Odej Kao is full professor for distributed and operating systems at the Technical University of Berlin and founder of the Einstein Centre Digital Future, in which 50 industry-funded professorships research interdisciplinary issues of digitization, from technology to business models and social impacts. He is a chairman of the German Research Network DFN and former dean of the faculty of computer science. Dr. Kao is a graduate from the TU Clausthal (master computer science in 1995, PhD in 1997, habilitation in 2002). In 2002 he joined the Paderborn University as associated professor for operating systems and director of the centre for parallel computing. In 2006, he moved to Berlin and focused his research on  AIOps, big data / streaming analytics, cloud computing, and fault tolerance. Prof. Kao is involved as a PI in BIFOLD (National Institute on Foundations or Learning and Data), Collaborative Research Centre FONDA (Foundations of Workflows for LargeScale Scientific Data Analysis), and BBDC (National Big Data Centre). Prof. Kao is a member of 200+ program and review committees and has published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed proceedings and journals.