Michael Wiedau holds a Doctorate from TU Dresden and a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University, and has spent nearly a decade at Evonik leading data management across the full asset lifecycle, from process engineering through construction to maintenance.
He co-founded what became the DEXPI Initiative back in 2010 (originally ISO-EQP) and has chaired the board of DEXPI e.V. since 2023, steering the open engineering-data standard now adopted by major owner-operators including ExxonMobil and Shell.
His earlier research career at RWTH Aachen focused on semantic technologies, ontologies, and data integration, the technical foundation he now applies to making engineering data AI-ready across the process industry.
