Tech Show Frankfurt Keynote
Chair Open Remarks
- Marcus Schuler, Journalist / Silicon Valley Correspondent - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) / implicator.ai
Sorted by time. Parallel sessions are stacked within each time slot.
Künstliche Intelligenz wird meist auf ihre Rolle als Produktivitätstool reduziert. Doch die wahren Gamechanger für die Wirtschaft sind neue Geschäftsmodelle, intelligentere Formen der Wertschöpfung und die Neuorganisation der Arbeit.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
AI agents are becoming the invisible workforce of the enterprise, making decisions, triggering workflows, and integrating across systems. Yet many organisations are discovering that these autonomous actors create as much risk as they do value. Hidden activities, limited transparency, and diffuse accountability can quietly erode trust and compliance.
Transparent data lineage is a cornerstone. This session shows how a German bank uses automated metadata and lineage capabilities to trace data flows from source to target – creating full transparency, strengthening data quality, and unlocking additional value such as improved BCM readiness and more efficient change management. By making data flows visible and understandable, metadata becomes a strategic enabler for controlled and scalable AI adoption.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
This session explores a lifecycle solutions approach to the design, management, and operation of data centres, showing how it can improve operational efficiency across both new builds and existing sites. We will look at practical considerations for today’s AI-driven environments, including advanced cooling requirements, integrated systems management, and end-to-end lifecycle services - maintenance, optimisation, modernisation and support for installed assets.
Daten gelten längst als strategischer Vermögenswert – doch wie souverän sind Unternehmen im Umgang m ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Modern cloud programmes demand structure, not just scale. This session shows how German enterprises are establishing governance-first operating models that keep multi-cloud environments compliant, cost-efficient, and fast to deploy. Learn practical steps to define ownership, streamline approvals, and maintain control across complex infrastructure landscapes – all within the first 90 days of transformation.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Forward-looking overview of upcoming EU and German sustainability rules shaping DC investment strategies - CSRD, Net Zero Industry Act, and EnEfG enforcement. Provides strategic insight into the evolving landscape of investment, policy, and ESG.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Attendees will gain insight into: • How sovereign cloud strategies evolve when AI becomes part of the operational control layer • Why transparency and compliance must be automated – not audited after the fact • How enterprises can balance autonomy, performance, and regulatory alignment across complex multi-provider ecosystems • What organisational and governance shifts are required to operate AI-driven cloud environments responsibly
This keynote explores what 'intelligent sovereignty' truly means in practice. As Generative AI becomes integrated into multi-cloud environments, operational data transforms from a support function into strategic control capital. Ticketless operations are not simply about efficiency; they represent a structural evolution in accountability, governance, and trust.
Cloud operations are undergoing a fundamental shift. In Europe's regulated and sovereignty-driven landscape, traditional ticket-based managed services are no longer sufficient. Enterprises are moving from reactive cloud management to AI-native operating models where automation, transparency, and compliance are embedded by design.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
A one hour peer discussion. Cloud architects and platform leaders compare how they are designing AI-ready environments while managing cost, sovereignty, and vendor dependency. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
A one hour peer discussion. Data centre operators and infrastructure leaders share how they are managing the tension between AI-driven capacity growth and real-world energy, cost, and sustainability constraints. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
A one hour peer discussion. Business and technology leaders explore how organisations are moving beyond pilots to measurable outcomes and where that transition breaks down. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
Moderne Rechenzentren gelten heute als hoch gesichert. Der oft unterschätzte kritische Faktor liegt jedoch in der Verbindung zwischen den Standorten. In seinem Vortrag zeigt Christian Trumpf, welche technischen und organisatorischen Bausteine für eine sichere und zukunftsfähige Standortkopplung entscheidend. Dazu zählen redundante Glasfaserstrecken und der Einsatz von DWDM-Technologien zur effizienten Nutzung der Infrastruktur ebenso wie Layer-1-Verschlüsselung, quantensichere Ansätze sowie relevante Überwachungs- und Betriebsaspekte. Darüber hinaus beleuchtet er die Bedeutung von Datensouveränität, Compliance-Anforderungen und eines gemanagten Betriebs für eine zukunftsfähige Standortkopplung. So entsteht ein praxisnaher Überblick darüber, wie moderne Data-Center-Verbindungen hochverfügbar, sicher und nachhaltig aufgebaut werden können.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
AI is everywhere today from predictions and image generation to speech recognition and physical AI. Yet while experimentation is booming, most companies struggle to turn pilots into real business value. In fact, the majority of generative AI initiatives never make it to enterprise scale, often due to missing data foundations, unclear use cases, and a lack of operational integration. In this session, we’ll explore what it really takes to move from AI hype to measurable impact. You’ll learn why strong data preparation, trusted data spaces, and connected ecosystems are essential for scalable AI, and how combining high-quality data with practical AI applications drives productivity, efficiency, and smarter decision-making.
As organisations race to adopt AI and advanced analytics, many discover that success depends less on algorithms and more on the structure and quality of their data. At the heart of a resilient data strategy lies data modeling—the discipline that transforms fragmented raw data into trusted, reusable, and AI-ready assets. This session explores the critical role of data modeling within modern medallion architectures (Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers), showing how thoughtful modeling practices progressively refine raw data into governed, business-aligned information products. Attendees will learn how effective models in the Silver and Gold layers create a consistent semantic foundation that supports analytics, operational reporting, and emerging AI use cases. We will also examine how strong data models enable organisations to scale AI and machine learning initiatives, ensuring models are trained on well-defined, trustworthy data rather than inconsistent or poorly understood datasets. By aligning medallion architecture with robust conceptual, logical, and semantic models, organisations can reduce complexity, improve data trust, and accelerate the delivery of AI-powered insights. Join this session to discover why data modeling is not a legacy discipline, but a strategic capability essential for modern data platforms and AI-driven enterprises."
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Transformational AI goes far beyond isolated use cases or productivity gains. It reshapes how organisations create value, make decisions, and operate at scale. This presentation distinguishes between singular, often tactical AI applications and true transformational AI, which requires coordinated change across strategy, skills, processes, technology, and culture. It outlines the capabilities organisations must develop to embed AI into their business model, including leadership alignment, data and platform readiness, AI literate teams, governance, and a focus on measurable business outcomes. A pragmatic transformation process is introduced to help organisations move from experimentation to sustainable impact, ensuring AI initiatives are scalable, secure, and economically viable. Using PRODYNA as a concrete example, the presentation illustrates how these principles are applied in practice, highlighting changes already implemented and those currently underway. By reflecting on our own transformation journey, we provide practical insights into how AI can be responsibly and effectively integrated into the core of the business to ensure long term relevance, competitiveness, and sustainable value creation.
