Opening Keynote for 2019 set

In 2019, we proudly present Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel  with his keynote presentation “Re-Imaging the Future in the Age of Digital Transformation”.

Prof. Meinel is president and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam in Germany, and a professor for Internet Technologies and Systems.

He is a member of acatech, the national German academy of science and engineering. Christoph Meinel is chairman of the German IPv6 council, and program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program. He is the head of the steering committee of the HPI Future SOC Lab, and member of various advisory boards like the security advisory board of SAP. In 2006, he and Hasso Plattner hosted the first German “National IT-Summit” of the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel.