Speaker
Michael Geers
Frontend Architekt
Michael is a software developer with a strong passion for frontend development. He has been crafting for the web since the dawn of the millennium. In the last 15 years he has been primarily involved in the e-commerce sector with neuland Büro für Informatik.
There, most of his projects have been driven by the question: „How can one efficiently develop large webshops with multiple small teams?“. He has shared his insights from these projects in the book „Micro Frontends in Action“ and on https://micro-frontends.org.
When he doesn’t work on e-commerce, he’s involved in https://evcc.io, an open-source effort to make home solar charging as easy as possible for everyone.
SessionS
Digitalization at Mercedes-Benz: How Frontend Integration Accelerates and Modernizes Engineering Processes
LeanLeaderSummit 2026
The German automotive industry is in the middle of a deep transformation. The core product is changing, new global competitors are pushing aggressively into the market, and development cycles are getting significantly shorter. To stay competitive, Mercedes-Benz is digitalizing the vehicle, integrating it into wider digital ecosystems, and modernizing hundreds of internal enterprise IT systems.
As organizational structures and domain logic grow more complex, the classic separation of frontend and backend, combined with traditional data integration approaches, becomes a bottleneck: redundant work, inconsistent user experiences, and slow time-to-market.
In this talk, we'll show how Mercedes-Benz uses a micro frontend architecture to integrate established, heterogeneous technology stacks into scalable enterprise IT platforms. Teams retain full ownership of their domain logic and tech choices, while shared boundaries enable consistency and reuse across the organization. The approach reduces cross-team dependencies, increases reusability, and significantly accelerates time-to-market.
We will share the strategic context driving this shift at Mercedes-Benz, the architectural decisions behind the platform, and where it stands today.
Company
neuland – Büro für Informatik GmbH
Wir realisieren Online-Shopsysteme
Als E-Commerce Spezialist in den Bereichen B2C und B2B betreuen wir seit 18 Jahren Onlineshops. Gemeinsam mit unseren Kunden analysieren wir Geschäftsprozesse, definieren Ziele, finden Lösungen und entwickeln Software für mehr Erfolg. Begreifen, wissen, handeln: Unser gemeinsamer Weg zu erfolgreichen Lösungen.
Unsere Stärken:
- Maßgeschneiderte Shops – unabhängig von Shopsystemen
- Beratung zur Optimierung von Shops
- Durchdachte Check-Out-Systeme
- Shopsuche (inkl. KI-Suche für Text und Bild)
neuland entwickelt exzellente E-Commerce Lösungen, passgenau, verständlich und nachhaltig – von Menschen für Menschen.