Speakers
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How analog is your digital transformation?
Innovation Blindness and the Digital Cargo Cult
Dr. Andreas Neus is the Head of Future and University Programs and Deputy Managing Director of GfK Verein, a market research think tank and majority shareholder of GfK SE.
His research explores the future of markets in an increasingly digitalized economy, disruptive innovation by "prosumer" business models, and how digital natives want to reshape decisionmaking and transparency in organizations. Before joining GfK Verein he launched the Service Innovation Lab at KSRI and was the Media & Entertainment EMEA lead for IBM's think tank Institute for Business Value in Amsterdam. Since 1999 he has led innovation and transformation projects for international clients in IBM's Strategy & Change practice.
Grand Challenges in Energy Services Analytics
Steven O. Kimbrough is Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the University of Pennsylvania.
He works as a decision scientist, with an overarching interest in rationality and computation. His principal research areas at present are in procedural (post-classical) game theory; metaheuristics, evolutionary computation, and agent-based modeling; and energy analytics. He also works in the area of text mining and analytics.
He is an inventor on three related patents in this area. He is author of the book "Agents, Games, and Evolution" and (with Hoong Chuin Lau) of the book "Business Analytics for Decision Making." A third book is underway, "Decision Games" (with multiple co-authors, including at KIT).
The Power of Text Mining for Service Innovation
Dr. Jan vom Brocke is professor for Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein.
He is the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management, Director of the Institute of Information Systems, and Vice-President Research and Innovation of the University of Liechtenstein.
Jan vom Brocke has published 32 books and over 300 articles in prestigious outlets including, MIT Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), and Information Systems Journal (ISJ).
Jan vom Brocke has taught at 24 universities in 13 countries on Executive, PhD-, Master and Bachelor-level, incl. many of the Financial Times Top 100 Business Schools, such as the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, the University of Warwick in the UK, and the Smurfit School of Business in Ireland.
Designing Digital Services and Solutions in Logistics
Lüder Sachse is Head of Digital Product & Innovation Management at Mercedes-Benz Trucks.
Before joining Mercedes-Benz Trucks he has built up an internal service unit within Daimler for Information Security Services. He then took the position of Chief Information Security Officer at Daimler.
Lüder left Daimler in 2014 to found the IT Security startup Code White which he lead until 2016. He then sold his shares to join the unit Mercedes-Benz Trucks Digital Solutions to generate new digital business models in the logistics industry.
Act like a startup, scale like an enterprise
– Designing and scaling meaningful digital experiences
Adriano Bezerra-Delaunay is Business Owner at Aperto, a digital agency based in Berlin and part of IBM Interactive Experience.
He works together with several DAX clients in close collaboration with their digital labs or corporate hubs on new innovative digital products and services. His focus lies on creating new digital business models, user centered innovations and strategy development in agile environments.
Klaus Rüggenmann is Creative Director UX at Aperto, a digital agency based in Berlin and part of IBM Interactive Experience.
He is focused on creating engaging digital experiences using Design Thinking and Service Design Methodology. He is especially interested in how the creative process can be most effectively integrated in agile environments that are to deliver at speed and scale.
