This was the first AI Monday in Munich! Thanks to our partner Wayra who hosted the event in their excellent premises and also sponsored the drinks for the networking session. Sven Rossmann from Porsche Consulting kicked off the evening with a deep dive into the business value of AI for Read more…
On Monday, Oct 7th Porsche AG and Taival welcomed again more than 100 AI enthusiasts from the area of Stuttgart into the Porsche Digital Foundry in Ludwigsburg. We had 4 incredible speakers again: Kai Gotthardt, Product Owner LEAD.AI & Head of Portfolio Strategy at DB Systel GmbH (part of Deutsche Read more…
After a three months summer break, AI Monday Berlin is back!. Located in the new spacious coworking space The Drivery in Berlin-Tempelhof, the focus topic was MOBILITY. Torgen Hauschild, Co-Founder & CIO AIPARK, started with his fascinating presentation: “How to use computer vision on the edge to build live curb sidemaps”.
He was followed by an inspiring speech on how to manage a fleet of “Automated Guided Vehicles” using AI by Elham Mirzaei.
Kira Kempinska, Machine Learning Researcher from the Poland-based AI Startup Alphamoon, talked about “How to build an acoustic tracking system with embedded AI”.
The evening was closed by Matthias Meisdrock and Dr. Tae-Gil Noh with an interesting insight to AI based customer service – based on an example of Callabike – a shared mobility service.
The first AI Monday in the Stuttgart region was phenomenal. With 130 guests the Porsche Foundry in Ludwigsburg was at capacity limits – a perfect location! The Porsche team have done an amazing job preparing everything.
After me (Juri Stobbe) giving a short intro, Anja Hendel and Simone Schulz from Porsche opened up giving an update on what Porsche does in the AI space including some selected first use cases. Sebastian Klenk from 5Analytics followed with giving an expert view on how to bring AI prototypes into production environments. Raoul Schönhof from Fraunhover IPA provided us with an intro on what AI actually is + some very cool use cases he is working on. The evening was closed by Friedrich Münke from the vialytics team showcasing their solution and some insights on the engine beneath.
Our 8th AI Monday Berlin on June 17 was part of the 2019 Berlin BuzzWords Conference in the Kulturbrauerei. The evening was opened up by Ahmed Kamal giving us a deep dive on how Careem, one of the leading mobility companies in the Middle East, develops ML models, their challenges and how their platform Yoda solves those. Calvin Seward from Zalando talked about Security and Risks in an AI-driven environment. Very emotional as well to see how AI is misused already today to abuse human rights. The third talk by Andreas Schindler, co-founder of Deep Neuron Labs, gave us insights into how to approach Machine Learning projects and what to consider before. The evening was closed by Felix Biessmann, from Amazon Research, who talked about handle data quality in ML production systems.
The first AI Monday in the Stuttgart region was phenomenal. With 130 guests the Porsche Foundry in Ludwigsburg was at capacity limits – a perfect location! The Porsche team have done an amazing job preparing everything.
After me (Juri Stobbe) giving a short intro, Anja Hendel and Simone Schulz from Porsche opened up giving an update on what Porsche does in the AI space including some selected first use cases. Sebastian Klenk from 5Analytics followed with giving an expert view on how to bring AI prototypes into production environments. Raoul Schönhof from Fraunhover IPA provided us with an intro on what AI actually is + some very cool use cases he is working on. The evening was closed by Friedrich Münke from the vialytics team showcasing their solution and some insights on the engine beneath.
The weather on our fourth AI Monday in 2019 was, well, mixed, but the speeches were all fantastic. Valerio Velardo started the evening with an interesting insight into AI and music. He was followed by Baver Acu introducing us to “Chris” their AI car assistant and the challenges to build it. The 3rd speech we heard from Saskia Ostendorff was a plea for sharing Open Legal data to make it work for AI algos to improve transparency and legal decision making. Robert Förster finished the event about numerous existing use cases on text2speech or vice versa with a demo of synchronization of famous tv shows.
With an amazing sunset view from the 20th floor over Berlin, this AI Monday had a fantastic setting. Our Host Deutsche Telekoms T-Labs started off with Claudia Pohlink giving us insights on how they approach AI and also provided a Demo. Next up was Kalle Raita from Curious AI who gave an expert talk on automating manual processes and optimising industry processes with AI. Justina Petraityte from RASA provided us with her perspective on how to build conversational interfaces right by using RASA. And finally Raphael Holca-Lamarre talked about how Mimica observes and maps human interactions so you can take out the massive effort in RPA initiatives.
With more than 100 AI enthusiast and three inspiring speeches, the second AI Monday Berlin in 2019 was a real success! The event took place at the Volkswagen Digital Lab located in the heart of Berlin. The evening started with Christian Wasileiades, Software Engineer at Volkswagen, talking about End-to-end speech recognition. He was followed by the European Director of Orbica, Peter Rose, who introduced us to the approach of Geo AI. Isa Ette finally shared her presentation themed “You want AI? Do your homework first” with the audience.
The first AI Monday in 2019 attracted lots of interest. With impressive 200 sign-ups we needed to close early. In the end, no seats were free! Andreas Klug, CMO ITyX opened up, followed by an impressive talk of Malte Pietsch from deepset on evolution of NLP. Mateusz Opala explained the issue of trusting decision made by AI and finally Johann von Herwarth presented the chances of AI in customer service.