So stay curious, stay open, stay excited.

All of these are of course very important qualities in order to gather knowledge and

use it at some point.

Now yesterday evening already and today here and there, we've learned a lot about knowledge

and how important it is and how it changes and how difficult it is to get hold of it.

Now I remember there was a time, I'm probably not, I'm not part of that generation anymore

but not that far away from it where it was enough to learn something once in your lifetime

and then use it for the rest of your life.

Well those days are long, long gone, we know that.

But it's not just about staying open and learning new things all over again, it's also to determine

what is actually worth learning, what is the kind of knowledge that I need to acquire that

is the right knowledge that takes me forward because today's knowledge as we know is outdated

tomorrow or next week at the latest.

So we have to stay open, agile and keep pace.

And all of that created a whole new sector of people who keep an eye on gathering knowledge,

they're so-called knowledge workers.

Maybe you've heard of them already, for me it was the very first time when I prepared

for this, so there's a new sector called knowledge workers, that's very interesting.

I would like to explore that a little bit now with three guests here at Solhoff and

one guest joining us online.

Now here with me are Dr. Roland Bush, you've met him already, Deputy Chief Executive of

Siemens who'll join me on stage, he just gets his mask ready to join us.

Professor Joachim Hornegger, of course President of the FAU, is joining us again and we also

welcome Professor Dr. Björn Eskoffie and I'm taking this chair, this is mine, and the

others you can spread.

You can pick whichever.

So Professor Eskoffie holds the chair for machine learning and data analytics at the

Department of Computer Science.

And last but not least we're joined online by Dr. Vivian Dollinger, she's Chief Executive

and co-founder of Object Box Empowering Edge Computing in IoT and Mobile.

Got that from your website, I hope that's correct.

Good to see you, Dr. Dollinger, we can see you, can we just quickly check if we can hear

you as well, would you just say hello?

Hello everyone.

Sounds perfect, very good, thank you so much.

Well I would like to start this Future Talk, Digital Disruption 2030 Impact on Knowledge

Interchange.

First of all with getting some sort of reflection, some ideas and thoughts about what we've heard

so far.

I mean what have you made of all those presentations that you've heard so far?

And I've promised Rolla Bush that in this session he'll have the first words, I would

like to start with you.

Well I really generalize now and I think it's a very important element to recognize.

We are, Siemens is working on the backbone of infrastructure, of societies, so it's infrastructure

industries, it's transport, it's healthcare and we see that all these sectors are in a

transformative change and this is a change which is going very, very fast.

Each of the sector has individual reasons why this change has happened but there's one

common denominator which is digitalization, new technologies and this really changes the

way how we are doing business, how our customers are doing business substantially and it's

a combination of new technologies, digital and non-digital but also new business models