
Talk: AI Meets Society: responsibly designing smart systems & infrastructures, 19th September 2019, Zug, Swiss
Trust is not necessarily about Transparency, but about Interaction. In current times: Industrialization was/is all about gaining more efficiency and productivity; Digital platforms target attention spans and the predictive behaviour, trying to maximize engagement for profits – sure that shall…

Podcast: Speed Change Repeat – Potential of Industrial AI, the Big Ship of Digitalization, and the Corporate Innovation Dilemma
#AINarratives are important: Really enjoyed the discussion and exchange on the impact on #IndustrialAI , #MachineLearning , awesome #Talents, and the challenges towards a new #InnovationCulture with Jonathan Pfaffenrot und #BenjaminLehmann and their awesome podcast project #SpeedChangeRepeat – thanks for…

Talk: Responsible Industrial Artificial Intelligence, AI Summit Vietnam, 16th August 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam
#AISummitVietnam2019 in #Hanoi – Empowering the AI Ecosystem co-organized by the #MinistryOfScienceAndTechnology, the #MinistryOfPlanningAndInvestment, #VnExpress and the #HanoiUniversity of Science and Technology. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam indicating the importance of AI for Vietnam. Very honored being invited to…

Panel: Nexus Hackathon Water-Food-Energy Nexus – sustainable urban development, 28th July 2019, Munich, Germany
#AI/ML technologies are driving the impact in the consumer-oriented ad- and social media business following the principle to #TurnPeopleIntoProducts (if you are not paying for a product, you are the product). As #friction and #inconvenience are still the next best…

Panel: Siemens AI Lab Summit, 24th of June 2019, Munich
The 2nd #AILabSummit with the usual flaws: Too much content for too limited time. Thus, speakers focusing on the essentials or just pitching double-speed… – „From AI Lab to impact“ with strong cases from Markus Zechel, Gia Thi Nguyen, Jan…

Co-Org: German-French Summer School on Transfer Learning, 6th of June 2019, Passau, Germany
#TransferLearning is instrumental for the acceleration of #IndustrialAI with #Impact. Proud to co-organize and support the 3rd German-French #SummerSchool on Transfer Learning, which happend this week – an awesome initative that intends to build a strong #network of young and…

NAACL-HLT 2019: News Article Teaser Tweets and How to Generate Them, Minneapolis, USA, June 2nd, 2019
Abstract: We define the task of teaser generation and provide an evaluation benchmark and baseline systems for it. A teaser is a short reading suggestion for an article that is illustrative and includes curiosity-arousing elements to entice potential readers to…

Talk: Impact with AI, Grid Masters Club Summit, Rome, 24th May 2019
Honoured and super excited to speak about the passion to generate #impact with #AI at the #GridMastersClub2019 . The #energytransition creates impactful opportunities for a #sustainable future and #AI has it`s role to augment it`s acceleration – though requires mindfulness…

Panel: AI@Industry Hackathon, Munich, 27th April 2019
New technologies need new ways of innovating! The #SiemensAILab Munich has partnered up with the Siemens #MindSphere Application Centers around the globe to tackle their most interesting #IndustrialAI challenges in a 3-day #Hackathon. After 72 hours of intensive #thinking and…