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SPS Italia 2025, will be held in Parma from 13 to 15 May 2025

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With 6 exhibition halls and 800 exhibitors expected SPS Italia is preparing for its thirteenth edition, in Parma from 13 to 15 May 2025. The automation and digital exhibition for intelligent and sustainable industry, the reference event in Italy for discovering enabling technologies for the factory and discuss the green and digital transformation of manufacturing, is in Parma from 13 to 15 May 2025.

In Halls 3, 5 and 6 products and solutions from the main suppliers of components and systems for industrial automation, robotics, mechatronics, digital&software, technologies for smart manufacturing and Industry 5.0. Between Halls 4, 7 and 8 is the Digital District, a dynamic exhibition route with working demos and application cases from Industrial IT & AI, Start Up and Education. Here, industrial software suppliers and digital big players present their most technologically advanced solutions. Visitors can meet leading companies specialising in software and systems for industry, cybersecurity, condition monitoring, big data analysis, blockchain, artificial intelligence, IIoT, industrial cloud, augmented reality. Completing the area is the ‘Focus AI’ space for implementing and exploring the potential of artificial intelligence in industry.

SPS Italia On Tour

Pescara, Treviso and Salerno are the districts chosen for SPS Italia On Tour 2025, the journey towards SPS Italia that in three stages meets industry to talk about automation and digital. For each appointment a technological and application focus defined on the needs and excellences of manufacturing in collaboration with the territory.

  • Pescara, Thursday 20 February – Aurum, Sala D’Annunzio ‘Open, integrated and scalable platforms for a secure, resilient and flexible future-proof manufacturing’.
  • Treviso, Tuesday 11 March – Treviso-Belluno Chamber of Commerce ‘Enabling technologies for smart and sustainable factory 5.0’.
  • Salerno, Wednesday 9 April – Zaha Hadid Maritime Station ‘The conditions for the development of the human-centred factory’.

The round tables offer a unique opportunity to the national network of technical institutes: the seminars are accessible to all students via LIM, with the possibility of interacting directly with the protagonists of the industry. An experience to redesign teaching and help students understand the characteristics of manufacturing and define their own life project.

The press conference presenting SPS Italia 2025

The voice of the speakers at the press conference presenting the thirteenth edition of SPS Italia, the automation and digital exhibition for intelligent and sustainable industry.

Donald Wich, Managing Director of Messe Frankfurt Italia: ‘The new edition of SPS Italia presents many new features that express the transformations we are witnessing. We have designed a space for visitors to explore the potential of artificial intelligence in production processes. It will be at the entrance to the Digital District, a dynamic pathway that has represented the main revolutions of the industrial system over the years. The fair is also evolving on the skills front. After the launch of the new pavilion designed for the new generations, we will add to the project a stage on the territory, with the first SPS Education On Tour meeting in April at the University of Siena. As per tradition, we will be present in the districts, touching on the cities of Pescara, Treviso and Salerno in round tables aimed at OEMs and companies. A few months after the opening of SPS Italia we are preparing to welcome around 800 exhibitors in the six pavilions, recording the entry of many new companies that will expand the technological offer of the event, for thirteen editions a reference point for manufacturing innovation.”

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Andrea Bianchi, President of ANIE Automazione: “After a decidedly underwhelming year, in 2025 the automation sector is faced with the need to gather the momentum of a hoped-for growth, continue to dampen multiple and unforeseen stresses, and metabolise rapid changes in perspective. This year’s SPS intersects with the complexity of the international context and, on the domestic front, the oft-delayed start of the Transition 5.0 Plan, strong deterrents to investment and the launch of new projects. We are confident, therefore, that the liveliness of our companies – also present at the Parma fair – and the technological ferment that animates the sector can be the driving force behind this year’s market.”

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Paolo Foglio, Iveco Group, member of the SPS Italia Scientific Committee: “From 2023, SPS Italia, through its Position Paper, offers strategic guidelines to accompany the digital transformation of Italian manufacturing. Aware of the rapidity with which the technological landscape evolves, the Position Paper 2025 is renewed this year with even more up-to-date content, the result of collaboration with the companies on the SPS Scientific Committee. Not only that, it comes with a new formula that aims to make the document clearer and more usable, without compromising its high informative value.”

Fiorella Operto, Board of Directors, School of Robotics: ‘The trend, now more than twenty years old, to replace human work with robots or advanced automation has not considered that to manage sophisticated machines and robots and the related process requires technicians or in any case personnel with a certain qualification and competence to move in a technologically advanced environment (STEM at a basic level, safety criteria, time and modes, etc.). There is a shortage of more than two million ICT-skilled workers in Europe today, many of them in industry and allied industries. Recent estimates by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) indicate that more than one million ICT professionals are missing in Europe. 53% of companies looking to hire ICT specialists report that they have difficulty finding qualified people. To address this challenge, it is essential to encourage more women to participate in the digital economy. Today, only 17% of the nearly 8 million ICT specialists in Europe are women. The female representation in technology-related professions and studies is low: only 1 in 6 ICT specialists and 1 in 3 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates are women. With Next Generation EU, European schools are making an effort to integrate digital technologies into STEM education. How much of this effort is consistent with the demands of the labour market? SPS Italia and Scuola di Robotica, in collaboration with economists and sociologists, have prepared a survey to be submitted to high schools (licei, technological and professional institutes) to map the perception of young people regarding work in manufacturing. The survey will be submitted in the school year 2024-25.”

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