Niklas Cox
Niklas Cox is Senior Manager of Data & Analytics and Principal AI Architect at DEUTZ AG. He is responsible for the strategic development and governance of AI systems within the company. His areas of expertise include quality control, process automation, knowledge management, and service. His focus is on explainable AI, agent-based AI, LLM integration, and locally deployable open models for secure, efficient, and scalable AI in industrial value creation.
Focus Topics
The Focus Topics form the thematic core of the DIGITAL X– with a clear view of the opportunities and relevant challenges for companies. The speaker's focus is:
About the speaker
Together with CIO Prof. Dr. Christian Hürter and Head of Business Digitalization Adarsha Kanchana, Niklas Cox is further developing the “OttoVerse” platform, which has been continuously expanded since 2023.
In doing so, DEUTZ AG is pursuing an open and model-agnostic strategy: Instead of committing to a single provider, various open-source models are combined to achieve an optimal balance between performance, efficiency, local operability, and costs. Sensitive data remains within the company. The architecture enables the secure, explainable, and scalable integration of AI into industrial processes. His focus is on agentic AI, LLM-based assistance systems, and highly available AI infrastructures for industry.