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ADAPTANT ®
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
ADAPTANT ®
WELCOME
The Adaptant Group is a provider of ICT solutions and enabling technologies in the areas of personal privacy and data protection. We are active innovators in the ICT-fields of data ethics and user-centric data management across a range of verticals and technology areas.
Besides our technology focus, we are also active in pre-normative standardisation in the area of personal data usage control, as well as policy discourse surrounding the balancing of ethics and regulatory compliance with technological and business model innovation.In this booklet, you will find a brief overview of the Adaptant Group as a whole, with a specific focus on our current research and innovation activities, core competencies, team expertise, and general areas of interest.
We are always interested in new collaboration opportunities in our areas of interest and encourage you to contact us directly if you believe we would be able to add value to a research or commercial proposition. For the most up-to-date information on our collaboration offers and commercial interests, please refer to our website.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us and we look forward to hearing from you.
With Compliments,
Adaptant Solutions AGRosenheimer Str. 139 81671 Munich
Phone +49 89 904 101 300
Fax +49 89 904 101 309
Website
www.adaptant.io
A message from our Founder & Managing Director
Founder & Managing Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
02ADAPTANT: WHO ARE WE?
03ADAPTANT SOLUTIONS
ADAPTANT LABS
04CORE COMPETENCIES
06ALLIANCES AND MEMBERSHIPS
08H2020 ACTIVITIES
RESTASSURED
11CONTACTS
12OUR TEAM
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ADAPTANT:WHO ARE WE?
ADAPTANT SOLUTIONSAdaptant Solutions is the commercial arm of the Adaptant Group and is responsible for the development of commercial Products, Solutions, and Services based on technologies and other R&D outputs provided by Adaptant Labs.
As the market-facing unit, Adaptant Solutions is responsible for:• carrying out market and policy research, providing
requirements for the organisation’s overall strategic direction;
• customer and market development;• driving standardisation and policy contributions (together
with R&D);• defining the go-to-market strategy, managing strategic
alliances, and pursuing joint commercial ventures.
Adaptant® is a German SME dedicated to empowering users over their data, while enabling new ways for data to be used.
Adaptant’s vision is that through empowering users to take control of their own data, new user-centric business models and services will be realized, fundamentally changing the data value chain.
Adaptant was established in 2015 specifically to take advantage of the recent and impending changes to the individual privacy landscape in Europe, with a specific focus on providing technological solutions and innovations supporting the upcoming Regulation (EU) 2016/679, or General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We have positioned ourselves to provide relevant and flexible products, solutions, and services to individuals interested in exercising their new rights, as well as to businesses who need to assess their current and future compliance for existing and newly collected data. We also offer support to organisations which are beginning a move towards more inclusive business models and service offerings that are reflective of the individual’s wants and needs.
ADAPTANT LABSAdaptant Labs is the research and development arm of the Adaptant Group and is the primary vehicle for knowledge dissemination, technology transfer, and intellectual property realization. Its mission is to facilitate and drive cross-cutting open innovation and research in privacy-preserving technologies across a diverse range of applications while driving the continued evolution of Adaptant’s Products, Solutions, and Services. In addition to internal R&D and Joint Innovation initiatives, Adaptant Labs participates in funded Research and Innovation (R&I) projects within Germany, the European Union, and internationally.
Adaptant Labs is currently involved in fundamental and applied research in the areas of Cloud/Fog/Mobile Edge Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Privacy & Security, Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS), and the future (next generation) internet.
Adaptant Solutions AG (short name: ADPT)
VAT Number DE284269970
PIC 924733205
NCAGE code CL993
EU Transparency Register Number 460594519070-95
COMPANY DATA
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CORE COMPETENCIES
Policy Analysis and Inputs:Adaptant is an active member of a number of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) and contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs) across a range of technology areas, and a regular contributor to the Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas (SRIAs) that intersect with our areas of interest. Adaptant is furthermore a regular participant in EC Public Consultations, Policy Workshops and related events, with a focus on privacy, data ownership/usage/liability, IoT and the data economy. Where relevant, Adaptant also proactively contributes policy inputs to countries outside of the EU looking to evolve their own privacy laws.
Standardisation:
We believe that standardisation and increased interoperability will be key to realizing the advantages of IoT and the data economy. Adaptant aims to maintain a steady outlook of the standards landscape in its areas of activity, leverage standards for processes and system design wherever possible, and proactively contribute back to both existing and emerging (pre-normative) standards wherever gaps or opportunities are identified. Within the area of personal data usage control, Adaptant is one of the founding members of the CEN Workshop 84 on a ‘Self-Sovereign Identifier(s) for Personal Data Ownership and Usage Control’ (CEN WS ISÆN).
Market Analysis and Business Model Innovation:
While many look at the GDPR and supporting legislation as a compliance burden, we consider this a pivotal point in evolving innovative, privacy-preserving, and inclusive business models that directly engage the data subject/data controller in value co-creation, further facilitating the right to individual informational self-determination and ultimately turning privacy-preservation and compliance into a source of competitive advantage for European industry. Beyond the opportunities presented by the GDPR in enabling the Digital Single Market (DSM) in the EU, Adaptant also closely monitors and contributes to emerging policy in countries aiming to follow the GDPR’s lead, allowing us to contribute differentiated, longer-term, growth-focused, commercial exploitation and go-to-market strategies that continue to respect privacy.
Open Source System Integration & Software Engineering:
Adaptant employees have contributed thousands of changes to prominent Open Source projects, such as the Linux kernel. With strong expertise in the Open Source community, we appreciate the value of component reuse and of knowing when to extend or to start over. As Open Source contributors, we understand the importance of giving back to the community and the need for community-focused development methodologies to facilitate the acceptance of project results during and beyond the project lifecycle. As a member of the Open Invention Network (OIN), we are also committed to the non-assertion of patents against Open Source components, providing a basis for unique commercial exploitation strategies that are both Open Source and IPR friendly.
Privacy by Design (PbD) and Data Ethics by Design:
While Adaptant has extensive experience in considering privacy aspects during all stages of the product design lifecycle in line with the requirements set out by PbD methodologies (and the GDPR), we also believe that with the shift towards AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics, PbD principles on their own are insufficient for addressing the legal/ethical tensions arising from the use of data, particularly in the area of autonomous decision-making. To this extent, we also suggest going beyond PbD and promote the inclusion of Data Ethics by Design into the design process, facilitating ethical decision making across the entire data lifecycle.
Multi-National IPR Management: With IP holding companies in both Germany and the United States, Adaptant is uniquely positioned to develop and manage multi-national IPR strategies for project consortia, increasing the amount of realisable IP from projects while helping growth-oriented SMEs, with a focus on commercial exploitation compete on a level, playing field with larger multi-national organisations.
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ALLIANCES AND MEMBERSHIPS
WE KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF TAKING CARE OF LONG-TIME ALLIANCES WHILE FORGING NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE
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Website
www.restassuredh2020.eu
Topic
ICT-06-2016: Cloud Computing
Project Type
Research and Innovation Action
Duration
01.01.2017 – 31.12.2019
Principal Investigator
Paul Mundt
This project has received
funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme
under grant agreement No
731678.
OUR ROLE
As a consortium member, Adaptant is taking the lead role in technology use case validation. The use cases include: • automobile usage-based insurance (UBI),
which focuses upon GDPR regulatory compliance of connected car telematics;
• a health care application treating sensitive personal data securely (and GDPR compliant) within public cloud infrastructures (led by consortium partner OCC);
• a High-performance computing (HPC) use case for leveraging the cost benefits of public cloud infrastructures against the need to secure highly sensitive corporate data and analysis results.
Owing to the cross-disciplinary reach and diversity of the use cases, contributions will be made to the overall project architecture, testbed, and methodology. Technical contributions will focus not only on the secure cloud data processing and execution environment, but also decentralized data lifecycle management. Adaptant will contribute to the exploitation of project results, innovation management, and standardization activities beyond the time horizon of the project.
Secure cloud computing is key for business success and end-user adoption of federated and decentralised cloud services and thus essential to stimulate the growth of the European Digital Single Market. RestAssured will provide solutions to specific technical concerns of data protection in the cloud (such as geo-location restrictions on personal data), which are imposed by the dynamic, multi-stakeholder and decentralized nature of federated cloud systems. These concerns mean that privacy and security by design approaches will no longer be sufficient, due to uncertainty at design time of how the cloud and privacy requirements may dynamically evolve and change at run time. To this end, RestAssured provides novel mechanisms and cloud architectures for the runtime detection, prediction and prevention of data protection violations.RestAssured will assure the protection of sensitive business and citizen data in the cloud by combining four pillars of innovation: (1) combination of fully homomorphic encryption to process data without decryption, with cloud enablement of SGX hardware for protected data processing; (2) sticky policies for decentralized data lifecycle management; (3) models@runtime for data protection assurance; (4) automated risk management for run-time data protection.
The applicability and usefulness of the RestAssured solutions will be demonstrated through three use cases driven by project partners and involving other stakeholders from outside the consortium; High-Performance Computing for commercial enterprises; Pay As You Drive usage-based insurance; and self-directed social care for vulnerable adults and social care providers. The main impact of RestAssured will be to enable the free and seamless movement of data within the EU, whilst assuring conformance to data protection regulations, such as the EU Data Protection Directive and its successor the General Data Protection Regulation.
Secure Data Processing in the Cloud
H2020 ACTIVITIES
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Think we can support you on or add value to an existing proposal?
While we generally have a few proposals under development at any given time, we are always interested in hearing about new proposal ideas where we might be able to add value, or rough concepts we can help shape into something more. Please contact our Proposal Manager and let us know how we can help.
