How can intelligent image processing, robot systems, and AI algorithms be combined to automate manual post-processing steps?

Together with solid flow GmbH, KUKA Deutschland GmbH, and Optonic GmbH, the Transfer Center for Intelligent Production Systems (TIP) at RH Köln will demonstrate in various keynote speeches on the AI Village stage how research and industry collaborate to automate manual processing steps and increase value creation on a data-based level.

In the subsequent interactive workshop, we will show:

• AI-supported image recognition for precise workpiece analysis

• Robot-based post-processing with intelligent process control

• Integration of computer vision systems into existing production lines

• Practical live demonstration



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Bastian Sens – Founder and CEO of Sensational – will build a real AI employee live before your eyes in this webinar: step by step, so you can replicate it for your company afterwards.

Bastian will show how his company works as a hybrid organization of humans and AI. And how you can implement the same in your company.

What awaits you in this webinar:

• How an AI assistant is created: built live, every step visible

• Why individual AI training sessions fail and what really works instead to bring AI knowledge to the entire team

• How an AI employee becomes a whole AI team — and what a hybrid organization specifically means

• Best practices that you can take away directly and implement the next day

At the end, you will receive:

A ready-made AI employee blueprint — concrete, implementable, transferable to your company.

And in the open Q&A session, Bastian will answer your questions directly.

Who is this webinar for?

For entrepreneurs, managing directors, and motivated employees in the German SME sector who understand AI as a competitive advantage and do not want to wait until 80% of the value creation lies with others.

AI that truly helps in the painter's daily routine – understandable, concrete, and directly applicable. In this practical workshop, typical tasks are used to demonstrate how AI can support the daily work in painting businesses and simplify processes.

Three concrete applications are at the center:

• Automatically answer email inquiries: Sort and process customer inquiries faster.

• Create images, videos & social content: Create meaningful content for the online presence and customer orders.

• Create quotes from on-site videos: Use construction site videos to create complete quotes with the help of AI.

Empowering women. Strengthening companies. Closing the gender AI gap.

In this practical program, you will learn how to use AI safely and with real added value in your daily administrative work. Many know the feeling: "I should look into AI, but where do I start?" That is exactly where this program comes in. It is designed for beginners who have little or no prior knowledge of AI, and guides you over four mornings from your first encounter with AI to your own assistant that takes over your recurring tasks.

Contents

• Industrial process chain of additive manufacturing

• Design suitable for additive manufacturing

• AI-supported data preparation in 3D scanning & reverse engineering

• Application fields of additive manufacturing & reverse engineering

Practical laboratory exercises and work on an individual project

• Analysis and testing of the properties of additively manufactured materials and components, application of typical analysis and testing methods, comparison of properties with conventionally manufactured materials and components

• Introduction and exercises for generating and manipulating technical 3D data sets using 3D scanning (reverse engineering)

• Exercises on geometric optimization of technical components against the background of the potentials and limits of additive processes

• Introduction to plant technology for processing metals and polymers, creation of a 3D data set, preparation, execution, and evaluation of a 3D printing job

Beim zweiten Sulzer Impuls blicken wir hinter den Hype. Gemeinsam mit Experten diskutieren wir, wie erfolgreiche KI-Strategien entstehen, wo AI Agents echten Mehrwert schaffen und warum der Mensch dabei unverzichtbar bleibt.

Das erwartet Sie:

• Keynote: Humanizing AI Strategy Tiankai Feng zeigt, wie menschenzentrierte KI-Transformation gelingt und warum der Mensch im Mittelpunkt jeder erfolgreichen KI-Strategie stehen sollte.

• Fachvortrag Sulzer: KI-Agenten: Was sie können. Und was nicht. Alexander Lerf erklärt, welche Aufgaben sich sinnvoll an KI-Agenten übertragen lassen und wo ihre Grenzen liegen.

• Podiumsdiskussion: Was bleibt vom AI Hype, wenn es ernst wird? Unsere Experten diskutieren erfolgreiche KI-Strategien, den sinnvollen Einsatz neuer Technologien und den Weg von der Idee zur Wirkung.Interaktive Stände

Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit für Networking und den Austausch mit unseren Experten.

👉 Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: Wie viel KI braucht Ihr Unternehmen wirklich?

Evening with Peter Wang, Co-founder of Anaconda and PyData, and Stuttgart's AI and Engineering Community: Conversations about Open Source, AI, and Sovereignty. No slides, no pitches.

Peter Wang has been shaping Open Source and AI for over a decade. He founded Anaconda Inc., the startup behind the Anaconda Distribution, one of the world's most widely used Python platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning, and is Co-founder of PyData, the international community series around Python in Data and AI.

Format: Exchange with people from Stuttgart's Engineering, Data, and AI teams. Drinks and snacks are covered.

Location: Sophie's Brauhaus, Marienstraße 28, 70178 Stuttgart, about 15 minutes on foot from the main station.

Places are limited.

Large Multimodal AI Workshop: When is the use of large AI models for language, images, and data really worthwhile?

Discover the future of AI: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) – large, multimodal models.

Immerse yourself in the world of Generative AI beyond pure text processing. In our Large Multimodal AI Workshop at AI Village, you will learn how modern foundation models process language, images, and other data types simultaneously. This workshop is aimed at decision-makers, developers, and interested parties who want to understand when and how the use of huge models makes sense – and when classic methods are the better choice.

This spotlight on AI in sales is aimed at managers and sales professionals who want to understand and utilize AI. The focus is on concrete applications in everyday sales practice: the opportunities offered by AI-supported processes, how to assess their benefits and limitations, and which compliance aspects need to be considered. The spotlight combines fundamental principles with practical application: key terms, technologies, and the benefits of AI in sales are explained clearly. Typical sales applications are the central focus. Industry examples demonstrate how AI solves specific problems (lead generation, offer optimization, product matching). By the end of the training, participants will have learned about implementation scenarios and will have gained valuable insights for implementing their own AI applications.

Bastian Sens – Founder and CEO of Sensational – will build a real AI employee live before your eyes in this webinar: step by step, so you can replicate it for your company afterwards.

Bastian will show how his company works as a hybrid organization of humans and AI. And how you can implement the same in your company.

What awaits you in this webinar:

• How an AI assistant is created: built live, every step visible

• Why individual AI training sessions fail and what really works instead to bring AI knowledge to the entire team

• How an AI employee becomes a whole AI team — and what a hybrid organization specifically means

• Best practices that you can take away directly and implement the next day

At the end, you will receive:

A ready-made AI employee blueprint — concrete, implementable, transferable to your company.

And in the open Q&A session, Bastian will answer your questions directly.

Who is this webinar for?

For entrepreneurs, managing directors, and motivated employees in the German SME sector who understand AI as a competitive advantage and do not want to wait until 80% of the value creation lies with others.

AI Connect ist der Tag, an dem das KI-Ökosystem an einem Ort zusammenfindet. In München bringen wir die zusammen, die über die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Unternehmen entscheiden: Anwender, Entscheider, Technologiepartner und Lösungsanbieter. Und wir schaffen den Raum, in dem aus einzelnen Bausteinen gemeinsame nächste Schritte werden.

„Behind the Curtains" heißt: Wir schauen gemeinsam hinter die Kulissen. Echte Zahlen, echte Use Cases, echte Rollouts, statt Hochglanz-Theorie. Du siehst, wie KI im Mittelstand heute wirklich funktioniert, und gehst mit dem nächsten konkreten Schritt für dein Unternehmen nach Hause. Als Gastgeber und zentraler KI-Layer verbindet meinGPT die Menschen, Technologien und Unternehmen, die KI in der Praxis voranbringen.

A course offered by the VHS Erftstadt.



Artificial intelligence is present in many areas of our daily lives and the workplace today. But what exactly is meant by the term "AI"? A guided tour of the AI ​​Village – the innovation campus for AI in Hürth – will give you a vivid insight into the world of artificial intelligence.

The event provides fundamental knowledge about the historical development, various forms and stages of AI, and current applications. Furthermore, you will learn more about the tasks and goals of the AI ​​Village within the structural transformation project "From Coal to AI." Various on-site demonstrators make technological developments tangible and offer opportunities for exploration and questions.

The KI_TAGE are the flagship event on the topic of AI in Central Germany: Speakers from industry, technology, marketing, and legal share best practices and experiences from practice. Day 1 is designed as a conference with six lectures, Day 2 as a masterclass day with nine in-depth formats; in addition, there is an industry exhibition with AI companies and plenty of space for networking. The organizer is the webwirtschaft, the association of software companies in Central Germany.

For our members there is the exclusive code KI_TAGE_VERBAND_26: It discounts the bundle of conference and masterclasses to 129 € instead of 169 € and is valid indefinitely.

→ ki-tage.webwirtschaft.de/tickets/

Data forms the foundation for the health, safety, and prosperity of our society. Health data improves care and prevention, sensor data makes industry and infrastructure more efficient, environmental data supports climate and resource protection, financial data secures economic stability – and basic research also lives on data.

At the same time, too much data poses risks: It can complicate decisions, obscure responsibilities, or endanger our freedom. What data do we really need – and how do we use them responsibly?

The conference brings together leaders from industry, research, and AI practice with physicists: When do data-driven methods and AI support decisions – and when do they stand in the way? Who bears responsibility when models decide? And what can the physical perspective – modeling, measurement, uncertainty – contribute to automation, regulation, and new infrastructure?

The focus is on practice, strategy, and looking ahead – beyond tool discussions and introductory lectures. A conference for everyone who responsibly designs AI and data-driven systems in practice.

The use of generative AI is now standard in many areas. The crucial factor is how well the transition from initial experiments to effective, value-creating applications succeeds. In this spotlight, we contextualize key AI trends and answer core questions that arise for strategic leadership: What does AI mean for my workforce? How is leadership changing through AI? What long-term developments are conceivable? What are possible risks? How do I ensure digital sovereignty?

When everyone drives the same AI engine, skillful handling decides

No matter which AI tools you have already decided on – data drives AI. In the race for productivity and cost advantages, it is not solely access to the latest technology that decides, but the controlled use of your own data: Which data does the AI see? In what quality? At what time? And how is legally compliant data usage achieved?

In this spotlight, we show how companies strategically use their data for better AI applications. The focus is on the Data Value Chain: an interplay of procedures, technology, data quality by design, and corporate culture. You will learn why the bottleneck is not access to AI models, but the ability to use data in a targeted and controlled manner.