Joint Sessions with the SAP Academic Community North America

On Sunday and Monday, Sep 13/14, 2021, there will be joint sessions with the SAP Academic Community North America hosted by the respective Academic Boards of North America and DACH. Please note that all joint sessions will be held in English.

Agenda Joint Sessions - Overview

Agenda Joint Sessions - Detailed View Monday

Where do we find and implement sustainability? Sustainability is a task for everyone and can be done everywhere.

Sustainability is more than just a buzzword – it is needed and there are possible solutions – as we will see in this session. Furthermore, we would like to show that the term “sustainability” can definitely find its way into worlds and concepts that we do not prima facie associate with sustainability. We want to show specific use cases, implementations or solutions and thus show that action and effectiveness is possible – in different areas.

Keynote Speaker

	Michael Mayer VP Engineering Sustainable Products and Operations S/4HANA Sustainability SAP SE Michael Mayer, Vice President SAP SE, is site director of SAP Development Center Markdorf and responsible for the development of SAP solutions and products in the area of Sustainable Operations and Products. He represents SAP as a member of the board of trustees in the Bodensee Innovation Cluster (BIC) and is co-initiator of the Digital Sustainability Management innovation group. After graduating in computer engineering, he works at SAP in IT engineering and management roles with a focus on EHS & Sustainability Products.
	Jim Sullivan Head of Global Sustainability Innovation Accelerator SAP SE Jim is responsible for ensuring SAP’s vision to ‘help the world run better and improve people’s lives’ empowers our customers to solve some of the world’s biggest planetary challenges via SAP’s collaborative network and technology solutions. Jim is an internationally recognized expert on policies and measures to combat climate change and is an avid backcountry skier and musician with multiple albums to his credit.
	Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel CEO and Director Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) Christoph Meinel is CEO and Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) at the University of Potsdam. He is also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam. Christoph Meinel holds the chair of Internet Technologies and Systems. He is engaged in the fields of cybersecurity and digital education. He has developed the MOOC platform openHPI.de and is a teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking. Christoph Meinel is author or co-author of more than 25 books, anthologies, as well as numerous conference proceedings. He has had more than 550 (peer-reviewed) papers published in scientific journals and at international conferences and holds a number of international patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, honorary professor at the TU Beijing, visiting professor at Shanghai University, concurrent professor at the University of Nanjing, and member of numerous scientific committees and supervisory boards.
	Prof. Dr. Jacques Robert Director of the Department of International Business HEC Montréal Jacques Robert is a full professor and chair in the International Business department at HEC Montreal. He holds a Doctorate in economics (Ph.D.) from the University of Western Ontario (1989). After 12 years as a professor in economics, he joined HEC Montréal in 2001. He was professor at the IT Department from 2001 to 2021. At HEC Montreal, he was Director of the IT department (2010-2015), associate director of research and transfer (2014-2019), and Director of the Ph.D. program (2016-2019). Since 2019, he is responsible for the valorization of HEC Montréal’s pedagogical innovation including its MOOC’s offering. His research interests include applied game theory, the design of mechanism and experimental economics, and the teaching of information technology. Scientific journals in which he has published include Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Quaterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Information & Management, European journal of operational research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems , Annals of Finance, and Neural computation. Jacques Robert has been a fellow of CIRANO, an interuniversity research, liaison and transfer center, since its creation in 1994. At CIRANO, he has directed major projects in electronic commerce. Professor Robert is one of the co-inventors of ERPsim, a business simulation used in more than 200 universities around the world. He is a member of the ERPsim Lab. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baton Simulations, the firm that holds the commercial rights to ERPsim, from its founding in 2009 until March 2016. He currently serves as a member of the Board.
	Dr. Jonathan Donges FutureLab Leader, Working Group Leader Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Dr. Jonathan Donges is co-leader of the FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene (www.pik-potsdam.de/earthresilience) at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Germany), leader of the PIK working group on Whole Earth System Analysis and co-speaker of the COPAN collaboration (www.pik-potsdam.de/copan). He also holds a researcher position at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Sweden, and is Visiting Research Collaborator at High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, both in the scope of the Earth Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (www.earthresiliencesustainability.org). Jonathan holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Humboldt University Berlin and has published on a variety of topics including Earth system analysis, climatology, paleoclimate, social-ecological systems, complex networks, complex systems theory, nonlinear dynamics, and time series analysis.