Join us in France this year for the 25th edition of the Brain Connectivity Workshop, for which our lab lead, Dr. Prof. Petra Ritter, will serve as a program committee member. This important milestone edition of the BCW continues the tradition of bringing early-career and senior scientists together for workshops and in-depth discussions on the

We are excited to announce that Dr. Petra Ritter will speak at the 2026 bio:cap event at CityCube Berlin. Taking place between 9th and 11th of June 2026, bio:cap is Europe’s Life Science & AI Investival with one clear mission: connecting breakthrough science to the funding that turns ideas into impact. We are also excited to welcome you to our [TEF exhibition bo

Our lab lead Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter and members of our team will be present at the TEF-Health event this June. Come participate in this public event to learn more about the present and future of trusted AI in real-world applications and environments.

Information from the official website:

We are excited to announce the TEF-Health Event 2026 in Berlin, highlighting the crucial role of Test

On the 27th of May 2026, Dr. Petra Ritter will be participating in a panel on AI in health: shaping the future organised by CEPS and PwC.

The panel will take place at CEPS in Brussels. The other panellists are:

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Petra Ritter will participate in a panel at the GCTF Conference, New Frontiers in Global Health Cooperation: Health System Resiliency. The conference is presented by by the Taipei Representative Office in the Federal Republic of Germany and the U.S. Embas

Join us from 21-22 May 2026 in Munich to co-create the EBRAINS 10-year Roadmap 2026–2036 — a shared vision and implementation plan for the next decade of digital neuroscience in Europe.

Contributions to the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap 2026-2036 will be discussed and debated during the Symposium. The selected proposals are available [here](https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2026/ebrains-publishes-co

Dr. Petra Ritter will be speaking at The Impact of AI in Healthcare event in Milan, Italy on the 13th of May during Mind Innovation Week 2026.

Artificial intelligence and scientific research are increasingly converging, with significant implications for the future of healthcare. As global health challenges grow

Learn from our team at the INCF FAIR Brain Data Science Bootcamp 2026. The boot camp is 3 days long from the 11th to the 13th of May, and hosted by SERC at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

As part of the program our lab members, Marius Pille, Leon Martin and Leon Stefanovski, will be giving a two day hands-on workshop on The Virtual Brain. The

AiMed will be held at the ICE Congress Centre, Kraków, Poland (& online) this year from the 7-9th of May. Our lab lead, Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, will be giving a talk on the 8th from 9:40-10:00 on the state of the art European AI health care testing and experimentation facility, TEF-Health. This talk series features many promi

We will be participating in Girls Day again this year on April 23rd. Girls Day is an event where girls ages 10 and up are invited to technical enterprises, such as training facilities, universities and workplaces to participate and gain exposure to professional activities. This has a positive influence on vocational choices and hiring policies in workplaces of all kinds, but especially those of ad

Our lab will be participating in Europe’s first Research Insights webinar, on April 22nd from 14:00-16:00, with a focus on Alzheimer’s research, data sharing and data-driven clinical decisions.

You can participate by registering here

The webinar is hosted by Innovative Health Initiative, a project

Our lab lead, Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter will be speaking at the Privacy Symposium on April 20-24 in Venice. The conference has been running since 2022 and is dedicated to privacy and data governance. It offers knowledge sharing on issues surrounding regulatory compliance and the latest technologies for doing so. The symposium also offers certificates of attendance for

Our lab lead, Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, will be giving a talk at the conference “Medizintechnik in der Zeitenwende” on the 11th of March from 1700-1900, as part of a program dedicated to the role of AI and robotics in medicine, and how it relates to the patient doctor experience. Topics of the conference focus on the role of AI and medicine in the present and future, to help set expectations and str

We are excited to announce that Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding a keynote at ANT Neuromeeting 2026.

The event will take place on the 15th to 17th of January 2026 in Berlin, Germany. You can find the full program of talks and workshops with experts in the field [here](ht

Lab member Valery Bragin is participating in the LASCON X summer school as a tutor in the topic of modelling of cells and networks activity with NEURON and NetPyNE!

LASCON X is the 10th Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience, running from January 5–30 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil. You can find the full program, including Valery's workshops [here](htt

Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter will be participating in the EBrains Summit 2025 on the panel, 'Medical data for enabling progress in healthcare in Europe and beyond' together with Prof. Jan Bjaalie. The panel will take place on Tuesday December 9th.

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Dr. Petra Ritter will speak on Dec 2nd during the European Parliament lunch debate in Brussels, which will be co-hosted by MEP Tilly Metz and colleagues. The topic of the lunch debate is “Future of dementia research in Europe”. Dr. Ritter will be speaking about her work across Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and Digital Europe, in VirtualBrainCloud, eBRAIN-Health and TEF-Health.

Join us at the Adopt AI International Summit at the Grand Palais, Paris on the 25th and 26th of November 2025. Dr. Petra Ritter will participate in a panel on international AI regulation and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on the main stage on November 26th along with Francesca Colombo (Head of Health Division, OECD), Prof. Hiroki Habuka (Research Professor, Kyo

We are excited to share that Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding the METIS-Lecture 2025. The topic of the lecture will be, 'Decision Making Fast and Slow: Unconscious Bias and the Virtual Brain'.

One way to understand discrimination is that it

Dr. Petra Ritter will be participating in the Falling Walls Round Table on 08.11.2025 at the Falling Walls Science House, Karl-Marx-Allee 34 Berlin. The topic of the round table will be 'Supercharging Healthcare: AI, Data & Infrastructures'. The event is supported by Berlin Insitute of Health at Charité (BIH), Helmholtz Munich and WomenX Collective.

[Falling Walls Science Summit](https://falli