FZI Live
FZI Open House
Shaping the Future – What Is the Responsibility of Research for Our Society?
SAVE THE DATE: Our next FZI Open House will take place on 27 February 2025!
At the FZI Open House on February 8, 2024, our guests could experience the transfer of technology and knowledge live and gain exciting insights at our four transfer forums. They also received informative insights into our current research projects. In the real laboratories of our FZI House of Living Labs, they were able to get to know our research first-hand with exciting presentations and demonstrations.
During the event, there was also the opportunity to participate in guided tours, make contacts in a pleasant atmosphere, and discuss specialist topics with our experts at Expert Talks. Expert Talks could be requested in advance as personal one-on-one discussions of approximately 20 minutes via the registration form or booked on the day of the event.
Program of the FZI Open House 2024
Welcome and Keynote | 09:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Opening of the FZI Open House 2024
Keynote
People-Centred Digital Transformation
Judith Peterka
AI Expert of the German Federal Administration
Coffee Break | 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Morning | 11:00 to 12:00 a.m.
Two parallel transfer forums
Experience the future live: The Transfer Forum presents exciting insights into implementing Artificial Intelligence methods in various application domains. Our impulse lectures present innovative application examples and show the potential of AI. How is AI changing the industry? Immerse yourself in a cutting-edge discussion and find out how the current state of AI processes is expanding the industrial world.
ThinKIsense: Thin Edge Machine Analytics
Dr.-Ing. Stefan von Dosky, Project Manager Pre-Development at Siemens AG
AI-based Automation of Engineering for Industrial Robot Applications
Dr.-Ing. Sven R. Schmidt-Rohr, CEO of ArtiMinds Robotics GmbH
AI-based Application Fields in Medicine
Dr. med. Robert Deisz, Chief Medical Officer Intensive Care at Philips GmbH Market DACH
Location: FZI House of Living Labs, Event Area
Presenter: Stefan Otten, Division Manager at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
New legal regulations can place new demands on technology, while technical innovations may result in a need for regulation. This is where legal research comes in. Within the transfer forum, we would like to discuss the challenges resulting from developments in IT security law – both for legislators and users. We also want to discuss the impact of legal research on society.
Living Law: Is the Law Keeping Pace with Digitalization?
Michelle Duda, Chief Editor of CTRL Magazine
IT Security Law – Between Adequate Protection and Anti-Innovation Overregulation
Martin Schallbruch, CEO of govdigital eG
Location: FZI Main Building, Room New York
Presenter: Maria Rill, Department Manager at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Lunch Break | 12:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m.
The guided tours through our FZI Living Labs take place between 12:15 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.
The guided tours of our FZI Living Labs take place between 12:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.
For a list of our demonstrators with site map and short description please refer to our Folding Map for Download or visit our Infopoint on-site.
Expert Talks are one-on-one discussions of approximately 20 minutes with our FZI experts.
You can request these when registering or book them on-site on the event day.
Afternoon | 02:00 to 03:00 p.m.
One transfer forum and one panel in parallel
Autonomous vehicles remain a great hope for the mobility of the future – both in terms of value creation and unique selling points, as well as in terms of road safety, resource efficiency, and passenger comfort. After initial implementations focused firmly on making vehicle operation as independent of background information as possible, similar to the human-controlled model, many current vehicle automation initiatives focus on increased and deeper networking. In this transfer forum, prospects for automated and networked driving will be presented from various perspectives and discussed with the audience.
Projects ATLAS L4 and ANITA: Driving the Automation of Transport
Ulrich Bidlingmaier, Project Engineer for Automated Driving at MAN Truck & Bus SE
Successfully Shaping Vehicle Digitalization Together
Thorge Erichsen, Head of Regulatory Strategy Data/Digital at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Electronics for Autonomos Driving
Dr. Stefan Mengel, Head of Division Electronics and Autonomous Driving; Supercomputing at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Digital Transport Infrastructure for Automated and Connected Driving
Dr. Alexander Viehl, Division Manager at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Location: FZI House of Living Labs, Event Area
Presenter: Anna Leonie Brusius, Management Network Intelligent Move at e-mobil BW GmbH
In times of multiple crises, disinformation is a game of fear played by both individuals and state actors. The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the war in the Middle East clearly demonstrate this. Still, disinformation is also a problem over here. How can we respond to this challenge in Germany? And what position do politicians take in this regard? What could technical solutions look like? These are the questions we want to debate in a panel discussion.
Panel guests:
– Christiane Hoffmann, First Deputy Spokesperson of the Federal Government and Deputy Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government
– Caroline Lindekamp, Project Manager noFake at CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft (CORRECTIV – Research for Society)
– Prof. Dr. Achim Rettinger, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Trier Unviersity and Scientific Director at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Location: FZI Main Building, Room New York
Moderation: Dr. Jonas Fegert, Department Manager at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Coffee Break | 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The guided tour through our FZI Living Labs will take place at 3:30 p.m.
Meeting point: FZI House of Living Labs, Event Area
For a list of our demonstrators with site map and short description please refer to our Folding Map for Download or visit our Infopoint on-site.
Expert Talks are one-on-one discussions of approximately 20 minutes with our FZI experts.
You can request these when registering or book them on-site on the event day.
Closing | 04:00 p.m.
Panel guests:
Prof. Dr. Michael Decker
Head of Division at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Thorge Erichsen
Head of Regulatory Strategy Data/Digital bei Mercedes-Benz AG
Dr. Albert Käuflein
Mayor of Karlsruhe for information technology and digitalisation a.o. in Department 2
Caroline Lindekamp
Project Manager noFake at CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft (CORRECTIV – Research for Society)
Leonie Wolf, Councilwoman in the GRÜNEN municipal council group (GRÜNEN Gemeinderatsfraktion) Karlsruhe
Presenter: Dr. Dirk Achenbach, Division Manager of Cybersecurity and Law at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Closing | 5:00 p.m.
Picture Gallery | FZI Open House 2024
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Pictures: Paul Gärtner