Mr. Dominik Boesl
IEEE TechEthics Ambassador, and Professor for Digital Sciences, Automation and Leadership, Hochschule der Bayerischen Wirtschaft, Germany
Since September 2019, Mr. Dominik Boesl has been Professor for Digital Sciences, Automation and Leadership at the Hochschule der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (HDBW). From January 2019 to December 2020, Dominik lead FESTO AG & Co. KG‘s robotics business unit as Vice President & Head of Robotics. Before, he was responsible for Innovation and Technology Management at KUKA since he first joined KUKA Laboratories as Head of Corporate Strategy and Member of the Board in 2011. Since 2012, he acted as (Principal/Senior) Corporate Innovation Manager, from January 2017 to end of December 2018 as Vice President Consumer Driven Robotics at KUKA AG. Mr. Boesl started his career 1999 at Siemens, switching to Microsoft in 2005 where he held various leadership positions including national responsibility in developer evangelism. In order to foster the interdisciplinary discourse about the impact of robotics and automation on society and humankind, Mr. Boesl is driving the idea of „Robotic & AI Governance“, trying to establish a framework for voluntary self-regulation regarding the use of disruptive technologies. He is an internationally recognized expert in Ethics for Robotics and AI and currently acting as ambassador for the global IEEE TechEthics initiative.