Guest Lectures

Once again, the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Kiel, Innovation Manager at Schaeffler and Alumini of the Chair of Prof. Voigt, for a guest lecture on the topic of innovation management at Schaeffler. Schaeffler, founded in 1982 in Herzogenaurach is an important...

The Chair of Industrial Management was happy and proud to host our alumna, Dr. Oana Buliga, Solution Architect, Digital Solutions Group at LEONI, for a guest lecture at our university. As part of our Master’s course Global Operations Strategy, Dr. Buliga provided us with hands-on insights and practi...

The Chair of Industrial Management is very proud to announce that our long-time colleague Prof. Dr. PAN Yaling from the University of International Business and Economics Beijing (UIBE) was awarded with the Medal of Honour of the Friedrich-Alexander-University. Directly after Bavaria’s Minister Pres...

On 21th of October, the Chair of Industrial Management successfully launched the new “Innovation Seminar” at FAU together with Daniel Krauss (CIO and founder of FlixBus). This semester’s seminar is about the topic “Shaping the Mobility of Tomorrow”. Four master student groups, each comprising of ...

In close cooperation with Prof. Han from the Tongji University Shanghai, Prof. Voigt was happy to invite the fifth class of the “Siemens Executive MBA” to Shanghai. From October 14th to 18th, the students attended the “Global Leadership” module at the famous Tongji University. The module led by P...

On October 8th, Prof. Voigt and his co-researchers, Marc Rücker and Oscar Pakos, accepted the invitation from TeamBank to give a keynote speech on creativity. More than 80 TeamBank employees took time during their lunch break to follow the lively presentation on current creativity research. Prof. Vo...

As our last guest speaker, Janina Kugel – Chief Human Resources Officer at Siemens AG – brought our Speaker Series on Digitalization to a crowning end. Her speech on “Digitalization and the future of work“ demonstrated how Siemens, especially from an HR point of view, tackles the digital transformat...

As part of our Speaker Series on Digitalization, the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome our very own alumna Dr. Tanja Jovanović, Project Manager Technology at Bayern Innovativ, for a guest lecture. Supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economics, Bayern Innovativ acts as know...

As part of both our speaker series on innovation and digitalization, we had the honour to welcome Khaleeq Aziz, CEO and founder of Symanto Research at the University for a fascinating guest lecture. Khaleeq provided hands-on insights into the way his company identifies deep and valuable customer ...

On June 27th, the Chair of Industrial Management had the privilege to welcome Dr. Benjamin Bhattacharya-Ghosh from Daimler’s innovation lab – the so-called Lab1886. Benjamin shared valuable insights on how the Lab1886 operates to develop radical innovations. He highlighted that the goal of Daimle...