Under this motto, over 100 guests from society, the media, politics, business and science discussed the opportunities and risks of digitalization at a conference held on 25 April 2018 in Frankfurt am Main as part of the "Cloud and Crowd Challenge" project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). One focus of this conference, organized by the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) at the University of Kassel and held in cooperation with IG Metall and ver.di, was work via crowdworking platforms.

After a welcome address by Christiane Benner, Deputy Chairwoman of IG Metall and host of the event, and a welcome address by Erik Mertens, Head of the Services and European Programs Department at the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a keynote speech was given by Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Director of the Scientific Center for IT Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel, on the topic of "Crowdworking platforms as innovative service systems".

This was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Professor Leimeister with Christiane Benner (Second Chairwoman of IG Metall), Monika Brandl(Chairwoman of the Trade Union Council of ver.di), Mirjam Pütz (Managing Director, Chief Digital Office Deutsche Bank) and Bastian Unterberg (Chief Executive Officer of the crowdworking platform Jovoto). After the lunch break, conference participants then had the opportunity to explore the morning's topics in greater depth in workshops focusing on the perspectives of companies, crowdworking platforms and crowdworkers. A keynote speech by Anna Kopp, Head of IT at Microsoft Germany, and a keynote speech by Professor Melissa Valentine, PhD, Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO) at Stanford University, which was broadcast from California via video conference, rounded off the event.

A detailed documentation of the event including photos and presentations will follow shortly.