Research and Innovation Summit’s next edition will take place on April 22, 2024, within the framework of HANNOVER MESSE 2024. Representatives from business and science as well as from politics and civil society will discuss the topic of innovations in Europe: catalysts, competencies, and cooperation, based on the example of AI. The Research and Innovation Summit is organized by the Stifterverband (Association for the Promotion of German Science), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI). It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

What is the best way for Germany and Europe to ensure prosperity, create value, and drive social progress using research and innovation? What are the necessary competencies and catalysts—i.e., critical decision points—and what is the required cooperation between industry and science? How can politics regulate and promote innovation? The example of AI demonstrates how important the answers to these questions are, because Europe has already largely lost ground on the leading nations in this area. So where does Europe stand in international AI competition? What impact will AI applications have on research, production, and the labor market, and how can we impart the necessary skills and drive cross-industry collaboration to create an AI-based economy? Prominent guests from business, science, politics and civil society will discuss these and other questions at the 2024 Research and Innovation Summit.

Next year’s Research and Innovation Summit will be held in cooperation with HANNOVER MESSE. The unique coupling of the world’s leading trade fair for industry with Germany’s leading forum for networking on research and innovation policy will link industry, politics, and science even more closely together and send a widely perceptible signal for Germany’s start into a new era and the rapid advancement of its standing as a hub of innovation. Leading companies from the fields of mechanical engineering, the electrical engineering, and digital industries as well as the energy sector will showcase their innovative products and solutions based on the use of artificial intelligence to promote greater efficiency and product quality at the world’s leading platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation.

Since 2015, influential personalities from business, science, civil society, and politics have gathered annually at the Research Summit to find the answers to key issues and challenges in research and innovations policy. In 2024, the Research Summit will be renamed the Research and Innovation Summit due to an expanded range of topics, but it will continue to be organized by the Stifterverband, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI), and the Volkswagen Foundation. As an interdisciplinary forum based in Berlin, it promotes dialog and networking and has established itself as a platform for high-level networking on innovations and research policy. Its goal is to strengthen Germany as a venue for innovations-based value creation and scientific breakthroughs.

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