{"title": "Digitalgipfel 2026: Cybersecurity or More? Building Germany's AI Security Institute", "start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T15:30:00+01:00", "place": "Mercator", "address": "Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/politics"], "description": "A public panel discussion held as a side event to the Digital Summit, jointly hosted by Agora Digitale Transformation and the Stiftung Mercator. The topic is Germany's AI security institute, which is currently being built up. Questions include whether it should specialise in cybersecurity or take a broader focus, what can be learned from international models such as the British security institute, and how a German institute should be set up in terms of equipment, structure, powers and topics. Aidan Peppin (Cohere, formerly UK AI Security Institute) and Luise Kranich (BSI) will discuss, moderated by Dr. Stefan Heumann (Agora Digitale Transformation); participation is only possible with prior registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/digitalgipfel-2026-cybersecurity-or-more-building-germanys-a-104530/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T15:30:00+01:00", "place": "Mercator", "address": "Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Digitalgipfel 2026: Expert* innenrunde zu Europas KI-Ökonomie im globalen KI-Wettbewerb", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mercator", "address": "Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/politics"], "description": "A public panel discussion, a side event of the Digital Summit, asks what measures and laws can strengthen Europe's position in the international competition for advanced AI models, powerful AI infrastructure and successful use of artificial intelligence. It is hosted by the Digitalised Society division of the Stiftung Mercator, which brings in experts from its network. The panel features Tobias B. Bacherle of the Future of Tech Institute, Dr. Nicole Lemke and Dr. James Besse of interface, and Dr. Katja Muñoz of DGAP, moderated by Elisabeth Nöfer, project manager at Stiftung Mercator. The panel runs from 16:00 to 17:30, followed by a reception open to everyone interested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/digitalgipfel-2026-expert-innenrunde-zu-europas-ki-okonomie-104529/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Cybersecurity & Open Science: Trust in a Fragmented World", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology/it-security"], "description": "A plenary table on the Curie Stage connecting cybersecurity and open science in a time of geopolitical tensions. Behind the discussion are the VDI Technologiezentrum and the Cyberagentur, with speakers from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Cyberagentur, Denmark's National Defence Technology Center, the VDI Technologiezentrum and Stifterverband. It asks how critical knowledge can be protected without constraining research collaboration. Topics include Germany's Cyberdome, emerging European frameworks, and balancing national interests with freedom, openness, trust and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/cybersecurity-open-science-trust-in-a-fragmented-world-72404/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/cybersecurity-open-science-trust-fragmented-world", "image": ""}, {"title": "KIWi Policy Talk: Secure science. European perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy", "society/politics"], "description": "A round table discussion in the KIWi series, held as a hybrid event and conducted in English. Behind it is the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with Deputy Secretary General Michael Harms speaking. The topic is knowledge security, which is becoming increasingly institutionalised across Europe, with developments at EU and national level shaping expectations for more standardised and partly mandatory approaches. The discussion asks how responsibilities can be proportionately distributed across system levels to balance openness, autonomy and risk mitigation and enable secure international collaboration, highlighting risk literacy as a prerequisite for sensitive risk assessment and decision-making.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kiwi-policy-talk-secure-science-european-perspectives-72417/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/kiwi-policy-talk-secure-science-european-perspectives", "image": ""}, {"title": "Deepfakes: Wenn ein Bild zur Waffe wird - digitale Gewalt gegen Frauen aus den Perspektiven von Recht, Politik und Cybersecurity", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Deutscher Juristinnenbund", "address": "Kronenstraße 73, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/violence"], "description": "A themed evening looks at deepfakes as a form of digital violence against women. It is hosted by the equal opportunities office of Saarland University at the German Women Lawyers Association in Berlin. The programme features a talk by Maria Gahn, deputy chair of the association. The topic is explored through the perspectives of law, politics and cybersecurity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/deepfakes-wenn-ein-bild-zur-waffe-wird-digitale-gewalt-gegen-29663/", "official_url": "https://www.djb.de/termine/details/deepfakes-wenn-ein-bild-zur-waffe-wird-digitale-gewalt-gegen-frauen-aus-den-perspektiven-von-recht-politik-und-cybersecurity?actbackPid=289&cHash=05d07737f6d6e6891e4d607a74dd8070", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kaffee