After graduating from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (2001) and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (2000 and 2003) with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and business informatics, Stefan Weidner has headed the SAP University Competence Center Magdeburg since 2004. For almost 25 years, the center has been hosting SAP solutions for teaching, research and co-innovation. Today, his team provides teaching and learning environments to more than 850 universities in over 80 countries, mainly in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In addition to his various leadership positions, he has contributed his expertise in global curriculum initiatives and his passion for modern teaching to numerous development projects in teaching, research and industry. He is also the author of several academic textbooks. Stefan is member of the SAP academic boards for German-speaking countries as well as for Sub-Sahara Africa and was recently honored with the SAP Community Award 2025.

In addition to his day job, he has been leading work package 9 Infrastructure for the EU GREEN European university alliance since 2023 and is collaborating with the aUPaEU project to implement and further develop the Agora system.