This year's Global Technology Forum (GTF) at TUM Campus Heilbronn demonstrated how synergies can be exploited and potential unleashed. One person who has been involved from day one is the outgoing director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Vicki Nash. We spoke to her about the transformation of the forum, the importance of…
How can universities promote entrepreneurship—and what enables new companies to emerge from academic environments? This question was the focus of the “From Research to Reality” event at the TUM Campus Heilbronn.
Organized by the Global Center for Family Enterprise, the event marked the conclusion of the Entrepreneurial Impact Study (EIS)—a…
The Global Technology Forum of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at the Heilbronn campus has established itself as a venue for international scientific exchange. Numerous scientists from several renowned international universities travelled to Heilbronn, a location for applied research and technological innovation.
In times of economic uncertainty, a good, long-term customer-supplier relationship is essential. It's good when there are helpful tools that assist in making the right decisions. In the SCALA project, Yannik Gabelmann, a doctoral candidate at the Center for Digital Transformation at TUM Campus Heilbronn, is developing just such a digital…
At the Chair of Information Infrastructures at TUM Campus Heilbronn, research assistant Florian Leiser conducts research on hybrid intelligence, the process of collaboration between humans and machines. The focus is on decision-making and decision-making authority, who should make the final decision, and trust.
Many critical processes in transportation, industry, and our daily lives rely on sensor measurements. Over time, however, these measurements can gradually become distorted and their accuracy decreases. This increases the risk of major disruptions due to incorrect sensor measurements. Individual sensor measurements are always inaccurate and…
Haven’t we all become used to participating in meetings via Teams or Zoom rather than at the office? If we haven’t had time to dress and are still at the breakfast table in pajamas, the camera simply stays off. A new reality of work?
There are frequent concerns that large language models like ChatGPT endanger the diversity of languages. Alexander Fraser, Professor of Data Analytics & Statistics at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology at Campus Heilbronn, is convinced of the opposite: He uses machine translation to preserve threatened languages.
Last year, some regions in Bavaria and Brandenburg had to be supplied with drinking water. At the same time, the use of artificial intelligence consumes 465 million cubic meters of H2O annually. This amount could supply 10.5 million people in Germany with water every year. How can digitalization be achieved in a sustainable way?
Many employees underestimate the risk of automation affecting their jobs. In this interview, Philipp Lergetporer, Professor of Economics at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, talks about the motivation to embrace continuing education and how the upskilling system has to change.
