We succeeded and we lost together: The second experience being the greater team achievement. After swinging on a rope like Tarzan and landing on a two square meter platform one after another, the last ice was melted down. We started the evening with a BBQ together with CAs, CDTM students and alumni ending it at the in-house bar.

Our program on Friday started at 8:45am. In a tight schedule we had to complete a case study supervised by professional consultants. After we managed this challenge and presented our solutions to the board we all felt satisfied with our results. Thanks to the consultants we had dinner in a nice local restaurant. Afterwards we went to “The Cube”, the one and only club in Weiden. There we discovered another common ground: Every one of us can sing “We at the hotel, motel Holiday Inn…” by heart and dance like no one - except the Weidener high society - is watching you.

On Saturday it was all about Entrepreneurship. CDTM students and alumni told us about their own projects and encouraged us to become entrepreneurs as well. To get a first impression how that could feel we developed an idea for our own company in groups of five or six people. At the end of the day we presented our ideas and the business plans to the Center Assistants, pretending to be investors.

After this weekend in the Stützelvilla I think every single one of us is fully motivated and looking forward to the Trend Seminar. We all have got a better idea of what CDTM is about: community and facing every challenge as a team.

Mit der Finalrunde stiegen nicht nur die Temperaturen ins Unermessliche, auch die Spannung auf dem Platz wurde zunehmend angeheizt: Dramatisch schmiss die erste Mannschaft der Finanz- und Informationsmanager (FIM) in einem denkbar knappen Elfmeterschießen die Honors-Wirtschaftswissenschaftler mit 5:4 aus dem Turnier und begrub damit bereits frühzeitig die Titelträume des Rekordsiegers. Den Favoriten von CDTM und TopMath folgten außerdem die überraschend starke Mannschaft der Systeme der Informations- und Multimediatechnik (SIM) ins Halbfinale.

Doch auch für die zunächst ausgeschiedenen Teams war das Turnier noch nicht vorbei: Alle Platzierungen wurden ausgespielt, alle Mannschaften damit noch einmal gefordert. Als Sieger konnten sich nach einem langen Turniertag unter brennender Sonne so schließlich alle teilnehmenden Mannschaften fühlen und sich verdient über die exklusiven Teilnehmer-T-Shirts- freuen.

Besonders laut jubelten aber natürlich die bestplatzierten Mannschaften über ihre Pokale: Nach packenden Halbfinals konnte FIM erst nach Elfmeterschießen gegen SIM den dritten Platz erkämpfen und so zeigen, dass das F im Alphabet mit Recht vor dem S kommt. Nicht weniger spannend gestaltete sich das Finale, in dem CDTM erst in der zweiten Halbzeit den frühen Führungstreffer des TopMath-Teams ausgleichen konnte, um schließlich im Elfmeterschießen dank der verbündeten Torlatte (an der die Titelverteidiger von TopMath mehrmals scheiterten) zum dritten Mal in ihrer Geschichte den Elite-Cup zu erringen.

Pünktlich zum Abpfiff des Turniers eröffnete die deutsche Mannschaft ihr Viertelfinalspiel gegen Argentinien, das zur allgemeinen Begeisterung bei der anschließenden Grillfeier auf drei großen Flachbildfernsehern übertragen wurde. Ein Großteil der Spieler, Betreuer und Fans genoss dabei nicht nur ein weiteres ausgezeichnetes (wenngleich bei weitem nicht vergleichbar spannendes) Fußballspiel, sondern auch die ein oder andere lecker Grillwurst samt kühlem, wohlverdientem Bier in angenehmer Gesellschaft. Dank der großzügigen Unterstützung durch das Elitenetzwerk Bayern wurde so zu Ende eines heißen und spannenden Tages auch klar, was den Elite-Cup so besonders macht: die bereichernde Begegnung zwischen interessanten Menschen in einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre, auf und gerade auch neben dem Platz, während und gerade auch nach dem Spiel!

Mehr Fotos vom diesjährigen Turnier gibt es auf der Homepage des Elite-Cups 2010 (http://www.ma.tum.de/TopMath/EliteCup2010/Startseite). Der Elite-Cup 2011 wird dann vom diesjährigen Gewinner ausgerichtet, dem Center for Digital Technology and Management.

Organized by the Center for Digital Technology & Management, Munich; Moderator: Stuart Ellman, Managing Partner von RRE Ventures New York.

