Look forward to a varied programme at the OVE Innovation Day 2026 with exciting presentations, keynote speeches and panel discussions.
Here you will find the preliminary programme, which will be updated regularly – stay tuned.
| 9:00 am | Registration of participants Get together |
| 10:00 am | Welcoming remarks Gerhard Fida, OVE President Georg Konetzky, Director General at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism |
| INDUSTRIAL KEYNOTE | |
| 10:10 am | Real World Meets Digital World: How Siemens Accelerates Technological Change Through Innovation Patricia Neumann, Siemens AG Österreich |
| STANDARDIZATION | |
| 10:35 am | Keynote: From Ambition to Trust: Standards as the Backbone of Climate Action. A view from EDF and from French standardisation. Pascal Terrien, EDF Group |
| 11:00 am | Heterogenious Standardisation for Smart Systems Markus Reigl and Sebastian Käbisch, Siemens AG Deutschland |
| 11:25 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:50 am | The Future of Harmonized EN (IEC) Standards and the EU Standardization Regulation ((EU) 1025/2012) Arian Monem, STIHL Tirol GmbH |
| 12:15 pm | Panel discussion – The future of standardization |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch break |
| INNOVATION INSIGHTS – INDUSTRY, START-UPS & RESEARCH | |
| 2:00 pm | From Prediction to Preparedness: Innovation in an Uncertain World Varvara Bezhenova, AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft |
| 2:25 pm | Radar Interferometry: Innovative Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures from Space Philip Leopold, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology |
| 2:50 pm | From Sensor Data to Machine States – Explainable Edge Intelligence for Industrial and Energy Systems Fransisco Webber, SF² Systems GmbH |
| 3:15 pm | Towards deployable quantum communication: recent breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspectives Valeria Saggio, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology |
| 3:40 pm | Coffee Break |
| INNOVATORS IN THE OVE UNIVERSE | |
| 4:05 pm | OVE Innovation Award – The nominations |
| 4:20 pm | OVE Innovation Award – The winning project |
| 4:30 pm | Girls! TECH UP-Role Model-Award Michaela Leonhardt, Chairwoman OVE Fem |
| 4:45 pm | Closing remarks by OVE Daniel Herbst, OVE General Secretary |