The best sessions at Digital Wave Forum Online 2026 had one thing in common
On 28 April 2026, we hosted our first Digital Wave Forum Online. We created it to bring stories about better design, smarter workflows, and more effective information management to a wider audience than our physical events can reach. The feedback has been positive, and we will continue doing these online events every other year to support our customers and help them learn about our product improvements.
The standout sessions at the event featured customers doing the talking. Engineers and project managers from RMC, Meyer Turku, NIER, and Trillini Engineering, explaining how their teams tackled real problems on real projects.
That is what 624 people from 444 companies tuned in for on April 28. And based on how long they stayed, it is what they came back for session after session.
The sessions people will remember
Markku Kuusisto from RMC walked through how his team is implementing Cadmatic on a new icebreaker project and where he believes CADMATIC eShare will bring added value later. Icebreakers sit at the complex end of the shipbuilding spectrum, and the session was an insightful look at what it takes to implement Cadmatic on that kind of project.
At Meyer Turku, Manu Hirvilammi explained why the shipyard chose CADMATIC Wave as its new document management system. The decision-making process, the practical realities of implementation, and what connecting shipbuilding data across the full lifecycle looks like at a yard of that scale.
In the Process & Industry stream, the Trillini Engineering session stood out. Michele Romagnoli and David Branchesi presented their work on the BDAII biodiesel plant in the Netherlands, specifically how eShare replaced spreadsheet-based progress reporting with live, model-connected tracking shared across the owner, engineering team, and contractors. Practical and specific, and immediately recognizable to anyone who has managed a large plant project.
Nicklas Eriksson from NIER addressed something the whole industry is quietly wrestling with: what it really means to own your engineering data when a project involves multiple contractors and years of delivery. The answer involves more than software. But the software helps.
Strategy, then product, then data
The customer cases were well matched by strategic sessions.
CEO Detlef Schneider, CRO Thomas Parbst, and CTO Timo Kaltio opened the day together in a roundtable format rather than a traditional keynote, generating 87 questions and comments from 538 viewers. For a 20-minute opening session, that is a meaningful signal about how engaged the audience was.
Mikko Yllikäinen followed with Cadmatic’s technology vision, and Juha Asanti made the case that the shipbuilding industry’s next competitive frontier is informational, not physical. The yards that manage data better will win contracts that better-equipped but less-connected competitors will not.
Atte Peltola about Cadmatic’s Marine-focused PLM platform CADMATIC Wave.
The audience
444 unique companies attended from 50 countries, with strong representation from India, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, and Sweden.
The event brought together people across every level of the organizations that joined – from engineers and designers doing the day-to-day work, through project and product managers, to C-level and owner level.
The forum also included a dedicated stream held in Finnish, covering technology direction for CADMATIC Electrical, HVAC, and Building, updates to Finnish building regulations, and the integration of RAVA3Pro.
Copenhagen, 1–3 June 2027
Digital Wave Forum Online was a first. The format worked because the content earned attention rather than assumed it.
The forum returns as a physical event in Copenhagen from 1-3 June 2027. If you want to be part of that conversation, watch the Cadmatic website for registration details.
In the meantime, there is more to explore. Cadmatic releases two major updates to its product portfolio every year, which is not something common in this space. Each release brings meaningful new capabilities across the suite – and while the Digital Wave Forum sessions highlighted the latest features, our dedicated deep-dive webinars go further, with detailed walkthroughs of what is new and what it means in practice.
If you missed the online event or want to revisit the sessions, recordings are available through the Digital Wave Forum page now.
See you in Copenhagen!
