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From 16 to 18 September 2025, the leading European community for software and hardware innovation gathered in Lisbon for the ITEA Project Outline Days. With almost 400 representatives from industry, research and politics in attendance, the PO Days are regarded as setting the pace for the next ITEA-funded research projects — and thus as the birthplace of the technologies that will shape the market in five to six years' time.

For Adept Engineering, however, this meeting place has always been more than just a mandatory appointment. It was here that the first ideas for the OPTIMUM project were conceived in 2019, leading to our current architecture for semantic OPC UA data models, which was awarded the ITEA Award of Excellence in 2022. Three years later, we returned with the same pioneering spirit.

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