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Annual Report 2019

KIT – SAP

Strategic Annual Boardmeeting KIT and SAP with KIT president

Prof. Hanselka and SAP Board member Dr. Jürgen Müller

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This year, the strategic collaboration between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and SAP SE brought almost 40 university researchers, industry experts and executives together. In projects across all three pillars - research & co-innovation, entrepreneurship & co-innovation and administration & co-innovation - we pursued real industry challenges in the digital transformation context. In addition to that, workshops, innovation days and other events particularly focused on strengthening the transatlantic ties of our collaboration. One of the highlights in 2019 was the KIT Alumni Seminar in Boston at the end of October where we were honored to welcome Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Among other activities, President Steinmeier participated in a panel discussion on ‘Ethics of Globalization’ at Harvard University. The Alumni Seminar is a prime example of how valuable know-how and innovation exchange between international academia and industry networks are. I have always been an avid supporter of academic and practical exchange within the scope of diverse innovation projects. I am pleased that, in my first year as patron of the cooperation between KIT and SAP, we have made significant progress in that regard. I am looking forward to this year and making more joint contributions to combine academic excellence and economic success. Juergen Mueller

Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member Technology & Innovation, SAP SE

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Content Page

Management Summary 4

Strategic Collaboration Projects

I Research & Co-Innovation 5 Cybersecurity 5 Autonomous Mobility: E-Mobility, Intralogistics 6

Augmented Reality: Matrixproduction 7 Big Data 7 Automated Translation 9 Business Information Systems, BIS 10

Data Analytics 10

II Entrepreneurship & Co-Innovation 10 De:hub in Karlsruhe 10

Smart Data Innovation Lab 11 III Administration & Co-Innovation 13

Marketing Events and Conferences

TalKIT 13

Science Fiction and Design Thinking for the future 14 Innovation Day NEULAND 16 KITlink @SAP 18

HR Recruitment Activities 23 Credits and Contacts 24

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Management Summary

The KIT SAP Strategic Partnership is the cornerstone for the collaboration between

KIT and SAP on executive and operational level. It is the engine to gain transparency about existing collaboration and accelerate the setup of new joint projects. Grand total, the projects under the umbrella of the KIT SAP Strategic Partnership

bring nearly 40 University Researchers, Industry Experts, and Executives together. The reach within KIT and SAP is even bigger, as the nominated representatives for the KIT SAP Strategic Board, Collaboration Pillars and Collaboration Projects involve multiple colleagues and students into the project execution.

Highlights

1. The SAP Next-Gen project at KIT is regarded an international reference project

how to run Next-Gen projects with real industry challenges in the digital

transformation context

2. Innovations from KIT Research were successfully transferred to SAP industry applications, namely the automated translation, serving as showcase at a

SAPPhire NOW event

3. Existing collaboration projects like SDIL and new endeavors like the de:hub for Artificial Intelligence in Karlsruhe gain visibility to KIT and SAP employees

4. KIT LINK @SAP is a recognized SAP-KIT Alumni project with knowledge and skill transfer within the transatlantic network between the San Francisco Bay Area, KIT, and Baden-Württemberg.

Roadmap Regular KIT SAP Strategic Board meetings will ensure ongoing focus on collaboration projects. Any chance to promote the Strategic Partner and joint projects

as well as project results is utilized. Per collaboration pillar and project, well settled project teams invest adequate capacity to reach the project goals and share those results to the academic and the industry community. This is supported by the SAP

University Alliances & Next-gen Global Innovation network. Wherever needed and based on business priorities, adequate funds shall be granted to initiate projects beneficial for all parties.

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Strategic Collaboration Projects

Update „Research & Innovation“ Pillar

„Cybersecurity“ (Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade; Roger Gutbrod, Mathias Kohler)

2nd Security Research Seminar 2019

Foto: Copyright KIT/Müller-Quade

More than 40 researchers from SAP Security Research and leading international universities

gathered to have an open exchange on security topics of common interest and of relevance

to SAP's business. This event was the second in an annual series of invitation-only seminars

that started in 2018, dedicated to the exchange with selected academic thought leaders in

security and related topics. For the 2019 edition, 14 renowned professors from universities in

Canada, the US, France, Germany, Italy and the UK followed the invitation. Prof. Dr. Jörn

Müller-Quade from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was part of this group and we were

very happy we could additionally win him to give a talk about “Auditable Security”.

