SME Digital Congress - Shaping AI transfer together

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications open up a wide range of opportunities for SMEs to enrich value creation by optimizing processes and generating new business models. The first small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have already had positive experiences with these applications or are preparing for the use of AI by ensuring the availability and usability of their operating data. Overall, however, SMEs are lagging behind large companies in terms of AI readiness and the use of AI.

This is why this year's

SME Digital Congress - Shaping AI transfer together
on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, starting at 2:00 pm
at the Tagungswerk, Lindenstraße 85, 10969 Berlin-Mitte

The question of how SMEs can be familiarized with the possibilities and opportunities of AI in order to win them over to the rapid use of this technology. Examples of successful implementations of data-based applications in SMEs will be presented and practical experiences will be discussed together with company managers. In cooperation with multipliers, the centers from the “Mittelstand-Digital” network will present transfer formats that make AI and other digitalization applications tangible for SMEs. Demonstrators will also be on display to illustrate the often complex topics. The Cybersecurity Transfer Office for SMEs will also be presenting its services, such as the “CYBERsicher emergency aid”.

The “Mittelstand-Digital” funding priority of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection offers help for self-help on a wide range of AI and digitalization topics with 29 Mittelstand-Digital Centres nationwide and the “IT Security in the Economy” initiative with the Cybersecurity in SMEs transfer office.