Since April 2022 Johannes Diemer is employed as Research Coordinator at ARENA2036. Earlier he was working as Manager Industrie 4.0 responsible for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) for DXC Technology, which was established when the earlier Computer Science Corporation (CSC) and the Enterprise Service Organization of Hewlett Packard Enterprise merged in April 2017. Since he started at Hewlett-Packard as technical consultant 1996, he took over managerial functions within Germany as product manager, sales manager for High Education and later for High Performance Computing. November 2011 he accepted a role as business development manager to work out and promote central themes for the country management. November 2011 he accepted a role as business development manager to work out and promote central innovative themes for the country management. In April 2015 he took offer the role as Manager Industrie 4.0. His range of tasks included the cross-business-unit planning, execution and control of the Group's own Industry 4.0 program for EMEA. In this context he also managed related research activities and collaborations and was engaged in HPE’s and DXC’s program for start-ups. Since 2011 Johanness is contributing to the German initiative “Industrie 4.0”. He was a member of the steering board of the “Plattform Industrie 4.0” and further related institutions. In a part-time job Johannes runs his own company Diemer Consulting 4.0 e.K. consulting companies and politics on Industrial Digitisation. He is particularly concerned with the sustainable use of electromobility, A new area of interest is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

ARENA2036 stands for "Active Research Environment for the Next generation of Automobiles" and is the innovation platform for production and mobility of the future. The research campus is one of a total of nine in the BMBF funding initiative "Research Campus - Public-Private Partnership for Innovation" in Germany. Our mission is to strengthen and secure the technological sovereignty of the business location, especially in automotive production and Industry 4.0. We see ourselves as an innovation platform for future technologies, where high-tech companies drive disruptive technology developments with ecosystem character under one roof. As part of the University of Stuttgart campus, we provide our more than 40 partners with access to excellent know-how and collaboration with leading experts from a wide range of disciplines - from the automotive industry to aerospace technology, textile and materials research, and labor science. As the office of ARENA2036 e.V., we shape the cooperation of our partners and support their projects.