Join us in welcoming our new facutly member for the Master in Finance program: Jun. Prof. Dr. Andreas Barth.

Andreas will be teaching the course "Applied Credit Risk Management" from April 2022, which is also offered in our Open Programs portfolio. Before joining Saarland University Saarbrücken in his current position as a Junior Professor of Digital Transformation in Finance and Accounting, Andreas was Assistant Professor at the Chair of Banking and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. Andreas did various research stays at the European Systemic Risk Board and the European Central Bank. His teaching specializes inter alia in financial modeling and risk management and applied econometrics. His research focusses mainly on financial intermediation, banking regulation and financial markets.

"Roundtable of Digitalstadt 2021 - a Success!": A HoDT article by Rüdiger Vaelske.

Thursday, November 25, 2021, 5 p.m.: Company and start-up representatives as well as the organizers present themselves at the virtual Roundtable of Digitalstadt 2021 to discuss the potential and added value of Darmstadt's data platform.

At the online event, José David da Torre Suárez, Managing Director of Digitalstadt Darmstadt, presented the concept and content of the future-oriented data platform in a keynote speech. Followed by the managing director of the House of Digital Transformation, Hauke Schlüter, leading a 5 X 5-minute speed dating. Selected companies used the opportunity to present themselves and to win new partners for joint project ideas in the context of the urban data platform. The vivid 5-minute contributions also strengthened the content of the next agenda item.

The event was followed by a workshop conducted on the Big Blue Button platform, where participants were given the chance to analyze which use cases are crucial for the present companies on the data platform in order to further develop their business model. They used a whiteboard to illustrate and work out which data from the companies / start-ups can flow into the platform.

The organizers of the Roundtable of Digitalstadt Darmstadt 2021 were positive that they had developed valuable and inspiring input with the participants for Darmstadt's data platform. The ideas for further data platform use cases are now being evaluated and tested for feasibility. Participants can also find out about the progress of this work by means of reports on Digitalstadt Darmstadt’s website (www.digitalstadt-darmstadt.de).

The House of Digital Transformation e. V. (HoDT – founded as House of IT) is a platform for promoting digital transformation in the German state of Hesse. The HoDT networks players from business, science and politics working together toward a common goal: to jointly shape the digital transformation in Hesse. HoDT Managing Director Hauke Schlüter sees a great significance in the cooperation with GBS:  "It is very important. Our mission as the House of Digital Transformation is to link science, businesses and politics. We run a large high-caliber network in these sectors. We have renowned members like Fraunhofer Institute; the Universities in Darmstadt, Kassel and of course Frankfurt; small and large companies from start-ups to big sharks like Accenture or Software AG; and of course the ministries and government. So, it makes sense to cooperate with GBS as high-end business school with its network and high-profile teachers and lecturers on academic level, ensuring excellence in theory and its application to practice." If you like to see more of the GBS and HoDT partnership, Technologieland Hessen has created an exciting videoclip illustrating this cooperation here.