Rene Kaiser
Enterprise Data Architect in Weyregg am Attersee, Österreich
Rene Kaiser is the Enterprise Data Architect for Miba AG, an international manufacturing company with headquarter in Austria. He is responsible for the strategic further development of the company's digital landscape for data management and data utilization.
As Enterprise Architect he serves as interface between IT and business areas, guides structured selection processes for new digital solutions, and is driving manifold further developments and optimizations.
Rene led the development of an Enterprise Data Strategy and a comprehensive concept for an Enterprise Data Lakehouse that consists of a tech stack, an organizational concept for a domain-driven data organization, and a data governance framework. Currently he is engaged in the scale-up of this data platform and acts as coordinator of Miba's Data Governance Board. Beyond classic BI use cases the platform is designed for advanced generative AI, predictive and prescriptive analytics approaches.
Rene originally studied software engineering at FH Hagenberg and obtained a doctoral degree in computer science at TU Graz. Before joining Miba, Rene was working for applied research & innovation companies for 16 years, at Joanneum Research and the Know-Center Research Center for Data-Driven Business and Big Data Analytics in Graz, Austria.
This allowed Rene to become an experienced generalist with a strong IT foundation. He adopted various roles including solution design, consulting and business development. He led collaborative project consortia across Europe as well as local teams of software engineers, data scientists, computer vision experts and business stakeholders. His endeavors addressed many different data analytics use cases including metadata and media asset management, natural language processing, real-time decision making based on event stream data, and many further.
Rene co-authored a considerable list of scientific publications and co-organized international conferences and workshops. He is member and former chairman of the Knowledge Management Forum Graz and co-founder of the Barcamp Graz un-conference series.