The Program

Keynote

09:00 - 09:30 | Sitzungssaal | German

Shaping liveable cities and regions: The smart city as a municipal task - Live translation available in English.

Renate Mitterhuber Smart Cities and Regions Division at the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building

Vita

Renate Mitterhuber has been Head of the Smart Cities and Regions Division at the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building since December 2021. Prior to this, she was head of the “Federal Portal; Portal Network; Business and Coordination Office 115” unit at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The focus was on developing the digital infrastructure to implement the Online Access Act (OZG). From June 2017 to October 2019, Renate Mitterhuber was head of the IT Planning Council’s office. From 1991 to 2017, she worked in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, initially in staff positions in the education and finance departments and since 2001 in the area of digitalization. She was responsible for Hamburg’s e-government and IT strategy and was involved in setting up the Hamburg Open Data Portal and the Transparency Portal, among other things.

As part of Dataweek Leipzig, we cordially invite you to the keynote speech by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building. The opening speech by Renate Mitterhuber will highlight the key role of the digital city in the practical implementation of urban development that is oriented towards the common good, productive and liveable. The focus will be on a current and practical insight into the federal government’s program for smart urban and regional development.

Urban development in the digital age - Live translation available in English.

09:30 - 10:30 | Sitzungssaal | German

Dr. Beate Ginzel (Digital City Department, City of Leipzig), Christian Matschke (Strategic corporate communications), Frauke Janßen (PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH) and Sven Krüger (City Hannover)

How can urban development succeed in the 21st century? Between digitalization, smart technologies and the challenges of constant change, cities are facing complex tasks in terms of the economy, urban society and the environment. In our discussion, we bring together experts from the fields of urban planning, digitalization, technology and the environment to shed light on the following questions:

• How can digitalization strategies be meaningfully integrated into urban development?

• What role do smart technologies play in designing liveable, fair and productive cities?

• How can technological innovations be combined with climate and environmental goals?

Join us as we think about the future of our cities - smart, fair, productive and climate-friendly!

Strong together: Many ways to scale open source software - Live translation available in English.

11:00 - 12:30 | Sitzungssaal | German

Albert Steinbach (City of Halle (Saale)), Jutta Sundermann (Aktion Agrar e. V.), Sebastian Böhm (Digital City Department, City of Leipzig) and Tim Besser (Aktion Agrar e. V.)

This presentation session will focus on the role of open source and the importance of communities in various innovation contexts. It will show how sustainable solutions can be developed by pooling resources within open source initiatives: on farms, in the context of the energy transition and through the urban development tool “HAL-PLAN”. In addition, possibilities for scaling up successful approaches are shown.

Added value from unstructured data

13:30 - 15:00 | Sitzungssaal | German

Clara Ruthardt (Bertelsmann Stiftung), Frank Basten (Freie Wirtschaftsförderung), Prof. Peter Vieregge (Forschungsinstitut für Regional- und Wissensmanagement gGmbH) and Simon Razniewski (Technische Universität Dresden)

What knowledge is contained in large language models? Language models are revolutionizing many aspects of knowledge management, but what knowledge is actually contained in them and how can it be extracted? This talk explains the GPTKB approach, which has been used to build a structured database of over 100 million facts from GPT (https://gptkb.org). Unstructured data from social media contains valuable knowledge - but how do you make it visible and usable? In our presentation, we will introduce the Data Knowledge Hub: a GitHub-based toolbox with methods, code and tools to analyze discourse, identify disinformation and enable better data-based decisions. Unstructured data in business development, urban development & sales: how can data robots & AI make us smarter than the competition? This article deals with the possibility of using real-time monitoring systems to automatically identify and evaluate target groups and their behavior as well as AI chatbots for knowledge management of internal data and external market data.

INNOVATIONSFORUM: Gamechanger data - Between chaos, AI and control (organized by Cluster IT Mitteldeutschland e.V.)

15:30 - 17:00 | Sitzungssaal | German

In our agile format, we use pitches to identify relevant topics and find interested partners. Together, we then spend three months examining the various facets of a topic and gaining new insights, discovering gaps in the market, developing digital prototypes and solutions, setting up projects and drawing up white papers. Registration and pitch submission at: https://it-mitteldeutschland.de/innovationsforum-2/

INNOVATIONSFORUM: Gamechanger data - Between chaos, AI and control (organized by Cluster IT Mitteldeutschland e.V.)

17:00 - 18:30 | Sitzungssaal | German

In our agile format, we use pitches to identify relevant topics and find interested partners. Together, we then spend three months examining the various facets of a topic and gaining new insights, discovering gaps in the market, developing digital prototypes and solutions, setting up projects and drawing up white papers. Registration and pitch submission at: https://it-mitteldeutschland.de/innovationsforum-2/