Hasso Plattner Institute, NYC
Hasso Plattner Institute, New York
HPI New York – Solving global challenges through digital engineering, collaboration, and design thinking. Become a part of HPI's global community.
About the Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany's University Excellence Center for Digital Engineering, opened its NYC office at 10 Hudson Yards in June 2017 and the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai in March 2019.
HPI New York is responsible for enhancing HPI's global outreach through a variety of activities, including conferences, symposia, panel discussions, workshops as well as the establishment of strategic partnerships in academia and industry. It is also the headquarters of the Global Design Thinking Alliance.
The office also shares information about HPI's research, teaching, and learning opportunities, including its Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), career opportunities, scholarships, and more.
The office also shares information about HPI's research, teaching, and learning opportunities, including its Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), career opportunities, scholarships, and more.
The Hasso Plattner Institute, New York, in collaboration with the German International School of Silicon Valley and Tenafly High School received a generous grant for its project, "Shaping the Future of Entrepreneurship in Germany and the United States." Listen to HPI alumni founders speak with high school students about how they founded their companies and their entrepreneurial journeys here.
Upcoming events
February 21, New York
Designing Your Life
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be running a Designing Your Life workshop for honors students from Binghamton University. The workshop uses the design thinking process to help students develop a constructive and effective approach to designing their careers and their lives with purpose.
March 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HPI New York will have a booth at the 2025 European Career Fair at MIT, the largest Europe-focused career fair in the US, with the mission to connect top-tier US students and young professionals with European companies, universities, and non-profit organizations and to generally inform about career opportunities in Europe.
March 7, New York
Creating the Conditions for Innovation: A Strategic Approach for Business and Law
In collaboration with the German-American Chamber of Commerce and Fragomen, HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will speak to business leaders and legal experts about creating the conditions for innovation.
August 29-30, Boston, Massachusetts
The annual GAIN conference is a large German science and research career fair. Early career researchers and representatives from all areas of the German research landscape come together for three days of exchange...
Past events
December 11, Online
Design Your Life
HPI New York is hosting another "Design Your Life" workshop. Participants will apply the innovation principles of Design Thinking to designing incremental changes in their professional and personal lives.
November 22, New York
HPI at the German International School New York
Dr. Joann Halpern will give a presentation about HPI and run a design thinking workshop with 11th and 12th grade students at the German International School, New York, which is located in White Plains.
November 21, New York
The Future of International Exchange in US Higher Education
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be giving a talk at the New York University conference: “Finding the Way Forward: The Future of International Exchange in US Higher Education” which will take place during International Education Week.
November 20, New York
What does it take to be successful in the US market?
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be moderating a panel discussion on “What does it take to be successful in the US market?” The panel is being organized by the Norwegian Consulate and Innovation Norway. Participants include representatives from industry, government and academia.
November 15, New York
An Introduction to HPI
Students from the University of Hamburg will visit the Hasso Plattner Institute New York to learn about possibilities to study and conduct research at HPI. They will also be introduced to design thinking.
November 15, New York
Students from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle will learn about study and research possibilities at the Hasso Plattner Institute, followed by an interactive workshop that introduces them to the design thinking process and design thinking mindsets.
November 12, New York
Introduction to Design Thinking for High School Students
As part of the German International School Boston's "Speaker Series," HPI NY director, Dr. Joann Halpern will introduce students to the Hasso Plattner Institute and design thinking.
November 11, New York
Perspectives on the Transatlantic Life Sciences Ecosystem
Dr. Joann Halpern, HPI NY, Dr. Steve Sokol, ACG and Dr. Benedikt Bosbach, Pfizer presented to the Mayor of Berlin and his delegation at the Pfizer headquarters in NYC. The topics included new developments in transatlantic scientific collaboration, the US election and transatlantic relations, and innovation in the life sciences.
November 1, New York
Unleashing Creativity: Design Thinking for the Next Generation of ICT Innovators
This workshop will focus on how design thinking can unlock students’ creative potential and empower them to solve complex challenges in the ICT world. They will learn practical techniques to foster innovation and develop user-centered solutions.
