{"title": "Manufacturing Renaissance: Europe's Physical AI Opportunity", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:50:00+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/economics"], "description": "A round table at Falling Walls devoted to Physical AI and the opening it offers European industry. The Boston Consulting Group brings it together, uniting industry leaders, innovators and researchers. Complex handling tasks resisted automation for decades, pushing manufacturing toward low-cost economies; Physical AI now expands automatable work by up to 50 percent and cuts robot deployment costs by over half. The speakers discuss how to deploy this technology on the shopfloor at scale so Europe can rebuild its industrial base and compete on its own terms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/manufacturing-renaissance-europes-physical-ai-opportunity-72416/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/manufacturing-renaissance-europes-physical-ai-opportunity", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:50:00+01:00", "place": "Falling Walls Science House", "address": "Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "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": ""}, {"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": "Digitale Transformation - Chancen nutzen und Herausforderungen meistern", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität", "address": "Unter den Eichen 128, 12203 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.dgq.de/themen/e-learning", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/business"], "description": "An online talk on digital transformation in industry. It is hosted by the regional group Karlsruhe-Pforzheim-Gaggenau of the German Society for Quality, with Paul Thieme, a research associate and project manager at Fraunhofer IPA, as the speaker. He presents current figures on the challenges facing Germany's mid-sized companies internationally, examines the opportunities of digitising workflows in production and shows, through a running example, how a digitisation project should be carried out and which stumbling blocks can be avoided, including an example of AI-based image-processing inspection that clearly reduced inspection times. The presentation closes with an insight into Fraunhofer IPA's brand-new New Lean study on how a future-proof industry in Germany must be positioned and which four fields of action will come into focus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/digitale-transformation-chancen-nutzen-und-herausforderungen-34006/", "official_url": "https://dgq.de/event/digitale-transformation-chancen-nutzen-und-herausforderungen-meistern/", "image": ""}, {"title": "From Wendelstein to Industry: Europe's Fusion Race", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T12:00:00+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/physics"], "description": "A round table on the 03 Franklin Stage within the Falling Walls programme, held in English. It features Proxima Fusion together with speakers such as Patrick Cramer (Max Planck Society), Michael Bolle (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung), Bettina Martin (minister from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) and Francesco Sciortino, co-founder of Proxima Fusion. The discussion asks whether Europe can turn its world-leading foundation in fusion research – from Wendelstein 7-X to emerging fusion companies – into a globally competitive industry. It looks at the alliances between science, industry, investors and policymakers, and at the technologies, partnerships and frameworks Europe is building to compete globally.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/from-wendelstein-to-industry-europes-fusion-race-72409/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/wendelstein-industry-europes-fusion-race", "image": ""}, {"title": "Family Open Lab – Roboter, KI und Co.: Menschen und Maschinen im Team", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Futurium", "address": "Alexanderufer 2, 10117", "price": "Eintritt kostenfrei – kein Ticket nötig (Spenden willkommen)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/technology/robotics"], "description": "Family Open Lab – Roboter, KI und Co.: Menschen und Maschinen im Team is an open drop-in workshop on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Futurium Lab. Futurium and its mentors invite families and children aged 8 and up to programme, extend and test robots in small missions, discovering what they can and cannot do. With support from the Fraunhofer Institutes IPA and IGP, you explore what humans and machines each do well and develop creative visions in the futures workshop of how technology could change our bodies, everyday lives and society. No ticket or registration is needed – you can simply drop by.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/family-open-lab-roboter-ki-und-co-menschen-und-maschinen-im-2638/", "official_url": "https://futurium.de/de/open-lab-wochenende/family-open-lab-roboter-ki-und-co-menschen-und-maschinen-im-team/family-open-lab-roboter-ki-und-co-menschen-und-maschinen-im-team-2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d2571c378f6cc1a18a2170bc94d0328c8ceef739e251a4a1c3567a47e600546-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lab to Life: From AI Research to Real-World Impact", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00+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/innovation"], "description": "\"Lab to Life: From AI Research to Real-World Impact\" is a discussion as part of Falling Walls' programme. It is backed by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and draws on a new study commissioned by the IPAI Foundation. It examines why promising AI research often stalls after the lab stage and what individual, organisational and political changes are needed to turn innovation into viable solutions for the benefit of all. The event is by invitation only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lab-to-life-from-ai-research-to-real-world-impact-72444/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/lab-life-ai-research-real-world-impact-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Beyond the Lab: Autonomous Systems in Action", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+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/robotics"], "description": "\"Beyond the Lab: Autonomous Systems in Action\" is an English-language round table held as a hybrid event on site and via livestream. It is organised by New York University as part of Falling Walls. It is about autonomous robots that move goods, monitor crops, support healthcare and respond to emergencies. The discussion covers coordination between machines in dynamic environments and how failures, biases or vulnerabilities can affect supply chains, critical services and public trust. Speakers include Randy Gomez (Honda Research Institute Japan), Petra Ritter (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Ranga Yogeshwar, Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green (University of Oxford, Institute for Ethics in AI) and Lerrel Pinto (Meta Superintelligence Labs).