SPECIAL EVENTS WETZLAR 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Special Areas
Program Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Official opening
19 March | en-tech.Stage
9.45 am
We look forward to the opening round with our guests.
This will be followed by a business and press tour.
12th UPOB Workshop 2024
Asphere Metrology
- Assembly of Optical Systems
- Free-Form and Space Optics
- Measurements on current HLEM samples
IHK conference: AI in the company - how it works
19 March | Seminar Room 2nd Floor
9.00 AM – 2.30 PM | Admission from 8.00 AM
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers companies – especially SMEs – enormous opportunities for growth and innovation. The use of AI can not only increase product quality and productivity, but also create personalized sales experiences.
sales experiences can be created.
At the IHK Lahn-Dill and IHK Hessen innovativ conference, competence centers and service providers will be presented who will use practical examples to show how companies can benefit from the use of AI and which experts can provide assistance.
The conference will be held in German and is subject to a charge.
Tickets are available directly from the W3+ Fair Ticketshop.
Spring conference of the SPECTARIS Security & Defense specialist group
Seminar Room 2nd Floor
19 March | 13.00 – 17.00 PM
In 2024, the SPECTARIS Security & Defense specialist group was newly formed. It brings together leading German companies from the fields of optics, lasers and optoelectronics that develop and manufacture specialized components and systems for the security and defence industry.
The spring conference in Wetzlar marks the first face-to-face meeting of the specialist group. A varied program offers insights into the activities of the member companies and is dedicated to current topics along the procurement and user side. The focus will be on exchange and networking. You will find the program on the event page from January 2025.
Interested guests are cordially invited to take part in this half-day event. Participation is free of charge and includes access to the W3+ Fair exhibition.
Please register for the conference.
Hessen in Space
Panel Discussion & Get-together
AI-Consulting
in the nele.ai Lounge
Fusion energy - a topic for the future
Business Angels Mittelhessen
Start-up Matching
March 19 | Seminar room 2nd floor
14.00 – 15.30
The Business Angels Mittelhessen invite you to the Start-up Matching Event as part of the W3+ Fair.
Get in touch with innovative start-ups, investors and technology companies. Visit the exhibition area of the fair and then the matching event in separate rooms of the Buderus Arena.
Registration is requested!
TeamMit Live
Automotive Network Meeting
19 March | Meeting point Foyer
1.45 – 6.00 PM
Meeting of the TeamMit Automotive Network – open to interested parties
Tour, presentations, workshops and networking
The automotive and supplier industry is undergoing fundamental change. In order to accompany this change, numerous partners have come together in Central Hessen to develop a regional transformation strategy and a network for the automotive and supplier industry. The BMWK-funded “TeamMit” project was launched at the end of 2022.
The second “TeamMit Live – Network Meeting” will take place this year on the 2nd day of the W3+ trade fair. The future of the automotive industry is inconceivable without innovations in optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics. At the same time, these industries have faced similar transformation challenges in the past and met them with a strong network.
Content of the event:
- 12 am – in advance: Automotive trade fair tour Automotive industry
- 1 pm – Start of the event at theof the eveng at the en-tech Stage. KeyNotes from Analayst Jürgen Pieper and Prof. Dr. Michael Stephan
- 2.30 pm – Workshop phase with barcamp on the topics of technology, qualification and network structure
- 4.30 pm – Closing & Networking
The event is aimed at: People from companies, universities and educational
institutions as well as institutions that are active in the automotive industry or want to become active.
Access to the event is free of charge.
The network meeting will be held in German.
EPIC C-Level Breakfast
+ EPIC TechWatch
C-Level Networking
Program Thursday, 20 March 2025
EPIC C-Level Breakfast
+ EPIC TechWatch
March 20
EPIC C-Level Breakfast | From 8.30 a.m. for invited guests
EPIC TechWatch | 10.00 – 11.30 a.m. | en-tech.Stage
Selected members of the European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC will formulate their needs from a user perspective. There will also be the latest technology and market trends.
Participation is free of charge for trade fair visitors!
VDI Innovation Area + Networking Breakfast
+ Exhibition Tour
BME
buyers´ breakfast
20 March | Lodge 2nd Floor
10.00 AM | Breakfast for the BME Lahn-Dill region with specialist lecture and exclusive tour of the trade fair
Meeting of purchasing colleagues – for invited guests and interested parties.
Registration is requested.
Healthcare Mittelhessen network meeting
20 March | Meeting point foyer – open to interested parties –
1.15 – 6.00 PM
Tour, lectures and networking
Education, research, business: Numerous scientific institutions conduct cutting-edge research in Central Hessen. At the same time, internationally successful healthcare and life science companies develop and produce important medical products and medicines here. In order to bundle this high-class profile and make it better known, the Regional Management Mittelhessen has launched the Healthcare Mittelhessen portal.
Medical technology and life science are also important user areas for which many of the W3+ Fair exhibitors offer products and services. On the 2nd day of the fair, Healthcare Mittelhessen invites you to take a tour, give a presentation and then enjoy an open get-together. Members and interested parties are invited. Simply click on the free additional ticket in the ticket store.
Schedule of the event:
– 1.15 p.m. – Official welcome | Meeting point in the foyer of the Buderus Arena
– 1.30 PM – Start of LifeScience + MedTech trade fair tour
– 2.30 PM – Lecture block LifeScience (Central Hesse) – powered by VDI & Regionalmanagement Mittelhessen | en-tech stage in the hall
– 4.00 PM- Time for a personal tour of the trade fair
– 5.15 PM – Conclusion & networking at the W3+ Fair After Work Drink in front of the stage
The event is aimed at people from companies, universities and educational institutions as well as institutions that are active in the life science industry or would like to become active.
Admission to the event is free of charge.
The tour will be held in German.
Registration is requested!
IHK Hessen innovative
The special area of four Hessian IHKs – in cooperation with the IHK Lahn-Dill, IHK Gießen-Friedberg, IHK Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar, IHK Offenbach am Main and IHK Kassel-Marburg. With innovative cooperation partners on the topics:
- Smart Factory Mittelhessen – THM Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
- ZuKIPro – Zukunftszentrum für KI Hessen
- KOMPAKI – Kompetenzzentrum für Arbeit und Künstliche Intelligenz
- GERMAN TECH
- Design to Business
Network with the experts and advisors at the IHK! Here you will receive support in implementing your innovation projects and information on funding opportunities.
Special Areas
Campus Area
Leading universities present themselves at the Campus Area and show examples of their current research work.
Joint Booth THÜRINGIA
The spectrum presented by the companies ranges from components and assemblies with precision requirements to equipment and services for development, production, in particular clean room environments, processing and surface finishing.
Thuringian companies are looking forward to a professional exchange at their joint stand.
Enterprise Europe Network
Enterprise Europe Network – the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions presents itself at the partner stand in the foyer with cooperation offers.
The Enterprise Europe Network supports you in opening up new target markets, finding international cooperation partners and networking internationally. The Enterprise Europe Network has an overview of financing and funding opportunities and helps you to make your company more sustainable and resilient.
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