In the two days SAP researchers, executives and pilot customers got insights into SAP's

security challenges, into academia’s approaches and directions, and discussed how scientific

research and industry’s innovation needs can align for their mutual benefit.

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Foto: Copyright KIT/Müller-Quade

One of the major topics was the digital transformation which is driven by vast amounts of

data collected, shared, and processed over the cloud and open platforms. Many of these

data are sensitive, e.g., personal or strategic business data, and need to be protected, while

at the same time allowing to benefit from their value for analytics and machine learning

driven applications. Hence, such data do not only need to be protected when they are stored

in public infrastructures like the cloud, but also when they are processed by cloud providers

or collaborating entities. Software execution needs to be auditable, and cryptography can

provide adequate means to verify the processing of data. Two approaches of “Cryptography

for Auditable Software Execution” were presented and discussed by Prof. Dr. Müller-Quade

from the KIT and Benny Fuhry from SAP at the seminar.

Further topics included “Machine Learning Meets Security”, “Malicious Open Source

Components”, “Blind Computation”, as well as a panel discussion on “IoT Security with its

Risks and Opportunities”.

The audience highly appreciated the thoughts, insights and discussions triggered by looking

at strategic security research topics from both the academic and the industrial viewpoint. The

overwhelmingly positive feedback from both external guests and SAP participants

encourages us to continue the series!

“Autonomous Mobility: E-Mobility, Intralogistics” (Prof. Frank Gauterin; Nemrude Verzano, Elmar Dorner)

Joint Funding Application “National infrastructure for Researchdata of mobility

technologies”

Following the Impuls for discussions of Council for Information and infrastructure (RfII) an

open tender had been published in form of a federal- German states-Initiative to build a

National research data infrastructure (NFDI). DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft is

appointed responsible to conduct the process. Center of mobility systems created the

Initiative „Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für Mobilitätstechnologien –

NFDI4MobilTech“ and this initiative is coordinated by Prof. Gauterin as the spokesman.

NFDI4MobilTech will initiate an infrastructure for data management to give answers to the

domain specific Challenges of landside traffic and mobility behavior under consideration of

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technical systems. KIT as the applying Institution handed in the proposal for appraisal jointly

with a Consortium of 10 Co-Applicants, 5 participating organizations and 26 additional

Partners in October 2019. The Consortium pools Research institutions, who are generating

and processing big quantities of mobility data. They are produced mainly in the test field and

by tested vehicles in connection with autonomous driving. In addition, industrial companies,

standardizing companies and transport companies operate test areas and international

partners.

SAP has signed a Letter of Support and represents one of the 26 additional partners. In

December, 2019 the 2days of hearing and appraisal happend successfully in fron of the

international Jury. The funding recommendation is expected by DFG for March, 2020. Final

Decision is planned for July 2020.

„Augmented Reality: Matrixproduction“

Continous Reserarch cooperation

The two partners wbk Institute for Production techniques and SAP startet a 2 years research

collaboration in the domain of realtime Geering of prodouction in a matrix production. The

successful collaboration will be continued with a consecutive project in 2020.

Many producing companies try to flexilize the production structure to create a frame where

efficient production in the context of small series with variants is feasible. By dilution of fixed

processes und the transition to production islands, the possibility is created to adjust the

material flow at short notice. In this way, one can react on deviations and to regulate the

utilization of single production stations. The efficient usage of all these possibilities is very

challenging for the production control system. The best fitting analysis of the material flow

must be determined and mirrored to production instead of a prior production planning before

shift start. In this joint project a realtime production control system has been developped

where optimization of material flow takes place and is transferred to the planning of the

following usage of single production machines. To optimize decision making in shortest time

possible, processes of games like Go, had been integrated in the production control system.

Benchmark tests of the control with SAP and from literature had proofed the high capacity oft

he control. First results had been integrated in SAP products.

The follow up project in 2020 is composed of refinement of control especially with stochastics

of processing times, set-up times and transport times and secondly of the transmission of

research results into SAP products.

„Big Data“ (Prof. Peter Sanders; Martin Weidner)

Execution of research collaboration Security & Compliance Automation

Contacts: Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev (KIT), Malte Greulich (KIT), Maximilian Adrian (SAP), Juri Frommer (SAP),

Maxym Gerashchenko (SAP), Dr. Taras Slobodskyy (SAP)

The research group of Prof. Dr. Sunyaev is working together with SAP

SE to take on the challenges of an ever-increasing number of

regulatory and industry requirements that SAP’s cloud services have

to fulfill. The project “Security & Compliance Automation” supports this

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process and explores ways to automate compliance management processes, which should

help to reduce the effort and costs needed to comply with diverse requirements.

