The next VISION conference will take place Oct. 5-7, 2021. The new date in the odd year — in parallel with Motek — will be retained in the long term.

According to Florian Niethammer, team director and project manager for VISION at Messe Stuttgart, the organizers are using the current situation to implement measures that will be beneficial to the trade fair in the long term. In addition to the 2020 launch of the VISION Start-up World, Messe Stuttgart plans to supplement the 2021 event with digital content. Currently there are no plans for a virtual replacement of the canceled 2020 fair.