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bright minds – bright future: wingnet after-work event on 6 March 2026

Research, industry, consulting or start-up – which path is right for me? Many people ask themselves this question during their studies. wingnet would like to address this very issue at the wingnet Afterwork event on 6 March and present four different career paths from first-hand experience.

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The speakers

  • Christian Diewald, CEO/Managing Director of Stadler Austria GmbH and President of the Association Austrian Rail Industry (VBI); graduate engineer in Mechanical Engineering – Management at TU Wien. – Field: Industry
  • Tanja Zigart, Strategy Consultant at Accenture Austria and CEO and co-founder of the TravelTech startup CityRiddler GmbH; graduate engineer in Mechanical Engineering – Management at TU Wien, doctorate (Dr. techn.) in December 2022 at TU Wien with a dissertation on multi-criteria evaluation models for industrial assistance systems. –  Field: Consulting
  • Michael Aufreiter, CEO and co-founder of Inmox GmbH; graduate engineer in Mechanical Engineering at TU Wien with a focus on transmission technology for aviation and materials science. Inmox is officially a TU Wien spin-off. – Field: Startup
  • Paul Heinz Mayrhofer, university professor of materials science at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at TU Wien, dean of studies at the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at TU Wien, and head of the “Thin Film Materials Science” research group. Habilitation in Leoben on the topic of nanostructured design of hard thin films. Postdoctoral stays at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), RWTH Aachen University, and Linköping University (Sweden), the latter as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow – field: research. 

Each speaker will give a 30-minute insight into their own career and present a future-oriented topic from their respective industry – areas where a lot is happening right now and where young talent is in demand. After the presentations, it's time for networking: during the buffet and breakout sessions, you can talk directly to the speakers and exchange ideas. 

The facts

Friday, March 6, 2026
3:30 p.m. doors open, 4:00 p.m. start
TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt
Networking: from 8:00 p.m.
The event will be held in German.
Registration, opens an external URL in a new window

 

We would also like to thank our sponsor, the Association for the Promotion of Business Science Research and Education (VBW), thegameroom.org, opens an external URL in a new window and spielbank.com.de, opens an external URL in a new window, whose commitment made this special afternoon possible.