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Software Excellence Network · Master class · May 2024 · English

Envisioning Tomorrow’s Code

The Hasso Plattner Institute, EY, MaibornWolff, Seerene and the German Deep Tech Group invited some of the leading software executives and academics to the EY Tower in Berlin Mitte for a day of open dialogue and strategy on AI-based code production, digitalization trends and the future management of software factories.

16 May 2024EY Tower, Berlin MitteOne day, six masterclasses and a panelEight recordings and five slide decksExecutives from software, life sciences, finance and consulting
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Software Excellence Network · Hasso Plattner Institute · German Deep Tech Group · Seerene
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Envisioning Tomorrow’s Code
Convened by Hasso Plattner Institute · EY · MaibornWolff · Seerene · German Deep Tech GroupPhotographs from seerene.com, shown with the consent of the people pictured.
Presentations

Talks and discussions

Recordings on Seerene’s YouTube channel and slides as PDF, where the speakers agreed to publication.

▶ Recording
Software Development & Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner · Hasso Plattner Institute

A fundamental assessment of AI in software engineering: generative AI will change nearly every aspect of software development within a decade, and organizations that do not adapt risk disruption.

▶ Recording
Leveraging the Power of AI-Based Code Production
Dr. Johannes Bohnet · CEO & Founder, Seerene

Opportunities and risks of generative AI in industrial software production. Developers with AI tools produce up to three times more code per week, but defect rates rise by a factor of 1.5 without adequate testing infrastructure. The case for governance systems that make productivity gains measurable while scaling quality assurance in parallel.

▶ Recording
The Change Management Imperative of 21st Century Software Production
Lars Trieloff · Principal Scientist, Adobe

Adobe’s 30-year journey from on-premise to SaaS shows how software organizations must continuously reinvent themselves. Gall’s Law and an “innovation budget” give teams control over the complexity they introduce; the latest SaaS generation achieved sharply reduced time-to-market and significantly lower operating costs.

▶ Recording
How Will We Manage Tomorrow’s Software Factories?
Dr. Philipp Herzig · Chief AI Officer, SAP · Prof. Dr. Christian Bär · CTO, Datev

How AI-generated codebases are shifting the role of experienced developers: senior engineers focus more on architecture and quality governance as AI handles routine coding tasks. The panel addresses accountability structures in increasingly automated software organizations.

▶ Recording
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Sally Trivino · Senior Partner, EY

The ethical and organizational responsibilities that come with scaling AI in software development: how companies can grow AI capabilities without losing control, quality or human oversight, connecting the technology perspective with regulatory and cultural requirements for executive leaders.

▶ Recording
Software Development in a Large Life Sciences Company
Dr. Bernd Lohmann · CTO, Bayer

The software portfolio of a global life sciences company: over 6,000 applications, 80 percent of them legacy systems running alongside modern AI and agile initiatives. The “Dynamic Shared Ownership” operating model reduces bureaucracy and strengthens local accountability at scale.

▶ Recording
The Big Five: Current Digitalization Trends in Corporations
Dr. Martina Beck · CEO, MaibornWolff · Volker Maiborn · CEO, MaibornWolff

Five digitalization trends shaping enterprises: generative AI, cloud computing, green IT, talent management and digital design. A BMW migration project where GenAI enabled a fivefold productivity increase at 70 percent cost reduction; digital design positioned as a discipline in its own right.

On stage

Speakers and panelists

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner
Hasso Plattner Institute
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
CEO & Founder, Seerene
Lars Trieloff
Lars Trieloff
Principal Scientist, Adobe
Dr. Philipp Herzig
Dr. Philipp Herzig
CTO, SAP
Prof. Dr. Christian Bär
Prof. Dr. Christian Bär
CTO, Datev
Sally Trivino
Sally Trivino
Senior Partner, EY
Dr. Bernd Lohmann
Dr. Bernd Lohmann
CTO, Bayer
Dr. Martina Beck
Dr. Martina Beck
CEO, MaibornWolff
Volker Maiborn
Volker Maiborn
CEO, MaibornWolff
Marc Hildebrandt
Marc Hildebrandt
CEO, German Deep Tech Group
Oliver Viel
Oliver Viel
CMO, Seerene & German Deep Tech Group
Impressions

From the event

Documentary photographs from the gathering, loaded from seerene.com. Shown only with the consent of the people pictured.

Where this sits in the series

Thirteen gatherings since 2021, at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, in Berlin and at Schloss Fürstlich Drehna. The next retreat is announced to members first.

Titles, names and organizations as published on seerene.com/sen/envisioning-tomorrows-code (retrieved 30 October 2026); recordings on Seerene’s YouTube channel, slides as PDF from seerene.com.

Envisioning Tomorrow’s Code

Master class · 16 May 2024 · EY Tower, Berlin Mitte

The Hasso Plattner Institute, EY, MaibornWolff, Seerene and the German Deep Tech Group invited some of the leading software executives and academics to the EY Tower in Berlin Mitte for a day of open dialogue and strategy on AI-based code production, digitalization trends and the future management of software factories.

Program

Speakers