From November 5–6, 2025, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig joined the All Hands Meeting 2025 of the German AI Community in Saarbrücken, Germany. This year, the meeting was organized by Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI).

Program of the All Hands Meeting 2025

Our contributions

• Center highlights presentation by our directors Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel and Prof. Gerik Scheuermann
• Demo station with Living Lab demonstrators
• Two workshops:
  • Forum on Promoting, Training and Managing Doctoral Candidates by Filippo De Bortoli and Dr. Frank Loebe together with Dr. Tina Schwabe (BIFOLD)
  • Certificate course „Responsible AI” by Prof. Birte Platow
• Seven posters:
  • Accelerating Vaccine Design using GNNs. Stabilizing Viral Glycoproteins by Mutating Amino Acids to Proline Residues
  • Smart Slide Generation. Re-using Training Materials Through the Power of LLMs
  • The German Commons – 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for German LLMs
  • The Semantic Privacy Risk in Human Mobility Data
  • Increasing Interaction Fidelity: Training Routines for Biomechanical Models in HCI
  • AI-driven Automation in Digital Airplane Design Chains
  • Counterfactual Explainers for Dynamic Graphs

November 5, 2025

The first day of the All Hands Meeting 2025 started with welcoming adresses by the Parliamentary State Secretary Matthias Hauer (Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space), Antonio Krüger (DFKI), Bruno Sportisse (Inria), the Minister for Economics, Innovation, Digital Affairs and Energy of Saarland Jürgen Barke, and the French Consul General in Saarland Jerôme Spinoza.

After a keynote speech by Dr. Bruno Sportisse, the AI centers BIFOLD, LAMARR Institute, MCML, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Tübingen AI Center, and the DFKI presented their center’s highlights. The French AI Clusters continued with pitches. In the afternoon, a poster session, parallel workshop sessions, and a scientific keynote by Prof. Christian Theobalt (Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics and Saarland University) took place. The day ended with a networking session and another chance to visit the poster session.

November 6, 2025

The second day began with three parallel workshops, followed by an input talk by Dr. Ferri Abolhassan (Deutsche Telekom). A panel discussion on AI Gigafactories for European AI Souvereignty was next, joined by Mirko Holzer (SPRIND); Prof. Feiyu Xu (Airbus, Chain IQ Group, ZF Friedrichshafen, Siemens Energy), and Prof. Holger Hoos (RWTH Aachen).

Afterwards, the participants visited the poster session, which was followed by a joint presentation of the AI service centers on successful AI services and infrastructure from Germany with Florian Kieser (hessian AI), Jakob Dieterle (KISSKI), David Goll (AI@HPI), and Prof. Sven Behnke (WestAI). Next, the audience was able to experience the panel discussion What comes after the Master’s or PhD? Academic Path, Corporate Research, or Starting a Company? with Matthias Schmitz (Southwest X), Sophie Pellat-Velluire (Inria Start-up Studio), and Laure Poirson (AI Grid).

After the official program was closed, the participants were invited to join a last networking session before making their way back.

Outlook

Once again, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig was excited to join the yearly All Hands Meeting. We thank our hosts, the colleagues of DFKI, for the wonderful organization. The All Hands Meeting is a great opportunity to present our work and connect face-to-face with the other AI centers, AI Service Centers, other research institutions and industry, and this year – of course – also with the French AI Clusters and Inria. In particular, we also want to highlight the wonderful discussions we had, supporting further cooperations on the promotion, training and management of doctoral candidates across centers as well as the exchange on important outreach activities such as Living Labs. We are already looking forward to the next All Hands Meeting!

Want to know what we did last year? Check out our blog post on the All Hands Meeting 2024, organized by ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig in Dresden, Germany!