The inauguration of the world’s first Catena-X Competence Center will bring together top-level international leaders

On May 28, Innovalia, in collaboration with the Automotive Intelligence Center (AIC), will host the official inauguration of the world’s first Catena-X Competence Centre.
The event will bring together professional profiles and leading international figures, including general managers and heads of innovation, quality, digitalization and IT from the automotive ecosystem and digital services sector. It will take place at the AIC facilities, in the Phase 4 building.

The meeting will present this new space as a secure, neutral and open point of reference to facilitate companies’ access to the Catena-X ecosystem, promote the development and use of trusted digital solutions, and strengthen the competitiveness of the sector through secure data sharing.

The center has been created with the aim of helping companies acquire the capabilities needed to use this new digital infrastructure, develop applications and share information efficiently.

The event will feature high-level speakers from the Catena-X network itself and from leading companies in the sector, in a session designed to provide a comprehensive view of the ecosystem, its main use cases and the opportunities it opens up for the entire automotive value chain. In addition to the planned presentations, attendees will be able to learn first-hand about the center’s capabilities through a visit to its infrastructure, tools and services.

Official Agenda

10:30 → 10:40: Welcome

• Inés Anitua, CEO, AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center & ACICAE-Basque Automotive Cluster
• Oscar Lazaro, Managing Director, Asociación Innovalia

10:40 → 10:50: Catena-X Infrastructure and Digital Ecosystem

• Michael Hahn, Managing Director Value Creation & Technology, Catena-X e.V
• Shanawaz Sheik, Director Sustainability, FLEX & Lead Internationalization Committee, Catena-X e.V

10:50 → 11:35: Sectorial Vision and Opportunities for the ecosystem

• Oliver Ganser, Vice President Procurement, BMW Group & Supplier Network & Chairman Board of Directors, Catena-X e.V
• Jean-Baptiste Burtscher, Group External Affairs Sustainable Development and R&D Partnership Director, VALEO & Member of the Board of Directors, Catena-X e.V
• Frank Goeller, Programme Lead Catena-X, Volkswagen AG & Chairman of GAMS (Global Activation & Market Steering) Board, Catena-X e.V
• Thorsten Huelsmann, CEO International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)

11:35 → 11:45: Plans for the promotion of sectorial Data Spaces

• Ander Caneda Jorge, Coordinador de área, Dirección General del Dato

11:45 → 12:10: Competence Centre´s Capabilities

• Silvia Rodriguez, Project Manager, Innovalia & Managing Director, Centro de Competencia Catena-X
• Daniel Velasco, Project Manager, AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center

12:10 → 12:45: Roundtable  (Moderated por Mikel Lorente, Technical Director, AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center)

• Juan de la Peña, Vicepresident Innovation Strategies, Siemens Advanta Iberia.
• Begoña Laibarra, CEO, Software Quality Systems, S.A. & Director, Catena-X Conformity Assessment Body .
• Iñigo León, Product Development & Quality Manager, Arania, S.A.

12:45 → 12:50: Institutional Closing

• Ainara Basurko, Deputy for Economic Promotion, Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

12:50 → 13:30: Visit to the Competence Centre
13:30 → 15:00: Cocktail & Networking