Hannover Messe, April 22-26, 2024 in Hannover

Hannover Messe, April 22-26, 2024 in Hannover

https://www.hannovermesse.de/

HANNOVER MESSE is the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology. Its lead theme “Energizing a Sustainable Industry” brings together exhibiting companies from mechanical and electrical engineering, the digital industry and the energy sector to present solutions for the future of manufacturing and energy supply. Leading topics include Industrie 4.0/Manufacturing-X, energy for industry, digitalization/artificial intelligence and machine learning, carbon-neutral production, and hydrogen and fuel cells. Conferences and forums complement the program. The next edition runs from 22 to 26 April 2024 in Hannover, Germany. Norway is Partner Country.

Facts & Figures of HANNOVER MESSE

HANNOVER MESSE is the most important international platform and hot spot for industrial transformation – with excellent innovations or unusual products. Here you will find all the facts that make one thing even clearer: participation is an absolute “must”!

1.870 +
Speakers

130.000
On-site attendees

4.000
Exhibitors

14.000 +
Products & solutions

300 +
Startups

Large Concentration of Decision-Makers
Two-thirds of attendees are involved in making investment decisions in their companies. 22 percent of those surveyed come to Hannover with concrete investment plans – and this tendency is rising.

Broad Industry Structure
HANNOVER MESSE brings the core industrial sectors together at one location – from drive engineering, automation, energy, R&D and industrial IT to subcontracting. This is the place where exhibitors cross the boundaries of technology and industry.

International Audience
One third of all professional visitors come from outside Germany – and more than half of these come from outside the EU. Every second attendee from Germany travels more than 300 kilometers to appear in Hannover.

Broad Renge of Topics
Exhibitors gain customers through innovation. Professional visitors to the trade show see HANNOVER MESSE as the most important window to the future of industry. With its annual key topics, HANNOVER MESSE hits the nerve of the times.

Clear Business Objectives
Visitors want to see and experience new things. Among the top goals of the visitors are the search for innovations and trends, the exchange of experience and information, networking and generating new business contacts.

Strong Visitor Loyality
Return visitors and first-time attendees at HANNOVER MESSE balance each other out. Regular exhibitors have the opportunity to tap new target groups and foster their existing relationships.

Interest in Technological Leaders
What are the big players up to? That’s something that interests every trade show visitor. Global market leaders know that if you want to be one of the big players, you need to appear at HANNOVER MESSE.

Successful Profile
Over 70 percent of professional visitors surveyed stated that a visit to HANNOVER MESSE benefits their professional activity significantly or very significantly in comparison to a visit to other industrial trade shows. For a third, it is even the only trade show they visit every year.

Startups at HANNOVER MESSE: An enrichment for industry

Startups make an important contribution to the development of industry by driving innovation, promoting competition and spurring economic growth. Their cross-industry influence has a positive impact on the entire economy. At HANNOVER MESSE, more than 300 young companies showcase innovative products and business models to attract potential customers and investors.

Hannover. Industrial companies are increasingly looking for startups because they stand for entrepreneurship, innovation, flexibility and creativity and thus ensure competitiveness and economic growth. HANNOVER MESSE brings young and established companies together to explore opportunities for cooperation and investment. The Startup Areas at HANNOVER MESSE are located in Hall 2 and Hall 17. In addition, startups present themselves at state-sponsored group exhibits, national pavilions or as individual exhibitors.

For example, Apollo Green Solutions from Cologne, Germany, equips commercial buildings with an energy management platform that optimizes energy systems. AEInnova from Terrassa, Spain, uses aerospace technology to digitalize Industry 4.0 with minimal impact on the environment. ZeroKey from Calgary, Canada, offers a positioning technology that leads the field in accuracy by a factor of over 100. Bytefabrik.AI from Karlsruhe, Germany, develops intuitive artificial intelligence-based software solutions for analyzing machine and plant data.

Supporting program promotes networking

For startups, the opportunity to exchange ideas and network is an important part of trade fair participation. The Industrial Startup Stages in Halls 2 and 17 serve exactly this purpose with a mix of pitches and presentations. Examples include the panel discussions “Opportunities and challenges for startups in the Industrial Internet” and “Entrepreneurship and startup engine” as well as the keynotes “What innovations does Germany need now as a business location?”, “Playing to win: Sustainable value creation with AI” and “Why the world’s most successful CEOs invest in startups and why they failed”.

According to conventional wisdom, startups need a lot of support from established companies in order to be successful. However, traditional companies can learn a lot from entrepreneurs and founders. The new masterclasses at HANNOVER MESSE serve both sides by promoting mutual exchange. For example, Michael Marhofer, CEO of the ifm group of companies, talks about successful cooperation between startups and large SMEs. Conversely, Michael Kuehne-Schlinkert, co-founder and CEO of Katulu, explains how artificial intelligence can be trained across companies, factories or machines without sharing sensitive data. Merantix Momentum offers companies of all sizes a comprehensive guide to developing a sustainable AI strategy with its masterclass “AI Canvas Workshop”. Participation in a masterclass is included in the price of an admission ticket. A separate registration is required at https://www.hannovermesse.de/event/masterclasses/wor/108883 .

HACK4INDUSTRY enters the second round in 2024: this time, the Autostadt in Wolfsburg presents a challenge in the field of e-mobility: participants must convert e-charging into a holistic experience. They present their ideas at HANNOVER MESSE on 25 April and have the chance to realize their idea with Autostadt in Wolfsburg afterwards. Co-organizer of HACK4INDUSTRY is Prototype Club from Munich.