KLU Talks Business

In KLU Talks Business, we interview business professionals with a compelling connection to KLU. Through their personal stories and professional insights, they share perspectives on current business challenges, career paths, leadership, and the relationship between academic knowledge and real-world practice.

The series offers an inside look at how KLU’s network creates innovation – inspiring partners,  alumni, and future talent.

Previous Editions of KLU Talks Business

Josef Heinz

KLU Talks Business with Josef Heinz

How does a family business remain agile after almost 90 years? What role do AI, digitalization, and younger perspectives play…

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Rolf Egger, Bayer Consumer Health

KLU Talks Business with Rolf Egger, Bayer Consumer Health

In this interview, Rolf Egger explains how AI is already being used in supply chains today, why it should be closely integrat…

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Dominik Schindler

KLU Talks Business with Dominik Schindler, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics

Counting on the leaders of tomorrow: With the launch of KLU’s new Master’s program Business Analytics & Data Science (BADS), …

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Holger Bürger and Tobias Kassner

KLU Talks Business

With Holger Bürger and Tobias Kassner, GARBE Industrial Real Estate

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KLU Talks Business ... with Dietmar Guhe, Arvato

To not just bring warehouse logistics up to speed with technological advances, but to truly revolutionize it, AI and data sci…

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KLU Talks Business ... with Jan Henrik Hellwege, Hamburger Tafel

The Tafel is well known as a major aid organization when it comes to providing support for persons in need and avoiding food …

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Frank Vorrath

KLU Talks Business ... with Frank Vorrath, Danfoss Climate Solutions

Whether groundbreaking technological advances, corporate change, or the green transformation: Frank Vorrath’s career has been…

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Patrick Eckelmann

KLU Talks Business ... with Patrick Eckelmann, OTTO DÖRNER

Whether it's our household waste, the commercial waste or the waste produced in the industry - such waste is normally out of …

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KLU Talks Business ... with Frank Seeger

CO2OPT – The name says it all. The startup uses artificial intelligence and big data to find the optimal vehicle-tire combina…

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KLU Talks Business ... with Sophie Drakopoulos

Sustainability Manager: it’s an important and increasingly in-demand job at the nexus of science and business, possibility an…

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KLU Talks Business … with Markus Lehner, Encory

Resources are dwindling, burdens on the environment are increasing, and climate change is becoming more and more threatening.…

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KLU talks Business … with Anja Sylvester, LaLog LandLogistik GmbH

She is a logistics networker who builds bridges, between town and country, between transportation routes for people and thing…

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Front desk of Cremer

KLU talks Business … with Prof. Dr. Ullrich Wegner, Cremer

Sometimes we know the products but not the company behind them. One such company is CREMER, with global activities in industr…

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KLU talks business ... with Dr. Philipp Wahl “Dr. Phil”, Retail Capital Partners

In our KLU talks business interview this time, Dr. Philipp Wahl, partner at the consultancy Retail Capital Partners (RCP), te…

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KLU talks Business … with Dr.-Ing. Sven-Kelana Christiansen, Aurubis AG

Progress needs metal, especially conductive copper. They know that at Aurubis AG, Hamburg’s multimetal company and global lea…

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KLU talks Business … with Dr. Nils Gimpel-Henning, KRONE FLEET Deutschland

Data-rich, but insight-poor? Many companies know the problem. Affordable sensors and fast data connections provide lots of in…

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"KLU Talks Business": ... with Dr. Oliver Reichel-Busch, Lufthansa Group

The world is spinning around faster and faster. New ideas are in demand. Sometimes they grow like tender seedlings, other tim…

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KLU talks Business ... with Gabriele Maurer, Jungheinrich

Intra-logistics solution provider Jungheinrich, listed on the stock exchange and headquartered in Hamburg, ranks among the mo…

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Scandlines hybrid ferry passes lighthouse

KLU talks Business … with Søren Poulsgaard Jensen, Scandlines

The German-Danish ferry operator Scandlines doesn't just talk about green shipping. It is demonstrating how it can be done: s…

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KLU Talks Business … with Dr. Steffen Wagner, KPMG Germany

Dr. Steffen Wagner, Global Head of Transport & Leisure at KPMG has been a loyal asset to the auditing giant for the past 23 y…

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KLU Talks Business … with Robert Dohrendorf, Graphmasters

Actively avoiding traffic congestion is the promise made by successful routing company Graphmasters which made a guest appear…

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KLU talks Business … with Stefan Gall, Nippon Diesel Service

Ship engines are robust machines, but they are far from being immune to wear and tear, which means their problems often need …

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KLU talks Business ... with Carmen Schmidt, Logistics Initiative Hamburg

Carmen Schmidt is our guest interviewee for KLU Business Newsletter #2/2020: the Managing Director of the Logistics Initiati…

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"KLU Talks Business": ... with Martin Araman, Sovereign Speed

In celebration of our 10th anniversary in 2020, we have started a new interview series: KLU Talks Business. Our first guest i…

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