Aachener Innovations-Plattform 2015
May 7th, 2015 at Aachen, Germany
The Aachener Innovations-Plattform (Aachen Innovation Platform, AIP) is the anual innovation conference of RWTH Aachen University Technology and Innovation Management Group. We aim to bring together innovation experts and practitioners from R&D, TIM, New Business Development, Strategy Development and more. The conference is embedded into the TIM Expert Circle at RWTH Aachen University, a regular roundtable for technology and innovation managers. The conference will be in English language.
Platform Innovation
Innovating Business Eco-Systems: How Business Platforms, Two-Sided Markets, and Smart Data are becoming the future of competition
Product innovation has been complemented with service and recently business model innovation. Currently, a new priority in innovation management arises: Platform Innovation – the systematic creation of business ecosystems and platform markets.
While this approach has been the foundation of the success of eBay, Amazon, or iTunes, we predict that Platform Innovation will dominate the innovation regime in many other industries, too.
Consider the automobile industry: Mobility platforms like Moovel or Uber have become the new battle field for innovation. And with the connected car, the App model will enter the automobile. Autonomous drive is just the beginning.
Platforms bring different players together in order to, ideally, increase value for everybody involved. So far, these platforms have just scratched the surface of what will be possible. In the age of digitalization, smart data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) or Industrie 4.0, radically new ways to do old – and new – business will emerge.
Especially, the rise of multi-sided markets will change competition in the next few years. For machine tool manufacturers, competitive advantage will no longer (only) depend from building the most reliable tooling machine that will last several decades. The machine will become part of an industrial ecosystem of data and interfaces – hence it may be the quality of machine’s APIs that determines it success.
On the years AIP, we want to explore how to systematically build (innovate) business ecosystems, how to succeed in becoming a market partner on an existing ecosystem, and enter an open dialogue on the opportunities and challenges of Platform Innovation and Business Ecosystems.
We invite you to join the Aachener Innovation Platform (AIP) Meeting 2015.
Registration
AIP 2015 was a great event with a lot of very insightful presentations, lively discussion, hands-on experiences and a lot of networking. Thank you to everybody who presented and attended, we are looking forward to welcome you again at Aachen, Germany, in 2016, and will keep you updated about the topic of the next AIP.
Contact
Head of Business Development
RWTH Aachen Technologie- und Innvoationsmanagement
Mail: guelpen@time.rwth-aachen.de
Tel: +49 241 80 96660
AIP 2014 in pictures: The Maker Movement
Location
AIP 2015 will take place at the beautiful Palais of the Erholungsgesellschaft Aachen in the heart of the historic city of Aachen.
The Palais is located at Reihstraße 13, 52062 Aachen, Germany.
If you arrive by car, please use the car parking „Galeria-Kaufhof / Saturn“, accessible from the Wirichsbongardstr. 47.
Agenda
We are looking forward to some great experts on different aspects of platform business development.
Some parts might be subject to change.
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 9:00 | Keynote: How multisided platforms will change the reality of business | Prof. Dr. Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen Technology and Innovation Management Group / MIT Boston |
| 9:30 | The role of digital platforms in a distributed energy world | Dr. Michael Fipper E.ON SE Technology & Innovation |
| 10:00 | Innovation for the Internet of Things | Hans Wieser Microsoft Business Lead Data Platform |
| 10:30 | Coffee and networking break | |
| 11:00 | Innovation at Ford: Ford Smart Mobility |
Walter Pijls Ford Research Center Aachen |
| 11:30 | Digital Change with Platform based Ecosystems as a Chance | Prof. Dr. Gerd Servatius Competivation Consulting |
| 12:00 | Business Platform Innovation for IoT and Industrie 4.0 – The Role of IT and Automation | Timothy Kaufmann SAP Business Development Manager |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Digitalization of tangible industry goods (working title) | Sven Koepchen CEO of Klöckner & Co. Deutschland GmbH |
| 14:00 | The next dimension: New business opportunities through digitalization and virtual reality (working title) | Vladimir Puhalac CEO of DOOB Group |
| 14:30 | Coffee and networking break | |
| 15:00 | Hands-On session: Think digital: How can flexibile, modular 3D platform technologies be used to create new profitable multisided markets? | Moderation: Prof Dr. Frank T. Piller / Vladimir Puhalac |
| 17:00 | Coffee and networking break | |
| 17:15 | Crowdsourcing sessions: Learnings from the hands-on session | Prof. Dr. Frank T. Piller |
| 17:30 | Wrap-Up: Platforms, your next big opportunity? | Prof. Dr. Frank T. Piller |
| 18:00 | End of conference |
An event organized by RWTH Aachen University Technology and Innovation Management Group and Competivation Consulting.
Frank T. Piller is a chaired professor of management at the Technology & Innovation Management Group, a proud part of the TIME Research Area at the School of Business & Economics of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, one of Europe’s leading institutes of technology. He is also a Co-Director of the MIT Smart Customization Group at the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Since 2013 Michael Fipper is responsible within E.ON’s Group Management for the definition of E.ON’s Innovation Strategy as well as for technology and system analyses and the development of system related products like Virtual Power Plant, Demand Response Management, Micro Grids, etc. In addition he supports the development of the digital strategy of E.ON.
Hans Wieser has been responsible for Data Platform Business as part of the business section Cloud & Enterprise at Microsoft Germany since 2012. Prior to this he has been part of Microsoft as EMEA Lead SQL Applicances at Redmond for two years.
Prof. Dr. Gerd Servatius is co-founder of Competivation Consulting, a specialist for innovation management consulting and education. He has more than 30 years of professional experience as a senior consultant in major business consultancies. He also teaches as a honorary professor at Stuttgart University.
During his studies of business administration, Vladimir Puhalac already started his first own business in the early 90s. Establishing one of Germanys first internet service providers which he sold successfully in 2004 to a competitor. After that he was onsite training as consultant in ERP/RE and FM company. As cofounder of this consulting company and he gained 10 years of international working experience in the US, India and EU as Senior Manager for business consulting for international projects in ERP and FM and in charge for process implementation, system implementation and reporting, in real estate and facility management sector.