Industry Day – IJCAI 2026

Date: Wednesday, 19th of August

Industry Day can also be booked separately for USD 150. Registration is available through the IJCAI registration portal.

Sponsor Presentations

Details on the sessions will be published in the conference app.

10:30–11:00	DeepL
11:00–11:30	Coffee Break
11:30–12:00	T-Systems
12:00–12:30	SAP
12:30–14:00	Lunch Break
14:00–15:00	Team Neusta & CONTACT Software
15:00–16:00	Land Bremen: Interactive Startup Session with Startups from Bremen

Program in Detail

10:30–11:00 DeepL

Breaking Down Language Barriers: How to Translate Docs and Live Voices at Scale

Speakers: Leonie Neuhäußer, Kristina Geißler

Join us for an insider’s look at the cutting edge of real-time AI translation. Discover how DeepL is tackling complex research challenges to break down global communication barriers, followed by interactive live demos of its high-scale Voice and Document translation technologies.

11:30–12:00 T-Systems

Industrial AI Cloud: Sovereign AI Empowering a European Ecosystem

Speaker: Björn Weidenmüller, Senior Vice President AI Factory Go-to-Market, T-Systems International GmbH

Discover how T-Systems’ Industrial AI Cloud combines sovereign operations in Germany, 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, and a growing European partner ecosystem.

Explore how the platform supports applications including European foundation models such as SOOFI, high-fidelity digital twins, and real-time physical predictions for engineering and industry.

12:00–12:30 SAP

Agents Need Meaning: Why Enterprise AI Requires Knowledge Graphs and Semantically Linked Tables

Speaker: Mulang Onando, Lead KG Researcher at SAP

Enterprise AI must go beyond language to understand the meaning, relationships, and context embedded in business data.

This session explores how SAP brings together Business Knowledge Graphs, foundation models for semantically linked tabular data, and agentic systems to build Business AI that can understand enterprise context, make predictions, reason, and act, with these capabilities ultimately coming together in SAP Joule.

14:00–15:00 Team Neusta & CONTACT Software

Speakers:

Udo Gödel — Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, CONTACT Software
Jörn Syrbe — Head of AI Systems, Team Neusta

15:00–16:00 Startups from Bremen

From Business Challenge to AI Solution: An Interactive Startup Session

Speakers:

Rafael Reisenhofer — Count from Above
Chris Robin Wübbeler — ellamind
Dr. Christian Geier — prokube

Moderation: Mareike Mgwelo, Starthaus Bremen & Bremerhaven

What happens when AI founders bring their most pressing challenges on stage?

This interactive session brings together three Bremen-based AI startups: Count from Above, ellamind and prokube.

The founders will introduce their companies, explain the problems they are solving and share insights into their entrepreneurial journeys. Most importantly, each startup will present a business challenge it is currently facing.

This is where the IJCAI community comes in. Researchers, AI experts and industry practitioners are invited to contribute ideas, share relevant approaches and explore how AI could help address these challenges.

Join us for an open exchange between startups, science and industry, and help turn today’s questions into tomorrow’s solutions.