“To repeat the past is to be doubly wrong – To do what by now has become common strategy a little better than the rest cannot be any distinction. Yet it becomes increasingly expensive. It is therefore, on principle, the wrong strategy” — Peter F. Drucker*

Our highlights: 5+ years of dataspace and ecosystem firsts! Discover how our R&D on digital interactive systems—decentralised, multi-agent, and complex-adaptive—and their real-world adoption with advanced analytics, AI, and Web1-3 has enabled cross-organizational data sharing with IP protection as foundations for scalable digital transformation and ecosystem competition.

2026: …
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– Ran CES C-suite roundtable with AIAG, T-Mobile: BMW, Denso, Rivian, Uber … LinkedIn

2025: From dataspace pilots to PRODUCTION
– Aided launch of CX-Hub-US by Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), LinkedIn post
– Co-authored first A-level dataspace paper, a top-3 most-read article in 2025, LinkedIn post
– Premiered “enterprise dataspace” across silos for better AI at CES, Las Vegas, NV, link

2024: First data ECOSYSTEM with automotive PILOTS
– Launched RoX – robotics ecosystem: Our team with minister, Telekom board member, link
– Delivered Catena-X/ Tractus-X software: ($250M, 3 years): Earned “5 Stars” in Munich, link
– Premiered Ford-Flex data chain for CO2 emission tracking at CES, Las Vegas, NV, link

2023: C-level and international recognition
– Supported launch of Int. Manufacturing-X with Industrie 4.0 and CSMII, Greenville, SC, link
– Promoted: Sustainable mobility, Berlin: Our team with federal minister, Telekom CEO, link
– Pre-launched in U.S.: Catena-X in Austin, TX, link

2022: First dataspace CASE STUDIES
– Premiered 25% faster intermodal travel simulations at ITS World Congress (LA), link
– Co-authored Springer case studies on mobility & manufacturing (UMATI, OPC UA), link
– Best paper award: “Linking Data Sovereignty and Data Economy,” WI Proceedings, link

2021: First dataspace PROTOTYPE for mobility use case, the way we get from A to B
– ITS World Congress Hamburg, Germany: Launch of intermodal travel app demo, link
– T-Systems ranked No.1 for ten consecutive years: Dataspace recognition, link
– Founded: Mobility Community of International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), link

2020: First dataspace BLUE PRINTS and PoCs
– RealLab Hamburg, National Platform Future of Mobility: Our team with federal minister, link
– First Springer paper: “Data factories for data products” – make it actionable, scale it, link
– Startup Autobahn powered by Plug and Play: Toward data-driven mobility – Webinar, link

Publication counter
A-level:  4
Journal:  10
Book chapter (refereed only):  13
Conference (refereed only):  18
Research note:  10
Book:  “Dynamics of emergent structures in digital interactive services: Organisational analysis, and Complex Adaptive System modeling and simulation” (150 pages, 1000 lines of code, link)

* Drucker, P. 1974. Letter to Mr. Richard H. Jenrette of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. Correspondence from Peter Drucker (1974-06-17), Drucker Archive, Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont