News

Announcements, new partners and looks back at our events.

Announcement·

Coming soon: Speaker Series Winter 2026/27

Who's coming to Berlin this winter? Eight speakers from New York, London, Oxford, Lausanne and Tübingen. The first talk is on 20 October, and the full lineup follows soon.

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BLISS and Jane Street logos side by side

Partnership·

Welcome to the BLISS community, Jane Street!

Jane Street is now a sponsor of BLISS! Support like this lets us keep our Speaker Series, workshops and hackathons free and open for everyone in Berlin.

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Announcement·

Meet our new board

At our general assembly on 18 August, the members of BLISS e.V. elected the board unanimously: Tom Neuhäuser and Marvin Beese continue as chair and vice chair, and Louis Pfeiffer and Frederic Ndjiki-Nya join them.

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Announcement for the Ask Me Anything session with Linus Folkerts: How do I make a career in AI cyber risks?

Community·

Ask Me Anything: live Q&A on our Discord

How do you get into a PhD, or into AI security? In our Ask Me Anything sessions on Discord, guests answer your questions live. Four sessions so far, with guests such as Tom Neuhäuser, Lorenz Hufe and Linus Folkerts.

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Event Recap·

Speaker Series Summer 2026: seven talks to rewatch

From training LLMs on thousands of GPUs to neural digital twins – seven researchers from Hugging Face, Cohere Labs, Oxford, ETH Zurich and Stanford. All talks are on YouTube.

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Participants with laptops at Theory Meets Practice

Event Recap·

Theory Meets Practice: five workshops with dida

From explainable AI for LLMs to tumor tissue profiling – in five hands-on workshops with dida, researchers and engineers showed how current methods become working code. Three sessions are on YouTube.

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Participants and a JetBrains workshop leader at the BLISS x JetBrains workshop on AI agents

Event Recap·

Summer 2026: seven workshops and a pub quiz

Agentic AI in production with Semrush, AI agents for FLINTA* people with JetBrains, algorithm discovery with juna.ai and more – this summer, we ran seven hands-on workshops and a pub quiz with our partners.

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Event Recap·

Speaker Series Winter 2025/26: eight talks to rewatch

From long-context LLMs to the question of whether humans can flourish in the age of AI – eight researchers from Google DeepMind, Cohere, ETH Zurich, King's College London and more. All talks are on YouTube.

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Participants coding at the BLISS x InstaDeep workshop on foundation models for genomics

Event Recap·

Winter 2025/26: a hackathon and four workshops

A GPU hackathon with Lyceum and Merantix Momentum, genomics with InstaDeep, explainable AI and multimodal agents with dida, and agentic AI with Google. Five hands-on events next to our Speaker Series.

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