Throughout the project, we are analyzing and validating the compliance master data

management approach, propose suitable visualizations for compliance data, and define

requirements on a self-audited compliance system. The goal is also to define automated test

procedures and audit rules as well as accompany a proof-of-concept for compliance

automation.

Foto: Project Kick-off meeting at SAP (Copyright Sunyaev)

AUDITOR – European Cloud Service Data Protection Certification

Contacts: Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev (KIT), Sebastian Lins (KIT), Heiner Teigeler (KIT), Maximilian

Adrian (SAP),

Juri Frommer (SAP), Ferry Speer (SAP)

The objective of the research project “AUDITOR” is the conception,

exemplary implementation, and testing of an enduring EU-wide data

protection certification for cloud services.

The certification in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in

the interests of everyone involved: the cloud customers, who are only permitted to work with

cloud providers that can guarantee a sufficient level of data protection, the cloud providers,

who can offer just this security with such a certification, the auditing and certification bodies,

for whose business area the GDPR stipulates strict laws, and the end-user, potentially

affected by the data usage, the protection of whose personal data is in the focus of

certifications of cloud services. SAP is an associated partner of the AUDITOR project. As

part of this involvement, SAP is providing valuable insights into the development of the data

protection certification.

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Foto: AUDITOR project meeting in Karlsruhe in September 2019 at the KIT (Copyright KIT/Sunyaev)

„Automated Translation“ (Prof. Alexander Waibel; Christian Lieske, Marcus Danei)

The workgroup focusses on three collaboration areas:

1. Machine translation (based on Neural Machine Translation, NMT)

2. Speech-to-Text/Speech Recognition (e.g. to automatically generate texts for audio

signals from videos)

3. Conversational technologies (e.g. in the realm of chatbots), with a special focus on

language generation

In 2019, the workgroup was active in the following areas:

• Press Release for Hannover Messe (see

https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/press/press-releases/hannover-messe/press-

release-article-page_2305)

• Participation at “KIT Innovation Day” (see SAP internal blog post:

https://jam4.sapjam.com/blogs/show/hw3Cw1yNJ6eh2spu54Znnu)

Foto: Copyright KIT

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• “tekom conference” event (presenter Dr. Stefan Morana from chair Prof. Maedche)

related to chatbots (see SAP internal blog post:

https://jam4.sapjam.com/blogs/show/SDhdvEPrnHnYjs1gEuk7bK)

• Start of Master Thesis “Improvement of the translation of proper nouns in NMT” by

Maciej Modrzejewski (chair Prof. Waibel)

• Exchange related to https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:368516-

2019:HTML:EN:HTML&tabId=1&tabLang=en (tender “Live Speech to Text and

Machine Translation Tool for 24 Languages”)

„Business Information Systems, BIS“ (Prof. Alexander Mädche, Prof. Christof Weinhardt; Norbert Koppenhagen)

• Work group „Business Information Systems“: Successful start of the new degree

program for commercial informatics at KIT with SAP as a partner.

(https://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.kit.edu/kitpartner.php )

• In the same workgroup „BIS“ (KIT: Prof. Mädche, SAP: Dr. Koppenhagen) joint

execution of KERN project (AI-based Competence Assistence systems), project

funded by Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) (https://kern-kas.org/)

• Presentation at SAP User Assistance Reloaded: http://issd.iism.kit.edu/news_1548.php

• Research group Mädche – booth at SAP UX Day: http://issd.iism.kit.edu/news_1471.php

• SAP is Platin Sponsor at UX Day. Siehe https://ux-day.de/

„Data Analytics“

(Prof. Michael Beigl, Prof Jürgen Fleischer; Claudius Link, Elmar Dorner)

• The jointly driven KIT and SAP „Smart Data Innovation Lab“ had been extended on

demand of Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung by small AI-based micro

projects to increase quickly the applicaiton of AI in practice. The funding application

had been successfully prepared in the workgroup „Data Analytics“ (KIT: Prof. Beigel,

SAP. Dr. Dorner). First micro projects had been selected end of 2019 and went live

on the platform.

„Entrepreneurship“ Pillar (Prof. Thomas Hirth, Prof. Orestis Terzidis; Dr. Bernd Welz, Katrin Redmann)

Joint project request at EIT Health

KIT, University Madrid and SAP participated in the EIT Health 2019 Call for Proposals with

“UpCAT Health”.

upCAT Health serves as a catalyst for young and ambitious entrepreneurs enabling digital

transformation in health through digital and data-driven healthcare solutions. The overall

duration of the accelerator is eight weeks. We encourage and challenge the teams on their

way to a valid business model. The program starts at the KIT where the teams learn about

methods and tools to validate their product/solution fit. They will test their assumptions and

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hypotheses about customer needs with an intense customer and user interaction while

visiting the DMEA 2020, Europe’s most important exhibition for digital healthcare. Based on

these outcomes, SAP supports the teams in building their first MVP. With this, they will start

to validate their product/market fit and redefine their solution using the Living Labs of the

UPM. Along these ten weeks, the teams will constantly iterate on their products and

solutions, accompanied by experienced mentors, coaches, investors, and entrepreneurs.

KIT and SAP together presented the proposal at the EIT Health jury in Munich. Sadly, the

proposal was finally rejected for the Business Plan.

add on activities Digital Hub – Applied AI: de.hub – Artificial Intelligence

(Daniel Walther; Elmar Dorner)

In October the first german-french AI Conference (AIxIA) initiated by de:hub initiative

Germany, took place in Karlsruhe. More than 300 participants joined from France, Germany

and globally to meet in Karlsruhe. THey dicussed lively the application of artificial

intelligence. In the Conference the experts and participants concentrated on already existing

AI Applications and the need of companies. The exchange and discussions are organized in

presentation of concrete Use Cases, panel discussions and Workshops. Participants

received a lot of ideas for usage of AI in their companies. Daniel Dahlmeier, SAP AI

Business Services, presented in his Workshop the topic „AI & Ethics“.

Foto: Copyright by CyberFroum e.v. / Björn Pados

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de.hub – Artificial Intelligence & de.hub – Smart Systems & Smart

Infrastructure

(Christin Eckerle, Daniel Walther; Mirko Paul, Elmar Dorner)

In November the Karlsruhe de.hub joined forces with the de.hub in Dresden, with local SAP

support, for an interactive workshop format on the topic of application of AI in the area of

Smart Systems.

Foto: Copyright by „Digital Hub angewandte KI“

Triangel – collaboration and co-working space in the city of Karlsruhe

(Jens Fahrenberg, Peter Hottum; Norbert Koppenhagen, Niraj Singh)

Works are still progressing slowly, planned opening: April 2020.

Foto: Copyright KIT

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„Administration & Co-Innovation“ Pillar (Martin Hengel; Yvonne Schulz)

Follow-up to 2019 KIT-SAP Strategische Partnerschaft Board-Meeting a joint project

„Chatbots with SAP Conversational AI“ is planned. Execution planned for 2020 (PoC/Demo

until next Board-Meeting). No further activities in 2019.

Marketing Events and Conferences

TalkIT 8.-10.5.2019 SAPNextGen-Sponsor

Dr. Spohr, Lufthansa, Prof. Hirth, KIT

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This year´s TalkIT offered several opportunities to represent SAP:

- Dr. Markus Noga gave a lecture on bots and AI.

- Katrin Redmann conducted the first Science Fiction Thinking Workshop supported by

SAP HR Recruiting with 30 pre-selected students.

- SAP NextGen and HR Recruiting attended the Opening industry presentation by Dr.

Carsten Spohr and the evening reception for further contacts with promising talents.

- Katrin Redmann gave a presentation on SAPNextGen with examples of her lectures

at KIT and the future of sustainability and education

- Dr. Csaba Singer gave an inspiring presentation of the third dimension

- - Karlsruhe Castle with dinner speakers Dr. Csaba Singer, h-aero and Katrin Redmann, SAP

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Design Thinking and Science Fiction Thinking

Workshop and Lecture

Katrin Redmann offered a “Premiere” of Workshop at KIT: out of 90 applicants from other

universities and KIT, 30 had been chosen to conduct the first Science Fiction Thinking

Workshop at KIT. HR recruiter, Martin Moll and industry representatives had been impressed

by the futuristic scenarios the students presented at space prototypes after 4 hours. Later in

the semester this education format is held at KIT ZAK as a regular lecture by Katrin

Redmann.

“Rocket man” student with Katrin Redmann

Science fiction students with Katrin Redmann

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KIT Science Fiction Students of TalKIT with Trainer Katrin Redmann

Innovationstag Neuland 10.7.2019

SAP-Sponsor

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SAP Booth with Brigitte Schultze, SAP

SAP booth: Tim Schlippe, CEO Silicon Surfer & KIT Alumnus with Esther Legant, KIT

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Katrin Redmann with interested student at the SAP booth

Lecture of Dr. Markus Noga on AI chatbots

KIT link @ SAP

SAPNextGen Chapter for American-German Innovation Transfer

The KIT SAP Strategic Partnership is the cornerstone for the collaboration between KIT and SAP on executive and operational level. It is the engine to gain transparency about existing collaboration and accelerate the setup of new joint projects. Grand total, the projects under the umbrella of the KIT SAP Strategic Partnership bring nearly 40 University Researchers, Industry Experts, and Executives together. The reach within KIT and SAP is even bigger, as the nominated representatives for the KIT SAP Strategic Board, Collaboration Pillars and Collaboration Projects involve multiple colleagues and students into the project execution.

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KIT LINK and SAP: A Strong Partnership

SAPNextGen Chapter for American-German Innovation Transfer

KIT LINK is the transatlantic network for innovative high-quality research with future potential.

It enables the exchange of knowledge and talents between the San Francisco Bay Area and

Baden-Württemberg. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

through the campaign “The Future of Work.”

SAP supported the successful proposal of KIT LINK. At the kick-off meeting in May 2019 in

Berlin at Deutsche Telekom’s Representative Office, the team of KIT LINK, represented by

Esther Legant (KIT) as well as by Katrin Redmann (SAP), introduced itself amongst the teams

of nine other research institutes.

KIT LINK aims to

• empower the exchange of knowledge, talents, ideas, technologies and investments

between the San Francisco Bay Area and German Southwest,

• build an intelligent transatlantic network to foster the dialog between society, industry

and academia,

• creates a team of experts who will address global challenges,

• involves alumni in research, higher education, and innovation,

• presents the German research landscape in the area of ‘The Future of Work’.

Model KIT LINK @ SAP Fig. 1: KIT LINK @ SAP model

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KIT LINK @ Zeitgeist Event

On October 26, 2019, the third Zeitgeist Event “Tradition Meets Future” took place in Palo Alto.

At the historic Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, students, researchers, entrepreneurs and politicians

from Germany and the US came together to get inspired.

The welcome address was given by Peter Beyer, Member of German Parliament and

Coordinator of the Transatlantic Cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Government.

High-profile speakers shared their insights about the future of robotics, AI and the role of

Germany, as well as the importance of a transatlantic network. The speakers at the Zeitgeist

event were: Cyriac Roeding (KIT alumnus, founder, and investor), Torsten Kröger (Professor

on leave of KIT and Head of Google Robotics) who held a keynote about “Humans and Robots

- A Collaborative Future,“ Annika Hoeltje (BW Innovation Camp), and Sebastian Lang (Global

SAP IT Showroom Director) making an impulse statement on the Digital Charter .

Photo 1: Cyriac Roeding, KIT alumnus ©Barak Shrama Photo 2: Sebastian Lang, SAP ©Barak Shrama

Photo 3: Iskandar Jahja (German Foreign Office), Torsten Kröger, Esther Legant (KIT), Consul General Hans-Ulrich Südbeck, Oliver Kaas (KIT) ©Barak Shrama

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Photo 5: Hal Varian, Chief Economist of Google and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley ©GABA

KIT LINK @ Transatlantic Sync

The Transatlantic Sync Conference “Germany & Silicon Valley: Shaping a shared digital future”

on October 27 to 29, 2019 was organized by a team of young professionals within the German

American Business Association (GABA). Leaders, experts, and young talents from business,

academia, and politics analyzed the current situation and enabled us to see the big picture.

The Conference covered the topics of innovation in the age of AI and the need for a new bridge

between Silicon Valley and Germany in the age of AI, digital democracy, healthcare in the age

of AI, supply chain security and the future of work. Esther Legant introduced KIT LINK to the

audience at the conference as part of the thematic block “The Future of Work” right after an

inspiring keynote by Hal Varian (Chief Economist, Google).

