Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Thomas Freudenmann, born in 1980, since November 2015 Co-
CEO and Co-founder of EDI GmbH – Engineering Data Intelligence, a spin-off of the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); working in the field of novel methods and
tools for developing and testing with focus on statistical and AI-based algorithms
since 2008, as a member of the research staff at the IPEK – Institute of Product
Engineering Karlsruhe at KIT. EDI speeds up the digital transformation of companies
in different application areas. With the EDI hive Framework, a private cloud-based
IoT-platform and the AI-based hybrid models EDI provides a cost-efficient
implementation of scalable, AI-based digital services in the desired corporate design
of the companies. The EDI hive Framework has been applied for creating various
digital assets, for example for Daimler AG, OTEC and CTC cartech company.