SPEAKERS
Franz Haas, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Franz Haas took over his family's mechanical engineering business after graduating at Graz University of Technology and specialized it to precision manufacturing. At the same time, he was a lecturer and professor at the FH Campus 02 and FH Joanneum Universities of Applied Sciences. Since 2013, he has headed the Institute of Production Engineering at Graz University of Technology, which currently employs around 30 researchers in four main areas of work. The build-up of the Smart Factory as a centre for digital transformation is worth highlighting. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economic Sciences since 2020 and was from 2018 to 2020 president of the ÖWGP, the Austrian Scientific Association for Production Engineering.
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Martin Tschandl, FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria
PhD (Social and Economic Sciences), Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, 1993. Research semester at NYU, USA. Held several finance and IT responsibilities in industrial and service companies from 1991–1998. Subsequently professor of Business Administration and Controlling, and since 2001 head of the Industrial Engineering Institute “Industrial Management” at FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Visiting professor at four international universities. Head of the Austria II working group of the International Controller Association (ICV); member of the International Group of Controlling (IGC); member of the board of the Logistics Network Association (VNL) and of the Austrian Association of Industrial Engineers. Author of more than 140 scientific publications and editor of the book series Industrial Management. Teaching and research focus: planning and control, strategic corporate development, management of logistics, and digital finance (forecasting, RPA). Involved in more than 70 research and industry projects on these topics.
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