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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 10h

Marlene Mertens, researcher at @scadsai.bsky.social presented her work on “Knowledge Injection for Small-Cohort Medical Image Learning” at the 17th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging MLMI 2026 in Strasbourg. Find the related paper here: 👉 papers.miccai.org/miccai-2026-...

Marlene Mertens standing in front of her poster on "Knowledge-Injection for Small-Cohort Medical Image Learning" pointing at a specific part of the poster.

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Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yesterday I gave a talk about "How Generative AI impacts [BioImage] Data Science" @ensdelyon.bsky.social , slides #openaccess. Thanks again to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social and @rdplab.bsky.social for the fantastic discussions and for having me! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Releasing GPTKB 2.0, a large-scale knowledge base built entirely from a LLM. It contains 38 million factual beliefs with automated entity disambiguation, offering unprecedented introspection into the beliefs of frontier AI models. Version 2.0 offers automated entity disambiguation and deduplication.

Graphic. The GPTKB 2.0 construction pipeline. Elicitation and NER are natively parallel, while NE clustering and two-step NED are used to enable guarded NED parallelization.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@scadsai.bsky.social Dresden/Leipzig welcomed the Taiwan High Tech Facility Association (HTFA). The visit brought together perspectives on applied AI, robotics, knowledge transfer, and research collaboration. Thank you to the HTFA delegation and all colleagues for the valuable exchange!

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⭕ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social: More than 150 members joined our second General Assembly 2026 in Dresden for talks, workshops, breakout sessions and a poster session. We also welcomed Prof. Matthew E. Taylor for a keynote on human-AI teams. Congrats to our poster award recipients!👏

This year’s award recipients Chrakhan Barzanji, Elias Werner and Franziska Kahlert (from left to right) holding their certificates.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At the 23rd International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs in Naples, Italy, Dr. Martin Ritzert, Junior Research Group Lead at @scadsai.bsky.social, delivered a keynote titled “How to Generate Trees and Other Graphs,” covering historical and recent developments in graph generation. 👏

Dr. Martin Ritzert points at a graphic in his presentation, which is projected to the canvas in a lecture room.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to Anna Sterzik on winning second place in the Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award! Presented every second year at the @vcbm.bsky.social, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to medical and biological visualization. Find out more about the publications: scads.ai/anna-sterzik...

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Anna Sterzik Wins Second Place at the Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award - ScaDS.AI

We are delighted to join Anna Sterzik in celebrating her second-place win at last week's Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award. Her submission consisted of two publications. Presented annually at the Eurographics Sy...

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spectacular keynote by @moritzdrupp.bsky.social at the CBC conference @cbc-conference.bsky.social biodiversity and it's increasing relative value imply carbon should be taxed more than twice as much (and certainly not subsidized as the German government intends to do!)

Moritz Drupp in the lecture hall in Leipzig

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LION Lab @lionlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🦁LION Lab is hiring! 🧑‍🔬One fully funded PhD student (TVL-13 100%) for 3 years 💉Topic: Interpretability for Protein Language Models 👥Advised by @weissweiler.bsky.social together with Clara Schoeder 🌍Leipzig, Germany 🔗Apply by Oct 15: lionlabnlp.github.io/jobs/ai4pf/ Please share! #NLProc #NLP

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The @scadsai.bsky.social Living Lab will be open today and tomorrow as part of #InformatikFestival2026! Explore our interactive demos and chat with our team about AI & Data Science. 🕐 Today, 10AM–4PM 🕐 Tomorrow, 12PM–4PM 📍 Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Room: 1020, Nöthnitzer Str. 46, Dresden

Graphic. Open door at the Living Lab of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. September 22, 10AM–4PM. Informatik Festival 26. informatik2026.de

Graphic. Open door at the Living Lab of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. September 23, 12PM–4PM. Informatik Festival 26. #wirsindinformatik

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From August 31 to September 11, @scadsai.bsky.social researcher Paula Hagen participated in the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Tübingen, where she presented her current work that explores emergence and remapping of social place cells using recurrent neural networks.

