FACIS Connect'26: Panel "Industrial Collaboration in the Digital Age"

Panelists: Felix Beckmann, R&T Manager, Airbus Operations GmbH Klaus Ottradovetz, Distinguished Expert Digital Ecosystems, Atos Alexander Löser, speaker on artificial intelligence and industrial AI Dr. Martin Enders, speaker on industrial collaboration and supply-chain ecosystems Moderator: Alexa von Busse This panel explored how European industry can collaborate across complex supply chains, cloud-edge infrastructures, AI systems, and data spaces. The discussion showed that industrial transformation is now a coordination problem as much as a technology problem. Aviation, manufacturing, open source, and industrial AI were used as examples of how ecosystem-wide cooperation can enable innovation while preserving sovereignty and protecting sensitive information. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: industrial collaboration in the digital age 0:40 Meet the panel – Manufacturing-X and cross-industry federation (Klaus Ottradovetz) 1:53 Meet the panel – Airbus as a federated enterprise (Felix Beckmann) 4:46 Meet the panel – Schaeffler and data spaces (Martin Enders) 5:58 Meet the panel – the science and language-model view (Alexander Löser) 8:14 Why collaborate? The business case and "safety first" 13:40 The acceleration of AI – and why it's risky 19:02 Integrating data across silos: a government example 22:08 Inside Schaeffler: edge devices in a competitive market 29:10 Audience Q&A: data-space operators and standards 30:54 Funding and speeding up adoption via IPCEI 31:31 Incentives for sharing data 32:55 Can Europe build its own large language models? 37:53 Closing round: mindset, culture – and money 🔗 Learn more about FACIS Connect '26 - https://www.facis.eu/event/facis-conn... #FACIS #DigitalEcosystems #FederationArchitecture #Interoperability #AI #DigitalTransformation #CloudEdgeContinuum #DataSpaces #DigitalEurope