Helmholtz Munich is a research center with the mission to discover personalized medical solutions for environmentally triggered diseases to promote a healthier society in a rapidly changing world. Germany's largest research organization, the Helmholtz Association, launched Helmholtz AI: This dedicated interdisciplinary platform develops and promotes applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for the Association's main research fields (Health, Energy, Earth and Environment, Information, Space, Matter) in collaboration with its external and university partners. Its central unit operates at Helmholtz Munich in Munich. Our mission is to enable research scientists to leverage AI methods optimally. The Munich consultant team is focusing on Health and collaborates with researchers from the whole Association on projects on cancer and infection research, molecular medicine, as well as neurodegenerative and environmental diseases.

The evening starts with a pre-meetup, hands-on workshop from 5-6:45 PM. This is perfect if you're new to KNIME Analytics Platform. After a short introduction to the tool, you'll build your first workflow, which reads and pre-processes some customer data before training a machine learning model. At the end of the workshop, we'll show you different options to deploy the trained machine learning model using KNIME Server. After the workshop, we invite you to refuel on some snacks and drinks before the talks start at 7:15 PM.

Modern technology makes it possible to sequence individual cells and to identify which genes are currently being expressed in each cell. These methods are sensitive and consequently error prone. Devices, environment and biology itself can be responsible for failures and differences between measurements. Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München joined forces with colleagues from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the British Wellcome Sanger Institute and have developed algorithms that make it possible to predict and correct such sources of error. The work was published in'Nature Methods' and'Nature Communications'.

Artificial intelligence has been a hot subject in real estate for a few years now and while some remain uncomfortable with the fast-growing trend, others are already saving time and money by using such technologies in their businesses. While AI has its challenges, the potential gains for the industry far outweigh them. In one of the opening panels of 2018's Expo Real, the yearly international real estate and investment conference taking place in München, Bastian Schulz, head of sales at Leverton; Sascha Donner, co-founder & head of product at startup Evana; Matthew Webster, CFO of Cloudscraper; and Nicolai Wendland, COO of 21st Real Estate, shared their vision on how AI could shape the industry. The highest goal for real estate professionals using AI seems to be the simplification of the acquisition process, at a larger scale. "There is no bigger vision than imagining the process of purchasing one property with one click, like we do with shares. We will be there soon, in a few years," Wendland said.