{"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Free entry; booking of the free 3-Day Festival Centre Pass required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/interdisciplinary", "science"], "description": "The “Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today” is an English-language discussion on three decades of collaboration between art and science, a field that began developing in the 1990s and has moved from shaping speculative futures to contributing critical reflection. It is hosted by Berlin Science Week as the opening of the Art & Science Practitioner’s Route at the Festival Centre. The panel brings together Giulia Bini (Head of Arts at CERN), Christina Landbrecht (head of the art programme at Schering Stiftung), Sara Morais Dos Santos Bruss (curator for Scientific, Digital and Media Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and Christian Rauch (Festival Director of Berlin Science Week), moderated by Clara Roca-Sastre, Programme Co-Lead and Curator of Berlin Science Week. Entry is free; to attend, please book the free 3-Day Festival Centre Pass, with free seating – come early for a good spot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/art-science-opening-panel-tracing-art-science-from-the-1990s-28618/", "official_url": "https://berlinscienceweek.com/programme/art-science-opening-panel-tracing-art-science-1990s-today", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a0da0c2431a26a0396708e31aa4d832455576ccf8ef21b7e21c337d431bc205-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Imagining European Quantum Futures", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:30:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/physics/quantum-technology", "art"], "description": "\"Imagining European Quantum Futures\" is a workshop where participants jointly imagine alternative futures for quantum technologies. It brings together perspectives from the arts, quantum research and technological reflection, building on the Q-Narratives project. Using artistic and participatory methods, dominant narratives are examined and new visions developed that connect quantum technologies with social values, cultural meaning and responsibility. Adrian Schmidt is among those taking part. The event is held in English in the Teresia Teaiwa Room, entry is free, places are limited and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/imagining-european-quantum-futures-8362/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/imagining-european-quantum-futures", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe's Next Chapter: Visions for Tech Races beyond AI", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology", "society/economics"], "description": "A discussion at Falling Walls Science House where researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers talk about the coming wave of breakthrough technologies. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation is behind it, with Falling Walls organizing the event. It asks how Europe and Germany can turn their strong research and industrial foundations into faster innovation, scalable companies and global markets, as quantum technologies, advanced robotics and biotechnology reshape economies. Funding, regulation, infrastructure and talent are examined so that Europe shapes the next wave of breakthroughs rather than follows it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europes-next-chapter-visions-for-tech-races-beyond-ai-72455/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/europes-next-chapter-visions-tech-races-beyond-ai", "image": ""}, {"title": "Industrial AI Ecosystems: Europe's Competitive Edge", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/politics"], "description": "An English-language discussion at the Falling Walls congress, held as a hybrid plenary table and also available via livestream. It is hosted by the VDI Technologiezentrum, with speakers including Axel Deniz of Bosch Business Innovations, State Secretary Thomas Jarzombek, Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes of Stateful Robotics, Jayson Myers of NGen and Daniel Senff, moderated by Anna-Lena Kümpel. The topic is how Europe can turn its world-class industry and vast data resources into value. It examines federated ecosystems that democratise access to AI while preserving sovereignty, and how to turn political ambition into aligned investment and start-up strategies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/industrial-ai-ecosystems-europes-competitive-edge-72394/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/industrial-ai-ecosystems-europes-competitive-edge", "image": ""}, {"title": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration", "start": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration is a talk and panel hosted at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the Berlin Science Week Festival Centre. It is organised by Art Laboratory Berlin. The panel brings together Špela Petrič, Marcus Maeder, Miha Turšič, Matthias Rillig, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz. The discussion centres on how scientific research and artistic intelligence meet, on the frictions and new forms of insight this creates, and on the human role in such collaborations and their effect on stakeholders from policymakers to the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/touching-boundaries-what-drives-art-and-science-collaboratio-8358/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/touching-boundaries", "image": ""}, {"title": "AI & Creativity: Can AI Think Outside the Box?", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "An interactive discussion about whether AI can truly be creative or is merely reshuffling what humans have already imagined. It is run by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). It deals with AI's creative potential, its role in scientific discovery and the future of human creativity. It also asks what happens to our own ability to think creatively when we increasingly outsource creative tasks to AI, especially in education.