APRIL 20 – APRIL 24 | HANNOVER
Hannover Messe 2026
Accenture stand A15 in Hall 16
Our presence and theme at HM26
Explore demos, client stories, stage sessions and roundtables focused on the reinvention of core value chains with AI across three value journeys.
Increase speed, scale, quality, and innovation.
Improve cost, throughput, safety, and sustainability while adapting production in real-time.
Keeping operations running safely, reliably, and autonomously at scale and under volatility.
In the spotlight
Roundtable sessions with experts to spark insights and focused discussions
Engineering is where cost, quality, and speed are won. Join us to explore how to reinvent engineering and products for the future — from aligning hardware and software development to rethinking the V-model and activating a true digital thread.
April 20, 2–3 pm
Accenture Hosts: Götz Erhardt, Jean Cabanes
Hannover Messe Convention Center
Life sciences companies are scaling digital twins, automation, and AI to boost resilience and quality, but adoption lags on the shop floor. Join senior peers to discuss how to build trust, upskill teams, and unlock digital manufacturing`s full value.
April 20, 4–5:30 pm
Accenture Host: Hagen Späth
Hannover Messe Convention Center
Co-hosted by Siemens and Accenture, this roundtable convenes business and government leaders to discuss how to operationalize industrial sovereignty through scalable, economically viable capabilities in data, cloud, AI, automation, and supply chains.
This session will be held in German
April 21, 12:30–2:15 pm
Hosts: Götz Erhardt, Sicco Lehmann-Brauns
Hannover Messe Convention Center
AI is rapidly becoming the operating fabric of modern factories, but fragmented systems and workforce gaps slow scale. Join senior peers to discuss scaling AI, rethinking operations, and enabling human–agent–robot collaboration for agile production.
April 21, 1–2 pm
Accenture Hosts: Tracey Countryman, Prasad Satyavolu
Hannover Messe Convention Center
European defense is shifting from planning to urgent execution. Join government and industry leaders to explore collaboration at scale and industrial ramp-up leveraging AI and advanced manufacturing to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness.
April 22, 10–11 am
Accenture Hosts: Dominik Krimpmann, John Schmidt, Veronique Rollin
Hannover Messe Convention Center
Join senior peers to explore building the warehouse of the future and next‑generation supply chain with smarter data, more powerful computing, cyber-secure architectures, and leadership ready to deploy robotics and physical AI at enterprise scale.
April 22, 1–2 pm
Accenture Hosts: Sarat Maitin, Christian Souche
Hannover Messe Convention Center
Accenture on stage
Join keynote sessions led by industry experts on hot topics and use cases
A key highlight of HM26: Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet will deliver a keynote at the Opening Ceremony on April 19 and join a fireside chat with Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens, at the Center Stage, Hall 25, on April 20, 12:00–12:30 pm.
Learn how mining teams use digital twins and advanced process control to safely scale autonomous process operations and increase throughput while reducing risk. Join Flavio Alves (Accenture), Luiz Rogério Freitas (Vale) and Renato Lima (Siemens) at the Expert Stage 2, Hall 26, booth E43, on April 20, 5:40–6:00 pm.
Learn how manufacturers can address OT blind spots and cyber risk as smart factories scale. Join Markus Braendle, Accenture and Michael Metzler, Siemens at the Spotlight Stage, Hall 26, booth E43 on April 20, 4:40–4:55 pm.
Panel discussion with Christina Raab (Accenture), Dr. Gunther Kegel (ZVEI e. V. and Pepperl+Fuchs Group), and Henrik Schunk (SCHUNK SE & Co KG and Next Level Mittelstand GmbH) at the Center Stage, Hall 25, on April 21, 11:35 am-12:00 pm.
Explore how AI, cloud, edge and wireless converge to enable human led autonomous manufacturing. Join the panel discussion led by Jefferson Wang at the Expert Stage 1, Hall 26, booth E43 on April 23, 4:25–5:10 pm.
Explore how digital technologies and new ways of working are reshaping leadership, culture, and employee participation. Join the panel discussion with Dr. Kai Roemmelt at the Center Stage, Hall 25, on April 24, 1:25–2:05 pm.
Partner stage presence
Join insightful discussions at partner booths with Accenture leaders and our ecosystem partners
Learn how M. Dias Branco improved asset reliability and maintenance using SAP APM. Hear from Renate Fuchs (Accenture), Marcos Galindo, and Carlos Alberto Simões da Costa (M. Dias Branco) at the SAP Booth, Hall 15, Stand F08, on April 20, 3:00-3:25 pm.
Gain real‑world insights on deploying an advanced industrial digital twin and turning data and simulation into business impact with smart simulation for Life Sciences at the Siemens Booth, Hall 27, Stand A48, on April 21, 1:15-1:35 pm.
Discover how gen AI is scaling maintenance from pilot to production and delivering shopfloor value at global scale. Learn from Sidharth Gambhir (Accenture) and Stefan Krawinkel (Volkswagen) at the AWS Booth, Hall 16, on April 21, 1:00–1:15 pm.
Learn how an AI‑enabled digital twin is shaping a global Factory of the Future blueprint to standardize CPG operations and drive efficiency and sustainability at the Siemens Booth, Hall 27, Stand A48, on April 22, 11:50-12:10 am.
BASF, Accenture, and Siemens share how the Lab of the Future uses digital twins and AI to accelerate innovation, ensure compliance, and build resilient, data‑driven labs at the Siemens Booth, Hall 27, Stand A48, on April 22, 3:30-3:45 pm.
BASF, Siemens, and Accenture discuss how labs can move from pilots to scalable, future ready operations and deliver faster, more cost efficient outcomes amid global uncertainty at the Siemens Booth, Hall 27, Stand A48, on April 23, 10:15-10:30 am.
AI in engineering and products
Physical AI Driven Quality Inspection
Experience how robotics and high precision 3D computer vision shift inspections from late manual checks to early, automated detection—using AI powered robotic inspection processed on AWS and dynamic simulation in NVIDIA Omniverse to catch quality escapes early and expand inspection scope without impacting production.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
AI-Supported Test Automation
Experience a scalable AI supported test automation platform using generative AI across development, testing, and DevOps environments to reduce manual test design and automation effort by 50% while embedding quality across the full DevOps lifecycle.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Model-Based Virtual Twin
Experience a model-based Production Twin that connects engineering and production—using Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA for system design, NVIDIA Omniverse for virtual collaboration and simulation, and Microsoft Fabric for real time data—to jointly plan, simulate, and optimize layouts and operations before execution.
Dassault stand | Hall 14 H74
Catia Magic AI Agent for MBSE
Experience embedded agentic AI within Model Based Systems Engineering—integrated into Dassault Systèmes’ MBSE environment to reduce prototyping hardware costs, accelerate time to market, and lower development costs through simulation, continuous integration, and model reuse.
Dassault stand | Hall 14 H74
AI in manufacturing
Greenfield Manufacturing Planning
Experience how an AI reinforced digital twin makes a greenfield factory visible before construction, enabling scenario-based design validation and virtual commissioning to reduce CapEx and regulatory risk before decisions are locked in.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
AI Driven Manufacturing
Experience how AI powered digital twins anchored by a manufacturing data platform turn manufacturing into a learning system that reduces manual quality work, scales adoption, and delivers repeatable performance consistently across factories.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
NVIDIA Powered Physical AI
Experience how real time, AI driven safety orchestration powered by NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins replaces fixed safety zones to improve human–machine safety on the shopfloor without stopping operations.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
AI Driven Manufacturing
Experience how AI powered digital twins anchored by a manufacturing data platform turn manufacturing into a learning system that reduces manual quality work, scales adoption, and delivers repeatable performance consistently across factories.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
AI Twin for Bottling Optimization
Experience how a standardized, industrial AI enabled digital twin enables simulation and optimization of factory and network decisions before execution, improving throughput, reducing downtime, and supporting more sustainable, lower risk operations at global scale.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Agentic AI for Manufacturing Intelligence
Experience how a Manufacturing Intelligence Hub powered by agentic AI and digital twins on NVIDIA Omniverse enables real time, scenario-based planning across plants to balance cost, inventory, and carbon through consistent, data driven decision making.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Automotive Factory Digital Twin
Experience how software defined manufacturing with a live factory digital twin, powered by Accenture’s Physical AI Orchestrator on NVIDIA Omniverse and AWS, enables faster cycle times and more adaptable operations while reducing unexpected stoppages.
AWS stand | Hall 15 D76
AI Powered Maintenance Advisor Twin
Experience how a generative AI maintenance advisor on AWS gives technicians instant, situation specific guidance on the shop floor, speeding issue resolution, improving uptime, and making maintenance decisions more consistent across sites.
AWS stand | Hall 15 D76
AI in operations
AI Operated Control Room
Experience how a first-generation AI Operated Control Room replaces reactive monitoring with AI driven situational awareness and decision support, enabling faster decisions and higher throughput across industrial operations.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
SAP S/4 Transformation
Experience how an AI embedded SAP S/4HANA clean core transformation modernizes enterprise operations by connecting asset data, maintenance planning, and field execution through AI enabled enterprise asset management to increase uptime at scale.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Autonomous crushing operations
Experience how VALE uses autonomous crushing with advanced control and digital twins to increase throughput and safely scale autonomy across plants.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Autonomous inspection robots
Experience how autonomous robots and drones replace manual inspections with continuous, AI driven monitoring connected to maintenance workflows, delivering decision grade visibility of assets while improving uptime, safety, and scalability and reducing OPEX.
Accenture stand | Hall 16 A15
Who is going to be there
Jean Cabanes
Senior Managing Director – Industrials Lead, EMEA
Tracey Countryman
Lead – Industry X, Global
Götz Erhardt
Lead – Industry X, EMEA
Svenja Falk
Managing Director – Research, EMEA
Philipp Kupferschmidt
Managing Director – Mobility Industry Lead DACH
Sarat Maitin
Managing Director – Industry X Lead, Accenture DACH
Dr. Ashish Mishra
Managing Director – Industry X GTM & Solution Hub Lead
Christophe Mouille
Senior Managing Director – Industry X Ecosystem and Partnerships Lead
Christina Raab
Market Unit Lead, Central and Eastern Europe
Prasad Satyavolu
Industry X Lead, Americas
