Guest Lectures

On July 16th, Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann, Prof. Dr. Marvin Nipper and Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt welcomed three prominent co-hosts from BMW, Prof. Oliver Zipse (CEO BMW), Dr. Irene Feige (Head of Climate Strategy and Circular Economy) and Dr. Thomas Becker (VP Sustainability, Mobility BMW) for the fina...

On July 15th, we wrapped up the final session of “Das Innovationsseminar” led by Daniel Krauss (Co-founder and CIO, Flix SE), Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, and Hannah Altenburg for the 10th time! This semester, the seminar brought together three groups of students on an exploration of real-world stra...

On July 3rd, the Chair of Industrial Management hosted Bruno Götz, Head of Patents at Bayern Innovativ, as part of our "Innovation Insights Series". Bruno captivated students from the courses “Innovation” and “Technology and Innovation Management” with a humorous and very informative lecture on the ...

On June 12th, Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt was pleased to welcome Fabian Bodensteiner, one of the Co-Founders (founding team) and CTO (Head of Operations & Manufacturing) of Worldcoin, for a fascinating guest lecture. Worldcoin, the company Fabian Bodensteiner founded together with Alex Blania and Sa...

We are delighted to invite you to a special guest lecture by Fabian Bodensteiner from Worldcoin, which will take place on June 12th at the Faculty of Engineering (Cauerstraße 11, 91058 Erlangen, lecture hall: H11, time: 08:30 - 10:00 am). Fabian Bodensteiner co-founded the company Worldcoin in 20...

From June 3rd to June 7th, Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Michael Mertel, and Lars Friedrich returned to St. Kliment Ohridski University to deliver a one-week teaching on Technology and Innovation Management. Both theoretical and practical aspects of recent challenges in new product development, technologies...

On May 15, Dr. Eva Budischin, Head of Innovation & New Business Building at Bosch Engineering, joined the "Innovation Insights Series 2024" for a lively guest lecture on the innovation culture @Bosch! She delved into the company's iterative and lean approach to business model innovation, from...

On May 15th, Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt and Viktoria Leutheuser were delighted to welcome Patrick Pröschel as a guest speaker in the Industrial Management lecture. In his position as project manager for global production networks at MAN, he provided the students with many information about the commercial ...

Meet our Local Heroes! For the sixth time in a row, the Chair of Industrial Management hosted the "Businessplanseminar – Local Heroes Edition" which provides 12 bachelor and master students with the invaluable opportunity to tackle real business challenges posed by three local start-ups. Collaborati...

On December 20th, Professor Dr. Daniel Gerhard gave an exciting guest lecture about the challenges of managing new technologies as part of the PLB lecture. Based on his many years of professional experience, Prof. Gerhard succeeded in transferring new findings from research and science to new manufa...