About me

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. rer. pol. Sven-Volker Rehm is an independent researcher with 25 years of experience in academia. He currently acts as Founding Director of the Collective and Artificial Intelligence Research Institute ‒ CAIR Institute, a distributed, virtual research-as-a-service institute in its founding phase.

Since 1999, Dr. Rehm has acquired and led dozens of European-scale interdisciplinary research projects with industry on innovation management and digital transformation with a budget exceeding 30m €. His current academic affiliation is with WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (DE). He has also taught and held positions and appointments at the Univ. of Strasbourg (FR), Univ. of Stuttgart (DE) and the Technical Univ. of Munich (DE).

Dr. Rehm's research lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and organizing with a focus on collective intelligence and AI and has been published in journals such as Information & Management, Information and Organization, Journal of the AIS, MIS Quarterly Executive, Smart Cities, and others.

He holds a 5-year diploma in cybernetics and information science, and a doctorate in the field of business informatics from the University of Stuttgart (DE). He received his Habilitation degree in business administration from WHU in 2014. His teaching portfolio includes Management Information Systems, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Technology & Innovation Manage-ment, Future Foresight, Systems Thinking & Managerial Cybernetics.

Dr. Rehm assisted the European Commission as independent expert in the field of integration of technologies for industrial applications. He regularly acts as reviewer and associate editor for various journals and conferences, among them European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Academy of Management CTO, ODC, OMT & TIM divisions, and ECIS. Since 2021, he serves as executive chairman of GWS Society - the Society for Managerial and Social Cybernetics, and is a member of AIS, AOM, INFORMS and the German Informatics Society. 

Dr. Rehm's activities target at achieving business impact through transfer of research findings to managerial practice. To this end he has consulted and researched with dozens of companies and public institutions across Europe to improve their capabilities for information management, innovation management, and digital transformation. A current focus is on developing AI-enabled business models for digital platforms, and on services in the areas of cybersecurity and the metaverse.