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Smart, Sustainable, Scalable: Industrial Innovation at Hannover Messe 2025

  • Neha Narula

Sustainability, digital transformation and industrial AI dominated discussions at Hannover Messe 2025. Over 4,000 exhibitors from around the globe convened in Hannover, Germany, to showcase their latest innovations reshaping the industrial landscape. Many focused on delivering clear, outcome-based solutions for their customers, while others emphasized the power of their technologies to streamline operations across complex, distributed systems.

A unifying theme quickly emerged: the path to climate neutrality runs through electrification, digitization, and automation. Solutions for predictive maintenance, machine health monitoring, and data integration took the spotlight, addressing the ongoing demands of decision-makers seeking to boost productivity and maximize ROI.

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We share our top takeaways in the latest VDC View, including key trends, standout innovations, and strategic insights from the event. The View also features deep-dive vendor highlights on Armis, AWS, Critical Manufacturing, Emerson, Eurotech, FermAI, HiveMQ, I-care, Litmus, Microsoft, Nanoprecise, Nokia, Nozomi Networks, PTC, Rockwell Automation, and Siemens, among others.

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About Mitch

Mitch Solomon

President

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Mitch has spent years supporting senior leaders of operational and industrial technology companies as well as private equity investors that participate in the space.  He is an active member of the Technology and Innovation Council at Graham Partners, a leading industrial technology focused private equity firm, and serves on the advisory boards of OptConnect (a top IoT connectivity provider) and DecisionPoint (a rapidly growing operational technology systems integrator).  Mitch has worked closely with a wide range of industrial technology clients on a diverse array of growth opportunities and challenges including applications of AI, c-suite recruiting, strategic planning, new market identification and entry, product strategy, competitive positioning, revenue retention, value proposition identification and messaging, sales strategy and execution, and board presentations. Mitch holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.