Experience IT - a siemens conference 2009

Ernst Pöppel

Gründer des Instituts
für medizinische Psychologie

Professor Ernst Pöppel is the founder of the Institute for Medical Psychology which he subsequently led until 2008. Furthermore, he is the chairman of the Human Science Center at Munich University as well as a guest professor at Peking University. One of the world's most renowned authorities in the field of perception neuroscience, Pöppel has published many books including "Mindworks: Time and Conscious Experience" and his latest work, "Born to decide - Brain Science for Managers". Bridging the worlds of brain research and business strategy, Pöppel's work explores entirely new areas of perception, behavior and decision-making which determine the future success of any product or service.

Michael Schmelmer

CIO Infineon Technologies Int.

Michael Th. Schmelmer is Chief Information Officer at Infineon Technologies, a global Top Ten semiconductor company. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, with an academic degree in aviation and astronautics engineering and also holds a degree in business administration. Michael Th. Schmelmer spent most of his working career in the semiconductor industry working on various assignments in supply chain management and information technology for Siemens and Infineon Technologies in Munich. Before assuming the position of CIO, Mr. Schmelmer was globally responsible for Infineon's Business Applications and application platforms, particularly in the Supply Chain Management area.

Christoph Witte

Herausgeber Computerwoche

Christoph Witte is a long-time member of the IT, telecommunications and online community and a well know IT journalist and speaker. He worked as Editor in Chief (until October 2008) and as publisher (until September 2009) for Germany's most important IT weekly magazine, "COMPUTERWOCHE", for 13 years. During his tenure, COMPUTERWOCHE not only developed a well known and acknowledged online platform for IT decision makers and IT professionals, but also created the formats and content for a successful event business. As a result, Witte has been responsible for the successful positioning of the three Computerwoche platforms printed content, online and events in the very competitive German IT publishing market. He is also a founding member of the German CIO Magazine, for which he was active as publisher from 2001 to 2007. Furthermore, he has just started his own company in Munich: "Wittcomm. Agentur für IT, Publishing und Kommunikation". He uses this platform to drive his activities in publishing (books, online and print features about strategic IT topics), events (speaking, organizing and conceptual work) and communication (consulting and coaching for IT leaders). Witte can be reached under +49/89/14325552 and per email: cwitte@wittcomm.de. His website: www.wittes-welt.eu

Romano Prodi

Romano Prodi was born in Scandiano ( Reggio Emilia, Italy) in 1939. Married with Flavia Franzoni, they have two sons, Giorgio and Antonio.

After graduation at the Faculty of Law of the Universitry of Milan and at the London School of Economics, his academic career began at the department of economics and at the Faculty of Political science of the University of Bologna, where he worked as an assistant professor (1963), associate professor (1966) and lastly professor (1971-1999) of industrial organisation and industrial policy.

In 1974 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University at the Stanford Research Institute.
He helped establish the "Italian school of industrial policy", and acted for several years as the editor of its quarterly journal, L'Industria, Rivista di Economia e Politica Industriale.

In 1981 he founded Nomisma, the largest Italian institute of economic studies, whose scientific committee he chaired until 1995.

From November 1978 to March 1979, Romano Prodi was Minister of Industry.
From November 1982 to October 1989, he was chairman and CEO of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), which was the largest Italian public holding.

Recalled to head the Institute in 1993, he saw through the privatization of a number of industrial,banking and and service companies.

In February 1995 he founded the "Olive tree" centre-left coalition, which designated him as its candidate for premiership.

The coalition won the 1996 election and, in May 1996, he was appointed Prime Minister. He remained in office until October 1998. The bold measures introduced by his Cabinet enabled Italy to meet the Maastricht criteria for joining the Euro zone.

From 1999 to 2005 he has been President of the European Commission. During his presidency, the euro was successfully introduced, the Union was enlarged to 10 new countries from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe and the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed.

In 2006 Romano Prodi was elected leader of the centre-left coalition in Italy and after a victory in 2006 elections he became Prime Minister, until May 8, 2008.

He is, since then, President of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation and in July he has been named Chairman of the UN-AU High Level Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa.

During his academic and institutional career, Romano Prodi has been awarded a number of recognitions and he also holds various honorary degrees.

