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Oleksandra Ostapenko, Head of Product Management for Industry Standards, SAP has been appointed to the IDTA board. In a short interview, she talks about her experience in the field of Digital Twins and standardization and her ambitions for her new role.

IDTA and IDSA are merging their expertise to bring industrial data exchange and the application of digital twins closer together in the future. The cooperation combines two central building blocks of the digital industry: While IDTA develops the standard for digital twins based on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), IDSA addresses interaction in decentralised data spaces with the standardisation of the Dataspace Protocol.

buildingSMART Germany e. V. and Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA) signed a formal cooperation agreement at Light + Building, the leading international trade fair for lighting and building technology, on 11 March 2026. The partnership aims to bring together Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as complementary technologies, thereby laying the foundation for seamless digital processes in the construction and real estate industries.

In a joint initiative, Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA), Catena-X Automotive Network e.V. and members of the Battery Pass Project have developed a technological approach and a common semantic basis for the Digital Battery Passport. The solution addresses all data requirements defined in the EU Battery Regulation and transfers them into a scalable, standards-based data model.

Dr. Christoph Kelzenberg, Director Digital Innovations at Phoenix Contact, has been appointed to the IDTA board. In a short interview, he talks about his experience in the field of Digital Twins and automation and his ambitions for his new role.