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SFB meets Industry

On June 13, 2018, at 3 p.m. Dr. Gero Herkenrath from the "Trusted Shops GmbH" will give a talk about "Dealing with Trust - Improving a business's reputation with Trusted Shops" in the Foyer of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute. Trusted Shops GmbH is Europe's leading service provider for secure online shopping.

The talk is embedded in a half day event of the "Sonderforschungsbereich 901 (SFB 901)" within the series "SFB Meets Industry". Further talks on "Rating and Reputation in Electronic Markets" will be given by members of the SFB. The event is primarily aimed at scientists and master students of computer science and economics, but is also open to other interested participants.

The objective of SFB 901 – On-The-Fly Computing (OTF Computing) – is to develop techniques and processes for automatic on-the-fly configuration and provision of individual IT services out of base services that are available on  world-wide markets. In order to achieve this goal, various chairs from computer science and economics work together within the SFB. The research topic of the SFB is also highly relevant for a lot of IT companies respectively companies from electronic commerce. In order to get in contact and to discuss possible cooperations / research topics with corresponding IT companies, the SFB has installed the series "SFB Meets Industry".

Forecast on further events within the series "SFB Meets Industry":
On July 18, 2018, at 3 pm in the Foyer of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute the SFB is being visited by SAP SE.

On September 25, 2018, at 3 pm in the lecture hall O2 at the main campus the SFB is being visited by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.