Frankfurt, 2026. My first symposium of the prostep ivip Association, and the agenda makes me feel like a kid in a candy store.
But one thing is certain: the most exciting insights often come not in the plenary, but at our PROSTEP booth. If you want to know
- why AI projects often fail (spoiler: it is rarely down to the AI),
- why “dumping data into ChatGPT” is no solution,
- and how companies get to AI-enabled data architectures,
come and talk to us there. We will show it in concrete terms using Howard, our virtual PLM assistant — powered by the PROSTEP AI Workbench from my colleague Dr. Norbert Lotter.
My second passion: digital PLM/ALM sovereignty. I am especially curious about CONTACT Software × STACKIT and their sovereign PLM cloud.
Must-sees from our corner of the agenda:
- Marvin Höhn with Mercedes-Benz AG: Hardware Exchangeability in SDV Development
- Knut Stang with Volkswagen Group: RAG for shared language platforms
At the prostep ivip Symposium 2026 in Frankfurt, two of my core topics meet: AI-enabled data architectures and digital PLM/ALM sovereignty. If you want to experience both in practice, the most exciting conversations usually happen not in the plenary, but at the booth.