Julia Gundlach is head of international affairs for the project Forum Digital Technologies (FDT) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). FDT is a networking platform and exhibition space for research projects not only on smart data but also on the technology trends of artificial intelligence, internet of things as well as security and trust in the digital space. FDT was launched in September 2019 by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and is the successor project of the Smart Data Forum.