Future Lecture - Sustainable Engineering: From Innovation to Impact - onCampus

04 Nov 2026, 17:00 in Audimax 2

Sustainable Engineering: From Innovation to Impact
How can industry serve the needs of a growing world while using less energy, water and raw materials? This is one of the key challenges of our time – and at its core, it is an engineering challenge. Answering it means rethinking production itself: from the design of individual machines to entire plants. Companies that get this right reduce their environmental footprint and strengthen their competitiveness at the same time.

GEA, one of the world’s largest systems suppliers for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors, works at the heart of this transformation. Its customers operate in highly energy-intensive industries and are under growing pressure to lower energy consumption, emissions and operating costs. In his lecture, Stefan Klebert, CEO of GEA, shows how the DAX-listed company helps its customers achieve exactly that. Innovation at GEA embeds resource efficiency and circularity from the very first design decision. Its solutions reduce a plant’s environmental footprint, and the cost of running it, across the entire lifetime.

Drawing on recent examples – from AI-optimized production processes to protein made from CO2 – the lecture sheds light on how innovation becomes impact at industrial scale, and explores why few fields offer engineers greater opportunities to shape the future.

Following the event, we warmly invite you to our traditional get-together with drinks and pretzels.

Language: English

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