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Scaling Up Innovation: From Prototypes to Productive Use

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of artificial intelligence at the next Franco-German AIxIA Conference from
16.
– 17. October 2024 at the Smart Production Park in Karlsruhe.
Together, experts will discuss innovative developments, challenges and future prospects in the field of artificial intelligence.
Experience inspiring presentations, interactive discussions and cross-border knowledge exchange and networking.
Be part of this exciting dialog shaping the future of AI at the AIxIA Conference 2024.
Further information at: aixia.eu Organized by: DIZ | Digitales Innovationszentrum GmbH Powered by: European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH-AICS) and Digital Hub Karlsruhe

Party & Startups – sounds good?
On 19.09.
the @CyberLab Startup Accelerator celebrates the #CyberLabFestival24 with the entire Karlsruhe startup community 🥳 At the festival, lots of exciting startups and experts on the topics of founding, entrepreneurship & financing meet food trucks, free cold drinks and cool beats.
🏆 The highlight: 20 years of the CyberChampions Award!
The CyberLab looks back on 20 years of successful entrepreneurship with all its ups and downs.
Until 15.08.
you can still apply for the CyberChampions Awards 2024!

The September event of Green Software Development Karlsruhe will once again focus on how to reduce the CO2 emissions of a website.
The first part of “Cleaner Web” on July 23 was all about the frontend.
The second part on September 17 will now focus on the backend and content management system (CMS).
This time, the aim is to develop strategies for hosting the website and CMS dynamically in order to eliminate the need for an active web server.
This is real pioneering work.
Because regardless of how sparingly the website is transferred to the end device, in the classic case a web server with a CMS is always running – even at night when nobody is visiting the website.
However, if you manage to separate the CMS and the provision of the website, you can make significant CO2 savings.
Our speaker Michael Voit has developed some exciting strategies and is currently testing them.
So we will get a direct insight into his real-life laboratory!
The event is once again aimed at web developers, web designers, UX designers and software developers – in other words, anyone working in the field of web, design, front-end and software. About the speaker: Michael Voit is a long-time climate protection activist and former NGO campaigner, and at °Cleaner Web he also brings his convictions to code, design and communication concepts.
The event will take place in person and Michael plans to be present.
If you would like to attend remotely, please let us know in the comments when registering so that we can better plan the catering.
It promises to be another exciting evening with lots of knowledge sharing and networking.
As always, there will be delicious and healthy snacks and drinks.
Interested parties are very welcome! Agenda 6:00 pm: Admission and networking 6:30 pm: Lecture with a short break in between 9:00 pm: End & networking Location: bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG, Waldstraße 63 (entrance Blumenstraße), 76133 Karlsruhe

Climate-conscious websites score four points: they are more ecological, more accessible, more social and faster. Hannah Magin and Michael Voit from the Cleaner Web present the options for checking and reducing the carbon footprint of websites. For web developers, web designers, UX designers and software developers! About the speakers: Hannah Magin & Michael Voit: Hannah is a project manager and UX designer at °Cleaner Web. Michael is a longtime climate change activist and former NGO campaigner, and brings his beliefs to °Cleaner Web in code, design and communication concepts. Agenda 6:00 pm: Admission and networking 6:30 pm: Lecture with a short break in between 9:00 pm: End and networking Location: at bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG, Waldstraße 63 (entrance Blumenstraße), 76133 Karlsruhe  

The evolution of (generative) AI and its possible applications in your business

What possibilities does generative AI offer? What is the potential of this technology and how can I use it for my business? The Generative AI Round Table offers a balanced mix of theoretical principles and concrete case studies to provide a comprehensive insight into the possibilities of generative AI. In table sessions, you will have the opportunity to ask questions, exchange ideas and get inspiration for use in your company. Speakers Kai Lichtenberg and Niklas Haas will contribute their knowledge and experience from numerous AI projects. They can therefore give you practical insights into the world of generative AI.

