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.

Vienna – November 02, 2026 -- The University Council of mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna unanimously elected Oliver Vitouch as its next rector on 31 October 2026. He takes office on 1 October 2027 for a four-year term, succeeding Ulrike Sych, who has led the university since 2015.

Vienna – November 01, 2026 -- Austrian AI company Digicust has appointed Alexander Miklautz, previously Head of Marketing at PwC Austria, as Head of Global Partnerships & Events, effective November 1, 2026. The hire makes strategic partnerships a standalone growth channel alongside direct enterprise sales.

Murfeld/Ceršak – October 31, 2026 -- The EU energy regulators' agency ACER has endorsed a four-year extension, running until November 2029, of the exemption from building physical bi-directional gas capacity at the Murfeld/Ceršak interconnection point between Austria and Slovenia.

ACER issued a favourable Opinion on the decisions by the Austrian and Slovenian national energy regulators to prolong the existing exemption. The Austrian and Slovenian transmission system operators (TSOs) proposed the extension, and the national regulators approved it.

Steyr-Gleink – October 28, 2026 -- PG3 Consulting says it can usually start work on critical SAP warehouse logistics problems within one to two weeks, as ZEISS realigns its SAP S/4HANA transformation.

Klausen-Leopoldsdorf – October 28, 2026 -- Jürgen Bruckner, managing director of Austria's Bruckner Holding GmbH, says most of his organization's more than 22,000 customers buy products repeatedly without joining the sales structure. He names this as the key test separating legitimate direct selling from pyramid schemes.

Vienna – October 28, 2026 -- Vienna-based WAVE Trockensysteme GmbH has put its best-selling FD440 freeze dryer under AI control, replacing a conventional industrial controller with the Interkey Brain system. On its first run on October 23, the AI rewrote its own program mid-process without stopping the machine. To WAVE's knowledge, this is the first industrial machine on the market guided by an AI rather than a fixed-program controller.

Innsbruck – October 27, 2026 -- Congress Messe Innsbruck (CMI) has appointed Igor Palka, a Messe Berlin division head, as its new managing director, effective March 1, 2027.

Mittenwald – October 27, 2026 -- IT-Innerebner GmbH is adding AI-driven research and data population to its free-key CityApp, a platform already used by more than 700 municipalities in Germany and Austria. A prototype has passed its test phase, according to the company.

AI agents and open data replace manual entry for municipal content

The CityApp is connected to the nationwide open-data knowledge graph of the German National Tourist Board (DZT). Approved information on attractions, events, accommodation and restaurants can be imported automatically.

Vienna – October 14, 2026 -- Viewpointsystem has launched an eye-tracking module that delivers up to 15 times longer battery runtime than conventional processing on a connected device, according to the company's performance measurements. The Digital Iris Module runs the complete image-based eye-tracking pipeline at 140 Hz on an ultra-low-power Ensemble microcontroller (MCU) from Alif Semiconductor, inside the glasses frame.