Photo 4: Esther Legant at Transatlantic Sync ©GABA

Photo 6: Andreas Bechtolsheim (Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, First Investor in Google, Chairman of Arista Networks) ©GABA

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KIT LINK @ KIT Alumni Seminar in Boston

In October 31 and November 1, 2019, KIT organized an Alumni Seminar in Boston at SAP,

which was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The highlights of the

framework program were two meetings with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who

had come to Boston to act as patron of the closing event of the Germany Year “Wunderbar

together.” SAP invited KIT and its alumni to use the conference room at the SAP offices in

Boston. Pablo Mentzinis, Head Government Relations SAP, Sandra Moerch, Chief Content

Director of SAP Next-Gen, and Yussef Ahmed, Purpose Lead & Project Manager of SAP Next-

Gen, participated in the alumni meeting and presented SAP projects. Vice-President for

Innovation and International Affairs of KIT, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth, gave a presentation about

the latest developments of the KIT. Esther Legant presented KIT LINK to the audience,

encouraged them to actively participate in the transatlantic network, and presented an open

discussion on how to foster, create, and maintain a trustworthy relationship between KIT

Karlsruhe and alumni in the USA and what is needed to make it work.

Photo 7: Professor Dr. Thomas Hirth, Vice-President for Innovation and International Affairs of KIT, presenting KIT and its activities

Photo 7: Participants of the Alumni Seminar in Boston

Photo 5: Federal President Steinmeier during a panel discussion on ethics of globalization at Harvard Law School

Photo 6: Participants of the KIT Alumni Seminar in Boston at Harvard Law School together with Friedrich Merz, Vice President of the Economic Council of the CDU, and Peer Steinbrück, former Federal Minister of Finance and former Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

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HR recruiting Activities Anja Woelfel, Margit Herrler and Anja Strohmeier

• 2019 Study Course Partner Business Informatics o 29.07.2019: Roundtable Business Informatics o 17.10.2019: Kick-off Business Informatics

o ongoing: Jobpostings, Videos, etc.

• 16.05.2019 KIT Career Fair

The HR Early Talent Acquisition Team has been Study Course Partner with the

KIT Business Informatics since 2019. In cooperation with the KIT Career Service,

the specially designed partner network for business informatics aims at the close

integration of science and practice during the studies. Students of business

informatics at KIT have the possibility to get an insight into typical tasks and working

areas for business informatics specialists in cooperation with the study course

partners. In case of interest, there is the opportunity to establish contacts with the

study course partners during the studies and to gain in-depth insights. As a study

course partner, we have the opportunity to retain talent at an early stage and position

ourselves as an employer of choice in the medium or long term in order to attract top

talent for our hiring initiatives from the courses that are relevant to us. In addition, we

have a variety of opportunities to get in touch with the students (e.g. opening

ceremony, Expert Circle, company excursion, social media presence, logo, etc.).

Furthermore, we took part in the KIT career fair with colleagues from the various

board areas. At the KIT Career Fair, around 250 exhibitors present themselves to

over 20,000 visitors over three days in the 2,350 m² exhibition tent directly on the KIT

South Campus and make important contacts with the young talents of tomorrow. In a

short presentation we gave an initial overview of SAP as an employer and were very

happy about the numerous and interesting discussions at the booth.

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Credits & Contacts KIT Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth Prof. Dr. Alexander Mädche Prof. Dr. Orestis Terzidis Prof. Dr. Veit Hagenmeyer Prof. Dr. Frank Gauterin Prof. Dr. Michael Beigl Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Fleischer Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamim Asfour Prof. Dr. Alexander Waibel Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt Prof. Dr.-Ing Rüdiger Dillmann Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza Erik Pescara Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Jivka Ovtcharova Prof. Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Kröger Esther Legant M.A. Dr. Barbara Schmuker

SAP Christian Klein Dr. Jürgen Müller Dr. Markus Noga Dr. Matthias Uflacker Tony Aschwanden Dr. Elmar Dorner Michael Dietz Gerhard Oswald Dr. Bernd Welz Dr. Michael Nuernberg Katrin Redmann Stephan Brand Dr. Franz Faerber Martin Weidner Jonathan Dees Dr. Roger Gutbrod Dr. Norbert Koppenhagen Claudius Link Veronika Schmid-Lutz Christian Lieske Marcus Danei Dr. Dominik Heere Laura Kleitsch Reinhard Landes Julia Küchler

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TalKIT Opening in KIT Presidium 2019