On November 7th and 8th 2019 the kick-off symposium „Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future“ was held by the Volkswagen Foundation at Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover. An interesting programme of keynote speeches, discussions, short lightning talks and longer talks from the full grant receivers was scheduled. Besides a presentation held by Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler (HRW), the COURAGE team was part of the poster session with posters on the empirical work and the system design.