Jack Thoms is Deputy Head of the Research Group “Intelligent Analytics of Mass Data” at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Head of the Smart Data Forum, the German knowledge hub and networking platform for Smart Data technologies and stakeholders in Germany. He received his Phd degree in Industrial Engineering (2006) and his Diploma in Business Administration (1999) from the Technical University Berlin. Jack has been leading several research and innovation projects in the context of data driven businesses.