Office for Information Security)

11:00

Impact Business Outcomes Through Generative AI Orchestration

  • Babak Hodjat (Cognizant)

11:20

Art in the Age of AI: Decoding Technology, Protecting Artists, and Championing Diversity

  • Lúí Smyth (Shutterstock)

11:40

Lessons from 5+ Years of Operationalizing Custom Language Models in the Enterprise

  • Christopher Kränzler (Lengoo GmbH)

12:00

Lunch

13:00

AI and Privacy: Global Perspectives

  • Srinivas Poosarla (Infosys)

13:20

Blueprinting AI-Services for Big Data Analytics

  • Shehide Abuliz (Allianz Technology)
  • Julia Gschwendtner (Allianz Kunde und Markt)

13:40

Advanced Analytics in the Application Field of Early Warning Systems

  • Ralf Hennemann (GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank)
  • Dr Anna Schlösser (RSU GmbH & Co. KG)

14:00

How Generative AI is disrupting Enterprise Software

  • Dr Sebastian Wieczorek (SAP)

14:20

AI-Enabled Document Processing in the Mittelstand

  • Florian Geiger (Viessmann IT Service)
  • Dr Ing Christian Schwöbel (Wattx)

14:40

AI in the Supply Chain at Europe's Largest Retailer

  • Dr Tim Still (Schwarz IT)

15:00

Chances (and Risks) of Big Data in the Retail Sector

  • Anne Böhme (Kyndryl Deutschland GmbH)
  • Alexander Kurtzahn (EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr Stiftung & Co. KG)
  • Marcus Lange (Kyndryl)

15:20

Detecting Zero-Days Before Zero-Day

  • Daniele Molteni (Cloudflare)

15:40

How Generative AI Is Changing the Game for Cybercriminals and Cybersecurity Teams

  • André Reichow-Prehn (Palo Alto Networks)

16:00

Using Machine Intelligence to Massively Increase Cost for Adversaries

  • Felix Schwyzer (CrowdStrike)

16:20

Lessons from Ukraine - Software and AI in Defence

  • Keesiu Wong (Helsing)

16:40

HR-Tech: How AI for Recruiting Will Have to Change - Disruptions & Best Practice

  • Linda Flath (messe.rocks / herCAREER)
  • Rosmarie Steininger (Chemistree)

17:00

Bringing AI Ethics Principles into Development

  • Julia Meisner (Gesellschaft für Informatik | German Informatics Society)
  • Linda Schwarz (German Informatics Society)

17:20

Startups and AI: Unleashing New Possibilities for Business Growth and Innovation

  • Tristan Post (Campus Founders | Technische Universität München)

17:40

Engaging Your Customers - Compelling Product Story Telling through Data Driven Generative AI

  • Jesper Grode (Stibo Systems)

 

End of Day 1

 

Start: 11:00

11:00—
11:50

Be Inspired by Quantum-Inspired - How to Solve Optimization Problems with QUBOs for Annealers

  • Dr Fritz Schinkel (Fujitsu)
  • Dr Stefan Walter (Fujitsu)

11:50—
13:15

Break

13:15

Ultra-Fast In-Memory Data Processing: 1000x Faster Queries at 98% Cloud Cost Savings

  • Markus Kett (MicroStream Software)

14:00

How Technology Can Help Sustainable Businesses Find the Optimal Plan to Net Zero

  • Steffen Wittenauer (IBM)

14:40

Break

14:50

Killing it with Prompt Engineering: A Hands-On Workshop on Conversational AI. #LLM #ToneOfVoice #RAG #MurderMystery

  • Imke Bewersdorf (Big Picture)
  • Leonid Sokolov (Big Picture)
  • Maximilian Vogel (Big Picture)

15:35—
15:50

Break

15:50

#SheTransformsIT Meetup: Women in AI and Quantum

  • Dr Maria Börner (Westernacher Solutions)
  • Dr Barbara Wellmann (Deloitte)

16:50

Break

17:00

Data, AI & ML in Space - Get Started Deeptech Network x Bitkom Roundtable New Space

  • Dr Arne Gausepohl (OHB)
  • Sven Przywarra (LiveEO)
  • Johannes Röhrenbach (Mavuno Technologies)
  • Daria Stepanova (Airmo)

 

End of Day 1

 
10:00

Opening

  • Dr Marianne Janik (Member of the Executive Board, Bitkom)

Grace Hopper Stage

Start: 10:20

Alan Turing Stage

Start: 11:00

Workshop Room

10:10

Keynote

  • Dr Marco Buschmann (Federal Minister of Justice)

Grace Hopper Stage

10:20

From AI to Quantum Computing: Building Ecosystems, Empowering Innovation, Strengthening Sovereignty

  • Mario Brandenburg (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

Grace Hopper Stage

10:20

Turning Your (Maritime) Data into a Profit with Gaia-X

  • Sönke Liebau (Stackable)

Alan Turing Stage

10:30

Train and Trust Your Parrot: Industry Examples for the Use of Generative AI in Complex and Critical Use-Cases

  • Jonas Andrulis (Aleph Alpha)

