Agenda
Our agenda is designed to inspire, challenge, and connect. From keynote sessions with industry leaders to interactive workshops and networking opportunities, each part of the event is built to spark ideas and provide practical insights. Explore the schedule and start planning your experience.
Tuesday, November 25
IDC FutureTech Summit – Germany
One day event
Registration & Networking
Welcome and introduction to the topic
Anja Lange
Moderator,
IDC Keynote: The Importance Of A Tech-first Business Strategy
Carla Arend
Associate Vice President, Research, Cloud in Europe, IDC
IT strategy in turbulent times – thoughts on dogmas and sacred cows
Thomas Mannmeusel
CIO, Webasto
Leveraging AI for Enhanced Operational Efficiency
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing operational excellence in the energy sector. Siemens Energy demonstrates how AI solutions such as digital twins, autonomous plant control, and generative AI in engineering automate processes, unlock efficiency potential, and increase reliability. Practical examples illustrate how intelligent platforms master complexity and accelerate innovation. Sustainable success arises from the close integration of technology, data integration, and digital expertise across the entire company.
Robin Mager
Leiter Digital Transformation Office, Siemens Energy
Clean Data
Andreas Messing
Head of BMC Infrastructure, Data & AI, Materna Information & Communications SE
Coffee break & networking
Building and enabling AI governance – Why the entire organization is involved!
In an increasingly interconnected business world, integrated platforms are key to agility and competitiveness. However, language barriers remain an often underestimated challenge in global enterprise workflows. This session will demonstrate how Language AI can be seamlessly integrated into existing enterprise platforms to accelerate processes and enable collaboration across language barriers. Using concrete use cases, you will learn how Language AI acts as an enabler for platform strategies, what integration options modern AI solutions offer, and how companies can increase scalability and efficiency through intelligent language processing. Discover best practices for implementation in complex IT landscapes and how leading companies are using Language AI to drive their digital transformation—without compromising security, compliance, or data sovereignty.
Dr. Daniela Simone Kappler
AI Officer, DB Systel
Marc Stanke
Enterprise Architect & Data Officer, DB Systel
Language Barriers in the Platform Economy: AI Integration for Global Workflows
In an increasingly interconnected business world, integrated platforms are key to agility and competitiveness. However, language barriers remain an often underestimated challenge in global enterprise workflows. This session will demonstrate how Language AI can be seamlessly integrated into existing enterprise platforms to accelerate processes and enable collaboration across language barriers. Using concrete use cases, you will learn how Language AI acts as an enabler for platform strategies, what integration options modern AI solutions offer, and how companies can increase scalability and efficiency through intelligent language processing. Discover best practices for implementation in complex IT landscapes and how leading companies are using Language AI to drive their digital transformation—without compromising security, compliance, or data sovereignty.
Ferdinand Speidel
Enterprise Account Executive, DeepL
Panel discussion – How AI can take flight in business
- Operationalizing AI: Frameworks, MLOps, and Monitoring
- Best Practices for Modern Enterprise Applications in the AI Era
Lunch & Networking
Planning a Target Architecture in a Volatile Environment: The Example of ERP Migration
IT departments must grapple with increasingly rapid technological and geopolitical changes. How does this impact strategic focus areas, architectures, and digitalization initiatives, using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as an example?
Armin Hoffmann
Enterprise Architect, Siemens Healthineers AG
Kai Eisele
IT Strategy Manager, Siemens Healthineers AG
Partner Presentation Dynatrace: Trends in Agentic AI: From Tool to Partner
The rapid development of agentic AI is changing the way companies use artificial intelligence. Instead of merely acting as tools, AI systems are increasingly evolving into proactive, autonomous partners that can support decision-making and act independently. This presentation highlights the key trends driving this paradigm shift and shows how companies can leverage this new generation of intelligent systems today and in the future.
Martin Flechl
GenAI Lead & TechEvangelist, Dynatrace
Between individual products and standardized processes… and what a data platform has to do with it
KGAL’s holistic, strategic digitalization approach combines process optimization and standardization with data management and governance. This takes place in an environment where the three asset classes—real estate, infrastructure, and aircraft—couldn’t be more different. A presentation on challenges and solutions.
Daniel Kleine-Albers
Head of Digital Financial & Central Solutions, KGAL GmbH & Co. KG
Matthias Vetter
Senior IB Strategy & Controlling Manager, KGAL GmbH & Co. KG
Partnervortrag HPE & Wipro: AI for Networking – Networking for AI
HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks is more than a strategic move—it marks the beginning of a new era: the dawn of AI-powered, self-driving networks. Experience how the combination of cutting-edge AI technologies with HPE’s edge-to-cloud portfolio sets completely new standards for automation, transparency, and security—and how these innovations are transforming not only networks, but entire businesses.
Immerse yourself in the future of networking: “AI for Networking” enables self-optimizing, adaptive networks that detect and solve problems before they arise. At the same time, “Networking for AI” provides the stable foundation on which AI applications can reach their full potential – with ultra-fast, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.
Look forward to exclusive insights into the strategic roadmap highlights from HPE Networking: Network-as-a-Service, AI-powered operations management, energy-adaptive fabrics, and an open platform strategy. Get practical recommendations on how to make your business fit for the era of AI—with networks that not only think along, but ahead.
Axel Simon
Field CTO, HPE Deutschland
Matthias von Alten
Managing Partner and Consulting Leader for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Wipro
Coffee break & networking
Partner presentation Digital Realty: Artificial intelligence-based projects from the perspective of a data center operator
Uwe Pferr
Sr. Solutions Architect, Digital Realty
Frank Heinzinger
Account Director, Digital Realty
The Platform Turbo: Accelerator or Even Brake on Transformation?
“Platform approach,” “platform economies,” and the need to “build platforms” are on everyone’s lips. It sounds like the ultimate solution for everything, the turbo that will catapult us through digital transformation at light speed. But is that really the case? Or can this turbo also sputter, slow us down, or even steer us in the wrong direction?
Pia Fischbach
Chief Transformation Officer, OTTO
Panel discussion: Future Platforms
IDC Keynote: Shift Happens – Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce and Business Value
Meike Escherich
Associate Research Director, European Future of Work, IDC