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Big Techday 26

Day of the event

May 22nd, 2026

Venue of the event

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.

On May 22nd, 2026, Big Techday 26 took place at Motorworld Munich.

Here you can find the agenda for Big Techday 26. Also, you can take a look at all talks here. In addition to the talks, the day ended with an evening program: Starting at 18:30, there was a simultaneous chess exhibition with Grandmaster Matthias Blübaum, and at 22:00, there was be a fireworks display in front of the main entrance of Motorworld.

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

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8:00

(CEST)

Admission and breakfast

9:00

(CEST)

Dampfdom

AI - Research

We downloaded our lives: What companies really know about us

Dr. Dennis Schulz

TNG Technology Consulting

Gregor Ziegltrum

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Kohlebunker I

AI - Research

AI for humans

Gregor Schmalzried

Author & AI expert

EN

Kohlebunker II

Robotics

Print and train your own humanoid robot

Dr. Florian Gather

TNG Technology Consulting

Tobias Weyer

TNG Technology Consulting

Fabian Lübbe

TNG Technology Consulting

DE

Kleine Lokhalle

Quantum Computing

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

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

Automating the archaeology: AI-powered COBOL modernization

Lukas Hauser

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Moritz Maus

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Miguel Obando Leitón

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Stellwerk

AI - Tools

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

Gilles Backhus

Tensordyne

EN

Strietzel

AI - Solutions

Visual computing and AI for next-generation medical imaging and interventions

Dr. Wolfgang Wein

ImFusion GmbH

EN

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

AI - Tools

MCP and the emerging agent protocol stack

Mathias Burger

TNG Technology Consulting

Áron Erdelyi

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

9:50

(CEST)

Break to move between rooms

10:05

(CEST)

Dampfdom

Computer & Games

Einfluss von KI auf Schach

DE

Kohlebunker I

Robotics

Cutting through the hype: A reality check for humanoid robots in industry

Kevin Kron

Boston Dynamics

EN

Kohlebunker II

Robotics

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

Steven Palma

Hugging Face

EN

Kleine Lokhalle

Quantum Computing

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

Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner

Technische Hochschule Deggendorf

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

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

Dr. Jannis Zeller

TNG Technology Consulting

Johannes Esslinger

TNG Technololgy Consulting

EN

Stellwerk

Cloud

Souveränität als Wettbewerbsvorteil – Vom Einzelhändler zum digitalen souveränen Hyperscaler

DE

Strietzel

AI - Research

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

Dr. Fabian Klemm

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Andreas Rabenstein

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

AI - Solutions

The story of MiniMax

David Ji

MiniMax

EN

10:55

(CEST)

Coffee break

11:25

(CEST)

Dampfdom

AI - Research

Cosmological challenges for Artificial Intelligence

EN

Kohlebunker I

AI - Research

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

EN

Kohlebunker II

Robotics

Skill issue: Teaching robots to play Counter-Strike with imitation learning

Thomas Endres

TNG Technology Consulting

Jonas Mayer

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Kleine Lokhalle

Research & Innovation

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

Dr. hab. Andrzej Odrzywołek

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

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

Dr. Martha Büttner

DAMPSOFT GmbH

Sebastian Zett

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Julian Bollig

TNG Technology Consulting

ENOn-site only

Stellwerk

AI - Tools

Offline AI with AI Playground from Intel

Jannick Jones

Intel Corporation

Markus Schüttler

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Strietzel

AI - Solutions

Lessons from the bleeding edge of AI/ML security

EN

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

Research & Innovation

What we know today about the origin of COVID-19: A Bioengineer’s perspective

Dr. Valentin Bruttel

Toleris Biotherapeutics GmbH

EN

12:15

(CEST)

Lunch break

13:45

(CEST)

