Internal hackathon paves the way to new business models

As this event was the first large in-person meeting for many project members, the hackathon was a good opportunity to get to know one another. The workshop, which was organised by the project members, offered a varied programme with presentations and discussions in smaller groups.

Starting point Gaia-X 

On both days, the participants welcomed Dr. Christoph Strnadl, VP Innovation and Architecture at Software AG, who is active in the technology workstream of Gaia-X. During the hackathon, his presentation provided the participants with an actual overview of Gaia-X activities and the current focus of discussions that were used as a starting point for discussions. Central to discussions were especially the identification and access management, the Federated Catalog, Gaia-X’s Self-Descriptions of data assets, service assets, resource assets and other participants such as providers and consumers, protocolls and container architectures. In constructive discussions, the team was able to take some important decsions for future project work.

Aiming for new business models 

In the thematic focus “business models”, multiple methods for the structural development of own services was presented and subsequently applied by participants. The project use cases were transferred into an appropriate concept. The results guide the way for the participants  towards the development of new business models using the principles of Gaia-X and build the foundations for future scientific publications in this area.

Another outcome of the workshop is the illustration of use cases in light of possible implementations. Building on these outcomes, an independent architecture was outlined and its conformity with Gaia-X principles evaluated. The participants also discussed, which Gaia-X Services should be implemented in which form.

With the successful outline of potential business models and use cases, the first internal hackathon serves as a  basis for the future project success.