Hannover Messe 2026: Unlocking industrial AI with data ecosystems
Hannover Messe is the world’s leading trade fair for the manufacturing industry, for technologies related to industrial transformation, showcasing outstanding innovations and groundbreaking products. This year, the event will take place from April 20 to 24, bringing together industry leaders, technology experts, and innovators.
Our team will be present at [A] booths and [B] sessions (session times are in CEST).
[A] OUR BOOTHS
(1) Apr 20–24: RoX – Digital ecosystem for AI-based robotics
Location: Hall 13, C24
The aim of RoX is to design and exemplarily implement a decentralized data and service ecosystem. This supports the development of advanced robotic systems that rely heavily on AI and can be efficiently adapted to changing conditions over their entire life cycle. In addition, the RoX ecosystem enables comprehensive and value-adding cooperation and collaboration between all relevant stakeholders. Data spaces within digital ecosystems are an important building block for this, as they allow data to be used in a synergetic, secure and scalable way, for example, to raise existing robot systems and components to a new level of quality or efficiency with the help of AI and corresponding tools.
(2) Apr 20–24: German Edge Cloud
Location: Hall 16, A16
German Edge Cloud (GEC) is a provider of software, services and technologies that support industrial companies in their transition to digitized, resilient and energy-efficient factories. With its ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS), GEC offers a software solution with standardized applications and microservice-based architecture for easy integration of new functionalities.
At the booth, T-Systems and German Edge Cloud will showcase their partnership to accelerate digitalization in manufacturing ecosystems. By combining T-Systems’ integration and connectivity expertise for industrial data ecosystems with GEC’s ONCITE industrial SaaS platform, the collaboration enables ready-to-deploy solutions for data ecosystems such as Catena-X, focusing on traceability and industrial AI use cases to help manufacturers unlock greater transparency, efficiency, and value from industrial data.
(3) Apr 23–24: Catena-X Next
Location: Hall 13, C24
Many of the current challenges in the industry, e.g. in the areas of sustainability, resilience, regulation and efficiency, can no longer be solved by one company alone: They can only be solved through trustful and secure collaboration between all partners along the entire value chain. For this reason, Catena-X offers the first open and collaborative data space for the automotive industry, improving business processes through data-driven value chains. Each participant retains sovereignty over their data, because the companies you work with only have access to the data that you have previously authorized individually for each player.
Benefit from our use cases, e.g. in the areas of traceability, circular economy, quality management, certificate management, sustainability and demand and capacity management.
(4) Apr 20–24: OPC Foundation, IDSA stand
Location: Hall 27, F60
Discover the benefits of dataspaces and gain insights from real-world application examples. Through live demos and practical insights, you will learn how organizations can easily onboard, connect systems, and participate in secure, sovereign data ecosystems.
To enable secure data exchange and AI-driven collaboration across organizations, industries, and countries, trusted identity and data provenance are essential. In this session, T-Systems, NTT DOCOMO Business, DENSO, and Fujitsu present a joint approach to establishing trust across European and Japanese dataspaces.
You will see how NTT DOCOMO Business verifies corporate identity via its testbed, Fujitsu issues dataspace credentials, DENSO enables data exchange through its Battery Passport application, and T-Systems provides certified dataspace connectivity—together enabling secure, cross-border data sharing and AI use cases.
[B] OUR SESSIONS
(1) Apr 21, 10:00-10:45, Physical AI needs data ecosystems to scale: RoX use case and first lessons learned
Location: Solution Lab Research & Technology Transfer, Hall 11, Stand B69, Round Table Room
With the RoX funding consortium of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), the megatrend of Physical AI was addressed at an early stage. RoX uses a Web3-oriented, decentralized data infrastructure (dataspace) to supply AI and robotics applications across companies with new sensor data (e.g., video), while ensuring IP protection and controlled usage.
Building on initial successful use cases, additional capabilities are being developed, particularly federated catalog systems for the precise and automated search and discovery of relevant data, extending to AI agents.
In this way, RoX brings leading technology into practice and creates scaling advantages by enabling sensor data and internal data assets to be used securely and economically—even for SMEs—while maintaining full IP protection.
