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xviii Editor and Contributors Ina Schieferdecker is Director General of the Depart- ment on Research for Digitalization and Innovation of Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Before, she has been the Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin and Professor for Quality Engineering of Open Dis- tributedSystemsat theTechnischeUniversitätBerlin.Her research interests include urban data platforms, critical infrastructures and conformity, interoperability, security, reliability and certification of software-based systems. She is President of the Association for Software Quality and Education (ASQF), member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), and of MünchnerKreise.V.Shehasbeenmemberof theGerman Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) as well as steering committee member of the Science Platform Sustainability2030.ShewasalsoDirectorof theWeizen- baum Institute for the Networked Society, the German Internet Institute in Berlin and member of the “Hightech Forum 2025” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Adam Leon Smith is a specialist in softwarequality and emerging technologies. He has held senior technology roles at multinational companies including Barclays and Deutsche Bank, and delivered large complex transfor- mation projects. Adam is a regular speaker on multiple topics, including testing and artificial intelligence tech- nology. He manages an AI product development team that has developed an AI product to support the man- agement of development and testing activities, as well as specializing in testing AI-based systems. He is also actively working with IEEE, ISO, and BSI on standards development in theAIandqualitydomain. Andreas Spillner has been working in the field of soft- waredevelopmentandtesting inpracticeandresearchfor 40 years. He studied computer science at the Technical UniversityBerlinandreceivedhisdoctorateat theUniver- sityofBremen.Until2017hewasProfessorofComputer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. He teaches software engineering with a focus on quality assuranceandprogramming. Andreas is a Fellow of the “Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.”, a founding member of the “German Testing Board e.V.” (honorary member since 2010)