Under the motto Decarbonize Software, Green Software Development Karlsruhe invites interested software developers, development teams, students and companies to the Carbon Hack Karlsruhe, a hackathon for climate-friendly and resource-saving software in Karlsruhe, from 22 to 24 March 2024. The event takes place as an independent event during the global Carbon Hack Hackathon of the Green Software Foundation.

At the March event of Green Software Development Karlsruhe, speaker Benoit Petit will present the state of the art in assessing the environmental impact of digital services with the help of open source and open data assets. Using a typical technical service as an example, he will take us on a journey to evaluation: from the energy consumption of the infrastructure to the life cycle impact of the digital devices used. Agenda 6:00 pm: Admission and networking 6:30 pm: Presentation with a short break in between 9:00 pm: End and networking Information and registration at: Impact analysis of digital services with Scaphandre and the Boavizta API, Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup

The motto of the first EBL 2024 is “Content Creation – in front of and behind the camera” 🎬🎥 There are two absolute professionals at the start: ✅ Rebecca Amlung will give us a hands-on insight into how TikTok is implemented at Ziehl-Abegg, from brainstorming to shooting and editing ✅ Anja Lange will show us practical tips tricks from her many years of experience as a presenter on how to appear confident in front of the camera and get our nervousness under control. Doors are open from 18:00, stream from 19:00. Tacos drinks as usual.

The workshop “UX Meets Scrum: Strategies for successful integration into the development process” on 23.01.2024 from 13:00 to 17:00 is part of a series of events called “Digital Excellence: Growth through User Centricity”, organized by UIG e.V. This workshop focuses on how UX work can be successfully integrated into Scrum and what challenges need to be overcome.

How can digital products and software applications be designed to be holistically sustainable from the outset? Thorsten Jonas (UX and Innovation Consultant, founder of the Sustainable UX Network) will explore this question at the next meeting of Green Software Development Karlsruhe. A practical presentation on all areas of the creation process of digital products with a focus on sustainable UX.

This Green Software Development Karlsruhe event on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, will once again focus on the adjustments that can be made to reduce the energy consumption of software. This time, the focus is on energy code smells, their automatic detection and the associated optimization options.

bizplay is one of the most important events in Germany for the use of typical game elements. Since 2012, the one-day congress has been increasingly dedicated to the topics of gamification and game design and their impact on the areas of business, art design and technology.

This year, GDW will present the Digital Female Leader Award for the sixth time in a row as the most important prize in the female digital scene in the DACH region. With this year’s motto “Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You”, Global Digital Women (GDW) wants to encourage those who are the first in their family: The first to start up or the first to get their own project off the ground.

How does GreenCoding work in practice? Using real case studies from his day-to-day work as a developer and GreenCoding coach, Tim Schade will demonstrate concrete measures for developing environmentally friendly software solutions.

Do you want to know how to play rock-paper-scissors with a computer or develop a calculator? In the free online workshops from she.codes by TEC, you will learn the basics of the Python programming language and write your own programs!

The UIG Conference 2023 is dedicated to the topic of “Focus on people: shaping digitalization sustainably” and will explore the responsible contribution that each individual can make to making digital products and services and digitalization fundamentally sustainable.

The world’s largest advertising festival honors the best commercials and campaigns every year. We show the winners and our favorites. Non-stop, without any chatter in between – pure inspiration. There is also pizza, liquids and great conversation.

Whether at an open day, presentations on the latest innovations, guided tours or company parties – Karlsruhe’s companies show their digital side to all interested parties.

Here, visitors and participants get more MI(N)T! On Friday, June 30, 2023 from 4 – 9 p.m., technika | Karlsruher Technik-Initative celebrated the MINT Festival at SteamWork Karlsruhe. In a relaxed Karlsruhe Südstadt atmosphere and backyard charm, all students were invited to present their technology projects and ideas on this occasion! Whether hobby project, youth research work, seminar course or fischertechnik club – the MINT Festival created a framework for everyone. Visitors and participants were delighted with the technical snacks and one or two program highlights.