Andreas Finke

Andreas Finke has been head of Financial Services at Siemens IT Solutions and Services since April 2007. In this capacity he is in charge of the global business with IT solutions for banks and insurance companies. The Subdivision is based in Munich. Finke studied chemistry and economics in Munich. He began his career in 1992 as a research associate at the Munich University of Technology. He joined Siemens AG in 1996, where the main focus of his tasks was on central and corporate planning. From 1998 to 2000, he worked as a management consultant at Cap Gemini. In June 2000, Finke, who has a doctorate in science, moved to Siemens Business Services, now merged into Siemens IT Solutions and Services. Here he held a variety of positions with international responsibility, among others in internal and external strategy and IT consulting. Finke has profound industry knowledge: since 2001 he has looked after customers from the banking and insurance sector all over the world in a host of IT and outsourcing projects.

Alex Petrovic

Alex Petrovic was born in Bratislava, he is 33 years old. During study on Slovak Technical University - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics he started to work in private company as Junior Programmer. During 6 years he went through Senior Programmer, Designer to Senior Analyst in project for simulating processes in Gas Power plant. In 2004 he start to work in Accenture as a team lead and Analyst Programmer on project delivering maintenance and development ordering software for company selling cars across whole Europe. In 2006 he started to work for Siemens. In summer 2006 the OMS project - Outage Management System has been kicked off . Siemens was responsible for delivery whole solution including creation interfaces to all external systems. In this project Alex was in Technical and Business consultant position. He was responsible for applying all business processes connected with management of outages, planned outages and reports in eRespond software. Whole solution will be used on Call Center for creation Trouble Tickets, dispatching for managing outages and planned outages, technical resources for preparation Planned Outages and in back office for evaluation all events happened on field. He is also responsible for analyze all potential change requests coming from users and partners in the maintenance contract.

Horst Bliedung

The Information Technology graduate is the Director of International Sales for Identity & Access Management in charge of Austria and CEE. Following his university studies, he worked for Nixdorf Computer AG in Paderborn, where he was responsible for international research projects in the field of communications. At Siemens, he held various positions, for instance partner management and business management in security und identity management.

Birgit Burkard-Milde

Principal Management Consultant, Director Sales, Head of FS Consulting Unit Munich The fully qualified lawyer and bank trainee can draw on 18 years of experience in consulting with a focus on financial services. For 10 years, she held a management position in a major German bank and was the Senior Vice President of a bank in the Netherlands.
Some of the projects she worked for:
ABN Amro/ Stater GmbH: establishment of a loan factory, incl. change management and coaching
HVB: backoffice industrialization
RD D sales drives and task forces
Her expertise focuses on:
Strategy analysis and development
Organization / processes / WS chains
Transaction banking / in-/outsourcing/ BPO
Business development/ sales/ management/ HR
Project management / implementation support
Legal matters

Anton Gartner

Mag. Anton Gartner, MSc, Project Manager for Internet Strategy at BEWAG since May 2007, formerly Senior Consulting for Utilities at Siemens for over 6 years. He holds a Master's degree in Commerce from the University of Vienna and a Master's degree in Commerce from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Alexander Leiningen-Westerburg

Born in 1964, has worked in business development and as Senior Consultant responsible for e-government at Siemens IT Solutions and Services since September 2005. Lecturer at the Danube University Krems and the Paracelsus University in Salzburg specializing in new media and management information systems in the health sector. Following university studies of history, he completed a postgraduate degree in telematics at the Danube University Krems and then went on to found two e-health companies. From 2003-2005 he also taught new media and tele-medicine at the IMC University of Applied Sciences. From 2001 to 2005 he worked in the ICT strategy unit of the Austrian Federal Chancellery where his areas of responsibility included, among other things, the citizen card, PKI, e-government seal of quality and e-government pilot authorities.

Dr. Manfred K. Müller

Dr. Manfred K. Mueller is Head of Global Solution Management for Telecommunication, Internet and SW Providers at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. He is in charge of further developing industry-specific portfolios for telecommunication, Internet and SW providers - driven by market trends and customer demand, in collaboration with experts in the Delivery Units, the country organizations, and portfolio and technology management. Manfred Mueller has a track record of more than 15 years in the field of OSS/BSS-solutions (Operation Support Systems / Business Support Systems) and has conducted projects in this field with various large European network operators.

Hans-Jörg Seeburger

Born in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1965. Having graduated in information technology studies from the Vienna University of Technology, he went on to develop software solutions for medical doctors and labs.
He joined Siemens in 1996 to work in product and solution design in the financial services sector. Following two years of management consulting, he again focused on the health sector, an area he has remained dedicated to up to now.
Following overall project management for the Siemens e-card project and of the medication approval service, Seeburger is responsible for e-health and health telematics at Siemens IT Solutions and Services.
Seeburger represents Siemens on various e-health bodies, for instance as head of a work group of the Austrian e-health initiative launched by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health. He is also active in standardization and in the Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry. In addition, he is giving lectures within the framework of the first "IT in the health sector" program at Danube University Krems.

