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Software Excellence Network · Klausurtagung Konzernstrategie · September 2025 · German

Software als Management-Task 2025

Internal software production underlies many of the largest economic challenges facing large organizations today. For European industry, the question is no longer whether software matters at the board level, but how to govern it there. The Klausurtagung Konzernstrategie at Schloss Fürstlich Drehna brought together senior executives from across European industry for a closed, invitation-only session to confront this directly: how to take strategic ownership of software as a management discipline, and what it means for corporate responsibility in the age of AI.

24–25 September 2025Schloss Fürstlich Drehna, BrandenburgTwo days at Schloss Fürstlich Drehna, invitation onlyEleven masterclasses and nine slide decksSAP, Allianz, ZF Group, NVIDIA, HPI, TU Dresden, TU Hamburg
Convened by
Software Excellence Network · Hasso Plattner Institute · German Deep Tech Group · Seerene
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Software als Management-Task 2025
Convened by Hasso Plattner Institute · German Deep Tech Group · Software Excellence Network · SeerenePhotographs from seerene.com, shown with the consent of the people pictured.
Presentations

Talks and discussions

Titles in the language they were given. The retreat is off the record; summaries are not published.

Langfristige KI-gestützte Transformation komplexer IT-Systeme und ihrer Entwicklungsprozesse
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner · Hasso Plattner Institute
KI verwandelt Arbeit in Software — Eine Neuausrichtung für Top-Manager
Manuel Yoon · Managing Director Europe, Autobrains
Veränderungen für die Software-Entwicklung und -Architektur durch KI-unterstütztes Entwickeln
Dr. Jürgen Müller · Technology and Product Executive, former CTO SAP
AI — What does it take?
Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe · Executive Director Healthcare & Life Sciences EMEA, NVIDIA
Digitale Verantwortung: Wie Top-Entscheider handlungsfähig bleiben, wenn Software zur Chefsache wird
Dr. Johannes Bohnet · Founder & CEO, Seerene
Herausforderungen rund um das software-definierte Fahrzeug
Prof. Dr. Mirko Conrad · TU Dresden
KI in China und weltweit: Was Europa jetzt tun muss
Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner · Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Zahlen machen dich glaubwürdig
Daniel Hartert · Senior Advisory to IT Industry, Ex-CEO/CIO
Leadership und Verantwortung: Ethik als Innovationsfaktor
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kiener · TU Hamburg
Erfindet euch neu: Im KI-Zeitalter kann der aufgeklärte Mensch nur noch das entscheiden, was noch nicht durch KI entschieden ist.
Dr. Ralf Schneider · Allianz Senior Fellow and Head of NextGenIT Think Tank, Allianz Group
Wertschöpfung mittels SW-Community Development – der Weg von „Ego-Systems“ zu „Eco-Systems“
Dr. Jürgen Sturm · SVP, ZF Group
SAPs Finanztransformation
Dr. Tobias Naumann · CFO, SAP Germany
On stage

Speakers and panelists

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner
Hasso Plattner Institute
Manuel Yoon
Manuel Yoon
Autobrains
Dr. Jürgen Müller
Dr. Jürgen Müller
Entrepreneur, former CTO SAP
Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe
Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe
Executive Director Healthcare & Life Sciences EMEA, NVIDIA
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Founder & CEO, Seerene
Prof. Dr. Mirko Conrad
Prof. Dr. Mirko Conrad
TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner
Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner
Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Daniel Hartert
Daniel Hartert
Senior Advisor
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kiener
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kiener
TU Hamburg
Dr. Ralf Schneider
Dr. Ralf Schneider
Allianz Group
Dr. Jürgen Sturm
Dr. Jürgen Sturm
Digital Transformation Advisor, former CIO ZF Group
Tobias Naumann
Tobias Naumann
CFO, SAP
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/software-als-management-task-2025 (retrieved 30 October 2026); slides as PDF from seerene.com. The retreat is off the record; summaries are not published.

Software als Management-Task 2025

Klausurtagung Konzernstrategie · 24–25 September 2025 · Schloss Fürstlich Drehna, Brandenburg

Internal software production underlies many of the largest economic challenges facing large organizations today. For European industry, the question is no longer whether software matters at the board level, but how to govern it there. The Klausurtagung Konzernstrategie at Schloss Fürstlich Drehna brought together senior executives from across European industry for a closed, invitation-only session to confront this directly: how to take strategic ownership of software as a management discipline, and what it means for corporate responsibility in the age of AI.

Program

Speakers