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Discovering technology, meeting the people behind it and gaining fresh perspectives: the ITCS community came together at the MOC on 30 October. ITCS Munich brought together a tech conference, career fair and festival, with space for technical discussions and personal connections.
The Defence Hub was a particular focus. Women in Tech, masterclasses and conversations with companies and initiatives were also part of the Munich programme.
Thank you to everyone who joined us: visitors, speakers, exhibitors, partners and the entire team.
Current technologies, real projects and different perspectives on working in IT: the Munich programme featured keynotes and tech talks alongside Women in Tech, defence topics and practical masterclasses.
What does a tech team work on day to day? Which projects are coming up, and what skills do they need? At ITCS, visitors could discuss these questions directly with people from the companies and explore career opportunities.
ITCS is also about the moments between sessions: gaming, conversations and winding down together over music and drinks. Space to connect, beyond the stage and presentations.
How can digital systems work reliably, even under demanding conditions? What roles do secure communications, cloud architectures, data and AI play? The Defence Hub created a dedicated space for these questions at ITCS Munich.
The programme connected technical insights with the requirements of security and defence. Companies and initiatives showcased their topics and fields of work, from digital infrastructure to aerospace technologies.
The focus was on the projects, the people behind them and the responsibility that comes with their work.
A look back at the organisations represented in the Munich programme and on the exhibition floor.
An overview of the topics, speakers and sessions from 30 October.
Everyone can use AI. Almost half of all students already use it daily. So that’s no longer what sets you apart. What does: understanding how a process actually works, and then rebuilding it with AI. Jana spent 16 years in banking before moving into IT, where she now leads AI projects. She talks about what that shift taught her, why most AI projects fail in the wrong order, and what that means for anyone starting a career right now.
Behind modern digital services today are no longer individual applications, but complex webs of data, channels, platforms and teams.
The central challenge is no longer the development of individual solutions, but their consistent interplay. Using the ADAC as an example, you will learn how architecture and governance make complexity manageable, unlock synergies, and create the foundation for scalable business impact as well as the collaboration between humans and AI.
Millions of people fly safely to their destination every day. But how is it possible to manage constantly increasing air traffic efficiently and safely?
The demos were impressive. The promised productivity gains sounded almost too good to be true. And many developers quickly found their favourite AI coding tool. But what happens after the initial excitement fades?
This talk tells the story of how BurdaForward brought together AI Ambassadors from 14 development teams to tackle one of engineering’s biggest challenges today: Turning AI from individual wins into an organisation-wide engineering superpower.
Expect honesty lessons learned, surprising challenges, and one unexpectedly controversial topicselecting the AI tool stack. Most importantly, we’ll tackle the question every engineering organisation will eventually face: Beyond the hype, beyond the demos, beyond the honeymoon phase: was it really worth it all?
It’s all around us, it clearly carries massive potential, and yet humanity is divided. This tech talk aims to explore AI’s biggest issues, tracing them back to the decisions made during the boom, and examining how we can build a more responsible future.
Learn how the Reinhausen Group has future-proofed its ERP landscape on S/4HANA and how it successfully managed 200 project staff across 6 continents.
Ein leistungsfähiges Sprachmodell allein macht noch keinen überzeugenden KI-Agenten. Entscheidend ist auch das System, das es umgibt. Fehlen Fähigkeiten wie episodisches Gedächtnis, Selbstwahrnehmung oder ein dauerhaftes Modell seiner Umwelt, bleibt das Verhalten oft hinter unseren Erwartungen zurück. Enrique Acuay zeigt, wie kognitive Architekturen helfen können, diese Lücke zu schließen.
„Vielleicht …“, „Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber …“, „Das ist nur eine Idee …“ – viele von uns schwächen ihre eigenen Aussagen, oft ohne es zu merken. Dabei entscheidet nicht nur was wir sagen, sondern auch wie wir es sagen.
In diesem Vortrag lernst du, sprachliche Weichmacher zu erkennen und durch selbstbewusste Formulierungen zu ersetzen. Mit einfachen Techniken, vielen Beispielen und kleinen Übungen nimmst du Werkzeuge mit, die du direkt im Studium, im Bewerbungsgespräch, bei der Gehaltsverhandlung und im Berufsleben anwenden kannst.
