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3,737 observed publications2,130 normalised providers27 portals

Technology in its regional context

Explore cities, regions and events

What shapes a place? Which providers and applications matter there? Regional reports connect local characteristics with technology, companies and documented projects.

Exhibition directory · Essen

eWorld · 798 exhibitors

E-world 2027 · 16–18 February 2027

Explore the energy sector through companies and locations: exhibitor profiles, cities, countries, halls and stands with direct source links.

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Exhibitor data: 26 October 2026. Participation and stand details come from the supplied export and have not been reconfirmed live.

City

Nuremberg

N-ERGIE in its city context: building stock, established district-heating networks and local heat sources with official project evidence.

Heat · Networks · Smart city

Open regional reportRegion

Middle Franconia

Urban consumption and rural solar generation: N-ERGIE network development, planning areas and supply-territory boundaries.

Urban and rural · Energy · Infrastructure

Open regional reportCity

Essen

Heat planning, LoRaWAN at Dürerschule and documented energy-company locations in the E-world host city.

Heat transition · Digital maps · E-world

Open regional reportRegion · RVR territory

Ruhr metropolis

DoHa hydrogen pipeline, water supply and municipal data cooperation: infrastructure across city boundaries.

Hydrogen · Industry · Regional cooperation

Open regional reportTown and regional context

Wittlich

Wengerohr’s industry and heat planning, the district digital strategy, A EINS in Wittlich and Portazon in the Trier area.

Industry · Heat · Digital services

Open regional reportIndependent city

Munich (city)

Stadtwerke München and M-net: heat supply, geothermal planning and fibre within the city of Munich.

Heat · Fibre · Digital services

Open regional reportDistrict

Munich (district)

Geothermie Unterhaching and Gemeindewerke Oberhaching: local heat and fibre networks, distinct from the city of Munich.

Geothermal energy · Municipal networks · Fibre

Open regional report

New entry point · Tasks and industries

Explore functions and related solutions

Start with ten business functions in the energy industry. Task profiles and related solution topics, with room for further industries.

Translation notice: German catalogue text is translated automatically. Content that is already published in English retains its original title. The directly linked original source remains authoritative.

12 impact areas

Where should a solution have an impact?

Impact areas describe real systems. They are more stable than trends and broader than individual industries.

5,139 knowledge items are classified. 721 have been editorially reviewed; 4,418 still require staged quality assurance or a status decision.

Taxonomy · 111 knowledge items

Media and the public sphere

All 3,737 observed content pieces are now classified within the SmartTech structure. 721 offerings have been editorially reviewed; all other classifications remain transparently marked as automatic pending quality assurance. The 77 reference items and additional curated sources are retained.

Newsrooms, publishing, broadcasting, social media, communities and the digital public sphere. Classification follows the subject and use case of the content.

Channel filters describe the use case, not the website where a source was published. Knowledge items may appear in several media areas. Areas without classified content remain visible.

33 matching knowledge items
ObservedAutomatically assigned · 62
Information resource

Assistini WP/ Adenion

AI Content Creator for WordPress – Create text, image and podcast directly in the editor

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
Content creation and editorial support

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ObservedAutomatically assigned · 59
Information resource

PRaiSense / JETZT [PR] – Media & News Specialists

Can AI decide journalistically when a press text has news value?

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
Content creation and editorial support

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ObservedAutomatically assigned · 59
Information resource

PRaiSense / JETZT [PR] – Media & News Specialists

Increasingly similar AI press texts make it difficult for companies to make their way into the media

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
Content creation and editorial support

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ObservedEditorial review · 53
Information resource

PRaiSense / JETZT [PR] – Media & News Specialists

PR workflow for press releases receives journalistic quality control

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Content creation and editorial support

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

Althaller Communication

AlthallerAssist: AI assistance for B2B communication and social media

Machine translated

Challenge:
Personnel and skills

Solution:
AI assistance for B2B communication and social media strategy

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

Retresco

Retresco: AI editorial assistance and text automation

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
AI editorial assistance and text automation

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

Wedia

Wedia: Digital asset management and content approvals

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content approvals

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

Bynder

Bynder: Digital asset management and content workflows

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content workflows

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

Seismic

Seismic: Sales enablement and personalised sales content

Machine translated

Challenge:
Turnover and growth

Solution:
Sales enablement and personalised sales content

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

CELUM

CELUM: Digital asset management for brand and product content

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management for brand and product content

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Retresco

The efficiency booster for every text type

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
AI editorial assistance and text automation

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Wedia

The DAM guide: ten questions and answers

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content approvals

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Wedia

Seven reasons and suitable industries for digital asset management

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content approvals

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Bynder

What a DAM system can do: the Bynder example

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content workflows

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Bynder

Four steps to choosing digital asset management

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management and content workflows

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Seismic

A day in the life of an AI-assisted sales team

Machine translated

Challenge:
Turnover and growth

Solution:
Sales enablement and personalised sales content

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

Seismic

The sales enablement checklist

Machine translated

Challenge:
Turnover and growth

Solution:
Sales enablement and personalised sales content

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ObservedPre-structured
Whitepaper

CELUM

Taking content marketing all the way

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Digital asset management for brand and product content

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

SpaceXAI

Grok: research, analysis and multimodal assistance

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
AI assistance for research and knowledge work

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CuratedEditorial review
Product and solution overview

SpaceXAI

Grok Imagine API: images, videos and creative variants

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
Generative image and video production

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ObservedPre-structured
Product and solution overview

SpaceXAI

Grokipedia: linked knowledge offering in the xAI ecosystem

Machine translated

Challenge:
Costs and productivity

Solution:
Digital knowledge and research offering

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CuratedEditorial review
Technical guide

Skydance

Paramount: technical requirements for video masters

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Video masters for localisation and distribution

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ObservedPre-structured
Trade article

Althaller Communication

B2B Social Media Study: AI governance becomes a maturity test

Machine translated

Challenge:
Quality and speed

Solution:
Study-based social media strategy and organisational maturity

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Active

Observed

Publications systematically captured from defined portals.

Prepared

Curated

Original sources added selectively when they close an identifiable knowledge gap.

Later

Community

Traceable contributions with a disclosed role and verifiable provenance.

Market monitoring 2026

Original publications

3,737 results

fully taxonomically classified

SmartTech · Open orientation in the B2B technology market

Direct original references · no lead marketing · Scoring 0.2