AI Investigation Platform:

Gaining Clarity in Criminal Cases Learn about a Cloud-based AI platform accelerating critical investigations! SöZe analyzes large data volumes to detect complex connections and provide essential transparency.

Autonomous Driving Test Rig:

Simulating Reality on a Bike See an innovative demonstrator connecting a bicycle with the CARLA simulation platform. The integrated AI-Core enables accurate recognition of traffic signs and objects for robust ADAS validation.

The appliedAI Institute is located in the visitor center of the IPAI Spaces in Heilbronn. The Institute’s goal is to introduce the topic of trustworthy artificial intelligence to the people of Heilbronn and beyond. We achieve this by training and inspiring professionals in the application of trustworthy AI. Our offerings include a variety of on-site events, such as workshops, guided tours, AI demonstrations, and meetups. The Institute is aimed at anyone who works with artificial intelligence in a professional capacity, including individuals without a technical background. We see ourselves as a networking hub for the local ecosystem in Heilbronn and aim to spread the knowledge gained here beyond the borders of Heilbronn.

AI-based robotics as the key to the future

AI-based robotics opens up new opportunities to counter the shortage of skilled workers and meet increasing demands for easier work, productivity and efficiency. Whether through flexible robotic hands, intelligent mobile manipulators or humanoid systems – the combination of artificial intelligence and robotics creates applications that were previously almost impossible to realize technically or economically. At the IXD, we show how research is being carried out on these pioneering technologies in our new laboratories in the IPAI Spaces. Using the example of mobile robotics and mobile manipulation, we will be presenting robot platforms that we have developed ourselves. We also provide insights into how the principles of „learning by doing“ and „learning in simulation“ are used to develop new robot capabilities and transfer them into real applications. In this way, we demonstrate how intelligent, flexible or mobile manipulators can be used in a wide variety of areas in the future – from production and laboratory environments to retail, construction and agriculture.

The Education Space offers a variety of opportunities to engage with Artificial Intelligence.

Mirokaï is a versatile humanoid robot designed to perform logistical tasks in social environments like hospitals or hotels, while its human-like appearance facilitates interaction.

AI Computer Vision:

Smart Produce Identification at SCO Discover the Schwarz Group’s real-time product classification solution for self-checkouts (SCO). The AI system identifies over 100 fruit and vegetable varieties with high accuracy (> 98%) and low latency (0.05 seconds). This highly successful pilot improves the speed and overall customer shopping experience.

Knowledge Management: Closing Gaps with LLM Interface

Learn about an enterprise LLM-based chat interface for accessing distributed data. It includes a module that extracts and structures knowledge from expert interviews, helping teams proactively close knowledge gaps.

AI & Robotics: Autonomous Systems in Production

AI-Robotics combines physical robot capabilities with the cognitive power of AI. Machines perceive, learn, and adapt, transforming robots into intelligent systems –act autonomously and respond to complexity.

Data & AI Program: Future Production Drivers

Data and data products are essential technology drivers to meet the requirement of future production in terms of attractiveness, sustainability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.

ProcessGuardAIn: Collaborative Data Product Tool

A comprehensive tool enabling data scientists and domain experts to collaboratively develop, test, and operate data products. It offers monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to significantly enhance transparency and efficiency in daily operations.

ICV-Demonstrator: Automated Crack Detection

AI detects cracks in images, robust against interference. Developed with Fraunhofer, it delivers interpretable results and reduces operator workload. Already deployed in press shops in Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm, and Wolfsburg, it ensures more efficient inspection processes and improves quality assurance.

BITBW: Unlocking Potential through

Collaborative AI Innovation The State of Baden-Württemberg is committed to advancing the use of artificial intelligence in public administration. In  oining the IPAI community, the central IT service provider BITBW seeks long-term partnerships with members who share a collaborative spirit and a strategic mindset. Through knowledge exchange and joint innovation, BITBW aims to unlock new potential for AI-driven public services and contribute to sustainable progress in the region

Startup Spotlight: 8-10 Innovation

Pitches & Exhibition Join the dedicated Startup Area to meet 8 to 10 cutting-edge startups presenting their products and vision. Experience rapid 30-minute rotation cycles, where each startup shares their insights before a quick changeover to the next innovator. This is your fast-track opportunity to discover new products!

