Siwara Schmitt is working at Fraunhofer IESE since 2015, serving as a business area manager for embedded systems as well as a project lead. She has many years of experience in developing and integrating Industry 4.0 solutions with a focus on digital twins, interoperability, data spaces, and distributed software systems. In her work, she places particular emphasis on the user perspective and combines technical excellence with practical implementability in digital transformation.