The Exner Lectures 2025
A day full of exchange, insight, and innovation!
20. November 2025
The program surrounding Exner medalist Sepp Hochreiter and his research topic, artificial intelligence, or more precisely Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM), was wonderfully inspiring:
After the Laureate’s Lecture, Hannah Rüdisser, Laura Kovacs, and Karl Kugler highlighted further aspects and areas of application, from space weather forecasts to automated reasoning and better cooperation between research and industry.
The subsequent break provided plentiful opportunity for further questions, discussions, and getting to know each other. Our open-topic poster session, “Milestones for a future worth living” brought together people from different generations, research fields, and professions. From the numerous posters on medical research, computer science, and the natural sciences, particularly noteworthy milestones were selected and honored with an award – congratulations!
In the evening, the event continued with a panel discussion on the topic “Caution brilliant: What AI can really do…”. A panel of experts consisting of the laureate, Doris Lippert, Alexander Schiebel, Daniel Müller-Gritschneder, and Jan Preibisch discussed current issues relating to the opportunities, risks, and potential of artificial intelligence.
What did we learn? AI is nothing to be afraid of. There’s a magnitude of chances and opportunities when it comes to new developments of specialized AI systems, specifically cut out to certain tasks. “There’s no use in being the generation that witnessed the AI revolution when we have the potential to be the generation that shaped the AI revolution.”
A big thank you: Not only to all the speakers, participants, and the event team, but also to those who took part in the poster session. We are already looking forward to the next event with you!