Panelists include:

• Target Partners: Kurt Müller, General Partner
• Earlybird: Wolfgang Seibold, General Partner
• Holtzbrinck Ventures: Martin Weber, General Partner
• PolyTechnos Venture-Partners: Eric Achtmann, Managing Partner
• Clean Mobile: Werner Gruber, CEO

There will be the possibility to exchange and network with the panelists at the reception after the official event.

• Prof. Joachim Henkel (TUM): Patent trolls
• Robert Kowalski: Creating Conversation Opportunities in Urban Spaces through Technology
• Laszlo Vidos, Max Lamers, David Bellem, Assif Sobhani, Jens Windau, Kaspar Hübener (MPD ST 2010): MyHangout – Prospects in Location Based Services
• Wolfgang Weinmair on his stay in Tokio
• Felix Binder, Joshua Cornelius, Tianyi Li, Harald Siebenweiber (E-Lab ST 2010): Virtual political parties

As usual, we will start at 7pm in the entrance area of the CDTM building in Barer Str. 21.

The innovative business models of the CDTM students covered a range of activities at the intersection of ICT and the energy industry. E-Energy OS is a cloud computing operating system for private customers. It connects the solutions of different suppliers in order to realize an optimal overall energy management. As service platform it enables third-party developers to employ add-ons.

In contrast to E-Energy OS, the business idea ECOperation focuses on the management of energy related questions for a network of firms. Thereby value is created through efficient energy production and coordination of consumption within a complementary portfolio. One team worked on a concept called storage cloud. Within that business idea, storage capacity is offered as a service to business and private customers. The storage provider uses stored energy for trading purposes and represents a balancing function in the energy system.

Within the local exchange market, Virtual Prosumer, energy can be traded at real time prices. While the local exchange markets are connected to an international electricity exchange, energy can be saved since long distance transmissions are avoided whenever possible.

The product idea Tariff Sheriff is a web-based service that provides a convenient way for customers to find the energy supplier, contract and tariff which best suits their needs. Tariff Sheriff therefore addresses customers who want to save time and money.

Ebenfalls vertreten war das Center for Digital Technology an Management (CDTM). Im Rahmen des Gesprächsforums "Neue Kooperationen und Geschäftsmodelle" wurden von Studenten des Elitestudiengangs Technology Management kreative Lösungsansätze für Unternehmen präsentiert. Die vorgestellten Geschäftsideen basierten auf einem intensiven Seminar zur Trendforschung. In diesem wurden künftige Entwicklungen in der Energiebranche analysiert und Szenarien für das Jahr 2025 ausgearbeitet. Dabei standen die Themengebiete Privat- und Geschäftskunden, effiziente Elektrizitätsspeicherung sowie Marktplätze und dynamische Tarifmodelle besonders im Fokus. Die Ergebnisse der Studie wurden in dem Trendreport "E-Energy" zusammengefasst und veröffentlicht.

All das ist erst der Auftakt zu einer Veranstaltungsreihe rund um das Thema Unternehmensgründung.

Termine:

• 03.11.2009, 19:00: Stylight
• 17.11.2009, 19:00: DAS Versicherungen
• 01.12.2009, 19:00: myON-ID
• 15.12.2009, 19:00: sun&wevade

Location: CDTM, Barer Str. 21, Raum S2534

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Bei „The Entrepreneurial Group“ können sich StudentInnen aller Fachrichtungen engagieren und ihre Ideen einbringen. Im Mittelpunkt unseres Interesses steht dabei die Förderung des Unternehmer- und Gründergedankens.

Wir geben motivierten und interessierten StudentInnen durch diverse Events wie den „Gründerabenden“, der „Start-up Hilfe“ oder unseren „Ideenjams“ die Chance, neben dem Blick über den eigenen Tellerrand in die Gründerszene hinein zu schnuppern, Kontakte zu knüpfen und helfen dabei, eigene Ideen zu verwirklichen. Zudem bietet sich durch ein Engagement bei TEG die Möglichkeit, wichtige Softskills wie Teamfähigkeit und interdisplinäre Zusammenarbeit zu trainieren und zu verfeinern.

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Pictures, videos and latest updates on the development stage of the project can be found online at http://centerventure.cdtm.de.

CDTM Center Venture

Within an intensive five day period 10-15 students of different disciplines conceptualize, develop and implement a product or service. Students are responsible to create a product idea, to implement the technical environment, to create a solid business plan and to design a marketing campaign to promote the product. During the workshop students experience the whole process of a real world venture from idea stage to product launch.

More information at http://centerventure.cdtm.de

Mit honeywish.net beschreiben Brautpaare ihre bereits gebuchte oder geplante Hochzeitsreise auf ihrem persönlichen Hochzeitstisch. Flug(-Teilstrecken), Hotelübernachtungen, Restaurantbesuche, Wellness-Behandlungen, Ausflüge usw. werden so zu einzelnen Geschenken, die zur Finanzierung der Flitterwochen beitragen.

Mit dem Flitterwochen-Hochzeitstisch hat jeder Hochzeitsgast die Möglichkeit, ein individuelles Hochzeitsgeschenk von der Wunschliste zu wählen. Familie und Freunde geben damit nicht einfach Geld zur Hochzeit, sondern entscheiden bewusst, was sie dem Brautpaar schenken wollen.

Da gerade bei dem unter Hochzeitspaaren weitverbreiteten Reisewunsch nicht alles vorab gebucht und bezahlt werden kann, werden die Bargeldbeträge für alle Geschenke an die honeywish-Hochzeitspaare weitergeleitet. Somit kann auch der romantische Segelausflug entlang der Küste, an den sich die Frischverheirateten noch lange erinnern werden, zur Hochzeit geschenkt werden.

Mehr Informationen zum Flitterwochen-Hochzeitstisch: http://www.honeywish.net

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Das Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) ist ein Joint Venture der beiden Münchner Universitäten Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) und Technische Universität München (TUM). In der Lehre bietet das CDTM seinen Studenten den seit 1998 etablierten Elitestudiengang „Technology Management“. Der Fokus dieses englischsprachigen Studiengangs liegt auf dem interdisziplinären Austausch zwischen Studenten wirtschaftlicher und technischer Fachrichtungen sowie der engen Kooperation mit renommierten Industriepartnern. Der Bereich Entrepreneurship stellt mit zahlreichen erfolgreichen Unternehmensgründungen ehemaliger Studenten und Mitarbeiter eine weitere wichtige Säule des CDTM dar. Die Forschung konzentriert sich auf Fragen der wirtschaftlichen Relevanz neuartiger Technologien innerhalb des TIME-Sektors (Telekommunikation, Informationstechnologie, Medien und Entertainment). Das CDTM-Board besteht aus jeweils fünf Professoren der LMU und der TUM. Es werden derzeit 10 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter beschäftigt. Das Programm wird jedes Jahr von ca. 40 Studenten abgeschlossen. Weitere Informationen: www.cdtm.de

Each Inspire&Dine event has six short time slots reserved for different topics. The first half of each segment consists of a presentation on a specific topic with the rest of the time reserved for discussion. Topics can range from experience reports to insights into current projects to interesting ideas, or just about anything that might be interesting to the CDTM community. In the middle of the event, there is a longer pause to eat dinner and also to provide an opportunity for networking between current students, CDTM alumni and external speakers.

The first Inspire&Dine event was held on May 19th 2009, with about 60 participants attending. The CDTM Management Team was especially pleased that in addition to the current students, a significant number of alumni were interested in the event and found the time to participate. The event included of a variety of different topics presented by a diverse selection of speakers, including current CDTM students, alumni who have made their way into entrepreneurial ventures and a professor from the CDTM Board.

The event started at 7:30pm as a student team from the current Managing Product Development course kicked off the event. During the course of the semester, this team will be working on a mobile solution for elderly dementia patients and their caregivers. The students introduced the concept on which they are currently working and received valuable feedback from the audience on certain aspects of the solution they presented.

The next speaker was Dominik Lembke, a former CDTM student who worked on a research project on quantitative network effects in social communities during a stay at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia Business School, one of the CDTM's partner institutes. Dominik gave a brief overview on his work, which focused on evaluating the applicability of the mathematical concept of modularity in the analysis of social communities.

As Dominik’s project involved a significant amount of higher mathematics, the audience was given a break after his segment to let the ideas settle while having a slice of pizza. The break also gave the participants the opportunity to get to know other CDTM students and alumni they might not have had a chance to meet at other CDTM events yet and to continue the discussion with the speakers in a more colloquial atmosphere.

