Keynote Speaker - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Klausing
The role of project management in the world of tomorrow (Industry 4.0)
President of GPM Deusche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V.
Abstract:
The rapid digitalization in economy and society changes in a fundamental way our production methods and our working environment.
Introducing new and intelligent ways of creating added-value chains by interlacing production with modern and up-to-date information and communication technology will bring about completely new business models and processes in combination with changed market structures.
Dynamic, real-time optimized and self-organizing value creating networks will come about when people, objects and systems interact with each other. This will create value networks across businesses, companies and enterprises. These could be optimized according to various criteria such as costs, availability and use of resources. Moreover, in the past few years projects have been on the rise across all business sectors in Germany.
Biography:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Klausing has been President of GPM Deusche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V. since January 2016.
He studied electro technology at TU Munich and did his PhD at the University of Karlsruhe in 1989. As a manager of large projects he worked for Siemens and EADS Germany in executive positions and had responsibility for various locations in Europe and South Africa in the fields of science of transport, mobile communication and aviation.
From 2006 to 2015 he was member of the Board of Directors of the association VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. and in this position responsible for the management of this association.
Prof. Klausing teaches “Innovation Management and Industrial Processes” as honorary professor at the Institute for Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe.