Theme
This workshop aims to initiate tangible actions supported by ELIAS and ELISE to empower the next generation of talent, establish foundational models, and foster startups. Key measures the projects seek to align on include an annual meeting on open source foundation models and sciencepreneurship, a European graduate project programme, a pan-EU incubation programme, and a call for sciencepreneur fellows and units akin to the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) network’s calls for fellows and units.
Location
Our venue is the NH Collection Frankfurt Spin Tower Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany.
Programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Official Start of Workshop & Welcome by Matthias Bethge (Tübingen AI Center & ELLIS Fellow) |
| 13:15 - 14:50 | Speakers: Yann LeCun (Meta), Katharina Frey (Swiss Foreign Ministry & ICAIN), Laura Morselli (CINECA & EuroHPC), Jenia Jitsev (LAION-ELLIS Member) |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Speakers: Ce Zhang (Together AI), Samuel Weinbach (IPAI Aleph Alpha), Daniel Naeff (Swiss AI) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Open discussion on Annual Meeting for Open Source community, spotlight presentations (Moderated by Matthias Bethge) |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Joint dinner |
| 20:00 - 20:45 | Intro about ELIAS and briefing on ELIAS measures (Nicu Sebe - ELIAS Coordinator & ELLIS Fellow) |
| 20:45 | Time for open discussions at the hotel bar |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome (Matthias Bethge) |
| 09:05 - 09:20 | Gregor von Dulong: “Learnings from building and scaling entrepreneurship education at HPI” |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Wieland Brendel (ELLIS Scholar): “Polybot” |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Isabelle Siegrist: “Building a pan-European Accelerator” |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Breakout groups on: - How to build the ELIAS Innovation Alliance (EIA), define the narrative, and set up a call for sciencepreneur fellows, units, graduation projects (Matthias Bethge & Arnout Devos) - How to set up an annual meeting for AI (Daniel Naeff & Wieland Brendel) - How to set up a Pan-EU incubation program for AI Startups? (Isabelle Siegrist) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Joint lunch |
| 13:30 - 16:00 | Further spotlight presentations: - Steffen Schneider (KI macht Schule) - Le Viet (La Famiglia) - Beyza Ermis (Cohere AI) Presentation and discussion of breakout group results. Discussion of White paper |
This workshop is co-organised with ELISE – European Network of AI Excellence Centres, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951847.
