This was our

Big Techday 8

9:00 to 9:55

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Research & Innovation

Jolla - the impossible story

Details

Munk

II - Raum Odeon

Open Source

OpenStreetMap, the spatial database: From road detection to 3D models

Details

Skowron

III - Raum Salvator

Research & Innovation

Thin-Film transistors based on organic semiconductors for flexible AMOLED displays

Details

Klauk

IV - Raum Maffei

Tools & Methods

Spotlets - the HTML mini-apps that make up the Spotify desktop client

Details

Johansson

V - Preysingsaal

Artificial Intelligence

Do statistical models understand the world?

Details

Dr. Goodfellow

10:05 to 11:00

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Hardware & Reality Hacking

Image annotation using Deep Learning and Fisher vectors

Details

Prof. Dr. Wolf

II - Raum Odeon

Open Source

Double impact - Elasticsearch faster & cheaper than a commercial product index

Details

Pintarelli

III - Raum Salvator

Research & Innovation

Social content & model management using SocioCortex

Details

Prof. Dr. Matthes

IV - Raum Maffei

Programming Languages

Anonymous records in Haskell

Details

Volkov

V - Preysingsaal

Data

Realtime, interactive Big Data with Couchbase 4.0

Details

Green

11:30 to 12:30

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Research & Innovation

Realizing Richard Feynman's dream of a quantum simulator

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Prof. Dr. Bloch

II - Raum Odeon

Open Source

FOSSology - the X-ray radioscopic equipment for the analysis of open source packages

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Dr. Jäger

Dr. Würl

III - Raum Salvator

Research & Innovation

Nymote: Git your own cloud here

Details

Mortier

IV - Raum Maffei

Tools & Methods

Attack of the buzzwords: Deploying microservices with Docker

Details

Weikl

V - Preysingsaal

Hardware & Reality Hacking

Seeing like a Terminator - Augmented reality with the Oculus Rift

Details

Team Red Pill

VI - Raum Pranner

Computer & Games

How do modern chess engines work?

Details

Yang

13:45 to 14:40

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Robotics

Getting our brain to adopt a robotic body

Details

Prof. Dr. Cheng

II - Raum Odeon

IT Security & Privacy

Email encryption with enigmail - challenges and remarkable issues in order to protect privacy

Details

Josuttis

III - Raum Salvator

Artificial Intelligence

From Big Data to Big Knowledge

Details

Dr. Stumpe

IV - Raum Maffei

Tools & Methods

Behavior-driven development in plain Java

Details

Dr. Schäfer

V - Preysingsaal

Tools & Methods

Enterprise services planning: Scaling the benefits of Kanban

Details

Anderson

VI - Raum Pranner

Computer & Games

Parallelism and selectivity in game tree search

Details

Romstad

14:50 to 15:45

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning

Details

Prof. Dr. Schmidhuber

II - Raum Odeon

IT Security & Privacy

Just put the file onto this USB stick...

Details

Die USBösewichte

III - Raum Salvator

Tools & Methods

The long journey of the Sea Lion

Details

Kazakova

IV - Raum Maffei

Tools & Methods

How to prove large software projects correct

Details

Gonzalez

V - Preysingsaal

Tools & Methods

Bavaria 2025

Details

Elsner

VI - Raum Pranner

Programming Languages

Pony - A new, race-free, safe & fast actor programming language

Details

Blessing

Clebsch

16:15 to 17:15

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Computer & Games

The Witcher 3: Crafting a compelling narrative in a believable open world - between location and content

Details

Tost

Kolm

II - Raum Odeon

IT Security & Privacy

Cloud security with LibVMI virtual machine inspection

Details

Lengyel

Kittel

III - Raum Salvator

Tools & Methods

State of the art in recommendation systems

Details

Hustveit

Schweder

IV - Raum Maffei

Tools & Methods

Twelve speedy tricks for answering NP-complete problems

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Dr. Weinzierl

V - Preysingsaal

Research & Innovation

Semantic fingerprinting: Democratising natural language processing

Details

De Sousa Webber

19:00 to 20:00

(CEST)

I - Maximiliansaal

Adventure

Surfing the biggest wave in the world

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Steudtner

Talks

Adventure

Artificial Intelligence

Computer & Games

Data

Hardware & Reality Hacking

IT Security & Privacy

Open Source

Programming Languages

Research & Innovation

Robotics

Tools & Methods

Speaker

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Anderson

David Anderson

Anderson Associates, CEO

David J. Anderson leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has ma...

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Blessing

Sebastian Blessing

causality.io, CEO

Sebastian Blessing did his MSc at Imperial College London on extending Pony to distributed clusters. He has worked on hi...

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Bloch

Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch

Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Direktor

Immanuel Bloch is scientific director at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and holds a chair for ex...

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Prof. Dr. Gordon Cheng

Institut für kognitive Systeme an der Technischen Universität München, Leiter

Professor Gordon Cheng holds the Chair of Cognitive Systems, Founder and Director of Institute for Cognitive Systems, at...

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Clebsch

Sylvan Clebsch

causality.io, CTO

Sylvan Clebsch was kicked out of a lot of schools before becoming a serial entrepreneur in the 90s, working on embedded ...

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De Sousa Webber

Francisco De Sousa Webber

cortical.io

Francisco took an interest in information technology as a medical student specializing in genetics and serology at the U...

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Elsner

Johannes Elsner

McKinsey & Company, Leiter des Münchener Büros

Johannes Elsner holds a law degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed the General Course of L...

