Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
ᴍᴇᴅɪᴀ ᴇɴᴛʀᴇᴘʀᴇɴᴇᴜʀ. ᴅᴏᴄᴜᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʀʏ ꜰɪʟᴍᴍᴀᴋᴇʀ. ᴇᴅᴜᴄᴀᴛᴏʀ. Founder and producer of PilotsEYE.tv, an international aviation documentary series comprising 23 feature-length episodes produced to cinema standards. Based in Germany and Cyprus. ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛʜᴀɴ 35 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴀ ᴘʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ, communication, and innovation in advertising and visual storytelling. Early contributor to new forms of commercial communication, including interactive and hybrid media formats that connected traditional broadcasting with emerging digital environments. ʟᴏɴɢ-ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴄᴏᴍᴍɪᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴇᴅᴜᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴏꜰᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴛʀᴀɪɴɪɴɢ. Former head of studies at a leading German academy for marketing and communication, responsible for curriculum development, teaching quality, and the integration of real-world industry practices into academic programs. Strong advocate for education models that are closely aligned with operational reality rather than theoretical abstraction. ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ’ꜱ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴇɴᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴀᴠɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴅᴏᴄᴜᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʀʏ ꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛꜱ, developed in close cooperation with airlines and flight crews. The series has documented professional decision-making, teamwork, and responsibility in complex operational environments over nearly two decades. Its long-term impact includes inspiring a new generation of aviation professionals and strengthening public understanding of the discipline and culture of modern aviation. ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛɪᴇꜱ focus on bridging industry and education: contributing practical insights to universities, academies, and training institutions; supporting curriculum development; and promoting learning environments where technical competence, communication skills, and professional responsibility are taught as an integrated discipline. ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇꜱᴛ in applied learning, experiential teaching, and the transfer of professional knowledge from operational settings into structured educational frameworks.
PilotsEYE.tv is a documentary series devoted to the fascination of flying from the pilot’s perspective. 14 cameras and 8 microphones installed in the cockpit help the viewers to dive into the world of commercial aviation with rare intimate insights into the profession of a pilot. PilotsEYE.tv was awarded with the award „interMedia Globe in silver“.
Thomas Aigner founded AignerMEDIA (AME) GmbH to explore innovative media concepts and build new business models from scratch. Among other things, he boasts of bringing the Big Brother TV series online as early as 2000, at the dawn of the commercial internet. Within 3 months, the live streaming concept, including 18 live streams and 2400 hours of pure entertainment, attracted 190 million page impressions and became „the most successful online extension for a TV program in Europe“. In addition to live streaming, the product also generated 23k newsletter subscribers when the term „newsletter marketing“ was still not forged.
Keynote speaker on a range of tech-, media- and future-related topics. Some previous talks include: * Business strategies for making money out of real-time content (Streaming Media, London) * Connected TV - von HbbTV bis Google TV (Medientage München) * Brave New Digital World - How businesses learned to love the Internet (AGBC, Association of American-German Business Club) * Globale Datennetze - Chancen moderner Kommunikationstechnologien (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.) * Zukunftsoffensive Junge Generation - New Media - New Talent goes Kinzig Valley (Hubert Burda Media) * Broadcast Management for women - Talk Radio, how to involve the audiences (Deutsche Welle - Ausbildungszentrum) * Benchmarking Europa - digital content - mobile content (Europäisches Forum Alpbach) * What’s Next? - Twentysomethings in Germany and the United States on the Future of German-American Relations (Goethe Institut und National Committee in American Foreign Policy) * Spitzenkräftetreffen - Internet for Bankers (HypoVereinsbank) * Streaming Media - Einnahmequellen und Refinanzierungsmöglichkeiten (Institute for International Research) * Zunkunftsforum Informationstechnologie - Medienverbund im Internet 96 (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) * Content gecovert - Medienformate für’s Internet neu entdecken (Medientage München)
Lecturer for video production and (self) marketing. In his lectures, Thomas Aigner is granting his students an oft quite entertaining look outside the traditional box of marketing and documentary-filmproduction. His lectures deal with the topics of "Dual Marketing" - between broadcasters and advertisers on the one hand and television viewers on the other. As well as masterclasses for sound restoration and the do's and don'ts during Multicam projects.
In his capacity as Deputy Headmaster of Marketing Studies Thomas Aigner has upgraded the curriculum to meet the challenges of the new marketing formats and constantly changing market expectations. He introduced a new event series to all members of the Academy in which prominent entrepreneurs and C-level executives like Lars Hinrichs (Founder of XING), Claus Hipp (Founder & CEO Hipp) or Rudolf Wöhrl (German airline entrepreneur) provided their insights into the new business environment.
Providing guidance, motivation and emotional support for students with a focus on Media-related studies by setting goals, developing contacts, and identifying resources.
Co-owning the radio frequency 92,4 MHZ, AignerMEDIA (AME) & netFM was business and content partner with FAZ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.