HANNOVER MESSE Digital Edition -
Conference Program is Online
The first day of the show, 12 April, revolves around political talks nfrom German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, Lower Saxony's prime minister nStephan Weil and Hannover's mayor Belit Onay as well as German economicsn minister Peter Altmaier and German education and research minister Anjan Karliczek, who will present the ntntntntntnttnttntntttntntntttntntnttHERMES AWARDntntn together with the president of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Reimund Neugebauer.
nttThe dialog between the three association presidents - Siegfried nRusswurm (BDI-German Industry Association), Karl Haeusgen (VDMA-German nAssociation of Mechanical and Plant Engineers) and Dr. Gunther Kegel n(ZVEI-German Electrical Industry Association) - about the general neconomic outlook for German industry also promises to attract attention.
nttFrom Tuesday to Thursday, the focus is on the core topics of HANNOVER nMESSE: from industrial transformation, machine learning, networked nsupply chains, and lightweight construction to cloud solutions, nenvironmental protection, renewable energy, and the silicon economy. Then guiding principle: digitalization and artificial intelligence are nleading the world into a platform economy. As a result, data-driven ntechnologies such as IoT and blockchain enable new business models that nlink goods, information and financial transactions worldwide. Speakers ninclude Professor Michael ten Hompel from the Fraunhofer Institute for nMaterials Handling; Professor Toby Walsh from the University of New nSouth Wales; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky; Christoph Bornschein, nmanaging director of the digital agency TLGG; Professor Sepp Hochreiter,n head of the Institute for Machine Learning; and Professor Jürgen nSchmidhuber from nnaisense SA.
nttDigitalization also makes the energy system more efficient overall andn opens up the energy market for new technologies and business models. nGreen hydrogen, in particular, can be used as a versatile energy carriern and storage medium with the help of Power-to-X processes in all nsectors. This makes it a central element for the energy transition. nExperts such as Professor Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for nEconomic Research and Frank Possel-Dölken from Phoenix Contact will ndiscuss further developments in the energy sector.
nttOn Friday, 16 April, Deutsche Messe AG stages the nWomenPower career congressunder the motto RESET.RETHINK.RESTART. The program covers nsocio-political issues such as AI, equal opportunity and sustainability nas well as career topics such as "Scoring successfully in meetings - nalso virtually", "Successful networking in the STEM fields" and "Salary nnegotiations - strategies for women".
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Source: Deutsche Messe AG