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I’m Kilian Bron, 29, from Annecy - French Alps and professional enduro mountain bike rider for Commencal. In few words, I just like to spend time outside, in the mountains. Skiing in winter and mountain biking in summer... I’ve always enjoyed getting off the beaten track and exploring beyond usual paths and peaks. That's why I also combine a real passion for traveling and content production.
But I'm also a racer and it will be one of the main subjects of my talk. With years, the famous Mountain Of Hell and Megavalanche became my main race goals. I won the last three editions of the Mountain Of Hell and I finished 2nd of the two last Megavalanche.

The introduction of new types of technology in sport rapidly surpasses the time that it takes practitioners to evaluate their practical value within a club and how to best use it. Science is often playing ‘catch up’ to evaluate the best applications of new technologies introduced in the field. For the last four years, Adam conducted his PhD alongside TSG Hoffenheim on developing the latest technologies to best measure and train athletes’ performance in soccer together with a scientific approach. With the newly opened TSG ResearchLab, Adam continues to build on his work by evaluating the practical value of new technologies in sport and whether we can transfer this knowledge to other areas of society.

Michael Miller has studied aeronautical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and afterwards founded a company for virtual product development and product life cycle management, working in high-tech consulting projects. However, in this lecture he talks about his second professional life which he made about his passion: Foiling catamarans. As he guides through the history of how the technology for flying boats became a reality, he shows and explains different types of boats in action in the course of development over the past years during which continuous improvements of technology made the sport safer, more stable and as a consequence faster as well.

Remember when you were a kid and you got a brand new book to read? The smell of the crisp pages, the stiffness of the un-cracked spine, the shiny cover - a new world waiting to be discovered and explored. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just stay in that escape from reality forever… well that’s essentially what I do… I’m a storyteller - its quite literally my job description. In “The Creative Process of Storytelling,” I will dive into just that - the creativity, adaptability, and tenacity it takes to craft a career with longevity in the entertainment industry. It may look like all red carpets, pampering, and glamour, but believe me, the moments that are comfortable and glamorous are far outnumbered by the moments that are not. But those are the ones I live for. There’s nothing else in this world I would rather do. What we do to bring these stories to life is often daunting and nearly absurd but it must be balanced with a calm focus and a business savvy to be a sustainable and enjoyable lifestyle. Many of these aspects prove to be entertaining, yes, but also universally applicable across nearly any industry. If there is anything I learned from graduating with my BSBA at 17, its that good business is good business - no matter what is being bought and sold. From education, to artistic elements, to business practices, to anecdotes you won’t believe, I will give you a brief peek behind the curtain and show that there truly is no business like show business - or is there?

Podcasts, voice chats, audiobooks – audio is everywhere! But can we always trust our ears? For a producer of audiobooks trust is good, but quality control is better. However, checking for errors in a book recording is a labour intensive process involving lectors listening to entire books. In this talk we present our AI lector Hannibal, our adventures in speech-to-text conversion and resource-demanding cloud based ML pipelines.

As an AI startup to revolutionise and digitise maintenance regimes for railway infrastructure assets, we have to iterate quickly, learn fast and adapt continuously. The processing of data from our IoT devices is the core element of the KONUX predictive maintenance system. During the evolutionary steps we took from a processing system that works for some IoT devices to a processing solution that works at scale, we learned a lot and made quite some mistakes. In this talk I would like to tell you about the journey we took, the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned.

Today’s imaging systems can create huge amounts of large datasets automatically and the main challenge is now to extract “Actionable Information” from those images and therefore an important topic for ZEISS. One of the main tool sets to tackle those computer vision challenges is the usage of Artificial Intelligence to process, segment and classify images. The challenge however is to create a flexible and open technology stack to keep up with this very fast developing field and to be able to incorporate new tools from various open-source software (OSS) projects, which are an integral part of the AI computer vision community. Our approach is to use an open and flexible ecosystem of different AI-based tools, which heavily rely on OSS tools, standard data formats and the usage of Python, cloud and Docker™ technologies. This ecosystem allows us to re-use code for many different projects while giving us the option to still customize the end-user applications depending on specific needs and requirements.

