Christine Regitz

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Christine Regitz (2019)

Christine Regitz (* 1966 ) is a German IT specialist, software developer , supervisory board member and former vice president of the Gesellschaft für Informatik . As Head of Women in Tech @ SAP, she has been responsible within SAP since January 2020 for strengthening the networking and visibility of female experts from all areas of the company and their professional expertise.

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Christine Regitz studied business administration and physics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and the Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Italy). In her diploma thesis she dealt with energy management. After graduating, she worked as a consultant at IDS Scheer Consulting GmbH from 1993 to 1994 . In 1994 she moved to SAP SE and has since worked in different functions and areas in software development and management. Regitz is co-founder of the SAP Business Women's Network and was appointed to the SAP Sustainability Advisory Panel and the Global CSR Governance Committee of SAP. Regitz has been the elected representative for the employee side on the Supervisory Board of SAP SE since 2015. For this she completed an apprenticeship, also as a business coach and mediator. In 2019, she was elected to the SAP Supervisory Board for a further five years by the workforce for the employee side. Since then, she has been a member of the Executive and Personnel Committee, the Finance and Investment Committee and deputy chairwoman of the Technology and Strategy Committee.

Regitz volunteers in the Society for Computer Science (GI) , of which she has been a member since 2007. From 2010 to 2016 she was the spokesperson for the Women and IT Section and a member of the Presidium. In 2016 she was elected Vice-President of the Society for Computer Science for four years. She is currently the spokesperson for the GI's Economic Advisory Board. She represented the GI's Women and IT Section as a delegate to the German Women's Council for six years .

Regitz is involved in the specialist committee women in ITK at BITKOM . She is appointed to the board of trustees of the Steinbeis Foundation , an association that is active in knowledge and technology transfer and a member of the High-Level Advisory Committee of the European Center for Women and Technology (ECWT). Regitz is also co-founder of the Ada Lovelace Festival, which has been bringing women from the IT and technology industries together since 2015. Regitz works in the steering committee of the festival and regularly gives key notes. She also supports various initiatives to network and make women in IT visible.

In 2018 she was a member of the jury of the Cebit Innovation Awards . From 2018 she is a member of the board of trustees of the Klaus Tschira Medal of the Society for Computer Science and the Klaus Tschira Foundation . Since 2019 she has been the chair of an interdisciplinary jury of AI experts on future issues for the research and development of artificial intelligence within the project # KI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany - yesterday, today, tomorrow . In 2020 she was appointed to the industrial advisory board at the Leibniz Center for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl and to the council for information infrastructures of the Joint Science Conference (GWK) .

Award

On September 1, 2018, Regitz was awarded the first Felicitas Prize in the “MINT Role Model” category by Femtec.Alumnae , a network of women from MINT professions . This honored her commitment to women in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology (MINT).

Publications

  • Christine Regitz, Simone Rehm: The Myth of Computer Science - What Keeps Women Away from a Computer Science Profession? In: Gesellschaft für Informatik (Hrsg.): Magazine of the specialist group women and informatics. No. 37. Berlin, 2013
  • The board perspective. In: Informatik-Spektrum, Vol. 37, 6/2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg 2014
  • Christiane Kuntz-Mayr, Christine Regitz: Diversity from below. The SAP Business Women's Network. In: Successfully shaping career opportunities for women. Analyzes, strategies and good practices from modern companies. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-00793-5
  • Coding is cool. Girls can also do math. In: Steinbeis Foundation (ed.): Transfer issue 1/2018, Stuttgart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inge Kloepfer: Women wanted . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . April 19, 2020.
  2. SAP Business Women's Network - Ten years of Business Women's Network at SAP. July 28, 2017, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  3. Christine Regitz Supervisory Board. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  4. Investor Relations Center. Handelsblatt Online, accessed on February 5, 2020 .
  5. Christine Regitz: Vita. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  6. Women in ITK. BITKOM, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
  7. Board of Trustees of the Steinbeis Foundation. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  8. http://www.ecwt.eu/en/ecwt-high-level-advisory-committee
  9. “You have to know the needs of the users” - BMBF CEBIT Innovation Award. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  10. ^ Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI): AI experts name 10 future questions of AI development. November 22, 2019, accessed on November 26, 2019 (German).
  11. Felicitas Prize - Femtec.Alumnae. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).