FOLKE WÖLFER Personal Birth & Family: Year of birth 1962, born in Hamm/Westphalia, married, one son Places of residence: Ruhr area and wherever the house key fits. Personal Goals: To make the world a little better! Interests: Family, people, education, sustainability, sports, holidays by the sea and in the mountains FOLKE WÖLFER Professional Education: Abitur, training as an insurance salesman, business administration studies Profession (calling): Bridge builder. Networker. Future designer. Moderator. Orientation: Consulting, moderation, and support of cooperative development processes for organizations from business, science, and society Focus topics: Education, sustainability, and sports Guidelines: empathetic, constructive, curious, critical Moderations: Festival of Kamener Sports (2026) Congress of the Westphalian Tennis Association (2025) Kick-Off „Allianz Smart City Dortmund“ (2024) BEWUSST WIE VOR ORT (since 2020) Dortmund Business Training Award (since 2006) FOLKE WÖLFER Business Structures Companies: KTDM Development Group (since 2019) WÖLFER event engineering + services (since 1987) Stages: SIGNAL Versicherungen (self-employed insurance agent) KKS Hahn GmbH (Managing Director) RUHRGEBIET DMC (Managing Partner) Voluntary work: DIE FAMILIENUNTERNEHMER e.V. (Board member in the Dortmund regional chapter) BEWUSST WIE e.V. (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) IHK Dortmund (Member of the Plenary Assembly)

AI Agents in Action for Cross-Border Collaboration Objectives & Benefits This workshop provides the strategic toolkit to ensure that collaborative partnerships are not left to chance. Active Cooperation Management (ACM) and the targeted use of artificial intelligence are instruments that you can systematically employ for your growth. You will learn to actively and professionally build cooperation from the very first second, minimize friction losses, and leverage the transformative power of AI-supported processes for seamless data flow and reliable documentation. Core Promise: You will learn why artificial intelligence does not replace human cooperation, but makes it better, faster, and more reliable – measurably. Target Audience: Developers of organizations, economic areas, and projects (e.g., managing directors, business development managers, product developers, economic developers, association managers) who want to leverage the value of active cooperation management.

Offer: Create structures, activate potentials, eliminate risks Starting situation & objective: "Cooperative blind flight" as an economic risk Competitive advantage: Cooperative development - Strategic partnerships and cross-border cooperation are not soft feel-good factors. They are investments that must pay off. Nevertheless, practice shows that many partnerships are started without clear key figures, milestones, and process control. As a result, valuable management capacities are blocked, internal resources are burned, and innovation risks are externalized. We call this "cooperative blind flight". At the same time, many organizations are sitting on undiscovered internal treasures: cultural competencies, language skills, or technological know-how of their own workforce often remain invisible and unused in day-to-day business. The prerequisite for successful cooperation is active cooperation management (ACM). Tasks include aligning the internal foundation, opening doors to relevant contacts, managing processes, and analyzing success. The ACM orientation consulting initially looks inward. With it, you pull the emergency brake before an unstructured start. You transform the topic of cooperation into a professional, high-yield management instrument. The goal is to examine your strategic foundation, make hidden resources (Hidden Assets) visible, and determine the exact delta of external demand before potentially making expensive bad investments.