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ItalianoA first-class event for MCI students and graduates took place last week at the MCI: The MCiT Forum 2020 with the motto "Redesigning Work - competing in unpredictable times" was deliberately held digitally, enabling experts from all over the world to join in and meet internationally experienced and renowned speakers. The event was organised by students of the Master's programme Management, Communication & IT (MCiT) as part of the MCiT Conference course, under course leader Thomas Dilger.
Bringing together opinion leaders and young professionals, offering insights into the exciting research fields of the MCI and its lecturers and creating a platform for exchange, inspiration and networking is the declared aim of the conference, which has been taking place for three years. This year's virtual event was dedicated to new forms of work, innovative cooperation concepts and networking with partners and pioneers in a highly competitive globalised world. In a total of 14 sessions, 25 internationally experienced experts shed light on future working worlds from a wide variety of perspectives.
An impatiently awaited and special highlight was Georg Fürlinger, Technology Officer of Foreign Trade Austria, who came directly from Silicon Valley. He is the author of the book "Away from Silicon Valley", researched innovative ecosystems at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and works closely with a start-up at Stanford University in California. In his function as co-director of the Open Austria office in San Francisco, he supports Austrian companies entering the US market. On the topic of the Future of Work, Fürlinger had the following advice: "Flexibilisation of work is one of the mega trends that you can see - and this is divided into people, process and places."
Programme Director Peter J. Mirski describes the background of the MCiT Forum: "We are in close contact with our more than 800 alumni and follow their life and career paths. With our MCiT Forum, we create a platform to find out about current topics and to keep in touch with our professors and discuss relevant issues. It's an excellent opportunity for our students to experience the transfer of knowledge from theory to practice up close and live."
A big thank you goes to all 25 presenters at the virtual conference who made this innovative format possible through their participation, but especially to the students of the MCiT master's programme who organised this digital conference technically and in terms of content as part of their training and mastered their task brilliantly.