Backnang – November 03, 2026 -- WIRmachenDRUCK GmbH won the Xerox Award as "Socially Engaged Printing Company of the Year" at the 22nd Druck&Medien Awards on October 29, 2026. The Backnang-based online printer also took second place in the "Customer & Sales Team of the Year" category (POLAR Award).

Munich – November 03, 2026 -- Atos is pitching its Sovereign Agentic Studios as a route for German companies to move agentic AI out of pilot mode, as the share of firms using AI jumped from 17% to 41% in one year.

The figures come from a March 2026 representative survey by the digital association Bitkom, covering companies with at least 20 employees. A further 48% are planning AI deployments or discussing them. More than half of current users report a measurable contribution to business success.

Vienna – November 02, 2026 -- Vienna-based think tank Mena-Watch will present the 2026 Arik Brauer Journalism Prize to filmmaker and journalist Sarah Maria Sander and journalist Andrea Schurian on the evening of November 5.

Hamburg – November 02, 2026 -- Two-thirds of companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland move fewer than a quarter of their AI pilot projects into regular operations, according to a study by Lünendonk & Hossenfelder in cooperation with Sopra Steria. Only 1% have integrated AI agents across more than one core business process.

Sopra Steria concludes that strict internal governance, data quality and compliance structures, often seen as brakes on innovation, are what allow AI agents to scale.

Zug – October 30, 2026 -- Some 87% of surveyed real estate professionals expect capital investors to withdraw from Berlin, even though only 14% consider an actual socialization of housing stock by 2031 likely. The flash survey of 414 property professionals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was published days after the Berlin election.

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Arango, a graph-native data platform provider, has opened an expanded office in Cologne to host customer training and architecture workshops, and it convened its first Customer Advisory Board there with 12 customers on October 22.

The office is located at the Deichmannhaus, Bahnhofsvorplatz 1. It extends Arango's presence in Germany and the DACH region and gives customers and partners across EMEA direct access to the company's engineering and technical teams.

Eschenburg – October 29, 2026 -- Software Partners Group (SPG) has rebranded as Emerion, a platform that combines companies with more than 330 employees and roughly 10,000 customers across the DACH region's mid-market.

Berlin -- The German Bundestag passed a law on October 15, 2026 that extends notarial video procedures to stock corporation (AG) formation, GmbH share transfers and powers of attorney for financing rounds. The new rules take effect on January 1, 2027, subject to Bundesrat review.

Hamburg – October 28, 2026 -- 41 percent of communications leaders already have at least half of their content created by or with the help of AI, yet fewer than half regularly check whether their measures work. This is according to the IMPACT Study 2026 by PER Group, based on a survey of 300 decision-makers.

BERLIN – October 28, 2026 -- Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) and contract research organisation PSI have taken a live AI-powered process orchestration solution for clinical trial site identification and selection into operation, the first joint project between the two companies.

The solution covers therapeutic areas, indications and geographies. It moves previously manual, decentralised steps into a single digital process, from project initiation through the later stages of site selection.