Final Event of the R&D Project ScaleTrust

Location: InfAI – Institute for Applied Informatics, Goerdelerring 9, 04109 Leipzig
Date: February 24, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 04:00 p.m.

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On February 24, 2026, the research project ScaleTrust invites participants to its final event in Leipzig. The focus will be on the approaches, results, and experiences developed within the project, as well as their significance for establishing trustworthy data trustee models.

Within the project, Advaneo assumed the role of consortium leader and was responsible for the technical infrastructure as well as for the exploitation of the project results after the end of the project.

ScaleTrust (Scalable Compliance and Leadership in Ethical Trusteeship) is a research and development project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) with resources from the European Union. Its goal is to establish a legally secure, scalable, and trustworthy data trustee model as a foundation for fair and decentralized data ecosystems.

Data trustees act as neutral intermediaries who responsibly manage data on behalf of data owners and share it in a controlled manner. The ScaleTrust project creates the technical, organizational, and legal framework for fair, application-, sector-, and cross-border data exchange, demonstrated in practice in data spaces such as the Green Deal Dataspace.

The final event provides insights into the project results, demonstrators, and use cases, as well as into the contributions of the project partners involved. In addition, it invites discussion on future developments, challenges, and potentials of data trustee models in data-driven ecosystems.

We invite you to learn about the results of ScaleTrust, gain new impulses, and jointly discuss perspectives for fair and trustworthy data exchange.

We look forward to your participation!

Agenda

Time Topic Duration

10:30 – 10:55

Opening from Jürgen Bretfeld (Advaneo)

Welcome message project sponsor Peter Gabriel (VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH)

Welcome message Dr. Christian Zinke-Wehlmann (Infai-KMI)

Introduction into the project by Jürgen Bretfeld (Advaneo)

25 min

10:55 – 11:45

From concept to market readiness: Architecture and infrastructure solutions in the Scaletrust project

  • Presentation of GDDS components, data marketplace, Trusted Data Hub (Louis Buttiaux, Advaneo)
  • Presentation of the knowledge graph, semantic search functions, and AI-generated SPARQL queries (Lars-Peter Meyer, Infai)

50 min

11:45 – 12:10

Scalability and user orientation using the example of supply chains and ESG guidelines:

  • Presentation of the Supply Chain Radars (Louis Buttiaux, Advaneo)

25 min

12:10 – 12:55

Lunch Break

45 min

12:55 – 01:30

Legal solutions for data trustees – Implementation of Policy Builder in the data room

  • Presentation of the Policy Builder (Gunnar Sasse, Advaneo; Katharina Schilke, Universität des Saarlands)

35 min

01:30 – 02:05

Identify risks and select measures—practical risk management for data trustees in Scaletrust

  • Presentation of risk identification and mitigation measures (Julien Adelberger, GDDS; Julia Heck, Moritz Menzel, FUNK)

35 min

02:05 – 02:25

Coffee Break

20 min

02:25 – 02:55

Quo Vadis Scaletrust

  • Exploitation and communication strategies in the project (Jürgen Bretfeld, Advaneo; Mario Holesch, IDSA)
  • Outlook & Closing remarks (Jürgen Bretfeld, Advaneo)

30 min

02:55 – 04:00

Get-together and Networking

65 min

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