On November 11-12, 2025 the Transfer and Networking Symposium 2025 took place in Berlin, entitled “Unlocking potential: Labour research in dialogue” and hosted by “CoCo – Connect & Collect” and “Knowledge and innovation network: Labour research (WIN:A)”. With the focus on scientific perspectives as well as on the experiences from operational practice, the symposium introduced successes, insights and proven approaches from the regional competence centres for labour research (ReKodA).

The highlight of the symposium was the Innovation Tandems, where eight teams of research institutions and practice partners presented how they transfer their project findings within ReKodA. Another main event were the interactive workshops, discussing current topics such as sustainable AI implementation, promoting AI adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises, building knowledge ecosystems, and improvement of the skilled-labour.

The IAD took part in the symposium together with Data & AI Systems Lab (DAI), Department of Marketing and Human Resource Management (MuP), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab (ML) and Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) of TU Darmstadt as members of Competence Centre for Work and Artificial Intelligence (KompAKI). Maximilian Pätzold (IAD) shared lessons learned from the KompAKI project with his presentation “Knowledge management as the key to stability in (AI) projects”. In the Future Pitches session, Christopher Mager and Kai Hartmayer (MuP) presented a poster on future-oriented solutions for the working world of 2035, introducing an android, adaptive, AI-based assistance system for human-robot collaboration as an example of innovative AI application.

The IAD would like to thank the organizers for the event and the opportunity to contribute to the discussion on the future of work and AI.