Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the German Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig) decided to host the 6th International ScaDS.AI Summer School on AI and Big Data online. The event took place on July 7-8, 2020. 

You can find detailed information about the online version of the Scads.AI Summer School 2020 in our summarizing blogpost: Virtual ScaDS.AI Summer School on AI and Big Data attracts international crowd.

Program & Highlights of the ScaDS.AI Summer School 2020 

A summer school has to provide opportunities to exchange ideas and to discuss the topics with other participants and speakers. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was plenty of time within our virtual program to connect with the speakers and each other. Moreover, we organized our first online science speed dating on the first day of the summer school. The idea was to maintain the social aspects of a summer school despite the isolating online environment. The speed dating allowed the participants to connect and collaborate with other international researchers.

Below you find the full program with additional information on the speakers and their topics.

Tuesday 07.07.20

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:10	Prof. Erhard Rahm	Welcome
09:15 – 09:45	Elena Mocanu and Decebal Mocanu	Scalable Deep Learning Tutorial (Teil 1)
10:00 – 10:45	Elena Mocanu and Decebal Mocanu	Scalable Deep Learning Tutorial (Part II)
11:00 – 11:45	Prof. Angela Bonifati	Query-driven Graph Analytics
12:00 – 13:00	BREAK	BREAK
13:00 – 13:45	Prof. Andreas Hotho	Data is the new oil – From Language Understanding in eSports to Knowledge Extraction in Networks
14:00 – 14:45	Prof. Kristian Kersting	Deep Machines That Know When They Do Not Know
15:00 – 15:45	Prof. Erhard Rahm	ScaDS.AI Research Topics
16:00 – 16:30	Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel	Convergence of Big Compute and Big Data – how HPC can contribute to Data Analytics
16:45 – 17:15	Industry-Talk: Benedikt Bonnemann and Malte Ludwig	Successful forecast-creation with Artificial Intelligence
17:30 – 19:30		Science Speed-Dating

Wednesday 08.07.2020

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:45	Thomas Neumuth	AI applications in oncology
10:00 – 10:45	Prof. Myra Spiliopoulou	Learning to Understand Small Medical Data for Non-Infectious Diseases
11:00 – 11:45	Prof. Volker Tresp	Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs
12:00 – 13:00	BREAK	BREAK
13:00 – 13:45	Prof. Norbert Siegmund	Validity in Machine Learning: A Software Engineering Perspective
14:00 – 14:45	Moritz Wilke	Visual Product Matching for E-Commerce
15:00 – 15:30	Industry Talk: Dr. Michael Thess, Signal Cruncher GmbH	Realtime Learning and Control Theory
15:45 – 16:30	Industry Talk: Wolfgang Reuter, Alexander Thamm GmbH	The Beltracchi Code – Fraud Detection with AI & Image Recognition
16:45 – 17:00	Christian Martin	Closing

Organizers

The Summer School 2020 was organized by the Competence Center for Big Data and AI Research ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V. at the Leipzig University.

Dr. Eric Peukert  Administration Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Karoline Kricke  ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University

Are you interested to take part in future summer schools? Regularly check our event calendar for updates on upcoming events. We can’t wait to welcome you at the ScaDS.AI summer schools for interesting discussions on AI, Big Data and Data Science.

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