Scale your digital factory journey:  
From pilot to production impact 


Digital Factory Summit 2026 Wednesday, 22 April, 2026 Hannover Messe, Technology Academy, Germany
Explore actionable insights into how connected data and practical workflows accelerate your digitalization journey, enable data-driven decisions, and produce tangible results.
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What if every person in your factory could access, understand, and trust the right data—instantly?

Explore the future of connected digital factories. Where information flows effortlessly across disciplines, collaboration replaces silos, and data becomes intuitive for everyone. Discover how reliable, accessible insights power value-driven decisions across the entire factory lifecycle, turning complexity into clarity and strategy into measurable impact.
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Access the 2026 session recordings

Watch these four sessions from Digital Factory Summit 2026 and gain expert insights into the digital factory. Discover the benefits of platform technology, AI, connected data, and digital twins.

Keynote | Strategic Perspective: Platform, AI & the End-to-End Vision

In the keynote, learn how platform technology can unify facility data, IoT, and operational systems into a single source of truth. Discover the role of clean, connected data for AI-driven factory management and how the digital factory approach can reduce error costs by up to 50%.
Robert Bray, Vice President and General Manager at Autodesk

Session | Practical Data Flows & Data Exchange

Explore how Autodesk Data Exchange enables collaboration by sharing targeted subsets of model data across tools. Discover the new capabilities of Autodesk Model Coordination, now supporting 50+ additional file formats, native point cloud streaming, and 2D sheet federation.
Lejla Secerbegovic, Product Manager for Data Exchange & Marco Ramolla, Senior Product Manager Visualization Solutions at Autodesk

Session | Step-by-Step: Transform 2D Layouts into a 3D Digital Twin

Find out how companies at any digital maturity level can evolve from 2D drawings to full 3D simulation using Autodesk FlexSim. Discover the wide range of simulation applications, including machines, logistics, and people movement as well as safety scenarios, enabling smarter investment decisions upfront.
Peter de Strijker, Technical Sales Specialist D&M at Autodesk

Session | Make Your Operations Smarter with a Connected Digital Twin

Explore how Autodesk Tandem connects fragmented systems into a unified operational view for real-time decisions on equipment, safety, and throughput. Learn about AI-driven automation capabilities, including what-if production simulations that trigger automatically.
Robert Bray, Vice President and General Manager at Autodesk
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Speakers

Learn how industry leaders shaping the future of digital transformation, data exchange, and manufacturing.

Robert Bray

Vice President and General Manager, Autodesk Tandem

Bob is an experienced leader that has successfully launched several new products and technologies. He has a deep understanding of the AEC industry and the built asset lifecycle. In the past 23...

Lejla Secerbegovic

Product Manager for Data Exchange at Autodesk

Lejla Secerbegovic is a Product Manager for Data Exchange at Autodesk and a trusted advisor to global customers across industries, specializing in data interoperability and digital transformat...

Marco Ramolla

Senior Product Manager Visualization Solutions, Autodesk

Marco Ramolla is a Senior Product Manager and Group Product Lead in the Visualization Solutions division, where he is accountable for Model Coordination and Design Collaboration applications. ...

Peter de Strijker

Technical Sales Specialist D&M at Autodesk

Peter de Strijker is a specialist in Digital Factory and Industrial Machinery at Autodesk. He advises customers on optimizing and future‑proofing their workflows. Focused on industry convergen...

Who benefits of this

Digital Factory Summit 2026 is exclusively designed for senior manufacturing and plant leaders. Find an overview of relevant titles and positions here.
Accelerate layout decisions through a shared, model-based approach. Reduce change orders by aligning engineering, facilities, and production.
Reduce handover friction and rework with structured data, reusable asset libraries, and clear review loops in the cloud.
Increase line-level visibility, shorten time to insight, and leverage digital twins to inform maintenance strategies, accelerate throughput, and enable continuous improvement.
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