Prof. Dr. Rolf Dornberger holds a Diploma and a PhD in Air- and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Additionally, he did selected courses of studies in economics and business administration and university teaching didactics. He worked in industry in the field of energy, software, IT, and airline business in different management functions. In 2002, he re-joined academia as a professor for Business Information Systems and is Head of the Institute for Information Systems, School of Business, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. His current research interests are computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, Internet of things, robotics, human-machine interfaces, software engineering, as well as innovation management and learning didactics.

The "Internet of things" (IoT) is simultaneously cause and effect of technological innovations. Strong cybernetic loops are exponentially increasing among the “Internet of things” and technological innovations. Technological innovation enabled processes of design and implementation of what is called IoT, which in turn is enabling more applications via technological innovations. IOT Analytics [1] identified at least 640 actual enterprise of IoT projects, by means of mining hundreds of homepages. They identified the “top 10 IoT application areas – based on real IoT projects”. These areas are: Connected Industry, Smart city, Smart energy, Connected Car, Smart Agriculture, Connected Building, Connected Health, Smart Retails, Smart Supply Chain, and others (Smart Parking, Smart Homes, etc).  This provide context to plenary address of Professor Rolf Dornberger, who has a large experience, information and knowledge regarding University-Industry Cooperation: and the New contribution of The university of applied Science (Northwestern Switzerland) to the Development of Regional Innovation in general and including LoT, and who organized a recent Symposium on Sino-Swiss Cooperation of Universities of Applied Sciences, on Nov.29, 2016. (www.fhnw.ch/business/sino-swiss-symposium/05_RolfDornberger.pdf)

[1] https://iot-analytics.com/top-10-iot-project-application-areas-q3-2016/