For years, we have been supporting companies in tackling their individual challenges – be it in moving to digital processes or business models, serving as a source of inspiration or in making technology tangible and identifying suitable use cases.
However, these complex and multi-faceted subject areas require the right blend of technological expertise and sound understanding. We believe that this is best achieved in diverse teams. That's why we’re committed to getting more girls and women interested in pursuing careers in IT.
How do companies approach a topic whose effects range from the payment process at the supermarket checkout to the depths of medicine, and that have a profound impact on business and private life alike? By keeping an eye on what’s feasible. That’s because just talking about artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t help. It’s about finding use cases – and building the right systems.
Every path to the digital transformation is different. But the reasons for it are similar: dissatisfaction with the status quo meets the will to change.
16 per cent of the IT professionals we employ at present are female. The proportion of women in IT professions throughout Germany lies at 17 per cent according to the industry association Bitkom. Our goal is to first increase the number of female computer scientists, IT consultants and IT executives at adesso in the coming years.
Prof. Volker Gruhn, born 1963, co-founded adesso SE (formerly adesso AG) in 1997 and is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2017, he has also been member of the DAK-Gesundheit digitalisation committee, and has been a member of the university council of Leipzig University since 1 March 2019. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering.