Digital Sovereignty: How Do We Achieve Independence From The Silicon Valley?
Speakers
Iris Plöger is a member of the board of directors at the Federation of German Industries (BDI), where she is responsible for digitalisation, innovation, healthcare, law, competition and consumer policy. Until 2017, she headed the department for digitalisation, innovation and healthcare at BDI. Beforehand, she worked as an expert for industrial property rights, data protection, competition and state aid law in BDI’s law department. Iris Plöger started her career in an international corporate law firm. Throughout the years, she acquired a broad international working experience e. g. in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Brussels.
After his graduation in 1987, Wolf-Henning Scheider began his professional career at Robert Bosch GmbH. Until 2010, he worked in different positions at Bosch Group, amongst others as CEO of the Car Multimedia Division and the Gasoline Systems Division. Afterwards, he was appointed as Member of the Board of Management at Robert Bosch GmbH and effective in July 2013 he took over the overall responsibility for the activities of the Automotive Group.
In 2015, he took over the position of Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of the MAHLE Group. Wolf-Henning Scheider is Chief Executive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG since February 2018 and thus responsible for Corporate Research & Development, Corporate Development, Corporate Communications, Sales and Executive Management Group.
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