Han­no­ver Mes­se 2026

SQuaD repre­sen­ted at Han­no­ver Mes­se 2026 with its own booth:

Han­no­ver Mes­se is an inter­na­tio­nal indus­tri­al trade fair that has been held annu­al­ly in Hano­ver sin­ce 1947 (until 1962 under the name “Deut­sche Indus­trie-Mes­se”). It brings tog­e­ther seve­ral inter­na­tio­nal flag­ship fairs cove­ring key future-ori­en­ted topics. In 2026, the­se included Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gies within the rese­arch and tech­no­lo­gy trans­fer domain, as well as spe­cial show­ca­ses on other key tech­no­lo­gies, inclu­ding IT/OT secu­ri­ty. In this con­text, SQuaD was repre­sen­ted with its own booth tog­e­ther with the Phy­si­ka­lisch-Tech­ni­sche Bun­des­an­stalt (PTB). 

The fair took place from 20 to 24 April 2026, at the Hano­ver Fair­ground and offe­red exhi­bi­tors from more than 40 count­ries as well as around 11,000 par­ti­ci­pan­ts a diver­se and high-qua­li­ty pro­gram­me. The umbrel­la pro­ject was also pro­min­ent­ly repre­sen­ted: On the second day of the fair, Dr. Nico­las Speth­mann, Head of the Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gy Com­pe­tence Cen­ter (QTZ) at PTB and spo­kesper­son for SQuaD, gave an over­view talk entit­led “Quan­tum Key Dis­tri­bu­ti­on and Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on: Enab­ling the Future of Secu­re Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on.” In his talk, he pro­vi­ded a com­pre­hen­si­ve over­view of the poten­ti­al of Quan­tum Key Dis­tri­bu­ti­on (QKD) for digi­tal secu­ri­ty, as well as the back­ground, objec­ti­ves, and acti­vi­ties of SQuaD. 

Loo­king back, despi­te its strong indus­tri­al focus, Han­no­ver Mes­se pro­ved to be an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty for SQuaD to net­work and enga­ge with experts and inte­res­ted stake­hol­ders from the inter­na­tio­nal Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gy Com­mu­ni­ty. The booth, deco­ra­ted with umbrel­las and fea­turing exhi­bits such as a sin­gle-pho­ton source, a BB84 demons­tra­tor, and a CV-QKD device from pro­ject part­ner KEE­Quant GmbH, attrac­ted num­e­rous visi­tors. They lear­ned about the poten­ti­al risks posed by future Quan­tum Com­pu­ters, as well as about SQuaD and cur­rent deve­lo­p­ments in the field of Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on. Fur­ther­mo­re, the fair pro­ved to be a valuable plat­form for obtai­ning direct feed­back from the com­mu­ni­ty, incre­asing the visi­bi­li­ty of the umbrel­la pro­ject in Ger­ma­ny, and gai­ning important impul­ses for future acti­vi­ties.

     

       

     

     

Pho­tos: Impres­si­ons of the Han­no­ver Mes­se 2026.

Source refe­rence: https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/news/news-fachartikel/hannover-messe-industrie-zeigt-wege-in-eine-wettbewerbsfaehige-zukunft