Ronny Reinhardt is the Team Lead Business Development at Cloud&Heat Technologies, a cloud provider focusing on energy-efficient and secure cloud and data center infrastructure, especially for AI applications. Ronny is actively involved in the leading European cloud and data initiatives Gaia-X and IPCEI-CIS, where he has served in the Gaia-X Technical Committee, and he is co-coordinating the GREEN-CIS consortium. In the German AI Association, Ronny is a contributor to the work group Climate Change and to the initiative Large European AI Models (LEAM). Before joining Cloud&Heat Technologies, Ronny was a researcher and lecturer for technology and innovation management at FSU Jena, the University of Utah, and TU Dresden, earning him a Ph.D. degree and research awards.