Brigitte Vyhnak

Born in 1965, she is in charge of solution business in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) at SIS Professional Service. For more than ten years, she has been consulting enterprises from different industries when it comes to selecting and introduction ECM solutions. The focus of her activities is on strategy consulting, tool evaluation and project management.

Dr. Roland Beck

Born in 1962, head of the Service Management Consulting team at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. Following his graduation from the Vienna University of Technology, Beck worked as trainer, consultant and solution architect for a number of years before joining EDS, where he was Account Manager and Business Unit Leader for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Five years ago, Beck started to work for Siemens as Sales Executive for Outsourcing. Following a stint as Vertical Solution Consultant, he is now the head of the Service Management Consulting team.

DI Klaus Glatz

Following his studies in computer science (telematics) at the Graz Technical University and subsequent work as a software developer, DI Klaus Glatz joined the Andritz Group as an ERP consultant in 1999. He subsequently held various positions in the project management field and worked as both global project manager for CRM and project manager for post merger integration. In the latter position, he oversaw the IT integration of Finland's largest merger acquisition: Ahlstrom Machinery. Mr. Glatz was appointed Chief Information Officer of Andritz Group in 2002. In this position he manages the global IT department with approx. 200 internal employees and is responsible, amongst others, for the development of the IT strategy in alignment with the business strategy, all IT projects and activities within the Group, the global IT budget, the global ERP strategy, the relevant governance structures for the global IT organization and the development of a global CAD/EDM strategy.

Günter Koinegg

Current role at SIS: Account Executive for the Application Management Center Mid South Europe of Siemens as well as Head of the Vertical Practice Siemens Group at SIS PRO
- Responsible for setting up a Nearshore Competence Center for SAP services in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Project management experience in the development and international roll-out of a template solution for CRM at Siemens AG in Munich
- Before that, consultant and project manager for CRM and sales logistics at SIS in Austria
- Graduation in industrial engineering and business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum Graz in Austria.

Ralf King

On January 16, 2009 Ralf King joined the Solution Management Team of IEH Energy for the solutions M2B-Customer Care. Following his geoinformatics studies at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Ralf worked from 1993 to 1998 as "Smallworld" team manager in the graphical data processing unit of Photogrammetrie GmbH in Munich. From the outsourcing of the "Smallworld" team until 2000 he worked as Business Developer for advance IT GmbH and was responsible for implementation projects relating to Geographical Information Systems for market suppliers and waste disposal contractors. From 2000 to 2002 Ralf gained additional experience as the acting billing manager for extr@com AG, a telecommunication carrier enterprise in Munich in the area of Billing & Customer Care. Most recently he worked for SAP Germany in the consulting department for utilities in Walldorf. Here he focused on the integration of SAP IS-U and SAP CRM, first as a consultant and later also as project manager. At IEH E Ralf will take care of the continuous development of M2B-Customer Care solutions and will support sales in the regions Germany, India and Rest of World.

Klaus Heidinger

Klaus Heidinger (45) is the head of Siemens IT Solutions and Services Center of Competence for City Management at Siemens Pte Ltd in Singapore. The Center of Competence has a worldwide responsibility of developing innovative solutions and portfolios for Siemens in the public sector market.
Klaus has amassed broad experience in IT business from many leading industries and public-sector organizations. He also successfully implemented start-ups and large-scale projects in the course of his career.
Prior to his present position, Klaus was the head of delivery for Professional Services in Rome, Italy, for Siemens Business Services Group. Before his career in Rome, Klaus was the managing director for a Siemens subsidiary in Vienna, Austria, with a strong focus in the public sector for the Austrian employment service agency.
Before Klaus started his career with Siemens in 2000, he was the managing director for an IT training centre in Austria where he succeeded in two projects within the European Union to develop small-medium enterprises together with transnational partners in Austria, Italy, Finland and Germany.

Wolfgang H. Güttel

Wolfgang H. Güttel is professor for Human Resource Management and Change Management at the Johannes Kepler-University Linz (Austria). Previously, he was professor at the universities of Kassel and Hamburg (Germany), research fellow at the universities of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and Padua (Italy) and assistant professor at the WU Vienna (Austria). Prior to his academic career he acted as management consultant at Daimler-Benz AG in Stuttgart (Germany), at Diebold Management Consulting in Vienna (Austria) and as independent consultant within a consulting network. His main field of research concerns strategic learning, i.e. governing learning and change on individual, group, and organizational level according to strategic objectives. His work is published in various academic journals and books.