CONSORTIUM MEMBERS
PROPOSAL TEAM
Dr. Jodie HatfieldProposal Manager, EU Research Projects
PROPOSAL [email protected]
For all general enquiries, please contact our head office:
Adaptant Solutions AGRosenheimer Str. 13981671 MunichGermanyPhone: +49 89 904 101 300Fax: +49 89 904 101 309Email: [email protected]
CONTACTS
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Julianna Mária Csécs (female) is the Head of Project Management Office at Adaptant. Prior to this, she was a Project Management Officer at Huawei’s European Research Centre, where she provided guidance and internal control for a portfolio of over 70 internal research projects, including 2 FP7 and 10+ Horizon 2020 projects. As part of Huawei’s Horizon 2020 Core Advisory Group, she also held trainings on Project Management and internal regulations regarding Horizon 2020 proposals and project best practices. Besides her experience in EU project, programme, and portfolio management and controlling, she has previously worked as project manager for a cross-governmental programme between Hungary and China. She received her BSc in Business Management with a focus on SME development, Project, and Operations Management from the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary, and a BSc in Oriental Languages and Cultures from the Eötvös Loránd University, for which she was the recipient of 2 governmental scholarships (from the Chinese and Hungarian governments, respectively). Her research interests cover international research project implementation, inter-cultural management and technology management.
Markus Hasinger (male) is the Commercial Director at Adaptant. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in industry, both in large international enterprises (8 years) and in SMEs/Start-ups (>12 years), of which 6 years entrepreneurial experience in the area of technology- and innovation management as well as university-industry cooperation. As an expert in organisational design, commercial company management, funding, technology marketing and international business development he has amongst others been directly involved in three Start-up companies as a founding partner and further on in his career contributed to the setup of a handful of other companies. Currently, he is leading his own consulting company, Novanda. GmbH, acts as a Venture Partner of AQAL Group, an exponential-tech holding company and multi-family office in Munich, as Commercial Director of Green Heritage Holding GmbH, and holds further board positions in companies from different technology areas. He has contributed to a number of successfully completed Research & Innovation projects in FP6 and FP7 in international consortia, amongst them InnoFIT, GAINS, MobiS. His focus in these projects was in the dissemination and exploitation, with an emphasis on commercial development and business modelling. He studied Business Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and holds a degree in Marketing Communications from BAW in Munich.
Agnese Barazza (female) is the Social Media & Digital Marketing Manager at Adaptant. Prior to this, she worked as Digital Marketing Strategist for an Italian Web Agency where she was responsible for developing and implementing inbound marketing strategies. Earlier, she was a Press Officer and Social Media Manager for a series of national and international events, where she also lead the graphic design team. She studied Communication and holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Strategies from the University of Padua. As part of this, she was on exchange at the University of Helsinki researching her thesis on Native Advertising.
Paul Mundt (male) is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Management board of Adaptant, as well as Vice-Chair of CEN Workshop 84 on a Self-Sovereign Identifier(s) for Personal Data Ownership and Usage Control (CEN WS ISÆN), and Co-Chair of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) Data Management Sub-group. Prior to this, he was the CTO of OS & Virtualization and Director of the System Software department at Huawei’s European Research Centre, where he was responsible for the future OS and Virtualization strategy and architecture, focusing on the areas of heterogeneous systems, the convergence of Cloud and HPC, and future data center architecture, leading to Huawei’s first successful Horizon 2020 projects (MIKELANGELO, M2DC) and strategic engagement of key ETPs/cPPPs (BDVA, ETP4HPC, NESSI). He has more than 17 years of system software development and technology management experience, across a range of industries (Semiconductors, Automotive, Telecommunications, Defence), and has previously worked for Renesas, Nokia, TimeSys, and MontaVista Software in various technical and leadership positions. He previously established and Chaired the Memory Management Working Group in the CE Linux Forum (now part of the Linux Foundation), where he advocated the convergence of Enterprise and Embedded technologies and pioneered Asymmetric NUMA systems. He has most recently served on the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computers, Data Management & Technology Applications (ICCDMTA’2016) and the 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC’16). He holds a Professional Diploma in Management from the Open University, UK.
Adam Burns (male) is the CTO and Head of Adaptant Labs. He has over 20 years of experience in information technology management, development and operations management as well as security research and security policy consultancy spanning a wide range of market sectors (Global Finance, Health, Justice, Defence/Intelligence, ISPs, security start-ups and NGOs). He has led the transformation of research and start-up proof of concepts into scalable, resilient, market ready products and services, including embedded distributed emergency FM broadcast radios deployed across Syria and the Middle East (MiCT), military grade secure encrypted VoIP systems (Cellcrypt), and secure Enterprise Wi-Fi guest access services (The Cloud). He was a founder and Director of the Australian chapter of the Internet Society (now Internet Australia), a participant in the EU PACT privacy project, and is currently serving as an Advisory Board member of the Horizon 2020 netCommons project. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) from Monash University and enjoys researching, writing and presenting innovative uses of technology (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Javacards) and raising the privacy impact of their current security implementations.
Dr. Jodie Hatfield (female) is the Proposal Manager, EU Research Projects at Adaptant. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia and has since worked with research institutes in both Australia and Japan, most recently as a recipient of the Matsumae International Fellowship. Her research interests have principally focused on the commercialisation of fundamental research. This background brings with it a strong understanding of privacy and ethics in a global research atmosphere as it applies to the processing and handling of both personal data and research data.
OUR TEAM
ADAPTANT ®
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