The Speakers

Univ.-Prof. em. Dr.-Ing.
Dr.-Ing. E.h. mult. Dr. sc. h.c. ETH Hans-Peter Wiendahl

Hans-Peter Wiendahl was born 1938 in Germany. He studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen and at MIT USA and worked after that as Research Assistant for three years at the WZL Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering in Aachen. There he received a doctorate in engineering in 1970 and in 1972 he was graduated as lecturer.
From 1972 to 1979 he moved to a large machine building company working in different management positions.
In 1979 he was appointed full time professor and director of the Institute of Production Systems and Logistics at the University of Hanover (www.ifa.uni-hannover.de). After 24 years he retired from his university duties but is still active as lecturer in MBA courses and advisor for the industry and several research foundations.
He is authoring several books and more than 300 articles in the field of Facility Management, Assembly and production logistics. He received three doctorates of honour from the Universities of Magdeburg, ETH Zurich and Dortmund.

Dr. Christoph Tagmann Attorney at Law
Languages	German, English, French
Education	Law studies at the University of Fribourg (admitted to the bar in 2000, Phd 2007)
Practice areas	Administrative Law Competition Law Commercial Law Pharma & Healthcare Law
Working experience	Senior Associate at Eversheds Schmid Mangeat Senior Associate at Schmid Eversheds Attorney at a law in Bern and Thun Attorney at a law at the Secretariat of the Federal Competition Commission in Switzerland (scientific employee and head of the competence center "Law") Lecturer at the Institut für Finanzplanung (IfFP) Secretary of the Hochschulstiftung der Burgergemeinde Bern Test expert at the Schweizerischen Trägerschaft für Berufs- und höhere Fachprüfungen in Bank, Versicherung und Finanzplanung (BVF)
Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Schmidt
Born 12.01.1961 in Rheinberg-Orsoy, married, 3 children
1981 – 1986	RWTH Aachen University, Degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) in civil engineering and architecture
1986 – 1990	Scientific assistant at the ibac Institute of Building Materials Research (Institut für Bauforschung) at the RWTH Aachen University
1990 – 2003	Managing Director at associations in the building materials sector
since 2003	Managing Director at the Industrial Association of Locks and Fittings Manufacturers (Fachverband der Schloss- und Beschlagindustrie e.V.), Velbert, and Managing Director at the Quality Control Association Locks and Fittings (Gütegemeinschaft Schlösser und Beschläge e.V.), Velbert, Member of national and international committees, such as TC 33, TC 33 WG 4, national mirror committees, Numerous lectures and publications.