This latest collaboration with Tongji University marks another important milestone in our long-term effort to empower people with intelligent technologies and develop future-ready digital talents. It also highlights our strong partnership with Top Chinese academia.

With a clear focus on the trend of digital economy and industry-education integration, these lectures bring profound insights, rich practices and cutting-edge technologies of digital transformation from SAP executives and experts to Tongji SEM students.

Juergen sent greetings from Germany and had a lively interaction with the students, sharing his fond memories of 6 months spent at Tongji. During the Q&A, he also provided feasible career advice to them, encouraging them to be creative, learning-minded and determined when they’re pursuing their dreams.
  
Clas gave a deep-dive lecture on the global economy and globalization, giving unique interpretations on multiple topics that are crucial to the new era of globalization, including digitalization, hyper-connectivity, R&D, value chains and Asia’s role. Ruicheng gave a welcome speech and had a roundtable with the media and Deputy Dean of Tongji SEM, emphasizing that talents are of significant importance to innovation and SAP Labs China is committed to developing the next generation of digital talents in China.

 
Xinghui Lei, Vice Principal of Tongji University expressed confidence in this partnership, saying that these co-lectures set a new model of enterprise-university collaboration and provide an innovative way to empower young talents with digital knowledge and business acumen. Qian Shi, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Tongji SEM extended appreciation to SAP’s long-term support and expressed expectations to expand the scope and depth of collaboration with SAP in the future.