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TechFutures: bpb Future-Lab Digital 2018

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German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and deutsche ict+ Medienakademie in cooperator with Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (Fraunhofer FIT) present TechFutures: Future-Lab Digital 2018 – Which future is likely, which utopia?.

There is a wealth of buzzwords around digitization – from AR and VR or the autonomous car, big data, blockchain, broadband to cloud, digital transformation and disruption, to e-health, internet of things, AI, robotics, online -Security up to wearables. But, what could be real future, what utopia?

Reason enough to discuss the meaning and probability of relevant developments around digitization with selected experts on a neutral platform. TechFutures presents pro and contra positions on key trends and hype applications as well as future assessments.

TechFutures: Zukunftslabor Digital / Futures-lab Digital by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) and Fraunhofer...

Posted by Jan-Frederic Kuhlmann on Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Key Trends

Big Data & AI: Oil for New Businesses or Challenges for Privacy and Security?

  • w/ Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IAIS, and
  • Prof. Dr. Karsten Weber, Director of Regensburg Center of Health Sciences and Technology (RCHST) & co-head of Institut für Sozialforschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung (IST) Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg

The Staccato-Society: Will People Inform Themselves and Communicate Differently in 2030?

  • w/ Christopher Peterka, Chief Inspiration Officer, gannaca (not present due to illness; PPP shown by bpb), and
  • Hans Demmel, Director of n-tv & CEO of VPRT Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telemedien e. V.

Technology Up Close: The Smartphone is Dead, Long Live the Wearable?

  • w/ Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer FIT, and
  • w/ Arndt Polifke, Global Director Telecommunications, GfK

 

Hype Applications

At Home, Everywhere Cameras, Sensors, Screens: How Smart will the Home Become?

  • w/ Christoph Lüthe, former CSO, ista, and
  • Olaf Pursche, Chief Communications Officer, AV-TEST GmbH

At the Workplace Everything Faster, Everything Better: Automation & Robotics Without End?

  • w/ Dr. Martin Brüchert, communications systems, Human-Technology-Interaction, Health, Branch Manager Bonn, @VDIVDE_IT, and
  • Tobias Kölsch, CEO, @Humanizing411 (#HumanizingTechnologies)

Homo Connectus On the Way: Assisted, Shared, Autonomous?

  • w/ Frank Thomsen, Head of #Innovation, @jambitGmbH, and
  • Jürgen Bönninger, CEO, FSD Fahrzeugsystemdaten GmbH (Zentrale Stelle nach StVG) & Chairman of DVR-Vorstandsausschusses Fahrzeugtechnik, Dresden

 

Framework Conditions Assessment

Key Medium Internet?

  • w/ @UweHasebrink, Director, @BredowInstitut (#MediaResearch, #Medienforschung)

Human Resources 4.0: More or Less Jobs Through Digitization?

  • w/ Dr. Ulrich Zierahn, Research area labour markets, HR and social security, @ZEW (European #economicpromotion #Wirtschaftsförderung)

DigitalEthics: Reflexion On Fundamental Values and Ethical Conduct

  • w/ Prof. Dr. Petra Grimm, @DigitaleEthik @hdm_stgt (#DigitaleEthik)

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