The HFA Alliance is a cross-industry, non-profit association of individuals and organizations that share the common goal of shaping the AI era to preserve good - meaningful and prosperous - work for humans.

Facts & Figures

2020/06 Founded as a loose network of 25 experts by Lars Schatilow
2021/09 Publishing the HFA Charter of Values & Principles
2021/09 First HFA Day hosted by IBM Deutschland GmbH, Watson Center Munich
2022 Meetups & second HFA Day hosted by Federal Agency for Employment Germany
2023 Publishing the HFA book and third HFA Day hosted by German Federal Pension Insurance
2024 IBM Germany, the Federal Employment Agency, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, RWE and the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate have publicly committed to applying the HFA Values Charter to their AI and automation projects. RWE is hosting the fourth HFA Day. First e2e HFA-project is presented by the Federal Agency for Employment.
2025/03 The HFA Alliance will be a registered, non-profit organization
2025 More and more organizations and individuals are joining the HFA Alliance. Fifth HFA Day will be hosted by Federal Agency for Employmens Germany on 8 October with more than 300 guests in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
Preview 2026: HFA Podcast, HFA Meetups, HFA Day, HFA Scorecard