Jochen Friedrich leads IBM’s team for Standardisation and Technical Regulation in  Europe and is part of the corporate IBM standards and open source strategy  organisation. Jochen holds a number of positions in European standardisation. He is  President of Ecma International, member of the ETSI Board and chairs the strategic  advisory committee FOCUS.digital in the German national standardisation Body DIN  and the Expert Panel of the Standardisation Council Industrie 4.0.  

Jochen also holds lead roles in European fora and industry and trade associations:  He chairs the standardisation task force in OpenForum Europe (OFE) and the  standardisation working group in the German ICT association BITKOM. As  representative for OpenForum Europe in the EU Commission’s advisory group “ICT  Multi-Stakeholder Platform” Jochen chairs the Task Force on the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation. He is also a member of the German government’s Advisory Council  for ICT Technologies BSIKT and a sherpa member of the German national Strategy  Forum on Standardisation. 

Jochen is a Fellow of the OpenForum Academy.