Programme 2024 The programme will be continuously updated as preparations for the conference progress. All Events AI & Data Summit 2024 Quantum Summit 2024 All Topics AI - Education, Research and Society AI Regulation & Compliance Business Applications Overview Business Processes Creative & Entertainment Industries Data as Enabler for AI Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods (Hybrid) Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Deep Dive: Simulation / Chemistry Education & Workforce Energy & Critical Infrastructures Finance & Insurance GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Global Cooperation in QC Government Policies & Initiatives Health, Pharma & Life Sciences Legal Tech Manufacturing & Logistics Marketing Mobility Political Keynote QC in Business Strategies Quantum for Society Quantum readiness for companies Startup Pitch State of Market & Technology Sustainability Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods VC & Startups Meetup All Stages Grace Hopper Stage Alan Turing Stage Superposition Stage Uncertainty Stage Masterclass Stage Workshops Foyer All Dates Wed, 25.09. Thu, 26.09. 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 10:00 - 10:20 Opening Keynote Dr Ralf Wintergerst (Bitkom) Grace Hopper Stage 10:20 - 10:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Forging Tomorrow's Industry: Bosch & Aleph Alpha building human-machine collaboration for the AI era Jonas Andrulis (Aleph Alpha) Dr Andreas Nauerz (Bosch Digital) Grace Hopper Stage 10:20 - 10:40 Building the European Quantum Ecosystem Dr Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic (T-Systems International GmbH) Superposition Stage 10:20 - 10:40 Business Processes Unveiling the power of AI in deal origination and CRM enhancement Nikolaus Grefe (Intapp Inc.) Dominik Ziems (KPMG) Alan Turing Stage 10:40 - 11:00 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Generative Artificial Trends - Customized Industry Specific LLMs Dr Hannes Burger (Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH) Dr Wolfgang Hildesheim (IBM Deutschland GmbH) Grace Hopper Stage 10:40 - 11:00 Unlock the Future with Quantum Computing Dr Heike Riel (IBM Research) Superposition Stage 10:40 - 11:00 Business Processes From ponds to lake: Using generic automated data integration to create a single source of truth for company data Kevin Bollerhei (Wintershall Dea AG) Carsten Oppitz (inovex) Alan Turing Stage 11:00 - 11:20 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Keynote Dr Slav Petrov (Google DeepMind) Grace Hopper Stage 11:00 - 11:20 State of Market & Technology TBA Superposition Stage 11:00 - 11:20 Business Processes AI Governance at Europe's Largest Retailer Dr Tim Still (Schwarz IT) Alan Turing Stage 11:00 - 11:50 Mastering Data Transformation: The Chief Data Officer’s Guide Arian van Hülsen (PTC) Workshops 11:20 - 11:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Keynote Agnes Heftberger (Microsoft Deutschland) Grace Hopper Stage 11:20 - 11:40 State of Market & Technology Comparison of QC technology platforms and their maturity level Sebastian Luber (Infineon Technologies AG) Superposition Stage 11:20 - 11:40 Business Processes Revolutionizing Steel Trading: Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Sales Request Processing Roxana Maria Jeney (kloeckner.i) Evelyn Stangneth (kloeckner.i) Alan Turing Stage 11:40 - 12:00 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Trusted data for trusted analytics and AI Varun Jaitly (Cloudera) Grace Hopper Stage 11:40 - 12:00 State of Market & Technology The European investment ecosystem in quantum technologies Roman Pašek (Amires) Superposition Stage 11:40 - 12:00 Business Processes Business Process' Sourcing and Procurement of Custom Enterprise AI Models Henrik Haarmann (Airbus Deutschland) Lukas Wuttke (tracebloc) Alan Turing Stage 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break Foyer 