Dr. Zoi Ekaterinidi graduated at the German School Athens – GR and graduated as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Technical University of Munich in Electrical Engineering (Dipl. Ing.). She studied Physics at the University of Athens and obtained her PhD in Information Technology and Space Physics at the University of Athens, in cooperation with Imperial College London (UK). She completed her MBA in collaboration with DUKE University - USA. Zoi Ekaterinidi worked for Siemens in Germany and Greece for 19 years, initially as a telecommunications software developer. Later she managed the Siemens Software Center in Athens up to C-level and expanded it within six years to an international Software Center from 15 to 800 software engineers (Best Practice of Siemens international - top+ award). In 2010, Zoi Ekaterinidi founded her first company, Software Competitiveness International SA, in Athens (www.softcom-int.com). In 2019, she founded the Software Competitiveness International GmbH (www.softcom-int.de) in Darmstadt, which she also manages herself. She works almost exclusively for the German market, for the process- and quality-oriented markets (mainly automotive and aerospace, telecommunications, digitalization), and complex large-scale multinational projects. For her achievements, Zoi Ekaterinidi received the following awards: "Manager of the year 2003" of the ECO-Q Organization for business excellence in Greece, "Manager of the year 2004" of the Greek Information & Telecommunications Forum, "Top + award for Global Competitiveness for Software Offshoring" of Siemens AG 2004, "Siemens AG Innovator of the year 2007". Picture left side Martin Kemeter - Senior Consultant (Method Park) Martin Kemeter works as a senior consultant for processes & standards at Method Park. He consults and supports particularly customers from the automotive industry on process improvement projects. For them, he performs assessments and gap analyses according to Automotive SPICE®. Additionally, he is interested in variant management and requirements engineering. Martin Kemeter is Volkswagen Certified Software Quality Improvement Leader (SQIL), intacs™ Competent Assessor (Automotive SPICE®), Certified Scrum Master, iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architect – Foundation Level, and SAP Certified Solution Business Associate with SAP ERP 6.0.