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January 15, 2026

NEFI Technology Talk: Smart, Digital, Flexible – Future Strategies for Industry

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  • Event
by Oxana Schmidt
When?

January 15, 2026

Time

13:30 – 17:30 o'clock

Where?

Virtual Industry Lab, Gusshausstraße 23, 1040 Vienna

Organisers

NEFI

Infos

Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration is open until January 10th, 2025 (note: limited number of participants).

The future of industry requires more than just boosting efficiency. It demands flexibility, intelligence, and digitalisation to remain successful in a dynamic and constantly changing world. Flexibility is the key to responding quickly to market shifts and staying competitive in the long run. But how can this transformation be put into practice?

At the NEFI Technology Talk, we explore future strategies for industry and demonstrate how companies can benefit from smart, digital solutions. The focus lies on how innovative technologies can make production processes not only more efficient, but also more flexible to meet the increasing demands of the market.

The event offers participants the opportunity to actively help shape the future by presenting their research ideas and technologies. It is a unique chance to showcase innovative solutions and, through exchange with other industry stakeholders, develop new approaches and visions. By leveraging innovative technologies and addressing current industrial challenges, we create approaches to digital transformation and sustainable industrial processes, forming the basis for future project ideas.

Practical insights will be provided through short pitch presentations, s. agenda.

NEFI – New Energy for Industry, Austria’s innovation network driving the transformation of industry toward climate neutrality, presents new pathways and innovative approaches for a resource-efficient, climate-friendly industrial future as part of the NEFI Technology Talks. This event series brings together technology developers, companies, and research partners to jointly work on tomorrow’s solutions.

Take the opportunity to present your research idea or new technology for industrial digitalization in a short pitch (3–5 minutes). Companies are also invited to present specific challenges for which they are seeking support on their path toward decarbonization and transformation.

Apply now and actively help shape the industry of tomorrow: office@nefi.at

Agenda
13:30

Arrival and get-together

14:00

Welcome and introduction to NEFI and the Innovation Hub “Flexibility”

Kerstin Pfleger-Schopf | Montanuniversität Leoben

14:15

Introduction to the funding programme “RTI Initiative for the Transformation of Industry”

Claire Cance | Austrian Climate and Energy Fund

Pitch presentations

  • Drying and Redoxblox – Flexible solutions for industrial processes, Robert Primavesi | ALMO Engineering
  • Efficient industrial processes through smart measurement technologies, Robert Holzer | RECENDT
  • Battery storage concepts, Raphaela Hein | Enery und Andreas Heiß | Enery
  • Tbc, Sabine Dworak | Porr
  • Industry4Redispatch, Tara Esterl | AIT
  • INDUFLEX, Andreas Gruber | MUL
15:30

Coffee break and networking

16:00

Interactive workshop session

  • Topic 1: Commercialisation of storage systems and flexibility
  • Topic 2: Digitalisation in industry – status quo and future needs
  • Topic 3: Technological solutions to industrial challenges
16:40

Fishbowl discussion with all pitch presenters and moderators

17:15-17:45

Networking and closing, end of the event

Registration

Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration is open until January 10th, 2026 (note: limited number of participants).

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