Events

The GPEC® digital focuses on digitalization as a segment of the GPEC®, the event for authorities covering all areas of equipment and materials. Since 2000, the GPEC® has been held every two years in even calendar years, with the GPEC® digital additionally taking place in the odd years in between. Both events aim to support education and training, information exchange, interministerial, national, and international cooperation, as well as civil-military collaboration for internal security.

We cordially invite you to visit us at the joint Fraunhofer booth: Hall 2.2, Stand D-109

Ocean Business 2025 is the global meeting place for ocean science and technology professionals. Connect with thousands of the industry’s brightest minds, and share ideas to help define the future of ocean technology. From cutting-edge surveying innovation to the latest marine autonomous systems, you’ll find hundreds of solutions to transform your business in 2025 and beyond.

Control illuminates all aspects in theory and presents the current world range of usable technologies, processes, products and system solutions for industrial quality assurance in practice. Exhibitors at the international trade fair Control present the current global offerings of usable technologies, processes, products, and system solutions. In the field of Visual Computing, the focus is primarily on software solutions for automated optical quality assurance in industry and construction.

Whether it's Mobile Learning, Learning Nuggets, Gamification, or Virtual Reality – E-learning is more than ever a part of comprehensive education concepts. Nearly all relevant providers of digital education are represented at LEARNTEC. What makes LEARNTEC special is the combination of congress and trade fair. LEARNTEC showcases IT-supported learning methods, technologies, and best practices in lifelong learning: corporate, school, and higher education knowledge transfer. At LEARNTEC, you will meet a highly qualified professional audience from the E-learning user and education sectors, concentrated over three days of the trade fair.

The next workshop in the Fraunhofer CIMD 4D workshop series, which will be held on 21 May in Essen, will focus on the topic of ‘Digital innovations in healthcare: How AI and Data Science are Reshaping Patient Care’. The 4D workshops are primarily aimed at doctoral students, young postdocs and project staff at Fraunhofer CIMD.

The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is one of the greatest challenges for society, the economy, and the state in recent decades. However, it is also a crucial prerequisite for improved treatment methods on the path to personalized medicine, digital twins in research, and telemedicine approaches. Secure information and communication technology (ICT) plays a central role in this process. As the use of ICT in the healthcare sector increases, new risks also emerge in the areas of cybersecurity and privacy protection. MedCAST specifically addresses these risks and explores possible solutions by bringing together experts from various fields within the healthcare sector. We examine the topics of cybersecurity and privacy in medicine from three perspectives: the technical perspective of ICT security, the medical perspective of key institutions and roles in healthcare, and the user perspective, which ensures that new technologies become both applicable and accepted.

The International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) is in its twenty-first year and is now recognized as a major annual venue in the area. IE, which has been hosted worldwide, offers a truly international forum and welcomes contributions from all over the planet. Intelligent environments refer to physical spaces in which information and communication technologies, artificial intelligence, interface sensing and actuating technologies are woven to create interacting spaces. The ultimate objective of such environments is to enrich users’ activities, while allowing users to manage them and be aware of each other’s capabilities.

We are delighted to announce a very special event: 50 years of GRIS! We cordially invite you to join us in Darmstadt on Thursday, September 4, 2025 to look back on the success story of the Interactive Graphics Systems (GRIS) research group – from the early days of computer graphics to the latest developments in visual computing. Yet another highlight: The anniversary celebration will be combined with Computer Graphics Night 2025, an established event that recognizes scientific excellence and showcases the latest innovations in computer graphics.

Fraunhofer IGD will also be involved as a co-organizer of the Darmstadt Biometrics Week in 2025. From September 22 to 26, the events will provide leading experts from academia, industry, and government with the opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss the latest advances and innovations in biometrics through specialist conferences and discussion rounds. Further information will be available soon.