Today's real-time Deepfake technology makes it possible to create indistinguishable doppelgängers of a person and let them participate in video calls. Since 2019, the TNG Innovation Hacking Team has intensively researched and continuously developed the AI around real-time Deepfakes. The final result and the individual steps towards photorealism will be presented in this talk. Since its first appearance in 2017, Deepfakes have evolved enormously from an AI gimmick to a powerful tool. Meanwhile different media outlets such as "Leschs Kosmos", Galileo and other television formats have been using TNG Deepfakes. In this talk we will show the different evolutionary steps of the Deepfake technology, starting with the first Deepfakes and ending with real-time Deepfakes of the entire head in high resolution. Several live demos will shed light on individual components of the software. In particular, we focus on various new technologies to improve Deepfake generation, such as Tensorflow 2 and MediaPipe, and the differences in comparison to our previous implementations.

Today’s customer experience is a maze that leaves customers and employees disengaged and disenchanted. This talk will show you how to design and deliver AI-first customer experiences that drive value. We will touch upon Rasa’s open source conversational AI platform that allows companies to control their automation destiny, its NLU and ML powered dialogue management that respond to customers’ evolving needs and constantly improve, and best practices that focus on successful adoption and high impact.

Today's real-time Deepfake technology makes it possible to create indistinguishable doppelgängers of a person and let them participate in video calls. Since 2019, the TNG Innovation Hacking Team has intensively researched and continuously developed the AI around real-time Deepfakes. The final result and the individual steps towards photorealism will be presented in this talk. Since its first appearance in 2017, Deepfakes have evolved enormously from an AI gimmick to a powerful tool. Meanwhile different media outlets such as "Leschs Kosmos", Galileo and other television formats have been using TNG Deepfakes. In this talk we will show the different evolutionary steps of the Deepfake technology, starting with the first Deepfakes and ending with real-time Deepfakes of the entire head in high resolution. Several live demos will shed light on individual components of the software. In particular, we focus on various new technologies to improve Deepfake generation, such as Tensorflow 2 and MediaPipe, and the differences in comparison to our previous implementations.

As a leading premium automotive brand, AUDI AG today is looking back to a long and living history in automotive visualization and has regularly raised the bar in terms of visual quality, immersion and VR. However, we all are moving in a highly volatile environment where visualization technology and innovation evolves in high speed, new tools and solutions arise out of a sudden, and the whole visualization industry may change direction within months. How can we as an OEM, that we are used to think, plan and decide long term, ensure innovation leadership? How can we implement latest visualization technologies into a given environment, without re-inventing the wheel? What have been our success factors to merge visualization with other state of the art technologies like cloud computing. We must deliver solutions, that are breathtaking and mind-blowing, that are accepted by our customers, but that also guarantee long-term stability and scalability in large-scale OEM settings. Steadily delivering modern, cutting-edge experiences requires stable backend processes, deep expertise in 3D data handling, highly automated asset processing and cloud expertise. We at Audi Business Innovation GmbH and TNG want to give you some insights in one of our latest journeys at the Automotive Visualization Platform (AVP): creating a large-scale content production toolset for the Volkswagen Group.

Solarisbank is a tech company with a banking license, enabling other businesses to embed financial functionalities into their product offerings. Having recently closed their Series D successfully as well as acquired one of their competitors, Solarisbank has been expanding immensely since starting business in 2016. In this talk, you will learn about the journey the company went through to become one of the leading players in the new field of banking-as-a-service. In the course of presenting the company, the speakers elaborate how Solarisbank started off in the initial years, what the company offers today, and also share more specifically two case studies of companies that rely on Solarisbank's technical and regulatory infrastructure.

"You built it; you run it!" That's one of the core mottos of the DevOps culture. So how do you prepare your developers for "running it"? Game Days introduce a fun, collaborative way to upskill engineers on incident handling and find holes in your infrastructure and processes. Engineers are faced with real incidents prepared on production-like systems and get the chance to practice analyzing and fixing a variety of issues in a realistic, hands-on setting. In this talk, we share our experience planning and conducting Game Days for 51 engineers at Elli, a provider of electric mobility solutions in the Volkswagen group.

In this talk we will share our experience in moving towards a modern cloud-based data architecture, how it helped us drive up the data quality by a factor of 5, and drive the lead times for new reports & dashboards down by a factor of 10. We managed that by focusing deeply on bringing a lot of modern software engineering best practices to the world of data, in particular six specific principles. Some of the best practices are ranging from a monolithic legacy data architecture based on ETL hosted on bare metal, to the AWS Cloud with a modern ELT architecture or focussing onto versioning everything integrated into a continuous integration workflow and a lot more. TNG was deeply involved in all of these steps as part of the data engineering team.

Serverless and modern cloud technologies have helped us to develop a Minimum Viable Product within a short period of time. Our product includes a full body scanner, rendering of 3D avatars and displaying the data in an app. As a technology start-up with partners from the fitness and fashion industry, we have specific and exciting challenges, such as monitoring our users' training progress or virtual fitting. Developing a suitable architecture and product strategy to meet these diverse requirements was a big and exciting task. Compared to heavier operational models, this has allowed us to avoid production overhead in many places from the beginning. In addition, these technologies have helped us to further pursue our product strategy as a platform. In this talk, we would like to share with you how we have used these approaches to enrich our scanner hardware and make it accessible to our customers. What problems did we have to solve to migrate our on-premises render pipeline to the cloud? What architectural decisions were particularly difficult? Why is a platform strategy so valuable for digital products? In addition, we would like to discuss the lessons we learned during the course of our project.

Today, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Why do we find ourselves flooded with fake news, medical quackery, conspiracy theorizing, and “post-truth” rhetoric? It can’t be that humans are just an irrational species — cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and discovered the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, we think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. Also, the rational pursuit of self-interest, sectarian solidarity, and uplifting mythology by individuals can add up to crippling irrationality in a society. Collective rationality depends on norms that are designed to promote objectivity and truth. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress.

Aerobatics, despite being a really interesting aspect of aviation is a topic somewhat overlooked in the academic and business worlds. Most aircraft mission requirements such as range, endurance or payload capacity often lead to solutions that are at odds with those that would otherwise yield capable aerobatic vehicles. In this context, anyone who has ever been to an airshow has likely looked up to the skies and contemplated in awe... but it is one thing to watch a performance by a small and lightweight aerobatic plane and an entirely different experience to witness a 30 ton fighter aircraft zooming across the place nearing supersonic speeds, conjuring clouds of its own out of thin air and making the whole place reverberate, only to then pull seemingly impossible maneuvers akin to those performed by the smaller, lighter airplane. Modern fighter aircraft are quite astonishing pieces of engineering and technological achievement. To see one performing extreme aerobatics is definitely a thrilling experience and it may leave you wondering… ‘What did I just see?’, ‘How is that even possible?’ In this talk I will tell you about my fascination for the topic and bring you along for the ride of how I managed to work out some of the answers by combining my engineering skills with practical experimentation provided by remotely piloted model aircraft along with careful analysis of video material. Hopefully I will be able to let you see the beauty of extreme aerobatics through my eyes!

Using modern AI approaches such as GPT-2, Tacotron and Conformers, we created fully autonomous robot heads that engage in heated social media discussions, completely taking the human out of the loop. The TNG Innovation Hacking Team created a prototype of an end-to-end natural language understanding system, employing techniques such as Speech-to-Text (STT), Conditional Text Generation and Text-To-Speech (TTS). Social media comments have become the predominant medium for public discussion. However, discussions on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are notorious for their poor debate culture and missing conclusiveness. The obvious solution to this tremendous waste of time is automation of such fruitless discussions using a bot. In this talk, we will give an introduction to NLP, focussing on the concepts of STT, Text Generation and TTS. Using live demos, we will guide you through the process of scraping social media comments, training a text generation model, synthesising millions of voices and building IoT robot heads.

