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MARIO HERGER is a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California and Global Head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP. He has worked in the past as developer, development manager, architect, product manager and other roles on a series of new SAP products and has been driving communities for more than 15 years, including innovative topics at SAP, like Visual Composer, Business Process Experts, mobile and gamification. He also organizes innovation events around the world.

He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and an undergraduate degree in International Business Management from the Vienna university of Economy. His thesis was around sustainability, a topic that seems a natural match with gamification.

He recently played through all levels of the iPad game Air Attack and currently works with his four year old son on reaching the final level of Angry Birds.

Mario likes generally everything that is odd, intelligent, artful and surprisingly interesting. He is from Vienna/Austria, living in the Silicon Valley, California.

In his work as head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP he has encountered and supported gamification efforts in the enterprise from multiple levels and departments, like Sustainability, On Demand, Mobile, HR, Training & Education, Simulation, Marketing etc. He has driven the awareness around gamification inside and outside SAP by organizing and leading innovation events across the world around this topic, working with gamification platform- & service-providers, and by incorporating gamification into SAP's strategy.

In 2014 he won 2nd Place Gamification Guru 2014 at the Gamification World Congress in Barcelona, based on the monthly Gamification Guru] list compiled by Rise.com.