Livingdocs hosts and visits various interesting events

With our Spotlight Series, a hybrid live event program, we showcase how our customers are leveraging the potential of Livingdocs to facilitate their editorial workflows and create world-class journalistic content.

In our fourth edition, we heard from t-online about how they optimise planning and utilise AI in their newsroom with Livingdocs.

See the impressions and watch the livestream recording here.

With our Spotlight Series, a hybrid live event program, we showcase how our customers are leveraging the potential of Livingdocs to facilitate their editorial workflows and ultimately create better journalism.

In our third edition, we spoke with Neue Pressegesellschaft about how they organise and optimise their regional publishing workflows with Livingdocs and what they learned in the process.

Impressions and livestream recording here.

Our bi-annual Livingdocs Summit took place in Munich.

We were thrilled to host this year's Summit at the Süddeutsche Zeitung headquarters where we welcomed customers and partners to two days of illuminating presentations and networking opportunities.

Impressions can be found here.

With our Spotlight Series, a hybrid live event program, we showcase how our customers are leveraging the potential of Livingdocs to facilitate their editorial workflows and ultimately create better journalism.

In our second edition, we spoke with DER STANDARD & Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger about how they transformed their culture through the rollout of Livingdocs, what specific requirements informed the process and what learnings they gained.

Impressions and livestream recording here.

On Sept. 13 - 14, we were in Berlin for the Forward Publishing Forum where we explored how publishers can distribute their content more efficiently and effectively, and how the right technology and strategy is essential for publishers to remain competitive and future-proof. A special focus was be on AI and how it will shape the future of publishing.

With our new Spotlight Series, a hybrid live event series, we showcase how our customers are leveraging the potential of Livingdocs to facilitate their editorial workflows and ultimately create better journalism.

In our kick-off event, we spoke with Süddeutsche Zeitung about how they are using Livingdocs to digitally transform their business model and bring their prestigious heritage into the digital age.

Impressions and livestream recording here.

The Forward Publishing Event, to which Livingdocs is contributing as a partner, focused on the necessary cultural change in publishing houses. What is the status quo in digital transformation? Why do many publishers struggle with a digital mentality? What strategies should publishers pursue and how can an efficient technological underpinning help a publisher focus on its core competence, namely high-quality content?

These were the topics addressed by the high-caliber program, which also allowed enough time for networking.

Our bi-annual Livingdocs Summit co-hosted by Ströer took place in Berlin.

We were fortunate to host this inspiring get-together for our valued customers and partners in the breathtaking event venue Spreespeicher, enjoying interesting speakers, great guests and delicious food. Alongside insightful talks from t-online and Ströer Media Brands, as well as a provoking keynote speech by Cantlin Ashrowan, we also hosted our first Use Case Panel with our valued customers.

A few insights and impressions can be found here.

Our first Livingdocs Summit 2021 happened at the great location of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Zurich. Besides insightful talks from the NZZ as well as the Berliner Verlag and ML 6, we presented the Livingdocs vision and roadmap for 2021/22.

Despite challenging times, we were able to host this event for our trusted customers and partners with interesting speakers, great guests, delicious food and fantastic weather.

A few insights and impressions can be found here.

Most news organisations have realised that keeping a list/database/taxonomy of all the interesting entities they write about, takes a lot of work. Some have built up extensive databases over the years or are using external sources such as Wikidata, but new entities just keep popping up and old ones need to be maintained on top of that. This is perhaps the most challenging aspect of taxonomy management. What if you could significantly simplify this process?

In this Living Talk we talked about how this is possible using a combination of NLP techniques such as Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition and Entity Disambiguation. We also told you about auto-tagging AI-startup iMatrics' on-going project, called ConceptCore 2.0. Which includes this as one of the highest anticipated features.

Speaker of this event was Christoffer Krona, Co-Founder and CTO of iMatrics.

At the virtual jambit media conference, everything revolved around the digital future of media companies. How can media use data and AI for themselves? Which formats should you use in the future and how can these be monetised? And which publishing strategies are proving to be promising? We found out from industry giants such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, F.A.Z., Spiegel, Madsack, ProSiebenSat.1 and FC Bayern, how they shape the digital future of the media!

Livingdocs was also present at this conference with Gabriel Hase as VoD speaker and shared insights on the topic of publishing strategies.

„Ok Google, what about the Living Talk #3?“

Every fourth adult in the USA owns a smart speaker called Google Home, Amazon Echo (aka Alexa), Homepod or similar. People talk to these virtual assistants and tell them to play music, to put on the light or to forecast the weather. But how can you teach these digital devices more specific skills? Are they able to communicate with the tools you are using? May the smart speakers even be interesting for office use?

In this Living Talk we took the challenge to develop our own Google Action. Step by step we extended the skillset of our assistant, figured out how to solve difficulties and learnt more about the possibilities of smart speakers and chatbots. It was not necessary to have programming skills to enjoy this talk.

Speaker of this meetup was Christoph Süess – founder of Paixon, software developer, entrepreneur and chatbot enthusiast.

Traditional data centers are known for their energy waste. Data Center Light is a project to build real green, sustainable and modern data centers. The economic and geographical conditions of Canton Glarus allowed us to build a one of a kind data center that uses neither grey energy for construction, nor energy for cooling. On top of that all energy it actually uses comes from local, renewable energy sources.

Data Center Light evolved from simple data centers to a blueprint project that can enable countrysides to regain economic power as well as attracting skilled workers.

Speaker of this meetup was Nico Schottelius, CEO of ungleich glarus AG, founder of the co-working space Digital Glarus and the brain behind Data Center Light.

Deep Learning has gained a lot of traction lately, in particular due to its huge successes in image recognition. At the core it’s still neural networks, which have existed for over 50 years now. But recent progresses in the models and larger datasets have brought it one step closer to its original goal: Artificial Intelligence.

In this meetup we learned about the fundamentals of deep learning including a basic understanding of AI-driven products, the codes behind it and what it can ACTUALLY do for you (and what it cannot do).

Speaker of this meetup was Gabriel Hase, Co-Founder and CEO of Livingdocs.