Sessions 2025
Machine Learning World Europe
17 - 18 November 2025 | Berlin

Check out the first sessions below

From Gut Feeling to Forecast Excellence: How Krombacher Achieved Industry-Leading Demand Forecasting

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From Gut Feeling to Forecast Excellence: How Krombacher Achieved Industry-Leading Demand Forecasting

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How to predict demand for Krombacher in the coming days? Discover how Krombacher built a state-of-the-art forecasting service that improves bottling processes, boosts planning reliability, and eases pressure on production control. Join Max on Krombacher’s journey—what worked, what didn’t, and how data science and technological innovation are driving smarter decisions in the brewing industry.

“A Global Voice Assistant for E-Cars: How NIO Leverages Machine Learning for Enhanced User Experience

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“A Global Voice Assistant for E-Cars: How NIO Leverages Machine Learning for Enhanced User Experience

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This talk will highlight how the electric car manufacturer NIO leverages machine learning to develop NOMI, the world’s first in-vehicle artificial intelligence. Olga will share lessons learned from integrating LLMs into the existing voice assistant architecture, including the challenges and opportunities this integration has presented for both the product and the organization.

Forecasting Public Expenditure (BAföG) Using LSTMs: A Multi-Task Learning Approach for Volatile Data

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Forecasting Public Expenditure (BAföG) Using LSTMs: A Multi-Task Learning Approach for Volatile Data

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Accurately forecasting expenditures is crucial for budgeting and policy planning. This session presents a multi-task LSTM model designed to predict annual federal student aid (BAföG) expenditures for the current and next two years. Using 16 state-level time series, it addresses extreme intra-year volatility, strong seasonality, and the risk of overfitting with small datasets. Attendees will gain insights into overcoming these challenges and improving real-world time series forecasting models.

Model Predictive Control for Automated Biologics Drug Product Manufacturing at Johnson & Johnson

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Model Predictive Control for Automated Biologics Drug Product Manufacturing at Johnson & Johnson

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The presentation will focus on the justification, development and implementation of an advanced control strategy for automating the dilution process in fill-finish manufacturing. The novel strategy includes the implementation of sensors, real-time data processing and modeling, combined with immediate process feedback control. This approach was implemented at Johnson & Johnson in the commercial facilities and allows to reach the target protein concentration with high accuracy despite process irregularities.

Why Transparency and Performance Need Not Be in Conflict: the Case of the Schufa-Score

Why Transparency and Performance Need Not Be in Conflict: the Case of the Schufa-Score

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The assumption, that modern, complex models automatically outperform older, simpler ones, still permeates many organisations and decision-makers. Niklas will show analytically (using Bias-Variance Trade-Off and the interpolation threshold) when this holds true and when simple, transparent models perform as well or better than the most sophisticated modern AI tools. He will showcase how he used this approach to design a new, fully transparent, high-performance credit score with the Schufa Holding AG.

Building Agentic AI Applications: Leveraging Both Proprietary and Open Source LLMs

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Building Agentic AI Applications: Leveraging Both Proprietary and Open Source LLMs

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Agentic approach represents the future of AI application development. Learn effective methods for creating AI agents that utilize both proprietary and open source LLMs, accompanied by practical demonstrations showing these agents collaborating to solve real industry challenges. The tech showcase will feature n8n as a low-code AI agents platform alongside Agno and CrewAI frameworks for Python-based AI agents. Also learn about vendor and custom built MCP servers & integrate it with AI Agents.

AI-powered Consumer Loan Pricing at ING

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AI-powered Consumer Loan Pricing at ING

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This presentation will delve into the suitability of various AI models and advanced analytics methods for pricing, addressing the preference between price elasticity and volume prediction models. Beyond the modeling approach, Katharina will show you strategies for identifying the right features, both generally and within the pricing context. Join Katharina to gain valuable insights into optimizing consumer loan pricing with AI at ING, a German direct bank.

Get EU AI Act Ready: Standards and Compliance for High-Risk AI

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Frank Stadler

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Get EU AI Act Ready: Standards and Compliance for High-Risk AI

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With the EU AI Act in place, achieving presumption of conformity for high-risk AI systems requires a clear strategy. This session provides a concrete overview of the current state of standardization and key harmonization efforts. Frank will examine how to apply essential standards for AI management systems, risk assessment frameworks, and conformity assessment processes. Participants will learn how to align their AI system with emerging regulatory expectations and efficiently navigate compliance.

Is Data Art? Using Machine Learning to Turn Data Into Beautiful Visualizations

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Is Data Art? Using Machine Learning to Turn Data Into Beautiful Visualizations

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Understanding data is hard. Visualization techniques help us to see the meaning in data and convey it to out audience. Neural networks can be tools to extract meaning from data and turn data into beautiful representations of its underlying structures. The session will be a hands-on demonstration on how to use visualization tools from clustering over self-organizing maps to deep learning-based variational autoencoders with the aim to create meaningful and beautiful data visualizations.

Accelerating Marketing Delivery: Axel Springer’s Journey to a Unified Next-Gen Automation Platform

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Justin Neumann

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Accelerating Marketing Delivery: Axel Springer’s Journey to a Unified Next-Gen Automation Platform

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Nils, Senior Data Engineer, and Justin, Senior Data Scientist, present a Case Study from publisher Axel Springer. They explain how isolated predictive use cases evolved into a next-gen marketing automation platform that speeds campaign delivery and drives subscriber growth. Justin covers their journey of ML use cases in marketing; Nils details data integrations that formed a unified Customer Data Chip and seamless automation platform. This session showcases a blueprint for marketing enablement.

edding: Bridging the AI-UX Gap in B2B SaaS through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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Klaus Breyer

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edding: Bridging the AI-UX Gap in B2B SaaS through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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Machine Learning adds complexity to product design—not just in implementation, but even more during product discovery, where user value is explored. At edding, the easycheck team transformed to an empowered product team, collaborating across disciplines by rethinking roles, rituals, and structures. This session shares insights on making ML research and implementation a first-class citizen and enabling product managers and designers to work with uncertain model outputs.

Revolutionizing Finance with AI: A Deep Dive into Novartis’ Approach

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Dr. Abel Yuste

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Revolutionizing Finance with AI: A Deep Dive into Novartis’ Approach

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In this session, we will explore how Data Science and Statistics are used at Novartis to disrupt financial forecasting, mitigate financial risks, and optimize commercial processes. Learn about our sales forecasting model that adapts to unpredictable “Black Swan” events, ensuring consistent performance. Furthermore, gain insights into our field force optimization using Causality concepts and Bayesian statistics.

From Assistants to Agents: Building AI That Acts, Not Just Answers

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Farah Ayadi

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From Assistants to Agents: Building AI That Acts, Not Just Answers

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AI is evolving from answering questions to solving problems autonomously. This keynote reveals how to build AI agents that plan, decide, and act, transforming industries from software development to customer service. Learn practical frameworks for creating trustworthy autonomous systems, proven strategies for user adoption, and a roadmap from simple assistants to fully autonomous agents. Discover why the organizations mastering AI agents today will define the next decade of innovation.

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