About the Event

The Automation NEXT Conference 2026 runs September 30, 2026 at Bosch Rexroth's CU.BE facility in Ulm. It's a technical conference for people responsible for production, automation, and digitalization, focused on concrete applications rather than future promises.

Audience & Attendees

The conference is aimed at decision-makers and specialists from production, automation, digitalization, and mechanical engineering. The day begins with an exclusive tour behind the scenes of the Bosch Rexroth model factory, included in the conference ticket, with limited spots.

Programme Structure

The day opens with the model factory tour, showing how modern automation, connected production, and digital technologies work together in a real manufacturing environment, followed by the main conference sessions.

Main Topics

Sessions focus on AI agents, physical AI, robotics, digital twins, and the path from brownfield facilities to smart factories, aimed at showing how AI, cobots, industrial networks, and data-driven systems can be applied directly in production.

Closing Session

The conference runs as a single day, September 30, 2026, combining the factory tour with the main conference programme at Bosch Rexroth in Ulm.

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