The workshop on "Automatic Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks" was held on 19 and 20 September 2017 at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). It was organized by Stéphane Ghozzi and Alexander Ullrich, both employees of Department 31 Data Management of the Robert Koch Institute, on third-party funding from the project "DEMIS Signals", project file D81389, grant number ZMVI1-2515-FSB-788.