Helmut Graser

Helmut Graser is a management consultant and former co-owner of a management consulting firm. He has led consulting projects in the telecom domain in Finland, Germany, Austria, Macedonia, Czech Republic and other countries. Prior to his consulting career, he was a department leader and project manager for two wireless carriers and a fixed line carrier. Focus of his consulting projects is to operationalize strategic business or IT initiatives and getting things done.

Herfried Geyer

Mr. Geyer is a Senior Security Consultant at Siemens IT Solutions and Services and works as auditor and trainer for ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 for CIS GmbH, while also giving lectures on security standards at the University of Applied Science at St. Pölten, Austria. Drawing on a long track record as consultant as well as auditor in Austria and in the SEE region, Mr. Geyer has extensive knowledge in the field of information security, but above all the competence needed to make a valuable contribution with all the sensitivity required in line with the respective organization-specific scenarios.

Franz Fertl

Head of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) at Telekom Austria TA AG.
Main responsibilities: Development and operation of IT applications and services.
Before being appointed head of the ICT division, Franz Fertl used to be in charge of Telekom Austria's Development Wireline unit since 1 April 2005. Before that, he managed a successful project for a first Next Generation VoIP field trial. From 2004, he was responsible for the concept design of Telekom Austria's Next Generation Network program.
From 2001 to 2003, Franz Fertl worked as senior sales manager for carriers in Austria and in Switzerland for 3Com. From 1998 to 2000, he gathered valuable experience in technical customer service and sales at Kapsch AG.

Univ-Doz. Dr. Jörg Flecker

Studied Economics and Sociology at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, followed by postgraduate training at Vienna's Institute for Advanced Studies. A researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies with a main research focus on the sociology of labour and industrial sociology from 1986 to 1990, he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, in 1991. Since that year, he has been the scientific director of Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA). Between 1991 and 2001, Jörg Flecker taught at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, and he became an external professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Vienna in 2003. He has directed and managed numerous national research projects and coordinated European projects funded within the EC's 5th and 6th framework programmes. He is also a reviewer for DG Research of the European Commission.

Prof.Wolfgang Mathera

Following his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, Mathera started his professional career in 1978 as module designer in video development at Philips. Major milestones in his career over the next 20 years include his work as CAD/CAM manager at Steyr-Daimler-Puch, head of IT consulting at ÖCAD, head of IT Services (Technology Division) at Swarovski and head of the IT, logistics and organization division at Raiffeisen Ware Austria. From 2001 to 2009, Prof. Mathera headed the SAP Business School Vienna and was responsible for developing and designing a completely new approach to post-graduate education. Since 2002, he has been a visiting lecturer at the universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Linz and various universities of applied sciences in Austria.
In 2009, Prof. Mathera founded the Institute for Process Management and his own consulting company, MATHERA CONSULTING GmbH.

Johannes Mariel

Johannes Mariel is the head of the Security and Quality department in the Austrian Federal Data Center. He joined the Federal Data Center on 1 July 2003. Establishment, certification and operation of an ISMS according to ISO 27001/ISO 17799. Certified QM system according to the ISO9001 IT service management program for attaining certification maturity under ISO20000. Before that, he worked in the Federal ICT Strategy department in the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Prior to this posting, he was the head of the IT department in the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, Gendarmerie Central Command, in charge of the IT organization of the Austrian federal gendarmerie and project manager for the "BMI-Network" project aimed at interlinking 1000 gendarmerie units in Austria.

Michael Horn

Michael Horn is an experienced SAP Project Manager and Consultant with over 10 years in the industry. In 2004 he joined Siemens in the Energy Sector where he had substantial exposure to the international Utilities segment. He is now the Solution Manager IS-U for the Eastern Europe countries.

Peter Parizek

Peter Parízek has been with Siemens since 1991 working in several positions in SW development, sales and management. Since October 2000 he has been the responsible account manager for several market segments including utilities and energy at SIS Slovakia. He was responsible as account executive for the Outage Management (OMS) project at E.ON SK/ZSE and for several other projects conducted specifically for the utility and energy sectors in recent years.

Gerhard Pronegg

Gerhard Pronegg works for Siemens since 2001. As a senior consultant and project manager for SAP implementations he managed several successful utility and non-utility projects for Siemens in Austria and other countries. Examples are bill-e, the first SAP IS-U implementation in Austria as an ASP model for several customers or Enbridge Gas Distribution, one of the largest SAP IS-U implementations in Canada. He also supported projects in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Namibia and South Africa. Other projects include the CRM implementation for the largest Austrian do-it-yourself chain and currently the SAP implementation for one of the largest dairies in Austria. Gerhard Pronegg has a professional history in tourism as well and therefore supports also projects in tourism, travel and transport.

