Previous Events

Department of Digital Medicine Opening Event

We are delighted to have launched the Department of Digital Medicine (DDM) with a public opening event that brought together esteemed experts and thought leaders to explore the transformative potential of digital medicine within contemporary healthcare systems.

Experts in malfunctioning? A history of technological errors and the question of “error literacy.”

Lecture of Martina Heßler, TU Darmstadt

A few years ago, media scholar Lisa Nakamura stated that when it comes to using digital devices, we have all become “experts in malfunctioning.” This lecture took up this observation and asked how we deal with digital errors and AI errors. Based on the thesis that we have been entering a new era of technological errors since around the 1970s, it was argued that this has less to do with error literacy or expertise in matters of error and more to do with new forms of ignorance and incomprehension. This was illustrated with examples, focusing on both technology developers and users.

First BeLEARN Conference on September 4, 2025

Translation 2025

Whether school, university or vocational education: As digitalization progresses, more and more complex questions are arising in educational practice. This is why BeLEARN, the national competence center for digital change in education, initiated a solution-oriented exchange: “Translation 2025” was the first conference to bring together research, business and educational practice. It offered the opportunity to learn about successful examples from research and practice and to network.

3rd workshop of the DigiK focus group Extended Reality

Perceptual psychology: mental imagery, sensorimotor processing, and visual perception

The third workshop took place on June 6, 2025, from 1 p.m. at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Humanities. The program featured two exciting talks on XR technologies: Babette Bühler presented how eye tracking can be used in immersive learning environments to detect cognitive states and provide adaptive learning support. Benjamin Schöne explored how virtual reality can enhance the ecological validity of psychological experiments, offering new insights into attention, memory, and social perception. The workshop also included an introduction to the local research infrastructure.

6th Swiss Congress of Telemedicine and Digital Health

Digital Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: a Reality Check

Our congress “Digital Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: a Reality Check” offered a practical stocktaking. Experts from medicine, research, and industry shared their experiences with the application of digital and AI-based technologies. In addition to innovative solutions and success stories, the focus was also on stumbling blocks, misdevelopments, and unexpected problems that accompany the path toward the digital future of medicine. In interactive lectures, we addressed questions from practice for practice: How is AI changing medical decision-making? Are digital assistance systems a relief or, in fact, a burden? How can new technologies be successfully integrated into existing care structures?

Digital In/Justice Networking Event

Networking Event

An interactive social event to spark discussion around critically engaging with the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of digitalization. With numerous activities including professional speed dating the aim was to connect people of all career stages who work on similar topics over light snacks.

Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism

Emilie Jäger Lecture

Prof. Dr. Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) discussed what we can learn from feminist collectives’ efforts to document feminicides and how data activism focusing on care and restoration can show transformative ways towards data justice.

KILOF ConferenceTagung 2025 - Artificial intelligence in Administration

The KILOF Conference 2025 was dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence in administrative processes and highlighted the associated opportunities and challenges. Experts from science and practice provided insights into current projects and developments and opened up new perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence within administration.

The Future? Education and Regulation

Since the launch of Chat GPT in September 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a wide audience. However, the exact way it works often remains unclear and questions arise such as: Who is responsible in the event of damage? Is our data secure? Can AI systems be regulated? In the last event of the four-part series, the Forum for University and Society was asking about regulation and the future significance of knowledge.

13th Day of Teaching “Assessment Impossible? Proof of competence and artificial intelligence”

Conducting examinations in the age of AI poses new challenges for universities. How should proof of competence be designed in the age of AI? On the 13th Teaching Day at the University of Bern, we took stock of the current situation and looked for answers to the question of how competence-oriented assessment can be carried out with and despite AI.

Advancing academic engagement with AI standardisation: Generating research impact through standards development

Engaging with AI standards development offers a unique and underutilised avenue for academics to translate their research into tangible impact. At the same time, insights gained through previous AI Standards Hub events suggest that there are fundamental challenges for academics to contribute. These involve a historical lack of awareness of the standardisation ecosystem, limited knowledge of how to contribute in concrete terms and the need for dedicated training and incentives specifically for academics to meaningfully engage. To further unpack these challenges and to work towards forming solutions, this event convened academics from different geographic regions for a deep dive discussion into the relevance and practical implications of their research contributing towards standards development.

Artificial Intelligence for Natural Health?

The Forum for University and Society aims to provide guidance through its series of events. It used examples to illustrate how AI works and how it is already influencing our everyday lives. It highlighted the opportunities and possibilities as well as the ethical and legal challenges that need to be addressed now. The aim was to develop a deeper understanding of AI and to raise awareness of the associated problems.