Hans Pongratz
Vizepräsident für IT-Systeme und Dienstleistungen (CIO), Technische Universität München, Germany
Hans Pongratz is Senior Vice President for IT-Systems & Services and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany.
Since 2011 he is responsible for the implementation of TUM's IT-Strategy 'Digital University' and set up e.g. TUM's MOOC-programme. Hans started his career at TUM after working for FOCUS Online, Hewlett-Packard and abroad for Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in the USA.
He is member of several programme committees, reviewer groups, boards and thematic sponsor of the expert group "new business models, technologies and lifelong learning" of the German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung), an initiative by Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).