Creating Innovation Spaces

Volker Nestle has an engineering background in precision and micro technologies and worked many years for Festo SE & Co. KG as a research engineer before he joined an Executive Master of Business Innovation program and consecutive doctoral studies at the EBS University in Oestrich-Winkel. In 2010 he received his doctoral degree for his research about Open Innovation processes in technology clusters. Until the end of 2016, he was Head of Research Future Technology at Festo and subsequently joined TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG as Head of Corporate Research and Development. In 2018, Volker Nestle received his honorary professorship for Innovation and Technology Management at the EBS University. In July 2020, Volker Nestle switched back to Festo SE & Co. KG to build up the new business unit for LifeTech/Medical Technologies as Head of Product Development. Since 2014, Volker Nestle is also Chairman of the Board of Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft for applied research, running three research institutes for application-oriented research on innovative solutions in microtechnologies. Beyond his activities in technology and trend scouting for production technologies his current fields of interest are about the implications of digitization on medical technologies and the subsequent transformation in business innovation and the working environment.Patrick Glauner is the Founder & CEO of skyrocket.ai GmbH, an artificial intelligence consulting firm based in Bavaria, Germany. In parallel, he is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, a position he is honored to hold since the age of 30. His research on AI was featured in New Scientist and cited by McKinsey and others. He is also an Area Editor of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS). Previously, he held managerial positions at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), at Krones Group and at Alexander Thamm GmbH. He studied at Imperial College London and also holds an MBA. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).Philipp Plugmann has been doing multidisciplinary work for the last 20 years in parallel to practicing as a dentist in his own clinic in Leverkusen, Germany. He is also a Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Periodontology and Prevention at SRH University of Applied Health Sciences. His first book on innovation in medical technology published in 2011 was reviewed by Cisco. His second book on innovation published with Springer in 2018 got more than 50,000 chapter downloads in its first fifteen months. Previously, he held multiple adjunct faculty appointments for more than twelve years and has won multiple teaching awards. He also holds an MBA, an MSc in Business Innovation, an MSc in Periodontology and Implant Therapy (DGParo) and is currently pursuing his third doctorate. Plugmann has given research talks in the field of innovation at Conferences at Harvard Business School, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Nanyang Tech University, Singapore. Plugmann is a serial entrepreneur and advisor to several companies, including a global technology consultancy - DataArt.

• Innovation Management for Artificial Intelligence.- Extracorporate Innovation Environments — An Example Lead User Approach Applied to the Medical Engineering Industry.- Innovation Management and Digitization - will Everything Remain Different?.- Raising Innovation Potential through a well Indoor Climate.- ”It’s not about the Room, it’s about the Mind-Set!” - How to Create an Integrated Newsroom with Digital Workflows and Cross Border Collaboration.- The Role of a Leader: Transformational Efforts in Innovation and Change.- On Corporate Innovation.- Designing Innovative Ecosystems and Introducing Digital Smart Services using Examples of the Value Chain from Building Investor to Facility Management.- How to Radically Innovate while Utilizing a Firms’ Capabilities - Practical Aspects of Corporate Entrepreneurship.- Experience as an Architect in an Agile Environment.- Why Emotional Intelligence is the Key to Survival in an Ever-Changing Digital World.- Professional Social Media and Innovation: How You Start Leveraging on Your Innovation through Strategic Content Creation on LinkedIn.- High Quality with Statistical Process Control 4.0 in Automation.- Digital Platforms as Drivers of Innovation.- Expatriate and Expat-Preneur Ecosystems – Innovation Spaces Away from Home.- The Role of Law in Creating Space for Innovation - An Example from the Healthcare Sector in Germany.- Start-ups Meet SMEs.- The 5 Elements of AI to Leverage Data and Dominate Your Industry.- Leveraging the Human Factor Through Holarchy - A Case Study.- Designing a Corporate Accelerator: Enabling the Collaboration of Incumbent Companies and Start-ups to Foster Innovation.- Leadership in Transformation – How to Lead in the Digital Era?.- How to Exploit Me as Much as Possible?.- An Entrepreneurial Approach to Designing Innovation Space.- Augmenting Machine-Human Intelligence with Human-in-the-Loop.- Innovation Spaces in the Global Environment.