May 23rd, 2021
The gannaca family
Who is actually behind gannaca? Since our founding in 2002, we have successfully supported hundreds of projects in numerous sectors with companies of all sizes and have been able to win many new partners for our gannaca family. Each of them with a great passion for the development and transformation of business models with a strong focus on the latest technologies – always in line with the humanistic values we represent and the desire to go the extra mile. Together, we adapt – constantly. And remain true to our goals in the process, because the valuable lifetime of all involved is the measure of all things for us.
Anne-Kathrin Ahrens
Mo Gaff
Rudolf Hilti
Ludmilla Intravia
Martin Jasper
Dr. Daniel Knapp
Johannes Kraus
Yanti Krebs
Alexey Lysenkov
Dr. Alexander Pagnia
Felix Park
Christopher Patrick Peterka
Christina Schlich
Dr. Christian Schlicht
Carlotta-Luisa Simonis
Magnus Thure-Nilsson
Dr. Benjamin Zeitler
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May 14th, 2021
Future. School. Digital. Finals!
With a big smile we look back on an eventful week. We realize: slowly but surely the world is waking up again from the long lockdown hibernation. We now meet people every day who are excited about every possible interaction and can hardly wait to bring their new insights, their fresh motivation and their now self-evident (digitization 😉) skills into the world. First and foremost, the students who took part in this year’s Fischer Group Digitization Award despite ongoing high school graduation exams. While online execution was still a stopgap solution last year and presented everyone with a major challenge, this year, in the midst of online exams and Abitur examinations, it was as natural as the many impressive virtual background images and presentation designs created by the four participating schools from Baden-Württemberg. The first prize went to the Gymnasium from Freudenstadt, just ahead of the defending champion from Nagold. The winners for us, however, are above all the many female participants who dared to take part this year – this was not the case last year. We look forward to sharing insights into the presentations of the four schools here over the next four weeks. It pays to keep at it: Future. School. Digital.
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May 14th, 2021
Le Boudir X gannaca
Fashion & Technology in times of crisis? As we have seen, since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis: virtuality has flourished in fashion and luxury, fashion weeks platforms have become digitalized around the world, presentations have become digitalized, storytelling is immersive. This is far from a trivial observation. So, as Christopher Peterka observes, if “the appropriate use of technology in the fashion industry increases its importance as a voice, in our societal discussion about what we want as a future”, what does this voice tell us? In the “Le Boudoir Numérique X gannaca series” Episode 1, our CIO Christopher discusses this with Mila Chan and Chibi Mila, the virtual journalists of the Digital Boudoir. “Le Boudoir Numérique X gannaca” is a new series of interviews on the future of fashion tech in collaboration with our dear friend and advisory board member Ludmilla Intravia, journalist and editor-in-chief of Le Boudoir Numérique, a digital magazine deciphering the impact of technology, innovation and digital on fashion and beauty. Discover the video of the first episode here.
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May 14th, 2021
Fischer Highlights
Does today’s curriculum date back to the Stone Age? Are teachers mercilessly overworked? “Germany must not remain a country of emergency when it comes to education.” – The second episode of the new podcast series “fischer Highlights” is just one of the projects in which our CIO Christopher Peterka, together with the fischer group of companies, addresses the challenges facing the school system in dealing with digitalization. This also includes the digitalization prize launched by company owner Prof. Klaus Fischer, “Zukunft. School. Digital.”, which was held for the second time in 2021 and is entering the exciting online finals this week. The goal: To catch up as soon as possible with the nations that are role models in terms of advancing digitization: Israel, Uruguay and Finland. The educational activities of fischer in cooperation with gannaca are a big step in this direction and without question serve as a model for the whole of Germany. The podcast episode can be heard on the company’s website and in all audio platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon or Youtube as well as here.
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May 6th, 2021
RP Symposium 2021
Last week we told you about the production of the 2021 symposium “Highlights of modern medicine – live healthy – stay healthy” of the Forum Future Medicine. The goal of the event: current, medical knowledge explained in a way that everyone can understand. The media production, which was carried out at Rudas Studios Düsseldorf, is intended to help allay patients’ fears by providing them with better information about innovative treatment methods. Panel discussions were held on various aspects, such as immunotherapy in oncology or the use of artificial intelligence in cardiology, which were moderated by our CIO Christopher Peterka. As if the direct exchange with affected patients in times of the pandemic were not hurdle enough – the preparation and execution of such a production is an art in itself. All the more beautiful when the result (from June 11 on www.forum-zukunftsmedizin.de) is right and also gives us at gannaca the feeling for a small moment that we have arrived back in the pre/post C19 everyday life. We would like to thank the Rheinische Post and Pia Kemper for this.
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April 28th, 2021
gannaca insights
The System Change Foundation
In April, we were delighted to welcome our long-time friend and partner Rudolf Hilti to Cologne, Germany, to jointly launch the partnership between gannaca and “The System Change Foundation”. The System Change Foundation is a non-profit platform for new imaginative thinking based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, which promotes sustainable development between environment, economy and society and sees itself as a value-based enabler to holistically rethink systems and global challenges. THE HUS.institute Est. is an integral part and owned by The System Change Foundation. Together we bring together opinion and decision makers and act as bridge builders for Technology, Policy and Mindset Change. With a strong, trusted network around the globe, we help people and institutions on their way to the necessary changes in perspective. Because: Systemic change begins with changed perspectives.
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April 13th, 2021
gannaca partner
The Conference, Malmö/Sweden
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April 1st, 2021
gannaca partner
Jasper Architects
Time and again, we encounter clients who ask how we will interact with real estate in the future. Our many years of collaboration and project experience with JASPER ARCHITECTS help us provide smart answers to such questions – knowing that the interplay of sustainability, smart technologies and design has never worked better. Convinced by the work of people like Martin Jasper, who is driving the transformation of real estate development into Digital Modernity in practice. He is the founder of JASPER ARCHITECTS, an architecture firm based in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Vienna, and collaborates with a team of architects, engineers and researchers worldwide. JASPER ARCHITECTS work on projects ranging from urban planning, commercial, office and residential buildings to private residences and interior design, integrating innovative ideas and solutions based on extensive contextual research. Most recently, the UP! Berlin project was completed – the impressive conversion of the DDR Centrum department store into an office building for digital modernity!
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March 14th, 2021
Dr. Christian Schlicht
gannaca advisory board
Our Advisory Board member Dr. Christian Schlicht will become the new President of CoreNet Global (CNG) in Central Europe as of April 1. The industrial engineer with an eye for complex commercial real estate brings more than 15 years of experience with him and most recently acted as Director for Center Management and Facility Management at ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG, one of the largest real estate developers in Germany. Before that, after studying in London and Louisville, he was responsible for real estate management for almost eleven years at the tool dealer Würth. Christian is also active as a lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and the Münster University of Applied Sciences. His focus in innovation and knowledge management is on the dovetailing of theory and practice. By rotation and as part of the planned rotation, Schlicht will be handed over the office by the previous president, Jöri Engel, Head Corporate Real Estate Management at Swisscom. Christian’s main focus now is on the measurable added value and competitive advantage that CREM brings as a USP. – This is a topic close to his heart, to which he has already dedicated his dissertation. Now he is looking forward to successfully linking these insights with the practical know-how of the CoreNet community. We wish Christian a good start and above all: lots of fun and success.
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December 21st, 2020
Forum Zukunftsmedizin
Rheinische Post Forum
Im Forum Zukunftsmedizin der Rheinischen Post trafen sich am 27. November Experten aus den Bereichen Medizin, Pharmakologie, Theologie, Versicherung und Wirtschaft, um begleitet durch unseren CIO Christopher Peterka über KI in unserem Alltag und speziell in der Medizin zu diskutieren. Zentraler Schlüssel für KI-basierte Fortschritte in allen Bereichen des Lebens sind valide, strukturierte Daten. Gerade in der Medizin sind enorme Fortschritte vorstellbar – doch fehlt es oft an Datenmaterial für die Entwicklungsprozesse. Gerade die pharmazeutische Forschung erhält zurzeit keinen Zugriff auf Daten der „forschenden Versorgung“. Die Experten waren sich einig, dass eine intensivere Aufklärung der Bevölkerung notwendig sei, damit vermehrt Daten, auch anonymisiert, zugunsten einer besseren medizinischen Versorgung bereitgestellt würden. Das Video zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier.
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