
Helena Liebelt
Director,
Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Biography of Prof. Dr. Helena Liebelt Helena founded her first digital start-up company at the age 18, while still studying Computer Science. She started her Intel career in 2005 as an Application Engineer within the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), developing good understanding of software products and the ISV market. She moved on building a SW lab supporting internal engineering community as well as external customers. Since 2010 Helena was leading the HPC Market in Germany for almost a decade. Working with the in-country resources as well as collaborating and leveraging off the central enabling, marketing and platform teams to grow German HPC business. In 2018 Helena received the prestigious Intel Achievement Award, Intel’s highest Honour, for her contribution to HPC. She has Doctorate in Economics (“Strategic change management in post crisis environment”) as well as formal education in Business Administration and Computer Science. In 2018 Helena received a tenured position as a full Professor of Computer Science at her Alma Mater, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), where she build the first European “HPC and Quantum Computing” master program at the DIT in autumn 2021 with a high demand of students followed by a new bachelor Program on “Data Center Management” starting in 2022. Helena is also the founder and director of the Institute of Future Technologies.
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