Building the Industrial Cloud
Interoperability Standard

The IT world desires the data from the OT to be integrated in concepts like Digital Product Passport including Digital Battery Passport, Product Carbon Footprint Report, Data Spaces, Digital Twins, Metaverse and more. All these applications and solutions require sharing of information between multiple companies with different use cases like product lifecycle data or governance data etc.

Learn about easy, accepted and secure solutions with OPC UA for Digital Twins, Digital Product Passport, Metaverse, and DataSpaces. Listen to industry experts who are sharing their view about AI, DataSpace, and the new OPC Foundation Cloud Reference architecture aligned by AWS, Google, Huawei, Microsoft and SAP.

When

• Wednesday April, 22nd, 2026 from 13:30h – 15:00h

Where

• Hannover Messe – Convention Center – Room 3A

Agenda

• Welcome by Stefan Hoppe, President OPC Foundation
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• Collaboration between CEN/CENELEC and OPC Foundation
  Hear from Otto Handle, Convenor CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 WG4 Digital Product Passport – Interoperability about the new collaboration between the OPC Foundation and CEN/CENELEC on how OPC UA technology can be integrated into the Digital Product Passport technology.
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• Digital Product Passport for Batteries with OPC UA
  David Tobon, Huawei & co-chair of the Cloud Initiative, together with Arno Schmetz, Fraunhofer FFB, will demonstrate how an EU Digital Product Passport for batteries can be built and hosted with a few simple clicks leveraging the UA Cloud Library and how the Cloud Library forms the basis for data exchange in industrial data spaces. In addition, they will show how live OPC UA shopfloor data can be easily integrated into this turnkey, open-source DPP reference solution.
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• OPC Foundation Cloud Initiative progress in the last year
  Hear from Erich Barnstedt, Microsoft & chair of the Cloud Initiative, what new OPC UA Companion Specs have been released under the roof of the Cloud Initiative, what new collaborations were started with other like-minded consortia and what new open-source applications were developed and how they fit into the overall Cloud Initiative reference architecture.
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• Artificial Intelligence with OPC UA
  Holger Kenn, VDMA, chair of the OPC Foundation AI working group will demonstrate how OPC UA data can be leveraged with Large Language Models (LLMs) but also report on open-source offerings for MCP for OPC UA Servers.