AI-Powered Supply Chain: Forecasting Sales & Material Needs
Explore how ebm-papst is transforming operations and customer experience with AI. They showcase their cutting-edge AI-powered forecasting solution for S&OP planning, designed to enhance supply chain agility and decision-making. Additionally, discover the service platform for fans, enabling applications like intelligent diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and seamless integration into digital ecosystems. See how AI is driving the future of ventilation technology.

Conversational Analytics: Unleashing Date with Exasol MCP

Discover Exasol’s MCP, which merges AI and high-performance data to unlock true conversational analytics. Exasol’s platform is the perfect foundation for agentic workflows, meeting their strict concurrency and scale requirements. Empower your entire organization to query data using natural language and make fast, AI-driven decisions.

AI Material ID: Smart Substrate Detection

Experience the new AI-powered material recognition tool. The ‚tap test‘ instantly identifies substrates (concrete, brick, etc.) using
sound analysis for correct fixing selection.

AI Assistant: Application Engineering

Discover fischer’s AI Assistant that supports technical application teams. Provides instant, expert-level advice on product selection and installation for complex scenarios.

BauBot: Robotic Construction Automation

See the BauBot fastening robot on screen. It performs fully automated drilling and fixing on large construction sites, increasing productivity, precision, and safety through digital planning.

GEMÜ g:nius: Internal AI for Knowledge & Workflow Automation

Discover GEMÜ g:nius, their recently launched internal AI Knowledge and Process Agent. This intelligent agent drives process and workflow
automation, sharing expertise across the organization. Learn how g:nius acts as a digital turbocharger to boost efficiency and accelerate internal operations.

Hologram: Chiplets for automotive Applications

Automotive semiconductor technologies are crucial to making mobility more sustainable, safe, and affordable. Silicon performance is rapidly replacing horsepower as the foremost differentiator between car models.

The compute performance needed to drive next-generation ADAS/AD and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) is immense. Soon, every car will need a supercomputer on board, which cannot solely run on chips that rely on monolithic IC design.

Chiplet architectures, combining chips designed to perform specific functions efficiently, will allow car OEMs to aim for cost-effective systems tailored to the demands of various applications. And quickly adapt those systems across car models and model generations by swapping chiplets, not unlike LEGO blocks.

Shaping the AI Ecosystem: From Regional Hubs to European Research

Visit the German AI Association booth to explore the diversity and innovation of current AI projects within our ecosystem.
As part of the AI Federal Association, German AI Association promotes value-centric, transparent AI, supporting non-profit projects and applied research.

Discover the network of regional hubs (like AI Village and IPAI) and European research (TrustLLM, DeployAI) that actively build a responsible AI future.

Porsche Consulting: From Zero to Agent Hero in 15 Minutes

Discover our fast-paced approach to AI upskilling. Learn how to turn a Copilot AI Agent from concept into a working solution in just 15 minutes. Join us every full hour.

Porsche Engineering Group: Lessons Learned from AI Initiative

Explore insights from the Porsche Engineering Group AI initiative. They showcase how they proved efficiency gains by establishing defect management as an AI product. Join this session the second half of every hour.

Vitality Check: Health Monitoring via Phone Camera

Smart technology measures vital values (blood pressure, stress level) in 30 seconds via the phone camera, strengthening occupational health management.

AI Security Scan: 5-Minute Attack Surface Report

Get an immediate, on-site security check. The AI platform delivers a report showing your attack surface with actionable recommendations in just 5 minutes.

AI Red Teaming: Penetration Testing for AI Apps

Our experts perform AI Penetration Tests to check your KI applications for vulnerabilities. Automated and manual scans identify protection gaps and provide concrete actions. Business GPT: Secure Enterprise AI Platform An innovative AI platform in a secure environment that automates
repetitive tasks and reduces costs. Ensures confidentiality while supporting multilingual collaboration.

