Yesterday, Thursday, more than 800 guests took part in the industry event organized by the Professional Association for Management Consulting, Accounting and IT (UBIT), the Austrian IT & Consultants Day (AITCD), in the Hofburg Vienna. “We have expanded the motto ‘Changing Perspective’ to include three forms of intelligence in order to show new perspectives, areas of advice and future scenarios for our professional groups and to provide answers to current economic questions. Because IT alone, with its more than 80 job profiles, offers endless opportunities to pursue a career,” emphasizes Alfred Harl, chairman of the UBIT trade association and organizer of the AITCD.
New perspectives for knowledge-based service providers
“With this year’s lectures and keynotes on the topics of artificial, social and expert intelligence, we have shown completely new perspectives. The initial feedback shows that events like this are needed to look into the future with courage and confidence,” says Gerhard Wanek, project manager for the AITCD and spokesman for the management consultancy of the UBIT Lower Austria specialist group.
Keynotes by renowned speakers and experts
In addition to the main stage in the ceremonial hall, visitors were also able to obtain information at the accounting forum and in the lounges of UBIT Vienna and UBIT NÖ. Ten keynotes and panels on the main stage highlighted topics from the three areas of intelligence. Including Eva Deutsch, founder and owner of BrainBrosia Entertainment, who opened the event with her mind opener on “Boosting Intelligence: Gamification as a motor for knowledge transfer and transformation”.
There were further keynotes on “Humans as Cyborgs? Our future with AI” by Sabine Köszegi (TU Vienna), “Success with AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Consultants” by Gerald Pfleger and “I am me and I am you; Identity in the Age of Deepfake” with students Ben Koska and Leander Klinger from HTL Spengergasse. Markus Manz and Lukas Fischer presented the topic “Collective Intelligence – The collaboration of humans and AIs in a team” and Martin Filipp spoke on “Game development in Austria – Conveying emotions with the help of modern technologies as part of digital transformation”, Isabell Claus on “ AI areas of application – the “secret sauce” for success” and Diana Kinnert on “The New Loneliness: The Rationalization of the Social in the Technology Age”. Physicist Werner Gruber closed the circle by attempting to answer the question: “From artificial to synthetic intelligence – what happens next?” (PWK422/ES)
All speakers and experts: https://www.wko.at/pages/austrian-it-and-consultants-day/start
About the UBIT trade association
The professional association for management consulting, accounting and IT (UBIT)
With more than 80,000 members, the Management Consulting, Accounting and IT Association (UBIT) is one of the largest and most dynamic professional associations in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. He represents the interests of entrepreneurs in the areas of management consulting, accounting and information technology. The aim is to optimize professionally relevant framework conditions and to communicate the performance of the professional groups to the market. Members can take advantage of extensive advice and services. Information at www.ubit.at, www.consultantsday.at
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