Dr. Katharina von Knop is the founder and CEO of Digital Trust Analytics GmbH. This service company builds trusted business models and optimizes the decision-making processes of Humans, Organizations, and AI machines. The company was founded based on her scientific work on the topic “Building Digital Trust”. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on decision-making in security politics. After a period of applied research and the co-foundation of her first company, the Institute for Applied Computer Science, she changed to strategy consulting to optimize banks risk management during the financial crisis, and then to develop new digital business models in a leading position for a 60,000-strong group.
Her volunteer work includes being a Member of the Board Of Advisors at the German Scholar Organization and at the X-Health Data Loft, a Member of the Sounding Board at the Max Planck Academy, and a Mentor at the Startup IT-Accelerator CyberLab in Karlsruhe.