AI is changing the game. Are You Still Leading by the Old Rules?
We are entering a world where intelligence is no longer the advantage it used to be.
AI can analyze faster, generate more, and increasingly do the work we once believed required years of expertise. So what happens to leadership when being the smartest person in the room is no longer enough?
The question is no longer whether AI will change the way we work. It is whether we are willing to change the way we lead.
Because the hardest part of this transition isn’t the technology.
It’s us.
Our instincts.
Our need for control.
Our attachment to what made us successful in the first place.
This talk will challenge some of the assumptions that have shaped leadership for decades, explore what it takes to make better decisions in a world of uncertainty, and ask a more uncomfortable question: what if the very things that made you a successful leader are the things holding you back now?
The future won’t belong to the leaders who know the most about AI. It will belong to those who know how to think, question, adapt, and lead when the old answers no longer work.
Because the real challenge isn’t learning to work with artificial intelligence. It’s figuring out what it means to be human when intelligence becomes artificial.
Career ownership, future skills and the power of networks to shape opportunities.
AI is redefining what expertise means, which skills matter and how career opportunities emerge. But how can women in tech not only adapt to these changes, but actively shape their future?
Bringing together perspectives from technology, leadership, transformation and community building, this session explores three essential career strategies: GET CLEAR about your value and future skills, GET CONNECTED to people and opportunities, and GET VISIBLE to position yourself for what’s next.
Whether you’re looking for your next role or ready to take the next step in your career, discover how to turn change into opportunity.
The future of tech is being shaped now. Make sure you’re part of it.
Was, wenn dein Problem nicht ist, dass du zu wenig nachdenkst – sondern dass du immer mit den Erfahrungen von gestern über die Möglichkeiten von morgen entscheidest? Unser Kopf ist ein hervorragendes Analyseinstrument, aber nicht jede Entscheidung lässt sich mit noch mehr Denken lösen. Wie du erkennst, wann Analyse hilft – und wann es Zeit ist, anders hinzuhören.
Der Gender AI Gap zeigt: Frauen und Männer nutzen, gestalten und erleben Künstliche Intelligenz nicht unbedingt auf die gleiche Weise. Gleichzeitig sind Frauen in der Entwicklung von KI weiterhin unterrepräsentiert – und KI-Systeme können bestehende gesellschaftliche Bias reproduzieren.
Was bedeutet das für Frauen in Tech, die KI für ihre eigene Karriere nutzen wollen?
Du spürst, dass dein nächster Karriereschritt nicht einfach eine neue Position, sondern ein Neustart mit Sinn sein soll?
In diesem Vortrag zeigt Annika Reller-Lang aus einer feministischen Perspektive, wie KI – zum Beispiel ChatGPT – zur bewusst eingesetzten Sparringspartnerin für die eigene berufliche Neuorientierung werden kann.
👉 Wie du KI für mehr Klarheit über deine Stärken, Wünsche und beruflichen Möglichkeiten nutzen kannst.
👉 Wie KI dir neue Perspektiven und Motivation für deinen nächsten Karriereschritt geben kann.
👉 Und wo ihre Grenzen und Bias liegen – damit du die Kontrolle über deinen beruflichen Weg behältst.
Denn: KI kann dich unterstützen. Aber nur wenn du weißt, bei was und wie du sie nutzt.
The talk demonstrates how women in IT often underestimate themselves and get stuck in "imposter mode". Using her contrasting CV, Anke Wiechmann shows how we can transform our internal, critical self-perception into a confident external image. The aim is to provide practical tips that help communicate one's own value clearly and thus gain new professional opportunities and self-confidence.
Drones – whether in the air, on the water or on land, in this country and worldwide – have long been ubiquitous and present us with diverse challenges. How is it possible to effectively counter a highly flexible and increasingly sophisticated adversary using state-of-the-art software and IT technology? What contribution does HENSOLDT make to protect our community of values? And how are teams and employees supported so that they can unfold their full potential and jointly shape the future? Dive into exciting insights and innovative approaches to solutions.