13:00 - 13:20 Keynote Dr Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport) Grace Hopper Stage 13:00 - 13:20 Legal Tech Use, build or buy your own legal AI Dr Maria Börner (Westernacher Solutions) Alan Turing Stage 13:00 - 14:00 KI-Readiness durch Strategie und Kompetenzaufbau - Praxisbeispiele von Finanzwelt bis Immobilienbranche Workshops 13:20 - 13:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Towards Sustainable AI: Technical and Regulatory Challenges Dr Philipp Herzig (SAP) Grace Hopper Stage 13:20 - 14:00 Quantum Horizons: What lies beyond 2025? Marco-Alexander Breit (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) Ronja Kremmer (Member of the German Bundestag) Superposition Stage 13:20 - 13:40 Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods Improving the playground for practical use-cases in quantum computing using Qrisp Sebastian Bock (Fraunhofer FOKUS) Dr Ulrich Seyfarth (BearingPoint GmbH) Uncertainty Stage 13:20 - 13:40 Legal Tech TBA Alan Turing Stage 13:40 - 14:00 AI Regulation & Compliance TBA Grace Hopper Stage 13:40 - 14:00 Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods Quantum Thinking for Federal Budget Allocation: Approaching Complexity with Novel Methods Uncertainty Stage 13:40 - 14:00 Legal Tech TBA Alan Turing Stage 14:00 - 14:20 AI Regulation & Compliance Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer / caralegal Kathrin Schürmann (SCHÜRMANN ROSENTHAL DREYER Rechtsanwälte) Grace Hopper Stage 14:00 - 15:00 Government Policies & Initiatives TBA Superposition Stage 14:00 - 14:20 Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods Addressing the software gap: Quantum computing software and benchmark in public funding Dr Sophia Helmrich (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Projektträger) Dr Johann Schmidt (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Projektträger) Uncertainty Stage 14:00 - 14:20 Health, Pharma & Life Sciences From data to a product - how an AI idea comes live in the pharmaceutical industry Beate Anders-Dokup (Bayer) Anton Boger (Bayer) Alan Turing Stage 14:00 - 14:45 AI in Productive Use - From Idea to Scaling Matthias Biniok (IBM Technology Expert Labs) Workshops 14:20 - 15:00 AI Regulation & Compliance Panel | Implementing the AI Act Dr Florian Jell (Allianz Kunde und Markt) Kirsten Rulf (Boston Consulting Group) Franziska Weindauer (TÜV AI.Lab) Grace Hopper Stage 14:20 - 14:40 Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods Quantum Computing in the Automotive Industry: Trends, Applications, and Benchmarks Andre Luckow (BMW Group) Uncertainty Stage 14:20 - 14:40 Health, Pharma & Life Sciences Counterfactual decision support for the control of a clinical, multi-organ failure ICU machine Dominik Loroch (Fraunhofer ITWM) Alan Turing Stage 14:20 - 15:00 Legal Tech Open Panel & Meet the Speaker Masterclass Stage 14:40 - 15:00 Technology Value Chain / Tools & Methods Scaling Quantum Hardware - gaps and opportunities across USA and European vendors André M. König (Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC) Uncertainty Stage 14:40 - 15:00 Health, Pharma & Life Sciences Bringing AI to Embedded Devices via Neural Architecture Search Christoph Hüßtege (ADVITOS) Leopold Mareis (Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS) Alan Turing Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Data as Enabler for AI Data Spaces as the basis for GenAI Ulrich Ahle (Gaia-X AISBL) Grace Hopper Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Quantum Ecomic Advantage Francesco Bova (Rotman School of Management / CDL Quantum) Superposition Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Keynote Dr André Carvalho (Q-CTRL) Uncertainty Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Health, Pharma & Life Sciences Johnson & Johnson Angel Martin (Johnson & Johnson) Alan Turing Stage 15:00 - 15:45 Workshop KI Park Workshops 15:20 - 15:40 Data as Enabler for AI