Gaia-X Announces Leadership Transition and Accelerates Industrialisation of Trusted Data Spaces: A Focus on Delivery, European Trust Framework and Readiness for Industrial AI

By continuously advancing a sovereign trust layer for AI and robust industrial data spaces, we will strengthen Europe’s position as a leading AI continent—empowering organisations to scale fearlessly through trusted data exchange and federated learning. I am excited to take on this new role, work alongside the Gaia-X team and community, and continue to reliably deliver on our ambitions.” – Fabian Biegel, incoming COO, Gaia-X Gaia-X thanks Ulrich Ahle and Roland Fadrany for successfully addressing the foundational challenges of Season 1.0, their valuable contributions to the organisation, and their role in bringing Gaia-X into Season 2.0, as well as their commitment to ensuring a smooth transition for the team, members and community. Together with the Gaia-X Team, Jérôme and Fabian will lead the acceleration of industrialisation across trusted data spaces, with a strong focus on delivery and market value, Trust Framework and readiness for industrial AI. Our job now is to turn the community’s work into industrial-grade technical services that members and data space users can rely on, and to make trust a native part of data exchange between organisations, humans and AI agents.”– Catherine Jestin, BoD Chairwoman, Gaia-X; Executive Vice President Digital, Airbus Accelerating concrete technical value. In Season 2.0, Gaia-X will advance its technical roadmap to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 9, delivering industrialised services from data space connectors implementing the Trust Framework to Gaia-X Digital Clearing House (GXDCH) compliance services. Gaia-X will join forces with existing data ecosystems to develop a roadmap for secure, compliant data exchange between agents, facilitating the training of industrial LLMs and accelerating industrial agentic AI adoption—ultimately empowering cutting-edge, trusted federated learning.