Agenda: MORGEN DENKER SUMMIT 2023

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Michael Eisenbarth received his German Diplom degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2003. Until 2014, he worked as department head, senior engineer, consultant, and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern (Germany) and coordinated and managed several national and international research projects and industry collaborations. From 2016 to February 2020, he was head of the distributed security department at comlet Verteilte Systeme GmbH and of its Rhein-Main Office in Darmstadt. Currently, he is Head of the Cyber Security Center of Competence at ZF Friedrichshafen AG.

His scientific and technical work expertise and experience is focused on, but not limited to, software and systems engineering, especially requirements engineering and cyber security for automotive, industrial, and distributed embedded systems.

Dr. Jens Knodel has been working at Caruso GmbH since 2017, where he is head of the “Platform Engineering” division. CARUSO Dataplace is a neutral, open, and secure platform for data from connected vehicles. Prior to that, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE as coordinator of the research area “Smart Ecosystems”. Dr. Jens Knodel obtained his German Diplom degree in Software Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and his PhD from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in 2010.

Dr. Christian Kruschel is team leader of AI Technologies at IAV GmbH. Since 2016, he has been in charge of both customer projects and research collaborations and has been developing his own methods to bring the strengths of Artificial Intelligence into industrial application.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Liggesmeyer is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern and has been holding the chair of Software Engineering: Dependability in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern since 2004. From 2014 to 2017, he managed the affairs of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V., German Informatics Society) as its President. He is deputy spokesperson of the Fraunhofer Strategic Research Field “Digital Healthcare” as well as of the Fraunhofer lead market “Food Industry”.

Levin Patsch ist seit Anfang des Jahres 2023 Geschäftsführer der CRANIMAX GmbH. Zuvor hat er bereits einige Jahre die Entwicklungsabteilung des Unternehmens sowie seit seinem Eintritt ins Unternehmen im Jahr 2014 viele spannende Projekte geleitet. Als Wirtschaftsinformatiker hat er permanent an der Zukunft des Unternehmens mitgearbeitet und Modernisierungsprojekte initiiert, die ganz neue Abrechnungsmodelle und Zielgruppen für das Unternehmen erschließen.

Alexander Rabe has been Managing Director of eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V., the leading association of the Internet industry in Europe with more than 1,000 member companies, since January 2018. 

Rabe is a member of the German Federal Government’s Advisory Council for Support of the the Digital Strategy Germany and part of the BMBF’s Highlevel Group focusing on digital education for the Digital Summit.

Rabe is also a co-initiator of the “Alliance for Strengthening Digital Infrastructures in Germany”, a member initiative led by eco and supported by the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)), the Fraunhofer ICT Group, and the Bundesverband Mittelstand (BITMi). 

Rabe worked in various roles for the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)) from 2012 to 2016, most recently as Chief Managing Director of this largest professional association of computer scientists in the German-speaking world, with around 20,000 members.

Bernd Rattey has been CIO & CDO of Deutsche Bahn AG since the beginning of the year.

After completing his studies in computer science, Bernd Rattey worked for five years as an SAP consultant and project manager in a DAX 30 chemical company. In 2001, he moved to Deutsche Lufthansa AG, where he held various management positions in the passenger segment. From 2013, he was in charge of IT architecture and innovation management for the Lufthansa Group in the central Group IT Organization and was project manager of a Group-wide program to realign the Lufthansa Group’s eCommerce systems.

In summer 2014, he moved to Deutsche Bahn Vertrieb, where as Vice President he was responsible for the ticket vending machines sales channel. This included overall responsibility for the marketing, sales, further development, and operations of the channel. In 2016, Bernd Rattey took on the role of CIO of DB Fernverkehr AG. In this function, he was responsible for all IT topics from IT governance to IT management.

In November 2021, he took over the role of CIO of Deutsche Bahn AG.

Tabea Rößner is a journalist who has been a Member of the German Parliament since 2009 and represents the Mainz constituency. She is currently Chair of the Committee on Digital Affairs, a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, and a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.