
The core topics at HANNOVER MESSE included artificial intelligence, hydrogen, energy management, connected and intelligent production, and the new Manufacturing-X data ecosystem.
“A spirit of optimism permeated the halls at HANNOVER MESSE,” reported Dr. Jochen Köckler, Chairman of the Deutsche Messe Managing Board, at the closing press conference for HANNOVER MESSE 2023. More than 4,000 exhibitors presented their solutions for a digital, connected, sustainable industry, welcoming 130,000 visitors from around the globe in Hannover.
The rate of international attendance was commensurately high: 43 percent of visitors came from abroad to find out how they can make their production fit for the future. After Germany, the top visitor nations were the Netherlands, China, Korea, Poland and the United States.

“Visitors were able to see the process of industrial transformation live, in practice, in the exhibition halls,” Köckler explained.
ZVEI President and Chairman of the HANNOVER MESSE Exhibitor Advisory Board Dr. Gunther Kegel summed up the view of exhibiting companies as follows: “Electrification, digitization and automation: these three trends have shaped this year’s Hannover Messe.
Pushing the industrial knowledge digitization with its product DRIM, the DRIMCO booth was fitting very well into the digitization trend. “We got a lot of interest from companies around the globe for our product and how it is analyzing requirements from RFQs, tenders or regulations with the help of AI”, our CEO Bernt Andrassy reported.
