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Females of Impact series: CDTM Alumnae changing the world!
The greatest pride of the CDTM is to see their community creating impact and fulfilling their goals and plans, on many instances, to an immeasurable success. Their progress is filled with obstacles, perseverance and hard work, and each story is an unique portrait of resiliency and effort from which we can always learn. On this series, we are going to focus on a subgroup of our Awesome community; our female centrelines. We want these stories to inspire others in their respective fields and aspi
Alexis Gamboa
Boosting student’s mental health – Center Venture 2020
As almost every year, this year the CDTM offered the popular Center Venture elective again. Despite the challenging situation due to COVID-19, the two-week elective in a hackathon format took place in a hybrid setting resulting in two impactful project outcomes. Following past topics such as entrepreneurship in robotics or student housing this year’s Center Venture focused on the problem space of student’s mental health in cooperation with TUM4Mind and Make Munich Weird.
What is an elective
TREND SEMINAR SPRING 2020: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA
While sitting here and drinking a cup of coffee, I lean back in my chair and remember the past seven weeks - “Trend Seminar, wow, what a journey”. A big smile appears on my face and a feeling of accomplishment kicks in. As the caffeine starts to rush through my body, thoughts emerge resembling the roller-coaster experience we all have gone through. New people, new challenges, and a pandemic with Covid-19 that completely turned everyone´s world upside down.
On the 2nd of March 2020 our class,
VC La Famiglia announces €50 million fund to uncover the sleeping giants of B2B tech, joined by CDTM entrepreneursBerlin, 12th August, 2020: La Famiglia – the VC backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, family businesses and industry leaders – has announced a €50 million fund to uncover the next-generation of B2B giants. Next to established industry founders, a group of entrepreneurs and CDTM alumni, including Ignaz Forstmeier, Mike Wax, Joshua Cornelius, Andreas Franz, Sebastian Schuon, Anselm Bauer, Stefan Rothlehner, Matthias Möller and Benjamin Günther have also invested into the new
Organizing the Quantitative Empirical Data Analysis Elective
Reading this, you probably know that the CDTM is a student-run organization. As such it heavily depends on Centerlings to create educational offerings within the center.
Recently, we (that is Laura Steinke from class Fall 2019 and Max Mynter from class Spring 2019) went through this experience and organized the elective ‘Quantitative Empirical Data Analysis’.
With this blogpost we want to achieve two things: first, give you an insight into how organizing an elective at the CDTM works and se
Laura Steinke
Max Mynter
Collaboration for Sustainability
Our generation is facing unprecedented challenges with the tremendous changes in our personal and professional lives. In this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, we need more collaboration across lines because none of us will be able solve the problems alone. This is especially true when it comes to climate change and regenerating our economy and society into long-term sustainable systems.
At the Center, we have many initiatives, projects, and events where we share our e
Gyri Reiersen
Carla Pregel Hoderlein
Self Leadership Backbone at CDTM with BridgingpositionsWe, as Centerlings, are invariably occupied and handling countably many responsibilities at once. Studies, projects, work, and our personal life ask for our attention every day. We are constantly running from one appointment to the next, while our daily routine leaves no space to contemplate whether our endeavors will lead us to our purpose. But how about standing still for one weekend and reconsider, whether we are actually heading in the right direction?
On May 1st to 3rd, Julian Geuder and
Charlotte Kobiella
Social Health Entrepreneurship Elective
What is Social Entrepreneurship?
Social Entrepreneurship has become increasingly popular during the last few years with over half of the social enterprises in the US founded in 2006 or later.[1] Also, the CDTM is focusing more and more on the social aspects of businesses and how to have a positive impact on our planet, health, or the society as a whole. Recent examples include SVYVE – a sustainability initiative in cooperation with KPMG - or the CDTM Climate Club.
Before we dive deeper int
Carla Pregel Hoderlein
Practicing Mindfulness at CDTM with mynd:wayWe are living in constant movement. At the Center everyone is always on the go. Constantly moving. Balancing regular studies with Center projects and personal lifes. Everyone is always connected. Sending emails, having calls, answering texts… And often it feels like we forget to just… breathe…
On Thursday, Martina and Tim, founders of mynd:way, offered our Centerlings the opportunity to do exactly that, breathe. The mindfulness workshop, as part of the new initiatives to improve Center life,
Hello World of Smart Contracts – The Blockchain ElectiveThere's nothing that's not a topic at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM). We have courses where students program smart drones, others where they learn to master the art of meditation and more where they build "food computers" that autonomously grow plants using robotic systems. But one topic hasn't been so much on the radar yet: Blockchain Technology. More precisely, the field of "Smart Contracts". So this semester two Centerlings decided to change that by offering the Elect
Tim Hermes