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Dr. Ferri Abolhassan

CEO T-Systems International GmbH and Board member of Deutsche Telekom AG

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Ferri Abolhassan has been a member of the Telekom board since January 2024. As CEO of T-Systems, he is responsible for the corporate customer division of the group. With his team of 27,000 employees, he supports companies in their digital transformation. His business philosophy is centered on listening to customers to understand their needs. Consequently, individual offerings from the areas of consulting, cloud, digital, AI, connectivity, and security are increasingly bundled into comprehensive solutions – with zero outage (maximum reliability) as the ambition level. Abolhassan’s objective is to meet the growing demand for integrated and reliable ICT solutions, with the aim of turning customers into fans of T-Systems.Before taking on the role as CEO at T-Systems, Abolhassan, who holds a doctorate in computer science, was Managing Director Sales & Service at Telekom Deutschland. 

Ferri Abolhassan is a member of the Supervisory Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), a Senator of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and a member of the Max Planck Society, the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Board of Management of Bitkom and of Atlantik-Brücke. In addition, he is a member of the Expert Commission “Competition & AI” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, of the Saarland Digitization Council and official Saarland ambassador.

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November 05 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

We are building Europe’s most modern AI factory

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom, will show how Deutsche Telekom is building an Industrial AI Cloud on German soil together with NVIDIA and SAP.
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October 14 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

AI factory: From visionary dream to industrial reality

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, CEO T-Systems and Board member of Deutsche Telekom AG, describes how AI factories strengthen Germany’s and Europe’s competitiveness.
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August 19 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

Promoting digital skills

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, on digitalization in schools.
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July 29 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

What German companies need now

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom Board Member, on why digital sovereignty is a geopolitical imperative.
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April 22 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

AI: A booster for the economy

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Board member Deutsche Telekom AG and CEO T-Systems International GmbH, talks about how the triumphal march of artificial intelligence cannot be stopped – but it can be shaped!
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April 15 2025 | Sovereign Cloud

Europe's digital independence: Now or never!

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Board member Deutsche Telekom AG and CEO T-Systems International GmbH, on the need to secure European values such as data protection, security, and economic autonomy in the digital space.
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March 05 2024 | Security

Quality is king!

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan on digital resilience and zero outage as an ambition level.
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