Ina Schieferdecker is an independent researcher and Honorary Professor of Software-Based Innovation at the Technische Universität Berlin. Previously, she was Director General for Research for Technological Sovereignty and Innovation at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Professor for Quality Engineering of Open Distributed Systems (QDS) at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), and Director of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute. Ina is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and an honorary member of the German Testing Board (GTB). Ina’s research interests include quality engineering of open distributed systems, urban data platforms and open data, and digitalisation & transformation towards sustainability. Ina has received awards for her scientific work such as the German Prize for Software Quality (DPSQ), the EUREKA Innovation Award, or the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Award for Young Professors.