Lutz Heuser

From IRF 2008

Prof. Lutz Heuser

Professor Lutz Heuser, Vice President SAP Research and Chief Development Architect at SAP AG, is responsible for the overall research portfolio management.

His areas of expertise include Internet of Services, Internet of Things, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) as well as the web-based service industry. He further initiated a number of research initiatives in the field of software technology for emerging economies and is active in this area on a global basis.

Professor Heuser joined SAP AG in 1999. Prior to his appointment at SAP AG, he was Director of the European Research Organization at Digital Equipment Corporation and member of the extended executive board of the German subsidiary of Digital Equipment. Professor Heuser was co-founder of the CEC Karlsruhe.

Professor Heuser is a Visiting Professor at the National University of Paraguay and an Adjunct Professor of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In 2004, he was awarded an Honorary Professorship at the Technical University Darmstadt. He has been a member of acatech (German Academy for Technological Sciences) and the Feldafinger Circle since 2006. In the same year he also became Chairman of the IRF (International Research Forum), a high level Think Tank regarding IT trends.

In 2007 Professor Heuser became Chairman of ISTAG (Information Society Technologies Advisory Group), a member of the supervisory board of the VDE (Association for electrical, electronic & Information Technologies), as well as a member of the Research Committee of the Munich Circle, a Think Tank dedicated to communications research.