Today’s Community Summit is a huge step for #GaiaX - it’s the first time the Association itself is organizing the event, introducing many new members, regional hubs, use cases and showing the strong support for #datasovereignity and #dataavailability all over the world. /THREAD https://twitter.com/bmwi_bund/status/1328727370405179392

As the Gaia-X Association AISBL is taking over more responsibilities my team at @BMWi_Bund and I are very happy (and, if I may add: a little proud, too) that #GaiaX comes to fruition. I’ll try to feed the Summit, starting at 10am in this thread here, so stay tuned! 1/x

Latest: More than 4300 registered attendees. https://twitter.com/alban_s/status/1328966531783462913

#GaiaX Interim CEO Hubert Tardieu opens the summit with strong message: "We present to a large Community [4000+ registrations] our progress and the joint momentum of now 181 members: The rocket is ready, welcome to the moonshot!" Members of all sizes, Europe & all over the world

. @jcremer from @Univ_Toulouse, @AchimWambach from @ZEW, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche from @sciencespo explain the effects of data markets, data trade and how #GaiaX fosters competition in the cloud/edge business, emphasizing how Gaia-X strenghtens consumer and user data sovereignity.

Dominique Bolignano of @provenrun & Veronice Lacour of @edfofficiel emphasize the importance of user perspective - @claudianemat of @deutschetelekom identifies 3 success factors: interoperability, european and worldwide scalability and strong use cases are at the core of #GaiaX.

Michael Bolle of @BoschPresse is excited over the potential for #GaiaX as THE trusted and federated infrastructure for the #IoT - @nicolasroehrs of @CLOUDandHEAT wants GAIA-X to set strong standards and emphasizes the importance of #opensource for the project

. @llafaye of @DawexData underlines the effects of trust on data exchanges: #GaiaX is a major opportunity to establish trust in a huge data ecosystem fostering innovation. Luigi Gubitosi of @TIM_Official appreciates that privacy and security at the heart of the joint endeavour

Now @DrBorisOtto of @FraunhoferISST, @alban_s of @OVHcloud and Andreas Weiss of @eco_de show the #GaiaX value proposition: GAIA-X sets the architecture of standards and policy rules for a federated infrastructure of data spaces...

...providers benefit from rolling out enhanced cloud services in a larger and more open market - users from transparency, interoperability, modularity of services and the innovative potential of collaborating in a quickly growing ecosystem #GaiaX.

And they make clear that the Association, the #GaiaX AISBL is the cornerstone to achieve all this. As a community. With the participation of all companies and organizations involved in the project.

Ooookay, Lunch Break at the #GaiaXSummit

Standing in for @peteraltmaier, @tj_tweets emphasizes that the summit today, hosted by the AISBL itself sends a clear sign: #GaiaX is no longer a political promise, it‘s a promise fulfilled: a project from Businesses for Businesses...

...which we as the german government will strongly support with funding federation services, use cases and the german #GaiaX Hub. And advise in the respective bodies of the AISBL.

(14 Mio. € on the Services, approx 200 Mio. on use cases (pending confirmation by parliament‘s budgetary decision))

French Minister @BrunoLeMaire thanks the whole community for the effort and underlines the common vision, based on the pillars souvereignity, openness, interoperability, trust. With the incoming support of 12 member states, #GaiaX is now a real European project.

EU Commissioner @ThierryBreton calls #GaiaX a key contributor to the commissions plans, referring to the recently signed European Cloud Federation. The ECF will start before the end of the year: „Time is of the essence!“ National recovery and resilience Plans will be key, too.