October 30, Washington, DC
Symposium: Germany – The Science Powerhouse: Cutting-edge Research and Innovation in Turbulent Times
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be addressing representatives from academia, industry and politics at the German Embassy’s Symposium in Washington, DC...
October 21, New York
Workshop: Designing Your Entrepreneurial Life
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be running a workshop for entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs that will use the “Designing Your Life” process. Participants will develop Energy Engagement Maps, three Odyssey Plans and engage in a number of exercises to prepare them for the aforementioned activities.
October 21, New York
Keynote Address: Fostering Innovation: Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in Academic Institutions
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be delivering the keynote address during the Entrepreneurship Education Week in New York City. The talk will look at how HPI has...
October 11, Online
Deep learning has achieved significant breakthroughs in natural language processing, sparking great interest in applying these methods to biomedical data...
October 8, Online
Are you planning to pursue a graduate degree abroad? This event is designed to help you navigate the process, from finding the right program and university to understanding the requirements and application process. The invitation will be available soon.
September 28, Bochum, Germany
Human-Centered Innovation in the VR Landscape
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern has been invited to deliver a keynote address entitled: “Innovative Realities: The Role of Design Thinking in Shaping VR” at the Ruhr University Bochum Virtual Reality Summit. Her presentation will focus on human-centered innovation in the VR landscape.
September 24, New York
Introduction to HPI for University Students
HPI NY will be hosting bachelors and masters engineering students from the University of Constance who are interested in learning more about studying and conducting research at HPI.
September 21, New York
In this panel discussion, Joel Mesot, President, ETH Zurich, Nicolas Dirks, President and CEO, New York Academy of Sciences, and Joann Halpern, Director, HPI New York will rETHink how universities will teach, research, and interact with society in the future.
September 6, New York
Designing Your Life & Intro to HPI
HPI Director, Dr. Joann Halpern will be running a Designing Your Life workshop that will bring together students from several US and German universities The workshop uses the design thinking process to help students develop a constructive and effective approach to designing their careers and their lives with purpose.
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Studying at the Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam is the only university faculty in Germany to offer a degree program in IT Systems Engineering and a postgraduate program in Design Thinking. HPI offers a practice-oriented education with award-winning degrees — without tuition fees.
The Hasso Plattner Institute
Teaching and Research in IT at the Highest Level
Open HPI
Enter a fascinating world of knowledge with our free open online courses. Meet other participants from around the globe and familiarize yourself with fundamental and current topics in ICT, computer science and IT systems engineering.
What exactly does digital entrepreneurship mean and how does it differ from "classic" entrepreneurship? How does digital entrepreneurship influence the economy and society? How does effective collaboration between different stakeholders work and what role do digital ecosystems...
Optimization is ubiquitous in industry and research. However, many optimization problems of interest are hard to solve. In this lecture Lucia, Julien and Daniel show you how quantum computing approaches combinatorial...
WWW, the world wide web or shortly the web - really nothing more than an information service on the Internet – has changed our world by creating a whole new digital world that is closely intertwined with our real world, making reality what was previously unimaginable...
Design Thinking is an innovation approach, which evolved through the past 12 years from a university program at Stanford and HPI Potsdam to a globally respected and universally applied set of methods and tools for supporting and driving change towards a networked culture...
Digitalization and exponential growth of data are challenges to the world of traditional IT. In this course we are presenting technologies that are building blocks for the "Future of Computing".
Make sense of design research data, learn to frame a problem from a user's perspective, and generate lots of new ideas: This course will introduce you to the basics of design synthesis and brainstorming techniques.
Contact us
Dr. Joann Halpern
Director, HPI New York
Joann.halpern@hpi.de
10 Hudson Yards, 48th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Director, HPI New York
Joann.halpern@hpi.de
10 Hudson Yards, 48th Floor
New York, NY 10001