This year, the 17 individual events reached more than 1,500 people, including more than 500 students from Schleswig-Holstein. Next year, the fifth Artificial Intelligence Week will take place from November 10th to 14th, 2025.
We are convinced that artificial intelligence will revolutionize our lives and work. In order for this to happen to the benefit of people and the regional economy, we have to think about technology and people together
emphasizes Jochen Abke, Vice President for Studies and Digitalization at TH Lübeck. The exchange and the diverse formats of the AI Week make a significant contribution to this.
And the other organizers of the KI Week are also satisfied with the program. The Artificial Intelligence Week 2024 impressively demonstrated that Lübeck, with the research and innovation network from the Hanse Innovation Campus Lübeck, is a leading AI science location in Schleswig-Holstein. As a lively exchange platform, the AI Week once again enabled a wide range of encounters. The high level of participation and the large number of events underline the interest and innovative strength that is concentrated here on site. For us, it is a central concern to continue to strengthen the bridge between science, business and society in the future with AI Week and to position the Hanse Innovation Campus Lübeck as a contact point for future-oriented AI developments
says Anna Lena Paape, Managing Director and Legal Counsel of Hanse Innovation Campus GmbH and adds: I am pleased that we were able to win the state of Schleswig-Holstein as partner of the AI week for the coming year. The commitment underlines the importance of the week for our region
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Schleswig-Holstein’s Digitization Minister Dirk Schrödter, who personally took part in various AI Week events on two days, highlighted the wide range of offerings from everyone for everyone is designed: The AI Week in Lübeck has become an important and integral part of the event calendar in the digital location of Schleswig-Holstein. The AI ecosystem of science, business, administration and society comes together to learn and benefit from each other. What’s more: Artificial intelligence becomes tangible here for everyone who is interested – in workshops and lectures, on the AI experience day and night, on the university campus and directly in Lübeck’s old town. The visitors were able to get an idea of the almost endless possible uses of AI, allay any fears they may have and see what our science and economy has to offer when it comes to AI.
Event highlights to take part in
This year, too, scientists from the University of Lübeck, the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Fraunhofer IMTE and Fraunhofer MEVIS as well as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) presented their AI research together with numerous companies Exhibition Lübeck AI Experience Day. Prototypes, robots and wearables invited people to test AI applications. The visitors learned how AI can be used in medicine, for example in tumor follow-up or prosthetics, in agriculture, for example in the automated detection and removal of weeds in fields, and in robotics, for example to support nursing staff Clinics, can be used. More than 1,000 visitors, including 500 students from Schleswig-Holstein, experienced the exhibition in the transitional house on guided tours and experienced first-hand what AI means and what it can be used for.
Specialist events and seminars
Specialist events such as “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine” in the Museum of Nature and Environment, The AI regulation & AI made in SH in the confessional or Prototyping & AI: from the idea to implementation using modern technologies at the Lübeck Technology Center invited people to look at the topic of artificial intelligence from a variety of perspectives. In the AI training of the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) Unlock data – discover AI gave Professor Dr. Moreen Heine provides an overview of the topic of artificial intelligence in the public sector. The Open Science Initiative Lübeck offered an open lecture under the title Advances in medical image analysis through open data for comparison challenges who dealt with the challenges and opportunities of open data in medicine. Another highlight was the Evening of the AI at the University of Lübeck, where Annina Neumann, professor in the Information and Communication Department at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, was awarded the North German Future Prize for AI 2024. The one from Boy The Bakery Professor Neumann will receive an endowed prize of 10,000 euros for her efforts to bring the academic world together with industry and to convey this to her students in the best possible way. For this purpose, she is currently setting up an AI Living Lab and is involved in numerous regional and national networks to promote the broad use of AI in various industries.
Artificial intelligence in business
Other events focused on the topic of artificial intelligence and business. Those interested in the formats came there Reasons with justification of the GründerCube, Recognize AI potential in your own company the KI Transfer Hub SH and the Lübeck University of Technology. In the event Economy meets Klinkwhich was jointly organized by Life Science Nord and Fraunhofer IMTE, actors from hospitals, companies, payers and science exchanged views on current needs and possible AI solutions in health care.
During the event organized by the Lübeck University of Technology and the Lübeck Chamber of Industry and Commerce Night of AI and the accompanying exhibition, where guests could find out more about the AI application examples and AI-based business models and network with each other, scientists and entrepreneurs pitched their ideas, research and products in the field of AI in short lectures. At the Hanseatic Hackathon 2024, seven interdisciplinary teams also showed that AI solutions for business can be developed in just two days. This won the jury prize Team Stralsund with a solution approach to transcribing meetings. That secured the audience award Team Wismar with an AI application idea in the area Food Waste & Sustainability. The idea behind the application is to evaluate food and leftover food in the catering industry to adapt meal offerings. Appropriate evaluation of the data using AI could enable short- and long-term adjustments and thus help to minimize food waste.