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-the-lab-autonomous-systems-in-action-72412/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/beyond-lab-autonomous-systems-action", "image": ""}, {"title": "KI-Werkstatt 3.0 – on the Road", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungs- und Technologiezentrum", "address": "Mehringdamm 14, 10961 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "\"KI-Werkstatt 3.0 – on the Road\" is a free workshop where participants get to know three practice-tested AI applications, try them out on their own laptop and transfer them to their everyday business. The format was developed as a mobile roadshow by the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH Hamburg); in Berlin, the BIT advice centre of the Chamber of Crafts Berlin is a cooperation partner. The programme includes an input on AI in the skilled crafts, practical stations on an automated form workflow, querying a knowledge database and creating a flyer or Instagram post, plus breaks for networking. Participants keep access to the learning platform with instructions and prompts and can contact the experts after the workshop; the participant limit has been reached and there is a waiting list.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ki-werkstatt-30-on-the-road-21933/", "official_url": "https://www.hwk-berlin.de/termine/ki-werkstatt-3-0-on-the-road-91,0,evedetail.html?eve=672", "image": "https://noky.io/images/694083664a67116a57e31e05c717262665eac3ff24855961700189e93bf8f7fa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Europe's Tech at Scale: Critical Mass for Global Leadership", "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, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "An English-language panel discussion in the Plenary Table format, held hybrid on site and via livestream. The session is organised by the EuroTech Universities Alliance as part of Falling Walls. It examines how cross-border alliances of science, industry and policy can unite Europe's fragmented deep-tech capabilities into critical mass to compete globally. University presidents along with industry and policy leaders discuss how such ecosystems act as a force multiplier and accelerate lab-to-market.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europes-tech-at-scale-critical-mass-for-global-leadership-72399/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/europes-tech-scale-critical-mass-global-leadership", "image": ""}, {"title": "Die Zukunft der Intelligenz – Warum wir dümmer klüger wären", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Urania", "address": "An der Urania 17, 10787 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/mit-raketen-zu-planeten?page=10#dates", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "A lecture presenting the philosophical counter-position to AI euphoria and the obsession with perfection. In it, the philosopher Manuel Scheidegger argues for a rehabilitation of stupidity and human fallibility. He sees these as human resources that distinguish us from machines. The talk takes place at the Urania in Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-zukunft-der-intelligenz-warum-wir-dummer-kluger-waren-28736/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c7e1bd117266cdd654bfda045dca9e7cd786edfdb2f8fe2d6cb05b1b7b4a3e5-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Deep Tech Gap: Who Takes The Risk?", "start": "2026-11-07T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T10:00:00+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/innovation", "society/business/entrepreneurship"], "description": "A hybrid round-table discussion on the 03 Franklin Stage about deep-tech growth: what happens when a technology is ready but the market is not? Organised by Falling Walls, leaders from entrepreneurship, public investment and industry examine where responsibility should sit, how regulation can balance trust with competitiveness, and whether Europe can turn its industrial base into an advantage for scaling technologies into globally competitive companies. Speakers include Philipp Lill (Siemens AG), Michiel Scheffer (European Innovation Council), Silvia Lenaerts (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Barbara Bachus (ExoMatter). The event is in English and available as a livestream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-deep-tech-gap-who-takes-the-risk-72406/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/deep-tech-gap-who-takes-risk", "image": ""}, {"title": "Rethinking Transfer: Research Excellence to Industrial Scale", "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, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/science-policy"], "description": "\"Rethinking Transfer: Research Excellence to Industrial Scale\" is an English-language panel discussion. It is led by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with board member Constantin Häfner; the panel also features Thomas Schinecker (Roche Group), Anna-Katharina Wittenstein (WITTENSTEIN SE) and Monika Jones. It asks how scientific breakthroughs become industrial value creation: through the early integration of research, industry, regulation and market perspectives, co-development, pilot infrastructure, standards, market access and shared risk. The panel explores how Europe can scale what it invents while preserving the scientific freedom that drives discovery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rethinking-transfer-research-excellence-to-industrial-scale-72426/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/rethinking-transfer-research-excellence-industrial-scale", "image": ""}, {"title": "EU Quantum Sovereignty: Commercialising Quantum Applications", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:30:00+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/physics/quantum-technology"], "description": "An „Executive Table“ format within the Falling Walls programme, limited to invited guests. Hosted by the Bundesdruckerei, it addresses how Europe's promising quantum applications often remain stuck between scientific discovery and commercial deployment. The discussion: scaling quantum technologies requires coordinated ecosystems that connect research, industry, investment and regulation. Europe's technological sovereignty may depend not on who invents first, but on who succeeds in bringing quantum innovation to market.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eu-quantum-sovereignty-commercialising-quantum-applications-72449/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/eu-quantum-sovereignty-commercialising-quantum-applications-invitation-only", "image": ""}, {"title": "Rewiring Innovation: Next Generation Research Organisations", "start": "2026-11-08T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+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/science-policy"], "description": "\"Rewiring Innovation: Next Generation Research Organisations\" is a Plenary Table on the Curie Stage, held in English and also streamed live. It is presented by the Max Planck Society as part of Falling Walls, with its president Patrick Cramer joined by, among others, French research minister Philippe Baptiste and European Innovation Council board president Michiel Scheffer. The speakers discuss how fundamental research and the notion of scientific excellence are being reshaped by deep tech and artificial intelligence. New funding models, public-private partnerships and cross-sector collaboration take centre stage, with Europe's global competitiveness in research at stake.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rewiring-innovation-next-generation-research-organisations-72398/", "official_url": "https://falling-walls.com/programme/rewiring-innovation-next-generation-research-organisations", "image": ""}]}