Carbon aware computing is a building block for designing CO2 optimized systems. As part of a project with UBS, the Carbon Aware SDK was developed with the aim of making the UBS Risk Compute Platform Carbon Aware and reporting savings. Based on the experiences in this project, we will discuss the basic design principles and practices and limitations.

Christian Binder joined Microsoft in 1999 as Principal Technical Program manager in Commercial Software Engineering and works on “next generation” co-innovation projects. In addition to strategic business development, his focus is on software design and team development. The development of systems that use resources efficiently and responsibly is particularly important to him.

The Karlsruhe Developer Day is a regional conference on software engineering. Traditionally, networking between software engineers from industry and universities plays a major role in the fan-shaped city. The special atmosphere – excellent contributions, close contact with the speakers, many interactive formats – now attracts participants from all over the German-speaking world.

IHK Karlsruhe, Lammstraße 13-17, 76133 Karlsruhe

As a distributed system, Kubernetes offers the option of automatically scaling applications horizontally. This allows the application to be dynamically adapted to actual requirements. The cluster itself can also be scaled with corresponding hyperscalers. In combination, computing power can be released or added as required. This saves resources and money. At the same time, such a configuration is well prepared for peak loads.

Sustainability thinks ahead – how can we implement scaling from an ecological perspective? Especially applications that are not permanently under load should be switched off when not in use. And the challenge is to switch the application back on. Zero becomes Hero.

Lukas shows us from practical experience with live examples where the fall strikes are and how to use them sensibly. This presentation highlights the benefits and risks of scaling and aims to encourage reflection on the resources used.

Lukas Paluch works at ATIX AG as an IT consultant in the container sector. He provides support both in setting up the platforms and in migrating applications.

Eat.Brand.Love went into the 2nd round!

And the name said it all. Nachos, salsa, coriander dip and delicious drinks provided the perfect atmosphere for networking. No wonder it was getting more and more crowded.

Once again, there were two great experts on very exciting topics: ✅ Ute Gütschow: “Trust instead of reach – B2B relationship building via Linkedin” ✅ Calvin Hollywood: “Personal branding social media for entrepreneurs and the self-employed” Without delicious food, but you can watch the stream here: https://lnkd.in/d_N6FPvc

The focus of the event(s) is deliberately kept general so that as many different experts and interested parties from the mobility sector in general and Mobility-as-a-Service in particular are addressed. The range of topics is broad, with digital applications (as a prerequisite for achieving greater sustainability in transport) forming an important thematic component of the event. Event location raumobil office, Auerstr.19, 76227 Karlsruhe

International event for information and education professionals in collaboration with the NextEducation team at DHBW Karlsruhe and the DEAL with Digital WBL project consortium Work-based learning in a virtual working environment – the new skills map for vocational education and training.

Our industry is responsible for around 4% of global_{CO2 emissions}– and the trend is rising sharply. As software developers and players in software development, as drivers of innovation and new technologies, we have the opportunity and the power to reduce these emissions. The evening shows the way and provides insight into the practices of green software development in order to develop climate-friendly and resource-saving applications. It’s about mindset and culture, knowledge of patterns and tooling.

Eat.Brand.Love is a new after-work event series in Karlsruhe! Every two months, the office community consisting of NACONA Filmproduktion, Fred Marketing, Alexander Hauck Performance Support and manimedia invites national speakers to talk about digital marketing trends and exciting branding projects. It is always about the digital transformation of corporate brands. It started on March 2 with Tania Hippler, Head of Communication at Fairtrade, presentation: “Branding with impact – communication at eye level at Fairtrade” Rainer Grill, Head of Public Relations at Ziehl-Abegg, presentation: “How we attract skilled workers with Tiktok”

At the #GreenSoftwareDevelopmentKA meeting on Valentine’s Day, everything revolved around measuring and monitoring the energy consumption of applications. Arne Tarara from Green Coding Berlin provided insights into projects and tools that enable us to measure the energy consumption of software in typical use cases.

