Event Details

OPC Foundation is a proud partner of Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20th – 24th, 2026)

• See landing page of trade show here 
• Register here to get a free of charge ticket here

OPC Foundation Press Conference
When: Monday April 20th, 2026 from 10:00h – 10:45h
Where: Hannover Messe Convention Center, Room 3A

Topics

• Status & Update: OPC Foundation World
• Status & Update: OPC Foundation Cloud Initiaitive
• Status & Update: OPC Foundation Field Initiative

OPC Foundation Conference “OPC Foundation Field Initiative”
When: Wednesday, 22.04.2026 from 11.00am – 01:00pm
Where: Convention Center in Room Berlin

OPC Foundation Conference “OPC Foundation Cloud Initiative”
When: Wednesday, 22.04.2026 from 01.00pm – 03:00pm
Where: Convention Center in Room 3A

Join the OPC Foundation booth and see our offerings, solutions and demonstrators

In 2025 we showed these demos:

• Learn about the new OPC Foundation Cloud Reference Architecture including leading cloud suppliers like AWS, Google Cloud but also major automation suppliers like ABB, BECKHOFF, Honeywell, Mitsubishi, Rockwell and Siemens
• Live demo “OPC UA over MQTT” and OPC UA over Kafka connecting 53+ controllers and devices via OPC UA over MQTT directly to cloud dashboards
• OPC UA Metaverse – live demo including wind turbines
• OPC UA based demonstrators for the Digital Battery Passport (DBP) in collaboration with CESMII and the VDMA
• OPC UA for Field: live demo of horizontal Controller-to-Controller communications based on OPC UA FX series – the one and only harmonized OPC UA solution for both Process- and Factory-Automation, including deterministic, motion, instrumentation, OPC UA Safety and OPC UA over 5G.
• Live demo “GDS – Global Discovery Service” for secured exchange of certificates

These companies and partners have shown their solutions on the OPC Foundation booth in 2025:

• Aleph Solutions
• BE.services
• evon GmbH
• Matrikon
• Kepware/PTC
• ProSys OPC
• Rockwell
• Siemens
• Unified Automation