12:30 Registration & Networking
13:25 Conference Opening
Speaker
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Andreas Weiss
Managing Director, eco – Association of the Internet Industry
13:30 Opening Panel: What impact does Gaia-X have on boosting the European digital economy?
A lot has happened in the Gaia-X environment since the inception of the initiative in 2019. Our panelists look at where Gaia-X stands in 2023 and what impact Gaia-X has in a fast-advancing digital ecosystem. This session will further highlight how Gaia-X can serve as a basis for boosting the European digital economy.
Speaker
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Ernst Stöckl-Pukall
Head of Division for Digitalisation and Industry 4.0, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
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Andreas Weiss
Managing Director, eco – Association of the Internet Industry
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Roland Fadrany
Chief Operating Officer, Gaia-X AISBL
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Susanne Dehmel
Member of the Executive Board Legal & Security, Bitkom & VC Legal AISBL
14:15 Deep dive into the GXFS world – what do GXFS components offer for building Gaia-X ecosystems?
In this panel, the GXFS experts will give insights into which GXFS components are available and what added value they offer for building Gaia-X ecosystems. How is the architecture design developing in the FOSS approach?
Speaker
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Lauresha Memeti
GXFS-DE Technical Project Manager
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Thomas Niessen
Managing Director, Kompetenznetzwerk Trusted Cloud
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Berthold Maier
Chief Architect, T-Systems International GmbH
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Christoph Lange-Bever
Head of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer FIT
14:45 Networking Coffee Break
15:15 Pitches
Speaker
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Lena Sauermann
Pitch: A GXFS-based Catalogue Implementation for GAIA-X 4 PLC-AAD
Business Consultant, msg systems ag
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Sven Loeffler
Pitch: T-Systems – Digital.ID – Trust and compliance for dataspaces
Tribe & Chapter Lead, Telekom Data Intelligence Hub (DIH)
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Friederike Zelke
Pitch: Smart Cloud Grid – Network for sovereign cloud infrastructure
Community Manager, Sovereign Cloud Stack
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Arian Firouzbakhsh
Pitch: Technical Convergence: Connecting the Dots
Data Space Solution Architect, IONOS
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Alexander Diab
Pitch: Smart Cloud Grid – Network for sovereign cloud infrastructure
Ecosystem Manager, Sovereign Cloud Stack
16:00 Panel: How does the operation of large, federated data ecosystems work?
With Gaia-X, a huge industrial policy initiative has been launched. In addition to concrete use cases, there are also new initiatives such as IPCEI-CIS and Manufacturing-X ready to launch to secure the basis for data-based value creation in Germany and Europe. What is needed to launch large data ecosystems and how can they become successful?
Speaker
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Harald Summa
Member of the Supervisory Board, DE-CIX
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Christian Schmitz
Director OpenSource, Plusserver
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Maria Barros Weiss
VP of Digital Ecosystems Solutions, IONOS
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Catherine Simonnin
Tech Lead Trust, Orange Business
16:45 Update from the FOSS community: who is driving Gaia-X on a technical level?
FOSS approaches are becoming increasingly relevant in the growing data economy. Why are these approaches especially relevant? What FOSS projects exist in the Gaia-X ecosystem and who is driving their technical development? What role does the Gaia-X FOSS community play now that the first federations are operational?
Speaker
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Steffen Schulze
XFSC Eclipse Lead, GXFS-DE/T-Systems
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Kai Meinke
Gaia-X OSS Community & Co-Founder, deltaDAO AG
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Cristina Pauna
Community Manager, Gaia-X AISBL
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Boris Baldassari
Senior Software Engineer, Eclipse Foundation
17:30 Summary and wrap up day 1
18:00 Networking event hosted by eco
On the evening of the first day of the conference, eco – Association of the Internet Industry invites you to a networking event with finger food and drinks.
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With kind support by our networking partners
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