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With our events, we bring AI experts together with people interested in AI. Together with partners from all over Baden-Württemberg, we offer events where you can experience the entire "bandwidth" of artificial intelligence. Experienced experts share their knowledge and ensure that the AI network continues to grow (together).

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AI Connect Summit 2025

🗓 May 22, 2025
📍 Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Kriegsbergstraße 42, 70174 Stuttgart

Innovative, connected, future-driven – the KI-Garage: AI Connect Summit brings together Baden-Württemberg’s AI community! 🚀

Startups, researchers, and industry leaders will gather to drive innovation, exchange ideas, and shape the future of artificial intelligence. Experience inspiring keynotes, exciting pitches, and exclusive networking opportunities with top players in the AI ecosystem.

AI Investment Carousel

🚀 Startups meet investors – Fast, Focused, Impactful!

The AI Investment Carousel is a unique opportunity for startups to engage in focused 5-minute sessions with investors. Through a rotating format, each startup gets to pitch to every investor—an invaluable chance to refine pitches, receive direct feedback, and connect with potential funding partners.

💡 What to expect?
🔹 10–15 handpicked investors from the AI and DeepTech sector
🔹 Structured 1:1 meetings – direct, efficient, and to the point
🔹 Curated matchmaking between innovative startups and investors

Join us, present your vision, and build key connections for your next funding round!

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PAST EVENTS

Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals with AI

Various workshops and an expert panel focus on how we can achieve the Sustainable Development Goals with AI. An event organized together with Women in AI & Robotics and the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. 

 

VC Speeddatings

KI-Garage invites AI startups from Baden-Württemberg to its VC Speeddatings. In up to three 15-minute breakout sessions, the VC and the startup have the opportunity to get to know each other.

 

Demo Day - Network Accelerator 2021/22

The big Demo Day of our Network Accelerator 2021/22. The best startup teams of our program will pitch their business in front of investors and customers.

 

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of AI

Mario Brandenburg from the German Bundestag shares his insights into current AI trends and their lasting impact on our society.

 

Teamup event - AI edition

You have a business idea but did not find the right co-founder yet? Are you an expert and want to be part of a startup? Then TeamUp is the right place for you! A joint event with the CyberLab in Karlsruhe.

 

Ethics and AI: How to successfully integrate both into business

An interactive discuss about the ethical barriers and conflicts for the mainstream use of artificial intelligence. An interactivel talk about safety, privacy, accountability, transparency and bias in algorithms.

 

From Idea to Prototype: Technical feasibility for your startup

An event about the key success factors in terms of technical feasibility from an entrepreneurial and academic perspective.

 

From Science to Startup to Siemens - the innovation journey of AI

From Science to Startup to Siemens...How? Join the interactive panel discussion and learn about the biggest learnings at each step of the innovation journey of AI.

 

Science-based AI startups: the case of istari.ai

Join this AI edition of MCEI`s startup lounge and learn how istari.ai deployed its research into a thriving startup.

 

How AI turns existing business models upside down

AI researchers and founders share their insights on how AI is transforming the existing business models and is turning whole industries upside down.