Welcome Address

Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

Panel I: Trends, risks, and opportunities in Digital Manufacturing: A crossregional
comparison
Chair: Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

Paper Giver:

1. Julia Püschel (Freie Universität Berlin, GER): Man-Machine: Work 4.0 in the US
2. Isabell Welpe (Technische Universität München, GER): Recent trends Industry 4.0 in Germany
3. Grischa Beier (IASS, GER): Recent trends Industry 4.0 in Germany and China compared

Coffee Break

Poster session: young researchers

Panel II: Digital manufacturing in China & social and environmental impacts
Chair: Elena Meyer-Clement (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

Paper Giver:

1. Jacqueline Ives (MERICS, GER): Made in China 2025 – The making of a hightech superpower
2. Florian Butollo (WZB, GER): Intelligent manufacturing as a leap beyond the "global factory" model - the end of cheap labour?"
3. Wang Feng (CAICT, PRC): Development of Industrial Internet in China

Discussant: Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

PANEL III: Big data and political control
Chair: Katja Levy (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

Paper Giver:

1. Jiang Min (UNC Charlotte, US), Big data, big brother, big profits? The political economic implications of Chinese big data
2. Shazeda Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley, US): Personal Risk and Algorithmic Opacity: An Investigation of User-Identified Concerns in the Construction of the Social Credit System.
3. Fan Liang (University of Michigan, US): The Instrumentalization of Big Data Infrastructures in China

Discussant: Lena Ulbrichs (WZB, GER)

Coffee Break

Poster session: young researchers

Panel IV: The Governance of big data and internet
Chair: Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin, GER)

Paper Giver:

1. Rogier Creemers (Leiden Universität, NL) – Governance of big data & internet
2. Samantha Hoffman (IISS, UK): Internet governance and social management
3. Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School of Governance, GER): Towards Area-Smart Data Science: Critical Questions for Working with Big Data from China.

Discussant: Christian Goebel (Universität Wien, AUS)

• Exchange on particpants’ current initiatives and projects
• Special Issue publication
• Brainstorming of future collaborations (Einstein Circle, DFG)