EU AI Act Experts in Germany
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Nikolaus B.
Last position:
Information Security, IS-Governance & Crossfunctional Governance at Zürich Beteiligungs-AG (Deutschland)
- Conducted security assessments for supplier qualification, business unit onboarding, and ongoing reviews of service providers and partners (Ongoing Assurance).
- Assessed technical and organizational measures (TOMs) against GDPR and information security requirements.
- Handled security reviews and approval processes in the Global Approval Navigator (OneTrust).
- Advised business units and IT on information security, security requirements, and risk-appropriate measures.
- Supported the development of SOC/SIEM processes and tools as part of the ISMS in line with ISO/IEC 27001.
- Analyzed cyber threats and coordinated security objectives and measures to address Security Findings with the SOC team.
- Monitored and assessed current security advisories and security-related metrics (KPIs).
- Reviewed, assessed risks, and approved exception requests (Security Exceptions).
- Independently analyzed and handled Security Events and supported the handling of security incidents.
- Planned and supported awareness initiatives to strengthen security awareness.
- Created, implemented, and reviewed information security policies and standards.
- Conducted protection needs analyses and gap assessments to identify security gaps and risk deviations.
- Defined and reviewed technical and organizational risk treatment measures.
- Advised on Third Party Governance with consideration of DORA, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27005, ISO/IEC 42001, and BCM in line with ISO 22301.
Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- Founder of CheironX: AI-supported GRC management (ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX, DORA)
- Strategic focus on Agentic AI and GenAI for modern IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Olaf S.
Last position:
Trainer & Facilitator for Digital Sovereignty at ITSM-COLOGNE
Project: Digital Sovereignty – Toll Collect
Workshop: Digital Sovereignty Recognize dependencies, reduce risks, remain capable of acting
Format
- One-day practical seminar
Target group
- Executive management
- IT managers
- Data protection officers
- Compliance functions
Content and objectives
- Systematic analysis of digital dependencies
- Assessment of legal and operational risks
- Development of a concrete plan to increase digital sovereignty
- Mapping of the entire IT infrastructure by participants
- Identification of critical dependencies on non-European providers
- Creation of a prioritized risk matrix based on:
- GDPR
- NIS2
- EU AI Act
- Joint development of options for action – from a hybrid model to complete migration to European solutions
- Development of an individual sovereignty roadmap with:
- Responsibilities
- Milestones
- Budget framework
Agenda
- Preliminary self-assessment (current infrastructure)
- Digital sovereignty? Nothing but an illusion
- Digital sovereignty 2026 – Germany’s dangerous dependency in focus
- Digital sovereignty & open source
- What is digital sovereignty?
- Three questions raised by digital sovereignty
- Reflection: Digital sovereignty in your own life
- Why is digital sovereignty existential now?
- Practical examples of digital sovereignty
- Schleswig-Holstein initiative
- Benefits of digital sovereignty for your company
- Assessing strategy options (cost-benefit matrix)
- Sovereign provider? 10 questions
- What does digital sovereignty specifically mean for your company?
- How do you shape digital sovereignty?
- Digital sovereignty and psychological safety
- Psychological safety: The key to high-performing teams
- Why psychological safety in your company?
- Benefits of psychological safety
- Invitation to group work: PsySafety Check (PS-C)
- The “Braintrust” experiment
- Creating a risk matrix
- Creating a roadmap & project plan
- European alternatives to US Big Tech
- 10-point plans:
- NIS2
- EU AI Act
- GDPR
- ISO 27001
Roland C.
Last position:
Founder, Agents in Everyday Business at CXO AI OS
CXO AI OS is an agent system made up of six components. Instead of using AI as a chat window, it creates a system that understands a company’s context, makes decisions according to its rules, and acts on its behalf.
- For mid-sized companies: a guided sprint followed by ongoing operations for a team, department or prioritized cluster, based on an AI assessment
- For self-employed professionals: a program where participants build their own agent system
- Sequence in the company: assessment, prioritization, sprint, operations
- Implementation in Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work, without coding
- Architecture: Chief of Staff, Goals, Advisors, Agents, Context, Catalog
Hannah K.
Last position:
Instructor, AI Fundamentals for the Digital Workplace at grandedu
- Instructor for an AZAV-certified AI training program for working professionals; designed in February 2026, with five cohorts each running for one month from March 2026
- Designed and created all modules and learning materials
- Topics: AI fundamentals, prompting, use cases in communication, analysis, and processes, agents and workflows, the EU AI Act, and GDPR
- Taught small groups of 3 to 9 participants from different professional fields and levels of seniority
- Provided individual learning support throughout each course
- Result: completed five cohorts with around 500 hours of live instruction
Christian F.
Last position:
Project Lead & Cyber Security Consultant at Deutsche Börse Gruppe
- Established a cyber resilience framework for AI-accelerated threats in the Frontier AI Threat Endurance (FATE) program: capability assessments, maturity assessments and gap analyses covering cyber security, operational resilience, incident response, recovery and governance, followed by target concepts and improvement measures
- Supported action owners from specification through implementation: implementation roadmaps, decision papers, management presentations and governance reporting, as well as audit- and supervision-ready documentation; managed stakeholders from IT, Information Security, Risk Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity and the business units
Martin R.
Last position:
Fractional CIO - IT Carve-out & Post-Merger Integration at XTRONIC GmbH & iinovis GmbH (Accursia Capital)
Carve-out and post-merger integration of two automotive engineering companies under Accursia Capital, 6 locations in Germany and Spain, 250+ employees after the carve-out. Reporting directly to the investor, with overall IT responsibility for both companies.
- Consolidation of the ERP landscape into one instance (replacement of SAP legacy)
- TISAX certification
- M365, identity and data center migration
- Replacement of end-of-life infrastructure
- Weekly investor reporting
Results:
- Critical infrastructure risk eliminated, backup and platform stabilized
- One IT organization established for both companies
- Weekly investor reporting successfully established
Matthias S.
Last position:
Technology Lead & Co-Founder at LegalMind GmbH
- Redesign of legal operations: standardised workflows reducing routine effort by up to 80%, with source citation, hallucination check as quality gate, role model, logging and audit trail.
- Compliance-by-design operating model (EU AI Act readiness, GDPR, eIDAS) with documented, releasable process steps.
- Roadmap, sprint planning and release management for an agentic RAG platform with counsel-in-the-loop approval, audit trail and German hosting.
- EU AI Act readiness, GDPR and eIDAS requirements managed as first-class project deliverables; go-to-market for two customer verticals.
Thomas K.
Last position:
Advisor - Programmes & Operational Excellence at P2P.org
Non-custodial staking and digital-asset infrastructure for Web3 wallets, exchanges, and institutional custodians
Advised the COO on delivery for staking and digital-asset infrastructure serving institutional custodians, exchanges and wallets across regulated markets.
- Ran the company-wide KPI and OKR process across the organisation, raising company-wide OKR achievement from 50% to 65%.
- Designed and implemented OKR/KPI frameworks enabling structured quarterly delivery cycles and executive-level execution visibility.
- Defined, documented and improved the P2P governance and operating processes across programmes and operations.
Jörg K.
Last position:
Exec. Coach / Consultant / Agilist at HASOMED GmbH
Repaired a broken “ScrumBan” process, then established a pure Kanban system; increased output in the Kanban flow by 22% within four weeks
Increased team autonomy and decision-making ability by implementing new decision strategies; resulting in up to 25% better outcomes
Redesigned retrospectives (including one-to-one coaching and workshops), which led to consistent implementation of the resulting action items
Intensive coaching of Product Owners (POs) to develop and support “Empowered Teams”, alongside leadership development to place agile frameworks and methods in a realistic context (“de-illusioning”)
Supported change management processes to promote an agile company culture among management and teams, improving internal communication to increase transparency and effectiveness in agile processes
Khalid E.
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Mahmoud Q.
Last position:
Information Security & GRC Expert at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)
As a Council Member at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), the world’s leading expert network, I provide organizations, investment firms, and consulting companies with expert discussions on demand – wherever specialized knowledge in information security, IT governance, and regulatory compliance is needed.
My assessments are based on many years of practical experience in highly regulated industries: from building and implementing information security management systems (ISMS according to ISO 27001), IT risk and vulnerability management, and business continuity (ISO 22301) to the practical implementation of European regulations such as DORA, NIS2, BAIT, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
The cooperation is project- and discussion-based. I provide decision-makers with a practical perspective gained from real-world experience on cyber risks, security governance, and operational resilience – exactly when it is needed.
Jens H.
Last position:
Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS
Stabilization of an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.
- Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
- Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics
Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps
Michael S.
Last position:
Establishment of Compliance/TPRM at Haftpflichtkasse
Establishment of Compliance Department & DORA Operationalization
- Establishment of a complete compliance organization in accordance with DORA
- Development and operationalization of the SfO
- Use of AI agents for automation:
- Evaluation of due diligence questionnaires including risk classification
- AI-supported contract analysis (DORA/MaRisk compliance)
- Monitoring of external data sources (cyber incidents, newsfeeds)
- Establishment of a decentralized risk and action register
- Preparation of GAP analyses and derivation of measures
- Establishment and maintenance of the Outsourcing Information Register
- Use of proprietary TPRM frameworks, checklists and process models
Establishment of Compliance Department & DORA Operationalization
- Establishment of a complete compliance organization in accordance with DORA
- Development and operationalization of the SfO
- Use of AI agents for automation:
- Evaluation of due diligence questionnaires including risk classification
- AI-supported contract analysis (DORA/MaRisk compliance)
- Monitoring of external data sources (cyber incidents, newsfeeds)
- Establishment of a decentralized risk and action register
- Preparation of GAP analyses and derivation of measures
- Establishment and maintenance of the Outsourcing Information Register
- Use of proprietary TPRM frameworks, checklists and process models
- Project controlling - presentation and structured measurement of project goals achieved as part of management reporting.
- Overall responsibility for establishing a Compliance, Governance and Risk organization
- Establishment of an integrated GRC model and executive reporting for the Management Board.
Klaus J.
Last position:
DORA & BCM Expert at Anonymous client, financial services sector (regional bank GFG)
Strengthening digital operational resilience and strategically and operationally implementing DORA requirements. ICT risk management and governance; DORA-compliant ICT incident processes; digital operational resilience testing; outsourcing and ICT service provider management.
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Statistics of experts using EU AI Act
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
68%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
EU AI Act experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Professional Services (64%)
- Banking and Finance (51%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Manufacturing (36%)
- Retail (33%)
- Government and Administration (32%)
- Healthcare (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Regulatory scope
The EU AI Act is the European Union’s framework for regulating artificial intelligence according to risk. It applies to providers, deployers, importers and distributors whose AI systems are placed on the EU market or used in the European Union. Its requirements cover transparency, documentation, human oversight, monitoring and accountability.
Risk classification
Compliance starts with identifying the system’s intended purpose, users, data flows and affected people. Specialists assess whether an application is prohibited, high-risk, subject to transparency duties or outside the Act’s main obligations. They also map responsibilities across vendors, internal teams and customers.
- Inventory AI use cases and providers
- Classify systems by their risk profile
- Connect controls to business processes
- Record decisions and evidence
Delivery and tooling
EU AI Act work connects legal interpretation with product and technical operations. Professionals may work with model cards, data governance registers, impact assessments, quality-management processes, incident records and vendor questionnaires. They often integrate controls into procurement, software delivery, security reviews and existing compliance systems.
When support matters
Companies bring in freelance expertise when they are launching an AI-enabled product, reviewing third-party models or preparing for an internal audit. Support is also valuable when responsibilities are unclear between a model provider and an organisation using the system. In Germany, teams may need collaboration across product, legal, security and works-council stakeholders.
Practical workstreams
A specialist can turn broad obligations into clear deliverables for engineering, operations and management. Typical assignments include:
- Build an AI system inventory and governance model
- Review technical files, instructions and user notices
- Assess data quality, logging and human oversight
- Create monitoring, incident and change-management procedures
- Train teams on responsible use and escalation
Strong professional profile
Strong EU AI Act professionals combine regulatory judgment with enough technical understanding to challenge vague system descriptions and unsupported claims. They can explain the difference between a foundation model, an AI system and a business use case without losing sight of accountability. Look for clear evidence of documented assessments, cross-functional communication and controls that work in day-to-day operations.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about EU AI Act, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
The EU AI Act sets obligations for organisations that develop, provide, import, distribute or use AI systems connected to the European market. It is used to classify AI by risk and establish controls such as transparency, documentation, human oversight, monitoring and incident handling.
The EU AI Act is a binding legal framework, while voluntary ethics frameworks usually offer guidance without the same enforcement mechanism. A strong compliance approach can use standards and internal principles to support the Act, but those tools do not replace the applicable legal duties.
An EU AI Act specialist should understand data protection, information security, software delivery, procurement and model risk management. Experience with technical documentation, vendor assessments, impact assessments and governance workflows is especially useful.
The EU AI Act does not require every assignment to involve the same depth of expertise. A simple inventory or policy review may need focused regulatory support, while a high-risk system demands stronger technical, quality-management and operational experience across its full lifecycle.
The EU AI Act can usually be handled remotely when documents, system owners and decision records are accessible online. On-site work may help when the assignment involves workshops, sensitive data, regulated operations or coordination with German legal, security and employee-representation teams.
Before hiring an EU AI Act freelancer, ask how they distinguish the provider’s duties from the deployer’s duties and how they document risk decisions. Request examples of practical deliverables, stakeholder workshops and controls that were adopted by operating teams rather than left as policy text.
A strong EU AI Act compliance plan links each obligation to an owner, evidence source, review point and escalation path. It should reflect the system’s actual purpose and lifecycle, address third-party dependencies and remain usable when the model, data or business process changes.
The EU AI Act can affect organisations outside the European Union when their AI systems are placed on the EU market or their outputs are used in the European Union. Freelancers supporting international companies should therefore examine market activity, contractual roles and where the relevant system or output is used.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 921 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 68% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects are German (100%), English (95%), and Spanish (18%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (64%), and Banking and Finance (51%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used EU AI Act in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Project Management (89%), and Product Development (67%).
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