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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May 2nd, 2021
Your Choice
Your free self-test is waiting: How ready are you for system change? Change is happening faster today than ever before. We’re in danger of being collectively suffocated by the overwhelming demands of new technologies and the excessive diversity of information – and with us, what we once called society. Those who are driving change have two things in mind: profit and power. They abuse us as click cattle and data suppliers, reducing us to an existence as human resources and consumers. In doing so, they are endangering our democracy, diversity and even humanity as such. It does not have to go on like this. Instead of focusing our efforts only on economic efficiency, we need to ask: Who do we want to be? How do we want to live together? What sense should our striving have? Take the exclusive self-test from the book “Your Choice” here.
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 17th, 2021
gannaca partner
Werkbank32, Mittweida
Since the turn of the year, we are now an official partner of Werkbank32 in Mittweida. As a first step into active collaboration, the gannaca team set off to Mittweida this week to finally get to know this special ecosystem on site and to shoot first teaser films together. The Werkbank32 is the innovation forge of Teleskopeffekt and the breeding ground for innovative ideas in and around Mittweida. Teleskopeffekt GmbH was founded by Volksbank Mittweida eG and has been acting regionally, nationally and internationally as an innovation driver for banks, medium-sized businesses and start-ups since 2009. As a driver of digitalization, Teleskopeffekt offers direct access to future technologies and contributes to turning applied technologies into new business models. This is achieved through curiosity for new things, consistency in action and passion for results. An important part of this concept is the place “Werkbank32”. The coworking area brings together freelancers, flexible workers, creative geniuses, digital nomads, students, and interested people. It is precisely this agile exchange that sets the course for an efficient and effective network in Mittweida that will make a difference together.
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February 1st, 2021
g.impulse
Working in times of Covid19
The coronavirus pandemic changed how we live and work. More time at home prompted people to set up home offices, school desks and outdoor gathering spaces. Average monthly spending per person on home office furnishings rose 43% in May 2020. Many are hoping that the massive Covid-19 vaccination campaign will lead to millions of people returning to workplaces in 2021 after spending most of the pandemic working from home. But let us tell you: it isn’t going to be soon. The office world that will be reinhabited this year will look a lot different from the one that we knew before the first lockdown in March 2020. During an initial transition period, office density likely will be low, workers will wear masks and a range of other safety precautions will be followed. Long-term changes in the workplace will continue for years. Working from home and other remote locations, which became a necessity during the pandemic, will likely remain a major part of the workplace. And you know what? We love that. At gannaca, we were almost waiting for that „New Work“ wave. Because there is so much potential in working from home. And simplicity. And style.
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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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December 20th, 2020
XING X-Mas Special
Impulsvortrag “IoT” – Christopher Peterka
Im Dezember war unser CIO Christopher Patrick Peterka Teil des XING Puls X-Mas Specials, nachdem er von der Digitalisierungs- und Tech Community in Köln und Düsseldorf unter die Top 3 Speaker des Jahres gewählt wurde und mithin am Best Of zum Jahresabschluss teilnehmen durfte. Die Themen für die Impulsvorträge wurden im Vorfeld als Wichtelgeschenk überreicht. Christopher durfte sich dem Thema #IoT (Internet of Things) annehmen. Eine besondere Qual für einen Futuristen, der den meisten Menschen ein bis zwei Jahrzehnte voraus ist und für den das Internet der Dinge schon vor 20 Jahren begreifbar gewesen ist. Was dabei herauskam, ist umso spannender und jetzt als Video zum flexiblen Nachschauen verfügbar.
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