Davos Catalyst AI Summit 2027
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto

Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST

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Data Sovereignty for the AI Economy

Data spaces and data sovereignty as the foundation of trusted, sovereign AI in Europe

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto is Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fraunhofer ICT Group, which makes him a member of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Executive Board. He also holds the Chair for Industrial Information Management at TU Dortmund University. His work focuses on industrial data ecosystems, data spaces and data management. He serves on the boards of the International Data Spaces Association, the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud and Catena-X, where he is Deputy Chairman, and coordinates the EU Data Spaces Support Centre. He earned his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart and his habilitation at the University of St. Gallen.

  • Sovereign AI
  • Data Spaces
  • Data Sovereignty
  • Industrial AI
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At Davos Catalyst, Boris brings one of Europe's leading research perspectives on the infrastructure beneath sovereign AI: how trusted data sharing between companies, industries and countries becomes the basis for AI that Europe can build and control on its own terms. Read more on sovereign AI. Davos Catalyst takes place 12–15 January 2027 at the Rätia Center, Davos Platz.

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