Head of Engineering and Sustainable Technology Management - Smart Building Technologies, Professor of Sustainable Technologies and Foresight
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| Phone: | +49 30 51 56 50 819 |
Professor
Prof. Dr. Stephan Szuppa
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2025
Lecturer at the St. Gallen Business School (in cooperation with an Executive MBA programme at SRH University)
Since 2020
SRH University of Applied Sciences
- Programme Director, M.Eng. Engineering and Sustainable Technology Management – Smart Building Technologies
- Concept for the M.Eng. in Sustainable Technology Management (all specialisations)
- Lecturer in “Technological Foresight” at the School of Business and Law and the School of Technology and Architecture
2007–2013
Lecturer in Innovation Management at Steinbeis University (SIBE)
2007
Dr. Ing. (BTU Cottbus)
1999
Graduate Engineer in Economics (TFH Wildau)
Since 1992
Siemens AG (ZN Berlin, Head Office Erlangen and Munich)
- Sales Representative, Building Systems Technology
- Business Development ‘Intelligent Home’
- Senior Consultant at Corporate Technology
- Head of Siemens Technology Academy Berlin
- Innovation Manager at Siemens Professional Education
1992
ESAG (Energieversorgung Sachsen Ost AG)
1992
Graduate Engineer in Electrical Engineering (TU Dresden)
Memberships and other activities
since 2020
VDMA, German Engineering Federation, ‘Future Business’ working group
Since 2018
Board Member and Industry Advisory Board Member of the VWI, Association of German Industrial Engineers
2011–2021
EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), network of leading universities, research institutions and companies
- Since 2011: Projects in EIT Digital, Manufacturing via Siemens Professional Education
- 2010–2011: ‘Action Line Lead’ for Smart Energy Systems
2011–2017
National Platform for Electric Mobility (Germany), representative of Siemens Professional Education
2002–2010
Advisor to the advisory board of ‘e/home’: International ‘Connected Living’ congress and trade fair, Berlin
Publications
2026
Rohrbeck, Szuppa, Schmidt: Artificial Intelligence in Strategic Foresight: The case of Siemens Professional Education, Pre-print
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396763610_Artificial_Intelligence_in_Strategic_Foresight_The_case_of_Siemens_Professional_Education (download website: 30 April 2026)
2022
Ofstad, Szuppa, Hees: Siemens Professional Education goes Green Skills, Presentation (2021) and Publication at Cedefop and OECD symposium: Apprenticeships for greener economies and societies
https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/Ofstad%20Szuppa%20-%20Siemens%20Professional%20Education%20%28SPE%29%20goes%20Green%20Skills.pdf (download website: 30 April 2026)
2021
Bardy, Szuppa, Hoppe: Human in the AI Loop - Teaching Shop Floor Workers Artificial Intelligence in Production (2021), Published in: Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Factories (CLF) 2021, pp. 1–6, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Szuppa, Ternès, Berger, Janssen, Schlund, Herzog: Future Skills for the EU Green Deal – a joint White Paper initiated by the EIT Cross KIC Initiative and SRH University Berlin
Szuppa in Beyer, Brusch (editors): Marktforschung für das Intelligente Haus in ‚Conjointanalyse‘ (2009/2021), Springer, 2021
2015
Brusch, Fischer, Szuppa: The Bass Model as an Integrative Diffusion Model: A Comparison of Parameter Influences. In: Data Science, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery (pp.229–238)
2007
Szuppa: Marktforschung für komplexe Systeme aus Sach- und Dienstleistungen im Privatkundenbereich, Springer, 2007, Hamburg
Conference presentations & more
Conference presentations
2026
Presentation at DTIM (Disruptive Technologies for Innovative Minds, Berlin): ‘KI unterstütztes Foresight – wie die Interaktion von Experten mit KI Ergebnisse und Prozessqualität verbessert’; https://youtu.be/jrkbzy-vTkY?si=blQxshm4BhfuyMth; (Download 30 April 2026)
Keynote at the ETH Zurich Executive Event with bluemorrow: ‘AI-Expert Collaboration in Foresight’
2025
Presentation at the innov8tors conference at the (IU Berlin): ‘AI in Foresight: The Example of Siemens Professional Education’
Keynote at DeWit (Munich): ‘Trendradar - operatives und strategisches Instrument des Tech-Foresight’
Other
Since 2024
Volunteer with Naturwacht Brandenburg (Pätzer Hintersee Nature Reserve)
2020 & 2023
Training as a ZNL – Certified Nature and Landscape Guide
2000–2020
Bussysteme – Fachzeitschrift für moderne Gebäudetechnik: Co-editor and editorial advisory board member