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Transformation of, with, and through AI
Symposium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) veranstaltet ein wissenschaftliches Festsymposium anlässlich des 75. Geburtstags von Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit einzuladen – einem der einflussreichsten Pioniere Europas im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz und Sprachverarbeitung.
Das Symposium bringt führende Persönlichkeiten aus Forschung, Industrie und öffentlichem Leben zusammen, um über die transformative Kraft der KI in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft zu reflektieren.
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Programm
Wir freuen uns auf spannende Impulse von:
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Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger
Antonio Krüger is the CEO and Scientific Director of Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), as well as the Scientific Director of the Cognitive Assistance Systems research department at DFKI. Krüger has been a professor of computer science and head of the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab at Saarland University since 2009 and is an internationally renowned expert in human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence (AI). His research focuses on intelligent user interfaces, user modeling, cognitive sciences, and ubiquitous computing. Professor Krüger studied computer science at Saarland University, completing his doctorate in the subject in 1999.
Boosting Innovations with Language Technologies: 36 Years of Cooperation at DFKI
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster
Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a pioneer of human-centric AI research. As a founding director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and in his role as its long-time CEO and scientific director, he has developed DFKI into one of the world’s largest research institutions in this field by 2019 and more than 100 successful spin-off companies. He has served as an elected President of three international AI organizations: IJCAII, EurAI, and ACL. He is an elected Fellow of AAAI, EurAI, and GI. He laid some of the foundations for natural language dialog systems, user modelling, and speech-to-speech translation. His current research areas are multimodal dialog systems for human-centered AI and cyber-physical production systems for the fourth industrial revolution (Industrie 4.0), a concept that he coined in 2010. He currently serves the DFKI management board as Chief Executive Advisor (CEA) and as the President of the AI GRID. Wahlster is a member of the Nobel Prize Academy in Stockholm, the German National Academy Leopoldina and three other prestigious academies. For his research, he has been awarded the German Future Prize and the Grand Cross of Merit by the Federal President of Germany. Other awards include five honorary doctorates. In September 2025, he was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal by the German Informatics Society (GI). The Zuse Medal is the highest award for computer science in Germany and is only awarded every other year.
AI – Beginning of the 5th Industrial Revolution?
Dr. Philipp Rösler
Dr. Philipp Rösler, a former medical doctor and captain in the German Armed Forces, transitioned to a distinguished career in politics, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics, Labour, and Transport in Lower Saxony. He later held key positions in the Federal Government of Germany, including Minister of Health, Minister of Economics, and Vice Chancellor. In 2013, he joined the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum in Geneva for four years. Now based in Zurich, Switzerland, he continues to thrive in management consulting roles and as a trusted member of various corporate boards.
AI - do we know the future impacts?
Jörg Bienert
Jörg Bienert is co-founder and president of the German AI Association (Bundesverband Künstliche Intelligenz After studying computer engineering and several engagements in the IT industry, he founded ParStream, a big data startup based in Silicon Valley, which was acquired over by Cisco in 2015.
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Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
Gesche Joost is a Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts and leads the Design Research Lab. Her work focuses on digital society, exploring new ways of interaction between humans and technology. She conducts research at DFKI and at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. From 2015 to 2018, Joost represented the German government as an Internet Ambassador, addressing Digital Agenda matters at the EU Commission. She is a board member of the Einstein Center Digital Future and serves on the presidium of the Goethe Institute. Additionally, from 2015-23, Joost has been a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE, and since 2016, she has been involved with ING DiBa and ottobock. Since 2024, she is the president of the Goethe Institute.
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Waibel
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First Principled Suspension of Disbelief
Jakob Uszkoreit
Jakob Uszkoreit is the co-founder and CEO of Inceptive. He started Inceptive to enable a new generation of medicines, reminiscent of software, but running on our cells. Inceptive pursues this vision by learning life’s languages through a unique combination of cutting-edge deep learning and scalable biochemistry experiments. Before Inceptive, Jakob conducted deep learning research at Google Brain, including co-authoring the papers "Attention Is All You Need” and "An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words.” He also led the language understanding team behind Google Assistant and many Google Search features, and worked on Google Translate in its early days.
From Statistical Machine Translation to LLMs: Is There Still a Place for Computational Linguistics?
Prof. Dr. Jan Hajic
Jan Hajič is a professor of Computational Linguistics at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. His interests span fundamental formal linguistic problems, machine translation, deep language understanding, and applications. He has built resources for many languages with rich linguistic annotation; he is currently leading a multi-institutional research infrastructure on open language resources in Czechia, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ, and coordinating two EU projects on building LLMs, HPLT and OpenEuroLLM. His work experience includes both industrial research (IBM Research Yorktown Heights, NY, USA) and academia (Charles University, Prague, Czechia, Johns Hopkins University and University of Colorado, USA, Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norway Academy of Sciences, and others). He has participated in many large national and international research projects in the past 30 years. He has published more than 200 papers with about 16,000 citations. He is a chair or member of many international and national advisory or executive boards and committees.
Industry AI: Delivering Values for Business and Enterprises
Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu
Dr. Feiyu Xu is an internationally recognized AI expert whose career spans leading roles in both research and industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and a habilitation in Big Text Data Analytics from Saarland University. With over 100 scientific publications, she has received several honors, including the Google Focused Research Award and the title of DFKI Research Fellow. Since 2025, she has served as University Professor of Industry AI at the German University of Digital Science, where her academic work focuses on applied AI, industrial transformation, and ethical innovation. In her corporate career, Dr. Xu held executive leadership roles at two global technology firms: she was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at SAP, and previously Vice President and Head of the AI Lab at Lenovo Group. In both roles, she developed and implemented global AI strategies, advanced product innovation, and shaped data-driven business models. She currently serves as a non-executive board member of Airbus, Siemens Energy, ZF, Chain IQ, Zühlke, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). She is also Board Advisor of GCORE, a global AI and Cloud platform company. As co-founder of the AI companies Yocoy and nyonic, she has also played a pioneering role in bringing applied and generative AI into industrial practice. Furthermore, she serves as Chairwoman of Asia Berlin Forum e.V.. Feiyu is also member of the advisory board of Global Neighbours. She is actively supporting dialogues and understanding between Europe, Asia and beyond. Through her research results and the development of successful applications, Dr. Xu has been able to prove her broad expertise across central areas of AI, in particular in AI platform development, conversational AI, knowledge graphs, information extraction, business intelligence and big-data text analytics. In her executive roles in technology industry, she obtained extensive experience in the entire cycle of innovation ranging from basic research via AI development all the way to products and their commercialization.
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Dr. Tina Klüwer
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What do small things, Luxembourg and human-centric AI have in common?
Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt
Aljoscha Burchardt is Principal Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin. He is an expert in Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Burchardt is Senior Research Fellow of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and Deputy Chairman of the Berlin Scientific Society (Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft). He was also a member of the Enquete-commission on Artificial Intelligence of the German Parliament.
Moderation
Reinhard Karger
Reinhard Karger is a theoretical linguist who has been with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 1993. He has serves as the organization’s spokesperson since 2011 and, in 2022, was appointed to its Supervisory Board.
Wann & Wo
19. September 2025
13:00 bis 16:30 Uhr
Mahalla
Wilhelminenhofstraße 76
12459 Berlin
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Kontakt
Andreas Schepers, MA
Co-Unternehmenssprecher