Herbsttagung 2026

The autumn conference of the German Data Science Society brings together practitioners from industry, startups and research for one day in a single track. The focus is on what it takes to bring data science, GenAI and AI agents into production, and on sovereign and trustworthy AI. Most talks are in English.

MORNING

Opening

• Welcome by the GDS board, with Google as host

Opening talk

• „How to deliver a successful Data Science project in business“
  Zlata Tanovic HelloFresh
• „NLP and foundation models“
  Prof. Dr. Alexander Löser Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT)

Sovereign and trustworthy AI

• „Trustworthy, Reliable & Sovereign AI – KI, der wir vertrauen können?“
  Prof. Dr. Gerard de Melo Hasso Plattner Institute
• „Trust, but Trace: Observability for Agents that act“
  Sasa Fajkovic Trade Republic

Impulse talk

• „AI trends and European sovereignty“
  Jörg Bienert KI Bundesverband (German AI Association)

AFTERNOON

Fireside chat

• „Health data for AI and the European Health Data Space“
  Bettina Görner Chief Data Officer, Eterno Health, in conversation with Prof. Dr. Anne Schwerk IU International University of Applied Sciences, GDS board

Agents in production: governance, safety, observability

• Title to follow
  Dr. Roland Roller DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
• „Building AI Systems with Event-driven Operational Agents and Real-time Context Serving“
  Steffen Hoellinger Field CTO at Confluent, an IBM Company
• „MLOps for Multi-Agent architectures“
  Kai Sahling Founder and CEO, &act

Closing

• Book launch: „Data Science und KI in Theorie und Praxis“
  Launch of the new 2nd edition of the Springer Spektrum book
  Andreas Gillhuber GDS
• Closing and outlook: GDS Board

Networking

In addition, two sessions present short talks selected from our call for papers: „Data first: quality, collection, tabular foundation models“ and „Agents at work: lessons from practice“. Speakers will be announced.

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The registration fee for non-members is €120 (regular) or €35 (students), and for members €60 (regular) or €20 (students).

Together with the invitation to this event, members of the GDS e.V. will receive a discount code which, when entered, allows them to pay only the reduced registration fee of €60 or, in the case of student members, only €20.

Non-members: We would be very pleased to welcome you as a member of the GDS e.V. You can find the corresponding application form here: Become a member. Upon receipt of your application form, you will receive a discount code from us so that you can take advantage of the reduced registration fees intended for members for this event.

For student non-members, the discount code is STUDENT2026HTGDS. Please note that if you use this discount, you must present your student ID at the entrance.

Please also note that the number of participants is limited due to room capacity. Be sure to register early!