At the seventh European Workshop on Software Ecosystems, the research on software ecosystems and platforms proved to be advancing very well. Goal of this workshop is to:1.bring together the software ecosystem and platform ecosystem research community from all over Europe and2. share, present and discuss their latest research with business software industry experts. Researchers and Presenters:New Ecosystem Opportunities& 'White space' Opportunities in Software and High-Tech Data Economy, Platforms and Privacy Peter Buxmann (TU-Darmstadt)New Cloud-Based Ecosystem Opportunities for Digital Business Thomas CurranUberization of field service Sebastien Dupre (SAP SE)Panel on Network Effects, Data Effects& AI - Keys to the castle John Rethans (Apigee/Google)Ecosystem Driven Development Slinger Jansen (University of Utrecht)Design patterns for business success for software platforms and ecosystems Ralf Meyer (Synomic)

Karl Michael Popp:Dr. Karl Michael Popp is Senior Director M&A in the Global Business Development and Ecosystem Team in the Office of the CEO of SAP SE. In this area, he works on inorganic growth projects of SAP SE, such as due diligence and merger integration of technology companies as well as strategic partnerships. In his career, he has completed more than 30 acquisitions and corresponding merger integrations worldwide and worked with over 50 companies on partnerships.He is the author of several books and a speaker on software due diligence, post merger integration, digitization of M&A processes as well as business models and platform business models in the software industry. Dr. Popp is a long-standing member of the German M&A Association (Bundesverband M&A) as well as a former board member of the Gesellschaft für Post Merger Integration (now part of the Bundesverband M&A) and works in the program committee of the European Workshop on Merger Integration and of the Think Tank Denkfabrik Wirtschaft. He studied economics and received his doctorate in information systems from the University of Bamberg. More information can be found at https://www.drkarlpopp.com/ .