Call for Proposals

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From 23 to 24 September 2025 Beyond IoT will take place in Cologne. The conference will cover the entire spectrum of topics related to developing applications and devices for the industrial internet of things with a focus on technical implementaion in companies. Beyond IoT conveys both the basic and expert knowledge and presents the most important concepts and tools as well as practical experience.

Laura Stockinger @ building IoT 2019

Organisers are iX, the magazine for professional IT, and dpunkt.verlag, the specialist book publisher for the professional computing scene. BeyonIoT consists of two main conference days and one workshop day. The organisers are looking for talks and workshops until April 10, 2025 on the following topics, among others:

Technology

IIoT architectures
Edge computing
Cloud platforms and hybrid architectures
Augmented & virtual reality
Programming languages, frameworks and libraries
Robotics
Protocols and communication standards
Digital twins/digital twins
AI & Gen AI

IIoT & Data

Real time data processing: tools and methods
Data consistency
Classic machine learning for data analysis
GenAI for IIoT applications
Secure data transmission and storage

Privacy

Observability
Regulations in the EU and worldwide
Requirements and opportunities DataAct
Use cases (condition monitoring, anomaly detection, asset management, predictive maintenance, energy monitoring, yield optimisation, ...)

Infrastructure

Security and safety
Threat modelling for IoT/IIoT
Software supply chain
Open source in IIoT
User interfaces, UI, UX
Testing
Management of end devices
Over the air updates
Automation (OT devices, OT sensors)

Practical Experience

Experience from ongoing and completed projects
Interaction and integration of different tools
Best practices and lessons learnt

Florian Raschbichler @ building IoT 2019

Talks of 45 minutes are desired. Workshops are planned as all-day events with 6 to 7 hours.

The organisers request that abstracts (approx. 400 to 700 characters) be submitted by April 10, 2025 for the planned talk. Additional material supporting the application (long abstracts, slides, essays etc.) are also welcome. The completed programme is expected to be online by end of April 2025.

Accepted speakers will be reimbursed for the cost of hotel accommodation required for the presentation. They will also be reimbursed for the cost of travel to and from the conference within Germany as part of a 2nd class train ticket. In addition, they have free admission to all talks at the conference.

You can find the programme advisory board a here. If you have any questions about the conference or the programme, please contact events@dpunkt.de. If you would like to talk about an interesting topic but have little or no experience with talks, you can also contact events@dpunkt.de for support.

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