The Talk’n’Play format combines a lecture series and networking in one event. The special thing about this is that all participants were encouraged to bring along their unfinished projects / prototypes to receive feedback from other participants. Technical and more general topics were deliberately combined. Of course, networking and the play session at the end were a must, because it’s not called Talk’n’Play for nothing.

A meeting without a fixed agenda and speaker.

The Green Software Development Usergroup Karlsruhe met in a relaxed atmosphere at a Mini Open Space. The participants wrote down a topic on Green Software Development on small sticky notes that they wanted to discuss. Be it an area that you can report on or a question that is currently on your mind – there were no limits to the topics and there was no hierarchy between speakers and participants.

The Blue Angel for software as a guide for climate-friendly applications. Are the criteria target-oriented and practicable? Discussion and feedback with the makers

The Blue Angel for software, one of the most famous eco-labels, is currently only available for desktop-only systems. The Blue Angel is currently being further developed so that it can also be used for mobile apps and server-client applications.

In addition to this exchange between research and practice, the focus was also on how and where the Blue Angel operates in a corporate context. Is it relevant for a company to have its software certified?

Kira Obergöker and Max Westing are both research assistants at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld and are directly involved in the further development of the Blue Angel.

Digitalization promotes social, personal and economic progress. In the context of the climate crisis, it is part of the solution and part of the problem. The Green Software Development Karlsruhe Usergroup focuses on how we as software developers can make digitalization climate-friendly. On 29.11. Hannah Magin and Michael Voit from the Cleaner Web will talk to guests about the possibilities of optimizing a website in the context of CO₂ and climate. The event is hosted by the Green Software Development Karlsruhe Usergroup. It has set itself the goal of developing and disseminating knowledge about the climate-friendly design of digitalization. To this end, experts are invited to give presentations and take part in discussions every month.

Sustainability and digitalization are two of the biggest topics of the modern age – yet they are rarely associated with each other. These two aspects are almost inextricably linked, as the three speakers at #digiTALK repeatedly emphasized. For this reason, it is important to make the world more sustainable through digitalization and to digitalize it more sustainably. How exactly was openly discussed at the digital regulars’ table supported by karlsruhe.digital.

With the #CyberLabFestival22, the Karlsruhe #SmartProductionPark was duly inaugurated with the first major event in the new premises as part of the CyberForum’s 25th anniversary. The audience, participants and jury were treated to a colorful mix of different event formats, inspiring insights and, as the highlight of the day, the presentation of the annual CyberChampion Award. #SmartProductionPark opening, Federal Cross of Merit, Prime Minister’s visit, startup pitches, awards, … October 19, 2022 was a busy day!
The winning startups of the #CyberChampionAwards : Mozz for the Sustainability Award by TelemaxX Telekommunikation GmbH hydrop water systems for the Sustainability Award by WIBU-SYSTEMS AG arxly for the Digitization Award by GRENKE AG DishDetective for the Best Interface Design Award by JamitLabs GmbH FreeD Printing GmbH for the Innovation Award by INIT Group The award for Best Startup by BBBank eG and thus the title of CyberChampion went to enabl Technologies. As the jury and audience were in agreement, the startup was also able to take home the Audience Award by Sparkasse Karlsruhe. The founders of Kolibri Games Janosch Kühn (Sadowski) and Daniel Stammler captivated the audience with an exciting keynote speech about their founding journey. Her 3 tips for all those who still have their journey ahead of them: Perseverance, agility and user focus! Investor matching, alumni meetings, workshops – before the CyberChampions Award, there was of course also plenty of program. In his keynote speech, Florian Bernard also reported on what pitching has to do with Aristotle and how ancient principles ensure applause and orders.

Digitalization has become an integral part of all areas of life. Many companies have recognized the importance of usability and user experience (UUX) as a decisive competitive advantage for successful digitalization. However, the consistent implementation of human-centric digitalization also means that all people have unrestricted access to digital technologies and that digital technologies also reflect the diversity of our society. At the UIG Conference 2022, experts from science and practice discussed how digital inclusion can be successfully implemented as an integral part of good usability and a positive user experience. It was of particular interest to network medium-sized companies and UUX service providers.