Last week I attended the very interesting event “Media meets Smart Home” event organized by the Mediennetzwerk Bayern. The event looked at the present and future of smart homes in general. Furthermore the more than a dozen different speeches focused on the consumption of media within smart homes. It was a good mix of different topics that all contributed to the big picture. My personal highlights were Christiane Varga talking about how technology is changing Read more…
In the beginning of last week, I visited the Google Cloud Summit in the International Congress Center in Munich. Initially, I tried not to compare the event with the Fujitsu Forum in two weeks earlier. However, I could not resist the temptation, because some topics were similar. The main focus was obviously on Google’s Cloud Platform and its recent updates. Other topics related to the cloud platform were collaboration within companies, artificial intelligence as service Read more…
Last week I went to the Fujitsu Forum hosted in the International Congress Center in Munich. The conference was a good opportunity to talk with several industry experts about the latest technology and business trends. It was also good to catch up with recent developments in technologies that have been around for some time. There were several keynote speeches throughout the three days. The quality of the keynote speeches was very high – in terms Read more…
Yesterday I visited a software intelligence workshop organized by CQSE at the Technical University of Munich. The event consisted of five very good presentations from different industries. Thus, the afternoon was not only informative, but entertaining as well. I have worked with CQSE and their software quality tool TeamScale a lot in the past. I believe firmly, that investing in software quality pays off in the mid- and long-run. Especially in outsourcing of software development Read more…
I just came back from the Inspire 2018. The event was very well organized by ValueLabs and hosted at The Dorchester in London, UK. The venue was absolutely perfect for this, indeed, inspiring event. Over one and half days there were several very good talks and plenty of possibilities to connect with peers from all over Europe. For me it was very interesting to discuss the challenges, needs and differences in IT Outsourcing. Especially when Read more…
This week I had the chance to visit the trade fair eMove360° Europe. The fair’s topic was ‘Mobility 4.0: electric – connected – autonomous’. It was very interesting to see so many different innovations around e-mobility. I had several good conversations with industry experts at the fair. Coming back to the fair’s topic, I thought ‘electric’ very dominant. From an IT perspective the ‘connected’-part came short and was not innovative. The ‘autonomous’-part was hardly present. Read more…
A couple of days ago I attended the Docker Enterprise on Tour event. The event took place at the Hofspielhaus in Munich. It was an unusual, but good venue to host such an event. Everything was very well organized. I have been interested in container technology and especially Docker for some time. I heard a lot about it and wanted to find out, whether it is just another overhyped buzzword or really a game-changer in Read more…