On 21 March 2017, the first transfer conference of the project"The Challenge of Cloud and Crowd - Shaping New Organizational Concepts for Services Sustainably", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), took place at the Literaturhaus in Munich. With 182 registered participants, including from trade unions, politics, business and science, this conference served to exchange initial findings since the project kick-off.

The Department of Information Systems was also represented at this conference as one of the six partners in this project, with Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeisterntaking part together with Karl-Heinz Brandl (Head of Division at ver.di), Prof. Dr. Andreas Boes (Member of the Board at ISF Munich), Vanessa Barth (Head of Division at IG Metall) and Dr. Rainer Kallenbach (CEO of Bosch Software). Rainer Kallenbach (CEO Bosch Software Innovation GmbH) took part in the central panel discussion "Digital upheaval - challenges for the working world of the future". Dr. Christoph Peters chairedand presented the sub-project workshop "Crowdsourcing platforms as innovative service systems".

These program items were preceded by a speech by Dr. Otto Fritz Bode, Head of Division at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and keynote speeches by Eva Zauke, Development Executive LoB Digital Assets & IoT at SAP SE and Dr. Rainer Kallenbach, CEO of Bosch Software Innovations GmbH.