Dampfdom

AI - Solutions

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

EN

Kohlebunker I

AI - Solutions

How AI is changing the media

Markus Knall

IPPEN.MEDIA

DE

Kohlebunker II

Robotics

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

Thomas Endres

TNG Technology Consulting

David Winderl

TNG Technology Consulting

Tobias Lübbe

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Kleine Lokhalle

AI - Research

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

Laszlo Balazsik

TNG Technology Consulting

Áron Erdelyi

TNG Technology Consulting

Benjamin Balogh

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

Robust state-based multi-agent systems

Heinrich Schmidt

ARRK Engineering

Dr. Thomas Hugle

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Stellwerk

AI - Research

Scaling LLM-RL for the age of agents

Konstantin Dunas

Prime Intellect

EN

Strietzel

AI - Tools

Who reviews the agent? From IDE assistants to OpenClaw

EN

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

AI - Research

Securing confidential AI workloads on untrusted GPUs with Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Compute

Dr. Benjamin Merkel

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Marcel Lippmann

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Fabian Roll

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

14:35

(CEST)

Break to move between rooms

14:50

(CEST)

Dampfdom

Adventure

Get comfortable being uncomfortable: The Great Pacific Escapade

Jessica Rowe

Seas the Day

Miriam Payne

Seas the Day

EN

Kohlebunker I

AI - Research

Reap the experts: LLM compression and edge deployment

EN

Kohlebunker II

Hardware & Reality Hacking

Rennteam – Die Nachwuchsgeneration des Motorsports

Levin Küng

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V.

Tim Schüle

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V.

Laurin Rendgen

Rennteam Uni Stuttgart e.V.

DE

Kleine Lokhalle

Research & Innovation

A symphony in spacetime – Measuring gravitational waves with LISA

Dr. Waldemar Martens

ESA - European Space Agency

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

Fiber trenches as long as the Earth’s circumference, verified on foot using a measuring wheel – where AI helps and where it doesn’t

Thorsten Nieser

OXG Glasfaser GmbH

Dr. Sebastian Stamminger

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Tetyana Kyrey

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Stellwerk

AI - Tools

LLM benchmarks in the time of agents

Florian Brand

Prime Intellect

EN

Strietzel

AI - Solutions

Gebannt, ignoriert, unentbehrlich: Die stillste Kulturform dieses Jahrzehnts – LoreBary und AI Roleplay

Dana Sophia Hylla

LoreBary, JanitorAI

DE

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

AI - Research

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

Prof. Dr. Yuki Asano

Fundamental AI (FunAI) Lab, Technische Universität Nürnberg

EN

15:40

(CEST)

Coffee break

16:10

(CEST)

Dampfdom

Science & Philosophy

Human nature and human progress

Prof. Dr. Steven Pinker

Harvard University

EN

Kohlebunker I

AI - Tools

2 Million Dollars worth of code for $20,000: Rewriting large software projects with AI agents

Dr. Maxim Stykow

TNG Technology Consulting

Dr. Adrian Braemer

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Kohlebunker II

AI - Research

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

Daniel Klingmann

TNG Technology Consulting

Max Dietsch

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Kleine Lokhalle

AI - Tools

Notes on the synthesis of time: The art of engineering with AI

EN

Rollprüfstand

AI - Solutions

Von "Irgendwas mit KI" zum Werkzeug für juristische Recherche – beck-chat

Daniel Petró

Verlag C.H.Beck GmbH & Co. KG

Maximilian Huber

TNG Technology Consulting

DE

Stellwerk

Architecture & Design

Introduction to Zig's new async I/O

Loris Cro

Zig Software Foundation

EN

Strietzel

AI - Tools

Using Cursor as a PO: How to scale yourself using agentic coding tools

Jonathan Rohland

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

Röhrl / Geistdörfer

Computer & Games

Building an Agentic AI game creator: Automating the automation

Christoph Bergemann

TNG Technology Consulting

Davin Schneider

TNG Technology Consulting

EN

17:00

(CEST)

Dinner

18:30

(CEST)

Stellwerk

Simultaneous Exhibition

Simultaneous chess exhibition

DEOn-site only

19:00

(CEST)

Dampfdom

Adventure

At the height of my dreams

EN

22:00

(CEST)

Fireworks - Viewing area in front of the main entrance of Motorworld. Afterwards, closing get-together at Highline