Navigator Festival 2025: The Next Step in AI Transformation

The Navigator Festival will take place on April 3 and 4, 2025 at the CCD Congress Center Düsseldorf, focusing on current developments and challenges in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Following last year's successful kick-off, the event will once again bring together experts and managers from business, science and politics. together. The event is organised by Düsseldorf Congress GmbH.


Strategies and solutions for the integration of AI

Companies that focus on digital transformation can better address challenges such as talent shortages, rising cost pressures, and increasing demands for sustainability. A key success factor is targeted training and development of employees. The Navigator Festival 2025 provides insights into concrete strategies for the sustainable and long-term implementation of AI and showcases scalable solutions for practical application.
 

Key themes of the Navigator Festival

The festival will focus on five central topics:
> Strategy: Development of scalable AI strategies for long-term competitiveness
> Value creation: Optimisation of business models and processes through AI
   and automation 
> Solution approaches: Success factors for a smooth AI implementation
> Expertise: Employee qualification as the key to successful AI implementation
> Framework Conditions: Ethical, data protection, and legal requirements for
   human-centered AI


Top-class speakers design the programme

The programme will be designed by renowned speakers. The opening speech will be given by Mona Neubaur, Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Deputy Prime Minister.

Further highlights: 
> Dr Holger Schmidt (Editorial Director, F.A.Z.): AI as Europe's opportunity of
   the century and 2025 - the year of AI agents 
> Dr Mario Herger (trend researcher, Silicon Valley): What SMEs (Small and
   Medium-sized Enterprises) can learn from Silicon Valley
> Hendrik Hahn (CDO, Evonik Industries AG): AI implementation as a team
   sport
> Prof Dr Alena Buyx (Professor of Ethics, TU Munich): Horror or saviour
> Dr Christian Temath (Managing Director, KI.NRW): From hype to
   implementation: getting off to a smart start with AI

In addition, medium-sized companies such as Krone and Bauer & Böcker GmbH will present concrete use cases that show how AI can be used successfully in both traditional and innovative structures. 


Strong partners from the region

The Navigator Festival is supported by the state capital Düsseldorf, Messe Düsseldorf, KI.NRW and Ecodynamics. These partnerships emphasise the importance of North Rhine-Westphalia as a location for technological innovation and digital transformation.
‘With KI.NRW, we are bringing artificial intelligence from cutting-edge research into concrete application. In particular, we are helping small and medium-sized companies to get started on their AI journey and support them with practical introductory events and targeted workshop formats, such as the AI Design Sprint™, which we will also be conducted at the Navigator Festival.
With these offers, we help companies to utilise the opportunities of AI for themselves’, explains Dr Christian Temath, Managing Director of the Artificial Intelligence Competence Platform North Rhine-Westphalia KI.NRW. 

Tickets for the event are available now. Further information on the programme and speakers can be found at www.navigator-festival.de


Image source: © Willy Nöthen / Düsseldorf Congress