Wolfram Höpken

Wolfram Höpken is professor for Business Informatics and eBusiness at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten and director of the Institute for Digital Transformation. His main research fields are data science and big data analytics as well as ICT systems in Tourism. He has been involved in several research projects in the area of knowledge discovery and big data analytics within tourism destinations as well as semantic web and seamless data interchange in tourism (EU-funded projects Harmonise, Harmo-TEN, Euromuse, HarmoSearch). Wolfram Höpken has been vice-president, commercial director and member of the management board of IFITT for more than 15 years. He has been research track chair of the ENTER conference 2009 and overall chair of ENTER 2014. He has chaired the CEN/ISSS workshop eTOUR dealing with harmonization in the field of tourism. Wolfram Höpken has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is associate editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism.