Dortmund Digital Design Symposium with semester exhibition of the Master Digital Design

We cordially invite you to the Dortmund Digital Design Symposium (DDDS) and the semester exhibition of the Master's degree program Digital Design, which will take place on February 26, 2026 on the Emil-Figge-Straße campus. The symposium starts at 14:00, the semester exhibition will open at 17:45. Details of the program can be found at the bottom of this page.

As places for the symposium and the exhibition are limited, we kindly ask you to register for our event using the following form.

We will send you travel instructions and further information by e-mail in mid-February.

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Details of the agenda

14:00 - 15:00	DDDS - Session 1 - Opening and practice of digitalization (Room B.E.23) Hendrik Sparenberg (GEA Farm Technologies) - Agriculture 4.0 - The balancing act between humans, animals and machines Jakob Scholz (KVWL) - Digitalization and AI in the healthcare sector
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee break (Room B.E.23)
15:15 - 16:45	DDDS - Session 2 - Changing job profiles in digitization (Room B.E.23) Gunnar Harde (adesso)- Digital design in entrepreneurial practice Thomas Jackstädt (GermanUPA) - Redefining the job profile of the UX professional for an industry in transition Kim Nena Duggen & Guido Gryczan (iSAQB) - Software architect* in AI times - Same, same, but different
16:45 - 17:15	DDDS - Session 3 - Panel discussion on changing job profiles (Room B.E.23)
17:15 - 17:45	Break
17:45 - 18:00	Opening of the semester exhibition of the Master Digital Design by the program management (room A.2.02)
18:00 - 19:00	Guided tour through the exhibition with works from the following courses 1st semester Materiality & design of the digital Analog & Digital Perception Digital Design Project 3rd semester Systematic Design Digital ecosystem project Technologies of digital ecosystems
19:00 - 21:00	Free visit to the exhibition and open discussion with snacks