On July 4 and 5, 2023, the Fraunhofer Institution for Industrial Engineering invites you to the Future Forum 2023. Over the course of two days in Heilbronn, participants will be able to rethink and discuss proven and new approaches to shaping the working world in office and knowledge work. The focus will be on the challenges and opportunities of digitization, innovative models for dealing with labor and skills shortages, work as a social place, and the role of proximity and distance in everyday work. The Future Forum offers participants an opportunity to learn, network and move forward together.

Associate member of the ECDF Professor Dr. Dr. Ayad Al-Ani will participateto discuss innovative models for dealing with the shortage of labor and skilled workers (Day 2, 10.30 a.am.).

For more information on the Future Forum and to register, please click //here.

Program

Tuesday 04.07.2023

14:15 Registration
15:00 Welcome and introduction to the day
15:10 Keynote speech as a prelude to the workshops
17:00 Thematic block 1: Work as a social place - The role of companies in a hybrid society
18:00 Panel discussion afterwards
19:30 Get-together and dinner-speech

Wednesday 05.07.2023

8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome and introduction to the day
9:15 Topic 2: The future of value creation - digital, resilient, sustainable
10:30 Topic block 3: Innovative models for dealing with labor and skills shortages
11:55 Topic Block 4: Proximity and Distance - Effects on Performance and Innovation
14:30 Topic block 5: Digital technologies in (creative) knowledge work
15:45 Wrap-up