Gernot Taucher

Gernot Taucher has been SAP consultant for more than 10 years with focus on the industry solution SAP IS-U and SAPs technical platform NetWeaver. Together with a strong team Gernot Taucher was involved in a major add on developments for IS-U including a district heating and cross-utility billing engine and an consumption and loss distribution grid for district heating companies based an SAP IS-U-DM and SAP PM. His current work interests focus on project management and set up of service oriented software architectures in customer system landscapes.

Dr. Johannes Viereck

On March 1, 2007 Dr Johannes Viereck took over the global management of the Utilities Sector in Siemens IT Solutions and Services. In this headquarter role he is responsible for the business SIS conducts with Energy Companies on a worldwide basis.
Furthermore, as President and Global Head of SIS Energy, Dr. Viereck acts as the main contact person for the Energy Sector of Siemens AG on a management level.

Mr. Imre Kovács

President and CEO of MÁV CARGO

Since Mr. Imre Kovács graduated at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (now called Corvinus University of Budapest) his life is tightly attached to rail cargo and logistics. After the University he started his career at GYSEV Rt in 1987, where his star had been risen throughout the hierarchy from the cargo customer service to the Deputy Director of Trade and Traffic. He was nominated to Director of Cargo at MÁV Rt. from 1st of January 2003. Through three years then took over the position of Deputy Director of Trade and Operation after the organisation became independent. He played major role in significant reforms at the Company as well as in its successful privatization. Despite of the fact that he is a committed rail professional he believes that the future of rail cargo is in cooperation of different transportation sectors. He is one of the spokesmen of combined/multipurpose transportation. Thanks to his former trade delegation in Romania, active international role undertaking and excellent German language knowledge, he does not imagine the future of cargo squeezed in tight national borders. He is considering the potential co-operations not only in regional, but on European level. In 2002 the former Hungarian Ministry of Economics and Transport (GKM) awarded Mr. Imre Kovács with the professional award of "For Transportation", in 2005 the Navigátor magazine rewarded him with "Man of the Year" prize, then the Magyar Hírlap (Hungarian daily paper) voted him into the 50 most important Hungarian logistics professional in 2007.
Mr. Imre Kovács became President & CEO of MÁV Cargo Zrt on 1st of July 2009.

Stefan Schambron

Stefan Schambron went to secondary higher technical college and then studied business administration. In 1991, while still a student, he started to work with IBM, initially as consultant and project manager. Then he held various management posts, first as the head of consulting, then as sales director and - for the last 18 months - as head of IT Services. For 15 of a total of 17 years at IBM, Stefan Schambron focused on the insurance industry. Last July, he was made managing director of TOGETHER Internet Services.

Franz Schweifer

1974 Completes apprenticeship in electrical & mechanical engineering with Siemens
1978 Graduates from secondary higher technical college for electrical engineering
1978 Fixed-term employment with utility company BEWAG (prior to military service)
1980-1982 Works for UNIPLAN (planning company for building services/ Electrical Engineering department)
1983 - todayWorks for Siemens
- Manages SW development projects in the mobile communications sector
- Head of business segment Mobile Communications: R&D projects, standardization, patents management, simulations
- Expert Sales (sales support, portfolio development, etc.)
- Facilitation and training courses

Ronald F. Stubbings

Having graduated from secondary higher technical college for mechanical engineering and from business administration studies, Ronald F. Stubbings began his career as sales & export manager following a short stint with the Austrian Air Force. After many years of working abroad for international companies, he returned to Vienna in 1981 to work for the Reuters News Agency, where he built up the online financial market information systems division for Austria and Eastern Europe. From 1984, he held an executive position with Reuters in Germany and from 1987 with Reuters in Switzerland before he became Application Manager Europe in 1990 at the European headquarters of Reuters in Geneva.

In 1991, he returned to Austria to set up and head an international consulting company for the banking sector in Vienna.

From 2000 to 2002, he was in charge of managing the internationalization and the establishment of international strategic partnerships at Exchange Information IT, which laid the foundations for the cooperation with i-flex solutions, with whom he entered into a partner agreement.

Early in 2002, he took over the task of developing activities in the German-speaking countries for i-flex-solutions, founding their German branch office in Frankfurt, which he has been heading ever since as Country Manager with sole power of attorney. In 2008, the majority of i-flex-solutions was taken over by Oracle, with a subsequent name change to Oracle Financial Services Software. The company's core business is to supply and implement software solutions for banks with a focus on core banking systems.

Josef Cibardo

Education: Electrical engineering studies at University of Applied Sciences (FH)
1994 - 2008: Various positions in IT (i.a., team leader for applications and SAP at Steag Saarenergie, IT manager for Evonik Steag, project manager in numerous IT and SAP projects)
Since 2009: Coordinator in Evonik New Energies' system operations

Rudolf Köller,

Rudolf Köller was born in Judenburg, Austria, in 1960 and studied electrical engineering with a focus on communications engineering in Graz, Austria. Implementation of various measurement and test engineering as well as software engineering projects, extensive continued professional development in the field of IT. Since 1991, he has been in the service of the Government of the Austrian State of Carinthia with a focus on measurement and test engineering and IT in the field of environmental protection, technical head of the Carinthian Geographic Information System until 2001, founder of the Corporate Network Carinthia (CNC), participation in various research projects, since 2001 head of IT operations of the Government of the Austrian State of Carinthia, introduction of a certified quality and security management for the IT system of the Austrian State of Carinthia, project manager for IT outsourcing, HR management, SAP introduction.

Karl Astecker

With Magna Steyr since 1989, first as department organizer / project manager in PDM, then change to information technology.
Establishment of software development unit and leading role in large IT projects.
Since 2002, head of Magna Steyr's IT, which provides IT services to the whole MAGNA STEYR Group (some 10,000 employees, 14 locations on 3 continents), with a focus on IT governance, IT processes, software engineering, IT infrastructure and operation.

Werner Blach

Started as software engineer at NV in 1973.
Head of IT since 1986.

Concept design and implementation of an integrated inventory management system for NV within a period of 18 months.
Went live in 01/1988.

Complete replacement, including migration, by I3000 in cooperation with Siemens, within a period of 18 months.
Went live in 01/1999.

From 2008, head of IT and central administration

10/2008 start of reengineering of operational system.
Planned to go live on 1 April 2010.

Gottfried Hofreither

Following his school education, Gottfried Hofreither began his career as operator, shift leader and application developer at Steyr Daimler Puch AG's data center in 1977. Following work as organization programmer and project manager at Steyr Anlagenbau in Vienna, he was responsible for introducing a process organization and an ERP system at Steyr Anlagenbau in Iraq in his function as IT and IT project manager.
In 1985, he became IT project manager for database management and project management and later head of the software engineering department at Austrian Airlines.
In 1995, he joined RHI-Veitsch Rade as head of the IT center of competence and was appointed Vice President Information Technology for NARCO in the USA in 1998.
In 2000, he became Vice President Information Technology of RHI-A, and in 2002 head of IT at RHI-AG in Vienna.
Today Gottfried Hofreither is the group's CIO and head of Shared Services Information Technology of RHI AG.

Franz Hörmann

Franz Hörmann is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Tax Planning at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, as well as a corresponding member of the data processing committee of the Austrian Chamber of Accountants.
Since 2001, he has been an examiner for the Chamber's accountant's education program, since 2004 he has been lecturing in the MBA program 'Knowledge Management' at the Institute of Communications Engineering at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.
His research focus is on alternative forms of financial accounting, the use of Internet technology in e-learning and knowledge management, and network accounting.

Wolfgang Huttenlocher

Wolfgang Huttenlocher, 42 years, business administration graduate, head of AbrechnungssystemeDB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG, Mainz (since 2006) and CPI project manager(Contracts, Pricing, Invoice), new accounting process since 1 January 2007(introduced: 1 August 2009); previous functions: head of controlling in various units of Deutsche Bahn AG (joined DB AG in 1992).

Christoph Kränkl

Sales Manager Financial Services Austria
Enterprise & Partner Group
Microsoft Austria GmbH

Christoph Kränkl joined Microsoft four years ago and is sales manager for the Major Banking and Insurance Accounts in Austria.

In former times he worked in sales for Siemens Nixdorf, Siemens Business Solution and T-Systems Austria GmbH also in the banking and insurance industry.

Microsoft focuses today on two strategies in Austria: Best performing platform - this includes Windows, SQL-Server and the Microsoft management suit - and New World of Work -which deals with the product set for modern work style and the three screen vision of Microsoft.

Chris Volckerick

Sales Mainframe Migrations
Enterprise & Partner Group
Microsoft Corporation, EMEA Time Zone

Chris Volckerick joined Microsoft in January 1999. Today Chris is responsible at Microsoft Corp for mainframe migrations to the Windows' Platform within EMEA.

Before taking on this role Chris held several other positions within Microsoft from Product Manager Developer Tools, ISV Channel Manager up to Solution Sales Advisor for Application Platform within FSI sector.

Chris has 20 years of experience working at and with Enterprise Customers and is applying his knowledge to ensure that Microsoft and his partners succeed in helping business decision makers and senior technical decision makers at mainframe customers understand how Microsoft can help them reduce costs, improve efficiency, and fuel innovation to meet their business goals today and tomorrow.

Ulrich Redmann

Ulrich Erik Redmann studied business administration at the universities of Greifswald, Marburg und Kiel. Afterwards he worked for three years in the development and marketing of telecommunication value-added services in management consulting and at Siemens in Malaysia. Between 2002 and 2007 he gained a wide experience as project manager at Vattenfall Europe in the field of convergence of IT- and Energy industry. Here the main topics were business and IT process consulting, business transformation and service management with a strong customer focus and internationality. Since 2007 he gave attention to innovative energy related topics at Siemens. As Consultant Manager at CxO level and as specialized Business Development Manager his main tasks are the development of business models, strategies and processes of different market roles for Smart Metering and Smart Grid. Here the emphasis is on practical approach and proximity to customers in different international markets.

MMag. Martin Spitzenberger

Arbeitsschwerpunkte im BKA
EU Pilotprojekt Dienstleistungsrichtlinie, Registerharmonisierung, Portalverbund und Verzeichnisdienste, Benchmarking

Berufliche Tätigkeiten
Vortragender am Zentrum für Verwaltungsmanagement und an der Donauuniversität Krems
Bundeskanzleramt Abteilung E-Government Recht, Organisation, Internationales; zuvor Stabstelle IKT-Strategie
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung (ITA), Forschungsbereich E-Government
Selbständiger IT-Trainer und Web-Entwickler

Abgeschlossene Ausbildungen
Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Wien

Johannes Bauer-Eder

Born in 1964, responsible for business consulting at Siemens Professional Services.

Following graduation in commercial information technology at the University of Vienna, he began to develop and design software for ESA and various Swiss banks. Then Johannes Bauer-Eder worked in product and solution development for insurance companies, which included product roll-out at several insurance companies throughout Europe. Following these activities, he took over the management of the IT department of Management Consulting at Siemens Business Services. Since 2003, he has been in charge of analyzing large-scale projects for the public sector.

Martin Spitzenberger

Work focus at BKA (Austrian Federal Chancellery)
EU pilot project for the Services Directive, register harmonization, portal integration and directory services, benchmarking

Professional activities
Lecturing at the Center for Public Management and at the Danube University Krems
Federal Chancellery, e-government, law, organization, international affairs; before that ICT strategy unit
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA), e-government research
Free-lance IT trainer and web developer

Education
Business administration degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Journalism and communication degree from the University of Vienna

Stefan Engelhardt

As of April 2007 Head of Industry Business Utilities, SAP AG
01/2003 - 03/2007 Head of Business Development & Field Service EMEA, IBU Utilities, SAP AG
02/2000 - 12/2002 Global Product Manager Utilities, IBU Utilities, SAP AG
07/1997 - 01/2000 Product Management Specialist, IBU Utilities, SAP AG
03/1995 - 06/1997 Head of Customer Service/Energy Consulting, Technische Werke Ludwigshafen AG
07/1991 - 02/1995 Lecturer at Institute for Earth Sciences, University of Heidelberg

Aleksandra Schmid

Aleksandra Schmid is a Mobile Marketeer and has been working in the mobile marketing space for four years. During her time at VeriSign in the US she had the fortune to help some of the world's largest brands to launch their initial mobile marketing efforts. Back in Austria, she became one of the co-founders of the local MobileMonday chapter, encouraging Austria's industry to network and share knowledge. As a member of the board within the Mobile Marketing Assocation Austria (MMAA) she is working on taking the mobile business to its next level. Aleksandra has picked up some valuable insights and shares them by writing and holding lectures. She has joined IQ mobile in October 2009 as the Region Manager for Adriatic and the Balkans.

Georg Stepan

Georg Stepan is the head of the Business Management IT (BM IT) department at the Siemens Austria Application Management Center Mid South Europe (AMC MSE). In this role, Mr. Stepan is responsible for the operation, support and further development of all IT applications used by Siemens in the CEE cluster with the aim of leveraging cross-border synergy potentials in this field through the use of shared services and to cut the IT costs of the Siemens group.

Originally coming from the field of SAP consulting, Mr. Stepan has fulfilled various IT-related management and project management tasks at Siemens Austria.