AI meets precision:

SCHUNK’s gripping systems are evolving into intelligent assistants and solutions. With the 2D Grasping Kit, we showcase how machines learn to grasp reliably and efficiently in an Industrial context.

Discover the next level of automation driven by AI.

TUM VL: AI Innovation and Startup Ecosystem

Visit the TUM Venture Labs stand to meet the next generation of deep-tech startups and explore technology transfer from academia. Identify new investment and collaboration opportunities within the high-tech AI landscape.

Forecasting AI: Forecast-as-a-Service for Logistics

Discover foresaight.ai, the AI-based Forecast-as-a-Service solution for the logistics sector. The solution provides highly accurate forecasts for staffing, production, and inventory, optimizing resources and reducing business risks.

PICO in Apple CarPlay & 1Plus: AI Tools for Field Sales

Discover how Würth’s AI-powered assistants, the SFA Tool 1Plus and the voice and chatbot PICO make sales work smarter through optimized route planning, intelligent product recommendations with instant data and automated communication.

Würth Lens: Visual Product Search

Explore how Würth Lens turns a single photo into instant product identification and connects our customers and sales teams to the right Würth item within seconds.

Industrial Robot: Predictive Maintenance in Action

Experience Würth Industry’s mobile robot combining automation and AI-powered thermal analysis to detect maintenance needs before they cause downtime.

Synthetic Data Pipeline: Robust AI via Diffusion Models

Explore XITASO’s Computer Vision showcase featuring a pipeline for synthetic data generation using diffusion models. This tool extends datasets with generated images to cover edge cases where real-world data is costly (e.g., autonomous aerial and road vehicles).

Experience the interactive demo where you can use text prompts to create new training samples for robust perception models that generalize better in new situations.

AI Showcase: Transforming the Automotive Industry

Tender Toucan:
Audi and XL2 present a joint solution that transforms tender analysis.Powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), it delivers a fully automated pre-analysis by seamlessly matching requirements with supplier proposals. The result? Faster, smarter comparisons of specifications and offers—driving efficiency and accelerating decisions.

AI-Quiz:
XL2 presents an interactive AI-powered quiz. The interface is fully coded by AI, and every question is generated by AI —creating a dynamic, engaging and fun experience that showcases the future of intelligent interaction.

Empowering Education: AI Literacy for Over 1.6 Million Teachers and Students

The AI Center for Schools empowers 143,929 teachers and 8,600 trainee teachers in Baden-Württemberg to use AI in education responsibly and effectively. Its goal is to enable 1,508,779 students to benefit from AI-supported learning – independent of social background and within legal frameworks. The center advances AI literacy through teacher training, educational resources, and collaboration across education, research, and EdTech.

Pharia Engineering: Accelerating Time-to-Market with Sovereign AI

Join Aleph Alpha to discover Pharia Engineering, the comprehensive AI suite for the manufacturing and automotive industries. Learn how Pharia empowers your teams to reduce complexity, eliminate late-stage errors, and significantly speed up product development cycles.

Intelligent AI Agents in Teamwork: How Würth and appliedAI are Shaping the Future of Order Management

Join Würth & appliedAI to discover a revolutionary prototype of a multi-AI agent system that is redefining sales processes. The system not only identifies errors in orders but acts autonomously, leveraging customer data to propose customized terms and conditions. Experience how an integrated email agent actively gathers feedback, creating a seamless and highly efficient collaboration between AI and humans.

Keynotes:

1. „State of AI – Agents as new Co-Workers“, Andreas Liebl, Managing Director appliedAI Initiative, 3:30-3:45 PM.

2. Case „Intelligente KI-Agenten im Teamwork: Wie Würth mit appliedAI die Zukunft der Auftragskorrektur gestaltet“, Mingyang Ma, Head of Agentic AI Solutions Development – appliedAI Initiative, Andreas Fertig, Product Manager/Senior Data Scientist -Würth, 3:45-4:05 PM (German)

3. „Insight Mittelstandsprogramm“, das KI Mittelstandsprogramm von appliedAI, Dr. Philipp Hartmann, Director of AI Strategy – appliedAI Initiative, 4:05-4:20 PM (German)

AI Terminal: Smart Document Capture for Public Services

Touch-based kiosk for automated document intake. Guides citizens and employees step-by-step – from ID verification to final data handoff. Uses AI to digitize and classify documents in real time.

