Dr. Torsten Wingenter holds a Ph.D. in business & sociology. His passion is digital education around innovation and transformation. He is also a faculty member of futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies and Desirable Futures.
As an examiner and lecturer for digital transformation, innovation & marketing, he is active in further education of universities in Switzerland and Germany. He co-founded the “Initiative Digitalisierung Mittelstand” which is a network of independent digital experts supporting SMEs. Besides developing so-called Corporate Moonshot Programs with futur/io, he works on his own innovation ideas, mainly in the aviation industry, and in the fields of vision computing and artificial intelligence. Before becoming a full-time entrepreneur, Torsten built up Social Media from scratch for Lufthansa, founded the FlyingLab – where he made digital transformation experienceable in 33.000 feet – and was heading the digital strategy of Austrian, Lufthansa and Swiss as Senior Director Digital Innovations. He gives regularly keynotes about the future, also at international events and conferences.