Hannover Messe 2026

Accelerate time to market and reduce R&D costs.

Reduce production costs and boost productivity.

Reduce production costs and boost productivity.

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

A key highlight of HM26: Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet will deliver keynote sessions at the opening ceremony on Sunday, April 19, and on the main stage on Monday, April 20.

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 at the Expert Stage 2, Hall 26, booth E43, on April 20, 5:40–6:00 pm.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Stay tuned to find out who is going to be there!

Stay tuned to find out more!