Michael Badics is at the moment senior director of AE Solutions, a new division of Ars Electronica. AE Solutions is developing the most promising prototypes and research results of the Ars Electronica Futurelab into products ready for real-world implementation. He was founder and managing director of Memetics GmbH and has studied computer sciences at the Linzer Johannes Kepler university. After 15 years working as software engineer and manager in the multinational software company Fabasoft AG he was working about 8 years with managing the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

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