From 03.07 – 07.07.2023, our  9th International Summer School on AI and Big Data took place in Dresden. The event was aimed at graduate students, Ph.D. students, researchers as well as practitioners starting or being active in the areas of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and/or Big Data. Within the program, we offered inspiring insights into various research areas by internationally recognized and well known speakers. 

Date and Location

The 9th International Summer School on AI and Big Data took place from 03.07 – 07.07.2023 in Dresden at:

Dorint Hotel Dresden
Grunaer Str. 14
01069 Dresden
Germany

Topics

This year, we have invited national and international experts to Dresden to give you in-depth insights into the latest research developments, especially around the leading topic how to cope with large AI models. Here both is needed, large-scale and high quality training data and the capability to train large AI models on them. Therefore, amongst other contributions, the summer school will focus this year on large AI models, in particular for Natural Language Processing, the acquisition and management of community data as well as the handling of both on required computing architectures.

The quality and availability of NLP models has been tremendously increased in the past months, both by using large amounts of data and large computing infrastructures. Therefore experts working in this field will cover the latest developments and extend possibilities around NLP to further application scenarios besides the chat approach. We will extend this topic into community data preparation for AI and the strategies to process data and models for relevant applications. The keynotes will be given by international experts from their fields, among others including:

• Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm, DFKI
• Prof. Dr. Ryszard Kowalczyk, University of South Australia
• Richard Socher, you.com
• Prof. Dr. Immanuel Trummer, Cornell University

as well as many other experts from our competence center and other research institutions.

Registration 

• Standard price: 420 euros
• Special Offer Leipzig University members: 320 euros
• Special Offer TU Dresden members: 320 Euro (280 euros will appear on the bill, the associated tax portion is offset internally by TUD regulation)

The standard ticket for Summer School 2023 includes the day’s catering and the social program. Travel costs and accommodation are covered by the participants themselves. Please note, that the participation fees for employees of TU Dresden will be charged via internal cost allocation. For non-affiliates of TU Dresden, the payment is made by invoice.

Program

The 9th International Summer School on AI and Big Data will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and to discuss the topics with other participants and speakers. Within our program, we will offer plenty of time to get in contact with the speakers and allow you to ask questions. This way, participants will be able to get to connect and partner with other international practitioners and researchers.

Monday, 03.07.2023

Time	Speaker	Institution	Title of presentation
13:00-13:30	Registration + Opening
13:30-14:45	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel	ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig	Welcome + Introduction
14:45-15:15	Coffee break
15:15-16:45	Dr. Peter Uhrig	ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig	Big Data and AI for Multimodal Communication Research
16:45-18:30	Get Together + Poster Session

Tuesday, 04.07.2023

Time	Speaker	Institution	Title of presentation
08:00-09:00	Richard Socher	you.com	Fire Talk: AI and Start Up Scene
09:00-10:30	Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm and Dr. Pedro Ortiz Suarez	DFKI, Germany	Developing Multilingual, Open and European Large Language Models
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Prof. Dr. Ryszard Kowalczyk	University of South Australia, Australia	Distributed AI and Multi-agent Systems for Space Systems Autonomy
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Dr. Sunna Torge	ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig	NLP for Minor Languages Support
15:00-15:45	Coffee break
15:45-17:15	Prof. Dr. Diana Göhringer	ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig	Architectures and systems for AI inference

Wednesday, 05.07.2023

Time	Speaker	Institution	Title of presentation
09:00-10:30	Prof. Dr. Immanuel Trummer	Cornell University	Next-Generation Data Management via Large Language Models
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Dr. Betty Calpas	German Aerospace Center (DLR)	Machine Learning in Aviation – from Traceable Machine Learning to Flows Around Airfoils
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Dr. Lucas Foppa	Fritz Haber Institute, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany	The “Genes” of Materials Properties and Functions Identified by Symbolic Regression
14:30-21:00 More Information	Social Event: Hike through Dresdner Heide followed by a dinner at Louisenhof Louisenhof Bergbahnstraße 8 01324 Dresden Google Maps

Thursday, 06.07.2023

Time	Speaker	Institution	Title of presentation
09:00-10:30	Uwe Gäbler	Infineon	From Cloud to Edge: Applications of AI from the Perspective of a Chipmaker
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Torsten Enßlin	MPI Garchingen	Information field theory: concepts, astronomical applications, & relation to AI
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Dr. Gunar Ernis	Fraunhofer IAIS	Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-16:30	Dorina Weichert	Fraunhofer IAIS	Introduction to Gaussian Processes
16:30-17:30	Dr. Gunar Ernis and Dorina Weichert	Fraunhofer IAIS	Experimental Design using Active Learning and Bayesian Optimization

Friday, 07.07.2023

Time	Speaker	Institution	Title of presentation
09:00-10:30	Dr. Sahar Vahdati	InfAI	Fundamentals of Representation Learning
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Dr. Danh Le Phuoc	BIFOLD, Germany	Knowledge in Perception Systems
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00	End

Accommodation

A limited number of rooms are available for our participants at the conference hotel Dorint at a special price of 89 EUR incl. breakfast. These can be called up and thus reserved directly at the hotel under the keyword “Summer School” up to 4 weeks before the start of the conference (i.e. by 05.06.2023 at the latest). These can be cancelled after reservation up to 3 days in advance. A later cancellation would then no longer be possible.

Furthermore, it is pointed out that from July 2023 there is no longer an exemption from the accommodation tax in Dresden. Thus, 6% of the accommodation price will be charged at each hotel.

We recommend booking as soon as possible.

Organizers

The summer school is organized by ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig, one of five new AI centers in Germany funded under the federal government’s AI strategy.

Dr. René Jäkel  Administration Director, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden Dr. Eric Peukert  Administration Director, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel  Director, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm Director, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University

Contact 

Gina Valentin
Communication Management, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
Katja Weichelt
Controlling, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden