AI Monday – Stuttgart – 22/07/2019

The 2nd AI Monday in Stuttgart happened on July 22nd at bwcon. Thanks for being a great host: real Swabian food, drinks to keep us hydrated with 33°C and an awesome org.Dirk Hofmann opened up with his learnings on deploying AI right. Out of many projects they did at DAIN Studios he shared a framework and maturity model to become a Data & AI driven company. His crisp 10 points are a good check list for everyone on that journey.Vanessa Deborah Viellieber talked about Text Analytics as the process of extracting relevant information, patterns or knowledge from data that is unstructured. She shared her practical learnings from deploying knowledge graphs and the challenges around it (e.g. shooting elephants in pyjamas).Furthermore we had Roland Heger from ESB Reutlingen pitching for support and participation of a bot architecture skeleton as well as an overview of the state of development of digital assistants and the complexities around deploying those.Final highlight of the event was Michael Mörike from Integrata Stiftung talking about how to embed Ethics into Machine Learning systems incl. cleaning up with some of the stereotypes around this topic.