HighByte at Hannover Messe 2026: Ecosystem in Action

Hannover Messe 2026 is approaching quickly, with the exhibit floor opening on 20 April in Hannover, Germany. As the world’s leading trade fair for the manufacturing industry, Hannover Messe hosts more than 4,000 exhibitors and 130,000 on-site attendees each year. 

HighByte returns this year with a bigger footprint and our partner ecosystem at the center. The value of HighByte Intelligence Hub comes to life through our partnerships—from the consuming and target-system technology providers to the integrators helping our customers deploy these solutions and navigate change management. Together, this ecosystem is what enables manufacturers to build the data foundation required to support AI at scale.

In this post, I’ll share a preview of what you can expect to see and hear from HighByte at the fair, including software demonstrations, product news, theatre presentations, and more. 

Exhibition

HighByte will exhibit as a Gold Sponsor in the AWS booth located in Hall 15, Stand D76. 

Visit the AWS booth and our ecosystem partners to experience live demos of autonomous manufacturing systems, hear from industry leaders, and meet industry experts focused on how physical AI, agentic AI, and intelligent data foundations are transforming modern manufacturing.

What to expect:

• 1,400m² booth with live, end-to-end manufacturing demos
• Autonomous robotics, AI quality systems, and agentic AI in action
• 50+ sessions with AWS leaders, customers, and partners
• 25 partner kiosks showcasing real-world Industrial AI deployments

Still need a ticket to the exhibition floor? Reserve your complimentary ticket to Hannover Messe here. 

Demonstrations

Our in-booth demos this year will focus on a few key themes. 

Industrial Data Fabric. See how HighByte Intelligence Hub provides modeled, ready-to-use industrial data to AWS cloud services to accelerate analytics and AI workflows. This demo showcases how manufacturers can standardize data from diverse systems and technology stacks with the Intelligence Hub and Industrial Data Fabric on AWS. We’ll dive deep into integration details with services including AWS IoT SiteWise, AWS IoT Core, Amazon S3 Tables, and more.

AI for DataOps. In this demo, we’ll show you how to use Amazon Bedrock to map data tags and build pipelines with natural language in the Intelligence Hub. See the new Pipeline AI Agent that enables you to create, edit, and understand data pipeline configurations in the Intelligence Hub through a conversational interface. You retain full human review and control before any change takes effect.

DataOps for AI. Learn how to deliver the context needed for production-ready AI agents with the Intelligence Hub. This demo will introduce you to MCP Services, including server, client, and tooling capabilities that standardize how AI agents securely access and interact with industrial data. Get your questions answered on data virtualization and factory APIs. 

Siemens Collaboration

HighByte Intelligence Hub will be featured in a demonstration by Siemens showcasing how manufacturers can move from industrial data to predictive insight and real-time action. In this demo, you’ll see how to onboard a new CNC machine, unlock and contextualize its data, transform that data into predictive intelligence, and then monitor and maintain your new CNC machine on a mobile device using a custom application. 

This integrated solution brings together three powerful technologies:

• HighByte Intelligence Hub that connects to OT sources at the edge and contextualizes data into a Unified Namespace (UNS), creating a unified, high-fidelity source of truth.

• RapidMiner (from Siemens) that uses contextualized data from the Intelligence Hub to build and deploy machine learning models that predict failures, optimize processes, and identify issues before they impact production.

• Mendix (from Siemens) that turns these insights into custom applications, enabling teams to monitor assets, visualize KPIs, and trigger workflows in real time.

Predictive maintenance is just the beginning. The same integration approach can be used for customer insights, fraud detection, supply chain optimization, and more.

Visit Siemens in the AWS booth to learn more about this integration and discuss how DataOps brings scale and speed to your industrial data strategy.  

On Stage

HighByte product leaders John Harrington and Aron Semle will take the stage throughout the week to share technical insights and customer case studies.

📍AWS Theater | Hall 15 | Tuesday
On 21 April at 10:00, join John for “Focused on Foundation: How Alcon Deployed Industrial AI with HighByte Powered by AWS.” John will explore how Alcon built a scalable data foundation to support predictive maintenance and defect monitoring using HighByte Intelligence Hub powered by AWS. He will also share practical guidance on architecting industrial data to enable AI use cases. Add it to your calendar. 

📍AWS Theater | Hall 15 | Wednesday
On 22 April at 16:00, see Aron present “Enabling Industrial AI with Validated Data Powered by HighByte and AWS.” As workforce gaps widen, manufacturers need simpler ways to operationalize data. In this session, Aron will share how Bayer uses HighByte with AWS to power industrial AI—streamlining pipelines and delivering trusted industrial data to agents over MCP. Add it to your calendar.

📍Microsoft Theater | Hall 17 | Thursday
Join John for “Powering Regulated Industries with High-Volume, AI-Ready Data,” on 23 April at 15:00. Regulated industries, such as utilities, depend on timely, trusted operational data to run safely and efficiently. In this session, John will explore how National Grid modernized its data pipeline architecture using an Industrial DataOps approach with HighByte Intelligence Hub and Microsoft Azure—moving from batch ETL to a scalable streaming pipeline that supports forecasting, grid operations, and emerging AI workloads. Add it to your calendar. 

Special Announcements

In addition to what you’ll see on the floor and on stage, we plan to make several product, market, and partnership announcements leading up to the event. Expect more to come on HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.4 and our partnership with CESMII and support for i3X. But I wouldn’t want to ruin any surprises, so that’s all I can say about that! 

Event FAQs

What is Hannover Messe? 
Hannover Messe is the world’s leading trade fair for the manufacturing industry and a global hub for industrial transformation. More than 4,000 exhibitors across automation, energy, industrial IT, engineering, and production technology will showcase solutions shaping the future of digitalized and sustainable industry.

The fair runs from April 20-24, 2026, located at Messegelände 30521 Hannover. The exhibition hall is open each day from 9:00 – 18:00. 

Who is attending from HighByte? 

• Torey Penrod-Cambra, Chief Communications Officer
• John Harrington, Chief Product Officer
• Aron Semle, Chief Technology Officer
• Jeffrey Schroeder, Director of Product Management
• Carolyn Baron, Director of Partner Success 

How can I meet with the HighByte leadership team? 
Pre-book a meeting to schedule time with HighByte and our partners from Novotek and receive a personalized demonstration of the Intelligence Hub in our booth. We will be available throughout the week for business and technical meetings.

We would also be happy to meet you at an evening reception in the AWS booth. Join us for drinks, light appetizers, and networking. No registration required.

• Monday, April 20, 17:30 – 19:00 Evening reception sponsored by Zoomlion

• Tuesday, April 21, 17:30 – 19:00 Evening reception sponsored by Siemens

• Wednesday, April 22, 17:30 – 19:00 Evening reception sponsored by QAD | Redzone

Can’t attend Hannover Messe this year? Let’s meet virtually. Please contact us to get started.