Friday, Jan 19^th 2018

8.45-09.00

9.00-10.00

Welcome Address

Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin/GEAS)

Panel I: Trends, risks, and opportunities in Digital Manufacturing:  A cross-regional comparison

Chair: Shiwei Shi (Freie Universität Berlin)

Grischa Beier (IASS): Recent trends Industry 4.0 in Germany and China compared

Jaqueline Ives (MERICS): Made in China 2025 – The making of a high-tech superpower

Discussant: Sarah Eaton (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

10.00-10.30

Coffee Break

Poster session: young researchers

10:30-11.30

Panel II: Digital manufacturing in China: Trends and Social and environmental impacts

Chair: Léa Steinacker (Wirtschaftswoche)

Florian Butollo (WZB): Intelligent manufacturing as a leap beyond the "global factory" model - the end of cheap labour?"

Wang Feng (CAICT): Development of Industrial Internet in China

Discussant: Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (Freie Universität Berlin)

11:30-12:30

Chair: Julia Püschel (Freie Universität Berlin)

Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School of Governance): Towards Area-Smart Data Science: Critical Questions for Working with Big Data from China

Christian Göbel (Universität Wien): Calibrating the Chinese Citizen: propaganda, e-petitioning and big data-driven governanc

Discussant: Elena Meyer-Clement (Freie Universität Berlin)

12.30- 13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.00

Panel IV: Big data and political control

Chair: Katja Levy (Freie Universität Berlin)

Jiang Min (UNC Charlotte), Big data, big brother, big profits? The political economic implications of Chinese big data

Shazeda Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley): Personal Risk and Algorithmic Opacity: An Investigation of User-Identified Concerns in the Construction of the Social Credit System

Fan Liang (University of Michigan): The Instrumentalization of Big Data Infrastructures in China

Discussant: Lena Ulbricht (WZB)

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

Poster session: young researchers

15.30-17.00

Panel IV: The Governance of big data and internet

Chair: Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School of Governance)

Rogier Creemers (Leiden University): China’s Digital Society - Developing a Research Agenda

Samantha Hoffman (IISS): Internet governance and social management

Discussant: Genia Kostka (FU Berlin)

17.00-18.00

Future Cooperations

Moderation: Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin)

• Exchange on particpants’ current initiatives and projects
• Special Issue Publication
• Brainstorming of future collaborations (Einstein Circle, DFG)