The break was followed by a segment on alternative energy presented by Ludwig Preller, a CDTM alumnus who helped founded a company in the field of biogas and now works as an expert for cleantech investments for the venture capital fund GLOTEC Ventures. Ludwig gave an overview on the latest market trends in the alternative energy sector and discussed why now is the right time to start a company in this field. His overview led to a lively discussion about the current opportunities in alternative energy and how members of the CDTM community could leverage this potential.

The next segment featured another CDTM student team from the current Entrepreneurship Laboratory course. Over this semester, in the context of the course, the team will consult the start-up company Rabattwiese on general strategic options as well as on a sales strategy and a pricing model. Founded by a former CDTM student together with two friends, Rabattwiese is a young internet company that focuses on the use of coupons in online promotions. As the business model is still in its early stages, some of the interesting ideas from the audience concerning certain aspects of the planned solution might actually make it into the final product, which made the audience's feedback particularly valuable for the presenting student team.

The next segment featured Nikolaus von Taysen, a CDTM alumnus and serial entrepreneur. Nikolaus is the founder of Promilla, a company that offers alcohol tests at the Oktoberfest; the company BavaRoi, a distributor of Bavarian souvenirs that cooperates, for example, with the Hofbräuhaus and the Hippodrom; and PAY.ON, one of the leading developers of payment and risk management technologies and a global processor of online transactions. Nikolaus talked about his theory that entrepreneurs might soon inherit the role model position in the business world that investment bankers had before the financial crises. His controversial idea sparked a lively discussion about how such a development might lead to a value shift in our society.

The final contribution of the evening was a presentation by Professor Klaus Diepold, the Chair of Data Processing at the TU Munich and one of the members of the Board of Directors for CDTM. Professor Diepold introduced a theory stating that the number of possible products in a certain field grows exponentially over time while the number realized products only grows linearly because the required resources are limited. In addition, the implications of this theory for entrepreneurs and potential product ideas were briefly explained before the audience joined the discussion on the consequences of Professor Diepold’s theory.

After the final segment, the participants continued discussing various aspects of the topics they had heard about during the evening in smaller groups before they made their way home, taking away many new insights and ideas with them. According to the feedback received by the organizers of the event, Inspire&Dine was considered a great success by its attendees. Most participants particularly enjoyed the broad spectrum of interesting topics, the lively and engaging discussions they sparked and the exchange with other members of the CDTM community whom they hadn’t been in touch with previously.

Members of the CDTM community who did not have time to attend the event will have another chance to join at the next Inspire&Dine session on July 7th, 2009. CDTM is open for suggestions on future topics as well inquiries by speakers who want to contribute a segment to one of the next events in the Inspire&Dine series.

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• Wednesday, June 10, 2009
• Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
• Location: Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), Room 2534 (2nd floor)
• Street: Barer Straße 21, Munich, Germany
• Please find more information attached, and on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=90097587154

The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and people networks create a buzzing environment that‘s alive and exciting. Driven by curiosity, initiative and interdisciplinary exchange, the Urban Informatics research group at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is an emerging cluster of people interested in research and development at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on cities, locative media and mobile technology. Our team comprises and collaborates with architects with degrees in media studies, software engineers with expertise in urban sociology, human-computer interaction designers with a grounding in cultural studies, and urban planners with an interest in digital media and social networking. Being hosted by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT enables our projects to embrace the creative energy of a range of disciplines across design, performance, production and writing. Dr Marcus Foth will present an overview of the projects that the Urban Informatics research group are currently working on.

Dr. Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He received a BCompSc(Hon) from Furtwangen University, Germany, a BMultimedia from Griffith University, Australia and an MA and PhD in digital media and urban sociology from QUT. Dr Foth was the recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery funding scheme. He was a 2007 Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Dr Foth has published over sixty articles in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings in the last five years. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (IGI, 2009). He is the conference chair of OZCHI 2009, a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers. More information at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

For further information on this event please contact Mark Bilandzic at bilandzic | at | cdtm.de

Speakers include Rolf Dienst (Founder and Partner of Wellington Partners), Axel Bichara (Partner und Founder of Atlas Ventures Germany), Ralf Schnell (CEO & President Siemens Venture Capital), Andreas Odefey (Partner of Hamburg based fund of funds BPE) and Andy Goldstein (Executive Director LMU Entrepreneurship Center). Stuart Ellman (Founder and Partner of New York based RRE Ventures) will be the moderator.