und KI", "start": "2026-11-05T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturring in Berlin e.V.", "address": "Ernststraße 14-16, 12437 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology"], "description": "“Kaffee und KI” is a talk and discussion format about using digital devices safely. The event is run by Kulturring in Berlin together with the Bezirkszentralbibliothek „Mark Twain”. It covers security settings on the smartphone, secure passwords, passkeys, and recognising spam and phishing and how to deal with them. Doors open at 14:50, entry is free, and registration by e-mail or phone is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kaffee-und-ki-78119/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe Needs a Plan: Science & Arts in the AI Age", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/europe", "science/ai"], "description": "\"Europe Needs a Plan: Science & Arts in the AI Age\" is an English-language talk and panel with free entry in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Festival Centre of Berlin Science Week. Taking part are Francesca Bria, José Luis de Vicente, Tommaso Calarco, Bettina Kames and Ólafur Elíasson. It asks whether Europe can build its future on rented intelligence, addressing sovereignty, AI infrastructure, and the role of the arts, as Europe imports most of the digital technology its research and democracy run on. It discusses whether Europe's emerging AI Factories and quantum hubs could carry the Bauhaus idea forward as an Archipelago of Ateliers, spaces where artists and scientists shape technology together in the public interest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europe-needs-a-plan-science-arts-in-the-ai-age-8361/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/europe-needs-a-plan-science-arts-in-the-ai-age", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zukunftstage 2026: Wandel durch KI", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Hochschule für Technik", "address": "Luxemburger Straße 10, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/education"], "description": "The Zukunftstage 2026 are a project week with specialist forums and workshops on the campus of the Berliner Hochschule für Technik. Organised by the university, they explore how artificial intelligence is changing studies, teaching, working life, everyday life and society. The programme offers keynote talks, specialist forums and interactive workshops on the theme days „Organisation“, „Technik“ and „Mensch“, plus a closing forum with startups and initiatives. The event is aimed at students, staff and the interested professional public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zukunftstage-2026-wandel-durch-ki-81884/", "official_url": "https://www.bht-berlin.de/item/cal/event/detail/2026/11/16/536", "image": ""}, {"title": "Breaking the Walls of Clinical AI: Trust, Privacy & Judgment", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "An interactive Insight Café explores clinical AI: how responsibility is shared between clinicians, developers and institutions, whether data use requires consent, and what builds public trust. It brings Israeli and German perspectives together and invites everyone to take part. It is organized by Falling Walls, with Aldo Faisal, Professor and Head of the Chair in Digital Health & Data Science at Imperial College London and Universität Bayreuth, as speaker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/breaking-the-walls-of-clinical-ai-trust-privacy-judgment-72459/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/breaking-walls-clinical-ai-trust-privacy-judgment", "image": ""}, {"title": "Von der Idee zur Publikation: mit KI gute und offene Forschungsprozesse gestalten (DE/EN)", "start": "2026-11-05T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Charité Medizinische Bibliothek Campus Virchow-Klinikum", "address": "Weststraße 1, 13353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/open-science"], "description": "An event for a professional audience about the use of artificial intelligence in science. Speakers from various Berlin institutions and organizations present the opportunities AI offers and the risks it poses to open and responsible research. It is organized by the Medical Library of Charité, Technische Universität Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and the Open Research Office Berlin. The event is held in German and English, and registration is possible via the Berlin University Alliance page.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/von-der-idee-zur-publikation-mit-ki-gute-und-offene-forschun-13921/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/research-quality/events/2026/20261105-mit-KI-gwp.