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Gonzalez

Gabriel Gonzalez

Twitter, Entwickler

Gabriel Gonzalez is a Software Engineer at Twitter who is a Scala programmer by day and a Haskell programmer by night. H...

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Goodfellow

Dr. Ian Goodfellow

Google, Research Scientist

Ian Goodfellow is a research scientist at Google. He earned a PhD in machine learning from Université de Montréal in 201...

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Green

Tom Green

Couchbase, Solutions Architect

Tom Green is a Solutions Architect working at Couchbase, providers of high performance NoSQL technology for mission crit...

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Hustveit

Kjetil Hustveit

sannsyn.com, Softwareentwickler und Mitgründer

Kjetil Hustveit is a software engineer and co-founder of Sannsyn AS. He has been developing software for the last 15 yea...

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Jäger

Dr. Michael Jäger

Siemens Corporate Technology

At Siemens Corporate Technology, Michael works as project manager, software architect, trainer and consultant for distri...

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Johansson

Mattias Petter Johansson

Spotify, JavaScript-Hacker

Mattias Petter Johansson (@mpjme) is a JavaScript developer on one of the most complicated HTML5 applications in the wor...

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Josuttis

Nicolai Josuttis

Open Source-Entwickler

Nicolai Josuttis has been known for many years as a writer, speaker and independent consultant for C ++, SOA and the tec...

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Kazakova

Anastasia Kazakova

CLion, Product Marketing Manager

Being C/C++ fan Anastasia Kazakova (@anastasiak2512) has been creating real-time *nix-based systems and pushing them to ...

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Kittel

Thomas Kittel

Technische Universität München, PhD Student

Thomas is currently doing his PhD at the Chair for IT Security at the Technical University of Munich. His research inter...

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Klauk

Hagen Klauk

Max Planck Research Group Organic Electronics, Leiter

Hagen Klauk received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germa...

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Lengyel

Tamás Lengyel

Novetta, Senior Security Manager

Tamás works as Senior Security Researcher at Novetta, and has previously worked as Security Researcher at TU Munich'...

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Matthes

Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes

Lehrstuhl Software Engineering for Business Information Systems an der Technischen Universität München, Leiter

Florian Matthes holds the chair Software Engineering for Business Information Systems at Technische Universität München....

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Mortier

Richard Mortier

Systems Research Group der Cambridge University

Richard Mortier is a member of faculty in the Systems Research Group at the Cambridge University Computer Lab. Past work...

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Munk

Carsten Munk

Jolla, Chief Research Engineer

Carsten Munk is Chief Research Engineer at Jolla, strongly passionate about open source and was previously involved with...

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Team Red Pill

Team Red Pill

TNG Technology Consulting

What if your navigation system could project route information directly to your field of vision, or if facial recognitio...

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Pintarelli

Robert Pintarelli

TNG Technology Consulting

"Simply to deliver a good software - and that from the first deployment", that is Robert Pintarelli’s goal whe...

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Romstad

Tord Romstad

Sannsyn; Play Magnus AS, Data-Scientist

Tord Romstad is an algebraic geometer from Oslo, Norway, and one of the main authors of the open source chess engine Sto...

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Schäfer

Dr. Jan Schäfer

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Dr. Jan Schäfer is Senior Consultant at the TNG Technology Consulting GmbH and has been developing there for the last 4 ...

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Schmidhuber

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber

Schweizer Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche Intelligenz IDSIA, Kodirektor

Since age 15 or so, the main scientific ambition of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been...

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Schweder

Simen Gan Schweder

sannsyn.com

Simen Gan Schweder (1970) has a Master of Statistics with specialization in data modeling and recommender systems. He ha...

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Skowron

Thomas Skowron

OpenStreetMap, Open Source Entwickler

Thomas Skowron is a software engineer of location-based services and geospatial applications, who lives in Dresden and i...

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Stumpe

Dr. Martin Stumpe

Google

Martin Stumpe is an engineer at Google, focussing on Machine Learning and Computer Vision applications. Prior to joining...

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Die USBösewichte

Die USBösewichte

TNG Technology Consulting

In summer/autumn last year, badUSB devices were short-term the cause of a big safety agitation (e.g. see badUSB: “Wenn U...

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Volkov

Nikita Volkov

Sannsyn AS, Software Engineer

Nikita Volkov is a software engineer with 4 years of Haskell practice preceded by a decade of experiences with mainstrea...

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Weikl

Eric Weikl

TNG Technology Consulting, Partner

Eric Weikl is a partner at TNG, where he has been putting his passion for software development and architecture into pra...

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Weinzierl

Dr. Antonius Weinzierl

Knowledge-based Systems Group an der Technischen Universität München

Antonius Weinzierl is a researcher at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he received his PhD in 2014. H...

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Wolf

Prof. Dr. Lior Wolf

Universität Tel Aviv

Prof. Lior Wolf ist Mitglied der Fakultät für Informatik an der Universität Tel Aviv. Zuvor war er Post-Doc-Mitarbeiter ...

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Würl

Dr. Andreas Würl

TNG Technology Consulting, Senior Consultant

Andreas works as a Senior Consultant at TNG. His main focus is agile software development and project management with an...

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Yang

Daylen Yang

University of California at Berkeley

Daylen Yang joined Stockfish open source project in 2010. He is the developer of the Stockfish for Mac app and has playe...

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