Events

kennedy+swan: The Red Queen Effect

Starting January 26, 2026, the foyer of the Rahel Hirsch Center will host a new exhibition dedicated to a topic central to research at BIH and Charité: artificial intelligence.

"The Target-Disease Model Is Dead. AI Can’t Fix It — Yet"

The target-disease model that built modern pharma is dead — not because AI killed it, but because biology walked away from it. As molecular mechanisms are mapped with increasing granularity, biological reality reveals itself as combinatorial, redundant, and fragmented. 

02/2026 BIFOLD Colloquium

Thomas Dohmke PhD, former CEO of GitHub and TU Berlin alumnus as well as co-founder and CEO of Entire, a startup that wants to build a new global platform where developers can work hand in hand with AI agents, visits BIFOLD to talk about the AI coding revolution.

Lunch Talk: Leonard Hackel "Towards Efficient Foundation Models in Remote Sensing"

Leonard Hackel from the Big Data for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Image Analysis group will talk about "Towards Efficient Foundation Models in Remote Sensing". In this talk Leonard Hackel will propose a soft mixture-of-experts masked autoencoder for remote sensing foundation models that more than doubles computational efficiency while maintaining competitive performance across downstream tasks and enabling scalable, cross-modal learning.

Digital Health Innovation Forum 2026

Catalysts of Change: Where Research Meets Policy and Business Leadership The digital transformation of healthcare is accelerating: faster, smarter and, more connected than ever before. Data- and technology-enabled care delivery are reshaping medical practice, form telemedicine and remote services to AI-driven diagnostics and personalized medicine.

03/2026 BIFOLD Colloquium

Nesime Tatbul is a senior research scientist at Intel's Parallel Computing Lab (PCL) and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). In this colloquium she will present examples from her recent research in data management for modern observability in response to challenges and opportunities that arise due to advances in AI.

DMEA 2026 "Connecting Digital Health"

Europe's leading event for digital health – featuring teams from various BIH working groups and the Charité-BIH Clinical Study Center. Visit us at the joint booth of the “Berlin-Brandenburg Capital Region.”

Cedalion Workshop

This scientific workshop introduces researchers to Cedalion, a Python-based toolbox for advanced fNIRS and DOT analysis in naturalistic settings. Built on HOMER3 and AtlasViewer, it integrates machine learning and multimodal data processing for cutting-edge neuroimaging research.