HARTING Industrial Ethernet Week 2025

Connecting the All Electric Society

HARTING Industrial Ethernet Week is back! The fourth edition of our annual digital conference took place from 25 to 27 February 2025. Once again, we brought IIoT pioneers and experts from global market leaders on stage to present use cases, trends, keynotes and discussions.

Register now and get access to all recorded contributions. Our focus this year is on the important role of Industrial Ethernet as the foundation and central nervous system for seamless data communication in the All Electric Society. Learn more about the All Electric Society

Detailed Schedule

All recordings are available and can be viewed directly. In this detailed overview you will find the original times of the live conference, which took place from 25 - 27 February 2025.

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Kilian Schmale, Head of Regional Field Marketing Field Marketing EMEA at the HARTING Technology Group welcomes you and gives you an overview of all the topics you can expect: the All Electric Society, its challenges, sector coupling and the important role of Industrial Ethernet as the basis and central nervous system for seamless data communication.

The All Electric Society is a comprehensive vision, encompassing all aspects of energy production and consumption – from renewable sources and automated manufacturing to smart networks that optimize efficiency across sectors. In his keynote, Gunther Koschnick (Managing Director Automation at ZVEI) presents integrated energy systems as a cornerstone for enabling growth while decarbonizing industries. His message: Cooperation and association are key to convincing politics, investors and society itself of the enormous benefits of an electrified future.

We are in the midst of a transformation of the energy market from static, fossil-based production to a dynamic supply with renewables. They bring with them a new challenge: the volatility of wind and sun. The game changer is not simply ‘more of the same: namely expanding electricity grids’, but intelligent AI-based control and electricity storage. Our households will become decentralised energy players that produce, buy, sell and store electricity. What does it take to participate and benefit from the cheapest and cleanest electricity? 1KOMMA5° is the energy unicorn from Hamburg that has cracked this code and offers technical and technical solutions from a single source. The motto here is simply do it instead of lamenting about the climate! We are looking forward to this contribution from Sophia Rödiger, Chief Marketing Officer DACH, 1KOMMA5° GmbH.

Discover how Industrial AI is transforming from hype to actionable Solutions. This session showcases examples where AI drives Efficiency and sustainability. Learn how AI bridges the gap between Innovation and measurable results in industrial applications.

Lara Ludwigs, Head of Marketing and Tobias Lessmann, Customer Success Manager at Cybus GmbH will present tried-and-tested use cases from the community. Learn how companies have created real added value and which central building blocks were in focus.

In a concluding panel discussion, the speakers of the day will discuss Industrial Ethernet as the basis for seamless data communication to increase efficiency, levers and challenges.

SPE is a new physical layer for transmitting Ethernet via one single twisted pair. After the initial hype, the technology is now mature for applications. Find out more about the latest activities in standardization and useful applications. With Matthias Fritsche, Senior Ethernet Specialist at HARTING Technology Group and Chairman of ISO/IEC, JTC 1, SC 25, Member IEEE 802.3.

An successfull introduction of the SPE technology requires clear standards for PROFINET users and manufacturers. Learn more about the neccessary and consistent activities to standardize the usage of PROFINET over SPE from Xaver Schmidt, Chairman PI, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International and Andreas Huhmann, Chairman of Working Group passive Network Components, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International.

HARTING is one of the global driver for connectivity and switches for SPE for Industrial applications. Learn more about the relevant SPE connectivity HARTING supports and the infrastructure products already available. This includes the complete picture from Connector via cabling to switches. Presented by Marian Dümke, Head of GPM NIC, Matthias Speer, Head of GPM Cabling and Heiko Frese, Global Product Manager Ethernet Switch at the HARTING Technology Group.

Get to know how HARTING activley contributes to the electrification and digitalisation of farming. Lukas Hellmann, Business Development Manager Off-Highway Vehicles, will give you an overview on HARTING focus activties in this market.

Smart farming describes the usage of digitalsiation in the agriculture market. Get to know how digitalisation has increased the efficiency of farmers. Reinhold Maehler, Vice President Module Management at CLAAS, will give you insides on new trends and possibilities in smart farming.

Digitalisation in farming requires a corresponding communication technology to provide the performance required by smart farming applications. High Speed ISOBUS is the new next generation communication system of the agriculture market. Learn more from Frank Meyering, Managing Director at CCI - Competence Center ISOBUS E.V. about the technology and the new possibility it provides to farming applications.

ANEDO is an OEM supplier for agricultural machine manufacturers. Get to know ANEDOs latest opeating and control unit product platforms ready for Highspeed ISOBUS including the corresponding connectivity. Andreas Ganseforth, Senior Product Manager at ANEDO, will introduce the new product platforms together with Marian Dümke, Head of Global Product Management NIC at HARTING Technology Group.

Beside SPE, HARTING offers a huge range of innovative, high performance and robust PCB connectivity tailored for industrial Ethernet applications. Learn more about the latest trends and products for IP20 and IP65 devices from Joachim Finke from HARTING Technology Group.

The increasing digitalisation has significant impact on the Railway Industry. Get to know the chances and possibilities Industrial Ethernet will bring to the Railway Industry.

With the new Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) freight waggons will be coupled automaticly inlcuding power and data connections. Malte Hofmann and Markus Kampka will give you insides on the target and the progress of this project, which is actually under standardization.

HARTING offers a huge and innovative range of Industrial Ethernet connectivity tailored for Railway applications, even for outstanding customer specific requirements. Get to know the latest installation solutions by the HARTING experts.

One Cable Connectivity is key to decrease the cabling effort in machines based on decentralized automation. It reduces the complexity of cabling and by this saves space, costs and time. Joachim Finke will give an overview on the development from multiple to one cable connectivity and points out the white spot of standardization in motion & drive applications.

Standards guarantee the inoperability between connectivity of different manufatcurers and improve the availability of components by multiple suppliers. Still today one cable technology is a topic shaped by propriety interfaces. For the first time there are two new approaches to standardize Connectivity for this application field. Learn more about the approaches, the actual status of standardization and how HARTING supports this from, Stephan Schreier, Sr. Key Expert Strategic Technology Development and Christian Baehr, Global Product Manager at the HARTING Technology Group.

The HARTING Industrial Ethernet Week is an annual digital conference where we bring IIoT pioneers and industrial communication experts on stage to present use cases, trends, keynotes and discussions. More than 10,000 registrants worldwide have already signed up for the annual editions and we welcomed speakers from a wide range of global market and technology leaders to the stage.