Biographies

Christian Maasem is a partner at Detecon Consulting and responsible for Hyperconnectivity. After studying physics and and economics, he headed the Information Technology Management group and the InnovationLabs at the FIR at RWTH Aachen University. In 2016, he founded and led the Center Connected Industry at the RWTH Aachen Campus as Centre Director. In 2018, he was appointed managing director of the Enterprise Integration Centre Aachen GmbH. In the course of his activities, he was responsible for a large number of innovation, research and consulting projects in digitalisation with a focus on Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT, Automotive, Future Logistics, eMobility, Smart Grid, Health and Smart City. Following the vision of the RWTH Aachen Campus, he is driven by the ecosystem idea to bring together technology providers and users from different industries to create new use case-centred ICT solutions and data eco systems for productive and economic use. Following the modular principle, he incorporates experience from knowledge of different technology areas (IoT, 5G, Edge Cloud, Big Data, AI, automation,…).