Generative AI hat die Experimentierphase längst verlassen – der wahre Wettbewerbsvorteil entsteht heute durch skalierte, integrierte Automatisierung entlang realer Geschäftsprozesse. Am Beispiel des führenden Filterherstellers Deltrian zeigen wir, wie ein hochkomplexer Angebotsprozess durch den gezielten Einsatz von GenAI, der Automatisierungsplattform n8n und einem individuell entwickelten Frontend von mehreren Stunden auf wenige Minuten reduziert wurde. Im Fokus steht die intelligente Verarbeitung unstrukturierter Kundenanfragen: Die AI analysiert Inhalte, strukturiert Anforderungen und die Automatisierung matcht diese intelligent mit einem Portfolio von über 20.000 Produkten. Vertriebsmitarbeiter bleiben dabei gezielt „im Loop“, übernehmen an kritischen Stellen die Kontrolle und sichern Qualität sowie Kundenverständnis – während der Großteil des Prozesses automatisiert abläuft. Das Ergebnis: Deutlich schnellere Reaktionszeiten, höhere Angebotsqualität und eine signifikante Effizienzsteigerung im Vertrieb. Neben der konkreten Umsetzung geben wir Einblicke in: • bewährte Vorgehensmodelle für AI-getriebene Prozessautomatisierung • evaluationsbasierte Testverfahren zur Qualitätssicherung • zentrale Compliance- und Governance-Aspekte für den produktiven Einsatz
Langley’s Power Solutions Division brings together three wholly owned subsidiaries, each a global leader in their field: Bergen Engines (formerly Rolls-Royce Bergen Engines) of Norway; Italian generator specialist Marelli Motori; and Germany’s gold standard in power conditioning and stabilisation, Piller Power Systems.
Designed for speed and scale, our modular solutions can be rapidly scaled to 500+ MW, dramatically cutting lead times. While traditional grid connections can take a decade or more, Langley’s unrivalled time-to-power enables critical infrastructure to move forward - without waiting for the grid to catch up.
Langley delivers a proven, behind-the-meter power solution providing scalable, stabilised, utility-grade power - exactly where and when it’s needed.
Quantum computers threaten to break the cryptography our digital systems depend on, creating a risk that is unacceptable for many organisations. As a result, authorities plan to obsolete RSA in 2035 and are urging earlier introduction of quantum-resistant protections. This will be a huge disruption for some systems. The complexity of the threat and the potential immense impact mean security leaders cannot avoid navigating this issue. This session will pragmatically digest the essentials. What is the real risk? Is this a risk to be concerned about now? What do organisations need to do now? How do you use established risk processes? How do you protect critical data and assets? Drawing on the latest guidance from authorities in the EU, we’ll present actionable steps for leaders to ensure resilience and compliance in the face of quantum-driven risk.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
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Walk away knowing that your BI platform isn't becoming legacy but it's becoming the enabler for AI in your organisation. Vibe coding and generative AI let anyone prompt a dashboard into existence, but without trusted pipelines, lineage, and explainability, the result is a facade on a shaky foundation. As AI democratises the last mile to the business user, more democracy in data consumption demands more responsibility and transparency in data provisioning. Your platform's foundation has never mattered more.
Two data worlds, two governance models, and often two distinct camps within the same organisation. The technical integration of SAP BDC and open data platforms is a solvable problem. What truly stalls projects is the organisational reality beneath the surface: Who owns what? Who controls access? And whose rules apply when the SAP world meets the open stack? INFORM DataLab shares honest lessons from the field, including the conflicts that no architecture diagram will ever capture. "
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Der Weg zu leistungsfähiger AI beginnt mit der richtigen Infrastruktur. Dieses Panel beleuchtet, wie Europa mit dem Cloud-Edge-Continuum die Grundlage für datengetriebene Innovation schafft – im Kontext von der 8ra Initiative.
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Rechenzentren sind das unsichtbare Rückgrat der deutschen Wirtschaft und der unverzichtbare Motor für die aktuelle KI-Revolution. Doch während die neue Rechenzentrumsstrategie des Bundes sowie regionale Vorstöße die Richtung vorgeben, steht die Branche im Spannungsfeld zwischen ambitionierten Klimazielen (EnEfG), schleppenden Genehmigungsverfahren und dem massiven Hunger nach stabilen Energiequellen. Gemeinsam mit den Expert:innen der eco Allianz zur Stärkung Digitaler Infrastrukturen diskutieren wir, wie nationale und regionale Strategien jetzt verzahnt werden müssen, um den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland trotz regulatorischer Hürden international wettbewerbsfähig zu halten. Erfahren Sie aus erster Hand, welche Weichen jetzt gestellt werden müssen, damit Deutschland nicht nur Daten konsumiert, sondern den digitalen Wandel aktiv mitgestaltet.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
AI applications are increasing power density in data centres, while modern IT components are designed to withstand ever higher ambient temperatures. This presentation will examine the influence of varying temperature levels and approach temperatures, as well as the challenge of maintaining all defined operating conditions under full and partial load. For centralised cooling, a solution with free-cooling chillers containing oil-free centrifugal compressors will be considered. The thermodynamic design of cooling components is becoming increasingly complex, as centralised chillers supply Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRAHs), and Fan-Wall Units (FWUs). Maintaining consistent system temperatures across all these systems is crucial to maximising free cooling utilisation and, therefore, overall efficiency.
Audience: Technical
Europe's digital competitiveness will be defined not by technology speed alone, but by how leaders align AI, cloud, and regulation into a strategic advantage. Bringing together perspectives from policy, finance and industry, this session explores what truly enables growth within Europe's sovereignty and regulatory frameworks. It examines how leaders navigate hard trade-offs between speed and trust or scale and control, and how regulation – when approached with intent – can become a foundation for resilient, scalable and trusted innovation across Europe.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Die Transformation von klassischen SAP-Analytics-Landschaften hin zu einer cloudbasierten Daten- und ...
Bringing AI applications from the experimental phase into productivity and thereby creating real financial value often presents a significant challenge. In this presentation, Sascha will demonstrate how bonprix has successfully scaled its AI image generation, realising substantial cost-saving potential. In addition to the technical solution, he will also address the process and cultural challenges that had to be overcome on the path to mass production of AI-generated images.
- How to generate high-quality product images with AI - How the collaboration between tech and creatives was a key factor for the project success - The special requirements and pitfalls in AI generation of fashion images
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Wie transformiert man ein klassisch Reporting-getriebenes Unternehmen in eine Organisation, in der h ...
How can we expand storage capacity without driving energy use and costs through the roof? This panel ...
Wenn KI und Sicherheit Hand in Hand gehen müssen
Das neue KRITIS-Dachgesetz bringt erstmals einen einheitlichen Rahmen zur physischen Sicherung kriti ...
In an era of increasing regulatory scrutiny and the rise of autonomous agents, "Data Sovereignty" has moved from a compliance checkbox to a competitive necessity. This closed-door roundtable explores how a Sovereign Lakehouse architecture provides the trusted foundation required to move AI from experimental pilots to enterprise-scale production. We will discuss bridging the gap between innovation and the EU AI Act, ensuring data lineage for AI-driven decisions, and the role of open standards in avoiding vendor lock-in. Join peer leaders to define the architectural blueprints for governed, agentic AI in the modern regulated enterprise.
Participation: To express your interest in taking part in this roundtable, please bookmark this session in your schedule on Connect at Tech Show Frankfurt. A team member will be in touch if a space becomes available, along with details of where the session will take place.
Your AI model is only as smart as the data it trusts. And right now, it trusts too much. Schema drift, undocumented semantics, unclear ownership – these are the silent killers of production AI. Data Contracts are the fix the industry has been slow to adopt. Contract-First development is not a data governance exercise – it is a prerequisite for intelligent, reliable AI systems. This talk explores a feedback loop in both directions: Data Contracts stabilize and contextualize AI pipelines; AI, in return, makes contracts smarter by detecting anomalies and evolving semantics automatically. Attendees leave with a new mental model and a concrete architectural principle to take back to their teams.
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Generative AI is everywhere, but has it truly delivered the productivity surge many predicted? This panel examines the first measurable outcomes from GenAI adoption across DACH enterprises, separating real efficiency gains from automation theatre. Leaders from business, research, and policy will debate how to quantify GenAI’s impact on output, creativity, and workforce dynamics, and how Europe can balance innovation with labour responsibility and trust.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
As AI reshapes both cyber threats and defensive operations, security leaders face a new reality: AI can increase output and speed, but the gains are not automatic. They depend on operator skill, clear human oversight, and governance. What can AI agents actually do in cybersecurity today and where do humans still outperform? This session will share results from the world’s largest AI vs. human Capture-The-Flag (CTF) benchmark, comparing AI teams to human competitors. Learn where AI accelerates tasks, where it stalls, where humans are in the loop, and what this means for advancing the cybersecurity industry forward.
2026 is the year of agentic systems. We are moving beyond simple chatbots toward systems that don’t just talk, but act. This session explores the practical reality of these autonomous systems – from how coding tools like Claude Code are democratising software development for everyone to how these same principles are revolutionising physical AI. We will discuss why agentic frameworks are no longer a niche for experts, but an essential part of our daily digital and physical infrastructure.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Power access is now the defining bottleneck in European data centre growth. Learn how operators and utilities can jointly unblock AI-ready capacity through different flexibility measures, while considering the limitations of each option. Essential for leaders facing site selection delays or power constraints in DACH.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
KI-Initiativen scheitern selten am Modell, sondern an der zugrunde liegenden Datenarchitektur. Währe ...
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Der deutsche Rechenzentrumsmarkt steht unter doppeltem Druck: Der KI-Boom treibt die Nachfrage nach leistungsfähiger Infrastruktur, während Energieengpässe, Regulierung und ESG-Vorgaben neue Herausforderungen schaffen.
Wie können Projektentwickler und Betreiber unter diesen Bedingungen nachhaltig wachsen? Welche Strategien sichern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Standorts Deutschland bis 2030?
Die Session zeigt konkrete Lösungsansätze für Wachstum, Effizienz und Zukunftssicherheit im Spannungsfeld von Energiekrise und Digitalisierung.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
This session explores how organisations can move beyond checkbox compliance to enable resilient, trustworthy AI systems from the ground up. Drawing on real-world insights from financial sector security frameworks and emerging AI threat patterns, it highlights how governance, human oversight and security-by-design can be leveraged not just to mitigate risk, but to unlock strategic advantage.
Attendees will gain practical perspectives on defending AI systems, operationalising regulatory expectations, and embedding resilience into both technology and organisational culture.
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Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Modern AI and analytics depend on trustworthy data. Yet most organisations underestimate how much incomplete, inconsistent or outdated data limits their results. This session uncovers the unseen cost of poor data quality, explains why clean data unlocks value across the enterprise, and outlines practical steps to build a strong data foundation.
How can we efficiently, compliantly, and most importantly, quickly integrate AI ideas into a product ...
Audience: Strategic,Technical
The industry is demanding gigawatts while ignoring the elephant in the server room: facilities running at a third of capacity, servers averaging 12-18% utilization, and millions of machines consuming power in perpetual idle. Before we build the next power plant, we need to measure where energy actually goes. Not just at the meter, but inside the IT infrastructure where most waste occurs. This keynote makes the case that operators who understand their energy flows today will have a decisive competitive advantage tomorrow; while others wait for grid capacity that may never come.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
The talk addresses three major dimensions around AI products in corporate environments. First, the different complexity levels of AI that that add value are shown. Secondly, how they connect to measurable business impact is put into perspective. Third, the classic ‘make' or ‘buy' decision is addressed, with a wrap up how these major topics can shift over time.
Audience: Technical
Quantum computers risk completely undermining the security of our digital systems and data. In this interactive cyber exercise we shall explore the impact of a quantum computer attack and how to defend against it. Will you choose to role-play defending your organisation, or will you role-play a quantum computer attacker? The scenario of an attacker obtaining a quantum computer on a not unrealistic future date shall be set out. The ways that technology and systems are at risk will be reviewed. Then you'll invited to define your actions as an attacker or defender. We shall roll the clock forward as we play and see what unfolds. The aim is to help you think about how your organisation is preparing for the quantum threat, and start thinking about protections you should put in-place over the next few years and how to prioritise the most critical areas. The exercise may also be fun!
Planning to join a workshop? Please bring your laptop. Seats are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Becoming an “Agentic Company” doesn’t start with models – it starts with data, ownership and mindset. In this session, we share insights from a manufacturing client that set out to transform distributed ERP systems, machine sensor data and hybrid on-prem/cloud infrastructures into a unified Data & AI platform on Azure. We discuss how production data, governance structures and platform architecture had to evolve together to enable AI agents for predictive maintenance, software engineering support and data-driven decision processes. The project shows that Agentic AI rarely fails because of technology. It fails when responsibilities are unclear, data lacks semantic consistency and organisations treat AI as a tool instead of a transformation. A real-world perspective on how industrial companies can move from fragmented data landscapes and static dashboards toward trusted, dialog-driven AI systems that integrate people, platforms and processes.
The AI revolution is fueling an unprecedented data center construction boom, injecting hundreds of b ...
This session reframes the problem from 'prevent every failure' to 'ensure AI-enabled services fail safely'. You'll get a practical, operations-first blueprint for AI resilience: how to design fallback modes (human-in-the-loop, rule-based degradation, feature kill switches), how to define AI-specific incident triggers and escalation criteria, and how to test readiness through scenario-based exercises that integrate security, SRE and business owners. The goal is simple: keep critical services trustworthy and available, even when the AI layer becomes unreliable. Attendees leave with a concrete checklist to operationalise resilience across the AI lifecycle – without duplicating governance work or creating control theatre.
Enterprises are moving fast on AI governance and AI security controls. In production, however, controls can fail, drift or be bypassed, and AI dependencies can degrade (throttling, provider outages, model drift and pipeline failures).
Audience: Strategic,Technical
ETL-Pipelines, BI-Tools, Dashboards - Datenplattformen wurden gebaut, um Daten zu speichern und zu b ...
You’ll see how a governed semantic layer enables AI agents to: • Ground decisions in trusted, business-defined logic • Prevent hallucinations and ensure traceability • Apply policy-aware guardrails and automated quality gates • Embed secure, multitenant AI directly into enterprise workflows
In regulated industries, every decision must be traceable, every action must be defensible, and every system must meet strict standards for security and control. So, how do you introduce agentic AI into that environment without increasing risk?
Agentic AI systems can detect anomalies, investigate root causes, and trigger next-best actions in real time. But in regulated sectors, that intelligence has to be grounded in business context, secure by design, and fully auditable.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Together, these pillars provide a solid foundation for regional innovation and business growth. They enhance security and efficiency by enabling greater local control over data and improving cybersecurity, while also supporting more energy-efficient operations. Ultimately, this approach helps organisations build resilient, future-ready digital infrastructures.
Fiber-optic networks and edge data centers are two key pillars of modern digital independence. By delivering high-speed connectivity and local computing power at regional hubs, this infrastructure acts as a strong “local anchor” for data sovereignty while enabling a wide range of hybrid IT solutions.
Running global e-commerce at scale means more than handling peak traffic and enabling seamless digital experiences. It means protecting revenue, brand trust, and customer data – every second of every day. At adidas, our e-commerce platform operates across markets, time zones, and threat landscapes where performance and protection must coexist. In this session, we’ll explore how Smart Operations leads the way in running a global e-commerce business at scale – combining Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), operational excellence, and security as a shared responsibility across the entire technology lifecycle.
We’ll discuss how security is embedded from the earliest stages of development through production operations – not as a gate, but as an enabler. From secure-by-design principles and shift-left practices to runtime monitoring, incident response, and resilience engineering, we’ll share how integrating security into engineering and operations drives both speed and trust.
This session will provide practical insights into: • Embedding security into the development lifecycle without slowing delivery • Aligning SRE and security to protect availability and revenue • Operating globally distributed platforms under continuous threat • Building a culture where resilience and security are core to how teams work
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Was möglich ist: Chancen und Potenziale von GenAI im Unternehmensalltag Wie man startet: Deine erste ...
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Audience: Technical
Digitale Souveränität entwickelt sich 2026 vom politischen Leitbild zur strategischen Kernanforderung für Unternehmen, Verwaltung und Betreiber kritischer Infrastrukturen. Unter wachsendem geopolitischem Druck, steigender Regulierung und zunehmenden Abhängigkeiten von globalen Plattformen müssen Organisationen ihre IT-, Cloud- und Sicherheitsstrategien neu ausrichten. Die Diskussion beleuchtet, was digitale Souveränität in der Praxis bedeutet – zwischen Datenhoheit, Cloud-Abhängigkeiten, Open Source und resilienten digitalen Ökosystemen. Im Fokus stehen konkrete Erfahrungen aus Transformations- und Cloudprojekten sowie die Frage, wie sich Zielkonflikte zwischen Compliance, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Innovationsfähigkeit realistisch lösen lassen.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Learn about the technology-agnostic approach, which ensures a flexible, scalable and future-proof architecture. Understand how Bosch is integrating cutting-edge Generative AI on top of this foundation to build intuitive, conversational interfaces that democratise data access for all. Discover how this powerful combination is breaking down information silos and empowering the entire organisation to truly 'talk to their data', turning the data landscape into a core strategic asset for a global technology leader.
Join the deep dive into Bosch's ambitious data journey and understand how Bosch is overcoming traditional, centralised data architectures. Explore, in this session, the experiences of pioneering a decentralised data mesh ecosystem – a paradigm shift that treats data as a high-quality, reusable Data Product. Discover how the Bosch Data Marketplace has become the heart of this ecosystem, enabling teams to discover, share and innovate with data at an unprecedented scale.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Can operational resilience and carbon neutrality go hand in hand? As AI workloads increase power density and place growing demands on energy infrastructure, the path to net-zero data centres is becoming more complex. Sustainability is no longer just a commitment. It requires clear commercial and technical decisions.
This keynote explores the practical realities behind net-zero ambitions: embodied carbon in AI-ready facilities, retrofit versus rebuild trade-offs, CAPEX considerations, and long-term energy strategy under EU sustainability mandates.
Designed for investors, operators, and enterprise buyers, this session provides actionable insight into what 'AI-ready and carbon-smart' truly means in 2026 under EU sustainability mandates.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
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AI agents are no longer experimental. They browse the web, execute code, and take actions across enterprise systems with minimal human oversight. That creates threats traditional security models don't cover. This session walks through the ones that matter: prompt injection, goal manipulation, tool misuse, and what happens when an agent starts acting on its own. We use the OWASP Agentic AI Threats and Mitigations as the framework and show where the EU AI Act and the Cyber Resilience Act apply. You'll know what goes wrong when AI acts independently and which controls actually matter. The workshop that follows lets you attack these systems hands-on.
Audience: Technical
Ihre IT ist nicht zu teuer – sie ist zu komplex. Während Budgets steigen, sinken Agilität und Innovationsgeschwindigkeit, weil Infrastruktur immer noch in Silos gedacht wird. Diese Präsentation zeigt, warum Abstraktion keine technische Option mehr ist, sondern eine Management Entscheidung: Wer KI, Cloud und Legacy nicht über eine einheitliche Steuerungsebene zusammenführt, wird vom eigenen Betrieb ausgebremst.
Explainability isn't just technical; it's cultural. This talk shows how to communicate AI decisions through dashboards, visualisation, and scenario testing so that non-technical stakeholders can trust outcomes.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
AI excels in closed systems; the real world, though, is open. When real-world data is analysed throu ...
Modern data centres are increasingly defined by one challenge: removing heat. Yet the industry still designs cooling systems around a rack architecture that was originally created for low-density, air-cooled IT equipment. Other industries solved similar problems differently. In shipbuilding, for example, fluid systems and reliability requirements define the infrastructure first, and the equipment adapts to it. This session explores why data centres may need to reverse their design logic as well starting with cooling architecture and allowing compute infrastructure to evolve around it.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
AI is everywhere, yet companies still struggle to generate value from it at scale. The reason lies in not seeing the forest for the trees – focusing too much on technological opportunities and not enough on the bigger picture at the level of people and culture. Tiankai introduces the FOREST framework to inspire you to focus on key success criteria in every AI initiative by design and to drive AI adoption not just through excitement but through purpose.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
As AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for compute capacity, data centres themselves are becoming increasingly complex cyber-physical systems. The next competitive edge will not come from hardware alone, but from intelligent orchestration of infrastructure, spanning energy systems, cooling, capacity allocation, and even physical maintenance.
Key questions include: • How do AI tools improve operational resilience and energy efficiency in real-world environments? • What measurable ROI are early adopters seeing from digital twin models in planning and operations? • Can AI-based orchestration and predictive control move facilities closer to zero-waste capacity utilisation?
Bringing together expertise from AI-powered energy optimisation, digital twin modelling, autonomous infrastructure maintenance and applied AI research, the discussion will examine how intelligent systems can actively manage load distribution, anticipate failures, optimise cooling and power consumption, and reduce operational overhead.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Erfahren Sie, wie Souveränität und Vertrauen integraler Bestandteil erfolgreicher Cloud-Strategien sind – von Risikominimierung über Anbieterunabhängigkeit bis hin zu Sovereignty-by-Design durch ein starkes Partner-Ökosystem aus Cloud, Netzwerk und Infrastruktur.
Learn application security by doing it. In this hands-on CTF workshop, participants exploit real vulnerabilities in OWASP Juice Shop, an intentionally insecure web application with challenges mapped to the OWASP Top 10. You start by breaking things the old-fashioned way: SQL injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure. From there, you move to AI security with OWASP PromptMe, a dedicated CTF platform for prompt injection, LLM manipulation, and agentic AI threats. The preceding talk covers what goes wrong when AI acts on its own. Here you get to be the one breaking it. No prior CTF experience is required, just a laptop and a willingness to break things.
Audience: Technical
Agentic AI ist keine Zukunftsvision – sie ist heute produktiv einsetzbar. In dieser Session zeigen wir, wie Qlik mit zwei sich ergänzenden Technologien den Sprung von klassischem BI zu einer KI-erweiterten Steuerungsplattform vollzieht. Im ersten Teil demonstrieren wir, wie KI-Agenten in Qlik Answers® Wissensarbeit beschleunigen: Nutzer:innen stellen natürlichsprachliche Fragen über komplexe Datenbestände, Agenten übernehmen repetitive Analyseaufgaben und liefern proaktiv relevante Insights – direkt im Arbeitskontext, ohne tiefes technisches Know-how. Im zweiten Teil zeigen wir, wie ein MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) Qlik gezielt für externe KI-Modelle und LLM-Dienste öffnet – als kontrollierte, sichere Brücke zwischen der Qlik-Plattform und modernen Agentic-AI-Workflows. Von der technischen Architektur bis zu konkreten Anwendungsszenarien wie automatisierter Insight-Generierung und KI-gestützter App-Analyse. Gemeinsam zeigen beide Ansätze, wie Unternehmen ihre bestehenden Analytics-Investitionen mit dem KI-Stack der Gegenwart verbinden – und Produktivität, Entscheidungsqualität und Automatisierungsgrad auf ein neues Level heben.
This discussion explores how teamwork, leadership, and resilience from the world of sport can inspire how organisations approach digital transformation. It highlights how technology and culture come together to drive performance and build stronger connections with audiences and communities.
Audience: Leadership
This session explores how data marketplaces at scale must evolve—from shaping behaviour to truly listening. Leaders who use AI and deep individual data to actively listen will be best positioned to make better decisions and win in the AI economy of the future.
HPC liefert heute messbaren ROI – KI skaliert nur mit Daten, Governance und Netzwerk – und Quantencomputing wird als Spezialwerkzeug in hybriden Workflows relevant. Genau darüber sprechen wir jetzt: Wo stehen wir, was kommt in 2–5 Jahren – und welche Entscheidungen müssen Unternehmen 2026 treffen?
AI workloads are changing how we think about cloud costs. This session explores how leading DACH enterprises are adapting their FinOps models for GPU-intensive workloads, balancing innovation with control. Learn how to align AI performance, budget visibility, and compliance in one unified financial strategy.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
What if your data strategy was more human than technical? This keynote panel surfaces how organisations are building strategies that respect human needs – from skills to ethics – while scaling AI and insight. Stories from across sectors will show how embedding empathy, responsibility, and narrative into data programmes leads to deeper adoption, alignment, and trust.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Apache Iceberg forms the core data layer, bridging streaming ingest and analytical access. Filtered machine signals (~5k/min/tenant) are enriched with critical context from external systems such as shifts, asset management or fault and measures management (~400/min/tenant). A key challenge was that this contextual data could change retroactively, requiring historical aggregations to be corrected. Iceberg’s ACID semantics enabled efficient updates and recomputation while keeping a consistent business view.
Together with our client from the German automotive industry, we at ZEISS built a fully serverless, event-driven SaaS platform on AWS to deliver standardised production KPIs across a global manufacturing landscape of ~120 factories. From the outset, the system was designed to scale per tenant while providing near real-time reporting, with aggregations available within seconds of machine events.
We will share the architectural trade-offs and lessons learned from building this system end to end, including what worked and what did not. Delivered jointly by a solution architect and a requirements engineer/business analyst, the talk connects business constraints with practical Iceberg design decisions.
In this closing fireside chat, industry leaders examine whether Europe can align speed, sustainability and sovereignty or risk long-term dependency on external providers. From energy transition and capital allocation to industrial policy and execution risk, the discussion looks beyond technology to the strategic decisions shaping Europe's AI future.
AI is scaling at unprecedented speed and the systems supporting it must scale even faster. As energy networks strain and sustainability targets tighten, Europe faces a defining question: can it build the digital backbone of AI quickly enough to remain globally competitive?
A candid conversation on leadership, urgency, and what must happen next.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Continue the conversation at our afterparty, where you can connect with peers over complimentary drinks and light bites.
More than 90% of cyber attacks are caused by human error, and hackers now use AI and deepfakes to attack us. Mark T. Hofmann speaks in an inspiring and engaging way about the profiles and motives of hackers, the darknet and the dark side of AI, how social engineering works in 2026 and how organisations can build a 'human firewall'.
In short: what companies need to know about cybercrime and AI in 2026 – packed into an exciting keynote speech.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Dashboards galten lange als das Herz datengetriebener Unternehmen. Doch was, wenn sie in Wahrheit nu ...
GenAI adoption is easy to start but hard to scale without fragmentation, duplicated solutions, and slow approvals. In a complex and highly regulated environment like aviation, teams need a scalable approach that balances speed with security, compliance, and reliability. In this session, Luca Wiesmaier and Ömer Adigüzel share practical lessons from rolling out enterprise GenAI capabilities at Deutsche Lufthansa AG: how to promote reusability, shorten time-to-market, and keep solutions compliant. You'll learn how 'safe GenAI' patterns (from controlled model access to 'chat with your own data') can be industrialised through shared standards, templates, and enablement – so teams deliver real value at scale, not just isolated demos.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
The AI Act has moved from legal obligation to business benchmark. This keynote outlines how DACH enterprises are managing audit cycles, documenting high-risk systems, and turning governance maturity into measurable trust ROI.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Germany's new EnEfG law will reshape data centre economics by mandating renewable sourcing and heat reuse. This session decodes what it means for operators, investors, and suppliers. Critical insight into compliance, investment risk, and operational adaptation.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Every organisation wants AI adoption. Few understand why it fails. In this talk, I'll share practica ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Ob Mittelstand, öffentliche Hand oder kritische Infrastrukturen: Digitale Anwendungen brauchen heute mehr als reine Bandbreite. Das Panel diskutiert, wo Edge Computing in Deutschland aktuell steht, welche Chancen und Geschäftsmodelle sich daraus ergeben und warum Themen wie Resilienz, Nachhaltigkeit, Souveränität und KI die Infrastrukturdebatte neu prägen.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
As artificial intelligence workloads continue to scale exponentially, the energy intensity of AI dat ...
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Mit dem Aufkommen von AI Agents verändert sich die Entwicklung von Data Pipelines und Betrieb grundlegend. Aufgaben, die bisher manuell durch Data Engineers umgesetzt wurden – von der Datenintegration über Transformationen bis hin zum Monitoring – können zunehmend durch Agenten-basierte Systeme unterstützt oder sogar übernommen werden. Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet, wie sich die Rolle des Data Engineers im Zuge dieser Entwicklung wandelt: Weg vom „ETL-Entwickler“ hin zum Orchestrator komplexer, KI-gestützter Systeme, im Idealfall gepaart mit hohem „Business-Verständnis“. Anhand eines Beispiels wird gezeigt, welche Aufgaben automatisiert werden können, wo menschliche Expertise weiterhin entscheidend bleibt und welche neuen Kompetenzen in Zukunft gefragt sind. Ziel des Vortrags ist es, ein realistisches Bild der aktuellen Entwicklung zu vermitteln und Data Engineers dabei zu unterstützen, ihre Rolle im Zeitalter von AI Agents aktiv zu gestalten.
Datenmanagement ist seit jeher eine Herausforderung, das gilt insbesondere in komplexen und historisch gewachsenen IT-Landschaften. Oftmals wurde im Datenmanagement kategorisch zwischen den Bedarfen operativer und analytischer Systeme unterschieden. Sind analytische Systeme in der heutigen Zeit gut über Plattformansätze zu standardisieren, gelingt dies bei fachlich geprägten und mitunter hochgradig heterogenen operativen Anwendungen nur sehr begrenzt. Der DB Fernverkehr hat sich in seiner Datenstrategie die Aufgabe gegeben, Datenintegration in der IT-Landschaft zu vereinfachen und Effizienzen hinsichtlich der Integrationsaufwände und Timo-to-Market zu realisieren. Das hieraus entstandene Konzept vereint operative und analytische Anwendungslandschaft, indem die Konzepte von Data Fabric und Data Mesh in einem hybriden Ansatz miteinander kombiniert werden (Data-Mesh-Bric). Der Vortrag gibt Einblicke in die Ausgangssituation dieser spannenden Transitionsreise hin zu einer modernen Datenarchitektur, welche alle systemischen Akteure bestmöglich und nachhaltig integriert und mit Daten versorgt.
As organisations move AI beyond experimentation, success depends less on model accuracy and more on ...
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Angesichts steigender Leistungsdichten und verschärfter regulatorischer Anforderungen ist technologische Innovation kein Selbstzweck mehr, sondern die Grundvoraussetzung für einen zukunftsfähigen Rechenzentrumsstandort. In diesem Panel diskutieren führende Technologiegestalter, wie synergetische Ansätze aus intelligenter thermischer Speicherung, hochspezialisierten Sicherheitskonzepten für moderne Batteriespeicher und hocheffizienter Lufttechnik die Grenzen des Machbaren verschieben. Fernab von reinen Produktpräsentationen beleuchten wir die strategische Rolle von Innovationsökosystemen als Treiber für die digitale Souveränität und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Erfahren Sie, wie aus visionären Forschungsansätzen und Ingenieurskunst die verlässlichen Standards für die nächste Generation nachhaltiger Hochleistungs-Infrastrukturen entstehen.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Sovereign innovation often fails not for lack of technology, but for lack of clarity. Brilliant solutions stumble when teams, leaders, or the public don’t understand their purpose or potential. In this session, Sarah Yvonne Elsser and Alexander Pessler explore how communication becomes the decisive success factor in turning strategy into adoption. They’ll unpack real examples where storytelling, positioning, and user engagement transformed complex innovations into trusted, scalable realities – and share a practical framework for making innovation understood, embraced, and sustained.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Mit der zunehmenden Größe und Komplexität moderner Rechenzentren stehen Betreiber unter wachsendem Druck, höhere Leistungsanforderungen zu erfüllen und gleichzeitig die Umweltbelastung sowie betriebliche Risiken zu reduzieren. Diese Session beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von drei zentralen Kräften, die das Rechenzentrum der Zukunft prägen: der Übergang zu nachhaltigen Energiemodellen, der Aufstieg von High‑Density‑Computing und die wachsende Bedeutung vorausschauender und vorbeugender Instandhaltung. Zunächst werfen wir einen Blick auf die Zukunft der Energieversorgung im Rechenzentrum, einschließlich der beschleunigten Einführung von Solarenergie und anderen erneuerbaren Energiequellen. Da Betreiber ihre Abhängigkeit von klassischen Stromnetzen verringern möchten, eröffnen sich neue Möglichkeiten – insbesondere ein möglicher Übergang zu DC‑basierter Stromverteilung innerhalb der Rechenhallen. Dieser Schritt verspricht höhere Effizienz, geringere Umwandlungsverluste und eine nahtlosere Integration erneuerbarer Energien. Im Anschluss widmet sich die Session dem rasanten Wachstum von High‑Density‑Computing‑Umgebungen, angetrieben durch KI‑, HPC‑ und Cloud‑Workloads. Diese Architekturen erfordern neue Ansätze in den Bereichen strukturierte Verkabelung, Konnektivität und thermisches Management. Es wird erläutert, wie sich Verkabelungsstrategien weiterentwickeln müssen, um höhere Bandbreiten, geringere Latenzen und eine steigende physische Dichte zu unterstützen, ohne die Zuverlässigkeit zu beeinträchtigen. Abschließend betrachten wir, wie vorausschauende und vorbeugende Wartungsstrategien die Resilienz und die betriebliche Effizienz erheblich verbessern können. Durch den Einsatz moderner Überwachungssysteme, Analytik und zustandsbasierter Wartung lassen sich Ausfallzeiten reduzieren, die Lebensdauer von Anlagen verlängern und Ressourcen effizienter nutzen. Die Teilnehmenden erhalten ein klares Verständnis dafür, wie diese drei Trends zusammenwirken – und wie ein integrierter Ansatz dazu beitragen kann, den Rechenzentrumsbetrieb nachhaltig zukunftssicher aufzustellen.
Quantum computers are a real technology that disrupts classical computation, offers enhanced security and is poised to revolutionise artificial intelligence. The presentation traces the history of quantum computing and relates this to current trends in cryptography, security protocols and machine learning.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
In a world of growing data complexity and faster decision cycles, traditional analytics is no longer ...
Modern data platforms solved access. They didn't solve understanding. Teams still fight inconsistent metrics, duplicated logic, and data nobody trusts. The culprit? The semantic layer was quietly dropped from the modern stack — and it broke everything. This talk makes the case for bringing it back: open, reusable, and built into the core of your data platform. Because autonomy without shared meaning is just noise.
After the impulse session has set the stage, this panel shifts the lens to the C-suite. Sovereign, scalable innovation is now a board-level priority – but many initiatives stall between strategic intent and real adoption. This discussion brings together senior executives to explore how trust, clarity, and communication influence whether innovation is understood, accepted, and ultimately deployed at scale. Moderated by Sarah Yvonne Elsser, the panel examines how leaders translate complex technology, regulation, and sovereignty goals into shared direction, cultural alignment, and measurable outcomes across their organisations and ecosystems.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
LEAM/CESAI ist ein Projektansatz, der darauf zielt, industriespezifische KI-Modelle auf Basis schlan ...
As organisations invest heavily in data platforms and AI, many still struggle to translate data into measurable business outcomes. The key is not more data – it’s better data products. This session explores a practical framework for designing data products that deliver real value by focusing on four essential pillars. First, every data product must begin with clear business intent, ensuring that development is driven by specific decisions, outcomes, and measurable impact. Second, data products must be grounded in enterprise truth, aligning with trusted, governed sources so teams operate from a shared understanding of critical data. Third, organisations must prioritise reuse before create, enabling teams to discover and build upon existing data assets rather than duplicating effort and introducing inconsistency. Finally, effective data products are governed by design, embedding policies, quality, and lineage directly into the product lifecycle rather than retrofitting governance after the fact. Through real-world examples and practical guidance, this session will show how these four pillars enable organisations to deliver scalable, trusted, and reusable data products that accelerate analytics, AI, and decision-making across the enterprise.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
As data centre capacity continues to expand across Europe, the industry faces increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable climate impact, resource efficiency, and local value creation. Waste heat reuse has emerged as one of the most promising – yet structurally complex – levers to turn energy consumption into a shared economic and environmental asset. This panel brings together key stakeholders from municipal leadership, energy utilities, and data centre operators to explore how heat reuse can evolve from a technical afterthought into a bankable infrastructure partnership model. At the core of the discussion lies a fundamental question: Who owns the economics of heat reuse – the operator, the municipality or the energy provider? Panellists will examine how responsibilities, risks and revenues can be fairly distributed, and what governance models enable long-term viability. Building on real-world projects and urban development examples, the session will address: • How to structure contracts and cross-sector partnerships that create durable ESG value rather than short-term compliance wins • The investment case for integrating heat reuse into early-stage site planning and district development • The role of utilities in aggregating, distributing and commercialising low-grade heat • Whether digitalisation and AI-driven forecasting can improve predictability of heat output and enable more efficient grid integration The discussion will focus on practical implementation pathways, regulatory barriers, and replicable business models. Rather than treating waste heat as a by-product, this session reframes it as a strategic interface between digital infrastructure and urban energy systems – and as a potential revenue stream that aligns climate responsibility with investment logic.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
The ANOM operation exposed how structured and process-driven organised crime networks operate. This ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
In a globally connected workplace, inclusion must transcend borders. This panel explores how organis ...
Audience: Leadership
In many organisations, employees spend a significant portion of their time searching for information ...
Different industries and cultures approach AI adoption with very different appetites for risk. This lively discussion contrasts the pragmatic caution of DACH Mittelstand firms with the bold experimentation of global tech players. Panellists explore how the EU AI Act's risk classifications are shaping investment, governance, and innovation strategies, and what 'responsible speed' really looks like for Europe in 2026.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
As threats evolve, so must our view of the human factor. This panel examines how culture, leadership, and behavioural design can transform employees from security liabilities into proactive defenders. Hear how DACH organisations are rethinking awareness, accountability, and empowerment to build truly resilient security cultures.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Agentic analytics does more than accelerate access to information. It changes the way organisations ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
This presentation explores how Germany’s data centre growth is expanding beyond major metropolitan hubs. It is in wider regional markets across Germany, where the main demand drivers are, and where the next phase of capacity is planned.
Most organisations have defined AI strategies but struggle to translate them into operational realit ...
A one hour peer discussion. Data leaders discuss the gap between data ambition and operational AI, focusing on governance, pipelines, and organisational readiness. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
A one hour peer discussion. Security leaders examine how threat models are evolving with AI adoption and hybrid infrastructure, and what resilience now requires. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
A one hour peer discussion. Senior leaders reflect on how priorities are shifting across cost control, resilience, and growth and how those tensions are shaping strategy. Max 6 participants per table (2 tables total)
- Planung (schon frühzeitig die TGA berücksichtigen) - Digitaler Zwilling - Transparenz im Betrieb - ...
Many international companies are leaning into regulation while addressing the risks of data dependen ...
The shift to T+1 settlement is creating serious data challenges across the financial industry. In this session, I explore how modern automation tools like n8n and predictive AI can be used to significantly reduce settlement error rates. The focus is on real-time pipeline architecture and how data quality gates can be automated to meet regulatory requirements.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Kubernetes-as-a-Service kaufen und los geht's? Nein. Ein Kubernetes Clusters zu betreiben ist weitaus mehr: Security Hardening, Compliance & Governance, Patch Management, Disaster Recovery, Upgrades und Rollback, 24/7 on-call - alles wichtige Aspekte eines gesunden Kubernetes Clusters. Welche Kosten sind mit dem Betrieb eines Kubernetes Clusters verbunden? • Betrieb: Personal und Infrastruktur • Prozessanpassungen und Wissensaufbau zwischen den verschiedenen Teams • Skalierung der Entwicklerteams: Onboarding, Offboarding, Enablement der Entwickler:innen • Skalierung der Infrastruktur: Auto Scaling & Ressourcen Optimierung • Zero Trust: Authentifizierung und Authorisierung der User und Workloads im Cluster • Governance: Enforcement von Regeln und Best Practices im Cluster • Monitoring der Infrastruktur, der Cloud-Kosten, und Security Auditing In unserem Vortrag erkunden wir was es heißt eine Kubernetes Platform zu betreiben, und warum ein einfaches as-a-Service Offering oft nicht ausreicht.