The cyber and information domain is also becoming increasingly important for the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Therefore, project partners France, the Netherlands and Hungary, together with Germany as project coordinator, intend to provide the EU with a Cyber and Information Domain Coordination Centre (CIDCC). This PESCO project is intended to support EU-led military operations and missions as an initial coordination element by pooling and analysing information and intelligence from the cyber and information domain, and then feeding this into the military planning and command process.
As part of the project, CONET is playing a major role in supporting the CIDCC with the creation of a mockup to comprehensively depict a multidimensional situational picture in cyberspace, specifically for EU operations and EU missions. The information presented covers, in particular, the cyber and information space, the electromagnetic spectrum and social media. This represents the closing of a capability gap that is being addressed collaboratively at a European level.
A single system error, and the ship sinks. This is exactly where the job of Tobias Rukwid, Director Project Management Naval Communication Systems at Rohde & Schwarz begins: systems that explode due to complexity, a worldwide growing need that must be orchestrated, and in the midst of it a project manager who must keep the course when the sea gets rougher than ever before. Where this complexity really becomes a test of endurance, how to still keep the course, and where AI will be on board tomorrow as part of the crew.
secunet baut die hochsichere SINA-Infrastruktur für den deutschen Staat und die Bundeswehr. Aber was heißt das eigentlich fürs Handy — und was passiert, wenn jemand dich zwingt, es zu entsperren? Jonas Erasmus zeigt ein SINA Mobile S Gerät live und führt die Duress-Sperre vor: ein PIN-Eingabefall, der Gerät und Infrastruktur gleichzeitig schützt.
Mission planning has come a long way, from manual preparation for the Tornado, through the data-driven workflows of the Eurofighter, to a future of unmanned systems and autonomous wingmen. The presentation traces that journey and looks at how planning shifts from preparing a single aircraft to orchestrating a human machine team.
What if your cloud knew when it was time to leave? Dieser Tech Talk denkt Cloud Resilience konsequent für den Worst Case: Eine Infrastruktur, die geopolitische und technische Risiken erkennt, bevor sie zum Ausfall führen und Workloads, Daten und Netzwerkpfade selbstständig neu positioniert.
LeviTUM, eine interdisziplinäre Studenteninitiative der TUM, verfolgt unter dem Leitgedanken „pioneering sustainable flight“ das Ziel, wasserstoffbetriebene Fluggeräte selbst zu entwickeln und zu bauen. In diesem Vortrag zeigen wir, wie Wasserstoff als emissionsfreier Antrieb besonders lange Flugzeiten ermöglicht – und wie wir diese mit KI-gestützter Erkennung verbinden, um Plastikmüll automatisch aus der Luft zu detektieren. So wird großflächiges, nachhaltiges Umwelt-Monitoring möglich.
For the past six years, HORYZN has been developing innovative unmanned aerial systems for life-saving missions. Building on its success in various missions and international competitions, HORYZN is now expanding into autonomous, collaborative aerial systems. This presentation will explore HORYZN’s technological evolution, recent milestones, and vision for enabling multiple drones to work together on complex search-and-rescue and disaster-response missions.
CurveSYS entwickelt robuste, langlebige, ultradünne und flexible Sensorsysteme, die Druck, Kräfte, Stöße und Verformungen zuverlässig erfassen. Unsere intelligenten Multi-Zonen-Sensoren lassen sich flexibel in bestehende Oberflächen und Produkte integrieren und ermöglichen eine präzise Erfassung von Belastungen – für innovative Anwendungen in Automotive, Robotik, Luft- und Raumfahrt sowie vielen weiteren Branchen.
What does it really take to compromise a modern vehicle? And is it even possible? In this presentation, Richard Wimmer from BMW Group explores why sensational hacking headlines rarely tell the full story and how modern automotive security measures often prevent attackers from succeeding.
Increased traffic, higher demands: DFS is driving the development of cloud-enabled air traffic control systems, combining technological innovation with maximum safety.
Generative und agentische KI verändern Softwareentwicklung weit über die reine Codegenerierung hinaus. Wenn AI Agents zunehmend analysieren, spezifizieren, implementieren, testen, dokumentieren und bestehende Systeme modernisieren können, verschiebt sich die Rolle des Software Engineers fundamental: weg vom primären „Code Producer“, hin zum Architekten, Orchestrator und Qualitätsverantwortlichen für KI-gestützte Engineering-Prozesse.
