The SAIL Spring School, organised by our “Data Science” workgroup led by Prof. Dr. Axel Ngonga, will take place in Paderborn from 17 to 19 March 2026. This year's conference will focus on the topics of resilience and artificial intelligence (AI) and offer participants exciting poster sessions and a varied social programme.
Registration is open until 5 January 2026 and the full programme will be published shortly on the official website.
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For the first time, the symposium on hybrid intelligence in product and production engineering will take place in Paderborn from March 25-26, 2026. During the two-day symposium, the scientific discourse will be guided by the question of how not only hybrid decision support, but hybrid intelligence in general can be used to increase performance in product creation. Both approaches from the engineering sciences and approaches from computer science…
From 28 to 29 May 2026, Prof. Suzana Alpsancar, head of our workgroup "Philosophy and Ethics of Scientific and Technological Cultures" and Sebastian Luft will host the workshop "Experience, Meaning and AI" at Paderborn University as part of the Humboldt Research Fellowship.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are working on these topics and would like to present and discuss their current work. Different theoretical…
Prof. Suzana Alpsancar, head of our workgroup "Philosophy and Ethics of Scientific and Technological Cultures", is organising an international workshop together with the VDI and the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG) at the Deutsches Museum in Munich from 18-19 June 2026. The workshop is entitled “...never neutral': Practices, concepts and methods of evaluating technology over the last 50 years” and is being held as part of the project…
From 16 to 18 September 2026, the conference "Democratic Technology? Technical Democracy?" will take place in Stuttgart. Prof. Suzana Alpsancar, head of our "Philosophy and Ethics of Scientific and Technological Cultures" workgroup, is organising the event together with the High Performance Computing Centre (HLRS) Stuttgart.
The topic will be the reciprocal relationship between technology and democracy. How do technological systems shape…
The 20th Symposium on Foresight and Technology Planning, organised by our “Advanced Systems Engineering” work group, will take place in Berlin from 7 to 8 October 2026.
The symposium will focus on product and technology planning, which is a key strategic competence nowadays. It is about recognising the potential for future success at an early stage and exploiting it in good time. Direct customer feedback is often not enough, as customers can…
