KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies, and head of the Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he is director of the Vita Lab. He is also Honorary Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands.
From 1999–2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist for Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna, a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several international and national awards: the World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); and MERCUR Innovationspreis der Wirtschaftskammer (2002). Currently, Prof. Dustdar is on the advisory board for Smart Information Systems and Sanaga Labs, two Austrian Start-up companies, and he is also on the management board for the Association of the Alumni of the TU Wien.

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