The conference from the Plattform Lernende Systeme – Germany’s AI Platform, which took place on the 30th of September 2025 in Berlin, in the amazing event location of the Humboldt Carré, was a very inspiring event. It gave a chance to listen to great talks and eye-opening panel discussions on German AI.
A particular highlight was the high-profile panel on “How attractive is Germany as an AI-research location?” with Dr. Rolf-Dieter Jungk, Secretary of State of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert, President of acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, Dr. Heide Ahrens, Secretary General of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation, and Dr. Philipp Herzig, CTO of SAP. The discussion showed the very impressive current status of Germany in AI research, but also the necessary next steps such as strengthening the transfer into industry, and in general the enormous future potential of our country with its top research institutions.
Our gAIn PI Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok gave an impulse talk on “What modern AI must achieve and how mathematics provides the foundations”, showcasing the currently still missing reliability/trustworthiness and sustainability in terms of enormous energy consumption. The discussion was focused on “AI is mathematics” and how mathematics can lead to reliability, for instance, in terms of rigorous performance guarantees.
In the second part, the focus was on sustainability, showing our theoretical results of the problems digital hardware causes and the enormous advantages of more analog hardware, both in terms of reliability and energy efficiency. Finally, the focus was on our project gAIn – Next Generation AI Computing, aiming to provide a theory-driven framework for novel AI Systems by innovative hard- and software combinations, which are both provably reliable and highly energy efficient.
Key discussion points of the keynote “Reliable and Efficient: Approaches to Future-Oriented AI Technologies” were the necessity to pursue much more research on reliability aspects, the importance of explainability, and the tremendous need to tackle the energy problem, also in embodied AI.
Check the conference website for further details: https://lnkd.in/dhVDga7d
Date
30th September, 2025
Location
Humboldt Carré
Berlin, Germany