DFKI at the 2024 Digital Summit: Future-oriented AI solutions for health and industry
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) will present how trustworthy AI technologies can drive progress in key areas such as health monitoring and industrial production at the 2024 Digital Summit, to be held in Frankfurt on 21 and 22 October. This year's summit theme, ‘Germany Digital – Innovative. Sovereign. International’, provides a forum to highlight the potential of AI in the fields of health and industry.
"Trustworthy and ethically responsible AI is a cornerstone of digital sovereignty and a critical driver of sustainable innovation. By empowering people to address both technological and societal challenges, AI holds transformative potential. This underscores the necessity of continuous exchange between science, business, and politics t – in order to jointly shape the path for a future-proof digital transformation."
Among the highlights are the 6G-Health Demonstrator, which showcases AI solutions in healthcare, and ‘Skye’, an AI-supported shared production demonstrator that illustrates sustainable production processes in industrial environments.
On 21 October, Sarah Rübel from the Mittelstand-Digital Centre will also take part in a panel discussion on the topic of ‘AI use in Germany’. In addition to Federal Minister Robert Habeck, representatives from business and science will provide insights into the dissemination and challenges of AI in Germany.
We look forward to the dialogue with you on site and invite you to continue the discussions around our innovative projects.
6G-Health: AI and 6G for life-saving early detection
With future-proof healthcare as its driving force, DFKI is developing the next generation of health monitoring as part of the ‘6G-Healths’ project. The aim is to use innovative sensor technology to capture vital data in real time and transmit it securely and safely through the high-performance 6G network. The collected data is then analysed by artificial intelligence (AI) to detect health risks such as heart attacks at an early stage – and to proactively enable medical staff to take action.
Factory system ‘Skye’: Efficiency meets sustainability
At the 2024 Digital Summit, SmartFactory-KL will present the shared production demonstrator ‘Skye’, which makes future-oriented solutions for sustainable industrial production tangible. The demonstrator, developed as part of the Green AI Hub, illustrates how artificial intelligence enables flexible, resource-efficient, and environmentally friendly production processes. Smart technologies are used to save energy and materials, making an important contribution to the sustainable transformation of industrial sector. ‘Skye’ impressively demonstrates how AI and intelligent factory systems can work together to increase efficiency while also conserving the environment.
DataHub Europe: High Data Quality as the Foundation of European Language Models
In order to harness the huge potential of AI in Europe, language models adapted to the European language area are becoming increasingly important. DataHub Europe aims to facilitate the development of such models, building on the involvement of rights holders and the use of high quality data. To ensure the quality of the data, there is a close collaboration with DFKI, hessian.AI and TU Darmstadt. The researchers have trained a model on the DataHub Europe dataset and compared it with a model trained on high-quality datasets. Their results show that LLMs can be further optimised for the European language area using DataHub Europe data.
Monday, 21 October 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Plenary session, Horizont room
Use of AI in Germany: perspectives from the population and companies
Panel with:
Dr. Robert Habeck, Member of the German Bundestag, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection
Susanne Dehmel, Member of the Management Board of Bitkom e. V.
Sascha Poggemann, Founder and COO, Cognigy GmbH
Sarah Rübel, AI trainer, Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Kaiserslautern
Tanja Rückert, CDO Bosch GmbH
Julia von Westerholt, Director of the German Adult Education Association
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Ai Quality Summit (Techquartier as part of the 2nd day of the Digital Summit)
Focus on quality and safety of AI – on the way to CERN for AI
Keynote by Prof. Philipp Slusallek, Managing Director at DFKI Saarbrücken
Session 1: AI quality and safety: current challenges and solutions.
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Ai Quality Summit (Techquartier as part of the 2nd day of the Digital Summit)
AI quality and safety – current challenges and solutions
Panel with:
Emmanuel Kahembwe, Managing Director and CEO of UK/NI VDE UK
Prof. Philipp Slusallek, Managing Director at DFKI Saarbrücken
Patrick Schramowski, Group Leader ML, hessian.AI, DFKI, TU Darmstadt
Followed by a Q&A session moderated by Dr Michael Rammensee, Managing Director AI Quality & Testing Hub.
The Mission KI initiative of the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) is one of the focal points of this year's Digital Summit. Its goals? Promoting trust in artificial intelligence by introducing quality standards and testing procedures. This is meant lead to the sustainable acceptance of AI as a key technology in business and society. DFKI is taking up these efforts as a partner in the initiative and is actively contributing to the development of practical approaches for the evaluation and safe application of AI.
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