🚀 HZDR AI Symposium 2025 – Let’s Talk Language Models!In-Person Event

Tuesday 9 Sept 2025, 09:30 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Lecture Hall (HZDR)

We are extremely happy to invite you to this year’s AI Symposium at HZDR, where everything revolves around Large Language Models (LLMs) and their growing impact on our daily work.

📅 When? September 9, full-day
📍 Where? HZDR lecture hall, conference area, and library
🎯 Focus Topic? Large Language Models in Daily Work

What can you expect?
🚀 Insights into the latest advancements in the field of language models
💡 Networking and Exchange on how to use LLM in your work
🔬 Practical Sessions to level-up your own LLM skills
🤝 Co-creation of specific next steps to make your work more efficient with LLMs

🎯 By the end of the day, you will:

• Understand what LLMs are and what they can do today

• Know how your peers at HZDR are using LLMs in science, coding, and administration

• Be equipped with practical tools and guidelines to integrate LLMs into your work

 

Don't miss this chance to explore, connect, and get inspired.
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Presentations: Welcome, Introduction to LLMs, State of the Art

Presentations

Conveners: Alexandre Strube (Helmholtz AI), Helene Hoffmann, Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

2 Introduction to the event

Speakers: Dr Stella Winkler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Vladimir Voroshnin (HZDR)

3 Introduction to Large Language Models - peeling the onion

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf / Helmholtz AI)

4 State of the Art in Large Language Models

Speaker: Alexandre Strube (Helmholtz AI)

5 Dialogue Session

Speakers: Dr Stella Winkler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Vladimir Voroshnin (HZDR)

11:00 Coffee Break

Interactive Session: Networking and Exchange on how participants use LLMs

Networking and Exchange on how participants use LLMs

6 Introduction to Gallery Walk

Speaker: Helene Hoffmann

7 Gallery Walk

8 Wrap-Up

12:50 Lunch Break

Self-Paid

9 Introduction Skill-Ups

Speaker: Vladimir Voroshnin (HZDR)

Skill-Up: Coding assistants and how to set them up

Level up your skills

Convener: Till Korten

10 AI Coding Assistants

In today’s fast‑paced software development landscape, AI‑powered coding assistants have moved from experimental curiosities to indispensable productivity tools. This hands‑on session, “Practical Sessions: Coding Assistants and How to Set Them Up – Level Up Your Skills,” equips participants with the knowledge and practical experience needed to integrate, customise, and optimise these assistants within their own development workflows.

Bring your laptop if you like to try the hands-on exercises. Everthing will be explained using VS code. Please install it prior to the session.

Speaker: Till Korten

Skill-Up: ScienceOS

Level up your skills

11 LLMs & AI Research Agents: scienceOS in Research Practice

ScienceOS is the AI Research Agent for researchers with high standards and limited time.

With access to over 220 million scientific documents, scienceOS provides well-founded answers with precise source references. Features such as PDF uploads, a personal library for up to 4,000 papers, and other intelligent tools make working with scientific literature faster. Complex algorithms ensure that reliable sources are prioritized.

The capabilities of scienceOS are presented through four typical challenges faced in everyday research: from quickly getting up to speed in new subject areas, to drafting and reviewing one's own texts, to targeted comparisons of publications and identifying particularly relevant sources and foundational works.

There will be plenty of time for questions and interaction with the presenters.

Speaker: Henri Max Deda (ScienceOS)

Skill-Up: The Power of Prompting

Level up your skills

Conveners: Peter Steinbach (HZDR), Philip Müller (HZDR)

12 Basics of Prompting

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf / Helmholtz AI)

13 Prompting Patterns

Speaker: Philip Müller (HZDR)

14 Q&A

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf / Helmholtz AI)

15:00 Coffee Break

World Cafe: Kick start your LLM use

15 World Cafe Introduction

Speaker: Vladimir Voroshnin (HZDR)

16 World Cafe Sessions

17 Wrap-Up