Speaker

Dr. phil. Wolf Siegert

Don't Be Equal!

Dr. Phil. Wolf Siegert, a creative media expert and "Doyen of Digitalization," reflects on the impacts of digital development. As an acclaimed "Changineer" from Stanford, he takes you on a journey into future scenarios that are already tangible today. His practice-based analyses provide answers to unasked questions and enable individuals to harness digitalization for their benefit. Explore with him the future beyond AI.

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Vita

Wolf ist Sohn einer Dom- und Konzertorganistin und eines Professors für Physik. Er hat sich als kreativer Medienexperte und Doktor der Philosophie qualifiziert und einen Namen gemacht. Er hat in Asien und in den USA gearbeitet. Heute lebt er in Berlin und reflektiert als "Doyen der Digitalisierung" mit seinen StudentInnen über die Folgen dieser Entwicklung, für die er in Stanford als "Changineer" ausgezeichnet wurde. Von dort, wo Sie befürchten, stehenzubleiben, nimmt er Sie mit auf eine Reise in jene Zukünfte, die Sie heute schon erleben, begreifen und für sich nutzbar machen können: Ohne "Buzzwords" und Tricks, sondern mit zutreffenden Analysen, die aus der eigenen Praxis abgeleitet wurden. Und die selbst Antworten auf Fragen geben, die Sie bisher noch nicht einmal zu stellen gewagt haben.

Topics

Digitalization Artificial intelligence (AI) Media Science Future

All presentations, their dramaturgy and staging are always finalized after an on-site visit to the client's location. Three suggested topics:

Digitization! What comes next?

An 'impossible' question with many exciting answers. Soon to be published as a book by Springer Nature, working title: Beyond Digital.

Digitalization: Where is it taking us... and us?
Are we shapers or victims of this development?
Economic indicators and/or mental dispositions as signposts
What are landmarks and lighthouses beyond the horizon?
Where can we find them - and how?

Design thinking: more than just a fashion
A method from Stanford University's D-School that has long since proven its practical suitability.

Don't just research, do it too!
Failure also needs to be learned
Recognizing the big in the small
The concrete beats the general
How do strategies become fit for the future?
Empathy as the mental blockchain of Generation Z

AI: Knowledge - Economy - Wisdom

This topic has been 'on offer' here for more than a decade. He always reports anew on its history and orientation in theory and practice.

AI - what is 'artificial' about this type of 'intelligence'?
What do you need to be able to do to understand AI?
Are we intelligent enough to put AI into service?
Are we the magic “artists” or magic “apprentices”?
Our practice and perspectives between utopia and dystopia
Is there an optimum of self-optimization - of machines?

References & Press

Current testimonials & credits (archive):

“Since I have watched one or two of your presentations on the Internet, I know what your speaker clients can expect. That's why I think the key points on the page are well presented. You are able to bring a technically oriented, a human-oriented and a philosophical approach to the topic of digitization according to the client's wishes. One of your strengths from the presentations that I know is that you translate digitalization again, as a kind of “digilator”. This is another point that makes your presentations so worth listening to and valuable for clients.”
Sven R. Johns, lawyer, Berlin, expert for data protection issues in companies

“Even before Wolf became director of IRIS® Media back in 1987, he excelled in multiple independent careers: as an expert in theater and film, a lecturer and visiting professor in Europe and Asia, a journalist and TV producer responsible for launching new cable and satellite programs, and as the author of the first European patent for a navigation system. He realized his ambition for radical research by achieving the honours of a “Changineer”, including earning two German State Exams and a PhD. He has successfully changed the world: at least as far as the German broadcasting, European telecommunications and the US film distribution businesses are concerned.”
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Vice President Science and Technology, John G. Marino

Dr. Siegert distinguishes himself by recognizing the new challenges of conversion and convergence both on the technical and intercultural side at an early stage and adapting to them as a company - but also personally.”
Media Broadcast GmbH, Helmut Egenbauer, Chairman of the Management Board

“Wolf Siegert is one of the successful pioneers of German private television. He is also an experienced researcher and analyst. Unlike many purely theoretical researchers, he has the invaluable advantage of 'nitty gritty' experience in a wide range of media applications.”
CIT (Communications and Information Technology) Holdings Ltd. London Patrick Whitten, Founder and Chairman

Presentation at the “Digital Visions” conference in Berlin:
To call him a multimedia expert is actually an understatement, as Dr. Wolf Siegert has been a luminary in the field of modern technology for more than a decade.