Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wagenpfeil

• Since 2025: Partner at SLW
• Since 2024: IT expert
• Since 2023: Professor of Software Engineering and IT Management at PFH Göttingen
• 2020–2022: Doctorate in Multimedia Information Retrieval at FernUniversität Hagen
• 2001–2015: Product development, software for TV and radio broadcasters
• 2010: Recipient of the European Business Award in the Innovation category
• 2008: Recipient of the “Duke’s Choice Award” in San Francisco
• 1999–2020: Trainer for Java and JEE
• 1996–2000: Studied computer science (Diploma in Computer Science with a minor in Medical Informatics) at the University of Passau

Management consulting

• Technology and process consulting
• Sustainable software architectures
• Large-scale IT projects

IT projects

• Software architecture
• Quality assurance
• Code reviews

• European AR/VR Coalition, advisory board to the European Commission
• Professional Association of German Usability and User Experience Professionals
• BITMi Innovation Network AIM for AI

• Springer-Buch: Moderne Software-Entwicklung mit Java und JEE
• Springer-Buch: Gamification – wie spielerische Elemente die Nutzung von Geschäftsanwendungen beflügeln
• Springer-Buch: Multimedia Informationssysteme und Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Springer-Buch: Nachhaltiges Software Engineering - wie Software Entwicklung Investition und Zukunft sichert
• IT-Gutachten im Zeitalter von Künstlicher Intelligenz (2025, ITRB): IT_Gutachten_im_Zeitalter_von_Künstlicher_Intelligenz___Herausforderungen_für_die_juristische_Praxis
• Multimedia Graph Codes for Fast and Semantic Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (2025, MDPI): https://www.mdpi.com/3363550
• Avatar Detection in Metaverse Recordings (2024, MDPI): https://www.mdpi.com/2813-2084/3/4/25
• Artificial-Intelligence-Based Image Generation from Scene Graphs for Metaverse Recording Retrieval (2025, MDPI): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/7/1427https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/7/1427
• Explainable Multimedia Feature Fusion for Medical Applications (2022, MDPI)
• Towards AI-based Semantic Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval for Social Media on Smartphones (2020, SMAP)
• AI-based Semantic Multimedia Indexing (2021, MDPI)
• Semantic Query Construction and Result Representation based on Graph Codes (2021, BIRDS)
• Fast and Effective Retrieval for Large Multimedia Collections (2021, MDPI)
• Towards Automated Semantic Explainability of Multimedia Feature Graphs (2021, MDPI)
• Graph Codes – 2D Projections of Multimedia Feature Graphs for Fast and Effective Retrieval (2021, WASET)
• Supporting Argument Strength by Integration Semantic Multimedia Feature Detection with Emerging Argument Extraction (2021, ArgStrength)
• Smart Multimedia Information Retrieval (2022, FuH)
• Large Text Processing with Graph Codes (2021, TREC)
• HILOD21 – A High Level Of Detail Image Dataset for Object Detection (2021, FuH)
• Smart Multimedia Information Retrieval (2022, MDPI)
• Parallelization Strategies for Graph Code Based Similarity Search (2023, MDPI)
• Integration of Metaverse Recordings in Multimedia Information Retrieval (2024, ACM)
• Towards a Hyperworls Transfer protocol (2024, FUH)

• Deutscher IT-Sicherheitsrechtstag 2025 (Berlin): KI als Prüfgegenstand, IT-Sachverstand trifft Systemintelligenz
• Requirement Engineering 2025 (Leipzig): Pflichtenheft oder Projektgrab - wie IT-Sachverständige frühzeitig Fehler erkennen
• AKEUR 2025 (Köln): Unterhalten sich ein Informatiker, ein Jurist und eine KI
• Deutscher IT-Rechtstag 2025 (Berlin): IT-Gutachten im Zeitalter von Künstlicher Intelligenz
• Südniedersachsen Stiftung 2025 (Göttingen): Vom Wandel profitieren - mit und trotz KI
• ORBIS Customer Connect 2025 (München): Daten und Wissen im Zeitalter von KI
• Measurement Valley Niedersachsen 2025 (Göttingen): KI-Strategien für den Mittelstand
• Identiverse 2024 (Las Vegas): Digital Identities in the Metaverse and Virtual Worlds
• Europäische Union 2024 (Brüssel): Competition in Virtual Worlds and Generative AI
• Conf3rence 2024 (Dortmund): The impact of AI technology on the future of the industry
• MEWS Conference 2024 (Monaco): Education and Awareness of Virtual World Technologies