AI Fridays
& Our AI Common Lab
AI Natives hosts AI Fridays, a monthly open-door gathering that invites students, founders, professionals, and curious minds to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence. These sessions provide a hands-on, collaborative space where discussion, experimentation, learning, and serendipitous encounters drive innovation.
Activities include:
- Resident Speaker Series: Talks and Q&A with AI experts, founders, and thought leaders.
- Thematic Workshops: Interactive sessions tackling emerging AI applications, ethics, and creative problem-solving.
- Hackathons & Labs: Short, focused sprints where participants prototype ideas or experiment with AI tools.
- Community Dinners & Networking: Informal spaces to share insights, spark conversations, and forge cross-disciplinary collaborations.
AI Fridays is more than an event – it’s a living lab for the AI-native community, fostering curiosity, creativity, and connections across disciplines. Participants leave inspired, informed, and ready to experiment with new ideas at the intersection of technology, society, and design.
Our program:
Hub Membership
At the heart of our program sits human-to-human collaboration.
For €100 per month we offer our members a focused surrounding where they don’t build solo, but with others immersed at the frontier. Once a month, before a hackathon or community dinner, the Hub hosts a shared 2-hour colloquium to exchange bottlenecks, test assumptions, and find solutions through collective ideation.
Foresight Sessions
A free Zukunftswerkstatt to assess your own AI-native potential until 2035. Facilitated for each founder or founder team to expand the possibility space and uncover potential bottlenecks, using tools from foresight, design thinking and future science.
Helps founders clarify their long-term vision, future market potential, and AI-native positioning.
One-on-one Mentoring
On-demand mentorship sessions for technical, organizational, or strategic challenges with either of the Hub founders.
Option to bring in external experts for topic-specific advice.
Coworking
Shared workspace (“AI Basecamp”) equipped with internet, a meeting zone, and a living-room-inspired prototyping environment in the heart of Plagwitz, Leipzig.
On-demand check-ins and light-touch coaching for any challenge.
School Incubator
An after-school (GTA) offer to raise future founders at Leipzig’s Ostwald Gymnasium.
Students are enabled to explore original ideas in small teams and approach real-world challenges by building AI-native solutions close to their lived reality.
AI Fridays
Monthly events and get-togethers where anyone can drop in to explore what’s emerging in AI.
Including discussions, resident speakers, hackathons, community dinners, and thematic workshops that bring together Hub members and AI enthusiasts across disciplines to highlight new ideas and developments.
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