At the meetup on September 25, 2025, at WDR in Cologne, we will focus on how media use RAGs to make their knowledge bases accessible to users.
Date
September 25th, 2025, 1 PM – 6 PM
Location
WDR Funkhaus, Kleiner Sendesaal, Wallraffplatz 5, 50667 Köln
Agenda
- 13.00 Welcoming speech by Bernd Oswald, Manager AI for Media Network
- 13.05 Welcome greetings from Katrin Vernau, Director of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, (Video message)
- 13.10 Critical nodes in the network: AI Agents as information mediators and what they mean for journalism. Keynote by Christina Elmer, Professor of Digital Journalism / Data Journalism TU Dortmund
- 13.35 Understanding RAG in 10 Minutes, Franziska Hellmundt, AI Project Lead WDR
- 13.50 Content pools for the win: why we built a Chatbot with Ippen, Uli Köppen, Chief AI Officer, Bayerischer Rundfunk
- 14.05 Project BreznBot: How to build a chatbot from various data sources – in just three months, Cécile Schneider, Product Lead, AI + Automation Lab, Bayerischer Rundfunk
- 14.30 Coffee break
- 15.00 How does that concern me? – How AI helps make laws understandable, Stefan Domke (WDR Project Lead; Concept & Content) & David Finsterwalder (Freelance Developer & Consultant; Technology & Implementation)
- 15.20 DriveMixer: How BNN uses RAG to research and create content, Julius Sandmann, AI Responsible Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Nico Hehlke, Data Scientist, Digital Revenue Initiative (DRIVE), Ole Fehling, Coordinator DRIVE-Initiative
- 15.40 The dpa Research Assistant: why we develop a RAG application externally at you.com and how we still maintain our technical sovereignty. Yannick Franke, AI Team Lead dpa-IT Services, with Q+A
- 16.00 AI Flash: Three People will introduce an AI Project / AI Idea from their House.
- 16.20 Networking with Drinks and Snacks
- 18.00 End