Centre for Digitalisation and Digitality

The Center for Digitalisation and Digitality brings together the activities of all departments of the University of Düsseldorf in teaching, research, transfer and public dialogue on digital transformation.

Opening of the ZDD

April 3, 2025, from 1:30 pm, program from 3:00 pm
(Admission/registration from 1:30 pm, program from 3:00 pm)

Program until 5:30 pm
afterwards: workshops in the laboratories, networking and buffet.

Schedule

from 1:30 pm Admission / Registration / Reception at the ZDD (Building 11)
from 3:00 pm

Welcome, welcoming speeches: Ministry, State Capital Düsseldorf, HSD in the Audimax (Building 4).

  • Digital greeting from Minister Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Greeting from Olaf Wagner, Deputy Mayor of the State Capital Düsseldorf, Head of the Department for Digitalisation, Human Resources and Organization, Representation of the Mayor of the City of Düsseldorf
  • Greeting from Stephan Schneider (Dipl. Ing.), Senior Manager Public Affairs at Vodafone Germany, Chairman of the Board of the Digital City of Düsseldorf
  • Greeting from the President, Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Vomberg
  • Introduction of the ZDD, Prof. Dr. Fernand Hörner, Head of ZDD
from 3:30 pm

Keynote speaker Jürgen Geuter (Computer scientist and philosopher) followed by a panel discussion on the topic „Future’s made of. Arbeit in/an der digitalen Transformation“, with

from 5:00 pm Short presentation of research projects and laboratories, networking and buffet in the ZDD (Building 11)

Panel

Jürgen Geuter

Jürgen Geuter

Carmen Hentschel

Carmen Hentschel

Thorsten Camin

Thorsten Camin

Frank Marcinkowski

Frank Marcinkowski

Eva Wolfangel

Eva Wolfangel

Fotografin: Helena Ebel

Team

Dominik Austermann
Board

Prof. Dr. Dominik Austermann


Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation HSD-Website
Martin Doll

Prof. Dr. Martin Doll


Societal, ethical and social aspects of digitality HSD-Website
Jochen Feitsch

Jochen Feitsch


Moritz Fleischmann
Board

Prof. Moritz Fleischmann


Data-Driven Design in Architecture HSD-Website
Mareike Focken

Mareike Focken


CoCre-HIT, Research Associate HSD-Website
Christian Geiger

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christian Geiger


Mixed Reality and Visualization HSD-Website
Sabrina Großkopp

Sabrina Großkopp


UX/Interaction Research & Design
Fernand Hörner
Head

Prof. Dr. habil. Fernand Hörner


Cultural Studies, Media Studies HSD-Website
Jan Honsbrok

Jan Honsbrok


CoCre-HIT, Development, Webdevelopment
Florian Huber
Deputy Head

Prof. Dr. Florian Huber


Data Science and Visual Analytics HSD-Website
Alina Huldtgren

Prof. Dr. Alina Huldtgren


Digital Health and Intelligent User Interfaces HSD-Website
Christian Jendreiko
Board

Prof. Christian Jendreiko


Design and Strategies of Digital Communication HSD-Website
Holger Klapperich

Dr. Holger Klapperich


CoCre-HIT HSD-Website
Dennis Müller

Prof. Dr. Dennis Müller


Artificial Intelligence & Data Science HSD-Website
Patrick Pogscheba

Patrick Pogscheba


Smart Spaces, Mixed Realities, AI HSD-Website
Julian Pollmann

Julian Pollmann


matchms, Research Software Machine Learning
Jasmin Schemann-Gerull
Referentin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Jasmin Schemann-Gerull


Kay Schröder

Prof. Kay Schröder


Human Data Interaction HSD-Website
Dorothea Schwung
Board

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Schwung


AI and Data Science in Automation Technology HSD-Website
Tom Seiffert

Tom Seiffert


André Stuhlsatz
Board

Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Stuhlsatz


Intelligent Systems HSD-Website
Christian Voigt

Prof. Dr. Christian Voigt


Digital Transformation, Low Code Development, Data Stories, Games in Social Work HSD-Website

Building

Floorplan
Human Data Interaction Lab
Foyer