Ulf Könekamp

Data protection & contract design - access to machine and personal data

Companies are reluctant to share data within a supply chain or with commercial customers because of the complexities of clarifying rights and obligations. How can data exchange between companies work best? What are the requirements and what to look for? Boris Scharinger, Senior Innovation Manager at Siemens Digital Industries, is addressing precisely these questions and how cross-vendor collaboration can be made possible and standardized. In doing so, he sheds light on both legal and organizational perspectives and presents possible solutions, as many companies fear the loss of trade secrets – especially in the case of overlapping data pools in AI projects. He also shows how the initiation process of IoT projects should be accelerated and simplified. CEO of MindSphere World e.V., Ulf Könekamp, aims to help shape the future of the IIoT. He realizes this with experts from a wide range of industries. With the help of a wide variety of working groups, complementary further improvements in performance can be achieved. Where the limits of a single company are reached, further progress can be made through collaboration with other companies. In the 70th episode of the IoT Use Case Podcast, we learn how a multilateral relationship between companies can be legally regulated and how the Ecosystem Manager can provide a remedy for possible consequences.