Keynote Speakers SmartForest 2026
SmartForest 2026 will take place on the Technical University of Munich’s campus in Freising, at the Zentrum Wald-Forst-Holz Weihenstephan, on 12 and 13 March 2026.
You can find the SmartForest 2026 Call for Contributions here.
More information about the conference programme is available here.
Keynote Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Thorsten Reitz
wetransform GmbH, Darmstadt
Presentation: „The State of the Digital Ecosystem“
SPEAKER BIO
Thorsten Reitz is the founder of wetransform GmbH.
After studying media informatics, he worked at Fraunhofer IGD from 2004 to 2012 as a research assistant and later as head of department, where he played a key role in data harmonisation projects such as HUMBOLDT, eSDI- NET+, CityServer3D and urbanAPI. Through this work, he gained broad knowledge of INSPIRE and other geodata standards. He is also the “father” and first developer of hale»studio.
From 2012 to 2015, he was Head of Product Engineering at the Esri R&D Centre Zurich, where he was responsible for the implementation of products such as ArcGIS for 3D Cities, ArcGIS Scene Services and CityEngine, as well as HR and other cross-divisional tasks.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
PD Dr. Tobias Schlechtriemen
Institute of Sociology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Presentation: TBA
SPeaker bio
PD Dr Tobias Schlechtriemen is a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Freiburg.
His research focuses on topics such as the social debate around Artificial Intelligence, sustainability research and the study of transformation processes.
Since 2024, he has been leading the research project ‘Wissen über den Wald im Wandel (WWW 4.0)’, in which the Department of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg, the Freiburg Forestry Directorate, and the Forest Research Institute BW are involved.