Join us for this exclusive hands-on event!
You are cordially invited to join DTC and the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut for an engaging and dynamic 3-day session. The program is designed to explore cutting-edge digital twin technology and its transformative potential across manufacturing, energy, and related industrial sectors.
This immersive experience will blend expert presentations, interactive workshops, and hands-on demonstrations to give participants a holistic understanding of how digital twins are driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation.
Our goal with the event is to inspire new approaches, foster collaboration, and provide the tools you need to leverage digital twins for future growth and resilience in industry.
NOTE: Limited seating and on first come basis!
Keynote Presenter:
Dirk Slama
Robert Bosch GmbH & Professor at the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute
Program Highlights:
| time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:45 – 9:15 | Arrival, Registration, Welcome, Coffee |
| 9:15 – 9:35 | Welcome @ Bildungscampus (Dieter-Schwarz-Foundation) -Dr. Miriam Biller, Project Manager Science, Dieter-Schwarz-Foundation |
| 9:35 – 10:05 | Digital Twin Consortium Overview Learn about the latest Digital Twin Market Forecast and the Digital Twin Consortium's direction moving forward, exploration of the state of the Digital Twin Market, and where growth is within the DTC. |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | OPC UA: Industrial Interoperability for IT & Cloud Solutions like Digital Twins, Metaverse, and the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Learn about how OPC Foundation has joined forces with other organizations like DTC and IDTA to create a best-of-breed system architecture for digital twins and the upcoming Digital Product Passport (DPP) by combining the best aspects of the Asset Administration Shell and OPC UA technologies: Agreeing on one modeling langue (OPC UA) including proven security dramatically reduces integration cost for static and dynamic information and provides a ramp start for the industry. -Stefan Hoppe, President of OPC Foundation (will be presenting on Day 1 from 10:10 - 10:30am) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break Snacks, Coffee, Networking |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Keynote: Revolutionizing Mobility: SDVs and the Digital-First Era As Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) reshape mobility, digital.auto’s digital-first paradigm is enabling the shift left through Digital Twins, Simulation, and Virtualization—allowing earlier validation, reducing physical prototypes, and enhancing vehicle quality. This keynote will highlight how these innovations drive faster, more compliant development cycles while opening new business models and fostering partner ecosystems that accelerate SDV advancements. Attendees will gain insights into meeting evolving industry demands with greater efficiency and collaboration. - Dirk Slama, Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH and Professor at the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch at the conference location |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Intelligent Automation: Digital Twin-based Multi Agent Generative AI Systems (MAGS) Multi-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS) are an advanced AI-driven platform that integrates multiple software agents with large language models to optimize industrial processes. Unlike traditional multi-agent systems, MAGS agents can self organize, self optimize, reason, communicate, collaborate- reason, plan, observe, reflect and act. The presentation will highlight the crucial role of digital twins in providing a real-time proxy for physical assets, enabling continuous monitoring and simulation. Practical applications of MAGS in various industries will be presented including demonstration how MAGS enhances efficiency, safety, and decision-making in complex operational settings. - Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO, XMPro |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Sharable Intelligent Digital Twins in Business Ecosystems - Insights from Real-World Testbeds The term “intelligent digital twin” has been introduced by Michael Grieves in 2022, meaning that digital twins can be combined with Artificial Intelligence and thereby increasing their capabilities. In this prestation, we explain and discuss how digital twins can be beneficial to a whole business ecosystem, consisting of multiple companies that draw on commonly shared intelligent digital twins. The presentation is informed by about 20 real-world implementation projects that we have completed in the last years. In these projects, we brought together new business ecosystems with partners from various industries and different background that use the shared access to digital twins to establish new business models. -Jens Lachenmaier, Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut. |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Break Snacks, Coffee, Networking |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Insights and Opportunities: New Digital Engineering Working Group Hear about the new DTC Digital Engineering Working Group that aims to drive industry innovation and best practices by developing frameworks, guidelines, and methodologies to enhance digital twin strategies and outcomes. By leveraging the primary attributes of DE, including model-based development and digital thread, integrated with advancements in AI and multi-agent systems, the working group aims to develop work products that allow organizations to evaluate, benchmark, and advance their digital twin capabilities throughout the digital twin lifecycle. -Dr. David McKee, Chair of the Working Group Digital Engineering, CTO Crysp |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Factory of the Future: Composable Digital Twins for Deploying Intelligent Automation This demo highlights how the DTC Capabilities Periodic Table is utilized in designing the micro-factory. Developing a Digital Twin for the micro-factory presents an opportunity to establish an effective working methodology and to identify the appropriate technologies for a highly adaptable and reusable architecture. -Dr. Carlos Toro, Claudio Soarzo NTT DATA (Chile) - Global Innovation Center |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Move to Reception Location |
| 17:00 | Cocktail Reception – at Campus Garden |
DTC Members only - Goal is to learn about German and European Activities!
