In her roles, she advises businesses and public authorities on digital transformation, leadership, human resources and forward-looking organisational and cultural development. She is a member of various boards on issues surrounding digital transformation, advanced training and the future of work.

From 2018 to 2021, she headed the newly created Directorate-General for Digital Transformation of the World of Work at the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society was part of this directorate-general. It was a space for experimentation to approach complex topics using agile and participatory methods as well as co-creation processes. For example, the outline for platform regulation was developed in this way, and training for agile coaches was initiated at the BMAS.

Before working at the BMAS, Julia Borggräfe was Senior Vice President Human Resources & Corporate Governance at Messe Berlin and Senior Manager HR Western Europe Sales & Financial Services at Daimler AG in Stuttgart.

FITKO is an institution under public law run jointly by the Federation and the Länder (federal states) to create a basis for flexible and sustainable federal cooperation. It was designed as a central, lean and specialised support unit to boost the ability of the IT Planning Council to act and make strategic policy decisions.

As a project manager, Mr Kremer headed many IT and organisational projects at federal and state level. At European level, he was, among other things, a founding member of the Single Points of Contact Network.

Jörg Kremer has extensive experience as a leader in the area of IT. As a trained organisational counsellor, he successfully guided various businesses and public authorities in Germany and abroad through change processes. He was the deputy head of the project team setting up FITKO, and he steps in for the FITKO president in her absence.

She graduated from Harvard University and earned her PhD at the University of Innsbruck in political science and German studies. From 2009 to 2011, she served in the White House as the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative.

She is the author of Solving Public Problems: How to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Yale Press 2021; named a Best Book of 2021 by Stanford Social Innovation Review) and is also Core Faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI (IEAI) at Northeastern. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief Innovation Officer. She is also Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University and a Fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Between 2018-2021, she served on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Digital Council.

Read more about Beth Noveck on the websites of TheGovLab here and the Federal Government here.

Vincent Patermann has been responsible for expanding the ecosystem of public IT service provider Dataport since mid-2022. From August 2019 until taking up his current position, he was the director of NExT e.V., the network of experts for digital transformation in public administration The non-profit organisation brings together staff from all levels of government to share information and experience in the area of digital transformation. NExT is operating under the patronage of the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Dr Markus Richter.

Before joining the public administration, Vincent Patermann had worked as a senior artist manager in the music industry for seven years, facilitating successful careers of international pop and dance artists.

He earned a master’s degree in business management (major: innovation, technology and digitisation) at the Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation, studying, among other things, approaches of agile learning as an advanced training instrument in the federal administration.