In his keynote speech, Prof. Haddadin presented the audience with the thesis that the major challenges of our time can only be mastered through the widespread use of disruptive technologies. To achieve this, he said, society needs to take an opportunity-oriented view of technology that creates room for responsible and conscious handling of risks. This must act symbiotically with people and the environment as well as serve the pursuit of knowledge. Breakthroughs in sensor technology are a step toward decoupling man's scope of action from his physical expansion and removing it spatially. This opens up unprecedented scope for action, both in practical areas such as prosthetics or surgery, and in research, for example in space or in the deep sea.