Program

green: XR & metaverse business strategy, regulation and standardization

red: XR and metaverse applications

9:15 - 09:30 Welcome Address - Christoph Runde - Virtual Dimension Center (VDC)

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote: EU perspective on Virtual Worlds - Anne Bajart - European Commission,Unit G2. Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education

10:00 - 10:30 Keynote: eXtended Reality and Metaverse at FESTO - Franco Trapasso - Lead Plant Project Office SH , FESTO

10:30 - 11:00 Extended Reality Solution in the Aerospace Industry - Use Cases in MTU AeroEngine specifically with SuPAR - Interactive Inspection - Thomas Staak: Head of Technical Documentation, MTU and Kemal Gider: CDM Tech

11:00 - 11:30 From Excel and PowerPoint to the digital twin? How Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is paving the way to the industrial metaverse for SMEs - Michael Wagner - CTO; NVIDIA omniverse community ambassador, IPOlog

14:00 - 14:30 From the internet of things to the industrial metaverse - Dieter Uckelmann - scientific director, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HfT)

14:30 - 15:00 XR @ Siemens Energy: Solving today’s business challenges with eXtended Reality Technology - Marion Mirold and Malte Galeazzi, Siemens Energy

15:00 - 15:30 How to not wait for the metaverse - Joseph Scott - XR Software Developer, CAD Schroer

15:30 - 16:00 Cortex2 - remote collaboration made easy with XR - Thibaud Traut - Business Development Manager, Actimage GmbH

16:00 - 16:30 XR applications for virtual collaboration labs - Innovative applications developed in the KoLab BW project - Nicolei Beisheim - Professor for computer-integrated product development, Albstadt University of Applied Sciences

16:30 - 17:30 Workshop: overview of the AREA ROI model - Mark Sage - executive director, Augmented Reality Entreprise Alliance (AREA)

14:00 - 14:30 Metaverse Strategy Finland - Business Finland

14:30 - 15:00 Status of the Enterprise Augmented Reality Ecosystem and what can we do to Improve it! - Mark Sage - Executive Director, Augmented Reality Entreprise Alliance (AREA)

15:00 - 15:30 Virtual Reality, Augmented reality and Artificial Intelligence: Latest Developments in China - Dr. Hans Joachim Fuchs - Managing Partner, Chinabrand IP

15:30 - 16:00 Visual Sweden and its projects: industrial XR-applications and reflections on new XR technologies - Philip Engström - Senior Research Coordinator, Visual Sweden

16:00 - 17:00 XR Open Forum: Deep-dive into China's Metaverse Strategy - Dr. Wolfgang Schäfer, Dr. Marco Sacco, EuroXR Association

17:00 - 17:15 CyberLänd: the Baden-Württemberg metaverse competence map - Ioannis Alexiadis, project manager, Virtual Dimension Center (VDC)

17:15 - 18:00 CyberLänd-Workshop: gathering industrial requirements for a Baden-Württmberg metaverse strategy - Ioannis Alexiadis/VDC, Nicole Gladilov/Fraunhofer IAO, Franz Falkenau/Fraunhofer IPA

18:00 - 24:00 eat, meet & greet

10:00 - 10:30 Workshop: 3D data streaming - André Kunerth - Consensive

10:30 - 11:00 VR & X in Enterprise Applications - Considerations & Cases - Rob Pereira - Commercial Director Education/Training/Healthcare - PICO Business

11:00 - 12:00 CARS2.0: meeting of project group

09:00 - 09:30 Practical legal issues relating to the use of mixed reality / augmented reality glasses - Moritz Stilz - attorney, Gleiss-Lutz

09:30 - 10:00 The Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF): activities and vision - Dr. Louay Bassbouss - senior project manager R&D, Fraunhofer FOKUS / Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF)

10:00 - 10:30 Global Monitor for XR and metaverse standards, specifications, guidelines and recommendations - Prof. Dr. Christoph Runde - Virtual Dimension Center (VDC)

10:30 - 12:00 Workshop: Strategic Use of Standardization in Innovation Management - Amelie Leipprand - senior project manager, German Institute for Standardization (DIN)

13:00 - 13:30 Operational and consulting expertise for CAx and XR environments in R&D - Martin Große - Senior Sales Consultant, Eviden Germany 

13:30 - 14:00 5G/6G for eXtended reality and metaverse - Thomas Hainzel - head of partner management, Nokia Solutions and Networks Austria

14:00 - 15:30 The Magnificent Seven – We Save You with the Help of AI and High Performance Computing - Dr. Andreas Wierse, Andrea Rozsa, Anna Schwetz, Anne-Bernard Bedouet, Murat Malyemez, Nicole Prange, Victoria Scheible - Sicos BW / High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)

15:30 - 16:00 spatial audio for XR - Daniel Debo, executive director of DELTA Soundworks; Jonas Kirchner and Christoph Rasoulis of Pixelcloud

14:00 - 14:30 Optimised 3D asset pipeline for XR applications (incl. WebGL/Vision Pro/ augmented reality etc) - Arnold Pötsch, COO & Moritz Becher, CTO - UX3D GmbH

14:30 - 15:00 From Flat to Spatial: The Impact of 3D and XR on User Experience Design - Sonya Seddarasan  - independent XR designer

15:00 - 15:30 Using OKR (objectives & key results) for managing virtual reality projects - Nikola Merkas - CEO, Merkas Technologies

15:30 - 16:00 CARS 2.0: Federal public funding for innovation projects - Kathrin Grützmann - Innovation and project management, Innovationhouse Deutschland