Der Impuls zeigt anhand konkreter Praxiserfahrungen, wie sich Rollen, Skills und Teamstrukturen verändern – und welche Konsequenzen dies für das klassische Software-Projektgeschäft von IT-Dienstleistern hat. Dabei geht es auch um eine unbequeme Frage: Was passiert mit Aufwand, Teamgrößen und Geschäftsmodellen, wenn wir Software mit KI deutlich schneller entwickeln können?
Many career starters wonder whether AI will make their future IT job redundant.
Der Vortrag zeigt wie KI Aufgaben, Rollen und technische Grundlagen verändert. Du erfährst, wo Menschen unverzichtbar bleiben und warum IT-Nachwuchs diesen Wandel mitgestalten muss.
The Munich masterclasses offered in-depth insights, practical questions and direct discussions with the speakers. The session overview remains available here.
Was passiert, wenn aus Business Continuity plötzlich operative Realität wird? In dieser interaktiven Masterclass erarbeiten wir gemeinsam anhand eines konkreten Incident Cases, wie BCM und Krisenmanagement von der „Stunde Null“ bis zur strukturierten Bewältigung zusammenspielen.
Die Teilnehmenden erhalten einen kompakten Überblick über zentrale BCM- und Krisenmanagement-Prinzipien und übertragen diese unmittelbar in die Praxis.
Im Fokus stehen nicht Theorie und Folien, sondern Entscheidungen, Zusammenarbeit und die Frage: Was tun wir konkret, wenn der Ernstfall eintritt?
Cybersecurity, AI-powered decision support systems or the digital transformation of the armed forces? Defence has long been a technology topic. In this Masterclass, Accenture shows how holistic their positioning is in the defence sector: with (ex-)soldiers, techies, architects and strategy enthusiasts. Experience Defence by Accenture with insights, an open Q&A and direct exchange with the team.
DIYoT – Do IoT Yourself:
In diesem interaktiven Workshop entwickelt ihr gemeinsam mit Konstantin und Rene von BRUNATA-METRONA eine eigene IoT-Anwendung auf Basis eines ESP32.
Die benötigte Hardware steht bereit – ihr bringt Neugier und Lust aufs Tüfteln mit. Ihr erlebt, was ein Smart-Home-Gerät ausmacht, integriert es in eine selbstgehostete Home-Assistant-Instanz und erfahrt, worauf es bei der Entwicklung und Einbindung von IoT-Geräten ankommt.
Dabei wird euch gezeigt, welchen Beitrag smarte Technik auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität leisten kann.
Benötigte Materialien: – Laptop – USB C Kabel zum Anschließen des ESP32 an den Laptop
You want to know what a complex SAP implementation project looks like in practice – without having to invest months of your time? Then INFORMATICS is the right place for you! In the Masterclass, you'll dive into the world of a real corporate project and experience all the key phases of an SAP rollout – from process analysis and system configuration to go-live.
Die veränderte geopolitische Lage und der technologische Fortschritt stellen Deutschland und Europa vor neue sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen. Die Folge sind steigende Verteidigungsausgaben und eine Defence-Branche im Umbruch, in die zunehmend neue Unternehmen eintreten. Verteidigung ist dabei eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe, die neben der Bundeswehr auch Behörden, Wirtschaft und kritische Infrastrukturen einbindet. Da Sicherheit zunehmend auch im digitalen Raum verteidigt wird, gewinnt IT deutlich an Bedeutung.
In dieser interaktiven Masterclass diskutiert CGI gemeinsam mit euch, was diese Entwicklungen für Industrie und Beratung bedeuten, welche Rolle Cybersicherheit spielt und welche Kompetenzen künftig gefragt sind.
It has never been easier to build a precise operational picture using publicly available information sources on the internet. Using recent developments, Simon Neuenhaus demonstrates how an accurate picture of the conflict in Ukraine can be created simply by evaluating publicly available sources.
Technology on stage, conversations at the stands and the atmosphere in between: pictures from ITCS Munich.
The next opportunity for new tech topics and personal connections: ITCS Frankfurt on 27 November 2026.
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