Opening Remarks & Welcome — HAICON26
Speaker: Martin Hrabe de Angelis (Opening Remarks); Fabian Theis (Helmholtz AI in 2026); Marie Piraud (Program Outlook) Affiliation: Helmholtz Munich Date: June 9, 2026 Time: 11:00–12:00pm Session: Opening Remarks & Welcome Recorded at the Helmholtz AI Conference (HAICON26), June 9–11, 2026. More info: https://haicon.cc/conference-program/ About this opening session: Includes an introduction by the moderators, opening remarks, an overview of Helmholtz AI activities in 2026, and a program outlook for the conference. Session Chairs: Hannah Spitzer, Helmholtz Munich; Steffen Schneider, Helmholtz Munich

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Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - Richard Campbell - 2026

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Lost (and found) in latent land: applications to weather and climate — Pierre Gentine | HAICON26

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Bridging Perception and Logic — J.J. Gebele, Univ. Würzburg | HAICON26

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AI and the Future of Medicine — D. Rückert, TUM | HAICON26

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Arthur Mensch, co-founder of Mistral AI, is being questioned at the National Assembly - 12/05/2026

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Closed environments: From low tech to high tech, lessons learned & best practices

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AI has hacked the code of human civilization | Yuval Noah Harari

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Lisa Eckhart, ist das lustig? | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

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The final filmed interview with Sir Alex Younger, the late MI6 chief | The Economist

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AMPFormer: A Peptide Foundation Model for Antimicrobial Discovery — P. Gawade, Helmholtz Munich/ TUM

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6 Tips on Being a Successful Entrepreneur | John Mullins | TED

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Leveraging Multi-Modal Representations — S. Jegelka, TUM / MIT | HAICON26

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Human-in-the-loop Concept Discovery and Curation in Vision Foundation Models — H. Lim | HAICON26

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Chichvarkin Saves Putin | Vitaly Portnikov

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Deep Graph Learning for Temporal Data — I. Scholtes, University of Würzburg | HAICON26

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URGENT UPDATE - Iran War Expert: A Mass Casualty Attack Is Coming! | Robert Pape

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Reliable and Sustainable AI for Scientific Discovery — G. Kutyniok, LMU Munich | HAICON26

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Super-KI? Die große Lüge der Tech-Konzerne

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Beyond the AI hype: Where we really stand and what awaits us

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