Peter Ganten is CEO of Univention GmbH, an internationally active manufacturer of an open source platform for identity management, application integration and end-user portals, which he founded in 2002. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Open Source Business Alliance – Federal Association for Digital Sovereignty. He advocates a new generation of information technology that can be co-designed and controlled by developers, operators and user organizations in the spirit of digital sovereignty. Peter Ganten is also active as a member, advisor and expert in various other bodies such as APELL – the European umbrella organization of open source industry associations.