Prof. Dr. Gerald Lembke

Prof. Dr. Lembke is a thought leader for digital transformation in business and society. He programmed his first synthesizer when he was 12 years old in 1977. In 1992, he founded one of the first digital agencies in Germany. In 2004, he received his doctorate in economics and social sciences with the topic "Knowledge Cooperation". Today, he is the head of the Digital Media, Media Management and Communication program at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Mannheim. He is a technical and non-fiction author and accompanies the educational landscape in DACH, among other things, in political consulting (including Enquette Commission 2017-2018) on the topic of "digital education". He knows: "Digitization does not need big politics", because the really successful innovations arise without subsidies from the watering can. As a start-up entrepreneur (including KI TOOLPARTY (opens in a new tab)) Prof. Lembke is convinced that everyone can digitalization. In his private life, he is the father of a 13-year-old daughter, a passionate musician and has been dedicated to progressive heavy metal since the age of 14.