September 23–24, 2026 Fulda 2 focus days Smart Product · Smart Factory · Defence

EDAG Smart Industry Summit 2026

Two days. Three focus topics. Concrete impulses for product development, production and defence.

How can complex products, production, data and AI be brought together to create real competitiveness and future viability? This is exactly what the Smart Industry Summit on September 23 and 24, 2026 is about. Two focus days, curated presentations, concrete use cases and direct on-site exchange create a framework in which technological developments become tangible impulses for real-world practice. The two focus days will be complemented by the Public Solutions Summit on September 25, 2026.

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Smart Product als Fokusthema des EDAG Smart Industry Summit

Focus Topic 1 Smart Product

The Smart Product focus area explores how ideas are transformed into marketable, robust, and sustainable products. The product lifecycle serves as the common thread: metys as the data and control foundation; Define for direction and development; Realize for implementation, validation, and industrialization; and Optimize for ongoing development during operation.

This transforms a complex topic into a clear framework that demonstrates how speed, quality, and sustainable product success can be integrated.

Smart Factory als Fokusthema des EDAG Smart Industry Summit

Focus Area 2 Smart Factory

Smart Factory focuses on the question of how production and logistics can become measurably more efficient, transparent, and robust while simultaneously putting people at the center.

We demonstrate how, by leveraging technological solutions in the Industrial Metaverse, factories can be developed, optimized, and transformed for the future to maintain economic viability and competitiveness.

This creates a focus that brings together data, implementation, training, and people-centered work processes.

Defence als übergreifendes Fokusthema des EDAG Smart Industry Summit

Focus Area 3 Defense

The Defense focus area delves deeper into the topic of Integrated Product Support and centers on the sustainable manageability of complex systems throughout their entire lifecycle. Planning, logistics, maintenance, and obsolescence management are considered early on to ensure that availability, lifecycle costs, and operational requirements work together reliably.

Anyone who wants to learn how to specifically reduce costs per kilometer driven or operating hour should focus not only on procurement but, above all, on operations. Using concrete use cases, we’ll demonstrate how this principle can be applied to your own product.

Solution Studio

Your challenge. Our first solution approach.

In addition to the specialist focus topics, the Solution Studio provides space for your individual challenges: discuss your specific question directly with a subject matter expert and receive an initial, non-binding solution proposal within 48 hours. This turns your event visit into a focused exchange with clear practical value.

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Agenda

Agenda for the three focus days

The agenda provides an up-to-date overview of the planned presentations, times and speakers. Individual agenda items and speaker line-ups may still change before the event.

Day 3 as the Public Solutions Summit
The third event day is designed as a separate Public Solutions Summit and focuses on topics related to Public Solutions and Health.

Time	Topic	Speaker
08:00 – 10:00	Welcome and registration	—
10:00 – 10:20	Opening of the Smart Industry Summit 2026 – Welcome by the EDAG Group Management Board	to be announced
10:20 – 10:45	KEYNOTE \| Smart Product – From product idea to sustainable market success	Gabriel Seiberth (EDAG) Thomas Klingner (EDAG)
10:45 – 11:10	From demand to successful product strategy – EDAG’s SMART Vision Workshop concept	Andreas Friedrich (EDAG) Chris Ortmann (EDAG)
11:10 – 11:35	metys: from Smart Product to the Cognitive Factory – Connected requirements and intelligent variants for the optimally manufacturable product	Jan Berner (EDAG) Moritz Arendt (EDAG) Vivien-Rosa Rydzak (EDAG) Patrick Freyenberg (EDAG) Roberto Diesel (EDAG)
11:35 – 12:00	Generative Design & Engineering – From 3D data to meaningful visualizations and stakeholder presentations	Fabian Masur (EDAG) Andreas Farnung (EDAG) Oliver Bähr (EDAG)
12:00 – 12:25	Needs-based product roadmaps: based on market potential, cost and customer value	Franz Lorey (EDAG)
12:25 – 12:50	AI-supported product engineering: how AI is changing product development	Lindsay Philip Stebe (EDAG)
Break until 14:00	Break	—
14:00 – 14:25	To be announced (AI agents)	Partner Dassault
14:25 – 14:50	MedTech: security & transparency through SBOM	Daniel Radigk (EDAG) Alexander Kühne (EDAG)
14:50 – 15:15	Smart Maintenance – optimizing and efficiently using operational data	Trout GmbH
15:15 – 15:40	Single Source of Truth with 3D Master – the digital product twin as an engineering backbone	Stefan Oberländer (EDAG) Jens Weiler (EDAG)
Break until 16:00	Break	—
16:00 – 16:25	Digital Product Passport – from compliance requirement to digital business model	Manuel Vogler (EDAG) Natalie Völker (EDAG)
16:25 – 16:50	Beyond the Product – automation & AI as drivers of continuous product optimization	Jan Luca Schrickel (EDAG) Tino Raak (EDAG) Vivien-Rosa Rydzak (EDAG)
16:50 – 17:15	To be announced	to be announced
17:15 – 17:30	Wrap-up & transition to networking	Sales Marketing

