Thomas Usländer holds a degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is head of the department “Information Management and Production Control” at Fraunhofer IOSB. He was an invited expert of the European Commission, got the DIN Innovation Award 2017 and the OMG Application Award 2000. He is member of various working groups of the Platform Industrie 4.0, the expert panel of the Standardization Council Industrie 4.0 (SCI4.0) and the DIN/DKE high-level Coordination Group “AI standardization and conformity”. He is leading the Industrial Community IDS-I of the International Data Spaces Association and the Competence Center Karlsruhe on AI Systems Engineering (CC-KING).