Live Forum Sessions
at the SAP booth
HANNOVER MESSE 2026
April 20–24, 2026 | Hall 15, Booth F08
Look over our session schedule below.
Check back, more sessions will be added soon.
Sessions are in English unless otherwise noted.
- Monday, April 20
- Tuesday, April 21
- Wednesday, April 22
- Thursday, April 23
- Friday, April 24
Customer Session
DMG MORI serve their customers better with integrated services and digital solutions. Discover how to transform from an organically grown towards a globally unified IT landscape with SAP S/4HANA as the digital core. Learn about connectivity and monitoring with SAP's connection solution and DMG MORI’s machine control platform “CELOS X”.
Sebastian Vogel
Product Manager
DMG MORI DIGITAL
Udo Richter
IT Director End to End Platforms
DMG MORI European Factories and IT
Panel Discussion
Discover how Physical AI is redefining the shop floor — from static automation to dynamic, intelligent collaboration. Learn from SAP and our partners how robots interpret business logic, connect with SAP systems, and act as smart, embodied interfaces driving efficiency, safety, and adaptive manufacturing.
Lukasz Ostrowski
Head of Embodied AI & Robotics
SAP SE
Nicole Zingg
Director, Technology Partnerships
Anybotics AG
Ms Yuki Long
Co-Founder
Aimbo AG
Jochen Rudat
Chief Growth & Revenue Officer
Humanoid
Customer Session
See how BOBST leverages SAP solutions to create a connected digital thread from design to manufacturing. Learn how unified data, standardized cloud processes, and integrated collaboration improve speed, quality, and efficiency.
Florian Meuwly
Product Owner PLM
BOBST
Expert Session
Nowadays, supply chains operate under constant uncertainty, exposing vulnerabilities that could translate into lost revenue, higher costs and broken customer commitments. In this session you’ll learn how SAP Supply Chain Orchestration solution builds resilient capabilities to sense, assess, and act with a coordinated response across functions and partners.
David Vallejo
Vice President, Head of SCM Innovations Product Marketing
SAP SE
Customer Session
Discover how UHLMANN’s next-gen digital services are transforming factory operations. This session explores how predictive analytics and real-time data reduce downtime, drive operational excellence, and unlock new revenue. Learn how these innovations deliver enhanced value by leveraging the secure, interoperable environment of the Factory-X dataspace.
Dr. Mario Rometsch
Team Leader Analytics and AI
Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
Bastian Brinkmann
Head of Corporate Future Lab
Uhlmann Group Holding SE & Co. KG
Partner Session
Accenture partnered with M. Dias Branco, a leading Latin American food manufacturer, to implement SAP Asset Performance Management. Intelligent asset monitoring helped us to enhance asset reliability, maintenance, and reduce cost. Join us to learn how we used SAP APM as a value lever to improve data quality, decision‑making, and productivity.
Renate Fuchs
Consulting Lead Industry X, Latam
Accenture
Marcos Galindo
Industrial Digitalization Coordinator
M. Dias Branco
Carlos Alberto Simões da Costa
Corporate Manager of Industrial Digitization
M. Dias Branco
Partner Session | DE-language
Die Komplexität des Produktportfolios ist eine der größten strategischen Herausforderungen der Industrie. Weidmüller und Soley zeigen, wie sie mit Product Mining in nur drei Monaten über 30 % Portfolioballast identifizieren, signifikantes Einsparpotenzial aufdecken und Komplexität durch messbare, operative Maßnahmen ersetzen.
Ephraim Triemer
CPO, Soley GmbH
Soley GmbH
Dr. Martin Dräxler
VP Cross Divisional Digitalization
Weidmüller
Partner Session | DE-language
Vom ECC-System direkt in die Public Cloud: Der Sensorhersteller und Automatisierungsspezialist SensoPart zeigt den Mut zur Standardisierung. Erfahren Sie, wie SensoPart etablierte Prozesse durch agile Best Practices ersetzt hat, und wie SAP Cloud ERP nun die Basis für globale Expansion und Effizienzsteigerung bildet. Ein Praxis- und Projektbericht.
Sven Ufheil
Leiter SAP Applikationen
SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH
David Segers
Senior Project Manager ERP Public Cloud
All for One
Partner Session
Rising geopolitical tensions and sanctions are turning trade compliance into a critical business challenge. This Live session highlights how a migration to SAP GTS, edition for SAP HANA enables Rolls Royce Power Systems to manage regulatory risk in real time while preserving agility, resilience, and competitiveness in global trade.
Prashant Patel
Senior Manager - Business Solutions
Rolls-Royce Power Systems
Clemens Jostarndt
Senior Manager - SAP Global Trade
Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Theofilos Kotzaeroglou
Partner – SAP Supply Chain Transformation
Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Expert Session
Join Hagen Heubach to hear the SAP strategy for supply chain management. Explore how orchestration and AI will shape manufacturing and supply chain operation solutions. Be inspired by our supply chain customers using SAP solutions to deliver end-to-end supply chain management at the age of AI.
Hagen Heubach
Chief Marketing Officer Supply Chain Management
SAP SE
Customer Session
Endress+Hauser, a global leader in process measurement and automation, follows a strong sustainability strategy and won the German Sustainability Award 2026. Their net zero targets are validated by the science-based targets initiative. To manage their sustainability worldwide, they rely on SAP Sustainability Control Tower as single source of truth.
Enrico de Stasio,
Head of Corporate Quality Lean and IT | Corporate Quality Lean & IT
Endress+Hauser Group Services
Lennart Severin
SAP Software Engineer
Endress+Hauser Group Services
Customer Session
SMA Solar needed to keep pace with growing demand and ever-more-complicated supply chains. To modernize its sales, service, and demand planning operations, SMA deployed SAP Integrated Business Planning to automate the planning process and increase visibility with a holistic, AI-enabled planning system.
Peter Osadsky-Beermann
Global Sales & Operations Planning Manager
SMA Solar Technology AG
Guido Kaup
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
SAP SE
Customer Session
Brose, a leading automotive supplier, needs more than standard solutions for managing sales processes. Over 95% of their revenue is from scheduling agreements, previously a gap in process mining. Partnering with SAP and MHP resolved this. SAP Signavio dashboards advance process data analytics and operational excellence.
Sebastian Michel
Manager
MHP
Florian Fischer
Inhouse Consultant
Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
Ben Mühmel
SAP SD Inhouse Consultant
Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
Customer Session
How can a global industrial group fundamentally transform their direct material procurement? Volkswagen outlines how a new, integrated Group Procurement Suite was co-developed in close collaboration with SAP—from joint development to global deployment. See how standardization, digitalization, and end-to-end integration are redefining procurement.
Tomasz Kalenik
IT Cluster Lead Direct Material
Volkswagen AG
Rainer Bolhuis
Business Solution Lead Direct Material
Volkswagen AG
Partner Session
Dr. Oetker is committed to a holistic transformation into a "tech-enabled company" by 2030. A cornerstone of this journey is the global implementation of SAP Datasphere and Self-Service Analytics within the sales division. As a strategic enabler it fosters a data-driven culture allowing our sales teams to turn complex data into actionable insights.
Predrag Jeremic
Lead Architect for Global Sales Management
Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG
Max Englisch
Manager, Data & AI
PwC Germany
Customer Session
With the partnership of T-Systems and SAP, regulated enterprises can leverage AI's transformative power while navigating compliance, data residency, and security. The Industrial AI Cloud integrates secure large language model consumption and AI workflows seamlessly into your applications combined with a fully governed end-to-end infrastructure.
Frank Scharpenberg
SVP, Head of SAP Global Business Practice
T-Systems International
Nikolaus Hagl
Head of Sovereign Cloud Germany
SAP SE
Partner Session
A production that never sleeps. With SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP S/4HANA and Edge, SIG is paving the way to a secure, template-based and globally scalable manufacturing environment – where people and technology shape the smart factory of tomorrow.
Jakob Weber
Regional Leader SAP Consulting Europe &
Vice President SCM Consulting
Syntax
Patrick le Mestrez
Senior Specialist MES & Digitalization
SIG International Services GmbH
Michael Mennicken
Business Analyst MES
SIG International Services GmbH
Customer Session
Verschiedene Faktoren setzen Organisationen im Bereich Produktcompliance enorm unter Druck. In dieser Session sehen Sie, wie SAP-Lösungen Wittenstein dabei unterstützen, die Produktcompliance zu automatisieren. Wir zeigen. wie ein integrierter, SAP-basierter Ansatz dazu beiträgt, die Compliance-Prozesse zu standardisieren, die Datenqualität zu verbessern und die Transparenz im gesamten Produktlebenszyklus zu erhöhen.