"Can we build the fastest and best racing wheelchair in the world?" Managing Director Stefan Dürger addressed this question to his team at the aid specialist Orthotec. The Swiss company promotes the freedom of movement for people with spinal cord injury and similar restrictions. Sports equipment such as racing wheelchairs are also part of the business. Stefan Dürger's question turned into a vision that four years later resulted in two racing wheelchair models and a novel measurement method for the optimal seating position in a wheelchair. Innovations made possible only thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between specialists and athletes. What is revolutionary about the new OT FOXX racing wheelchair which top athlete Marcel Hug has been setting new standards in athletics with ever since? What knowledge from Formula One was incorporated into the development? Why does the invention have a positive effect on wheelchair use in everyday life? And what does a fox have to do with all this?

Within the framework of the global exploration roadmap, outposts on the lunar surface would be a valuable stepping stone in the goal to explore Mars. A lunar outpost would be very beneficial in reducing the risk and cost of future manned missions. By taking advantage of in-situ resource utilization, the total amount of necessary fuel, supplies, and weight can be reduced at initial launch, making projects more feasible. Seeing as space exploration rovers and sintering techniques are already relatively well-developed (TRL 7 and TRL 5, respectively), the challenge lies in the intersection between the two. Our goal is to have a proof-of-concept design of the rover and be able to print directly on the ground using concentrated beams of sunlight. In future iterations, we hope to expand our research of habitation in extreme environments to equatorial regions on Earth. Potential applications of habitat construction in deserts would be the improved construction of solar farms, water pipes, general infrastructure, among others.
WARR Exploration is a subsection of the WARR (Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight), a student group working on projects related to space and space exploration. WARR Exploration is specifically dedicated to creating a rover (Project REBELS) that will build habitats on the moon for future manned lunar missions. WARR Exploration’s mission is based off of ESA’s Moon Village, which also seeks to create a lunar base for humans that would serve as a base for future space missions.

We - 70 students predominantly from the Technical University of Munich - are TUM Boring. What unites us is the motivation to have a lasting positive impact by participating in Elon Musk's Not-a-Boring Competition and the associated development of the fastest tunnel boring machine in the world. Instead of simply renewing existing infrastructure, we should rethink mobility from the ground up and make it three-dimensional! Tunnels help solve many of today's pressing mobility problems, including the most notorious one: traffic congestion. We can use them for innovative concepts like the Loop or the Hyperloop. Individualized point-to-point traffic without stopovers enables unprecedented cruising speed, comfort and flexibility. Making mobility three-dimensional is a necessity for more efficient and less time-consuming transport. It also improves our quality of life, and we can transform former roads into green and recreational spaces specifically tailored to the needs of cyclists, pedestrians and residents. Our technical concept completely convinced The Boring Company as we are one of only twelve teams out of 400 participants invited to the final. Over the past few months, we have turned our concept into reality and built a 22-ton-heavy and 12-metre-long tunnel boring machine. In our presentation, we will look back at highlights and challenges in the construction of the drill and provide an outlook on the future of TUM Boring Innovation in Tunneling e.V. as well.

In the next decade, one billion Baby Boomers will retire. But who will care for them? Home-care is the fastest-growing occupation, yet still demand is rapidly outgrowing supply – and care is tough, paid badly and will ever be. A bleak outlook for the largest generation’s hope to age in dignity. But let’s talk about robots, and how they’re not going to help. And what needs to change so they could, what we have to do so they can and how we can use other disruptive technologies – such as VR/AR and 5G/Starlink – so they will. From there, let’s understand what all of this has to do with teleportation and becoming a robot to finally answer the biggest question of all: who cares? In this tour de force on turning science fiction into science fact, I hope to inspire you to travel with me into a speculative future, building the realization that getting there does not need any scientific miracles but just a few excited human beings who truly care.

