The Advisory Board of the Initiative QI-Digital
From now on, the initiative will be supported in its strategic orientation, concrete implementation and networking with stakeholders by its advisory board, which was newly founded on 10 October 2022.
In addition to experts from companies and associations, the committee also includes representatives from research institutions and authorities as well as QI stakeholders. Dr Matthias Fankhänel, former Senior Vice President of the Center of Technical Expertise at BASF SE, was elected Chairman. Markus Reigl, Director Technical Regulation & Standardisation at Siemens AG, and Heribert Schorn, Managing Director of the Institute for International Product Safety GmbH (I²PS), support him as Deputy Chairmen.
The advisory board has the task of advising the QI-Digital initiative, setting impulses and supporting it in achieving its goals. The focus is on raising awareness of the importance and significance of QI and its digital transformation for Germany as a business location. One focus of the advisory board's work will be to ensure the market connection of the activities of the QI-Digital initiative. In this regard, the advisory board is particularly concerned with carrying impulses and needs from practice into the initiative. In this way, fields of action can be identified and application-specific, needs-oriented solutions can be developed.
Sandro Amendola
Department President
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
Dr. Reinhard Baumfalk
Head of Product Development
Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Holger Berg
Deputy Head of Department and Co-Head of the Digital Transformation and Circular Economy Research Unit
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Anton Blöth
Spokesman of the Executive Board
VUP - German Association of Independent Testing Laboratories
Dr. Birgit Boss
Standardisation, Open Source & IP Manager
Robert Bosch GmbH - Bosch Connected Industry
Dr. Joachim Bühler
Managing Director and Member of the Presidium
TÜV Association
Dr. Sandra Drechsler
Head of Department Technology Policy and Standardisation
German Engineering Federation (VDMA)
Dr. Christian Essling
Division Manager- Strategy and Technology Consulting for Advanced Analytics and AI
E.ON
Dr. Matthias Fankhänel
Former Senior Vice President, Centers of Technical Expertise
BASF SE
Elke Gehrke
Quality Management Officer
Stiftung Warentest
Dr. Jacob Gorenflos López
Consultant Industry 4.0 & Technical Regulation
Bitkom e.V.
Dr. Thomas Holtmann
Head of Department Environment, Technology and Sustainability
Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Prof. Dr Thomas Knothe
Head of Department Business Process and Factory Management
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology
Dr. Klaus Kreß
Head of Certification / Member of the Management
VDE Testing and Certification Institute GmbH
Klaus-Udo Marwinski
Head of the Technical Regulation, Standardisation and Telecommunications Department
Federal Network Agency (BNetzA)
Heinz-Günter Plegniere
Head of the Quality Management Centre (QMC) Department
German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA)
Markus Reigl
Director Technical Regulation & Standardisation
Siemens AG
Jochen Reinschmidt
Head of Digitalisation & Law, Head of Department Digital and Innovation Policy
ZVEI e.V., Association of the Electrical and Digital Industry
Ingo M. Rübenach
Managing Director and Spokesman of the Management Board
DQS Holding GmbH
Prof. Dr. Robert Schmitt
President
Executive Board of the German Society for Quality (DGQ)
Heribert Schorn
Managing Director
I²PS - Institute for International Product Safety GmbH
Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek
Managing Director DFKI Saarbrücken & Head of the Research Area Agents and Simulated Reality
DFKI - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Torsten Tracht
Deputy Director
Central Authority of the Federal States for Security Technology (ZLS)
Dr. Peter Ulbig
Director
State Office for Metrology and Verification of Lower Saxony (MEN)
Prof. Dr. Katharina Zweig
Head of the Algorithm Accountability Lab
Kaiserslautern University of Technology