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "Investigating the Kill Cloud: When Warfare Tests Tech on Civilians", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/war"], "description": "This talk and panel asks what happens when military AI targets civilians and conflict zones become testing grounds for technology that touches us all. Behind it stands the Disruption Network Institute, launched in Berlin in 2023, a research hub bringing together whistleblowers, artists, activists and investigative journalists to study how global connectivity fuels warfare – what the whistleblowers Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland call 'The Kill Cloud'. Tatiana Bazzichelli, researcher and director of the institute, introduces its work, while scholar and artist Tiara Roxanne, one of this year's DNI Fellows, presents her artistic research on how the Kill Cloud affects 'undocumented migrants' and Indigenous communities at the Mexico-US border, along with the environmental costs of drone-based surveillance. Together they reflect on the impact of AI within and outside declared war zones and on why borders become laboratories for control technology – with free entry, held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/investigating-the-kill-cloud-when-warfare-tests-tech-on-civi-8363/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/investigating-the-kill-cloud", "image": ""}, {"title": "KI-Kompetenz im Unterricht vermitteln: Impulse für eine kritische KI-Nutzung", "start": "2026-11-11T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Kommunikation", "address": "Leipziger Straße 16, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "An interactive training event for teachers on teaching AI competence in the classroom. It is run by the FSM (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter) at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, with Lisa Königs, a media education officer specialising in AI at the FSM, as instructor. Participants learn how AI chatbots work, why their answers can be wrong or distorted, and how young people can be encouraged to reflect on their use. AI-generated disinformation and deepfakes are also covered; the training is based on the Experience AI resources.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ki-kompetenz-im-unterricht-vermitteln-impulse-fur-eine-kriti-17155/", "official_url": "https://www.weitklick.de/veranstaltungen/26/KI-kompetenz%20im%20unterricht", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f27bf4333c8a5ac49da38d0fdfdbed6586eea6919d1c1af392eb9d917a7da6d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "KI & Nachhaltigkeit: Zwischen Zielkonflikt und Zukunftschance", "start": "2026-11-04T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "frizzforum", "address": "Friedrichstraße 23 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/sustainability"], "description": "\"KI & Nachhaltigkeit: Zwischen Zielkonflikt und Zukunftschance\" is a meetup with talks, a panel discussion and a networking session at frizzforum on Friedrichstraße. It is organised by frizzforum and explores how companies can bring AI and sustainability together. It looks at the ecological and social impacts of AI use, conflicts between goals, and how sustainability can be integrated into AI strategies. It is aimed at professionals and managers and those responsible for sustainability, tech, HR, organisational development and DEI.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ki-nachhaltigkeit-zwischen-zielkonflikt-und-zukunftschance-16767/", "official_url": "https://www.eventbrite.de/e/ki-nachhaltigkeit-zwischen-zielkonflikt-und-zukunftschance-tickets-2001311507593", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f67bdcbccf826d39f8d44e7b36c6fb6be3e1a66567264420f4a67616c0f8d36f-600.webp"}, {"title": "BSides Berlin 2026", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "CIC Berlin", "address": "Jordanstraße 2, 12435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "49.00", "price_to": "250.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/computer-science/cybersecurity"], "description": "BSides Berlin is a security conference organized by and for the information security community. The first day offers a full-day hands-on workshop on APT malware analysis, recognized as educational leave under the Berlin Bildungszeitgesetz and led by Marius Genheimer of the SECUINFRA Falcon Team. The second day features talks on topics such as Kubernetes persistence, hacked smart locks and AI-generated malware. The event is part of the international BSides community and takes place for the sixth year.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bsides-berlin-2026-24457/", "official_url": "https://bsides.berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c0385953fb4da99f92301d7962e11f928a487ca0e4a9abb7d8b158214544d03-600.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Competing Blocs: Preserving Space for Global Science", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "science/science-policy"], "description": "A panel titled \"Beyond Competing Blocs: Preserving Space for Global Science\" at the Falling Walls Science House on Karl-Marx-Allee. It is hosted by the Hasso Plattner Institute together with Falling Walls, with speakers including Bill Rosehart of the University of Waterloo, Helga Nowotny, formerly of the European Research Council, and El Mouhoub Mouhoud of PSL University. The discussion addresses how higher education institutions can manage geopolitical risks such as security concerns, technological dependencies and threats to academic freedom without withdrawing from global engagement. It also asks how countries can chart an independent course as a trusted platform for worldwide scientific collaboration and discovery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-competing-blocs-preserving-space-for-global-science-72467/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/beyond-competing-blocs-preserving-space-global-science", "image": ""}]}