cplace Day 2026

For three decades, enterprise PPM meant the same cycle: a 300-row RFP, months of implementation, and off-the-shelf software that never quite fit. cplace Day 2026 is the day that cycle ends.

On the biggest PPM stage in Europe, streaming for the first time to the US, we’ll show what the Builder Era actually looks like: enterprise software described in the morning, running in production by evening.

What you’ll experience live:

• The CEO’s case: Why the era of long implementations, rigid platforms, and shelved software is finally coming to an end.
• cplace AI in action: From proactive agents to the AI Builder that turns requirements into governed solutions, every capability is shown live and proven by enterprises already running it in production.
• The new delivery model: How months of implementation became weeks, and what that shift means for every project.

The Builder Era doesn’t begin someday. It begins live on stage at cplace Day 2026! Join us. And start building.

When did you last click through your own solution before you had to specify it?

Until now, you had two options. Off-the-shelf software: something to look at right away, but never quite your process. Or a tailored solution: exactly your process, but paid for with months of workshops and specification documents before your teams could see anything at all.

In this session, you’ll see how that trade-off disappears. We show you how AI in our delivery process turns a problem described in your own words into a working solution within days. One that follows your processes, speaks your language, and works with your data.

You’ll experience what it looks like when you click through something built before anything is final. And you’ll walk away understanding why what goes live isn’t an off-the-shelf compromise, but your solution, delivering the value you came for.

What does it take to migrate hundreds of projects to a new project management platform while driving user adoption at scale? At ZF LIFETEC, a leading global manufacturer of passive safety systems for vehicles, we successfully migrated nearly 700 projects from a legacy system to cplace, laying the foundation for a platform that today supports more than 3,000 projects across our organization. In this session, we will share our migration approach, key challenges, and the success factors behind the rollout. Learn how early stakeholder involvement, continuous communication, and targeted promotion helped us achieve high acceptance from day one. We will also provide insights into our live system, our reporting and into the next steps and future plans.

Everyone talks about AI. But building it into the daily work of enterprise project management? That’s a different story.

At Daimler Truck, the Project Management Office took the driver’s seat. They combined years of project management expertise with cplace and Citizen AI and built intelligent assistants that read project data, generate insights, and feed decisions back into the system. All by themselves.

André Gutjahr and Arthur Chevts take you behind the scenes: from the first idea to a live AI Flywheel on stage. You’ll see how Citizen Developers can level up an entire enterprise PM platform—with AI as a reliable co-pilot.

Join us for an inside look at PULSE, BioNTech’s new project and portfolio management solution, and discover how it’s helping BioNTech connect execution, operations, and strategy.

In this session, the speakers will share highlights from the implementation journey and the lessons learned along the way. Learn how operational insights lead to sharper strategic decisions, and see how AI is being built into PULSE: not as a feature, but as a driver of real business value.

How do you bring more than 12,000 engineers, four strong commercial vehicle brands, and a landscape of legacy tools into one common way of working — without losing speed, flexibility, or the identity of each brand? At TRATON Group R&D, we took on this challenge, choosing cplace as the digital backbone that connects strategy, financial planning, timebooking, portfolio management, governance, and execution across Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus. Together with Dataciders as our implementation partner, we replaced existing legacy systems and built a scalable PPM platform in agile PI cycles — from initial GoLive to a successful international rollout.

In our presentation, we share how we turned complexity into clarity, and what it takes to make cplace a single source of truth for our global R&D transformation.

Central project planning quickly reaches its limits. Project managers spend a lot of time steering tasks down to the smallest detail, while departments wait for instructions. HARTING wanted to turn this around and built a decentralized approach with cplace.

In this session, one of the leading global manufacturer of industrial connectivity shows how project managers now define only the framework, while their departments decide for themselves how the tasks get done.

You will also learn how HARTING integrated cplace deeply into its existing tool landscape and went live entirely without Pro-Code.

Fragmented tools, scattered data, and complex structures across multiple national and international locations. These were the challenges Rheinmetall faced in their project management. This presentation shares their journey towards establishing cplace as the central source of truth.

The project managers take you on an honest journey—from the data chaos of daily operations, through the rollout of cplace within complex, regulated corporate structures, to the integrated planning of composite projects and scenario planning. And they provide concrete insights into how cplace can serve as a key tool to break down silos and standardize processes.