Benedikt is an early talent expert in the area of AI, sustainability and resilience with a focus on manufacturing and a youth advocate.

In his professional life, Benedikt works at SAP and was until July 2025 a Fellow at the World Economic Forum for AI and Manufacturing (AMSC). He works closely with Executives from world leading companies, academia and politics on strategies, frameworks, tools, new business models and best practices to help companies, especially manufacturers, to adopt new technologies and transform their business to an AI-driven, resilient and sustainable one. This enables him to support them during their 3 main transformations: The digital/AI transformation, the sustainability one and the transformation towards continuous adoption and resilience. He does lots of research in those fields and shaped the term "Triple Transformation", inter alia featured in a Forbes article. Triple Transformation means bringing the three main transformations together as one Business Transformation as all three are quite similar in their way of disrupting internal processes and shaping a new way of working.

Benedikt has a background in Business Informatics and started his professional career 2019 in form of a dual study program together with SAP. In his bachelor thesis he built a quantum computing strategy for SAP’s CTO. In his former role in the SAP Product Engineering Board Office he was involved in many strategic projects of SAP in the field of AI and other technologies. To get also the sustainability and resilience perspective, he decided to study Sustainability and Impact Management in a part-time Master model at Mannheim Business School.

In accordance with the quote of Mahatma Gandhi “the future depends on what you do today”, Benedikt’s personal goal is to have an active role in making the world a better place, creating impact, and fighting global challenges by uniting people using modern technology. This can only be achieved together including all stakeholders. Therefore, and because Benedikt is deeply connected with his home region, he founded the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Hub Heidelberg in January 2023. In this function he works inter alia with other Shapers from different hubs and the Munich Security Conference on an youth version of the European Security Architecture.

Because of his work, Benedikt was nominated for the Axel Springer Future Pioneers Award 2023 and 2024. Since December 2024 he supports the US Consulate in Frankfurt by bringing in youth perspectives on different topics like frontier technologies or security related topics. To enable a knowledge transfer and support young, motivated talents, he gives lectures in the area of new technologies and sustainability and is one of the youngest Academic Supervisors and Lecturers at DHBW in Karlsruhe.