Digitalization & Sustainability Compact
Basics of the Twin Transformation
The Twin Transformation – the simultaneous digital and sustainable transformation – is increasingly presenting companies with complex strategic, technological and regulatory challenges. If you want to be fit for the future, you have to think about both dimensions together.
This compact course offers specialists and managers a structured introduction to key terms, political framework conditions and initial fields of application. It creates a common understanding of the opportunities, risks and fields of action of the twin transformation – as a basis for well-founded decisions and further in-depth study.
Contents of the seminar
- Political framework conditions
- First fields of application
- Key terms relating to sustainability and digitalization
- Opportunities & challenges for companies
- Overview of twin transformation
- Interaction of digitalization and sustainability
- Important European regulations and initiatives
- Understanding the role of technologies
- Potentials and risks of twin transformation
Events
Overview
TUM Campus Heilbronn gGmbH
Certificate of participation
690 € regular in presence, special opening offer 549€ (in presence)
virtual 620 € (special opening offer virtual: 490 €)
10% discount for TUM Alumni
German
The one-day seminar is aimed at specialists and managers from companies who want to get a compact overview of the Twin Transformation and better understand the basic cornerstones for the interaction of digitization and sustainability.
1 day
November 28, 2025, 09:00 – 17:00
TUM Campus Heilbronn
Why should you choose this program?
The simultaneous digital and sustainable transformation – also known as Twin Transformation – presents companies with complex strategic, technological and regulatory challenges. To remain competitive in the long term, both dimensions must be considered together and translated into concrete measures. Digital technologies offer considerable potential for sustainable innovation, efficiency gains and new business models.
They can help conserve resources, optimise processes and better comply with legal requirements.
This is exactly where our one-day compact seminar comes in: it offers specialists and managers a structured introduction to the basics of Twin Transformation. You will gain a clear overview of suitable digital tools, key terms and political framework conditions, and receive practical insights for application in your own company context.
Whether you work in management, IT, sustainability or strategy, this seminar provides the necessary basic knowledge for the interaction between digitalisation and sustainability, as well as their opportunities, challenges and levers.
Compact. Relevant. Future-oriented.
Aim of the course
Participants in this compact course
- receive an in-depth overview of key terms and concepts of Twin Transformation (digitalization & sustainability)
- recognize the opportunities and challenges of Twin Transformation for companies
- learn about important European regulations (digital strategy, Green Deal, CSRD, AI Act),
- understand the role of selected technologies in the context of Twin Transformation
- can use suitable digital tools to achieve sustainability,
- gain insights into industry-specific and company-related fields of application,
- reflect on the potentials and risks of Twin Transformation – from efficiency gains to ethical issues and cybersecurity
- can implement best-practice approaches in specific company projects.
Agenda
1. Welcome and introduction
2. Basics of “Twin Transformation”
- Definition of relevant terms
- Importance of Twin Transformation for companies
3. Exercise: Digital tools for achieving sustainability
4. Legal and external framework conditions
- EU as a driver of transformation – Green Deal
- EU as a driver of transformation – European digital strategy
5. (Future) technologies as drivers of the twin transformation
6. Selected fields of application
- Industry-related twin transition
- Company-related application
7. Potentials, benefits and risks of twin transformation
8. Exercise: Transfer into business practice
9. Summary and conclusion
Statement
"The Twin Transformation combines digitalisation and sustainability: digital technologies accelerate sustainable innovations, reduce resource consumption and create competitive advantages for companies. In this new compact course, participants will learn in a practical way how digital levers can be used for sustainable corporate strategies."
Lecturer Digitalization & Sustainability Compact
About the lecturer
Dr. Dina Barbian is Managing Director of the eco2050 Institute for Sustainability and has more than 30 years of professional experience in sustainability and environmental management, CSR, ESG and business informatics, among other areas. She wrote her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Economics and Sustainable Development – Development of an Approach to Implementing Sustainability’ in the 1990s, making her one of the first people in the German-speaking world to address the topic of sustainability.
Her more recent research areas include sustainable digitalization such as sustainable ICT systems and sustainable AI, technological sustainability, circular economy systems and interdisciplinary interface topics from the fields of production, logistics, digitalisation and sustainability. She is a spokesperson for the ‘Digitalisation & Sustainability’ network at VDE Bavaria and author of books and specialist articles on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics.
TUM Campus Heilbronn
At the state-of-the-art educational campus of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation in Heilbronn, excellent research and teaching meet exciting entrepreneurial challenges in one of Germany’s most innovative regions. With its business faculty, the TUM School of Management, the renowned Technical University of Munich has been represented in the Heilbronn-Franconia region since 2018.
Research and teaching aim to build bridges between business and technology in a dynamic, international environment. Since 2020, the Center of Digital Transformation and the Global Center for Family Enterprise have been researching the key topics of digital transformation management and family businesses.
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