The power of diversity

Host: Alberto Manuel, Susan Choi
Time: 11.November 16:30 – 18:00

Living and breathing a culture of diversity is the first step to not just a ‚trend’ but imperative to building a better and equitable future of true inclusion and acceptance. When we grow contact with, exposure to, and communication between people who are not like us, we can learn how to relate to difference in a way where difference doesn’t have to be a problem, a barrier, or a threat. Increasing familiarity with these differences (and commonalities) can shape and shift our perspectives, cultivate an acceptance that facilitates belonging, and diminish the misconceptions and prejudices that fuel discrimination. From a business perspective, it creates a more attractive workplace, fires up creativity and innovation and has been proven to increase sales and revenue.

We must work on advancing equality and justice for all by constantly questioning and challenging intersecting forms of structural inequality and discrimination. The future should be free of systemic oppression and everyone should have access and equal rights.

IOT for Business

Host: Stefan Pfeffer
Sponsor: Microtronics
Time: 11.November 16:30 – 18:00

Intelligent and open IOT ecosystems are the key driver for the next evolutionary stage of the industry. In this roundtable, we will discuss how your smart products will capture, record, process and analyse data in platforms and cloud environments in the future. From sewers to hospitals, Microtronics' technology has been successfully used in over 300 projects. From the harsh ATEX environment to the control cabinet and building monitoring, the areas of application are almost limitless. The focus of our roundtable is on simple and fast integration and implementation.

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Ecosystems for Business

Host: Corinna Pommerening
Sponsor: E4B
Time: 12.November 15:30 – 17:00

Ecosystems are the next evolutionary form of the economy. Cross-industry and cross-company collaboration is becoming a key competence for companies. Cross-company culture, cross-company innovation and collaborative business models are shaping the economy of the future. The subject of the roundtable is the development and operation of regional ecosystems, in particular accompanying or operating cross-industry and cross-customer business and performance-oriented networks.