Grace Hopper Stage

10:40

Opportunities and Risks of LLMs

  • Dr Raphael Zimmer (Federal Office for Information Security)

Alan Turing Stage

10:50

Foundation Models, Generative AI, and Classic Bots: Where Is the Best Trade-Off? Use Cases, Possibilities for Integration and the Example of "Customer Service”

  • Dr Wolfgang Hildesheim (IBM Technology DACH)

Grace Hopper Stage

11:00

Impact Business Outcomes Through Generative AI Orchestration

  • Babak Hodjat (Cognizant)

Alan Turing Stage

11:00—11:50

Be Inspired by Quantum-Inspired - How to Solve Optimization Problems with QUBOs for Annealers

  • Dr Fritz Schinkel (Fujitsu)
  • Dr Stefan Walter (Fujitsu)

Workshop Room

11:10

Setting Your Generative AI Appetite: Evaluating Risks and Opportunities

  • Katharine Jarmul (Thoughtworks)

Grace Hopper Stage

11:20

Art in the Age of AI: Decoding Technology, Protecting Artists, and Championing Diversity

  • Lúí Smyth (Shutterstock)

Alan Turing Stage

11:30

How Product Thinking Helps to Unlock the Value of Data

  • Christin Schink (HelloFresh)

Grace Hopper Stage

11:40

Lessons from 5+ Years of Operationalizing Custom Language Models in the Enterprise

  • Christopher Kränzler (Lengoo GmbH)

Alan Turing Stage

11:50

Regulatory Sandboxes – Enabling Innovation & Advancing Regulation

  • Dr Sibylle Grabert (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)

Grace Hopper Stage

11:50—13:15

Break

Workshop Room

12:00

Lunch

Alan Turing Stage

12:10

Lunch

Grace Hopper Stage

13:00

Policy Discussion | AI Act & AI Policy

  • Evelyn Graß (Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection)
  • Jens Redmer (Google)
  • Julia Sterling (Commerzbank)
  • Kai Zenner (European Parliament (MEP Voss))

Moderation:

  • Kai Pascal Beerlink, Bitkom

Grace Hopper Stage

13:00

AI and Privacy: Global Perspectives

  • Srinivas Poosarla (Infosys)

Alan Turing Stage

13:15

Ultra-Fast In-Memory Data Processing: 1000x Faster Queries at 98% Cloud Cost Savings

  • Markus Kett (MicroStream Software)

Workshop Room

13:20

Blueprinting AI-Services for Big Data Analytics

  • Shehide Abuliz (Allianz Technology)
  • Julia Gschwendtner (Allianz Kunde und Markt)

Alan Turing Stage

13:40

Panel discussion | The Deep Tech Dilemma: Is Germany Poised for Success or Stuck in Innovation Quicksand

  • Dr Anna Christmann (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)
  • Nico Kelling (Infineon Technologies)
  • Dr Frederick Struckmeier (Trumpf SE + Co. KG)

Moderation:

  • Susanne Dehmel, Bitkom

Grace Hopper Stage

13:40

Advanced Analytics in the Application Field of Early Warning Systems

  • Ralf Hennemann (GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank)
  • Dr Anna Schlösser (RSU GmbH & Co. KG)

Alan Turing Stage

14:00

How Generative AI is disrupting Enterprise Software

  • Dr Sebastian Wieczorek (SAP)

Alan Turing Stage

14:00

How Technology Can Help Sustainable Businesses Find the Optimal Plan to Net Zero

  • Steffen Wittenauer (IBM)

Workshop Room

14:20

Data Literacy – Cultivating Essential Skills for Tomorrow

  • Dr Christian Zinke-Wehlmann (Competence Center Artificial Human Intelligent (KMI) at the Institute for Applied Computer Science at the University of Leipzig)

Grace Hopper Stage

14:20

AI-Enabled Document Processing in the Mittelstand

  • Florian Geiger (Viessmann IT Service)
  • Dr Ing Christian Schwöbel (Wattx)

Alan Turing Stage

14:40

Panel discussion | More Similar than Expected? Data Offices in the Public and Private Sector

  • Dr Franziska Brecht (Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action)
  • Faruk Tuncer (Polyteia)
  • Dr Sebastian Werner (Thoughtworks Deutschland)

Moderation:

  • David Schönwerth, Bitkom

Grace Hopper Stage

14:40

AI in the Supply Chain at Europe's Largest Retailer

  • Dr Tim Still (Schwarz IT)

Alan Turing Stage

14:40

Break

Workshop Room

14:50

Killing it with Prompt Engineering: A Hands-On Workshop on Conversational AI. #LLM #ToneOfVoice #RAG #MurderMystery

  • Imke Bewersdorf (Big Picture)
  • Leonid Sokolov (Big Picture)
  • Maximilian Vogel (Big Picture)

Workshop Room

15:00

Chances (and Risks) of Big Data in the Retail Sector

  • Anne Böhme (Kyndryl Deutschland GmbH)
  • Alexander Kurtzahn (EDEKA Rhein-Ruhr Stiftung & Co. KG)
  • Marcus Lange (Kyndryl)

