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Setting the Stage for a New Era
Industrie 4.0 Reveals the Future of Data-driven Industry
Introduction
Under the banner “Data-driven Industry – Shaping a New Era”, a wide range of partners from science and industry will demonstrate innovative solutions at the Plattform Industrie 4.0 joint stand – from Manufacturing-X to the industrial metaverse.
March 31, 2025, Hanover – The Plattform Industrie 4.0 joint stand in Hall 8, booth D26, is set to showcase a new era. Supported by policymakers and scientists, industry in Germany has reached a decisive milestone in its digital transformation. The data-based industry of the future promises almost unlimited new opportunities.
Focusing on three pillars of the new era: Manufacturing-X, 8ra Initiative, and Ecosystem Mobility 4.0
Visitors to the Industrie 4.0 joint stand will immediately sense the scale of the transformation already being shaped by science and industry in this new era. Covering everything from essential technical fundamentals to interactive exhibits, the stand will focus on three areas:
Manufacturing-X will present projects with interactive demonstrators and industrial metaverse applications that make industrial value chains more competitive, resilient, and sustainable. It will showcase innovations that are essential to successfully scaling data ecosystems in industry. Visitors will see how small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, can unlock new value creation in data ecosystems.
The 8ra Initiative, which emerged from the IPCEI-CIS cloud project, will present concepts and technologies that are helping to build a high-performance cloud-edge infrastructure with European values. Visionary projects will also demonstrate how data ecosystems are being created for the mobility sector under the Ecosystem Mobility 4.0 initiative. With all this and more, the joint stand will bring the new era of data-driven industry up close.
The core topics of data-driven industry as the focus of the Leaders’ Dialogue 2025
The Leaders’ Dialogue presented by Plattform Industrie 4.0 is always among the highlights of the talks at Hannover Messe. Under the banner “Data-driven Industry – Shaping a New Era,” leading representatives from politics, industry, and science will address the following key questions about the future of data-driven industry in a morning discussion on April 1, 2025: Can competitiveness exist without real digital change? Can Europe keep up in the race for industrial AI? Are our solutions attractive and scalable enough?
The panel will include Dr. Robert Habeck (German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action), Claudia Müller (Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Philip Jennings (Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, Canada), Peter Leibinger (President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)), Dr. Christine Knackfuß-Nikolic (CTO, T-Systems International GmbH), Cedrik Neike (Member of the Managing Board and CEO Digital Industries, Siemens AG), Dr. Tanja Rückert (Member of the Board of Management, Bosch GmbH), and other leading figures from politics, industry and science.
The Leaders’ Dialogue 2025 will be broadcast via livestream from 10.00 a.m. to 12 noon. Detailed information about the event and livestream is available here. Participation at the event itself is by invitation only.
Plattform Industrie 4.0 and its partners will be presenting at booth 26 in Hall 8. Experts from our wide-ranging working areas and projects will be on hand to talk one-on-one about the future of data-driven industry.