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 17:00

Location: Amerika Haus (Karolinenplatz 3)

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The project “CrossGeneration” will start in January 2009.

CDTM is therefore offering three new PhD positions which are immediately available for application.

More information: Patrick Nepper (nepper | at | cdtm.de)

-> Computer Science / Electrical Engineering 1

-> Computer Science / Electrical Engineering 2

-> Business Administration (staffed)

Das „application forum“ wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit der Firma FESTO entwickelt. „Application forum“ steht für eine effektive Informations- und Werbeplattform für den Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, die innovative Darstellungsmöglichkeiten von Suchergebnissen durch die Visualisierung verschiedener Ebenen und der Präsentation von Lösungen im direkten Kontext ermöglicht. Insbesondere für Komponenten- und Systemhersteller bietet die Plattform eine Chance, bisher versteckte Kompetenzen für potenzielle Kunden sichtbar zu machen und Innovationen in ihrem Kontext darzustellen. Bereits die Vorgängerversion der Plattform konnte im Frühjahr 2008 überzeugen und wurde mit dem THESEUS-Talente Preis ausgezeichnet.

Im Rahmen eines Projektstudiums im Studiengang TUM-BWL (IOM) und dem Seminar Managing Product Development (CDTM) wurde das Gesamtprojekt von den Studenten Beatriz Correa, Evelyn Dörp, Alexander Kalb, Katharina Meisel, Franziska Petersdorff, Senta Plein, Richard Röttger und Wolfgang Weinmair in Kooperation mit dem Industriepartner FESTO durchgeführt. Das Projekt wurde von Herrn Frank Danzinger (IOM) und Herrn Bernhard Kirchmair (CDTM) betreut.

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Der Lehrstuhl für Information, Organisation und Management an der Technischen Universität München (Prof. Reichwald), betreut im Rahmen des Studiengangs Technologie- und Managementorientierte Betriebswirtschaftslehre (TUM-BWL) Projektstudien. Das Projektstudium ist ein verpflichtendes Studienelement, das gezielt Theorie und Praxis verbindet.

Das CDTM stellt ein Joint Venture der TU München und der LMU München dar und wird durch das Elitenetzwerk Bayern gefördert. Es handelt sich hierbei um einen 2-jährigen Zusatzstudiengang, der in praktischen Projekten interdisziplinären Teams, bestehend aus Studenten unterschiedlichster Studiengänge, ein intensiveres Verständnis des jeweils anderen Fachbereichs gibt und zusätzlich wichtige Soft Skills vermittelt.

TokTok is a mobile phone application that enables users to find and interact with close-by facebook-friends in the physical world. It aims to introduce innovative forms of social interaction and information services by mashing up mobile phones' location awareness with socializing facilities to friends or friends-of-friends from facebook. For example, TokTok informs you about the presence of facebook-fiends in your immediate surroundings.

we would like to invite you to the next session of our "Brown Bag Series" on next Wednesday, November 26, 12:00 at the CDTM Seminar Room.

This session features a presentation on this year's Center Venture. Particularly students who have not participated in one of the Center Ventures should come. You will get a good impression of the intensity and reward of this projects.

Mark Bilandzic with Center Venture Team - TokTok (Presentation; 60 minutes):

The mission of the Center Venture course was to conceptualize, develop and implement an innovative product in a very short timeframe. For this year's Center Venture, the task was to develop a Mobile Application that informs you about the presence of facebook-fiends in your immediate surroundings and lets you interact with them in a certain way. This application is based on cutting edge mobile technologies and we will launch it on the facebook-platform open to 100 million + active users. Mark presents the product and the current status of the launch.

• Service web page: http://toktok.me/
• Center Venture blog (with plenty photos!!): http://centerventure2008.blogspot.com/
• Product video: http://centerventure2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/fiiiiinaaaaly-we-have-tube-working.html
• Link: TokTok on a conference in Paris We are looking forward to seeing you there!

For the Alumni Club,

Philip

Irina Anastasiu and Andreas Hackel, one week later, took the chance to visit the Research Center of this worldwide leader in digital security. From October 28th until 30th they participated in the Paris training session and got a valuable impression on what technological capabilities the team can rely on.

The Gemalto SIMagine Contest is mainly focused on the Java Card™ technology, which in general can be described as an advanced SIM card, to be used in e.g. mobile handsets. The competitors will also use NFC, Smart Card, Wimax & UMA technologies to show what might be possible in the future.

The whole Development phase for the combination of TokTok and the Gemalto technologies will last until the 13th January of 2009. The rewards for the best teams will be 60.000 Euros in total, forcing a high competition above the various technology fields.

The last years finalist were selected from all over the world, covering e.g. China, Sweden, US, Russia as well as South Africa. This includes teams from the e.g. the MIT, the St. Petersburg University, the Beijing University and many others. Also a lot of companies actively participate in this contest to show their scalable product ideas to the public.

The TokTok Gemalto Contest team will keep you updated on further developments. As our team prepares to launch our beta version in December 2008 we would appreciate your feedback about the product. Please also visit the application website at www.toktok.me.

If there are any ongoing questions on this topic, don’t hesitate to contact Mark Bilandzic.
Email: bilandzic | at | cdtm.de

On behalf of the TokTok team,

Andreas Hackel
Email: andreas.hackel | at | cdtm.de

we would like to invite you to the next session of our "Brown Bag Series" on next Wednesday, November 12, 12:00.

• TIME: WED, November 12, 12:00-13:00
• PLACE: CDTM Seminar Room
• WHAT: short talks by CDTM students, alumni and faculty that give insights in projects lately undertaken in the CDTM ecosystem.
• WHY Brown Bag: you may bring lunch for these informal sessions. Some cookies and snacks will be provided by the CDTM Alumni Club!

This session includes two presentations:

1. Mark Bilandzic on Laermometer - a Mobile Noise Mapping Application (Pitch; 15 minutes): Laermometer is a community-based mobile noise mapping application. It exploits the built-in microphones and GPS-technology of mobile phones. As it taps those resources from any ordinary mobile phone user, it provides up-to-date noise information for any place in the world. This method of collaborative noise mapping via mobile phones is introduced as an innovative approach to solve the complex task of creating noise maps.
2. Nicolas Stadtelmeyer on Viral marketing on facebook: An anlysis of crucial success factors (Presentation; 45 minutes): Facebook with over 100 Million users and thousands of networks holds great opportunities for viral marketing. A closer look at the viral growth of the over 25.000 applications on Facebook reveals that the Facebook platform is a pretty competitive market. Only a few applications achieve outstanding results, while most of them are hardly noticed. Consequently this paper examines crucial success factors of Facebook applications in order to find out if design features or attributes of the developers have an influence on the success or the performance of Facebook applications.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

For the Alumni Club,
Philip

Background:
Established in summer term 2008, the Brown Bag Series aims at providing CDTM stakeholders to present their projects. Deliberately the series is open to both research and entrepreneurial projects:

• Upcoming topics: https://wiki.cdtm.de/BrownBagSeries/2008WT.
• All Brown Bag dates as well as other CDTM and Alumni events: http://alumni.cdtm.de/news-and-events.html. You can also subscribe to a Google Calendar that provides you with all the updates to the schedule!

Upcoming Talks:

• November 26, 2008; 12:00
• Pitching Session: tbd
• Presentation Session: The Center Venture Team presents TokTok. The mission of the Center Venture course is to conceptualize, develop and implement an innovative product in a very short timeframe. For this year's Center Venture, the task was to develop a Mobile Application that informs you about the presence of facebook-fiends in your immediate surroundings and lets you interact with them in a certain way. This application is based on cutting edge mobile technologies and we will launch it on the facebook-platform open to 100 million + active users.

Present your Project:

• This semester, we still have slots available:
• Short pitches (total 15 minutes) on your entrepreneurial or research project:
  Nov 26, Dec 12, Jan 1, Jan 28
• Feel free to contact us with ideas at mayrhofer | at | cdtm.de!

Besides the graduation itself, the program featured talks by ENB graduates on their final theses, musical cabaret, and a guided tour of the Nuremberg Germanic National Museum. Before and after the event, students, alumni and coordinators took the opportunity to network with fellows from other ENB modules.

CDTM is a member of ENB since its formation in 2004.

After your registration via a short mail to benjamin.gumpp | at | cdtm.de, you will receive the payment details. We are looking forward to see you on this fun event with an absolute party guarantee!

Invited guests were introducing into relevant aspects for entrepreneurs like team building, financing and hiring people giving some insights into their own experiences they made during the startup phase.

