Guest Lectures

The Chair of Industrial Management proudly hosted Steven Heckler, Deputy Head of the Department Digitalization and Innovation at the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), for a guest lecture on the sustainability and resilience implications of industrial B2B platforms. Building on a BDI pu...

On June 22th, as part of the Chair’s lecture “BWL für Ingenieure”, Dr. Daniel Teichmann, founder and CEO of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH, shared very interesting insights on how to found and manage a regional high-tech company. As a spin-off of the FAU, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies offer...

In the fourth part of our Innovation Insights Series, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Kiel, innovation manager at DATEV, at his alma mater to talk to our students about the innovation approach of the third-largest provider of business software in Germany. During the guest lecture, Danie...

In our Innovation Insights Series #3, Dr. Benjamin Bhattacharya-Ghosh (Chief of Staff to the President & CEO; Head of Foresight & Strategy), Dr. Mohamad Abdul-Hak (Senior Manager e-Drive), Benjamin Kuhn (Senior Manager UX/UI Design) and Mike Milley (Principal Futurist) from Mercedes-Benz Nor...

Last Wednesday, the team of the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to warmly welcome Christian Polenz, Deputy Chairman & Chief Customer Officer of TeamBank AG, as the second speaker in our Innovation Insights Series. After Christian briefly presented the history of the Teambank and ...

The Chair of Industrial Management is committed to the idea that theory and practice must go hand in hand. Therefore, besides the regular lectures, Prof. Voigt and his team invited outstanding guest speakers from a variety of industries to talk about important innovation and technology topics – the ...

During the last MDBA weekend, Prof. Voigt, Dr. Lukas Maier and Dr. Christian Baccarella had the pleasure to welcome Khaleeq Aziz, CEO and Founder of Symanto Research. Symanto analyses text based on machine learning and deep learning algorithms to better understand individuals’ psychological profiles...

Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt and Dr. Christian Baccarella had the pleasure to kick-off the module “Digital Innovation and Business Models“ for the students of FAU’s Master of Digital Business Administration (MDBA). Twenty highly motivated students worked on and discussed about contemporary aspects in the co...

This summer term, the Chair of Industrial Management by Prof. Voigt was once again able to gain leading personalities from renowned international companies for our seminars. Do not miss the opportunity to work together with these outstanding leaders and discuss current issues. The application period...

After three intensive and successful weekends of lectures, group work and discussions, the 30 students of the 2021-2023 Executive MBA Master Program “Business Management” successfully completed our module “Innovation” – once again in a 100% digital setting. Professor Voigt, Dr. Baccarella and Dr. Ma...