Events
Discussions, workshops, and speaker sessions on AI governance. Open to Hertie students and the broader Berlin policy community.
Past events
A look back at sessions, roundtables, and screenings we have hosted so far.
Flagship event
AI & The Future of Work
Hosted at the Microsoft Berlin Office, our biggest event of the semester. A panel on how rapidly advancing AI systems are reshaping labour markets and employment in Germany and across Europe, with speakers from the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Microsoft, Indeed Hiring Lab, interface, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, moderated by Ole Teutloff (University of Oxford). The conversation covered empirical evidence on jobs and wages, distributional impacts, and the policy tools governments actually have on the table.
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HAIPI Film Night
A screening of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, followed by an open discussion. A chance to step back and analyse the dialogue around AI’s impact on society.
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AI Safety & Policy Careers
An evening on what working in AI safety and governance actually looks like, from policy roles to technical research. We walked through fellowships, programmes, and research directions students can apply to from Hertie.
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HAIPI x CIVICA AI Hackathon, Wicked Problems & Sticky Solutions
On 17 April at Ojin AixHaus, three practitioners from multilateral diplomacy, frontier AI risk, and large-scale tech policy sat down for a candid, unscripted conversation. The focus was on where European AI governance is genuinely failing, why those failures resist easy fixes, and which solutions have actually stuck.
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HAIPI x CIVICA AI Hackathon, Opening Night
On 23 March, hosted at Ojin AixHaus, we brought together practitioners, technologists, and students to look at the gap between AI governance on paper and AI governance in practice. The evening opened the CIVICA EU AI Hackathon, a three-day student-led event in Berlin organised with IE Madrid and SNSPA Bucharest.
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AI & Middle Powers
Co-hosted with SAFE AI Germany: a roundtable on where Germany and the EU sit in a race overwhelmingly framed as US versus China. We discussed whether Europe is destined to be the world's regulatory checkpoint, or whether there is still room to build a sovereign ecosystem that keeps top talent and shapes where AI goes next.
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HAIPI Kick-off
Our opening evening, introducing the club and why AI policy matters now. A short primer on AI capabilities, followed by an open discussion on what governance work students can actually do from Hertie.
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