It is the largest project in the automotive industry related to future production concepts: the foundation of the association "Catena-X". It aims to offer soft-ware services based on International Data Spaces (IDS) and Gaia-X, which enable a trustworthy data exchange between all actors in the automotive industry - from the first supplier stage to the OEM. Founding members of this alliance for secure data exchange are ARENA2036, BASF SE, BMW AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (German Aerospace Center), German Edge Cloud GmbH & Co, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, ISTOS GmbH, Merce-des-Benz AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, SAP SE, Schaeffler AG, Siemens AG, SupplyOn AG, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Volkswagen AG and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V.. Prof. Dr. Boris Otto, Director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST and board member of Gaia-X, European Association for Data and Cloud, AISBL and the Inter-national Data Spaces Association (IDSA), was elected vice-chairman of the board of Catena-X e.V..
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