Author: Stephan Multhaupt
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📅 17.-18.09.25 re.fact 25 – International Symposium on Innovation and Automation in Remanufacturing
Konference, Date 17.-18.09.2025 at Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld re.fact 25 is the meeting point for the international remanufacturing community: combining practice, research, innovation and industrial expertise. This two-day symposium offers a unique opportunity for dialogue across disciplines, sectors, and levels of experience. Description The symposium offers a unique platform to exchange expertise, present solutions, and discuss the…
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📢 Fresh. Clear. Future-driven. Our website presents itself in a new look
in AnnouncementIt’s here: The ISTE website is live now – featuring a new layout, streamlined structure, and a fresh visual language. More modern, clearer, and more accessible. Because those who want to shape change must lead by example – visibly and confidently. What’s new? We don’t do things halfway – not even digitally.From now on, visitors,…
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✍️ Discover the digital product passport with Stannol – the key to greater transparency and a circular economy
in Blog postIngo Lomp (left), Stannol, explains in an interview with Stephan Multhaupt how the digital product passport will work in practice. (Source: Mittelstand Digital Centre for Future Culture)
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📢 Stephan Multhaupt reappointed as Jury Member for the IHK Sustainability Award 2025
in AnnouncementAlso this year, for the second time after 2023, Stephan Multhaupt will serve as a jury member for the IHK Sustainability Award. With this award, the Aachen Chamber of Industry and Commerce honors companies that strategically anchor and actively promote sustainable business practices. As a recognized expert in sustainable transformation, Multhaupt brings valuable insights into…
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📅 Workshop (online) of the Mittelstand Digital Centre Value Networks
in AnnouncementHow can value networks contribute to the implementation of a circular economy – and what role do trust, data and digitalisation play in this? Our upcoming workshop with Janna Prager and Stephan Multhaupt (Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum WertNetzWerke) will provide practical insights and is aimed at anyone who wants to actively shape sustainable business models and network…
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📅 20.08.25 Efficiency Forum Economy “Resource management – efficient, circular & sustainable”
Conference, Date: 20.08.2025, 10:00-17:00 Presentation “Digital product passport for transparency in the supply chain”,Speaker Stephan H. Multhaupt Description The Efficiency Forum Economy is a one-day event for manufacturing companies and service providers and covers the 3 subject areas: with 12 parallel presentations. The presentations will be enriched by a central keynote speech in advance and…
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📅 02.07.25 Successfully shaping Circular Economy value creation networks through cooperation, values & data
Workshop, Date: 02.07.2025, 09:30-11:30 a.m. Workshop (online) of the Mittelstand Digital Centre Value Networks,Speakers: Janna Prager & Stephan H. Multhaupt Description Why are value networks important for a circular economy? What special requirements are placed on the network partners so that the common goals can be achieved? Our workshop will provide you with practical answers…
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✍️ When AI hallucinates: What we need to learn from the Air Canada mistake
in Blog postAn Air Canada chatbot promised a user a refund in the event of death – even though the company had no such policy. The problem: the AI was hallucinating. Air Canada was even held responsible for this in court. (”Airline held liable for its chatbot giving passenger bad advice – what this means for travellers”,…
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AI-Pilot
The “’AI-Pilot”’ project has two central objectives: Firstly, “AI-Pilot” is developing an innovative platform for matching digitalisation expertise to needs in rural areas. Secondly, AI-Pilot is developing a training platform with AI-supported content generation to give SMEs access to suitable developers and training in the field of AI and IoT and thus promote digital transformation…
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🧭 Fides: Distributed Cyber-Physical Contracts
in Publication‘Fides – natural language meets peer-to-peer: digital contracts without blockchain ballast’ Publication date: 2021 (© IEEE) The paper introduces Fides, a lightweight framework that allows self-enforcing contracts to be formulated in natural language. Unlike traditional blockchain solutions, Fides separates payments from contract logic, encrypts all interactions end-to-end, and runs on a low-power peer-to-peer network. This…