As a senior consultant at the VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH Daniel is responsible for advising the German Federal Government and the European Commission on the development of digital policy innovation strategies. He oversees the national innovation landscape on digitisation and mobility and, together with his team, is currently managing central national digital policy projects such as the development of a sovereign European data infrastructure, the German Plattform Industrie 4.0 and different funding programs fostering the digital transformation of the industry.