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Digital Summit

Digitisation affects everyone – companies, citizens, scientists and society. The Digital Summit is the central platform for cooperation on shaping the digital transformation.

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Digital Summit 2022

Germany’s digitisation continues to remain one of the main topics of the German government. The aim is to accelerate and promote digitisation processes and to exploit their potential to develop prosperity, freedom, social participation, and sustainability.

In this context, the Digital Summit remains the central platform for shaping the digital transformation with all parties involved. It focuses on the key fields of action within the digital transformation across ten topic-based platforms. The platforms and their focus groups are made up of representatives from business, academia and society who, between summit meetings, work together to develop projects, events and initiatives designed to drive digitisation in business and society forward. The Summit will serve to present the results of the work that has been done in the past, to highlight new trends and discuss digital challenges and policy approaches.

This year’s Digital Summit of the Federal Government will be held on 8 and 9 December 2022. The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action will jointly coordinate the summit’s preparation in the future. In the new legislature, new formats, concrete results and international impulses are to make it the driving force and showcase for digitisation in Germany and beyond.

Programme

You can find a detailed programme here (PDF, 2 MB).

Schedule 8.12.2022

FORUM A – HALL 3
10:00 – 10:05
Welcome
10:05 – 10:35Manufacturing-X – from factory outfitter to
global digital supplier
10:40 – 11:10 Into the connected mobility of the future with the
Mobility Data Space
11:15 – 11:45Economic monitor
11:50 – 12:20Toolbox Datenkompetenz – Germany’s learning
platform for data literacy
12:25 – 12:55“Doing and taking responsibility” in the data
economy – learning impulses of the Corporate
Digital Responsibility Initiative
12:55–14:15Break
14:15–14:45Digital transport documents along the supply
chain — legally secure and open source!
14:50–15:20
A fair data economy for business, science and
society
15:20–16:00Break
16:00–16:30A fair data economy for business, science and
society
16:35–17:05Into the future with data – young perspectives on
a sustainable data economy
FORUM B – HALL 7
11:15–11:45
Innovative perspectives – women in
digitalisation
11:50–12:20
How can data make agriculture more sustainable?
14:50–15:20
LeanConnect: problem solver for the cross-trade
exchange of data
16:00–16:30AI for more sustainable production and business
processes
16:35–17:05Explainable AI – why it’s important to explain
artificial intelligence to consumers

Schedule 9.12.2022

FORUM A – HALL 3
9:00–9:10Event opener
9:10–9:25 Opening address, Dr Volker Wissing, Federal
Minister for Digital and Transport
9:25–09:40 Keynote address, Dr Robert Habeck, Federal
Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
09:40–10:10
Data rooms as the infrastructure of the data
economy – the Mobility Data Space as a blueprint
10:10–10:40
The Data Institute – fresh impetus for the data
economy
10:45–11:15
Making data useful – skills for artificial
intelligence and data economics
11:20–11:50
Future forum on digital infrastructures: what’s
particularly important now
11:50–12:05 UhrBreak
12:05–12:35 Data and trust – what does it come down to?
12:35–12:50Keynote Tarō Konō, Minister for Digital Transformation,
Japan
12:50–14:30 UhrBreak
14:30–14:55
Exhibit visit by the Federal Chancellor
15:00–15:30
Conversation with the Federal Chancellor, Prime
Minister Kaja Kallas and Bitkom President Achim
Berg
FORUM B – HALL 7
10:45–11:15Data.Power.Creativity!? Data as an asset or a
challenge to democracy
11:20–11:50Data and good work – focusing on algorithmic
management

How the Digital Summit works

The Digital Summit looks at the key fields of action within the digital transformation across ten topic-based platforms. The platforms and their focus groups are made up of representatives from business, academia and society who, between summit meetings, work together to develop projects, events and initiatives designed to drive digitalisation in business and society forward. The Summit will serve to present the results of the work that has been done in the past, to highlight new trends and discuss digital challenges and policy approaches.

Overall Coordination:
Sabine Dannelke
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport)
E-Mail: ref-dp10@bmdv.bund.de
Christian Lipicki
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)
E-Mail: digitalgipfel@bmwk.bund.de
Dr. Ulrike Engels
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport)
E-Mail: ulrike.engels@bmdv.bund.de
Damian Wald
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)
E-Mail: digitalgipfel@bmwk.bund.de

An overview: the platforms of the Digital Summit (in German)

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Platform 1 "Digital networks and mobility"

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Platform 2 "Innovative and sustainable digitisation of the economy"

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Platform 3 "Learning Systems – the Platform for Artificial Intelligence"

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Platform 4 "Digital world of work"

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fingerprint scanner

Platform 5 "Digital administration and public-sector IT"

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Platform 6 "Culture and media"

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Platform 7 "Consumer protection policy in the digital world"

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