Keynote Speaker

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer

Professor August-Wilhelm Scheer is Founder of IDS Scheer AG. He headed Institute of Information Systems he
founded at the Saarland University from 1975 to 2005, and is a member of the Senate of
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest organization for applied research in Europe. Furthermore,
he is President of the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications
and New Media (BITKOM), Vice-President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and
he was a member of the Council for Innovation and Growth of the Federal Government from
2006 to 2008.

Dr. Wolfram Jost

Dr. Wolfram Jost, born in 1962, has been a member of the Executive Board since October 2000. He is responsible for the ARIS product line worldwide. He holds a doctorate in business administration and joined IDS Scheer in 1992 to manage ARIS product development and strategy. He was named managing director in 1994. His area of responsibility is product strategy, research and development as well as global product services.

David Norton

Featured speaker of Gartner: In his role as research director with Gartner's application
development and architecture team, David Norton supports clients by developing and
delivering quality and timely research. In his previous job, Mr. Norton researched and
implemented IT architecture frameworks and associated development methods to
ensure business and IT alignment, enable flexibility and maintain the IT value-add.

Henrik Fexeus

Henrik is famous in Sweden for his TV show ”Brainstorm” and is very professional in showing how people communicate, especially when not talking. With a combination of psychology, hypnosis, acting, magic and communication Henrik shows how easily we influence each other and how easily we are manipulated by others without our awareness. It’s not Mindreading, but on the other side it’s just what this is all about...

If everyone had the skills of Henrik Fexeus to be mindreaders the world of Business Process Management would be facing totally different challenges. Reading people’s minds is an artform and skill not posessed by everyone, but still many major companies keep vital processes and information in the mind of their employees...

This is a show that is both entertaining and astonishing which will stay on your mind for a long time. Henrik easily gets the audience on his side as he integrates them in the show and fills the room with laughter and amazement.

Dr. Peter Kürpick

Dr. Peter Kürpick, born in 1966, joined Software AG in April 2005, and in his role he is responsible for Research & Development of both Business Divisions, webMethods and ETS.

Before coming to Software AG, he was Senior Vice President Server Technology at SAP and as such was responsible for major parts of the SAP Netweaver stack, which is the foundation of all SAP applications. At the beginning of 2000 he acted as Executive Board Assistant, during which time he worked out of Palo Alto, New York and Germany for Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, former CEO and co-founder of SAP. Dr. Kürpick started his career in IT in 1998, joining SAP as a software developer.

Dr. Kürpick earned a Diploma in Physics focusing on theoretical physics / supercomputer topics in 1989 and a PhD in theoretical physics in 1993. From 1995 to1997 he did his postdoctorate in the United States, working at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kansas State University, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee.