A fresh breeze powered by an innovative mindset – this is what established companies expect when they invest in startups. Joining forces with young enterprises is currently a top global trend. How can both startups and mature companies profit from this partnership? Can established companies adapt to the different mindsets of start-ups or is this a convenient fiction? Which challenges do businesses face independently of their size or age? We invite you to an open discussion and direct interaction with our guests on the podium.
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Birgit HOFREITER
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Head, i²c - Informatics Innovation Center, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna | | | |
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Ali MAHLODJI
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Chief Executive Officer and Founder, WHATCHADO GMBH, Vienna | | | |
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Markus NOGA
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Vice President, Research Partners & Startups, SAP SE, Walldorf | | | |
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Chief Executive Officer, VERBUND AG, Vienna
1977-1982 | Study of Mechanical Engineering and Business Management, Vienna University of Technology
1983-1999 | Leading Positions with SGP Simmering Graz Pauker AG, SYSTEC Industrieautomation GmbH, ABB Industrie GmbH, ABB Energie AG and ABB Industrie- & Gebäudesysteme GmbH
1999-2000 | Member of the Managing Board, Salzburger Stadtwerke AG
2000-2003 | Member of the Managing Board, Salzburg AG
2003-2008 | Chief Executive Officer, Palfinger AG
Head, i²c - Informatics Innovation Center, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna
2005 | Doctorate, Social and Economic Sciences, Business Informatics, University of Vienna
2006-2008 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Information Systems, University of Technology Sydney
2005-2009 | Senior Research Assistant, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna
2009-2011 | Assistant Professor (appointed), Institute of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
| Christian Kern was sworn in as Austria's Federal Chancellor on 17th May 2016. After working as a journalist and in the Austrian Parliament and Federal Chancellery, Mr. Kern launched a career in the energy sector in 1997. At Verbund AG, Austria's largest energy utility, he was appointed to the group's management board in 2007. He then switched to the Austrian Federal Railways Group, where he served as Chairman of the Management Board from 2010 onward. In this capacity, he also became Chairman of the Brussels-based Community of European Railways (CER) in 2014. Under Mr. Kern's leadership, the Austrian Federal Railways investigated the railway operator's role during the Nazi era in a project entitled "Suppressed Years". Mr. Kern was born in Vienna on 4th January 1966, and he graduated from an academic secondary school in Vienna's 11th district (Simmering). He then went on to study sociology, political science and communications at the University of Vienna. |
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, WHATCHADO GMBH, Vienna
2001-2005 | Production Assistant for Chinese medicine, Mag. Doskar - Pharmaceutical Products, Vienna
2002-2006 | Graduation with diploma, Software Engineering, SAP, JAVA, MDA, Austria College for IT/Business administration "HTL Spengergasse", Vienna
2005-2005 | SAP-Project Assistant, Wien Energie GmbH, Vienna
2005-2006 | Project Coordinator for Central East and Europe/MID-Region, Sun Microsystems
2006-2007 | Community (Civilian) Service, Flüchtlingsintegrationsdienst DIAKONIE Österreich, Vienna
2006-2008 | Student, University of Applied Sciences, Technikum Vienna
2007-2008 | IC Technology Consultant, Siemens IT Solutions and Services
2007-2009 | Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Information- and Communication Systems and -services, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
2008-2010 | Global Systems Engineer, Sun Microsystems
2010-2012 | Project Manager - Web2.0, interactive Media, Social Media Super-Fi
Vice President, Research Partners & Startups, SAP SE, Walldorf
1997 | Initiator and Leader, brickOS Project, LEGO Mindstorm Robots
2000 | Start-up "anystream"
2003 | Ph.D., Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe
2004-2010 | Principal, Management Consultancy, Booz & Company (now: strategy&)
since 2009 | Start-up "nogago"
PULS 4 Head of Info, ProSieben Sat.1 PULS 4, Vienna
| Studium Politikwissenschaft und Geschichte in Wien, Granada, Guatemala |
1995-1996 | Menschenrechtsbeobachterin in Guatemala
1998-2002 | Pressesprecherin und Globalization Officer beim WWF Österreich
seit 2003 | Journalistin und Autorin mit den Schwerpunkten Globalisierung, Menschenrechte, Migration
seit 2003 | Politikredakteurin beim Wirtschaftsmagazin Format
2006-2008 | Recherchen, Beratung und Aufnahmeleitungen für den Dokumentarfilm "Let's Make Money" von Erwin Wagenhofer
2007-2012 | Moderation, Club 2, ORF
2010-2012 | Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin, News
seit 2012 | Moderatorin, Pro und Contra - Der AustriaNews Talk, PULS 4
seit 2013 | Informationsdirektorin, Prosieben Sat1 PULS4