Daniel-Rui Felicio

Daniel-Rui Felicio, 47, wurde am 1. Juli 2008 zum Leiter der Business Unit Service Industries bei Siemens IT Solutions and Services ernannt. Die Business Unit bietet horizontale und vertikale IT-Lösungen für den Bereich Serviceindustrie an. Davor war er für die Business Unit Telecommunications and Media bei Siemens IT Solutions and Services zuständig und steuerte dort einen erfolgreichen Wachstumskurs. Davor war Felicio ab 1.10.2004 der internationale Leiter von Commmunications Business Division Carrier Service und seit 2002 für das Festnetzgeschäft verantwortlich. Im Carrier-Service-Geschäft erzielte er 18 Quartalseinheiten lang eine durchschnittliche jährliche Wachstumsrate von 28% und erreichte damit Benchmark-EBIT-Werte. Davor war Felicio auch für die Siemens-weite Operations Related Services Task Force zuständig.

Felicio begann seine Laufbahn bei Siemens im Jahr 1985 bei Corporate Technology, wo er viermal Weltklassewerte bei Prototypen für optische Langstrecken-Telekomsysteme erreichte und sieben wissenschaftliche Artikel verfasste bzw. mitverfasste. Dann wechselte er in eine Sales-Position im Bereich unterseeische Kommunikationssysteme und übernahm schließlich die Leitung des Kabelgeschäfts in Lateinamerika. Seine nächste Herausforderung bestand darin, das Geschäft mit schlüsselfertigen Anlagen und Maschinenbau von Siemens Communications umzustrukturieren, wobei er beachtliche Wachstumsraten und Gewinne erzielte. Im Zuge der Krise des Festnetzmarktes 2000 und 2001 leitete er die internationalen Sales-Aktivitäten im Festnetzinfrastrukturgeschäft. Später wurde ihm die weltweite Zuständigkeit für die Business Unit Carrier Services übertragen.

Vor seinem Eintritt bei Siemens schloss Felicio sein Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Universität München mit Auszeichnung ab. 1992 wurde ihm vom INSEAS in Fontainbleau der Titel MBA verliehen. Felicio ist mit einer Französin verheiratet und spricht 5 Sprachen fließend. Zu seinen liebsten Freizeitbetätigungen gehören Bergsteigen und Schifahren. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und fünf Kindern in München.

Wolfgang Hanzl

Position: Chief Information Officer

Career:
Born in Vienna in 1961, graduate from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
Joined BAWAG in 1983, where his first functions involved organizational tasks.
From 1995, he worked for the Bank Strategy & Development unit, with responsibility, for instance, for the design and implementation of easybank.
From 2001: Head of Corporate Development at BAWAG P.S.K.
Since September 2007: CIO.

Fin Jennrich

Fin Jennrich studied business informatics at the university of applied sciences in Flensburg. He joined Siemens in 2007 as a Management Consultant with a strong focus on innovative energy efficiency topics in the area of Smart Grid. Since 2008 he developed a special focus on Strategic Grid Management as part of the Grid Asset Management Suite Team.

Walter M. Bugnar,

born in 1965, has been active in development, establishment, sales and management of SmartCard projects in the EU region since 1991.

From 2004 to 2007, he worked as project manager on the e-card infrastructure project and evaluated various follow-up projects for the social security system. After joining SIEMENS, he is now in charge of the e-medication database project, which is being conducted along with the Austrian Association of Pharmacists.

Walter Scheiber

Walter Scheiber is Sales Director for Siemens Metering Services in continental Europe. He is responsible for marketing and sales activities for the flagship solution Energy IP, a meter data management systems which integrates advanced smart metering systems with back office applications such as SAP.

Bevor joining the Siemens Compentence Center for Smart Metering he managed the electricity and water&heat meter unit of Itron-Actaris for part of the CEE region. Previous to working in the metering industry, Walter spent 13 years in Silicon Valley where he worked in various business development roles in established high tech enterprises as well as in start-ups. In the golden years of the Internet Dot.Com boom he co-founded and managed the market research firm, Sageza, which focused on the Interent security and the storage industry. He started his career with ABB Austria as a sales engieer delivering turn-key SCADA systems in Austria and the Czech Republic.

Walter holds a Masters of Electrial Engineering from the Technical University Vienna, Austria and a Masters of Busines Adminstration from University of California Berkeley, California. He is based in Vienna.

Johannes Kandutsch

- Engineering physics studies at the Vienna University of Technology, graduation with specialization in radiology physics
- 16 years of professional experience in software development, 9 of which as project manager in various software development projects (telecom, healthcare).
- For 3 years now active in health sector IT with a focus on portfolio definition for e-health infrastructure and applications.
- Since early 2009 involved in building up and defining the "Health Innovation and Briefing Center" (HIBC).
-HIBC management tasks and presentations for a high-ranking audience (various social insurance institutions, hospital associations, politicians from the federal and local level), etc.