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MLcon Berlin 2025 - Hybrid Edition

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35Voices
19Underwriters
0Exhibitors
15On the bill · sessions
52Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at MLcon, in alphabetical order.
Adrian Boguszewski
Intel
Agata Chudzinska
theBlue.ai GmbH
Amit Bendor
Artlist
Arno Haase
Arno Haase Consulting
Ayelet Arditi
Sisense
Burak Aytan
TURKCELL
Carsten Breithaupt
Lufthansa
Carsten Thalheimer
MySQL HeatWave
Charles Humble
Conissaunce Ltd
Christoph Börner
Botium GmbH
Christoph Henkelmann
DIVISIO GmbH
Dr. Majid Baa Wafaa
RecomAI
Dr. Tobias Brambach
Point 8 GmbH
Hauke Brammer
DeepUp GmbH
Intekhab Alam
NVIDIA
Jeff Blankenburg
Amazon Alexa
Jens Beyer
LAVRIO.solutions GmbH
Jeroen Boeye
Faktion
John Davies
Incept5
Jon Bratseth
Yahoo
Joris Boeye
ZF Wind Power
Jovan Cicvaric
Optocycle GmbH

— and 13 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Nebius B.V.Gold
E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbHSilver
knowis AGSilver
Sparx Systems Pty Ltd.Bronze
AI & ML EventsMedia Partner
AI Press RoomMedia Partner
Capitalbay NewsMedia Partner
DevITMedia Partner
DevITJobs.ukMedia Partner
Dev IT Jobs USMedia Partner
devmioConference Organizer
Digital ExpertMedia Partner
German Tech JobsMedia Partner
iteratec GmbHSpecial
Neo4j, Inc.Discovery Day Partner
SimplitoDiscovery Day Partner
Times of AIMedia Partner
UNITE AIMedia Partner
Z PlatformMedia Partner
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The Programme

Selected from 15 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:15 - 11:00

    Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Managing AI Risk in Practice

    The conversation around AI compliance has matured — it’s no longer about checklists, it’s about control. In this joint session, Komplyzen and Modulos.ai explore how organizations c…

    AI Strategy & Governance
  • 10:15 - 11:00

    Breaking down an LLM for its parts

    AI has been around for many years, we’ve been using text to speech and speech to text for over a decade, Siri, Alexa etc., cameras could follow faces a decade ago. However, the maj…

    Generative AI & Agents
  • 10:15 - 11:00

    Teaching Machines to See and Read: The Science and Applications of Multimodal AI

    Multimodality represents one of AI's most fascinating and business-actionable frontiers, yet its potential remains largely untapped. In this session, we'll explore multimodal archi…

    ML & Deep Learning
  • 11:30 - 12:15

    AI Agents Unplugged: No Frameworks, Just Code

    This talk provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building AI agents using only Python and an LLM API. Starting from a basic API call, we'll progressively add capabilities: pro…

    Generative AI & Agents
  • 11:30 - 12:15

    Building a Native LLM Product: Hard Lessons, Unexpected Challenges, and Real Opportunities

    What does it really take to build a product powered by large language models? In this talk, we’ll share an honest, behind-the-scenes look at launching an LLM-native application.

    AI Strategy & Governance
  • 11:30 - 12:15

    ConvNeXt - The Image Processing Powerhouse

    Vision transformers have been all the rage for computer vision, as they have pushed the performance of computer vision systems to new heights thanks to the pretraining and scaling …

    AI Developer Tools
  • 14:30 - 15:15

    Building AI That Learns and Adapts: A Case Study in MRI Diagnostics

    Explore how AI and continual learning can revolutionize MRI diagnostics, using our real-world case study in detecting Focal Cortical Dysplasias (FCD)—a crucial factor in epilepsy t…

    ML & Deep Learning
  • 14:30 - 15:15

    Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable

    The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) since early 2023 has fundamentally shifted IT's environmental footprint. Major tech companies now have electricity consumption eq…

    AI Strategy & Governance
  • 14:30 - 15:15

    The HeatWave ML Cloud Service: Easy and fast machine learning for your MySQL data

    MySQL HeatWave is a cloud-based database service that integrates transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning into a single MySQL database...

    AI Developer Tools
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 52 companies, parsed from the program.

“52 companies in attendance.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
19Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
33Companies Speakingspeaker only
№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority
  • Other roles35100%

Of 35 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AI & ML EventsSp·M
  2. 02AI Press RoomSp·M
  3. 03Capitalbay NewsSp·M
  4. 04DevITSp·M
  5. 05DevITJobs.ukSp·M
  6. 06Dev IT Jobs USSp·M
  7. 07devmioSp·C
  8. 08Digital ExpertSp·M
  9. 09E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbHSp·S
  10. 10German Tech JobsSp·M
  11. 11iteratec GmbHSp·S
  12. 12knowis AGSp·S
  13. 13NebiusSp·G
  14. 14Neo4jSp·D
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold1
5% of 19
silver2
11% of 19
bronze1
5% of 19
conference organizer1
5% of 19
discovery day partner2
11% of 19
media partner11
58% of 19
special1
5% of 19
№ 05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters