QI-Digital Forum 2025
When: 08.-09. October 2025
Where: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestr. 2-12, D-10587 Berlin (Germany) (hybrid)
Mandatory registration - free of charge!
Bits, Bytes and QI – Building TRUST. Enabling INNOVATION. Securing PROSPERITY.
The 4th QI-Digital Forum is a two-day international conference dedicated to the future of quality infrastructure (QI) in a rapidly digitalizing world. With a program that bridges both English- and German-speaking audiences, the event brings together global thought leaders, technical experts, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to explore how agile, digital, and inclusive quality systems can drive economic competitiveness, societal well-being, and resilience in the face of global challenges.
The event underscores the urgency of building trust in digital and AI-enabled systems, not just for technical excellence but for societal benefit - ensuring safety, health, sustainability, and economic opportunity for all. By combining high-level policy dialogue, technical panels, and interactive stakeholder sessions, this year’s QI-Digital Forum positions itself again as a catalyst for shaping the next generation of a digital quality infrastructure - agile, inclusive, and ready for the challenges of tomorrow.
Program
Day 1: Digital quality assurance for a global community (English language)
The conference starts by examining how an agile QI can serve as a foundation for a competitive economy. Sessions include:
Scalable trust for AI: Exploring frameworks for building trust in artificial intelligence.
Smarter quality assurance: How can AI, unified data models like the asset administration shell (AAS), and dataspacesenable innovative quality assurance procedures?
Efficient regulation: How can digitaltools like SMART standards and machine-interpretable certificates streamline processesand reduce administrative burdens, and thus ultimately increase efficiency for industry and state actors.
After a networking lunch, the program pivots to the broader question: “What is quality worth in today’s world?”:
A discussion on transparency and trust along global value chains, emphasizing the importance of international dataspaces and the digital product passport (DPP) for robust product conformity reporting, resilience, and sustainability. Another major theme is innovation and diversity as counter-draft to current tendencies towards more drastic policies.
The evening features a keynote, a mini-panel, and informal networking.
Day 2: Establishing a digital QI in practice (German language)
The second day shifts the focus to stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and transfer of solutions into practice - for a digital QI.
Highlights include:
- QI-Digital stakeholder dialogue: A “World Café” format fosters interactive stakeholder discussions on the future of QI.
- Market surveillance and laboratories in focus: Updates on key initiatives from market surveillance and the testing and calibration laboratory community.
- Trinational panel: A panel discussion featuring representatives from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, addressing regional comparison of the digitalization of quality infrastructure
Register at https://www.qi-digitalforum2025.ptb.de/en/registration
