Editorial Team
21 April 2026. The Hannover Messe 2026 keynote "Realizing Industrial AI at Scale with AWS", held on 21 April from 13:15 to 13:45, brought together three speakers: Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager for Automotive & Manufacturing at Amazon Web Services; Florian Lechner, Head of Digital Production and Logistics at Volkswagen; and David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics.
The session sat within a show programme in which industrial AI was the declared theme. Other main-stage appearances included a fireside chat between Accenture chair and CEO Julie Sweet and Siemens president and CEO Roland Busch on scaling AI across complex industrial organisations, and a keynote by Microsoft president and chief revenue officer Deb Cupp titled "Return on Intelligence: The Next Frontier of Manufacturing".
Volkswagen's participation is notable because Lechner's role covers production and logistics digitalisation across the group's plants rather than a corporate AI function. No recording or transcript has been published by the organiser at the time of writing; the session listing is the source for speakers and timing.
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