Sebastian Küstner
CIM Senior Inhouse Consultant PLM | CIM Process Solutions PLM
WITTENSTEIN SE
Panel Discussion
Scaling is the most critical success factor for Manufacturing-X beyond the project phase. This session explores strategies to expand from pilots to a permanent ecosystem. Learn from manufacturing leaders how they benefit from data ecosystems and how this can help create value for your company, building the trusted data foundation for Industrial AI.
Nadine Kanja
Global Head
Industry Business Unit Automotive
SAP
Catena-X e.V. Member of the Board
Ingo Sawilla
R&D Manager Research,
Data protection coordinator MT
TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG
Dirk Vielsaecker
VP R&D, Digital Industries Motion Control
Siemens AG
Dr. Andreas Wollny
Global Digital Expert Data Ecosystems
BASF SE
Expert Session
In the era of geopolitical tensions, digital sovereignty is no longer an option but a strategic necessity. SAP Sovereign Cloud provides truly sovereign cloud and AI solutions for regulated industries, ensuring scalability and innovation, while protecting the most sensible data.
Nikolaus Hagl
Head of Sovereign Cloud Germany
SAP SE
Customer Session
ContiTech produces high-performance industrial hoses with strict quality requirements. Discover how the new greenfield plant in Mexico enables bi-directional machine connectivity, end-to-end traceability and integrated quality controls as a future-ready global blueprint by using SAP Digital Manufacturing and SAP S/4HANA.
Hendrik Neumann
Manufacturing Execution (MES)
ContiTech Deutschland GmbH
Jannik Kreuz
Head of IT Smart Factory
ContiTech Deutschland GmbH
Partner Session
Learn how tesa transforms OT and SAP data in Snowflake to enable AI-ready insights and intelligent agents. Discover how real-time, mobile-first analytics empower faster decisions from shop floor to business leaders, presented by Snowflake SAP experts and tesa’s Head of Analytics.
Sanjeev Kumar
Head of CoE Data & Analytics Digital & Information Technology
tesa SE
Benedikt Engel
Solution Engineer
Snowflake
Panel Discussion
Physical AI brings AI into real-world operations by combining enterprise data, digital twins, and AI-driven decision-making. In this partner panel, Accenture, Kinexon and NVIDIA discuss how physical AI enables scalable, intelligent, and autonomous industrial systems.
Stefan Biermeier
VP Business Development
Kinexon
Christian Souche
Managing Director
Accenture Innovation
Timo Kistner
EMEA Business Lead Industrial & Robotics
NVIDIA
Boris Dmitriev
Industry Business Principal of Industrial Manufacturing
SAP SE
Expert Session
Explore the future of manufacturing and discover how AI-driven planning, digital continuity from design to recycling, autonomous production lines, and circular economy models are shaping resilient supply chains. Based on the SAP KLU study, we will highlight how you can build innovative, sustainable operations for tomorrow.
Florian Diehlmann
Senior Consultant Digital Supply Chain
SAP Deutschland SE & Co.KG
Oliver Kaffenberger
Senior Consultant Digital Supply Chain
SAP Deutschland SE & Co.KG
Expert Session
Learn how technology innovations are impacting the ability of AI to aid people in more tasks. AI has not only become relevant for concept and thought exercises but has matured into real scenarios that people are starting to pilot.
Sam Castro
Sr. Director, Product Marketing Manager, LoB Manufacturing
SAP SE
Customer Session
Explore RAUMEDIC’s journey to transform manufacturing with SAP Digital Manufacturing. Learn how the company moves from paper-based processes to digital compliance in a regulated environment. Discover how a global production platform is built step by step to enhance reliability, streamline operations, and enable sustainable future growth.
Christian Vogler
Project Lead SAP S/4HANA & SAP Digital Manufacturing
Raumedic AG
Customer Session
Learn how an OEM (Uhlmann), operator (Bayer) and a certification body (TÜV SÜD) collaborate on SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration to replace manual data exchange with digital twins and by leveraging industry standards. By digitally connecting assets the solution enables faster, data-driven decisions and more efficient business processes.
Sebastian Barth
Solution Architect
Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. rer. nat. Peter Herrmann
IT Consultant
TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Patrick Sapel
Technology Architect
Uhlmann Group Holding SE & Co. KG
Expert Session
AI is redefining how manufacturers design, sell, build, and service products. Embedded and agentic AI use cases for industrial manufacturers spanning predictive maintenance, quality inspection, complex quoting and tender analysis, and spare parts management are reshaping operations and delivering ROI.
Sayan Bose
Global Head - Industrial, A&D Manufacturing Industries
SAP
No sessions offered on Friday.