Quantensicherheit ist weniger eine Frage neuer Algorithmen als eine Frage der Anpassungsfähigkeit. Der Vortrag zeigt, warum Rechenzentrumsbetreiber und insbesondere Finanzinstitute Kryptographie als steuerbare Infrastruktur Fähigkeit betrachten sollten: Über Key Distribution as a Service lassen sich kryptographische Verfahren zentral, flexibel und auditierbar einsetzen, ohne bestehende Infrastrukturen ständig neu zu bauen. Für Rechenzentrumsbetreiber bedeutet das messbaren Nutzen: frühzeitige Compliance Readiness, planbarer Betrieb, geringere Migrationsrisiken und eine klare Positionierung als technologisch führend und vertrauenswürdig. Wir freuen uns sehr, Harald Summa, Internet-Pionier und Chairman der DC Quantum Leap Initiative, als Co-Speaker für dieses Thema gewinnen zu können!
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Diversity drives innovation. Join women trailblazers and digital leaders as they explore how inclusi ...
Audience: Leadership
Join us for an insightful talk, exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping hiring practices, the future of higher education, and the evolving skills employers seek. Discover whether STEM remains the key skillset in a changing world and how to prepare for the careers of tomorrow.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
EU companies are increasingly running into DPRK operations that don't begin with a sketchy email. They begin with a 'great candidate'. In this talk, we'll look at how North Korea is exploiting the realities of modern work: remote hiring, contractor-heavy teams, and developer ecosystems. You'll leave with a clear picture of what's happening, why Europe is a particularly attractive target, and which practical guardrails actually make a difference.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Explore the transformative shift toward direct current (DC) power in data centers, addressing adoption challenges from grid to chip. This panel discussion will bring together leaders from the power distribution industry to share insights on powering the next generation of IT infrastructure, and how we are moving the industry forward at OCP’s Power Distribution sub-project with collaboration with Current/OS and ODCA.
In this interactive workshop, you'll step into a broken report, dashboard, or AI project and work in small groups to figure out what went wrong. Each group will tackle a different scenario, covering technical issues, governance gaps, and communication breakdowns. You'll uncover what caused the failure, challenge key decisions, and decide how to get the project back on track.
Expect fast-paced discussion, practical insights, and ideas you can apply immediately to your own projects.
A data project has failed. Your job is to fix it.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Enterprise process optimisation increasingly relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and improve decision-making. However, the widespread adoption of AI in enterprise environments is constrained by the ‘black-box’ nature of many high-performing models, which lack transparency and interpretability. We investigate whether AI agents and agentic reasoning can address the black-box problem in enterprise process optimisation.
In dieser Session teilt Techem, ein führender Anbieter von Energiedienstleistungen und -lösungen, seine Reise von einer traditionellen On-Premises-Datenlandschaft hin zu einer modernen, cloudbasierten Architektur. Erfahren Sie, wie das Unternehmen zentrale Herausforderungen erfolgreich gemeistert, die Transformation gesteuert und die Grundlage für skalierbare, zukunftssichere Datenfähigkeiten geschaffen hat. Die Session beleuchtet wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren, gewonnene Erkenntnisse sowie praxisnahe Einblicke für Organisationen, die ähnliche Transformationen anstreben. Mit Blick in die Zukunft skizziert Techem seine strategische Roadmap hin zur „KI-Fähigkeit“ und zeigt, welche zentrale Rolle Datenarchitektur, Integration und Governance bei der Ermöglichung fortschrittlicher Analysen und KI-Anwendungsfälle spielen. Qlik ergänzt diese Einblicke mit einem Überblick über seine neuesten Innovationen und seine Roadmap, um Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, ihre Reise hin zu KI-fähigen Daten zu beschleunigen.
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As development teams improve AI coding, the bottleneck for most enterprise engineering teams at scale is shifting to operations. Leading engineering teams are reshaping teams and tools around the advantages that AI represents. Most teams are seeing incidents and operational burn-out on the rise, and lagging teams are not yet seeing any AI impact yet. This difficult middle state - where coding gets dramatically more efficient but it is surrounded by legacy operational practices - has been a challenging one for teams across the industry. This talk will discuss some of the techniques we are seeing leading enterprise teams use at scale to move through that difficult middle state quickly and emerge on the other side with some of the most efficient “software factories” in the industry.
Audience: Strategic,Technical
Welche Anforderungen werden an die Wasserqualität im Liquid-Cooling-Umfeld gestellt? Erfahrungen aus der Praxis!
Audience: Strategic,Technical
This panel explores how the data talent mix is evolving, where DataOps and MLOps converge in practice, and what cultural and structural shifts are required to scale AI responsibly. A discussion on building high-performing, future-ready data teams that combine technical excellence with clear ownership and governance.
AI and platform strategies are reshaping how DACH enterprises design and operate their data organisations. As companies move toward platform-centric models and industrial-grade MLOps, teams are being reorganised around accountability, automation, and measurable impact.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Connect with a diverse community of tech professionals in an inclusive networking space designed to spark meaningful conversations.
This session highlights the key considerations data and AI leaders must address when adopting agenti ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership,Technical
Cyber exercises are now standard practice across Europe, but do they genuinely prepare organisations ...
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
AI enablement has been framed inaccurately over time. Most organisations treat it as a training problem ('teach people the tools') when it is fundamentally a work relationship redesign challenge. This presentation will elaborate that sustainable AI adoption requires reimagining the human – AI dynamic as collaborative partnership rather than hierarchical displacement – and that frontline workers, not C-suite visionaries, hold the critical insights to make this work.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Wie wird aus KI‑Strategie gewinnbringende Nutzung? Zwischen Euphorie und Skepsis entscheiden Arbeitsalltag und Führungskraft. In diesem Gespräch geht es um reale Erfahrungen bei ZEISS: wie Mitarbeitende KI sicher anwenden, wo Führung neu gefordert ist, und was Organisationen daraus lernen können.
Audience: Strategic,Leadership
Observations and findings from building and scaling a real-time data backbone for AI-driven decision-making in banking and insurance. Learn how CDC, LLMs, and MCP enable seamless data synchronisation across systems - powering real-time fraud detection, risk management, customer insights, and automated operations. Discover how organisations reduce losses, accelerate decisions, and unlock business value with always up-to-date data.
Der Aufstieg von Agentic AI stellt die bisherigen Regeln des Datenmanagements in Frage und eröffnet völlig neue Möglichkeiten. Doch wie nutzen wir sie? In dieser Keynote hinterfragen wir drei Grundpfeiler des Datenmanagements wie wir es kennen und skizzieren eine Vision für das KI-zentrierte Daten-Ökosystem von morgen. Erfahren Sie, warum wir unsere Ressourcen neu verteilen müssen, wie Daten für autonome Agenten aufbereitet werden sollten und welche Rolle die KI zukünftig selbst bei der Verwaltung der wertvollen Ressource "Daten" spielen wird. Damit schließen wir direkt an das diesjährige Motto der Veranstaltung an und zeigen, wie der entscheidende Sprung von der "AI Ambition" zum "AI Deployment" gelingt.
Software engineering is being massively accelerated by cloud platforms and AI. Governance, Risk and ...
Audience: Strategic,Technical