Intelligence Model: Translating Problems into Solutions

Bechtle’s proprietary AI model simplifies IT issues. It translates natural language problem descriptions into direct, actionable solutions. Hands-on demo available.

Marine Debris Detection: Saving Oceans with

Computer Vision Project uses Computer Vision and satellite imagery to identify plastic in oceans in near real-time. Supports targeted clean-up efforts.

ADI Microservices: Sovereign Document Processing

Discover how Adaptive Document Intelligence (ADI) Microservices solve the challenges of inefficient LLM-based document processing.

These specialized, smaller ML models operate within your own domain, ensuring full data sovereignty and compliance.

Learn how to automate document management efficiently while avoiding vendor lock-in and high cloud-resource consumption.

Robotics AI: Live Automation for Sites

Uses cameras, robots and drones to capture live data. Delivers real-time progress reports for contruction site automation.

ReguBIM AI: Compliance Revolution

Generative AI assistant that streamlines regulatory verification and ensures building design compliance.

Smart Safety: AI Monitoring

Enhancing site safely using a wide network reach and smart AI CCTC. Improves overall worker safety monitoring.

Human-Centric AI: Designing Ethical Solutions

Discover the Design Principles for developing human-centric AI solutions.

The team from Fraunhofer IAO (KODIS) will present the principles and lead an interactive market discussion to gather feedback from members and partners.

Join the session to actively shape the future guidelines for responsible and accepted AI development!

Deutschlandplattform: Secure Multicloud for Administration

This platform provides a modern, scalable, and secure Multicloud runtime environment. It serves as the standardized operating base for new governmental applications across the public sector.

MEDI:CUS: AI-Ready Health Data Platform

Discover the Health Data Platform Baden-Württemberg (MEDI:CUS). This AI-enabled platform fosters innovation and collaboration within the health sector for better patient outcomes.

LIDL STIFTUNG

The Route Planning Challenge

A hands-on experience that brings the complexity of route planning at Lidl to life. This interactive exhibit visually demonstrates the value of a route planning optimizer. We show how to tackle complex logistics problems with AI to deliver measurable business value.

SCHWARZ IT

Schwarz AI Computer Vision & AIoT

The Schwarz Group fruit and vegetable solution includes real-time product classification at self-checkouts to simplify the purchasing process for customers. This AI-powered system uses image detection and classification models to identify over 100 fruit and vegetable varieties with high accuracy (> 98% Top 4) and low latency (0.05 seconds). Pilot projects are currently running in the UK and the Netherlands, receiving extremely positive customer feedback.

Data Pipelines: Driving Product Optimization

Explore MAHLE’s robust data pipeline infrastructure. It enables the continuous processing and analysis of engineering data for advanced component and system optimization.

AI Climate Control: Optimized Thermal Management

Discover the use of AI in vehicle thermal management. The system intelligently optimizes HVAC performance for enhanced passenger comfort and energy efficiency.

AI: Enabling Smarter Business Decisions

Learn how MAHLE utilizes AI across the enterprise. Focuses on transforming data into actionable insights to support faster, more precise strategic business decisions.

AI Data Optimization with Process Intelligence

Discover how MANN+HUMMEL uses Process Intelligence combined with AI for optimizing their material master data. This drives faster, cleaner data for better procurement and production planning.

HR AI Expert „Annie“: Enhancing Employee Service

Meet „Annie,“ the HR AI Service Expert embedded in SharePoint transforms how we engage and enable employees to navigate through processes with real time expert support in local language reducing content overload, trainings and communication.

Material Compliance Agent

Learn more about the AI Knowledge Base for material compliance. This asset translates complex material and regulatory data into a single source of truth, enabling robust downstream GenAI applications that automate validation, reduce risk, and accelerate product releases.

MANN+HUMMEL AI Marketplace

Explore the internal AI Marketplace. This platform enables the rapid deployment and scaling of AI-powered solutions across the enterprise, while driving data democratization and preventing duplication of efforts.

Factory Copilot

A GenAI manufacturing multi-agent connects to your production databases to surface real-time KPIs via dynamic, role-based dashboards that update as conditions change. It uses AI to detect anomalies, forecast bottlenecks, and recommend actionable optimizations – like schedule tweaks, inventory reorder points, and parameter adjustments – to improve throughput, quality, and uptime.

FAHKIR: AI-Supported Digital Fugitive Search

Explore FAHKIR, the digital system enhancing police operations. It leverages digital data and connectivity to dramatically accelerate the tracking and identification of fugitives.

AI-Optimized Fee Management

Discover the internal systems used for Fee Management. This project showcases the automation and efficiency of administrative processes through smart technology solutions.

KIRKE/F13: Generative AI for Public Service

See real-world use cases of KIRKE / F13, the digital-sovereign AI assistant developed for the state administration. It supports police and administrative staff with research, text analysis, text summary and transcription/translation.

Driving the Future: Mobility, Rehabilitation, and SYNPLI

Veigel showcases its diverse mobility solutions: manufacturing dual control pedals for the driving school market and specialized rehabilitation mobility products. Discover SYNPLI, the company’s innovation initiative focused on building the driving school ecosystem of the future using new technologies.

Mixed Reality: Enterprise Software on Apple Vision Pro

Discover the integration of SAP Enterprise Software with the Apple Vision Pro. See how SAP leverages Mixed Reality to deliver immersive, intuitive workflows and innovative user experiences in business processes.

Joule for Retail: AI-Powered Campaign Generation

Explore Joule for Retail, SAP’s AI copilot that brings intelligence to the retail sector. Joule provides AI-based recommendations for personalized customer engagement and automates the generation of retail marketing campaigns.

AI Computer Vision: Smart Produce Identification at SCO

Discover the Schwarz Group’s real-time product classification solution for self-checkouts (SCO). The AI system identifies over 100 fruit and vegetable varieties with high accuracy (> 98%) and low latency (0.05 seconds). This highly successful pilot improves the speed and overall customer shopping experience.

GenAI: Software Modernization & Management

An interactive demo showing how Generative AI assists management by accelerating software revival and modernization and complex development processes.

Showpiece: The LLM Evasion Challenge

Engage in a fun, interactive Pacman-style installation. Your challenge: trick an LLM into revealing a secret password, highlighting large language model security and prompt engineering.

Computer Vision: Cyclist Detection

See how Computer Vision accurately identifies cyclists, enabling smarter traffic management and safety solutions.

LLM Traffic Analysis

Discover the application of a Large Language Model (LLM) for the in-depth analysis of complex traffic and mobility models, providing actionable insights.

AIOPS in IT Service Operations

Learn about the deployment of AI systems to manage and optimize the IT Service Operations and how this enables more efficient and reliable business operations.

HeinzAI: The Digital Twin for Knowledge & Team Power

Discover HeinzAI, the proprietary Digital Corporate Twin transforming knowledge management and collaboration.

These AI assistants interconnect and share knowledge in real-time, delivering insights exactly where needed.

Experience how HeinzAI ensures no expertise is lost, maximizing efficiency, and creating a smarter, faster team while mitigating risk.

On-Edge ML: Early Detection of Ball Bearing Damage

Explore our Data & AI project focused on Predictive Maintenance using on-edge machine learning. The solution analyzes sensor data in real-time to detect potential ball bearing damage early.

Learn how this technology enables needs-based maintenance planning and prevents costly equipment failures.

THE AI DISTRICT OF THE FUTURE

With the start of construction on the IPAI CAMPUS, IPAI is taking the next step toward becoming an international center for Artificial Intelligence. On 30 hectares, a place is being created where research, industry, and society will collaboratively shape Europe’s digital future – open, connected, and sovereign.