Alan Turing Stage

15:20

Trust your Data, Trust your AI

  • Varun Jaitly (Cloudera)

Grace Hopper Stage

15:20

Detecting Zero-Days Before Zero-Day

  • Daniele Molteni (Cloudflare)

Alan Turing Stage

15:35—15:50

Break

Workshop Room

15:40

Mastering Roadworthiness of Autonomous Driving

  • André Rauschert (Fraunhofer Allianz Big Data and AI)

Grace Hopper Stage

15:40

How Generative AI Is Changing the Game for Cybercriminals and Cybersecurity Teams

  • André Reichow-Prehn (Palo Alto Networks)

Alan Turing Stage

15:50

#SheTransformsIT Meetup: Women in AI and Quantum

  • Dr Maria Börner (Westernacher Solutions)
  • Dr Barbara Wellmann (Deloitte)

Workshop Room

16:00

Build the future! Build Data Products!

  • Ludwig Ehlert (One Data)

Grace Hopper Stage

16:00

Using Machine Intelligence to Massively Increase Cost for Adversaries

  • Felix Schwyzer (CrowdStrike)

Alan Turing Stage

16:20

Harnessing AI in Healthcare

  • Dr Marion Cornelia Legler (Bayer)

Grace Hopper Stage

16:20

Lessons from Ukraine - Software and AI in Defence

  • Keesiu Wong (Helsing)

Alan Turing Stage

16:40

Beyond ChatGPT: Democratizing Generative AI, Democratizing Innovation

  • Jupiter Bakakeu (Alteryx)

Grace Hopper Stage

16:40

HR-Tech: How AI for Recruiting Will Have to Change - Disruptions & Best Practice

  • Linda Flath (messe.rocks / herCAREER)
  • Rosmarie Steininger (Chemistree)

Alan Turing Stage

16:50

Break

Workshop Room

17:00

Panel Discussion | Beyond the Hype: Understanding the Real-World Impact of Generative AI

  • Dr Martina Flatscher (ZF Group)
  • Claire Helffer-de Soyres (Nvidia)
  • Jacqueline Liu (Allianz)
  • Ramin Mirza (Aleph Alpha)

Moderation:

  • Kai Pascal Beerlink, Bitkom

Grace Hopper Stage

17:00

Bringing AI Ethics Principles into Development

  • Julia Meisner (Gesellschaft für Informatik | German Informatics Society)
  • Linda Schwarz (German Informatics Society)

Alan Turing Stage

17:00

Data, AI & ML in Space - Get Started Deeptech Network x Bitkom Roundtable New Space

  • Dr Arne Gausepohl (OHB)
  • Sven Przywarra (LiveEO)
  • Johannes Röhrenbach (Mavuno Technologies)
  • Daria Stepanova (Airmo)

Workshop Room

17:20

Startups and AI: Unleashing New Possibilities for Business Growth and Innovation

  • Tristan Post (Campus Founders | Technische Universität München)

Alan Turing Stage

17:40

Scaling Generative AI to All Employees and beyond

  • Clemens Siebler (Microsoft)

Grace Hopper Stage

17:40

Engaging Your Customers - Compelling Product Story Telling through Data Driven Generative AI

  • Jesper Grode (Stibo Systems)

Alan Turing Stage

End of Day 1

Grace Hopper Stage

End of Day 1

Alan Turing Stage

End of Day 1

Workshop Room

 
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From 6 till 8 pm

 

21 September 2023
 

Grace Hopper Stage
Alan Turing Stage
Workshop Room

10:00

Opening

  • Dr Ralf Wintergerst (Bitkom)

10:10

Artificial Intelligence – Duel or Duet of Human and Machine?

  • Thomas Saueressig (SAP Product Engineering)

10:35

Useful AI: Potential and Development of AI Methods

  • Prof Dr Antonio Krüger (CEO German Research Center for AI & Head of the Department “Cognitive Assistants”)

11:00

Racial Bias in Face Technologies - How to Account for Biased Face Recognition

  • Agostino Calamia (Shopify)

11:20

Databaseless In-Memory Computing: 1000x Faster Queries at 98% Cloud Cost Savings

  • Markus Kett (MicroStream Software)

11:40

AI Industrialization - Beyond the Use Case: Unlocking the True Potential of AI through Enterprise-Wide Industrialization

  • Dr Nicole Kontor (Accenture)

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Bringing AI on the Asphalt - Digitalization of Nürburgring Nordschleife

  • Alexander Gerhard (Nürburgring 1927)
  • Stefan Schiffer (Fujitsu)

13:20

AI-Champions of the Future: Startup-Pitches Presented by SAP

  • Daniel Angloher (Caire)
  • Alexa Gorman (SAP)
  • Jana Krahforst (Fraud0)
  • Tristan Post (Campus Founders | Technische Universität München)
  • Dr Tatjana Samsonowa-Denef (Agents.inc)
  • Moritz Simsch (Munich Innovation Ecosystem)
  • Dr Michael Spira (DQC)
  • Björn Sykora (High-Tech Gründerfonds)
  • Laura Werle (Snackz.ai)
  • David Kregler, Bitkom