Draft Agenda
Day 1 – 19 November
08:00 – 09:30
Registration & Coffee
08:30 – 09:30
Press Conference (Invitation Only)
09:30 – 09:40
Welcome Address
- Catherine Jestin, BoD Chairwoman, Gaia-X; Executive Vice President Digital and Information Management, Airbus
- Ulrich Ahle, CEO, Gaia-X
- Hub Austria: Helmut Leopold, Chair Gaia-X Hub Austria; Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security, AI
09:40 – 10:00
Summit Opening
- Peter Hanke, Austrian Minister for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure
- Alexander Pröll, Austrian State Secretary for Digitalisation in the Federal Chancellery
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote: Season 2.0 of Sovereign, Trusted AI & Data Ecosystems
10:30 – 11:00
Gaia-X Milestones 2026 & Road Ahead 2027
- Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X, CEO
- Catherine Jestin, BoD Chairwoman, Gaia-X; Executive Vice President Digital, Airbus
11:00 – 11:45
Networking Coffee & Expo Area
11:45 – 12:15
Progress on the Adoption of Gaia-X Assets
Real-World Stories from Committed Data Spaces Working on Implementations
12:15 – 12:45
How can Gaia-X Help You Close Current Gaps Through its Existing Assets & Future Roadmap?
- Christoph Strnadl, CTO, Gaia-X
- Roland Fadrany, COO, Gaia-X
12:45 – 14:45
Networking Lunch & Expo Area
14:45 – 15:45
Convergence in Fragmented Data Ecosystems
A Market-In Story in Complicated Ecosystems
14:45 – 15:15 Health
Moderator: Bert Verdonck, CEO, Luxembourg National Data Service
- European Health Data Alliance (EHDA) – Sukumar Munshi, Senior Advisor Business & Strategy, MicelioData;
- Fedata2 – Dominique Pon, DG La Poste Santé & Autonomie, La Poste Groupe
- Dataspace4Health – Michael Mossal, Senior Digital Transformation Director Luxembourg, NTT Luxembourg
- Infobanco Spain – Alberto Borrego Díez, Head of Healthcare, Partner at NTT DATA
15:15 – 15:30 Transport, Mobility and Tourism
- EONA-X
- Mobility Data Space
15:30 – 15:45 Energy
15:45– 16:15
Countries Implementing Season 2.0 of Sovereign, Trusted AI & Data Ecosystems
- Germany: Marco-Alexander Breit, Director General Digital Policy and Economic Affairs, German Federal Ministry of Digital Transformation and Government Modernization
- Spain: Ander Caneda, Area Coordinator at the General Directorate of Data, Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Spain
16:15 – 17:00
Networking Coffee & Expo Area
17:00 – 17:30
Sovereign, Trusted AI
17:30 – 18:00
IPCEI-AI
Moderator: Mark Kuehner, VP SAP Industries & Experience, SAP
Ernst Stöckl-Pukall, Head of Unit Digitisation and Industrie 4.0, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
18:00 – 21:00
Networking Reception & Dinner
Unwind with a glass of wine and a selection of finger food.
Day 2 – 20 November
08:30 – 09:00
Registration & Coffee
09:00- 09:30
Towards Smart Data Ecosystems
Moderator: Hubert Tardieu, Independent Board Member, Gaia-X
- Jakob Rehof, Professor of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University
- Joelle Toledano, Professor Emeritus associated with the Governance and Regulation Chair, Paris Dauphine-PSL University
- Eric Brousseau, Professor of Economics and Management, Paris Dauphine-PSL University
- Boris Otto, Professor for Industrial Information Management, TU Dortmund University; Director, Fraunhofer ISST
09:30- 10:15
Austrian Projects
10:15 – 11:00
Gaia-X Hubs Focus
11:00 – 11:45
Networking Coffee & Expo Area
11:45 – 12:30
One Framework, Many Jurisdictions: Trust, Sovereignty, International Growth
Moderator: Mario Campolargo, Independent Board Member, Gaia-X
- Su-Jung Kim, Assistant Secretary for AI and Future Planning, Office of President of the Republic of Korea
- Hiroshi Mano, CEO, EverySense,Inc./EverySense Japan K.K. Secretary General, Data Society Alliance
- Giovanni King, CEO, Blue NAP Americas
- Michelle Robitaille, CEO, Digital Trust Canada
12:30 – 13:00
Eyes on Tomorrow: A Visionary Closing Address
Mario Campolargo, Independent Board Member, Gaia-X
13:00 – 13:30
Closing Remarks
- Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X, CEO
- Summit 2027 Location Announcement
13:30 – 14:30
Networking Lunch & Expo Area