Polish-German-Work Group

The forerunner of the international work group has been the polish-german-work group, founded in 2010 by members of the Poznan and of the Berlin-Brandenburg-work groups.

The work group-leaders until 2014 had been very succesful Silke Lehmann (Berlin) and  Gosia Podskarbi (Poznan).

German - Polish work group in full swing

On the 11th and 12 april 2014 16 Controllers from the regions of Greater Poland (Poznan ), East Poland ( Lublin ) and Berlin-Brandenburg met in Lübbenau in the Spreewald to learn to know more about the subject BigData and evaluate potencial  applications for the controller.

Three preparation groups , always mixed with controllers from Poland and Germany have met before in Poznan and Berlin to prepare the topics and to present at the meeting:

1. What is BigData and what is different to Business Intelligence ?
2. From BigData to one-page -only
3. How can companies challenge BigData -
   Risks / opportunities for controllers and the society

The presentations and discussions were for the first time all held only in English. For some strange - but everyone got used to it ( and if necessary a colleague helped with a missing word!)

After the presentation we went into working teams, only interrupted by a spring-like boat ride on the Spreewald-channels.

In the evening there were of course a lot of opportunities to learn from each other, to meet and exchange ideas ; overall a successful working group session.

The next meeting of the work group will take place on June 05th and 6th, 2015 and then in october 2015.