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ai-creativity-can-ai-think-outside-the-box-72460/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/ai-creativity-can-ai-think-outside-box", "image": ""}, {"title": "AI Governance and Audit Nomos", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ICI Berlin", "address": "Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "An English-language event of lectures and discussion on AI governance and audit. It is organized by Eternal Terra Ear (ÉTÈ Institute) in cooperation with Berlin Science Week and ICI Berlin, with Yidi Lola Wang, Sonia Bernac and José Antonio Magalhães. It examines how physical AI, smart-city digital twins and automated administrative systems alter shared environments, changing who may move, wait, receive assistance, appeal or remain visible. Critical spatial theory, artistic research and civic audit are brought together to study these conditions before automated decisions harden into infrastructure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ai-governance-and-audit-nomos-28884/", "official_url": "https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/ai-governance-and-audit-nomos/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac92ced0f23aea33bc9442e9d2c6a6523d445d2ed39d07fbf2188cd2897fc4f1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Einstein Foundation Berlin, BCGE, and Center for Open and Responsible Research at the Berlin Science Week: Can Science Remain Open in an Authoritarian World?", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin University Alliance", "address": "Kleine Präsidentenstraße 1, 10178", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/open-science"], "description": "An open dialogue event taking place as part of Berlin Science Week. It is organized by the Einstein Foundation Berlin together with the Berlin Center for Global Engagement and the Center for Open and Responsible Research, both part of the Berlin University Alliance. Under the title \"Can Science Remain Open in an Authoritarian World?\", speakers and audience will explore what is at stake when research closes its doors and whether the benefits of open science can still be safeguarded. The panel features Dr. Kamran Naim of CERN and Prof. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with Dr. Sakine Weikert of the DAAD moderating; the event is held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einstein-foundation-berlin-bcge-and-center-for-open-and-resp-72108/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/international/bcge/veranstaltungen/20261106_BeScWe_Can-Science-Remain-Open-in-an-Authoritarian-World_.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "AI Ecosystem Europe: Building the Coalition", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "\"AI Ecosystem Europe: Building the Coalition\" is a discussion format by Falling Walls, open to invited participants only. It centres on federated AI ecosystems in which companies retain data sovereignty while collaborating on standards, architectures and industry-proof foundation models. It examines how initiatives such as Manufacturing-X and the European cloud-edge infrastructure initiative 8ra can mature into a shared industrial ecosystem. Europe's competitive edge, the argument goes, may depend less on individual technologies than on its ability to operate as one industrial ecosystem.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ai-ecosystem-europe-building-the-coalition-72445/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/ai-ecosystem-europe-building-coalition-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kreativität und Künstliche Intelligenz: Kaminabend an der BSP", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Business School Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design", "science/ai"], "description": "An interdisciplinary fireside evening exploring how generative AI is changing our idea of creativity and what that means for design, science and business. It is hosted by the BSP Business & Law School together with the Institute for Digital Transformation and Innovation and the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Zukunftskultur. Dr. Nina Valkanova speaks about automation, professional identity and design practice, Dr. Caroline Menezes about autonomy and creativity in working with AI, and Prof. Dr. Susan Hinterding adds a scientific reflection; Dr. Sven Giebel is requested as a further panellist, and Kristina Bodrožić-Brnić moderates the evening. After the talks, guests are invited to discuss authorship, responsibility, new skills and the future of creative work, with time for personal exchange and networking from 18:30.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kreativitat-und-kunstliche-intelligenz-kaminabend-an-der-bsp-40406/", "official_url": "https://www.businessschool-berlin.de/events/events-detail-aktuell/kreativitaet-und-kuenstliche-intelligenz-kaminabend-an-der-bsp/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22387707d14705d7fcd25dbb43e3fa242c073ddcd13c02d92e0abe7ba0c1c222-600.webp"}, {"title": "Africa–Europe: Investing in a Shared Scientific Future", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "05 Einstein Pavilion", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy", "society"], "description": "A programme of talks and discussion sessions on scientific cooperation between Africa and Europe, covering AI, shared research infrastructure, resilient health, food and water systems, and innovation hotspots. It is organised by the Falling Walls Foundation together with The African Academy of Sciences, and moderated by Oliver Günther, President of the University of Potsdam. Speakers include Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh, Nigerian Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, and Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The discussions focus on investment in people, institutions and enterprises for reciprocal cooperation grounded in African priorities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/africaeurope-investing-in-a-shared-scientific-future-72468/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/africa-europe-investing-shared-scientific-future", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die Zukunft der Gesundheit neu denken", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health"], "description": "A talk and discussion at Science on the Spree, an event series that brings science and politics into direct exchange. Springer Nature is behind it, guest at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as the festival centre of Berlin Science Week. The discussion asks how AI is changing relationships, trust and mental health, and what action politics and society should take. Leading researchers and political decision-makers examine what the scientific evidence shows about AI's effects and where public debate and research findings diverge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-zukunft-der-gesundheit-neu-denken-8352/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/science-on-the-spree-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "KI, Narrative und die Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Geschäftsstelle", "address": "Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei, eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "A panel discussion on how artificial intelligence is changing the narratives with which societies understand themselves, and which worldviews AI makes visible, reinforces, or makes disappear. The speakers are Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen, Julia Kloiber, Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka and Jens Lubbadeh. The event is organised by the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS in cooperation with the ZfL and discusses AI as a cultural technology of order that produces new forms of social reality. Admission is free, but registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ki-narrative-und-die-konstruktion-von-wirklichkeit-26947/", "official_url": "https://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/ki-narrative-und-die-konstruktion-von-wirklichkeit.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9468288ab62ed9205a28d0226ab0684f99fb84495eae973ff170d94fca0c078d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tag 2: Wissenschaft ‚in Touch‘ mit anderen Formen des Wissens", "start": "2026-11-07T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T10:30:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art", "community", "science"], "description": "This is day two of the Berlin Science Week Festival Centre at the House of World Cultures, a programme of talks, conversations, performances and installations. Hosted at the House of World Cultures as the festival centre, the day brings science into conversation with other disciplines and explores the diversity of knowledge at the intersection of art and science. Expect art-science collaborations, scientific ideas translated into cultural media, and formats that treat knowledge like a material – something you can touch, feel, embody or contradict. Artists, researchers, art-science practitioners and curious minds come together – including a night of drag in high heels with the Queens of Science, cells finding their own eerie voice, and a workshop inviting you to experience a flood as a sound story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tag-2-wissenschaft-in-touch-mit-anderen-formen-des-wissens-8356/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/day-2-science-in-touch-with-other-ways-of-knowing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/818a9b7b4fbc5765fac46f1fff9c4d01142824687570c697589f29ef14f37bd2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "„Democracy Under Pressure: Building Resilient Societies“ is an English-language discussion held as a round table on the „03 Franklin Stage“ at Falling Walls Science House. It is organised by Falling Walls with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich involved, and takes place as a hybrid format. The panel brings together physics Nobel laureate Brian P. Schmidt, former Portuguese minister Manuel Heitor, LMU vice president Armin Nassehi, former European Research Council president Helga Nowotny and Yoshua Bengio of LawZero. They ask why even stable democracies can erode from within and look at the social, economic, cultural and technological foundations of open societies in times of rapid change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies-72414/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/democracy-under-pressure-building-resilient-societies", "image": ""}, {"title": "Social Synthesis", "start": "2026-11-06T19:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ICI Berlin", "address": "Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/ai", "art"], "description": "A screening and workshop in which speculative world-model images introduce four civic scenarios, from urban machines to humanitarian infrastructure. It is organized by Eternal Terra Ear (ÉTÈ Institute) in cooperation with Berlin Science Week and ICI Berlin. Participants choose one scenario and apply a shared audit grammar: Situation, Actors, Pressure, Boundary and Evidence. The discussion draws on work on LLM worldbuilding, demilitarized territory, bot infrastructures and weaponized environments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/social-synthesis-28885/", "official_url": "https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/social-synthesis/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/617218552abcbdd0681f9eac5d1b2b9b970a9dfdf64d127a3bd2d382dd02db85-1200.webp"}]}