Oliver Süme is a Partner and Technology Lawyer at Fieldfisher, and advises his clients on all legal issues in the areas of IT and digitalization, especially IT contract law, data protection law, and legal issues relating to IT security and e-commerce. In addition, he advises companies from a wide range of industries in connection with digitalization processes and the use of new technologies such as blockchain, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and the establishment of data spaces. He most recently spent more than 18 months advising the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) on the establishment of Gaia-X, working with a international team of more than 17 lawyers on legal issues relating to corporate law, antitrust law, data protection law, and IP law. Mr. Süme is also Chair of the Board of eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heads the data protection working group of EuroISPA, the European umbrella organization of internet service providers.