The COVID 19 pandemic has shown the vulnerability of global value chains. It has shown how essential the digital transformation and cyber security are for the resilience of the industry. Trust and “Trustworthiness-profile”, as developed by the Plattform Industrie 4.0, are key components for securing national and international Industrie 4.0 value creating networks. On a European level the data infrastructure project GAIA-X is gaining momentum and international support. The conference will bring global discussion forward on Trustworthiness, Interoperability and Digital Sovereignty.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany and the Plattform Industrie 4.0 are delighted to invite you to the

Online Conference
Shaping a globally secure Industrie 4.0 Ecosystem: Enabling international interoperable security policies

from January 27th – 29th 2021

all days 11:00 am to 3:15 pm CET // 10:00 am to 2:15 pm UTC

The conference focuses on three main subjects:

1. What progress has been made since prior conference?
2. What are major challenges for cyber security and how we can achieve interoperability to international security policies?
3. The conference will provide firsthand practical insights.

In 2021, once again, we will bring together international top-level stakeholders and decision makers from industry, governments and regulatory bodies for three days of dialogue and discussion. The conference will focus on technical and organisational issues of industrial security on a national as well as on a global scale. Keynotes, panel discussions and a wide range of networking opportunities will provide space for in-depth exchange.

Please use this link to register for the event. Attendance of the events is free of charge.

The days will be structured as follows:

Day 1:
Trustworthiness and the way towards interoperability
27th from 11.00 a.m. – 03.15 p.m., CET (10.00 a.m. – 02.15 p.m., UTC)

Moderator: Ina Karabasz

11.00-11.05 Welcome and Introduction

11.05-11.15 Welcome Note from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany – Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker (Parliamentary State Secretary)

11.15-11.30 Welcome Note from the European Commission – Khalil Rouhana (Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT, European Commission)

11.30-01.15 Session on “Trustworthiness” – Trustworthiness for secure supply chains within a framework of international standards.

• Dr. Wolfgang Klasen (Siemens / Plattform Industrie 4.0): Achieving Trustworthiness of Secure Supply Chains for Industrie 4.0
• Ekaterina Rudina (Kaspersky ICS CERT): Approaching industrial IoT trustworthiness in international standards and guidelines
• Ayaji Furukawa (Toshiba Corporation / RRI): The Role of Trustwor-thiness in secure supply chain for connected industries
• Prof. Dr. Georg Borges (Institute for Legal Informatics, Saarland University) and Benjamin Korth (Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML): Towards the automation of trustworthiness: Basic concepts and practical demonstration from the „Industry 4.0 Legal Testbed”

01.15-01.45 Break

01.45-03.00 Session on “Interoperability” – How to make the concept of ‘trust’ interoperable and which standardization approaches will lead to interoperability?

• Dr.-Ing. Lutz Jänicke (Phoenix Contact / Plattform Industrie 4.0): Secure retrieval of CAE data
• Jens Mehrfeld (BSI): Trust infrastructures for Industrie 4.0 – Requirements, solutions, and challenges
• Torsten Förder (Beckhoff Automation): Standardizing a Generic Trust Anchor API for Industrial IoT Devices

03.00-03.15 Recap Panel

Day 2:
Policy approaches, digital sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X
28th from 11.00 a.m. – 02.45 p.m., CET (10.00 a.m. – 01.45 p.m., UTC)

Moderator: Ina Karabasz

11.00-11.05 Welcome and Introduction

11.05-11.30 Keynote Interview - Dr. Thomas Koenen (Head of the Department for Digitization and Innovation, BDI)

11.30-12.30 Panel Discussion - “Policy approaches: How do authorities respond to the challenges of industrial internet security?”

Participants: TBA

12.30-01.00 Break

01.00-02.30 Session on “Digital Sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X” – International data spaces, requirements for data sovereignty and Cyber Security in the Republic of Korea. Spotlight: GAIA-X.

• Prof. Keunhee Han (Korea University, Graduate School of Information Security): Manufacturing Security in Korea – An Overview
• Dr. Thomas Usländer (Fraunhofer IOSB): International Data Spaces tailored to Industrie 4.0 - How to Address the Requirements for Data Sovereignty
• Hubert Tardieu (interim CEO GAIA-X AISBL): The role of GAIA-X for achieving Digital Sovereignty

02.30-02.45 Recap Panel “What has been achieved and what’s going to be ‘next big thing’?”

Day 3:
Paper session and transfer to SMEs via demonstrators
29th from 11.00 a.m. – 02.45 p.m., CET (10.00 a.m. – 01.45 p.m., UTC)

Moderator: Michael Jochem (Robert Bosch GmbH / Plattform Industrie 4.0)

11.00-11.05 Welcome and Introduction

11.05-12.15 Paper session covering the topics ‘Agile Regulations’, ‘Industrie 4.0 Architectures’, ‘Asset Administration Shell’ and ‘Trustworthiness’

• Dr. Antonis Michalas (University of Westminster / Lund University): Factory Belt: Secure and Trusted Industry 4.0 Architectures
• Andre Bröring (OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts): Secure Asset Administration Shell exchange with Distributed Ledger Technology
• Dr. Jürgen Neises (Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH): Trustworthiness as facilitator of Policy and Access Management in Supply Chains
• Dr. Jed Horner (Standards Australia): Building cyber resilience through agile regulation – standards as enablers

12.15-12.45 Break

12.45-02.30 Demonstrator session discussing practical implementation approaches

• Tianzhe Yu (ifak): Implementing certificate-based authentication on application level
• Nils Herzberg (SAP): Open Industry 4.0 Alliance - Putting the secure Industry 4.0 into reality
• Prof Dr Ir Egbert-Jan Sol (TNO Industry): Cyber secure factory floor - The technology for a tightly locked firewall with only OPC_UA access is there, but educate and train your OT-people
• Friedrich Volz (Fraunhofer IOSB): Sharing of Asset Administration Shells with the International Data Spaces Connector

02.30-02.45 Closing Remarks

Please use this link to register for the event. We would be delighted to welcome you to the online conference. Attendance of the events will be free of charge.

We will soon add further information regarding the agenda. In the meantime, please feel free to direct any specific enquiry to geschaeftsstelle@plattform-i40.de.