In their last blog post, Dr Sabine Wilfling and Andreas Weiss showed how the German city of Wolfsburg serves as an important role model for GAIA-X through successful cross-sector cooperation between business and administration. In this post, they explore how GAIA-X can become a success.

Dr. Jochen Papenbrock is Financial Technology Manager at NVIDIA GmbH. Thanks to his involvement in various projects, working groups, publishers and platforms, he has become an expert in artificial intelligence in the finance sector. In the following article he demonstrates how GAIA-X can use artificial intelligence to promote the innovation potential of the finance sector.

How can GAIA-X become a success?, Dr. Sabine Wilfling, Unit Lead Public/Government at Scheer GmbH and Andreas Weiss, Business Unit Manager Digital Business Models at the eco Association will address this question in a series of articles. In the first part, you can read why the Smart City Wolfsburg can serve as a model for GAIA-X.

How does the energy industry benefit from GAIA-X? Michael Laskowski, expert on the digitisation of energy systems, reports on how user demands are being incorporated into the GAIA-X project.

Dr. Sabine Wilfling is Head of Strategy & Transformation at Scheer GmbH. In this blog post she illustrates why GAIA-X can promote innovation – and thus advance the digital transformation in Europe.

In his blog post, Gerd Hoppe, member of the Corporate Management at Beckhoff Automation and representative of the GAIA-X user perspective, looks at the plan to establish the GAIA-X Foundation, which was announced on 4 June 2020 as part of the ministerial talk on GAIA-X, and he considers the added benefit that being a member of this organisation will bring in future.

Summary from an interview by Harald Summa, CEO of eco – Association of the Internet Industry and CEO of DE-CIX in Frankfurt: The key to a flourishing future for sectors in the 21st century lies in high-performance data infrastructures. The objective is to establish a shared digital single market in the European Union (EU) whilst at the same time safeguarding European principles such as data sovereignty and security. There is consequently a great deal of discussion about the requirements for establishing a digital European economy and the sovereignty of an emerging data economy.