Minds Mastering Machines (M3)
At a glance
- Next event
- Apr 28–29, 2027Karlsruhe, Germany
- Call for papers
- Closed Nov 23, 20252026 call
- Audience
- Not published
- Tickets
- €999–€1,0992027 event · Karlsruhe
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 1 recorded in 2026No list the year before2026 is year to date.
- Program freshness
- 98/100#22 of 143 · 0% rerunsTalk novelty and speaker variety.
- Organizer
- heise Developer, iX and dpunkt.verlag (Heise Medien / Rheinwerk Verlag)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- mastering-ai.eu
- Social
- X / Twitter
- Typical place
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Topics
- Machine learningGenerative AIData scienceGovernance & quality
German-language conference on machine learning and AI for data scientists, data engineers and developers, held since 2018 (first edition April 2018 in Cologne) and organised by heise Developer, iX and dpunkt.verlag. Format: one workshop day plus two conference days. In-person editions: Mannheim 2019, Karlsruhe 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, Cologne 2024. 2020 was planned for Mannheim in May, moved to Heidelberg in November and then cancelled. Not recorded as editions (online only): M3 Online (16 Jun 2020), M3 2021 (27-28 Apr 2021, online), the M3 Special Day MLOps (24 Nov 2021), and the online one-day events 'Sprachmodelle im Unternehmen' / 'LLMs im Unternehmen' (e.g. 6 Feb 2024, 29 Oct 2025, 15 Oct 2026). From 2027 the conference is renamed Mastering AI (M.AI); m3-konferenz.de now redirects to mastering-ai.eu, where the per-year archives (mastering-ai.eu/<year>/) are kept.
Speakers it attracts
The 102 people who spoke at Minds Mastering Machines (M3) in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Matthias Niehoff · codecentricSpoke at 5 other conferences: PyData, QCon, Berlin Buzzwords…
- Niklas Mühleis · Heidrich RechtsanwälteKeynoted 1 other conference: data2day
- Dennis Schulz · TNGSpoke at 3 other conferences: PyData, Budapest Data+AI Forum, data2day
- Oliver Zeigermann · Techniker KrankenkasseSpoke at 3 other conferences: MLCon (ML Conference), data2day, ScaledML (Scaled Machine Learning Conference)
- Bernd Fondermann · algo consultSpoke at 2 other conferences: MLCon (ML Conference), data2day
- Bertram Sändig · ontoluxSpoke at 2 other conferences: Berlin Buzzwords, data2day
- Christian Winklerkeynote here · datanizingSpoke at 2 other conferences: MLCon (ML Conference), data2day
- Clemens Hübner · inovexSpoke at 2 other conferences: PyData, data2day
- Elias Schecke · TNGSpoke at 2 other conferences: Budapest Data+AI Forum, data2day
- Hauke Brammer · DeepUp GmbHSpoke at 2 other conferences: MLCon (ML Conference), data2day
- Jochen Christ · Entropy DataSpoke at 2 other conferences: Budapest Data+AI Forum, data2day
- Marin Niehues · niehues consultingSpoke at 2 other conferences: Budapest Data+AI Forum, SQL Konferenz
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
- No sponsor list
1 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28–29, 2027 | Mastering AI 2027 | Karlsruhe, Germany | Announced | — | — | — |
| Apr 21–23, 2026 | Minds Mastering Machines 2026 | Karlsruhe, Germany | — | 1 | 49 | |
| May 19–21, 2025 | Minds Mastering Machines 2025 | Karlsruhe, Germany | — | — | 49 | |
| Apr 23–25, 2024 | Minds Mastering Machines 2024 | Cologne, Germany | — | 5 | 54 | |
| May 9–11, 2023 | Minds Mastering Machines 2023 | Karlsruhe, Germany | — | 3 | 47 | |
| Jun 1–3, 2022 | Minds Mastering Machines 2022 | Karlsruhe, Germany | — | 2 | 47 | |
| Nov 24–26, 2020 | Minds Mastering Machines 2020 | Heidelberg, Germany | Cancelled | — | 2 | — |
| May 14–16, 2019 | Minds Mastering Machines 2019 | Mannheim, Germany | — | 9 | 54 |
Attendance over time
No attendance figures recorded
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- data2day0.33
- MLCon0.11
- PyData0.07
- SQL Konferenz0.06
- Berlin Buzzwords0.05
8 Cluster: inovex · open knowledge · TNG crowd →
Sponsors over the years
Top 16 of 16 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
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- Bronze