Every company is a software company and every software company uses Open Source. From Kubernetes over React to Mozilla Firefox, Free Software is everywhere. It is obvious why, since it provides the collaborative results of a whole world of bright minded collaborators. But, it is not just for free. These collaborators also want to get their attribution or might have chosen a licensing model that has the goal to preserve the freedom of their collaboration. We want to adhere these wishes, that are encoded in the license choice, with the specific goal to also be a good citizen in the Open Source ecosystem. In this talk we will explain why this task is so complex. We will explain different approaches to reach the goal of compliance. And we will show how to do it with Open Source itself. The star of that show will be our developed Opossum.

This talk focuses on answering the question as to why the BMW Group engages in the field of Quantum Computing. We continue by looking at current activities the BMW Group is involved in, and finish by a short deep dive in applications of Quantum Computing along the automotive value chain.

Since 2020, the Bosch Cookit has been helping customers to cook fresh meals on a daily basis. The direct distribution to end users offers the opportunity to collect and act upon consumer feedback in an even more targeted fashion. A variety of feedback clearly shows the strongest customer want: the ability to create their own recipes. User-created recipes can be installed on the Cookit and directly prepared - a unique feature. Development of "My recipes" started in autumn 2020 in a new and cross-functional team spanning multiple divisions. Product management, Hardware, and Software teams came together to work on the new feature. In this talk, we would like to shed light on our transformation on the way from an idea to a successful go-live.

If we want to pass on our Earth to our children still at least somewhat intact, we really need to do something now. Yet a quick look at game theory tells us: Without massive changes to our social operating system, this cannot happen. The oft-criticized capitalism, of all things, offers an interesting perspective if we make a few changes. Which algorithms and variables can we adjust to stabilize our systems again? This lecture provides an introduction to why and how we can use impact concepts to set our planet on the right course in the long term.

Sudokus are popular: 9x9 numbers, in rows, columns and blocks, almost everyone knows the rules today. The tricky number grids can be found in many daily newspapers and bound to booklets in railway station bookstores. But few notice the booklet next to it which also shows grids on the cover, but perhaps these are not 9x9 boxes, or the numbers known from the Sudoku are missing, instead lines are indicated or boxes hatched according to different systematics. In this lecture we want to explain why we are enthusiastic about the variety of these logic puzzles. We present some puzzle types using examples, tell about the puzzle scene and what it is like to meet dozens or hundreds of other puzzle fans annually at national and international competitions. What strategy do you use to beat the Japanese top seed in the final round of a World Cup? Philipp can answer this and the listeners can compete with him live in the course of this talk!

HORYZN is a student initiative founded in 2019 and consists of 58 Bachelor, Master and PhD students from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Our goal is to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired during our studies in the development of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We are looking for innovative solutions to real problems in an international and interdisciplinary team. With the help of close cooperation with six chairs of the newly founded Faculty of Aeronautics, Space and Geodesy, we form an interface between research, industry and students. In Germany, 75,000 people suffer a sudden cardiovascular arrest every year - only 11% survive. When an emergency occurs, every second counts! Whether the patient survives is directly related to the ambulance's response time and the delivery of a defibrillator shock. This takes about 9 minutes on average. Too long! If you reduce the time to an average of 4 minutes, you can triple the chance of survival. At this point, a UAV can shorten the life-saving time span. It can transport the defibrillator directly to the patient. The aim of the project is to test the feasibility of the application by simulated keysets under realistic conditions.

War and peace, faith and love, diplomacy and conspiracy, as well as the great need for security - in the history of mankind there have always been good reasons to keep information secret. Based on the extensive cryptology collection of Deutsches Museum, which also includes very valuable individual exhibits, the history of secret communication can be vividly told from antiquity to the present. Included in this lecture are insights into the topics of exhibiting, collecting, preserving and researching from the everyday work of a curator at the largest science and technology museum in the world.

The behavior of matter is ruled by the standard model of particle physics – really? Old puzzles and new evidences from precision measurements are lurking and pose challenges to standard theory. Deviations in processes as rare as one in a billion suggest that electrons and muons are more different than thought: They should behave the same according to the standard model, yet, recent data from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva finds them to behave differently. If taken at face value, this anomaly heralds a very loud breakdown of the standard model,  and requires out-of-the-box new physics. Intriguingly, cracking this with leptoquarks, i.e., new particles which share features from quarks and leptons alike, also open doors into the notorious and longstanding flavor puzzle. This talk reports on the rise of the anomalies in flavor physics, rare decays of beauty quarks and further cracks in the building.

Everything is built on maths but most people only notice when it goes wrong. Matt Parker will explore the greatest mathematical near-misses and mishaps involving planes, trains and autocorrect. From unit errors crashing a plane to faulty spreadsheets losing people millions of dollars, there is a lot we can learn from when maths goes wrong.

In this talk, we will share our experience gained within the last years during which we provided and maintained hundreds of application instances via a self-service portal in cloud infrastructures all around the world. Our customers request to get their own instance of a pre-defined set of third-party applications originating from a pre-cloud era, which usually only provide a manual configuration setup. Who made which change when and why? Usually, this question cannot be answered in such a setup, since each instance is just as individual as a snowflake. With our tooling, we persist the configuration of each snowflake to become reproducible, auditable and more understandable. By introducing not only Infrastructure as Code (IaC) but also Configuration as Code (CaC), we manage to treat any configuration as source code and make use of any cloud provider. We will explain how we utilize various technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform and Docker to implement this concept. We will close the talk by sharing our best practices we learned during this journey.

Microservice architectures have taken the world by storm, allowing teams to develop, deploy, and manage components independently. Modern infrastructure has accelerated this trend as tools like Kubernetes and AWS Lambda make it easier than ever to deploy multiple services. However, organizations have found this flexibility comes at a cost; as services fail independently of each other, it becomes difficult to reason about correctness and consistency. Stateful Functions, the newest addition to Apache Flink, promises both: the operational flexibility of microservices and the consistently of a monolith. Sounds too good to be true? In this hands-on session, you will learn about the project's core ideas, you will see how to write, deploy, and monitor a simple Stateful Functions application, and finally you'll learn about the trade-offs you are buying into when using Stateful Functions.

Until 2019 Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG organized the Cyber Security Challenge Germany (CSCG). The CSCG is a hacking competition founded with the aim to gather a German national team for the European Cyber Security Challenge. Due to the omission of the main organiser, the CSCG would have been cancelled and Germany would not have been able to participate in the European Championship. In order to prevent this, a new association for the promotion of young talents in IT security was set up at the end of 2019. Since then, the association has taken over the organisation and implementation of Germany's largest IT security competition. In this lecture, we want to give insights into how to organise such a Challenge, why we have developed a completely new platform for it and what the association's goals and events are.

Developers are responsible for more and more of a product lifecycle. We don't just write code for someone else to operate. Now we create the infrastructure in the cloud, write the code, operate the product and even design CI/CD processes. That means that many new security threats are also our responsibility. In this talk, we explain how to include threat modeling into an agile software development process and describe concepts for securely creating and delivering a software product into a cloud environment.

Since its foundation in 1971, AKDB has been developing a complete suite of digitalisation solutions for municipalities and public institutions nationwide. This includes software, IT security, consulting, training and a comprehensive range of services. The range of IT services encompasses SaaS solutions from BSI-certified data centres for all public sector departments as well as statutory duties in the Bavarian registers of births, marriages and deaths, all the way to fully managed IT environments. The digitalisation of business processes also poses major new challenges for local authorities. A lot of things are already possible digitally, but particularly complex processes are still at an early stage in some cases and require a face-to-face meeting with the authority or considerable manual effort. Using two examples, we want to look at the challenges and technical solutions associated with digitalisation:

• Online registration of resident relocations

• The 2022 Census

Social and historical factors such as federalism or the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on the 1983 census also contribute to the technical complexity.

Microfrontends are a popular concept to simplify development in an enterprise project, where a large number of teams want to work independently. But is that approach really the right decision? Separation does increase complexity and effort and overhead in communication to define fail-proof apis is created. Which "microfrontend" concepts do exist, what does Angular provide and how can I make an appropriate decision which Angular mechanism is most suitable for my requirements? Is there an allowed scenario to use iFrames? How is especially Angular - as the most popular enterprise JS Framework - helping to structure the code architecture?