Paula Hagen standing beside her poster on the topic "Social Place Cells and Their Remapping Behaviour in Recurrent Neural Networks".

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

⭕️ Last week at @scadsai.bsky.social: AI-powered waste sorting, handball analysis, and the use of AI for object localization: As part of the “Living Lab Bachelor’s and Master’s Seminar,” three students of Leipzig University presented their theses and discussed them with researchers from ScaDS.AI.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sept 9–11, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig hosted the First Germany–Poland–Czechia Workshop on Neurosymbolic & Trustworthy AI in Dresden. Researchers discussed Neurosymbolic AI, Trustworthy AI, LLMs & Knowledge Graphs. Thanks to Prof. Michael Faerber, speakers, participants & organizers! 🤝

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Experience data- and AI-based systems through your own body image at "Magic Mirror – On the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Digital Embodiments". Be dazzled by digital perfection & look behind the facade. 📅 September 30, 10 AM–4:30 PM 👉 scads.ai/event/pillars-and-umbrella…

Poster. Magic Mirror. Shift your perspective - bias in design and creation of digital bodies, worlds and futures. Workshop: Magic mirror - zur ambivalenten Äthetik digitaler Verkörperungen. Mittwoch, 30.09.2026, 10-16:30 Uhr. Input: 10 Uhr, Merkel Bau, Room 188 und Big Blue Button. Workshop: 12 Uhr, Living Lab, TUD, Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Room 1020.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here’s a quick reminder about tomorrow’s interactive @scadsai.bsky.social meetup. ⏰ Join us on Tuesday at 5:00 pm at our Living Lab Leipzig to learn more about the Model Context Protocol. If you’d like to attend, sign up quickly – there are still a few spots available: 👉 events.scads.ai/event/146/

White text on turquoise background reads: "MCP – One Year Later.Tue, September 15, 2026 | 5 pm. ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Humboldtstr. 25, 04105 Leipzig." Turquoise text on white background reads: "Interactive Meetup"

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2026, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig will open the doors to the Living Lab. Come by and explore our demonstrators to experience cutting-edge AI research! 📅 September 22, 10AM–4PM 📅 September 23, 12PM–4PM 📍 Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Room 1020, Nöthnitzer Str. 46, 01187 Dresden

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig is hiring 2 Research Associates / PhD Students / PostDocs (m/f/x) in Dresden! The research focus is on NLP, LLMs, Knowledge Graphs and Graph ML. 📍 Dresden 📅 Nov. 1, 2026 💼 E 13 TV-L Interested? Apply by September 15, 2026! 👉 www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last week, 17 participants joined our workshop "Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models" in Dresden with contributions by experts Prof. Simon Razniewski, Prof. Hermann Diebel-Fischer, Dr. Paramita Mirza, Dr. Himanshu Beniwal, and Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand. 👉 scads.ai/resilient-ai...

Photo. Participants of the workshop "Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models".

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eighteen Students from the German National Academic Foundation visited our Leipzig Living Lab to discuss responsible AI, technical liability arising from AI code, and security risks. Thank you for the visit and the lively discussions! 👏

A group of 18 students and two lecturers posing together with Erik Buchmann and Thomas Burgkhardt standing in front of a white wall inside a building

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On August 27, 2026, we welcomed around 20 visitors from SMWA in Dresden.They gained an insight into the research and transfer activities conducted at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, including topics such as machine learning, image and speech processing, prompt engineering and embeddings.

