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Gaia-X Summit 2026

Draft Agenda

Summit Moderator: Cornelia Ertl, Event Moderator & Founder, Moderatoren Connection

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

  • Véronique Lacour, Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Transformation and Operational Effectiveness, EDF (remote participation)

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

  • Pontus-X: Kai Meinke, Co-Founder and Business Lead, deltaDAO AG; Gaia-X BoD 
  • Data4NuclearX: Anne Sophie Taillandier, Director Nuclear Data Space (Data4NuclearX), EDF  
  • Dawex: Frédéric Bellaiche, VP Technology & Research, Dawex  – Confirmed
  • Myrtus: Giulia Biagoni, Scientist, TNO– Confirmed
  • DECADE-X: Philippe Grosbois, General Manager, DECADE-X; Head of Program Data Space for Aerospace & Defence, Airbus 
  • Data Spaces Media and Education: Catherine Simonnin, Tech Lead Trust & Innovation Governance, Orange; Gaia-X BoD

12:15 – 12:45

How can Gaia-X Help You with the Current Assets and with the Future Roadmap to Close Remaining Gaps

  • 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 – Cécile Badiola, CEO, HEVA; Head of BU LifeScience & MedTech, DOCAPOSTE
  • 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 and Mobility Data Space – Arno Pons, General Delegate Think Tank, Digital New Deal Foundation

15:30 – 15:45 Defence and Civil

  • Patrick Bezombes, Co-Convenor CEN-CENELEC JTC 25/WG 2

15:45– 16:15

Countries Implementing Season 2.0 of Sovereign, Trusted AI & Data Ecosystems

Moderator: Hubert Tardieu, Independent Board Member, Gaia-X

  • Germany: Robert Heinrich, Deputy Director General for Digital Economy, AI and Data Policy at the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, Germany
  • France: Amandine Reix, Deputy Director for Space, Electronics and Software, Direction Générale des Entreprises – (Remote live TBC)
  • Spain: Ander Caneda, Area Coordinator at the General Directorate of Data, Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Spain 
  • Austria: Michael Wiesmüller, Head of Department: Digital and key technologies for industrial innovation, Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure

16:15 – 17:00

Networking Coffee & Expo Area

17:00 – 17:30

Data Sovereignty for Sovereign AI

  • David Djaïz, CEO, Ascend Partners 
  • Djilali KIES, R&D Director, Ascend Partners

17:30 – 18:00

Europe’s Potential in Industrial 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
  • Martine Gouriet, Director Digital Transformation, Usages and Innovation, EDF; Gaia-X BoD

18:00 – 21:00

Networking Reception & Dinner

Unwind with a glass of wine and a selection of finger food.

Economic Theatre

Room: Ladies’ Apartment 1

Parallel Sessions

  • Joëlle Toledano, Professor Emeritus, Governance and Regulation Chair, Paris Dauphine-PSL University
  • Lucas Eustache, PhD student, Governance and Regulation Chair, Paris Dauphine-PSL University

Tech Theatre

Room: Ladies’ Apartment 3

Parallel Sessions

  • 10:00 – 10:30 | IDRI
  • 10:30 – 10:45 | Circular Solution: Cross-Ecosystem Trust: Using Gaia-X Credentials to Enable Interoperability of Data Spaces from different geographies, domains, or continents
  • 10:45 – 11:00 | Fidere: Extending Gaia-X Trust to the Physical World. The PTX (Physical Trust Extension) Extension
  • 11:45 – 12:45 | Compliance4DPP: Technical introduction into automated compliance with Gaia-X
  • 14:45 – 15:00 | Myrtus: From Principles to Practice: Digital Sovereignty with Gaia-X and Myrtus
  • 15:15 – 15:45 | Libelium: Data Space Ready in Action: Trusted Exchange with FIWARE DSC and EDC
  • 15:45 – 16:15 | Gaia-X: OID4VC and Gaia-X Credentials Extension for the EDC. Real-world (2-Connector) Demonstration.
  • 17:00 – 17:15 | MetaLin-X: An Architecture for Decentralised Industrial Metaverse Applications Leveraging Gaia-X
  • 17:15 – 17:30 | IMT Transfert: Delegate Access Right in a Decentralised World: An Implementation of Gaia-X ICAM Document
  • 17:30 – 17:45 | OneCub: From Rulebook to Runtime: Connecting Rules, Credentials and Enforcement across Data Spaces
  • 17:45 – 18:00 | UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): Beyond Enforcement: A Hegelian Dialectical ODRL Profile for Substantive AI & Data expressing Ethics in Federated Spaces

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 (TBC)
  • Boris Otto, Professor for Industrial Information Management, TU Dortmund University; Director, Fraunhofer ISST (remote live)

09:30- 10:15

Trusted Data Sharing Across Sectors: Austrian Projects

Moderator: Mario Drobics, Head of Competence Unit for Cooperative Digital Technologies at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

  • Thomas Trautner, Head of the Research Group for Control Engineering and Integrated Systems, TU Vienna
  • Klaus Donsa, Senior Scientist, Digital Health Information Systems, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology 
  • Georg Nesslinger, Head of Department, Section VII – Digitalisation and E-Government, Federal Chancellery  
  • Margit Kranner, Cooperative Digital Technologies, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology 
  • Georg Hartner, Interoperability and Distributed Flexibility Expert, Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences

10:15 – 11:00

Gaia-X Hubs Focus

Moderators: Francisca Rubio Berenguel,  Director of expansion and ecosystem, Gaia-X Hub España & Mario Drobics, Head of Competence Unit for Cooperative Digital Technologies at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

  • Gaia-X Hub Norway: Hermund Arntzen Dale, Project Manager / Head of Gaia-X Hub Norway, Smart Innovation Norway 
  • Gaia-X Hub Poland: Jarek Kowalski, Expert, PKN, Vice-Chair Gaia-X Hub Poland, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications
  • Gaia-X Hub Portugal: António Salvado, TICE.PT, Gaia-X Hub Portugal, BoD Gaia-X

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

  • Korea – Su-Jung Kim, Assistant Secretary for AI and Future Planning, Office of President of the Republic of Korea
  • Japan – Hiroshi Mano, CEO, EverySense,Inc./EverySense Japan K.K. Secretary General, Data Society Alliance
  • Canada – Michelle Robitaille, CEO, Digital Trust Canada
  • Brazil – Cristiane Vianna Rauen, Director of Department of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Brazil
  • Caribbean – Giovanni King, CEO, Blue NAP Americas

12:30 – 13:00

Eyes on Tomorrow: A Visionary Closing Address

  • Marco-Alexander Breit, Director General Digital Policy and Economic Affairs, German Federal Ministry of Digital Transformation and Government Modernization
  • Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, France (online) – TBC
  • 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

Business Theatre

Room: Ladies’ Apartment 1

Parallel Sessions

  • 09:00 – 10:00 | Workshop: “Ecosystem Scale Effect” Opening Presentation: “Mapping of the Economic Formula” – Roland Fadrany & Manuel Gutierrez
  • 10:00 – 10:30 | “From Compliance Cost to Market Opportunity: How Gaia-X Enables Service Providers to Scale Across European Data Spaces” – Amélie Jayet & Kai Meinke
  • 10:30 – 11:00 | Gaia-X Compliance Catalogue & CADA – Juliana Michelon & Pierre Gronlier
  • 11:45 – 12:15 | C4DPP: why and how Gaia-X supports automated compliance – Stefan Dumss.  Introduction by Petra Makovec on Gaia-X in EU-funded projects
  • 12:15 – 13:00 | “Halyard: Data space participation as a service for SMEs” – TU Wien, Roman Gehrer

Partners Theatre

Room: Ladies’ Apartment 3

Parallel Sessions

  • 09:00 – 09:30 | IDRI 1
  • 09:30 – 10:00 | IDRI 2
  • 10:00 – 10:30 | IDRI 3
  • 10:30 – 11:00 | IRT SystemX
  • 11:45 – 12:15 | Simpl-Open: Europe’s Open-Source Middleware for Scalable, Gaia-X-Aligned Data Spaces – Gianfranco Cecconi, Data Ecosystem and Sharing Lead, Capgemini
  • 12:15 – 12:30 | Gaia-X: Digital Service Offer (DSO) Credential Wizard
  • 12:30 – 12:45 | Gaia-X: OID4VC in the Gaia-X Compliance Dispatcher (GXCD)
  • 12:45 – 13:00 | Gaia-X: Standardisation Update (CEN/CENELEC, ISO/IEC, ETSI, W3C, IEEE)