| time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Meeting at Conference location (Bildungscampus) and organized travel by bus to AUDI - as a group (Drive time: 20-30min) |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Welcome and Introduction to the Factory of the Future -Alexander Müller, Head of Logistics, AUDI Sport GmbH |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Break – Coffee |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | How Catena-X is transforming the automotive industry and its impact on other industries Catena-X is the digital ecosystem of the automotive industry that represents a key solution in operations to global challenges. The second part of the keynote focuses on how Catena-X is already changing mindsets in other industries, why this transfer is particularly important for suppliers, how the transfer to other industries will be successful and which use cases will be used as a starting point. Examples are manufacturing-X, Aerospace-X, and Semiconductor-X. -Frank Goeller, Audi AG, VP Internationalization and Member of Extended Board Catena-X |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Factory tour by Alexander Müller, Head of Logistics, AUDI Sport GmbH Tour of the Audi Sport Manufacturing Plant, Böllinger Höfe |
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | IDTA – The State of the Asset Administration Shell – Standarizing the Digital Twin - From Fundamentals to Applications, Such as Digital Product Passport -Dr. Birgit Boss Senior Expert Digital Twins and Standardization, Bosch Connected Industry Speakers will answer following: |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | NEC on Catena X - Automated Negotiation Technology for the Catena-X Community Learn about NEC’s approach to integrating automated negotiation technology - which we have been developing for several years - and data-spaces (e.g. Catena-X). Automated negotiation provides the technology for achieving faster and more efficient data-sharing condition agreements. The data-space, on the other hand, provides business-oriented negotiating agents with the data needed to estimate the value of contracts (utility function). The two-way integration presented here provides an opportunity for data-space and automated negotiation communities to work together to advance the goal of a sustainable future. -Yasser Mohammad, Research Scientist, NEC |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Composability Framework for Industrial Applications – Roundtable Session – Open Discussion |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break - Coffee |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Digital.industry – Data Spaces and Digital Twins for industry applications -Jens Lachenmaier, Senior Researcher, Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut In projects that involve industry partners, we designed use-case specific data spaces and digital twins that are tailored to the information demand of the individual company. The goal of this presentation is to highlight the “digital.industry” approach and gain feedback from the participants for the next steps |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Panel Discussion – The Needs of the German Industry and How DTC or CATENA-X/IDTA Can Address Them. Participants: - Ole Sassenroth, Porsche Consulting |
| 17:00 | Return to Conference Area, Bildungscampus |
| time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration for New Participants, Arrival, Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome Day 3 - Dan Isaacs, GM & CTO: Digital Twin Consortium, Chief Strategy Officer, OMG inc. |
| 9:15 – 10:30 | Data-driven intelligence by digital twins – The Verification and Validation Task Group -Detlev Richter, TÜV SÜD This interactive session is discussing the journey towards process verification and validation that is addressed in the new DTC Verification and Validation task group. The presentation will discuss the information, models, data, and tools, that are needed for V+V. This includes the topics of standardization to enable interoperability between digital twins. The presentation will be based on real-world use cases from the finance sector and the area of machine safety. |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break – Coffee, Snacks, Networking |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Digital Trust: Data-driven Validation and Verification at DNV -Ove Heitmann Hansen, Senior Principle Digital Trust, DNV Ove Heitmann will present how DNV is relying on digital twins to verify other digital twins along the whole lifecycle in the oil and gas industry. He provides practical insights into the approach that starts with requirements and risk analysis, contains splitting up digital twin into capabilities and functions, up to the verification and validation of those elements. |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | The Power of Generative AI in Industry Applications -Andreas Geiss, Vice President- Automotive & Manufacturing, Aleph Alpha |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | IPAI: The Global Home of Human AI – Vision and Insights -Jana Strattner, Head of Partner Management IPAI IPAI (Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence) is probably the most ambitious project for applied artificial intelligence in Europe. It is a unique, innovation-promoting ecosystem working as a platform where different partners come together to work on future-relevant AI solutions. Initialized by the State of Baden-Württemberg and in cooperation with 3 other Heilbronn players the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and the Schwarz Group have a major hand in creating and delivering this visionary project and to promote innovation delivered from Heilbron |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Technology Spotlight Session Real-world implementations that provide insights into various digital twin technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques. These presentations will cover domain-specific scenarios with value-driven outcomes. |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Break – Coffee and Snacks, Networking |
| 15:00 – 16:15 | Insights from Digital Twin Pilot Projects – Impact on Academic Research -Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut/DTC This session will look into how the work of the digital twin consortium as well as the progress of digital twins affects academic research. We will raise future research questions and discuss implications for different types of research as wee as different disciplines, such as social sciences, engineering, and information systems. |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Summary and Closing -Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut / DTC |
We can't wait to see you there!
Member cost
$250
$199 - Early Bird Discount
(Extended Deadline: Friday, December 13th)
Hotel Information
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