Odej Kao is full professor at Technische Universität Berlin, head of the research group on distributed and operating systems, chairman of the Einstein Center Digital Future with 50 interdisciplinary professors, and chairman of the DFN board. Moreover, he is the CIO of the university and principal investigator in the national centers on Big Data and on Foundations of Learning and Data. Dr. Kao is a graduate from the TU Clausthal (master computer science in 1995, PhD in 1997, habilitation in 2002). In 2002 Dr. Kao joined the Paderborn University as associated professor for operating systems and director of the center for parallel computing. In 2006, he moved to Berlin and focused his research on AIOps, big data / streaming analytics, cloud computing, and fault tolerance. He has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed proceedings and journals.