09:00 a.m.
Welcome to the 18^th International Facility Management Congress 2025!

09:15 a.m. – 09:30 a.m.
Welcome by Prof. Dr. Alexander Redlein (IFM TU Wien)

Key Notes:

09:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Focus on people and their well being, the new office environment of IBM Austria.
Marco Porak (IBM Österreich)

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
MCI Linz: how to attract, motivate and increase employees and their engagement due to workplace experience.
Ursula Schöneborn-Siligan (CFO/VP Finance and Legal at MIC Customs Solutions Holding GmbH)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee break incl. exhibition and networking

11:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m
ESG in historical buildings - low investement solutions in practical use.
Reinhold Sahl (Castle captaincy)

AI and ESG data to generate added value: AI to optimize operation and energy utilisation
Prof. Dr. Alexander Redlein (TU Wien)

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch break incl. exhibition and networking

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m
ESG current status and outlook into the future.
Dennis Pietzka (Senior Manager PwC)
Mag. Andrej Grieb (Judge at the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters, Deputy Chairman of the Housing and Tenancy Law Section of the Association of Austrian Judges)

NIS 2 and critical infrastructures.
Dipl.-Ing. Alessandro Friedreich (Tenente)

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Coffee break incl. exhibition & networking

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m
Good old Europe, quo vadis?
Dr. Valentin Hofstätter (Raiffeisen Bank Int. AG (AT))

4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Presentation of the winner of the Innovation Challenge 2025

Summary of the first day
Prof. Dr. Alexander Redlein  (IFM TU Wien)

from 6:00 p.m.
Joint dinner hosted by Compass - networking in a pleasant atmosphere

09:00 a.m.
Welcome back to the 2^nd day of the congress!
Prof. Dr. Alexander Redlein (IFM TU Wien)

09:30 – 11:00 a.m. 
Science meets Practice: Scientific presentations I: Strategic FM & ESG
 

How does FM contribute to the social dimension ESG?
Christian Behrens, Sarah Martens (Konsulentgruppen Strandgade)
Per Anker Jensen (DTU Technical University of Denmark)

Data Envelopment Analysis for Sustainable Healthcare: Ranking Hospitals based on CO₂ Emissions; Desirable/Undesirable Output
Fatemeh Masoudian & Kunibert Lennerts (Institute of Technology and Management in Construction/FM, KIT Karlsruhe)

High-performance climbing plants for urban climate improvement: Maintenance strategies for vertical greening
Anna Katharina Briefer, Maximilian Poiss & Rosemarie Stangl (Institute of Soil Bioengineering and Landscape Construction, BOKU University Vienna)

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Coffee break including exhibition and networking

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Science meets Practice: Scientific presentations II: Operational FM & Workplace

Leveraging AI-Driven Optimization and Dynamic Service Allocation in Ethiopia: A Platform-Based
Model for Smart and Sustainable Facility Management
Muluken Tilahun Desbalo (College of Technology and Built Environment Addis Ababa, University)
J. Melzner & H.-J. Bargstädt (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Mapping workplace characteristics against a backdrop of hybrid work life
Göran Lindahl (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg)
Christina Bodin Danielsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Zipp & Scan, an innovative solution to improve patient belongings management in hospitals
Karin Diez (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), IFM Institute for Facility Management)
I. Kramer (IFP Institute for Care, Swiss)
T. Merkle (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), IFM Institute for Facility Management)
N. Zigan (IFP Institute for Care, Swiss)
 

1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Summary of the two congress days and closing remarks
Prof. Dr. Alexander Redlein (IFM - TU Wien)

From 1:15 p.m.
Lunch break including exhibition and networking