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Call for Papers European workshop on software ecosystems: business networks, platforms, ecosystems Submission deadline is March 16th
Submission deadline is March 16th
Call for papers FOR EWSECO 2021
We would like to invite European researchers and practitioners in the field of software ecosystems, platform ecosystems and business networks to come together in Heilbronn, Germany, on April 29th 2021, to discuss recent (academic) research and recent business experiences and lessons learned, insights or issues related to management of ecosystems, business models or technical issues including but not limited to topics like
Software ecosystems
Research progress and new knowledge for software ecosystems
External forces - the new normal and the impact on software ecosystems
Business networks
Business networks vs. platform businesses
Business networks as platforms for transaction, innovation
Growing business networks by extending beyond participants
Merging different business networks to scale
Platform Business Models
Types of platform business models for transaction, innovation
“Platformizing” existing businesses - how to be successful?
Business model innovation resulting in a platform business model - how to make it work?
Architectures and APIs for platforms
Growth strategies based on platform ecosystems and business networks
Growing by acquiring a platform business
Digital platforms and businesses
data-driven and analytics ecosystems
We will invite practitioners to the workshop to ensure discussion about the practical impact of research and to give the presenters the opportunity to discuss with practitioners and researchers alike.
The workshop location at City Campus in Heilbronn, Germany, with many software and software service companies having an office nearby which eases the participation for practitioners. More information at https://ewseco.squarespace.com/?p
Workshop style
Socialize and discuss with (academic) researchers and fellow professionals.
We value discussion as well as presentations. So a short, 15 minute presentation is followed by 15 min discussion with fellow researchers and practitioners.
The workshop will be held in English language only.
Submissions
Propose your presentation titles via email (title and 100 word abstract) to ewseco21@software-ecosystem.com
Submission deadline is March 16th 2021 6pm CET.
Call for Papers European workshop on software ecosystems: business networks, platforms, ecosystems
Call for papers FOR EWSECO 2021
We would like to invite European researchers and practitioners in the field of software ecosystems, platform ecosystems and business networks to come together in Heilbronn, Germany, on April 29th 2021, to discuss recent (academic) research and recent business experiences and lessons learned, insights or issues related to management of ecosystems, business models or technical issues including but not limited to topics like
Software ecosystems
Research progress and new knowledge for software ecosystems
External forces - the new normal and the impact on software ecosystems
Business networks
Business networks vs. platform businesses
Business networks as platforms for transaction, innovation
Growing business networks by extending beyond participants
Merging different business networks to scale
Platform Business Models
Types of platform business models for transaction, innovation
“Platformizing” existing businesses - how to be successful?
Business model innovation resulting in a platform business model - how to make it work?
Architectures and APIs for platforms
Growth strategies based on platform ecosystems and business networks
Growing by acquiring a platform business
Digital platforms and businesses
data-driven and analytics ecosystems
We will invite practitioners to the workshop to ensure discussion about the practical impact of research and to give the presenters the opportunity to discuss with practitioners and researchers alike.
The workshop location at City Campus in Heilbronn, Germany, with many software and software service companies having an office nearby which eases the participation for practitioners. More information at https://ewseco.squarespace.com/?p
Workshop style
Socialize and discuss with (academic) researchers and fellow professionals.
We value discussion as well as presentations. So a short, 15 minute presentation is followed by 15 min discussion with fellow researchers and practitioners.
The workshop will be held in English language only.
Submissions
Propose your presentation titles via email (title and 100 word abstract) to ewseco21@software-ecosystem.com
Submission deadline is March 16th 2021 6pm CET.
Locations sponsor for European workshop on software ecosystems announced: Schwarz Group
The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems is an annual event which connects top notch researchers and business professionals in the field of software and platform ecosystems as well as business networks.
For the eighth workshop we are looking forward to short presentations and long breaks which fuel discussions and networking between participants from all across the software industry and academia.
We proudly announce that Schwarz Group sponsors location, food and drinks for EWSECO 2021, April 29 2021 in Heilbronn.
The Schwarz Group, headquartered in Neckarsulm, Germany, owns the companies Lidl and Kaufland and is Germany's largest retail group with a group turnover of 90 billion euros. Its activities are divided into discount food markets under the name of Lidl and hypermarkets and hypermarkets such as Kaufland, KaufMarkt, Concord and Handelshof. Today, Lidl stores are located in almost all European countries. Lidl is currently represented in 26 countries, Kaufland in Germany and in six other countries.
Find more information here.
New sponsor for European workshop on software ecosystems announced: Kaufland
The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems is an annual event which connects top notch researchers and business professionals in the field of software and platform ecosystems as well as business networks.
For the eighth workshop we are looking forward to short presentations and long breaks which fuel discussions and networking between participants from all across the software industry and academia.
We proudly announce that Kaufland sponsors the location for EWSECO 2021, April 29 2021 in Heilbronn.
Kaufland is an international retail company with about 1,300 branches in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia and the Republic of Moldova. Currently, Kaufland is preparing to expand to Australia. In Germany, Kaufland operates about 670 stores and employs around 74,000 people. With an average of 30,000 articles, the company offers a large assortment of food and everything for daily needs. The focus lies on fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products as well as meat, cheese and fish. The company is part of the Schwarz Group, one of the leading food retail companies in Germany and Europe.
Kaufland operates about 670 stores all over Germany and employs around 74,000 people. With an average of 30,000 articles, the company offers a large assortment of food and everything for daily needs. The focus lies on fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products as well as meat, cheese and fish. The company is part of the Schwarz Group, one of the leading food retail companies in Germany. Kaufland is based in Neckarsulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Find more information here.
Next sponsor for European workshop on software ecosystems announced: Corum Group
The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems is an annual event which connects top notch researchers and business professionals in the field of software and platform ecosystems as well as business networks.
For the eighth workshop we are looking forward to short presentations and long breaks which fuel discussions and networking between participants from all across the software industry and academia.
We proudly announce that Corum Group sponsors EWSECO 2021, April 29 2021 in Heilbronn.
Corum serves as an intermediary for software companies seeking to be acquired and/or recapitalized, whether by a strategic acquirer, private equity firm or other partner.
The Corum Group has been working exclusively in the software technology space for over 30 years and has established relationships with all major strategic and financial buyers of software conmpanies. We have negotiated deals with many of them, and even more importantly, our educational Tech M&A events provide us a unique opportunity to build relationships outside the crucible of the deal, with buyers participating as attendees, speakers and sponsors. All of the information we gather from our interactions with buyers is centralized and utilized through the most robust database of software companies and acquirers in the world.
Additionally, as non-tech companies become more and more active in the technology space, Corum's global, dedicated research team is always working to identify and connect with the unexpected and unusual buyers that make up a suprising share of the acquirers of technology companies today.
Find more information about EWSECO click here.
Proceedings of the European workshop on software ecosystems, held as part of the Platform economy summit, are available
Dear all,
the European workshop on software ecosystems, this year held at the Platform Economy Summit in Berlin, was a huge success.
All the results are in the proceedings, so if you have not been participating, you can get a summary of the discussions in the workshop!
The proceedings are available in print and ebook with the ISBN 9783748140153
at amazon
at BOD, our publisher.
DETAILS
The workshop was held within two sessions of the second day of the First European Platform Economy Summit in Berlin. The first session was a workshop called “New Ecosystem Opportunities & 'White space' Opportunities in Software and High-Tech“ and the second session was a panel about “Network Effects, Data Effects & AI - Keys to the castle“ moderated by Slinger Jansen. You can find more details on both sessions below.
Session one: New Ecosystem Opportunities & 'White space' Opportunities in Software and High-Tech
This design-thinking based workshop featured three short motivating presentations by Peter Buxmann, Sebastien Dupre and Thomas Curran followed by topic-based, hands-on workshops.
Thomas captured the audience by describing his recent success with creating new cloud based ecosystems for digital business in the financial industry. In a traditionally closed industry, what do you do to turn a company into a digital, open platform? Thomas had done just that in a three year project and talked about how to do that successfully.
Peter reported about several studies on the value of data and the importance of privacy. He provided insights into challenges and success factors for software platform providers regarding the value of customer data, customer privacy and tradeoffs between data privacy and data farming by platform providers.
Sebastien showed how Uberization in field service management works by engaging a crowd of service technicians inside and outside of companies. He explained how companies can build an ecosystem connecting field service technicians, partners, own employees and customers to scale their field service operations, increase revenue and provide unmatched customer experience.
All presentations are in the proceedings. The proceedings are available in print and ebook with the ISBN 9783748140153, at amazon, and at BOD, our publisher.
Then we split the crowd of thirty people into three teams that worked together and discussed with the help of the moderators and our design thinking coach Olaf Mackert. First, we ran an introduction game called two truths and one lie, which created a lot of laughter and made everybody ready to work together trustfully.
Then everybody dumped his ideas, questions, issues he or she wanted to discuss on post-its, which were clustered into topics by the moderator. Then the teams voted on the topic to start with. The discussions went on in five minute slots. The team voted on either continuing the discussions on the topic or going to the next topic after each slot.
Thomas Curran´s team, which was the largest team, focused on the technical aspects of creating a platform and technology selection. They had lively and productive discussions leveraging the joint wisdom of the team.
Sebastien´s team of ten discussed topics around uberization of any industry and about changes in strategies for field service management.
Peter Buxmann´s team was a diverse team made up of members from venture capital, manufacturing, public administration which made discussions very interesting based on the different views. The team addressed question around motivations of people to share data, ways to create value from data and also around data protection impact on data-driven business models.
The results of each team are listed in the proceedings. The proceedings are available in print and ebook with the ISBN 9783748140153, at amazon, and at BOD, our publisher.
