Mai ist für AI: Closing Night - One Last Conversation

After a month of workshops, panels, and critical conversations, Mai ist für AI 2026 closes with an evening dedicated to the questions that don't have clean answers.

This final gathering turns toward the human dimensions of artificial intelligence: how we think, how we build, how we protect the mind, and how we create. Across talks and an audiovisual closing performance, we explore what it means to remain thoughtful, autonomous, and creative in an era increasingly shaped by machine intelligence.

The programme is still taking shape, with additional speakers to be announced.

What we can promise: an evening that refuses easy conclusions.

Confirmed Speakers

Philipp Eckert is a product leader and engineer who has spent over a decade working at the intersection of technology, teams, and product strategy. His talk, The Skill AI Can't Learn, argues that the age of the "human compiler" is ending, and that the engineers who thrive will be the ones who master critical thinking, systems awareness, and outcome ownership rather than output speed.

Esther Jaromitski is a scholar, published novelist, and Senior Adviser on Internet Governance at the UK Government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Her PhD research at Queen Mary University of London, funded by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, examines international criminal law and global technology regulation. A former legal adviser to the EU Delegation to the United Nations, her talk Thinking Freely: The Battle for Cognitive Liberty makes the case for enshrining the right to mental autonomy in an age where AI can shape belief at scale.

+ More speakers to be confirmed.

The evening will close with an audiovisual performance exploring the boundaries and convergence of AI and human creativity.

Doors open 17:30 | 42 Berlin Campus, Harzerstraße 42, Neukölln

Free admission. Limited capacity.

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