Dr. Bernd Drapp

• Innovation Director
• AP Sensing, Germany

Dr. Bernd Drapp is Innovation Director at AP Sensing GmbH, where he leads the development and deployment of fiber-optic monitoring solutions for critical infrastructure protection on land and at sea. He has a background in physics and more than ten years’ experience in applied research and innovation management, with a focus on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for power cables, pipelines, and submarine networks. Dr. Drapp oversees national and international projects on infrastructure resilience and works closely with utility operators, telecom companies, and public agencies to address threats such as sabotage, third-party interference, and unauthorized access. He also manages the company’s data science activities, advancing the use of AI in operational monitoring and incident detection.