Time	Topic	Speaker
08:00 – 09:30	Welcome and registration	—
09:30 – 09:55	KEYNOTE: Smart Factory – from industrial challenge to measurable success	Dirk Keller (EDAG)
09:55 – 10:10	Industrial Metaverse – metys – next-level industrialization	Jan Berner (EDAG)
10:10 – 10:35	NVIDIA – solutions for industrial intelligence	NVIDIA
10:35 – 11:35	Smart Factory – from planning to operation – solution approaches with metys	Jan Berner (EDAG)
11:35 – 12:00	Digital sovereignty without barriers with metys in the European cloud with T-Systems and EDAG	to be announced
Break until 13:00	Break	—
13:00 – 13:25	Energy \| Resilient and cost-efficient energy	Rudolf Panek (EDAG) Aron Deutschländer (EDAG) Partner: 10HOCH3
13:25 – 13:50	Defence \| Efficient growth without detours: the path to a successful scale-up factory	Andreas Friedrich (EDAG)
13:50 – 14:15	Medical \| Securization of Qualification & Validation in MedTech Production	to be announced
14:15 – 14:40	Global Delivery Excellence: Standardization Meets Offshore	EDAG India x EDAG
14:40 – 15:05	From factory gate to firewall – holistic IT/OT security	Katharina Kordass
15:05 – 15:30	The path to the autonomous factory: orchestrated physical AI – autonomous digital assets – agentic AI	Mark Kramer (EDAG)
15:30 – 15:55	Factory Performance Transformation: how factories become measurably better	Jana Speidel (EDAG)
15:55 – 16:20	Industrial AI in the Smart Factory: current trends, concrete use cases and the path to the Factory of the Future	Siemens Dr. Michael Schrapp
16:20 – 16:45	"And what about people?": Humans in the field of tension between automation, AI and the call for efficiency	Dr. Frank Breitenbach (EDAG) Henning Keber (P1-Consulting)
16:45 – 16:55	Wrap-up & networking	EDAG

Time	Topic	Speaker
08:00 – 09:00	Welcome and registration	—
09:00 – 09:30	Executive Opening: Why resilient digital infrastructures are now critical to success	Dirk Keller (EDAG) Dennis Luft (EDAG)
09:30 – 10:15	Keynote: Cyber resilience starts with a shared language: the blueprint for resilient IT infrastructure	Dr. Claus Michael Sattler
10:15 – 10:40	Two worlds, one adversary: what industry and the public sector can learn from each other in IT security	Mark Kramer (EDAG) Kai Rosenberger (EDAG)
Break until 11:00	Break	—
11:00 – 11:30	From reacting to acting – EDAG’s path toward a resilient cybersecurity culture	Maria Siehl (EDAG)
11:30 – 12:10	Panel: Resilience under scrutiny: are we talking about security or taking action today?	to be announced
Break until 13:15	Break	—
13:15 – 13:30	Prevention. Care. Organization – Smart Healthcare by EDAG	Karina Schäfer (EDAG)
13:55 – 14:40	Interoperability rarely fails because of technology – the challenges of digital transformation in Germany’s federal public health service	Bettina Diegelmann (EDAG)
Break until 15:00	Break	—
15:00 – 15:35	Simulators in the hospital – how automotive DNA helps shape tomorrow’s hospital processes	Dr. Frank Breitenbach (EDAG)
15:35 – 16:20	Panel: How Germany can create a modern, digital healthcare system	to be announced
16:20 – 16:30	Wrap-up & transition to networking	EDAG

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Portfolio topics

Five perspectives on Smart Industry

The Smart Industry Summit brings together selected EDAG focus areas covering product development, manufacturing, human-technology interaction, digital simulation and connected ecosystems.

Portfolio topic

Smart Product

From concept to series production: scalable architectures, digital twins and AI enable the development of intelligent, connected products.

Overview:

Smart Product demonstrates how product complexity can be mastered through model-based engineering, mechatronic architectures, data integration and intelligent optimization across the entire product lifecycle.

Key topics:

Digital twins and model-based engineering
AI-supported simulation and optimization
Scalable product and system architectures
Data-driven services and new business models

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Smart Factory

From factory planning to operational excellence: Smart Factory connects processes, data, automation and production into efficient end-to-end systems.

Overview:

Smart Factory demonstrates how companies can make production more efficient, transparent and flexible: from industrialization and digital factory models to the optimization of existing production systems.

Key topics:

Factory planning, scaling and industrialization
Automation and operational transparency
Digital twins, simulation and virtual commissioning
Production data as the basis for better decision-making

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Smart People

Technology only creates value when people understand and use it: Smart People combines enablement, training and human-centered transformation.

Overview:

Smart People places people at the center of digital transformation through qualification, user-centered methods and solutions that empower employees to make productive use of new technologies.

Key topics:

Training and digital enablement
User-centered development
Knowledge management and AI-supported learning formats
Human-technology interaction in real work processes

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Smart Ecosystems

Extend your Smart Factory with digital services that create value beyond production itself and unlock additional new business potential.

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A Smart Ecosystem connects products, production and digital services. Apps, service portals, dashboards and assistance systems create value across the entire product lifecycle. They enable data-driven business models, strengthen customer loyalty and support employees with analytics and monitoring for informed decisions and efficient plant operation.

The foundation is a powerful digital infrastructure that brings together data from different sources, integrates systems and flexibly provides digital services — from APIs and cloud architectures to modern frontends, backends and data lakes.

Key topics:

Potential analysis of products and processes
Data-driven, scalable business models
Optimized operation and service processes
Personalized and intuitive user experiences in apps, portals and dashboards
Data analytics & AI
Scalable microservices architectures

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Industrial Metaverse: metys

Digital twins, simulation and data spaces connect physical products, factories and processes with a virtual environment for collaboration and decision-making.

Overview:

The Industrial Metaverse is the home of digital twins and a shared workspace for people, machines and systems. Products, production facilities, buildings, networks and processes are connected through a digital backbone. This creates an integrated environment where planning, simulation, implementation and operation come together — forming the foundation for transparent decision-making, automated processes and the development of the Smart Factory.

Key topics:

Digital twins for products and production
Simulation, validation and virtual collaboration
Integration of people, processes and supply chains
New digital business models and immersive environments

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The Three Key Themes

The focus topics will also be available on site during the Public Solutions Summit.

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Agenda for the three focus days

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