Events

Local Places in a Digitally Interconnected World: Patterns of Public Leadership?

16 Sep
Wednesday 16 September 2026, at 13:00 8002-2105 | BC 15

Speaker: Alessandro Sancino, Professor of Public Leadership, Strategy & Social Innovation at the University of Milan, Italy. 

Abstract: Every minute, we send more than 42 million messages on WhatsApp, make over 5 million searches on Google, and spend almost 300 thousand dollars on Amazon. Who is leading this digitally interconnected World Wide Web, and who is providing leadership amid this turmoil in local places? Moving from these facts and challenged by these questions, the seminar will…

Research seminar: Sven Tackenberg and Jan-Phillip Herrmann

25 Sep
Friday 25 September 2026, at 11:00 8002-2105

Title: Resilience and workability in manufacturing and supply chains: First insights from the research project “WAI-Lab”

Speakers: 
Sven Tackenberg, TH-OWL
Jan-Philllip Herrmann, TH-OWL

Abstract: Small- and medium-sized enterprises need to operate in a highly uncertain global market environment. Strong demand fluctuations, political, health, and economic crises, and resource shortages are only a few of the many factors that force companies to build resilience and maintain their future…

Workshop on human behaviour simulation in business processes

28 Sep
Monday 28 September 2026, at 09:00 8003-3124

Speakers:
Sven Tackenberg, TH-OWL
Jan-Philllip Herrmann, TH-OWL

Sign up by accepting the calendar invitation. Deadline: (due to lunch): Tuesday, 22 September.

Agenda:
The realism and fidelity of industrial process simulations are significantly influenced by the unpredictability and difficulty of modeling complex human behavior. Artificial intelligence provides methods for learning and integrating human behavior into simulation models, making the analysis and optimization of industrial processes…