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Big Techday 26

Day of the event

May 22nd, 2026

Venue of the event

Motorworld Munich

Contact

bigtechday@tngtech.com

Agenda 2026

Big Techday is a one-day conference on science and technology, particularly IT. It is organized by TNG every year, because it is fun. The 19th Big Techday will take place at Motorworld Munich on May 22nd, 2026.

Here you can find the preliminary agenda for Big Techday 26. The agenda will be updated on an ongoing basis.

Also, you can take a look at all confirmed talks here.

Most speakers have an IT background, but some also come from other sciences such as physics, mathematics and mechanical engineering. Some are also from other disciplines such as art and sports. Confirmed speakers can be found here.

In addition to the talks, the day will be rounded off with an evening program: Starting at 18:30, there will be a simultaneous chess exhibition with Grandmaster Matthias Blübaum, and at 22:00, there will be a fireworks display in front of the main entrance of Motorworld.

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9:00

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AI - Research

We downloaded our lives: What companies really know about us

Dr. Dennis Schulz

TNG Technology Consulting

Gregor Ziegltrum

TNG Technology Consulting

Big Techday 26

Agenda 2026

We downloaded our lives: What companies really know about us

Dr. Dennis Schulz

Gregor Ziegltrum

AI for humans

Gregor Schmalzried

Print and train your own humanoid robot

Dr. Florian Gather

Tobias Weyer

Fabian Lübbe

From quantum breakthroughs to industrial applications: Neutral-atom quantum computing

Dr. Marcus Hennig

Vibe migration: AI-powered modernization in practice

Lukas Hauser

Dr. Moritz Maus

Dr. Miguel Obando Leitón

AI chips and beyond: An in-depth look into AI datacenter infrastructure

Gilles Backhus

Visual computing and machine learning for next-generation image-guided interventions

Dr. Wolfgang Wein

Cosmological challenges for Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Daniel Grün

The digital mind: Understanding AI through the lens of human cognition

Daniel Klingmann

Max Dietsch

LeRobot: Making AI robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning

Steven Palma

The future of quantum computing and the challenges you rarely hear about

Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner

How to OWN the AI - Building a custom AI workmate for Bank Frick

Christopher Köhldorfer

Dr. Jannis Zeller

Johannes Esslinger

Sovereignty as a competitive edge - From retailer to digital sovereign hyperscaler

Stephan Ilaender

Research @ TNG: Our roadmap to distributed training on a B200 cluster

Dr. Fabian Klemm

Dr. Andreas Rabenstein

Chess (title tbc)

Matthias Blübaum

Do LLMs have fluid intelligence? Lessons from competing in ARC AGI 2

Dr. Bernhard Altaner

Dr. Debsankha Manik

Dibya Chakravorty

Skill issue: Teaching robots to play Counterstrike with imitation learning

Thomas Endres

Jonas Mayer

Lessons from the bleeding edge of AI/ML security

Keith Hoodlet

Cavity-free records: How AI reduces documentation effort in dental clinics

Martha Büttner

Sebastian Zett

Dr. Julian Bollig

Offline AI with AI Playground from Intel

Jannick Jones

Markus Schüttler

SARS-CoV-2: The Evidence Puzzle (title tbc)

Dr. Valentin Bruttel

How not to blow up: Training a 400B MoE to 17T tokens without loss spikes

Lucas Atkins

Media in the AI Age (title tbc)

Markus Knall

Let's dance! – Teaching your robot some moves with reinforcement learning

Thomas Endres

David Winderl

Break me if you can: Evaluating safety robustness in AI models

Laszlo Balazsik

Áron Erdelyi

Benjamin Balogh

Robust state-based multi-agent systems

Dr. Marc Eric Vogt

Heinrich Schmidt

Dr. Thomas Hugle

Scaling LLM-RL for the age of agents

Konstantin Dunas

Scaling to human-level visual understanding with self-supervised learning

Prof. Dr. Yuki Asano

Get comfortable being uncomfortable: The Great Pacific Escapade

Jessica Rowe