TBA Grace Hopper Stage 15:20 - 15:40 Business Applications Overview Quantum Computing for Digital Chemistry Dr Torsten Heinemann (Covestro) Superposition Stage 15:20 - 15:40 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Opportunities and limitations of solving industrial optimization problems with quantum computers Dr Frederick Struckmeier (TRUMPF SE + Co. KG) Uncertainty Stage 15:20 - 15:40 Finance & Insurance Transforming Insurance: Practical Insights with Multimodal GenAI Georgina Neitzel (ERGO) Alan Turing Stage 15:20 - 16:00 Health, Pharma & Life Sciences Open Panel & Meet the Speaker Masterclass Stage 15:40 - 16:00 Data as Enabler for AI Generative AI @ Munich Re Dr. Fabian Winter (Munich Re) Grace Hopper Stage 15:40 - 16:00 Business Applications Overview The Quantum Mobility Quest Dr Jasper Krause (Airbus) Superposition Stage 15:40 - 16:00 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Case-studies on hybrid quantum solvers for business relevant optimization use-cases Dr Abhishek Awasthi (BASF Digital Solutions GmbH) Florian Krellner (SAP) Uncertainty Stage 15:40 - 16:00 Finance & Insurance AI Governance Julia Sterling (Commerzbank) Alan Turing Stage 16:00 - 17:00 QC in Business Strategies TBA Superposition Stage 16:00 - 16:20 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Investigating and improving near-term quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization Karen Wintersperger (Siemens AG) Uncertainty Stage 16:00 - 16:20 Finance & Insurance TBA Alan Turing Stage 16:00 - 16:50 Women in AI & #SheTransformsIT Meetup: Women in AI and Quantum Workshops 16:20 - 17:00 Data as Enabler for AI Panel | Data Management as Enabler for AI Applications Dr Sven Bettermann (Evonik Industries) Franziska Brecht (BMWK) Grace Hopper Stage 16:20 - 16:40 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Industry Case Study on Digitized Counterdiabatic Quantum Optimization for a Combinatorial Optimization Problem Dr Abhishek Awasthi (BASF Digital Solutions GmbH) Dr Gernot Füchsel (Kipu Quantum GmbH) Uncertainty Stage 16:20 - 16:40 Finance & Insurance TBA Alan Turing Stage 16:20 - 17:00 Finance & Insurance Open Panel & Meet the Speaker Masterclass Stage 16:40 - 18:00 VC & Startups Meetup TBA Uncertainty Stage 16:40 - 17:00 Mobility Driving Innovation Through Data: Insights from Germany's Largest Local Public Transport Provider Helena Götsch (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe) Alan Turing Stage 17:00 - 17:20 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Sovereign Data & AI: What does it take in a highly scaled context Holger Schell (Schwarz Digits) Grace Hopper Stage 17:00 - 17:20 From Lab to Fab - How Semiconductor Technology can help to boost the availability and scalability of Quantum Computers Christian Wiebus (NXP Semiconductors Germany Gmb) Superposition Stage 17:00 - 17:20 Mobility Aerospace & AI - Airbus approach responsible and human-centric approach Jay Stoltzenberg (Airbus) Alan Turing Stage 17:00 - 18:00 Digital Chemistry MeetUp Dr Nikolaj Moll (Boehringer Ingelheim) Workshops 17:20 - 17:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Operationalizing the AI Vision at DATEV: Meaningful Innovations for Maximum Customer Value and Optimized Internal Processes Dr Robert Helbig (DATEV) Dr Horst-Florian Jaeck (MHP Management- und IT-Beratung) Grace Hopper Stage 17:20 - 18:00 Quantum for Society TBA Superposition Stage 17:20 - 17:40 Mobility How to balance AIs threats and opportunities in the mobility sector: an industry view Carolien Mazal (TomTom) Alan Turing Stage 17:40 - 18:00 Keynote Hartmut König (Adobe) Grace Hopper Stage 17:40 - 18:00 Mobility Distributed data ecosystems for mobility and travel Patrick Hebant (Amadeus) Alan Turing Stage 18:00 - 22:00 Networking Foyer 10:00 - 10:20 Driving sustainability, European competitiveness and resilience Elke Reichart (Infineon Technologies) Grace Hopper Stage 10:20 - 10:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Robots, AI and our common future Dr Ulrike Tagscherer (KUKA) Grace Hopper Stage 10:20 - 10:40 Establishing European Quantum Cloud Infrastructure for Digital Sovereignty Benjamin Revcolevschi (OVHcloud) Superposition Stage 10:20 - 10:40 Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods TBA Uncertainty Stage 10:20 - 10:40 Manufacturing & Logistics Management Decisions in Manufacturing using Causal Machine Learning – To Rework, or not to Rework? Phillipp Schwarz (AMS-Osram International GmbH) Prof Dr Martin Spindler (Economic AI) Alan Turing Stage 10:20 - 12:00 Countering Deepfakes - Tools and Strategies Janis Hecker (Bitkom) Julian Kramer (Adobe) Luise Ritter (Bitkom) Stefanie Valdés-Scott (Adobe) Masterclass Stage 10:40 - 11:00 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends GenAI at your Fingertips Tim Bunkus (adesso SE) Tim Strohschneider (adesso SE) Grace Hopper Stage 10:40 - 11:40 Education & Workforce TBA Superposition Stage 10:40 - 11:00 Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods AutoQML: Automated Quantum Machine Learning for Industrial Applications Dr Marco Roth (Fraunhofer IPA) Horst Stühler (Zeppelin GmbH) Uncertainty Stage 10:40 - 11:00 Manufacturing & Logistics Strengthening the Long-Term Robustness of Artificial Intelligence: A Nature-Inspired Solution Sustaining Value Network Resilience Martin Trat (FZI Research Center for Information Technology) Alan Turing Stage 11:00 - 11:20 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Potentials, challenges, and political frameworks: How can SMEs successfully implement AI? Dr Alexandra Merkel (Innomatik) Grace Hopper Stage 11:00 - 11:20 Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Design of QML benchmarking metric for NISQ devices Dr Janine Hilder (neQxt GmbH) Dr Wadim Wormsbecher (Bundesdruckerei GmbH) Uncertainty Stage 11:00 - 11:20 Manufacturing & Logistics Unlocking Manufacturing Potential: Human In The Loop for Real-Time Insights in Electric Mobility Components Production Dr Bernd Maar (BMW) Lukas Unterschütz (robotron) Alan Turing Stage 11:15 - 12:00 GenAI with Adesso Tim Bunkus (adesso SE) Tim Strohschneider (adesso SE) Workshops 11:20 - 11:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends TBA Grace Hopper Stage 11:20 - 11:40 Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Verification of Quantum Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting Nicola Franco (Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS) Dr Jakob Spiegelberg (Volkswagen AG) Uncertainty Stage 11:20 - 11:40 Manufacturing & Logistics AI Systems Engineering: How AI and Engineering can go Hand in Hand Dr. Gunar Ernis (Fraunhofer IAIS) Alan Turing Stage 11:40 - 12:00 Political Keynote Keynote Mario Brandenburg (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) Grace Hopper Stage 11:40 - 12:00 Deep Dive QML: Use Cases, Tools & Methods Evolving Aerospace Communications through Quantum-enhanced Machine Learning Theodora-Augustina Dragan (Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS)) Akshat Tandon (Airbus) Uncertainty Stage 11:40 - 12:00 Manufacturing & Logistics TBA Alan Turing Stage 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break Foyer 13:00 - 13:40 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends Panel | User's perspective: Scaling (Gen)AI Sandra Collomb (Airbus) Dr. René Deist (ZF Group) Dr Michael Drass (Deutsche Bahn AG) Nico Kelling (Infineon Technologies AG) Grace Hopper Stage 13:00 - 14:00 Global Cooperation in QC TBA Superposition Stage 13:00 - 13:20 Deep Dive: Simulation / Chemistry Initial state preparation of spin and fermionic systems through approximate quantum imaginary time evolution Dr Michael Kaicher (BASF) Uncertainty Stage 13:00 - 13:20 Energy & Critical Infrastructures Can we make Data Governance fun and effective? Yes, we can - A Vattenfall Case Study Sebastian Kaus (Vattenfall) Alan Turing