Messe Düsseldorf

Dusseldorf – November 03, 2026 -- More than 500 start-ups will exhibit among several thousand exhibitors at MEDICA 2026, held 16-19 November in Düsseldorf, and the 15th MEDICA START-UP COMPETITION will stage its pitch final on the new MEDICA MAIN STAGE in Hall 12 for the first time.

START-UP PARK in Hall 17 hosts more than 100 international companies

The MEDICA START-UP PARK sits inside the new Digital Health Hub, next to the new MEDICA DIGITAL HEALTH STAGE curated by Prof. Dr. David Matusiewicz. Exhibitors cover AI, digital health, medical technology, robotics and diagnostics.

Düsseldorf – October 13, 2026 -- WITEX 2027, a new B2B exhibition for the Physical AI value chain, will open at Messe Düsseldorf on May 12–14, 2027, with organizers targeting more than 300 technology providers and 15,000 trade visitors.

The World AIoT Innovation Alliance (WAIA) is organizing the show to connect global technology suppliers with European industrial buyers. Target applications span manufacturing, logistics, energy, healthcare and commercial services.

Four technology segments cover the Physical AI chain from sensing to simulation

The exhibition is divided into four areas:

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY – 22 September 2026 – Messe Düsseldorf will stage REHACARE 2026 from 23 to 26 September in Düsseldorf, placing community creators and people with disabilities at the center of the independent living debate. The trade fair is adding a Community Hub in Hall 7, organized by X Carstens and REHACARE, as a dedicated stage for around 20 creators and influencers across all four trade fair days. The program includes personal stories, talks, roundtables, readings, entertainment and Meet & Greet opportunities, with a Community Day on Saturday, 26 September. For care practitioners, specialist retailers, associations and institutional stakeholders, the move signals a stronger emphasis on user-led perspectives in rehabilitation, prevention, inclusion and nursing care.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - May 09, 2026 - Messe Düsseldorf has announced the launch of the dedicated Young Talents Day initiative, scheduled for May 13 at the upcoming interpack 2026 trade fair, designed specifically to address the critical workforce pipeline within the global processing and packaging sector. This strategic programming aims to connect industry operators with trainees, students, and young professionals, directly mitigating the ongoing talent gap by showcasing viable career trajectories across engineering, machine management, and production technology. By offering free access to specialized tours and direct engagement with corporate human resources leadership, the initiative provides a highly structured environment for companies to recruit and assess the next generation of technical professionals equipped to handle evolving digitalization and sustainability demands on the factory floor.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 11, 2026 - ProWein Düsseldorf has opened the first release cycle of the ProWein Business Report 2026, positioning it as a strategic compass for wine industry stakeholders navigating a tougher and more complex market environment. Produced in cooperation with Geisenheim University for the ninth consecutive year, the report is framed as moving beyond pure market analysis toward a guidance and decision-making instrument for producers, exporters, importers, specialist retail, and food service. The latest survey, conducted in late autumn 2025, drew input from over 1,000 experts across more than 30 countries, reinforcing the report's role as a broad-based indicator of sentiment and business priorities across the value chain.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 07, 2026 - ProWein Düsseldorf 2026 is expanding its digital visitor and exhibitor toolkit with the ProWein App and the integrated matchmaking tool Fair Match, aiming to make trade-fair planning and networking more structured, targeted, and usable beyond the show dates. The update is positioned to reduce the operational friction that often limits ROI at large B2B events: finding the right suppliers, planning routes efficiently, and converting introductions into scheduled meetings and follow-up. By combining exhibitor and product discovery, navigation, ticket access, and data-driven contact suggestions in one workflow, ProWein is trying to shift visitor time from "searching" to "qualified conversations" and help exhibitors surface where purchase decisions are formed.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 07, 2026 - ProWein Düsseldorf 2026 is introducing ProWein Agora, a new curated stage format designed to deliver strategic guidance on how wines and spirits will be bought, sold, and presented across channels and regions. The program runs across all three trade-fair days, pooling around 14 hours of scheduled highlights for decision-makers from retail, food service, industry, and distribution. Instead of long-form conference tracks, Agora is built around condensed 20-minute sessions that visitors can combine into a personal agenda. For exhibitors and buyers, the operational promise is faster orientation in a fragmented market, clearer context for investment decisions, and more actionable takeaways that support assortment, pricing, and go-to-market planning.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 07, 2026 - ProWein Düsseldorf 2026 is scaling its ProSpirits segment to two fully occupied halls, positioning spirits as a larger, more international sourcing and networking pillar within the fair from March 15 to 17. Organizers say Halls 5 and 7 will host around 500 exhibitors from 50 countries, aiming to give trade visitors faster access to global range breadth-from whisk(e)y styles and gin to Chinese Baijiu-while adding structured guidance formats that help buyers turn sampling into commercial decisions. Operationally, the expansion matters because spirits buyers and on-trade decision-makers increasingly need efficient filtering, reliable trend context, and direct producer access in a crowded category where innovation cycles are accelerating.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - March 07, 2026 - ProWein Düsseldorf has introduced its new Insights to Action (I2A) framework to expand digital services and better support international trade visitors before, during, and after the fair. The initiative is designed to reduce friction in the B2B buying journey by improving orientation, accelerating the identification of relevant exhibitors and products, and enabling more structured meeting preparation. For exhibitors, the framework is positioned to increase visibility at decision points and strengthen the quality of business initiation rather than simply driving traffic. Operationally, I2A formalizes how data, filtering, and matchmaking tools are used to convert fair participation into more efficient, higher-intent commercial conversations.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - February 21, 2026 - EuroShop 2026 in Düsseldorf will put a dedicated spotlight on start-ups and "Young Innovators" that aim to turn emerging retail technology into deployable, store-level solutions. The program centers on practical applications across payment, analytics, AI-supported decision-making, smart store operations, POS experiences, and margin management. For retail operators, the relevance is less about showcasing "new tech" and more about how tools can reduce waste, improve availability, tighten loss prevention, and standardize execution across locations. The exhibition runs from February 22-26, 2026, with curated zones intended to help buyers and transformation teams compare solutions by real operational use cases.