Dirk Slama is a Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH. As chairman of the digi-tal.auto initiative, he helps driving the digitalization of the automotive industry. As conference chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the digital ecosystem of the Bosch group. He is director of the AIoT Lab at the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute, where he also holds a full professorship. The AIoT Lab helps customers implement use cases in the digital.auto and digital.industry domains. As Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Playbook for OEMs and manufacturers, he helps making best practices available to support the digital transformation. As former chairman (StC) of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helped to create the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet. Dirk has 25 years experience in very large-scale IT projects, distributed systems and AIoT. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa Systems, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, IF.com and others. Dirk is a fre-quent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of five successful books: En-terprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, Enterprise IoT, and the Digital Playbook. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Berlin.