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These highlight projects spark excitement for the PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION
15.04.2026
By partnering with the German E-Commerce Association, the PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION (PDC) is expanding its professional network across the value chain. Following collaborations with industry and marketing associations, the focus is now shifting even more strongly towards the interface between print, packaging and digital commerce.
New partnership: PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION brings print and e-commerce closer together
17.03.2026
By partnering with the German E-Commerce Association, the PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION (PDC) is expanding its professional network across the value chain. Following collaborations with industry and marketing associations, the focus is now shifting even more strongly towards the interface between print, packaging and digital commerce.
drupa insights goes online: New knowledge platform for market and future analyses
11.03.2026
In March, drupa insights launches as a new digital knowledge platform of drupa. Just weeks after the opening of exhibitor registration, the world’s leading trade fair for Printing Solutions is expanding its information offering with continuous market and future analyses for the international print and packaging industry.
PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION 2026: Ticket shop now open
05.03.2026
Ticket sales have begun approximately three months before the start of the PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION. On 16 and 17 June 2026, the foyer of Hall 1 at Messe Düsseldorf will once again become a meeting place for decision-makers from the print, marketing, communication and creative industries.
drupa 2028: New brand identity as a catalyst for networked printing solutions
18.02.2026
With a new brand identity, drupa is presenting its future direction at an early stage. Two years before the start of the trade fair, the world's leading trade fair for printing solutions is thus providing an initial glimpse of its conceptual and content-related repositioning.
Go-ahead for drupa 2028: exhibitor registration now open
11.02.2026
drupa, the world's leading trade fair for printing solutions, is now accepting exhibitor registrations for its next edition: from 9 May to 17 May 2028, Düsseldorf will once again become the global stage for integrated printing technologies, automated production processes and industrial applications.
PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION 2026: New partnership with the Federal Association of Marketing Clubs and strong exhibitor commitment
04.02.2026
PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION (PDC) is setting an important course for its future development: with the German Marketing Clubs Association (BVMC), the congress trade fair is gaining a new strategic partner and specifically strengthening its appeal to marketing and communications decision-makers.
PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION 2026: epda and VDM Nord-West enrich the network
13.10.2025
The European Brand & Packaging Design Association (epda) and the Verband Druck + Medien Nord-West (VDM Nord-West) are joining the partner network of the PRINT DIGITAL CONVENTION 2026. These new collaborations bring fresh impetus, expand the reach and strengthen the appeal of PDC as a platform for exchange, innovation and new business potential.
K 2025: Royal visit reinforces strategic partnership in the Middle East
10.10.2025
Royal visit to K 2025: His Royal Highness Prince Saud Turki Al-Faisal Al Saud, Chairman of the Riyadh Exhibitions Company (REC), together with Wolfram N. Diener, Chairman of the Management Board of Messe Düsseldorf, set another milestone in the close cooperation between the two partners.
Anna Maria Jonietz awarded the drupa Prize
01.09.2025
The drupa Prize 2025 goes to art historian Anna Maria Jonietz for her outstanding dissertation on the Medici self-portrait collection from 1650 to 1723. The work impressively shows how self-portraits in the Medici collection were deliberately integrated into art and science history discourses, opening up new perspectives on image politics and representation.