Speakers: TBC, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schlueter Langdon (Moderator, T-Systems)
(2) Apr 21, 13:00–16:30, International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) conference: Industrial dataspaces in action – Simple, scalable, profitable
Location: Convention center, Room 18
This executive-focused event demonstrates how companies can move from dataspace strategy to real implementation and measurable business value. It shows how organizations can easily connect to dataspaces, integrate existing systems with minimal effort, and participate in secure, sovereign data ecosystems.
14:00, Dataspace in action: How RoX enables AI and ecosystem services
This session demonstrates how RoX combines AI-powered robotics with decentralized data ecosystems to enable secure collaboration, continuous learning, and higher efficiency across industrial value chains. Attendees will gain practical insights into real use cases, understand how dataspaces enable seamless and sovereign data sharing, and see how T-Systems’ dataspace-as-a-service supports scalable AI applications—highlighting how these innovations are being brought to life at Hannover Messe.
14:30, Cross-border trust services to integrate dataspaces and AI safely across organizations, industries, and countries
To create new value and services through data exchange and AI across organizations, industries, and countries, it is essential to verify that data providers are trustworthy and that the shared data originates from them. T-Systems, NTT DOCOMO Business, DENSO, and Fujitsu have therefore developed a mechanism to verify corporate trustworthiness in dataspaces and enable secure data exchange between Japan and Europe.
Japanese companies participating in the dataspace connect to GBizID’s trial environment, Japan’s corporate authentication infrastructure. By confirming both the company’s registration with GBizID and the individual’s authenticated ownership, NTT DOCOMO Business's testbed verifies corporate identity and Fujitsu's IDYX-TI issues dataspace credentials. Data exchange is enabled via DENSO’s EcoPass-certified Battery Passport application and T-Systems’ dataspace connectivity solution, certified by Catena-X and IDSA.
Speakers: Oliver Scheit (DENSO), Takahide Matsutsuka (Fujitsu) & Chris S. Langdon (T-Systems)
(3) Apr 22, 15:10-15:55, Catena-X & Factory-X: Interoperable & secure data exchange between ecosystems and companies
Location: Solution Lab Automation and Digitalization, Hall 26, Stand E43, Expert stage 1
Catena-X is the first collaborative data ecosystem for the European automotive industry, enabling secure data exchange across the entire value chain. Cofinity-X operates this ecosystem. Together with the German Edge Cloud (GEC), a connection to the Factory-X ecosystem (F-X) is planned - with the goal of establishing a secure data flow between different industrial ecosystems for the first time. Cofinity-X and GEC thus combine vertical factory integration via F-X MX-Ports with horizontal, EDC-based data exchange between companies. The model factory at SmartFactory Kaiserslautern serves as a production demonstrator. This marks the first implementation of secure end-to-end data flow from sensor to cloud across ecosystems. For industry, this opens up new business areas such as AI applications, SaaS, and autonomous operations - independent of U.S. hyperscalers.
Speakers: Dieter Meuser (CEO, German Edge Cloud), Niklas Midolo (Head of Business Strategy, Cofinity-X), Pascal Rüber (Researcher & Project Lead Factory-X, SFKL), Sven Löffler (Head of Dataspaces & Data Products, T-Systems), moderated by Dr. Ingo Herbst (VP Corporate Communications, German Edge Cloud)
(4) Apr 23, 10:25-10:45, Data. Knowledge. AI. How companies can use Agentic AI to support their employees
Location: Solution Lab Automation and Digitalization, Hall 26, Stand E43, Expert stage 2
Data and knowledge form the foundation of every decision. When product changes or new customer requirements arise, engineers combine their experience with machine data to adjust production. However, this experiential knowledge is increasingly lacking on the shop floor. Companies are faced with the question of how they can preserve this organizational knowledge in order to maintain production. The Digital Industrial Engineer (DIE) is an Agentic AI solution that combines experiential knowledge gathered through interviews with production data. Employees can ask the AI agent intuitive questions, from which it creates easy-to-understand, visualized flowcharts. An industrial engineer reviews these before approval. "The Human in the Loop" guarantees the highest quality, continuous improvement of the AI, and makes engineers more productive.
Speakers: Dieter Meuser (CEO, German Edge Cloud), Dr. Bettina Volkens (Co-Founder and CEO, great2know), Prof. Dr. Christoph Schlueter Langdon (VP AI & Data Ecosystems Americas, T-Systems), moderated by Dr. Ingo Herbst (VP Corporate Communications, German Edge Cloud)
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