Introduction & Attendees

Participant Introductions

• Alexis Corcoran (Microsoft)
  Head of Regulatory Strategy for Modernization and Business Planning at Microsoft.

• Erich Barnstedt (Microsoft)
  Senior Director with over 22 years at Microsoft, specializing in standards.

• Eric Samson (Microsoft)
  Member of the standards team, focused on data space standardization.

• Thomas Obermeyer (Catena-X)
  Architect working on the Catena-X data space initiative.

• Lars Geier-Blaumeiser (Cofinity-X)
  Contributor to the ProConnector initiative within the Catena-X ecosystem, focused on the automotive sector.

• Enrico Corneo, Fulvio Cazzanti, & Ernesto Colombo (Opiquad)
  Contributors to the Fulcrum project.

• Dennis Mulder (Full Circle IT)
  Based in the Netherlands. Former Microsoft CTO, now an advocate for Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC).

• Stefan Hoppe
  President of the OPC Foundation.

• Jim Marino
  CTO of Metaform, creators of the Eclipse Dataspace Components.

• Paul Yao
  Developer supporting EDC, contracted by Microsoft.

• Paul Latzelsperger
  Developer at Metaform.

• Enrico Risa
  Developer at Metaform.

• Enzo Ribagnac
  President of the CISPE Foundation.

• Sebastian Steinbuss
  CTO of the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA).

• Enrico La Vela (Retelit)
  Product Manager focused on strategy and go-to-market for innovative cloud solutions.

• Marco Mangiulli (Aruba)
  Head of Software Development and lead on ArubaKube (cloud-native multi-cloud Kubernetes platform).

• Luca Castello (Aruba)
  Software engineer contributing to ArubaKube.

• Alessandro Dandrea (Aruba S.p.A.)
  Business Product Owner for Product and Process Management.

• Rajiv Rajani (iSHARE Foundation)
  CTO of iSHARE, a trust framework enabling controlled data sharing across European industries.

  The iSHARE Framework enables organizations to retain control over their data while collaborating across complex value chains. It has evolved from concept to real-world adoption with public and private partners in logistics, mobility, energy, and more.