Photo. Dr. René Jäkel is introducing ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig to our guests from SMWA.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@scadsai.bsky.social, Pflegana and the GAT Institute have joined forces to explore AI-based support approaches for family caregivers, who need to coordinate numerous organizational tasks in addition to the actual caregiving work. Read more about the collaboration here: scads.ai/ai-for-bette...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last week at “Leipzig vernetzt KI”, Oliver Welz from the Living Lab presented @scadsai.bsky.social and the monthly Meetup format. The event brought together local businesses, research, and networks to explore how SMEs can integrate AI into their workflows. Thanks to IHK Leipzig for organizing!

Our colleague Oliver Welz from the ScaDS.AI Living Lab presented the center and the monthly exchange format, the Meetup.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you still remember your first presentation at an international conference? Read in the report by Nils Hamann, @scadsai.bsky.social research assistant, about his experience at this year's @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social in South Korea, where he presented his work on Textum. 📄🔍 👉 scads.ai/dh2026/

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

⭕️ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social On Tuesday, our Leipzig team gathered for its annual summer party. 🌞 The weather was mild, making the beer garden a perfect place to linger. Food and drinks were provided, and the conversations flowed naturally. What more could you want on a summer evening?

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ScaDS.AI Dresden/ Leipzig guest researcher Lukas Gienapp won the best student paper award for this paper at #SIGIR2026 in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🎉 Congratulations!

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week, @mpi-cbg.de celebrated its 25th anniversary. 🎂 @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social, @scadsai.bsky.social researcher and an alumnus of the MPI-CBG, gave a talk at the anniversary symposium about "How Generative AI impacts [BioImage] Data Science". Find his slides here: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Robert Haase stands in front of a full seminar room giving a presentation.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📆 Join us on September 15 for our next meetup, “MCP – One Year Later,” where we’ll discuss how the Model Context Protocol has evolved over the past year, and take part in an interactive workshop where you can choose a topic based on your level of knowledge. Learn more: 👉 scads.ai/event/meetup/

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking back at a successful week at #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026! Our colleagues Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand, Elias Werner, Miriam Louise Carnot, and Oliver Welz joined the IJCAI International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization in Bremen, presenting the latest Living Lab demos and more! 🤝

Photo. Elias Werner, Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand, Oliver Welz, and Miriam Louise Carnot standing in front of the Congress Centrum Bremen in Bremen, Germany.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Join us on September 3–4, 2026 for the two-day workshop Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models in Dresden. 📅 September 3–4, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 📍 ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Strehlener Str. 14, 01069 Dresden Registration is required. 👉 events.scads.ai/e/resilient-ai

Workshop by ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models. September 3-4, 2026. Dresden.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

From August 3-6, 2026, Kajal Singla attended the #CCN2026, in New York. 🧠 🗽 🏙️ Kajal Singla held a poster presentation about Consistent Embeddings of High-Dimensional Recordings using Auxiliary Variables.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We are looking for a Scientific Associate for Project Management (m/f/d/x) in Leipzig. Applications can be submitted until August 31, 2026. All details here: 👉 uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/7...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We welcome Dr. Marina Litvak as the 3rd Ada Lovelace Distinguished Research Fellow – a prestigious visiting position for internationally recognized researchers. For the upcoming months, she will join our team, continuing her research at @tudresden.bsky.social. 👉 scads.ai/we-welcome-d...

Photo. Dr. Marina Litvak is giving her lecture "From Understanding Language to Assisting Humans: Context-Aware AI for Communication and Software". © ZIH

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Meet us at #IJCAI2026! From August 16–22, Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand, Elias Werner, Miriam Louise Carnot, and Oliver Welz will present our research and service offers at booth 8. As sponsors, we happily participate in this outstanding conference, meeting colleagues from all over the world in Bremen. 🤝

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What lies behind the polished aesthetics of AI-generated bodies? Join the workshop Magic Mirror - On the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Digital Embodiments to explore bias, power, and exclusion in AI! 📅 September 30, 2026 📍 Merkelbau + online / Living Lab Dresden More information below! 👇

