Rene Kaiser
Enterprise Architect in Weyregg am Attersee, Österreich
Rene Kaiser is Miba's Enterprise Data Architect and is responsible for the strategic direction on all topics related to the management and exploitation of the company's data.
Rene originally studied software engineering and obtained a doctoral degree in computer science at TU Graz.
Before moving to an industry position, Rene was working in applied research for 16 years, with Joanneum Research and the Know-Center Research Center for Data-Driven Business and Big Data Analytics in Graz, Austria.
The focus of Rene's work is on enterprise architecture, deata architecture, the design of intelligent software systems and user interaction, as well as project management, business development and user evaluation based on quantitative and qualitative methods.
Rene considers himself a generalist rather than a specialist, as he gained experience in different roles in a long list of projects and collaborations along his professional career. Domains and application fields include media production and consumption, workplace learning, particular aspects in manufacturing industries, road and tunnel infrastructure monitoring, as well as high-performance computing. Beyond Austrian research endeavours, Rene contributed to a considerable list of European research projects, including NM2, Clinicip, Aposdle, TA2, FascinatE, Vconect, SemI40 and HiDALGO.
Research findings resulted in publications in conferences, workshops, journals and books. Voluntary contributions to the research community include an extensive list of peer reviewing activities. He served as guest editor for two journal Special Issues (Springer MTAP). He co-organized the Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (2013-2016) and Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities (2016-2018) series as well as the Workshop on Analytics, Learning & Collaboration in eXtended Reality in 2022. Further community work included activities as member and former chairman of the Knowledge Management Forum Graz, and co-organizer of the Barcamp Graz un-conference for several years.