111. 3rd Wednesday: KI-Struktur statt Hype - TechnologieZentrumDortmund

111. 3rd Wednesday: AI structure instead of hype

3 months ago

What companies really need in 2026

Innovation exchange, networking & new impulses

It's that time again in February: the TechnologyCentreDortmund (TZDO) cordially invites you to the 111th edition of the „3rd Wednesday“ event series“ for the first time in the MST Factory Dortmund, the competence centre for micro and nanotechnologies at PHOENIX West.

📍 MST Factory Dortmund
📅 Wednesday, 18 February 2026
🕕 Admission from 17:30 hrs | start of event: 18:00 hrs
📌 Address: Konrad-Adendauer-Allee 11, 44263 Dortmund

What can you expect?

You can look forward to an inspiring evening with current impulses from Business, science and innovation. Whether digitalisation, future technologies or new paths for sustainable entrepreneurship - at the 3rd Wednesday meet Founders, companies, start-ups, investors and Network partners for interdisciplinary dialogue in an open atmosphere.

Programme highlights

The content of the evening will be kicked off by Thomas Chmielnik, Head of AI at AIVISOR. As an expert in the strategic and confident introduction of AI, he helps companies to establish artificial intelligence not as a short-term trend, but as an integral part of their organisation. In his keynote speech „Structure instead of hype: How companies can systematically embed AI in 2026“ he takes an honest look back at the years 2024/2025 and shows what organisational, regulatory and technological foundations companies need today in order to use AI successfully, securely and scalably in the long term.

Afterwards there is Dr Ronny Zwinkau, Managing Director and co-founder of PartikelART Solutions GmbH from the Zentrum für Produktionstechnologie Dortmund, The presentation provides a practical insight into the structured implementation of AI projects. PartikelART Solutions develops AI-supported solutions for particle analysis and process optimisation and uses the CRISP-DM process model to show why successful AI applications always start with a clear business case as well as reliable and available data. The presentation „Recognising particles means avoiding particles - gaining knowledge from data with AI“ makes it clear how data can be turned into usable knowledge.

The third item on the programme Ulrike Fischer from the Dortmund start-up centre and owner of The desire to develop, with a compact pitch from the network of female founders. The focus is on the question of why many teams today suffer from a lack of clarity, loss of energy and tension and how this can be overcome. KRAFT model identifies these stumbling blocks in everyday working life and eliminates them sustainably.

Networking & exchange

Afterwards we cordially invite you to the open networking to you. Take the opportunity to deepen the evening's ideas, make new contacts and round off the 111th 3rd Wednesday together in a relaxed atmosphere.

Note on photography and filming

The event will be accompanied by photography. By registering, participants declare their consent for photos and/or film recordings to be made of them, which the TechnologieZentrumDortmund may publish before, during and after the event for the purposes of reporting in the press and in the media and online channels used by the TechnologieZentrumDortmund.