In the first part of the session, Benjamin Günther, Co-Founder of Stylight GmbH gave useful hints on team building and different financing options for startup companies. Stylight was founded by four CDTM students throughout the last year and was the direct result of a MPD project. During the summer they secured both public and Angel financing. Although a relatively young startup company, the team could gain a lot of interesting experiences during its successful financing phase which they shared with students in the audience.

The second part of the session, Nikolaus von Taysen, Co-Founder of PAY.ON AG, a payment service provider and founder of numerous startups and ventures told his story about  the hiring process in startup companies. Nikolaus is a Champion of Entrepreneurship in the CDTM community. In his current company pay.on, he has lived both the bad and the good times of a high-technology startup. With a growing and maturing company, he is currently challenged to add staff. He was mainly focusing on this topic by giving examples of his current practice but also complications that arise when thrying to secure quality within the team.

Background

Established in summer term 2008, the Brown Bag Series aims at providing CDTM stakeholders to present their projects. Deliberately the series is open to both research and entrepreneurial projects:

• Upcoming topics: https://wiki.cdtm.de/BrownBagSeries/2008WT.
• All Brown Bag dates as well as other CDTM and Alumni events: http://alumni.cdtm.de/news-and-events.html. You can also subscribe to a Google Calendar that provides you with all the updates to the schedule!

Upcoming Talks

• November 12, 2008; 12:00
• Pitching Session: Our Japanese guests from Waseda University introduce themselves and present their objectives for their stay at CDTM.
• Presentation Session: tbd.

Contact at CDTM: Philip Mayrhofer (mayrhofer | at | cdtm.de)

the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) would like to invite you to the following Talk and Discussion with Professor Russell J. Clark from the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Network Operations Center (RNOC) (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Russell.Clark/).

Date and Time:
November 5th 2008 at 2:30pm (5.11.2008 14:30) 

Room:
1977 (Main Campus, Building 9, Prof. Eberspächer, 1st floor)
http://portal.mytum.de/campus/roomfinder/roomfinder_viewmap?mapid=27&roomid=1977@0509
http://portal.mytum.de/campus/roomfinder/roomfinder_viewmap?mapid=12&roomid=1977@0509
http://portal.mytum.de/campus/roomfinder/roomfinder_viewmap?mapid=10&roomid=1977@0509

Speaker: Professor Russell J. Clark

Topic: Convergence and Mobility Innovation: Engaging students in the new world of communications

Abstract:
The world of telecommunications is undergoing a rapid and dramatic change in the fundamentals of how applications are designed, developed and delivered. For many years, new telecom applications were developed using closed and specialized architectures that required multi-year efforts and resulted in stovepipes that could not be further leveraged. Today, the growth of Internet services and the development of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) are helping to change this.
For the last several years, we have been using IMS as a vehicle for bringing the telecommunications world back into the curriculum for students at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Through new courses and a student research competition we have challenged students in both engineering and business disciplines to bring their best ideas for new mobile applications to fruition using the IMS architecture. This talk will present our experiences, lessons learned, and plans for continuing this exciting effort.

I am looking forward to seeing you and hope we will have an interesting and fruitful research discussion!

Christian Menkens

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About the CDTM

The Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) is a joint interdisciplinary institution of education, research and entrepreneurship of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technische Universität München.
Building on the strengths of both universities, CDTM provides highly qualified and ambitious students with an excellent academic education in the field of technology and management. With its graduate program Technology Management CDTM combines the following foci:

• INTERDISCIPLINARITY | An interdisciplinary approach in the interface of business administration, electrical engineering and computer science,
• INTERNATIONALITY | a strong international character,
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP | a philosophy of entrepreneurship,
• PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE | the integration of theory and practice,
• LEADERSHIP | an excellent preparation of students for leadership positions.

As a research institution, CDTM closely cooperates with the industry, concentrating on the TIME-sector (Telecommunication, Information Technology, Media, Entertainment).

with the semester in its first weeks, we resume our bi-weekly "Brown Bag Series" on next Wednesday, October 29, 12:00.

• TIME: WED, October 29, 12:00-13:00
• PLACE: CDTM Seminar Room
• WHAT: short talks by CDTM students, alumni and faculty that give insights in projects lately undertaken in the CDTM ecosystem.
• WHY Brown Bag: you may bring lunch for these informal sessions. Some cookies and snacks will be provided by the CDTM Alumni Club!

This session focuses on Entrepreneurial Experience by CDTM students and alumni:

1. Stylight on Team Building at CDTM and Financing: Stylight was founded by four CDTM students throughout the last year and was the direct result of a MPD project. During the summer they secured both public and Angel financing. They will introduce their product and share their experiences
2. Nikolaus Taysen on Hiring in a Startup: Nikolaus is a Champion of Entrepreneurship in the CDTM community. In his current company pay.on, a payment service provider, he has lived both the bad and the good times of a high-technology startup. With a growing and maturing company, he is currently challenged to add staff. He will mainly focus on this topic.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

For the Alumni Club,
Philip

Background:
Established in summer term 2008, the Brown Bag Series aims at providing CDTM stakeholders to present their projects. Deliberately the series is open to both research and entrepreneurial projects:

• Upcoming topics: https://wiki.cdtm.de/BrownBagSeries/2008WT.
• All Brown Bag dates as well as other CDTM and Alumni events: http://alumni.cdtm.de/news-and-events.html. You can also subscribe to a Google Calendar that provides you with all the updates to the schedule!

Upcoming Talks:

• November 12, 2008; 12:00
• Pitching Session: Our Japanese guests from Waseda University introduce themselves and present their objectives for their stay at CDTM.
• Presentation Session: tbd.

Present your Project:

• This semester, we still have slots available: 
• Short pitches (total 15 minutes) on your entrepreneurial or research project:
  • Nov 26,
  • Dec 12,
  • Jan 1,
  • Jan 28
• Presentations (total 45 minutes):
• Nov 12,
• Dec 12,
• Jan 14
• Feel free to contact us with ideas at mayrhofer | at | cdtm.de!

Looking forward to the next runs – meanwhile check out the weekly runnings sessions every Thursday!

Find the video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6UBu2rGCo&eurl=http://www.splitec.de/CenterVenture/toktok/

We proudly present to you the very first results of this year’s CenterVenture!

We have set up a blog at http://centerventure2008.blogspot.com/ to keep you posted on all the developments in the upcoming days. We would also be happy to read your critical thoughts and creative ideas as comments!!!

Similarly to past years we’re a group of approximately 15 students and assistants working on a mobile service called “TokTok” ! It uses the Aloqa Framework and Facebook (leveraging an existing community!) to let you know who of your friends are currently close to you and also provides different ways to communicate with these friends or other TokTok users nearby!

You can also support us by becoming a fan of TokTok on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/apps/application.php?id=28000994878&ref=mf

Die Internet-Plattform TESOE (“TEchnologies and SOlutions for Engineers”) wurde von einem interdisziplinären Team von fünf Studierenden, Beatriz Correa, Alexander Kalb, Senta Plein, Richard Röttger und Wolfgang Weinmair, innerhalb eines Projektes im Rahmen des international ausgerichteten Studienprogramms Technology Management des Center for Digital Technology and Management (www.cdtm.de) der beiden Münchener Universitäten (LMU und TU) entwickelt. Ziel von TESOE ist es einerseits, einen „single point of information“ für Ingenieure auf der Suche nach innovativen Lösungen bereitzustellen. Andererseits soll es als virtuelle Technologieausstellung auch Herstellern ermöglichen, ihre jeweiligen Kompetenzen aufzuzeigen. Die Suche nach industriellen Bauteilen und –gruppen ist heute eine sehr zeitaufwändige Angelegenheit, da die verfügbaren Suchmaschinen wenig geeignete Ergebnisse liefern. Eine semantische Suche, wie sie von Theseus implementiert wird, schafft hier Abhilfe: Über semantische Relationen können beispielsweise Alternativen für das eigentlich gesuchte Objekt gefunden und mit diesem zusammen präsentiert werden.

Aufbauend auf diesen Diensten von Theseus erlaubt TESOE eine einfache Navigation in technisch komplexen Zusammenhängen. Informationen zu gesuchten Produkten werden übersichtlich dargestellt – im Kontext mit möglichen Produktalternativen, Kommentaren und Empfehlungen von Nutzern.

Afterwards, we will have the CDTM semester closing party with students, lecturers, project partners, friends and interested guests to celebrate the end of projects and classes, to exchange views on the past semester, and to have a drink or two. Also some food is provided. So, if you’re interested and find time, please drop by.

When?

• Monday, July 14th at 18:30 for MPD Design Fair
• the semester closing party will start at 20:30

Where?

• CDTM, Building 5, 2nd floor, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich