Programme

We will welcome you at our reception desk and give you your name badge.

Ms Anna Kalkuhl will accompany you through the conference as moderator.

Prof Dr Cornelia Denz President of PTB and member of the QI-Digital Steering Committee will open the QI-Digital Forum 2025.

• Gitta Connemann, Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin bei der Bundesministerin für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE)
• Robert Heinrich, Unterabteilungsleiter Digitalwirtschaft, Künstliche Intelligenz, Daten (DWII), Bundesministerin für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS)

Prof Dr Cornelia Denz, member of the QI-Digital Steering Committee and President of PTB, presents the highlights of QI-Digital.

Digital QI in Pharma: From manual expense to digital flow

• Heidi Voldal, Focus Group Vice Chair and Area Process Manager, Novo Nordisk

Efficient conformity assessment

• Julian Haller, CECIP Legal Metrology Group / Sartorius

Digitisation of QI: Expectations of industry

• Thomas Holtmann, Senior Expert in the Environment, Technology and Sustainability Department, Federal Association of the German Industry (BDI), Berlin

Efficiency gains with Smart Standards

• Matthias Marzinko, Director International Standards Management, Quality & Regulatory Affairs, Dräger

Efficient Data Managment for QI with Asset Administration Shells (AM)

• Thomas Engel, Principal Key Expert Research Scientist, Siemens

Souvereign Data Sharing and Data Spaces for QI

• Attila Kun, Global Product Manager Digital Data Chain, BASF

Efficiency gains with the DPP

• Ricky Thiermann, Head of Product Management at Spherity

Tools for Auditing AI Systems

• Antoine Gautier, Co-Founder, QuantPI

A conformity assessment matrix for the product lifecycle

• Adam Leon Smith, Chair, AIQI Consortium

Conformity assessment in the medical device sector – unfolding gaps

• Oliver Böhle, Spectaris, Expert Regulatory Affairs

Genießen Sie das Mittagessen und nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit zu einem Gespräch auf der Galerie im Hermann-von-Helmholtz Gebäude.

In the current geopolitical situation, what we used to think of as a well-established system of rule-based trade is now under attack from several sides. Among other challenges, an unchecked digital transformation is threatening to perpetuate discrimination and to accelerate imbalances. A severe global digital divide is looming, and an unfair distribution of benefits and burdens has already been visible for quite a while. New, feasible and targeted solutions that can leverage the potential of digital supports for free, fair and safe trade are therefore urgently needed.

Against this backdrop, the panel discusses the role of a digital QI: Can smart regulation “tame the chainsaw” by achieving regulative goals in an affordable and timely manner? How can digital QI tools enable SMEs, especially from less and least developed countries to catch up and profit from international trade?  Do we need new quality dimensions to foster a fair and inclusive marketplace and how will the future QI help assure them effectively?

Speakers:

• Erik Wijkström, Head, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Section, Trade and Environment Division, WTO
• Martin Schreck. Specialist Director, Norwegian Building Authority (DiBK)
• Franziska Zibold, Policy Officer and responsible for implementing the Digital Product Passport (DPP), DG GROW
• Mr. Ganesh Anantharaman, Indian Textile Sector Representative (tbc.)
• Cinzia Missiroli, European QI Network (EQIN) / Deputy Director General, CEN/CENELEC

Digital Product Passports (DPPs) and the regarding ecosystem connect products, components or material (pre-products) witha digital set of information and will further function as information and communication hubs between market participants. Proposed by the UN as a tool for transparent and trustworthy information in trade and addressed as a building brick for the circular economystrategy of the EU, DPPs are now more and more understood as efficiency tool and a global opportunity and challenge far beyond a political approach. The DPP is set to revolutionise and simplify the data flow towards digital, machine-readable product information- changing the interaction of B2B, B2C, B2Gov. It is a catalyst for digitalisation and automation in the global interconnected economy and for new business models/services. The panel discusses the DPP’s potential as well as its limitations with a focus onone key aspect: how to fully interlink the digital QI ecosystem and the DPP system to both build trust in the DPP and exploit it as powerful tool for the QI. We will analyse the roles of international dataspaces and digital QI tools like SMART standards andthe digital certificate of conformity, taking into account where things stand right now and how to face it in the standardisation community.

Speakers

• Nikolaos Saklampanakis, CIRPASS 2 / Innovation & Strategy Manager, Fujitsu
• Adrian von Mühlenen, Product Owner Digital Material and Product Passport, BASF Intertrade AG - Switzerland
• N.N., Bureau of Indian Standards (tbc.)
• Gustavo Kuster, Deputy Head of the International Technical Cooperation Division at the Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO)
• Wolfram Zeitz, Executive Secretary, IECEE and IECRE
• Brett Hyland, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, NATA / UNECE
• Antonio Kung, Co-founder - Executive board, TRIALOG / Editor and Convenor in several ISO and IEC Committees

The EU AI Act is moving from law to practice, with strict timelines for conformity assessments and national implementation, but major gaps remain in standards, procedures, and competencies across Member States. Join this panel to hear experts discuss how Europe’s quality infrastructure must evolve to ensure safe, trustworthy AI, and what industry really expects from it.

Speakers

• Antoine Gautier (QuantPI) 
• Adam Leon Smith (AIQI) 
• Rania Wazir (Leiwand.AI)
• Oliver Böhle, Spectaris, Expert Regulatory Affairs 
• Fr. Prof. Zeynap Akata (TU München / Helmholtz / Explainable AI)

Dinner will be provided on the Galery of the Hermann-von-Helmholtz Building

Keynote

"Trust in AI: Participatory, human-centric and diversity-sensitive AI" by Annette von Wedel, Consultant and member of the project consortium "KIDD – AI in the service of diversity", a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) 

Panel Discussion

led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz, President of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the National Metrology Institute of Germany 
together with Annette von Wedel, Dr. Fabiano Assi, Federal Institute of Metrology, METAS, Dr. Joachim Bühler, TÜV Verband, und Dr. Dorothea Knopf, PTB.

Welcome back to QI-Digital Forum 2025. If you have any questions let us know at the Reception Desk.

Fokus Marktüberwachung 

Peter Ulbig, Direktor des Landesbetriebes Mess- und Eichwesen Niedersachsen (MEN)

Boris Böhme, Referatsleiter VI B 4 IKT Technische Regulierung und Standardisierung, Produktsicherheit, Marktüberwachung, BMWE

André Malitte, Technical Market Access, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

Digital LabHub 

Anton Blöth, Geschäftsführer Deutscher Verband Unabhängiger Prüflaboratorien (VUP)

Janina Bolling, Head of Department - Analytical, Bio & Laboratory Technologies, SPECTARIS

Thorsten Teutenberg, Projektleiter, Institut für Energie- und Umwelttechnik e. V. (IUTA)

D-A-CH 

Karl Grün, Deputy Managing Director und Head of Standards Affairs, Austrian Standards International

Peter Blattner, Chief Metrology Officer, Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie (METAS)

Jens Niederhausen, Themenfeldreferent Digitalisierung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Initiative Digitale Standards (IDiS)

Janos Koschwitz, Digital Transformation Manager, Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik in DIN und VDE (DKE) / Co-Lead der Initiative Digitale Standards

Enjoy your break with a cup of coffee and some light snacks. 

Partnering und Foresight (World Café and Market Place)

More details on the booths (only in German)

Enjoy lunch and take the opportunity to have another chat at the gallery of the Hermann-von-Helmholtz building.