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 CET).
[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 20–24: 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.
[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)
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