CURATE Bootcamp in Košice: Successful kick-off for the EU-funded Ulysseus project
The first Bootcamp as part of the EU-funded CURATE project took place in Košice on 7 and 8 April. The event was hosted by the Technical University of Košice (TUKE), which is working with five other partner universities in the Ulysseus network to set up an innovative, student-centred incubator programme.
Final presentation in the project seminar “Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld“
The project seminar ‘Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld’ ends with the presentation of the results of all seven students.
The goal of the project seminar, which focused on the integration of documents from the decentralised and separate wikis and the transfer of the intranet into an AI-supported knowledge management system using the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system, was achieved. From now on, contextualised answers will be possible and internal data sources of the city of Krefeld will be used that are not available to public GenAI models.
AIS welcomes the new cohort of AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship
Each year, the Assocciation for Information Systems (AIS) selects six international doctoral students to receive the AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship. We are delighted to announce that Shariga Sivanathan, PhD student and staff member at Prof. Tobias Brandt's Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector, has been named one of the Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship Students for 2025.
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Kick-off of the project seminar “Retrieval Augemented Generation at the City of Krefeld”
On 24 October 2024, the project seminar ‘Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld’ had its kick-off at REACH, where seven students will be working together this semester.
“On the Pivotal Role of Data in Sustainability Transformations – Challenges and Opportunities” published in Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal
Sustainability and data are closely linked and form the foundation of today's endeavours for a more sustainable future. This is precisely why the first conference on sustainability and data took place last September, allowing participants to join in virtually via Zoom.
Exciting News from the MOTO-Project!
The MOTO project, which originated from the project seminar "Development of a coordination app for open all-day care at Altenberge elementary school “, has started. The project seminar of the Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector of Prof. Tobias Brandt was conducted during the Winter Semester 2023/24.
WI 2024
The 19th International Conference on Information Systems took place at the University of Würzburg from September 16 to 19 this year. The conference is the most important event in Information Systems in the German-speaking world and offers scientists, entrepreneurs, and young professionals the opportunity to learn about current research and enables an exchange between research and practice.