After studying electrical engineering, Guido Van Husen worked for 10 years at Danet GmbH in various roles, specialising in large database projects in the telecommunications environment. Since 2007, he has been working for DB Systel GmbH as a senior architect in the field of business intelligence projects. In recent years, he has focussed heavily on big data projects. He was very involved in setting up a data lake at DB Systel and is currently working in the ZERO.ONE.DATA area.

DB Systel GmbH, based in Frankfurt am Main, is a wholly owned subsidiary of DB AG and digital partner for all Group companies. With our holistic, customer-specific offering, which meets the highest IT standards, we are successfully driving forward the digitalisation of all DB AG companies in an integrated and value-creating way. To this end, we develop effective and efficient customer solutions based on innovative topics such as the cloud, big data, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. As a long-term partner, we contribute our in-depth railway and IT expertise and act in a vendor-neutral manner for the common goal. Around 4,400 Systel employees currently work at our main locations in Frankfurt, Berlin and Erfurt. We have been supporting the process of digital transformation within the DB Group from the very beginning. In order to find and implement the right solutions for the internal railway companies, we rely on a comprehensive, market-oriented product portfolio and a high level of consulting and methodological expertise. We also operate our own ventures such as ZERO.ONE.DATA as well as open data platforms and Skydeck, Systel's own innovation lab. We are also active on the external market with selected services and products.