IT + Tech Konferenz - Zukunft von Technologie und Arbeit gestalten

SESSIONS with practical experts from IG Metall, Infineon, SAP, Apple, HARMAN - Samsung & Vodafone. KEYNOTES by Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, Jürgen Geuter and Dietmar Dath.

IG Metall Munich cordially invites you to its 1st IT + Tech Conference. Munich residents from companies, start-ups, universities and voluntary work are welcome. The union deals with questions of technology every day, on March 14 we now invite you to a pit stop.

What impact will AI have on work, culture and society? When will the promise of agile work be fulfilled? How do we shape open source and the foundations of an increasingly IT-based democracy?

The digital economy is shaping the Munich region, Munich residents are shaping technologies worldwide. However, knowledge-based and creative work is under pressure.

Our claim as the trade union for software and robotics, telecommunications and engineering, for the industry of tomorrow and the climate trade for today is:

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK AND TECHNOLOGY

This requires stable networks, self-confident people and a close exchange with science. Our conference is a contribution to this: work and technology for our Munich.

REGISTRATION

Participation is free of charge and open to employees and solo self-employed people in the Munich region. Collectively agreed educational leave can be applied for in the ME industry, IT services and telecommunications, among others. Members of works councils can participate in the conference in accordance with § 37.6 BetrVG.

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9:00

Arrival

9:30

Welcome

Sibylle Wankel, IG Metall Munich

9:45

AI as a colleague - Keynote on artificial intelligence, human work and ecology

Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

10:30

Session 1: Co-determination in startups and tech - works council, trust council or legal gray area? (Luggage hall)

Dr. Rüdiger Helm, LL.M.

Session 2: From method to democratic team - session on agile work

(Kurt Mahler Hall)

Sergei Kunz, Works Council, Infineon Technologies

11:30

Session 3: Co-determination in the virtual company - session on data ethics and data protection in IT systems

Judith Schützendorf, Works Council member, SAP

Andreas Funke, Software Development Manager, SAP

12:30

Break

13:00

AI and co-determination in the workplace - keynote from a legal perspective

Lea Welsch, IG Metall & Association of Democratic Lawyers

13:45

Session 4: AI in concrete works council work - session on technical and operational challenges (luggage hall)

Martin Kaibel, Works Council, Apple Technology Engineering

Michael Straßer, Works Council, HARMAN - a Samsung Company

Session 5: Mobile work and digital teams - session on family and life-friendly design (Kurt Mahler Hall)

Elmar Etzel, Works Council, Vodafone

14:30

Post Open Source - Free software for the common good and a democratic economy

Jürgen Geuter/ tante.cc

15:30

Session 6: Networks and Communities - Session on Organization and Culture of Cooperation

Martina Braun, Women's Policy & Education at IG Metall Munich

Maximilian Krüger, Festeschmiederey & GameCamp Munich

16:15

It looks like a network: Digital collaboration and its opposite

Dietmar Dath, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

17:00

Concluding and building networks

Track economy

Andreas Funke

Andreas Funke has worked as a Software Development Manager at SAP SE for over 15 years. During this time, he has been Chairman of the Works Council of Hybris GmbH and a member of the Group Works Council of SAP SE. His professional passion is personnel development and agile teamwork.

Dietmar Dath

Studied in Freiburg, from 1990 journalistic, essayistic, literary and satirical contributions in German and English-language newspapers and magazines on topics of science criticism, pop culture and society. From 1998 to 2001 responsible editor of the Cologne magazine for pop culture "Spex". From August 2001 to the end of 2007, editor of the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, specializing in science culture, electronic aspects of life, science fiction and related topics.

Elmar Etzel

Elmar Etzel has been an honorary employee representative since 2008. His areas of responsibility are co-determination in social matters, selection guidelines and individual personnel measures. His favorite area is employment law. Here he gathers information as an honorary labor judge and trade union representative at Vodafone.

Judith Schützendorf

Judith Schützendorf has been active in the trade union and in local politics in Munich for many years. She is a member of the Works Council of SAP SE.

Jürgen Geuter / aunt

Jürgen Geuter (better known on the Internet as tante) studied computer science and philosophy and works as a research director. He deals with topics at the interface of technology, society and politics. He is a founding member of the transdisciplinary Otherwise Network. He writes more or less regularly for various German publications (including SPIEGEL, Zeit, Süddeutsche, Heise) and advises NGOs, political parties and the Bundestag.

Lea Welsch

Lea Welsch is a lawyer in the legal department of IG Metall, a member of the board of the Association of Democratic Lawyers (VDJ), co-editor of the annual Fundamental Rights Report and participates in legal policy struggles as an author, lawyer and in publications.

Martin Kaibel

Martin Kaibel studied microelectronics and began his professional career at university before working for Siemens, Infineon, Intel and finally Apple. He has been involved in works council work since 2007 and is currently Chairman of the Works Council of Apple Technology Engineering B.V. & Co. KG in Munich. His workplace is located in the Karl München building, designed by David Chipperfield.

Martina Braun

Martina Braun is the Education Secretary of IG Metall Munich. She is also responsible for the women's policy network at the office and is committed to equality. Martina Braun is in charge of community management at IG Metall Munich.

Maximilian Krüger

Maximilian Krüger is a software developer and manager for Development and Research. As the owner of Festeschmiederey, he organizes the annual GameCamp Munich together with the community. Here and digitally, he is committed to networking the games industry between companies, employees, freelancers and funding institutions.

Michael Straßer

Michael Straßer is a computer scientist and works as a qualification engineer at Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. He has been Chairman of the Works Council of the Garching plant in the Samsung Group since 2024.

Rüdiger Helm

Lawyer Dr. Rüdiger Helm LL.M. has exclusively represented employees, works councils and their trade unions since 1994. Before his studies sponsored by the Hans Böckler Foundation (1988 to 1992), he was a member of the works council and, from 1986 to 1991, chairman of the general works council of a nationwide steakhouse chain. He is a member of the trade unions ver.di, IGM and NGG (since 1986). He was a member of the collective bargaining committee for the hotel and restaurant industry for several years and is still active in an advisory and supportive capacity for collective bargaining committees.

Sabine Pfeiffer

Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer is a sociologist specializing in the sociology of work. She has been a professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2018. After completing her secondary school leaving certificate, she trained as a toolmaker in Fürth from 1983 to 1986. After holding various professional positions, including technical support and training for CNC-controlled tool and 3D measuring machines as well as head of quality assurance, she qualified for further education via the second educational path and studied production technology and sociology, among other things. She is a founding member of the Council for the World of Work at the Federal Ministry of Labor.

Sergei Kunz

Sergei Kunz is a graduate engineer in electrical engineering and information technology. He has been working for Infineon since 2005, currently as a software architect for testing and as a member of the works council. He has gained experience in agile software and firmware development since 2007 (Scrum/Kanban), project management, verification and validation, automation, data analysis and data protection.

Sibylle Wankel

Sibylle Wankel is the First Authorized Representative of IG Metall in Munich, one of the union's largest branches. After working in collective bargaining policy and as Head of the Legal Department of the IG Metall Executive Board, the lawyer is Managing Director in Munich, a member of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG, an honorary judge at the Federal Labor Court and a member of the IG Metall Executive Board. Sibylle Wankel has co-written legal commentaries on labor law and works constitution law and is an expert on collective agreements in high-tech companies in an international environment.