Graphic. Two people are walking in between grey pillars. The pillars are overlapped by green umbrellas. The graphic is the lead motive for the event series Pillars and Umbrellas. © Crispin-Iven Mokry.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Greetings from Hannah Selder in Glasgow 👋 Over the past three months, @scadsai.bsky.social researcher and PhD Hannah Selder had the opportunity to immerse herself in the DIFAI project (Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference) at the University of Glasgow as an intern.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

⭕️ Last week at @ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig: Our officeplants are taking their own little summer break and enjoy a bit of a cool-down. 🏝️

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Join our workshop Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models! We show how LLMs work, introduce common attack scenarios, discuss privacy risks, and present safeguards methods and protective mechanisms. 📅 September 3–4, 2026 📍 Strehlener Str. 14, Dresden Register here: 👉 events.scads.ai/event/143/

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Upcoming AI Project Workshop – “Opencode with TUD:AI API & Bring Your Ideas” @scadsai.bsky.social invites researchers, developers, students, and industry innovators to a hands‑on Open Lab where you can prototype, test, and showcase AI solutions using TUD:AI API and OpenCode environments.

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Lukas Gienapp @lgnp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Super happy that our paper “Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs” just won Best Student Paper at #SIGIR2026🏆 It argues against the reflex to reach for an LLM whenever you need relevance judgments. What we found 🧵:

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This year, several colleagues at @scadsai.bsky.social attended the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR). They submitted several papers and were actively involved in program planning as program chairs or members of the program committee.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How PriME-LLM helps protect sensitive information in AI chats. The blog post on @scadsai.bsky.social website takes a closer look at the project idea, on-device privacy protection, and the potential of privacy-aware AI in everyday use. 👉 Read the full blog post here: scads.ai/prime-llm-pr...

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On August 6, join the lecture "From Understanding Language to Assisting Humans: Context-Aware AI for Communication and Software" of our Ada Lovelace Distinguished Research Fellow, Dr. Marina Litvak! She'll present research on context-aware AI across 3 application domains. 👉 scads.ai/about-us/ada...

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Lecture: From Understanding Language to Assisting Humans: Context-Aware AI for Communication and Software (Marina Litvak, August 6, 2026)

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Call for Participants: VR Privacy Assistant Study Researchers at @scadsai.bsky.social are investigating how an AI-powered privacy assistant in virtual reality can help users make more privacy-aware decisions when choosing apps.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Join our colloquium Shift your Perspective – Bias in Design and Creation of Digital Bodies, Worlds and Futures on August 19, 2026! We'll explore how social structures and power relations become visible in technological contexts. 👉https://scads.ai/event/pillars-and-umbrellas/shift-your-perspective/

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@scadsai.bsky.social supports VoluLink in developing inclusive educational projects The platform brings together NGOs, IT students and experts in non-profit IT projects. The aim is to apply digital resources and expertise from the private sector and universities to create a positive social impact.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

⭕️This week at @scadsai.bsky.social: We welcomed almost 30 participants for the first meetup in Dresden. The varied programme brought together the local AI community to discuss ideas, support each other and look for opportunities for collaboration. 👉 scads.ai/scads-ai-mee...

Photo. Julian Hagert is presenting in front of the participants of the first Meetup of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig in Dresden.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On Monday, the Living Lab team met for the annual Living Lab workshop. At our premises in Dresden, the team discussed how to further improve our demonstrators – looking at topics such as demonstrator creation, support by AI agents, accessibility, corporate design, deployment and infrastructure. 💻

Photo. Daniel Spiering, John Stief, Oliver Welz, Apurv Deepak Kulkarni, Siavash Ghiasvand, Thomas Burghardt, Moritz Müller, and Neringa Jurenaite are standing outside of the office building at Strehlener Straße 14.

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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Work with us @scadsai.bsky.social ! We are looking for a Scientific Associate for Project Management (m/f/d/x) in Leipzig. Applications can be submitted until August 15, 2026. All details here : 👉 uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/7...

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