AI Summer Games 2024
After a great start in 2023 at Howest University in Bruges, we will continue in summer 2024 at Hochschule der Medien (HdM) and will host the AI Summer Games. Students from participating universities will gather in Stuttgart for a week of intensive training and real life exercises in Deep Learning, data exploration and processing as well as work in international teams and some exciting social activities.
And even better: you will receive 3 ECTS for participating in the course.
Our blended intensive programme will be split in 2 phases:
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online phase is on 17./18. June 2024 and
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the face-to-face phase will take place from Sunday, 30. June (arrival) up to Saturday, 6. July (departure).



Online agenda
Date |
Location |
Time
|
Content |
17. June 2024 |
online |
2:15 - 3:45 pm |
Course Introduction / AI Design Process / Python for AI (Part 1) |
|
online |
4:00 - 5:30 pm |
Python for AI (Part 2+3) |
18. June 2024 |
online |
10:00 am |
Data Exploration in Python (Part 1 + 2) |
|
online |
2:15 - 3:45 pm |
Data Preprocessing Part 1 (L&L: Missing Value and Outlier Handling) |
|
online |
4:00 - 5:30 pm |
Data Preprocessing Part 2 (L&L: Feature Transformation and Scaling) |



Face-to-face agenda
Date |
Location |
Morning |
Afternoon |
Evening |
Su 30. June 2024 |
Stuttgart City |
|
Arrival |
16:00 (4:00 pm) City tour
18:00 (6:00 pm) Welcome drinks
|
Mo 01. July 2024 |
HdM |
Course Kick Off, Introduction to AI Summer Games Challenge, Team Building
Clustering, Part 1, L&L (Unsupervised Learning) |
Regression, L&L
(Supervised Learning) |
|
Tu 02. July 2024 |
HdM |
Classification, L&L
(Supervised Learning) |
Deep Learning Basics (Lecture + pytorch lab) |
Social activity:
Mountain view tour and dinner |
We 03. July 2024 |
HdM |
AI Security
Computer Vision / Generative AI for vision |
Social activity: Through the woods to Bärenschlössle |
Social activity: coffee and cakes |
Th 04. July 2024 |
HdM |
Deep Learning for NLP
(Transformers, L&L) |
Deep Learning for NLP (RAG, L&L) |
Social activity: MediaNight@HdM |
Fr 05. July 2024 |
HdM |
Trends in AI: Application of deep learning models in E-commerce recommendation systems,
Speech: the future of AI |
AI Summer Games Final |
|
Sa 06. July 2024 |
HdM |
Social activity:
11:00 Mercedes Benz Museum (approx 2 h)
|
Departure |
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(There might be minor changes in the agenda.)



Prerequisites
This programme is open to students of Computer Science or Business Administration who have some knowledge in programming and data bases from our partner universities.
Make sure to bring a laptop.
Accommodation
Please consider: it´s EURO 2024! On 5. July there is a match of the quarter-finals in Stuttgart, so it will get full in the hotels. Therefore you should book your room asap!
Here are our recommendations:
A&O Hostel Stuttgart City, Rosensteinstr. 14/16
Alex 30, Alexanderstr. 30
DJH Jugendherberge (Youth Hostel), Haußmannstraße 27
IB Gästehaus, Richard-Wagner-Str. 2 (website is only in German language)
International Students Hostel, Neckarstr.172
Participating universities
Algoma - Algoma University / Canada
Avans - Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch / Netherlands
HdM - Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart / Germany (host)
Howest - Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, Bruges / Belgium
HvA - Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands
MMU - Manchester Metropolitan University / UK
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