EuroCIS 2025: Three days full of innovations and future technologies

EuroCIS 2025 has impressively proven that it is the leading trade fair for retail technology in Europe. With 500 exhibitors from 37 countries, the trade fair was fully booked and recorded an outstanding attendance of over 14,000 trade visitors from 95 nations. For three days, everything in Düsseldorf revolved around the latest technology trends, smart solutions and the digital future of retail.

Whether artificial intelligence, seamless checkout or omnichannel strategies - EuroCIS 2025 showed how technology is making retail more efficient, customer-friendly and future-proof. "EuroCIS has further strengthened its position as the leading European trade fair for Retail Technology 2025 and once again proved that it is an indispensable platform for exhibitors and decision-makers in the retail sector," summarizes Managing Director Marius Berlemann.

One key topic was the role of artificial intelligence (AI) - far beyond traditional applications such as replenishment, pricing or inventory management. Generative AI in particular, such as ChatGPT, is creating a new dynamic in retail by accelerating and simplifying processes and strengthening customer orientation. The topic of seamless checkout was also omnipresent: automated checkout solutions, smart shopping carts and electronic price labels (ESL) illustrate how strongly retailers are focusing on digitalization and increasing efficiency.

In addition to the numerous innovations from exhibitors, EuroCIS 2025 offered an exciting supporting program. Three stages with specialist presentations and discussion panels offered in-depth insights into current developments and best practices. The special areas on food service innovation and cybersecurity were particularly popular - both highly topical issues that are to be expanded even further in the future. "With our new special areas on food service innovation and cybersecurity, we have created highly topical offers for the retail sector that we would like to expand further in the future," explains Elke Moebius.

The Start-up hub presented 18 up-and-coming companies with innovative retail tech solutions. Another highlight was the prestigious reta awards and the EHI Retail Institute's science prize, which honored outstanding technological developments and scientific work. The popular Guided Innovation Tours led visitors to the most important innovations at the trade fair.

EuroCIS 2025 has shown: Retailers are relying more than ever on smart technologies to equip themselves for the future. If you don't want to miss out on the latest developments, you can look forward to the next EuroCIS as part of EuroShop 2026 - from February 22 to 26, 2026 in Düsseldorf.

A comprehensive review of this year's EuroCIS can be found here: