DiTraRe Symposium 2025: DiTraRe Symposium on Digitalisation of Research 2025

Beschreibung

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the DiTraRe Symposium on Digitalisation of Research [1] at the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (ZKM) [2] on 2nd and 3rd of December 2025. The Symposium will tackle key challenges and opportunities related to digitalisation of research which nowadays affects everyone, from research to politics and also the public sphere. One of our leading questions is: How does digitalisation affect the ways in which we conduct research?

Through a keynote presentation, panel discussions and interactive formats participants will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and share their own experiences with digitalisation. By sharing knowledge between and across disciplines, this event aims to contribute to a next level discussion and ideas for solutions on questions that come along with the fast developing digitalisation and involvement of AI in research. The Symposium will also feature a dedicated poster slam and a poster session. Make sure to showcase your research in the form of a poster! We accept poster papers, describing the contents of your poster, which will be later included in the Symposium proceedings.

Event details:

- Date: 2-3 December 2025

- Mode: In-person

- Venue: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe [2]

- Event website: www.ditrare.de/en/symposium-2025 [1]

- Registration: ditrare2025.eventbrite.de [3]

- Call for posters: easychair.org/cfp/DiTraRe2025 [4]

Sessions and speakers:

- Keynote lecture: “Human Research Strategies vs Research Shaped by Algorithms – Why do Humans Need Phenomena and Models?”

- Mieke Boon, Professor Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Twente, Netherlands

- Session 1: Knowledge Representation and AI. Artificial Intelligence as an Additional Dimension to the Digital Transformation

- Ulrich Weinberg, Founding Director HPI d-school and Design Thinking Ambassador, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam

- Torsten Schrade, Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz

- Sonja Schimmler, Head of “Digitalization and Opening up Science” at Fraunhofer FOKUS and associated scientist at the Technical University of Berlin

- Session 2: Legal and Ethical Challenges. Law and Ethics in Digitalization of Research: Regulating Dynamic Processes with Ancient Orders

- Fruzsina Molnár-Gabór, Professor for international Medicine- and Health Law as well as Data Privacy at University of Heidelberg

- Dara Hallinan, Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure

- Session 3: Research Infrastructures. Trusted Digital Research Workflows Across Disciplines for the age of Data AI

- Christoph Steinbeck, Professor, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena

- Jos van Wezel, Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Scientific Computing Center (KIT SCC) Karlsruhe

- Peter Wittenburg, Senior Advisor at the GWDG, Göttingen

- Session 4: Impact on Science and Society. The Role of Generative AI for Transforming Research Practices, Publishing and Policy Advice

- Anne Krüger, Research Group Lead at the Weizenbaum-Institut e.V.

- Ingmar Mundt, Research Associate at the Weizenbaum Institute e.V., Berlin

- Stephanie Preuß, Programmleitung Biowissenschaften, Geowissenschaften & Chemie, Springer Nature, Heidelberg

- Steffen Albrecht, Scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (KIT ITAS) and Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag

- Dana Mahr, Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (KIT ITAS)

We kindly ask you to forward this invitation to any colleagues or contacts who might be interested in attending.

The digital transformation of research is rooted in decades of technological advancement. The introduction of computers in research, the rise of the internet, and the revolutionary launch of the World Wide Web fundamentally reshaped collaboration and access to knowledge. Cloud computing has further facilitated large-scale data storage and analysis, becoming crucial for many scientific fields. The increasing reliance on digital data has led to transformative practices, from managing the vast datasets produced by experiments to employing tools such as Electronic Lab Notebooks and data publication in repositories for reproducibility and accessibility. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies are now being used to analyse complex datasets and make predictions. Additionally, the movement towards open science promotes transparency and accessibility of research data and publications, further driving the digital transformation of science.

Don't want to miss information on our activities? Make sure to subscribe to the DiTraRe newsletter [5] and register to our discussion forum [6] to create a community with us. You may find recordings from the Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Digitalisation of Research on our YouTube channel [7]. Follow us on LinkedIn [8], Mastodon [9] and find our publications and presentations on Zenodo [10].

We look forward to your valuable insights and active participation!

Join our LinkedIn event: www.linkedin.com/events/7355686243461931009/about/ [11]

The Symposium is organised by the Leibniz Science Campus "Digital Transformation of Research" (DiTraRe) [12]. We are investigating the effects and potential of the increasing digitalisation of scientific work in a multilevel approach. Our interdisciplinary consortium aims at establishing a new research branch.

Best regards,

The DiTraRe Consortium