Industry Colloquium SoSe 2021

The workshop aims to bring together top industrial researchers and developers working in areas related to the MAKI theme.

The Industry Colloquium will take place in the summer semester 2021 (12th April – 16th July 2021) as a purely virtual colloquium. It is a cooperation with the institute for Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and is primarily a compulsory event for students there, but is also open to all interested parties.

The aim of the event is to give, an insight into current issues in research and development.

The lecture always takes place on Mondays from 05.10pm – 06.50pm

Further information will follow.


12 April 2021

Introduction Lecture

19 April 2021

Michael Stein (Spotify AB)
“Experimentation at Spotify”

26 April 2021

Adrian Loch Navarro (Apple, Inc.)
“From Academia to Industry: Insights from a Transition”

03 May 2021

Denny Stohr (Netflix, Inc.)
“Improving the Netflix Streaming Experience with Bayesian Optimization”

10 May 2021

Christoph Pinkel (AWS – Amazon Web Services)
“Old Song New Stage — Query Optimization in a Cloud Database,
When Everything is Changing”

17 May 2021

Roland Speith (Safelog GmbH)
“Swarm Intelligence in Intra-Logistics Applications”

24 May 2021

Public Holiday – “Pfingstmontag” (NO lecture)

31 May 2021

Leonhard Nobach (Telekom AG)
“Disaggregation, DevOps and Edge Clouds Applied in Carrier Infrastructures”

07 June 2021

Björn Richerzhagen (Siemens AG)

14 June 2021

Patrick Mukherjee (Aequitec AG)
“Pragmatic Middleware for Scaling – Towards Serverless Microfunctions”

21 June 2021

Markus Weckesser (Continental AG)
“Variant Handling in Agile Automotive Software Development”

28 June 2021

Aleksandra Kovacevic (HERE Technologies)
“In The Right Place at The Right Time: Location Privacy Challenges”

05 July 2021

no external lecturer

12 July 2021

Closing Lecture