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Tagesspiegel Background Tagesspiegel Background offers specialized insights into politics and regulation across key areas, including:

- Cybersecurity
- Digitalisation & AI
- Health & e-health

The daily Tagesspiegel Background Briefings deliver essential updates on policy discussions, industry perspectives, and relevant stakeholder insights, accessible at 6 a.m. via email or the web portal.

Weekly, specialized political Monitorings provide transparency and analysis of regulatory and legislative developments. Tagesspiegel Background tracks each detail, monitors procedural deadlines, and sends critical original documents from the political landscape directly to your inbox.

Briefings and Monitorings are published in German. Learn more
SAP SAP enterprise information and strategy

As the market leader in enterprise software, we help organizations of all sizes and industries improve their operations by redefining ERP and building networks of intelligent businesses that deliver visibility, resilience and sustainability across supply chains. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables our customers to operate profitably, continuously adapt and differentiate themselves from the competition globally. We focus on business agility, supply chain resilience and sustainable results.

Our values

Purpose and sustainability
Diversity and inclusion
Corporate Social Responsibility

Innovation at SAP

For us, innovation means developing groundbreaking technologies that set new standards in IT and business.

Global sponsorship

Partnerships with teams, leagues and sports venues enable us to develop technology solutions with real-time cloud-based analytics. Learn more
Google Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Making AI helpful for everyone is the most profound way to advance this mission. Google approaches this in a bold and responsible way, working together with others. With products like Search, Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Gemini, the Pixel smartphones and watches or platforms such as YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people. Google has been operating in Germany since 2001 and now employs more than 2,500 people at its four locations in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. Together with local partners, Google Germany is working on numerous digitalization projects, for example in the areas of education, retail, infrastructure, sustainability or data protection. At the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) in Munich, Google builds products and features that are secure by default and private by design. And with communication solutions, a Cloud Data Center near Frankfurt and two cloud regions with a focus on increased efficiency and sustainability, Google supports companies in Germany  in their digital transformation process. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Learn more
AWS Germany Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. In Germany, AWS launched the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region in 2014, and is launching the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg end of 2025. AWS Development Centers in Germany are based in Aachen, Berlin, Dresden, and Tübingen, and corporate offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Walldorf. AWS is also developing the local workforce through programmes like the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance. Learn more
Economic Development Agency Brandenburg (WFBB) Economic Development Agency Brandenburg (WFBB) is the central point of contact for investors, local entrepreneurs and technology-orientated start-ups. The aim of cluster management within the WFBB is to network business and science in such a way that, in particular, the innovative strength and thus the competitiveness of companies are strengthened. Together with the other players in the cluster, they drive forward strategic development in the areas of digital transformation, green deal, transport and energy transition as well as eHealth and innovative supply concepts. Learn more
eco – Association of the Internet Industry With approximately 1,000 member companies, eco is the leading Association of the Internet Industry in Europe. Since 1995, eco has been highly instrumental in shaping the Internet, fostering new technologies, forming framework conditions, and representing the interests of its members in politics and international forums. eco has offices based in Cologne, Berlin and Brussels. In its work, eco primarily advocates for a high-performance, reliable and trustworthy ecosystem of digital infrastructures and services. Learn more
Institute of Electronic Business (IEB) For over 25 years, the IEB (UdK Berlin An-Institut) has been dedicated to transferring scientific expertise from applied research into digital practice. In close collaboration with its network of university partners, the institute examines relevant trends and supports the digitalization of businesses through innovative knowledge-transfer formats. Learn more
Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) The German Informatics Society is the largest professional society for computer science in the German-speaking world. Since 1969, it has represented the interests of computer scientists und practitioners in science and politics and is committed to promoting a digital transformation for the common good. With 14 divisions, over 30 active regional groups and more than 150 expert groups, the GI is a forum for all disciplines in computer science. Learn more
KIEZ K.I.E.Z. - Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurship Center – promotes the founding of sciencebased startups in the field of artificial intelligence. The range of services is geared to the specific needs of AI startups and covers the entire innovation chain: from the identification of startup potential in AI research to targeted support in the incubation phase and an AI accelerator program.

K.I.E.Z. is supported by Science & Startups, the association of the startup centers of the Berlin universities - FU, HU and TU in cooperation with Charité.

K.I.E.Z. is one of four EXIST model projects nationwide for more startups in the AI field and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and co-financed by the State of Berlin. Learn more
German AI Association Artificial intelligence is one of the key technologies of our future. The members of the German AI Association are committed to ensure that AI is applied in the spirit of European and democratic values. The goal is digital sovereignty for Europe. To achieve this, the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU must become attractive AI locations for entrepreneurs, where willingness to take risks is appreciated and innovative minds meet the best conditions.

The German AI Association stands by the side of AI entrepreneurs by representing their interests towards politics, business and media. The goal is an active, successful and sustainable AI ecosystem in Germany and Europe. Only if the brightest minds and thought leaders decide to found, research and teach in the European Union we can withstand global competition.

The German AI Association enables entrepreneurs to learn from each other’s experiences and bring new ideas into their companies. Through the exchange in our network, we contribute to strengthening the innovative power in Germany. Artificial intelligence can only be successful in Germany if it is accepted by the established economy in all sectors. The German AI Association contributes to awakening openness for AI innovations in European companies. Learn more
KI Park e.V. Bringing AI into application - united as an ecosystem

KI Park e.V. is an association of research institutions, start-ups and scale-ups, established companies, investors and social and political players. Together, we are dedicated to the AI topics of the future, which must be significantly accelerated for Germany and Europe to become technology leaders. With over 200 members, the AI Park offers a strong platform for exchange, collaboration and innovation that provides new impetus for artificial intelligence and its applications in practice. Together, we develop solutions for key challenges, promote sustainable projects and drive the implementation of AI technologies in order to support a competitive and future-oriented economy. Learn more