Manufacturing Day
9 May 2025|
Vienna, Austria
| Sophiensaele: Marxergasse 17, 1030 Vienna
This year's topic: Collaborate to Innovate.
The European manufacturing industry is facing growing challenges such as technological changes, stricter sustainability requirements and increasing global competition. For companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the ability to innovate is crucial to ensure their competitiveness and promote sustainable business models. By collaborating with startups, research organisations, universities, students and other industry players, companies can implement innovative technologies and business models and strengthen their position on the market. Collaborations also enable access to resources and knowledge and thus promote accelerated innovation development.
The Manufacturing Day 2025 focuses on how partnerships across the ecosystem fuel technological advancements, accelerate growth, and create new market opportunities.
What is Manufacturing Day?
The Manufacturing Day is the leading event for the manufacturing industry during ViennaUP, the largest decentralised startup festival in Europe. During this landmark event with more than 500 participants from over 40 countries, EIT Manufacturing is bringing together startups, key industrial players, investors, researchers and experts to celebrate the achievements and potential of the European manufacturing industry.
Renowned speakers from all over the world provide insights into hot topics in the industry, bringing new solutions and ideas to the table to make manufacturing more innovative and thus create a competitive advantage.
The Manufacturing Day aims to showcase the latest innovations and technologies that are driving this transition and to inspire the next generation of manufacturing professionals to take an active role in shaping the future of the industry. The event offers a varied and rich programme for and with startups in the manufacturing industry and is a platform for industry representatives to exchange ideas and network.
Save Manufacturing Day 2025 to your calendar
Make sure to have 9 May 2025 reserved for Manufacturing Day
#SaveTheDate: Get ready for Manufacturing Day - coming up on 9 May 2025 in Vienna
To get into the right mood, walk down memory lane with us and see some impressions from Manufacturing Day 2024 in the video below.
We are currently working hard on creating an amazing programme with outstanding speakers for you - after all, it is a special anniversary for us: 2025 will be already the 5th Manufacturing Day. Bare with us a little, we will announce more information here soon.
Save your spot and get your free ticket now! We are looking forward to seeing you on 9 May 2025 in Vienna.
Your EIT Manufacturing East Team :)
Who is behind the Manufacturing Day?
Hi,
we are the team of EIT Manufacturing East, a group of experts that helps the manufacturing industry to become more innovative, more competitive, more resilient and more sustainable. Out of our office in Vienna, we work with startups, SMEs, large corporations, universities, research institutes and other professionals in the manufacturing sector on their innovation activities and challenges. We support them to find the right partners, solutions, technologies and talents for growing their businesses, expanding their markets, optimising their production and enhancing their efficiency and sustainability.
We work with more than 1,000 European industry startups, we collaborate with top-notch universities and research institutes and we bring in all the big and small players from the business side along with the visible and the hidden champions to our innovation ecosystem. Together with the colleagues from our offices in Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Greece and France, we follow a true European approach, enabling cooperations across company and national borders.
EIT Manufacturing is the largest innovation network for manufacturing in Europe.
Supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, we bring together the leading industry stakeholders from business, academia and research. Fueled by a strong interdisciplinary and trusted community, our activities add unique value to European products, processes, and services – and inspire the creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing.
EIT Manufacturing is headquartered in Paris, France and has a network of innovation hubs across Europe: Vienna (Austria), Darmstadt (Germany), Milan (Italy), Gothenburg (Sweden), San Sebastian (Spain) and Athens (Greece).
EIT Manufacturing
Theresa Neuhauser