Session TWO: Network Effects, Data Effects & AI - Keys to the castle
John Rethans, head of Digital Transformation Strategy from Apigee/Google, brought everybody on the same page regarding APIs - what they are and what it means to implement an API driven strategy and technology.
Slinger Jansen from Utrecht University opened the panel with a short presentation about his research. The panel´s focus was on pragmatic aspects of creating successful API platforms. It covered questions like “What is the role of APIs for platforms? How do you build API-based platforms? What are the success factors and pitfalls when building API-based platforms? How to explain their power to non-technical executives and shareholders?”
In addition to Slinger and John, the panel featured the following speakers: Nik Willetts - President & CEO, TM Forum, Andreas von Oettingen - MD of Factor10.
The presentations are in the proceedings. The proceedings are available in print and ebook with the ISBN 9783748140153, at amazon, and at BOD, our publisher.
best regards
Karl
A recap of the European workshop on software ecosystems 2018
The workshop was held within two sessions of the second day of the First European Platform Economy Summit in Berlin. The first session was a workshop called “New Ecosystem Opportunities & 'White space' Opportunities in Software and High-Tech“ and the second session was a panel about “Network Effects, Data Effects & AI - Keys to the castle“ moderated by Slinger Jansen. You can find more details on both sessions below.
What made this workshop successful were the discussions about the presentations but also the interactions in breaks and during lunch. A big thank you goes out to all presenters, helpers and participants!
Session one: New Ecosystem Opportunities & 'White space' Opportunities in Software and High-Tech
This design-thinking based workshop featured three short motivating presentations by Peter Buxmann, Sebastien Dupre and Thomas Curran followed by topic-based, hands-on workshops.
Thomas captured the audience by describing his recent success with creating new cloud based ecosystems for digital business in the financial industry. In a traditionally closed industry, what do you do to turn a company into a digital, open platform? Thomas had done just that in a three year project and talked about how to do that successfully.
Peter reported about several studies on the value of data and the importance of privacy. He provided insights into challenges and success factors for software platform providers regarding the value of customer data, customer privacy and tradeoffs between data privacy and data farming by platform providers.
Sebastien showed how Uberization in field service management works by engaging a crowd of service technicians inside and outside of companies. He explained how companies can build an ecosystem connecting field service technicians, partners, own employees and customers to scale their field service operations, increase revenue and provide unmatched customer experience.
Then we split the crowd of thirty people into three teams that worked together and discussed with the help of the moderators and our design thinking coach Olaf Mackert. First, we ran an introduction game called two truths and one lie, which created a lot of laughter and made everybody ready to work together trustfully.
Then everybody dumped his ideas, questions, issues he or she wanted to discuss on post-its, which were clustered into topics by the moderator. Then the teams voted on the topic to start with. The discussions went on in five minute slots. The team voted on either continuing the discussions on the topic or going to the next topic after each slot.
Thomas Curran´s team, which was the largest team, focused on the technical aspects of creating a platform and technology selection. They had lively and productive discussions leveraging the joint wisdom of the team.
Sebastien´s team of ten discussed topics around uberization of any industry and about changes in strategies for field service management.
Peter Buxmann´s team was a diverse team made up of members from venture capital, manufacturing, public administration which made discussions very interesting based on the different views. The team addressed question around motivations of people to share data, ways to create value from data and also around data protection impact on data-driven business models.
The results of each team will be provided in a short writeup from the moderator.
Session TWO: Network Effects, Data Effects & AI - Keys to the castle
John Rethans, head of Digital Transformation Strategy from Apigee/Google, brought everybody on the same page regarding APIs - what they are and what it means to implement an API driven strategy and technology.
Slinger Jansen from Utrecht University opened the panel with a short presentation about his research. The panel´s focus was on pragmatic aspects of creating successful API platforms. It covered questions like “What is the role of APIs for platforms? How do you build API-based platforms? What are the success factors and pitfalls when building API-based platforms? How to explain their power to non-technical executives and shareholders?”
In addition to Slinger and John, the panel featured the following speakers:
Nik Willetts - President & CEO, TM Forum
Andreas von Oettingen - MD of Factor10
Update on location
The 7th European workshop on software ecosystems will be part of the European platform economy summit in Berlin! Stay tuned as details on this exclusive event unfold.
Location for the European workshop on software ecosystems 2018
Dear all,
we have exciting news, the location for the workshop will be Wiesbaden, Germany in one of the leading hotels of the world: Nassauer Hof!
Stay tuned for more exciting details
Preparations for the European workshop on software ecosystems
Preparations are starting
Set up program committee meetings, organize location and sponsors and speakers. This is what the organizing committee works on at the moment.
This year, the workshop will again feature many outstanding researchers and practitioners participating in the workshop.
With software business models entering classical industries and with increasing digitalization of whole business networks, our topics in 2016 will be:
- Software ecosystems
- Business networks
- Platform Business Models
- Growth strategies based on software ecosystems and business networks.
We are looking forward to your