Welcome to the 2026 Data Science Symposium, organized on October 8th & 9th at GEOMAR in Kiel. This 11th Data Science Symposium is the next annual event of a series of symposia organized by Helmholtz Earth & Environment centres. We invite you to join us for presentations, workshops and lively networking discussions on the overarching topics of AI, data science and data infrastructures in the earth sciences.
Wen plan to host talks, poster presentation and reserve ample time for in-depth discussions during breaks and targeted workshop slots. Bring your topic to be discussed, advanced or solved with peers from Earth & Data Sciences. We reserve ample time before and after the main event (e.g. to continue the strategic "AI in POF V" discussions") and offer focussed mini-workshop time slots during the main event running from noon-to-noon (e.g. to discuss "What makes data AI-ready?", "What's the hardest problem you can't solve right now?", "Where does AI actually help in your workflow", and more).
At the DSS2026, we welcome all Earth Data Science topics and will organize the sessions around this years foci AI and Earth Systems and AI-ready data as Infrastructure. We plan for an on-site meeting only.
Registration and abstract submission will open in late May. For registration or abstract submission you need to login in with your institute account (Click on "Single Sign-on / Shibboleth").