Stage 13:00 - 14:20 Science Slam AI Grid & Women in AI “Young minds showcase their cutting-edge AI research" Alice Bassewitz (AI Grid / EIT ICT Labs Germany GmbH) Svenja Schölermann (Women in AI & Kineo.ai) Workshops 13:00 - 13:40 Manufacturing & Logistics Open Panel & Meet the Speaker Masterclass Stage 13:20 - 13:40 TBA Dr Gian-Luca Anselmetti (Boehringer Ingelheim) Uncertainty Stage 13:20 - 13:40 Energy & Critical Infrastructures GenAI in the energy sector: Guidance and Experience André Baier (Fraunhofer IEE) Dr Lars Nolting (TenneT TSO) Alan Turing Stage 13:40 - 14:00 GenAI - Implementation Strategies & Future Trends TBA Grace Hopper Stage 13:40 - 14:00 Deep Dive: Simulation / Chemistry TBA Uncertainty Stage 13:40 - 14:00 Energy & Critical Infrastructures Preparing for the AI revolution: How we establish (Gen)AI at Stadtwerke München Dr Andreas Diebold (Stadtwerke München) Alan Turing Stage 14:00 - 14:20 AI - Education, Research and Society TBA Grace Hopper Stage 14:00 - 14:20 Quantum readiness for companies Keynote Dr Francesco Baer (SAP SE) Dr Sabine Seelenmeyer (SAP) Superposition Stage 14:00 - 14:20 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods (Hybrid) Incentivizing Renewable Energy Utilization via Demand Side Response using Quantum Optimization David Bucher (Aqarios GmbH) Dr Corey OMeara (E.ON Digital Technology GmbH) Uncertainty Stage 14:00 - 14:20 Energy & Critical Infrastructures TBA Jörn Kellermann (T-Systems International GmbH) Alan Turing Stage 14:00 - 16:00 AI Act Workshop Masterclass Stage 14:20 - 14:40 AI - Education, Research and Society Opportunities and risks of modern AI - The European Approach Prof Dr Antonio Krüger (CEO German Research Center for AI & Head of the Department “Cognitive Assistants”) Grace Hopper Stage 14:20 - 14:40 Crypto agility - how can industry act now? Manfred Rieck (Deutsche Bahn) Superposition Stage 14:20 - 14:40 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods FPGA-Placement via Quantum Annealing Stefan Knipp (Thales Deutschland GmbH) Dr Nico Piatkowski (Fraunhofer IAIS) Uncertainty Stage 14:20 - 14:40 Marketing Building Trust in AI: Enhancing Brand Value in Safety-Critical Sectors Dr Arash Azhand (Diconium) Alan Turing Stage 14:40 - 15:00 AI - Education, Research and Society Towards Sustainable AI: Technical and Regulatory Challenges Prof Dr Philipp Hacker (European University Viadrina) Grace Hopper Stage 14:40 - 15:20 Quantum readiness for companies TBA Superposition Stage 14:40 - 15:00 Deep Dive: Optimisation: Use Cases, Tools & Methods (Hybrid) ProvideQ: Using Meta-Solving Strategies to enable Quantum Optimization Domenik Eichhorn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Frederik Fiand (GAMS Software) Uncertainty Stage 14:40 - 15:00 Marketing How a bank optimizes marketing holistically across 27 systems with Big Data and Analytic AI Jan Schoenmakers (HASE & IGEL) Alan Turing Stage 15:00 - 15:50 Startup Pitch Startup Pitch Grace Hopper Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Quantum Computing Potentials for Enhanced Maritime Operations Dr.-Ing. Anisa Rizvanolli (Fraunhofer CML) Uncertainty Stage 15:00 - 15:20 Marketing Generative AI and E-Commerce: How to Increase Revenue per User by 220% Marc Funk (Frontnow) Lorenz Würgler (JUMBO) Alan Turing Stage 15:20 - 15:50 Sustainability TBA Superposition Stage 15:20 - 15:40 Creative & Entertainment Industries Bertelsmann's journey in AI, tech & data collaboration Ralph Kemperdick (RaKeTe-Technology) Rhys Noelke (Bertelsmann SE & Co) Alan Turing Stage 15:40 - 16:00 Creative & Entertainment Industries Fast Forward: Harnessing AI and Data Dynamics in Media Production Hermann del Campo (Zaibr Innovations) Alan Turing Stage 15:50 - 16:00 Closing Keynote Bitkom Christina Raab (Bitkom) Grace Hopper Stage 16:00 - 16:15 Closing Keynote Dr Robert Habeck (Vice Chancellor & Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) Grace Hopper Stage Our premium partners
