Minds Mastering Machines - M3 2026

About Minds Mastering Machines - M3 2026

Running language models in your own data center is the subject of this online conference from iX, held on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The four topic areas are suitable models, hardware and tools, efficiency and scalability, and cost and economics. It is aimed at developers, data scientists, data engineers and AI Ops or AI DevOps practitioners.

Nine sessions and 14 speakers are listed, with session titles in the local language of the organizer's page. They include Software für lokale LLMs, Wie viel GPU braucht der Chatbot? and a talk on the real costs of GPU versus API inference. Speakers come from companies such as datanizing, TNG, Mayflower, mgm and FICO.

The conference ticket costs €329. Three separate workshops cost €579 each: Eigene Sprachmodelle nutzen und feintunen (two dates are listed) and Lokale Sprachmodelle effizient betreiben. A call for papers is listed.

Agenda

Thursday, October 15

• 09:00–09:15 · Begrüßung
• 09:15–10:00 · Software für lokale LLMs — Christian Winkler
• 10:15–11:00 · Wie viel GPU braucht der Chatbot? — Benjamin Merkel & Lukas Rammelmüller
• 11:15–12:00 · Messen statt raten: Das passende LLM systematisch auswählen — Rainer Stropek
• 12:15–13:15 · Mittagspause
• 13:15–14:00 · LLMs und Embedding-Modelle, selbstgebaut — Johann-Peter Hartmann
• 14:15–15:00 · Lokale Coding-Agenten im Enterprise-Einsatz bewerten: das System, nicht die Funktion — Jan Jikeli
• 15:15–15:30 · Kaffeepause
• 15:30–16:15 · GPU oder API? Die tatsächlichen Kosten von KI-Inferenz und wie man flexibel bleibt — Christopher Haar & Johannes Koch

Audience

• Developer
• Data Scientists
• Data Engineers
• AI Ops/AI DevOps

Speakers

• Christian Winkler
  datanizing
• Benjamin Merkel
  TNG
• Lukas Rammelmüller
  TNG
• Rainer Stropek
  software architects
• Johann-Peter Hartmann
  Mayflower
• Jan Jikeli
  mgm
• Christopher Haar
  upbound
• Johannes Koch
  FICO
• Florian Baumann
  Sr. Direktor, Aptiv
• Kai Kreuzer
  Software Architekt
• Melanie Sigl
  Managing Consultant, PRODATO Integration Technology GmbH
• Daniel Töws
  Softwareentwickler und Berater, codecentric
• Rainald Menge-Sonnentag
  Redakteur, iX
• René Schönfeldt
  Diplom-Informatiker, dpunkt.verlag

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