Welcome to the HANNOVER MESSE
“Shaping the Future with Technology” is the motto of HANNOVER MESSE 2025. Around 4,000 exhibitors will be showcasing how AI is revolutionizing industry, how production processes can be optimized and how CO2 emissions can be reduced. In addition to the more than 1,600 speakers and over 130,000 visitors, we also welcome guests with outstanding functions, achievements and merits, some of whom we would like to introduce to you.
Hubert Aiwanger
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Bavaria
Jürgen Barke
Minister for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digital and Energy, Saarland
Dirk Beljaarts
Minister of Economic Affairs, Niederlande
Dr. Wolfgang Blank
Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labor, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Thomas Böck
Chairman of the Board of Management of Festo SE
Colette Boos-John
Minister for Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Areas, Thuringia
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Dr. Roland Busch
Chairman of the Managing Board of Siemens AG
Tony Evers
Governor, State of Wisconsin
Andreas Evertz
CEO of Flender GmbH
Dr. Barbara Frei
Executive Vice President Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric
Dirk Görlitzer
CEO of Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co.KG
Dr. Steffen Haack
Chairman of the Board of Management of Bosch Rexroth AG
Dr. Robert Habeck
Vice Chancellor & Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection of the Federal Republic of Germany
Prof. Holger Hanselka
President of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Dr. Dietmar Harting
Member of the Management Board and Partner of HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG
Philip Harting
CEO of Harting Technologiegruppe
Linda Hasenfratz
CEO of Linamar Corporation
Prof. Jan S. Hesthaven
President of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut
Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism, Baden-Württemberg
Missy Hughes
Secretary and Chief Executive Officer · Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
Goldy Hyder
President and CEO, Business Council of Canada
Dr. Marianne Janik
Vice President Google Cloud
Kerstin Jorna
EU Director-General of the European Commission for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Thomas Kaeser
Chairman of the Board of Management of Kaeser Kompressoren SE
Bertram Kawlath
President of the German Mechanical and Plant Engineering Association (VDMA)
Dr. Gunther Kegel
CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs
Erkki Keldo
Minister for Economy and Industry, Estland
Daniel Keller
Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Protection, Brandenburg
Winfried Kretschmann
Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
Oliver Krischer
Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport, North Rhine-Westphalia
Prof. Antonio Krüger
CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
François Legault
Premier of Quebec
Torsten Leue
Chairman of the Board of Management of Talanx AG
Olaf Lies
Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Construction and Digitalization, Lower Saxony
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Prof. Friedhelm Loh
Owner and CEO of the Friedhelm Loh Group
Claus Ruhe Madsen
Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Labour, Technology and Tourism, Schleswig-Holstein
Scott Moe
Premier of Saskatchewan
Peter Mohnen
Chairman of the Executive Board of KUKA AG
Cedrik Neike
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG
Belit Onay
Lord Mayor of the state capital Hanover
Cem Özdemir
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture and Federal Minister of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany
Marc Parent
President and CEO of CAE
Ove Petersen
Co-founder and CEO of GP Joule
Christina Raab
CEO of Accenture Holding GmbH
Dr. Tanja Rückert
Managing Director of Robert Bosch GmbH
Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer
Sole Owner and Managing Director of IDS Scheer Holding
Olaf Scholz
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Mark Stoddart
CTO & Executive Vice President of Linamar
Stephan Weil
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
Judith Wiese
Member of the Board of Management of Siemens AG
Prof. Otmar Wiestler
President of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers
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