Dr. Dominik Rohrmus holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He worked for German small and medium enterprises (SME) in the area of industry and healthcare before he joined Siemens in different functions in the field of manufacturing and production development in 2005. In 2009 he founded the company program sustainable production engineering. Since 2013 he was the head of the group that is responsible for shop-floor equipment and standardisation of the future for Siemens factories worldwide with execution in a Czeck Republic Siemens Energy factory. Since 2016 Dominik is also CTO of the non-profit and pre-competitive German association Labs Network Industrie 4.0 e.V. (LNI 4.0), fostering the digital transformation for a wide range of industrial sectors with a focus on SME. Since 2021 Dominik was COO of Gaia-X setting up the association for trusted data ecosystems, growing it in one year to 350 members. In 2022 Dominik re-joined LNI 4.0 as its CTO focusing on data ecosystems internationalisation as well as testing and verification. Dominik is member of several industry association gremials, the International Manufacturing-X Council and supports the international industrial standardisation.