Session: Semantic Stack Unlocking Next-Gen Industrial Value Speaker: Dr. Birgit Boss, Senior Expert for Digital Twins and Standardization at Robert Bosch Session Summary: Dr. Birgit Boss explains how organizations can overcome the "data growth paradox" by adopting a four-step framework to create comprehensible, semantically structured data rather than blindly hoarding unstructured data. By leveraging the Bosch Semantic Stack to generate digital twins, companies establish a ha

Session: Next Level AI and Robotics in Production Speaker: Dr. Michael Nikolaides, Senior Vice President of Production Network, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management, BMW Group Session Summary: This session details the BMW Group's transition toward digitalized manufacturing, emphasizing that establishing a clean, cloud-based data architecture is the fundamental prerequisite for successfully deploying completely autonomous "Physical AI". Dr. Nikolaides showcases four advance

Session: European Defence: Creating the Industrial Landscape We Need Speaker: Michael Schöllhorn (CEO of Airbus Defence and Space; President of the German Aerospace Industries Association / BDLI) Session Summary: Michael Schöllhorn emphasizes that Europe must urgently transition from a security consumer to a sovereign producer by accelerating defense manufacturing and prioritizing a "Made in Europe" strategy. To build this resilient industrial base, he argues that the defense