IFAT Munich Solution Tours: Your Innovation in the Spotlight
By joining the IFAT Munich Solution Tours, you bring your innovation directly to where attention matters most: your target audience.
With more than 3,200 exhibitors and 142,000 visitors from 170 countries, IFAT Munich is a platform of global significance—but also a place where visibility becomes a challenge. Because attention is limited.
IFAT Solution Tours put your innovation in the spotlight—in front of an audience that not only recognizes its potential, but actively seeks it out.
The offer at a glance
At IFAT Munich Solution Tours, an experienced industry expert serves as a tour guide and leads an international group of visitors to four to five exhibitors whose solutions perfectly match the theme of the tour. The tour language is English.
Our services in detail:
- Each tour begins with a technically sound keynote speech by our tour guide on the respective tour theme.
- As an exhibitor, you will have 10 minutes at your booth to present your solution and talk to the tour participants.
- We ensure that visitors have a thematic interest by requiring them to register free of charge. After the tour, we will send you the contact details of your tour participants.
- We bring you into contact with your potential customers efficiently and personally.
Visitor information on the IFAT Munich Solution Tours
Are you looking for information on how to participate in one of our Solution Tours as a visitor? Then check out our visitor page.
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Your benefits at a glance
- Targeted visibility – you present your solution to an audience with genuine interest.
- Two groups per topic – giving you double the visibility.
- Promotion in the official tour program – visible in the app, website, mailings, and visitor planning.
- Expert classification by the guides – your product is not just shown, but embedded.
- Participant contacts for your follow-up – for efficient lead generation.
Key Facts IFAT Munich Solution Tours (IFAT Munich 2024)
registered visitors
visitors per tour (on average)
of tour visitors in management or C-level positions
of tour visitors from 61 countries
How the tours get to your stand
Do you have a product or service you would like to present as part of one of the tours? We look forward to your participation.
Please send us the following information by email:
• brief description of your solution (max. 3–5 sentences)
• Assignment to one of the tours
• Contact details
Official registration takes place via the exhibitor shop.
Click through: Impressions from our Solution Tours
The Solution Tours at IFAT Munich 2026
Solution Tours for Water Management
- Digitalization in Drinking Water Supply
- Analysis and Drinking Water Treatment Methods
- Maintaining Infrastructure & Climate Adaption
- Digitalization in the Wastewater Sector
- Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive
Solution Tours for Waste Management and Municipal Vehicles
- Digitalization in Waste Management
- New Approaches to Plastic Waste Recycling
- Drive Systems of Tomorrow
Watch now: The Solution Tours on video

Top experts from wastewater to circularity: Meet our tour guides
- Head of the Water Supply Systems Unit at DVGW e. V.
- Civil engineer specializing in structural analysis, urban water management, and hydraulic engineering
- Areas of expertise: Drinking water infrastructure, corrosion and corrosion protection, national and international regulation and standardization
- Head of the Water Supply Systems Unit at DVGW e. V.
- Civil engineer specializing in structural analysis, urban water management, and hydraulic engineering
- Areas of expertise: Drinking water infrastructure, corrosion and corrosion protection, national and international regulation and standardization
- Until 2021, Deputy Managing Director and Head of the Environmental Technology Department at bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH
- Focus on plastics recycling and process analysis
- Many years of research in the field of recycling management
- Focus: Plastic recycling, mechanical processing, ecological process assessment, strategy consulting for industry and public authorities
- Combines scientific depth and application perspective – especially where technology meets regulatory and economic requirements
- Managing Director of VAK, the Association of the Work Equipment and Municipal Vehicle Industry
- Focus on energy-efficient and resource-saving work equipment and municipal vehicles
- Active participation in specialist and standards committees for the progressive, industry-specific definition of standards and regulations
The Solution Tours at IFAT Munich 2026 in detail
Find out more about the content of each Solution Tour here. Please note: All tours are conducted in English.
- AI systems for network control, digital twins, building information modeling
- Cybersecurity for critical infrastructures
- Cloud-based monitoring and process control
Tour Guide: Peter Frenz
- Sensors, analytics and monitoring to detect PFAS, pesticides and trace substances
- Process for water treatment and reuse
- Control technology and quality assurance during operation
Tour Guide: Peter Frenz
- Leakage detection and determination of water losses (Infrastructure Leakage Index ILI)
- Refurbishment and repair methods, and condition assessment (life cycle)
- Innovative inspection procedures
- Network documentation
Tour Guide: Peter Frenz
- Building information modeling for wastewater treatment plants and network planning
- Cloud-based data analysis for control & resource efficiency
- Early warning systems for overload, backwater & heavy rain
Tour Guide: Dr. Friedrich Hetzel
- Process for removing micropollutants (4th purification stage)
- Measures to reduce emissions & optimize energy
- Monitoring solutions to comply with new limit values
Tour Guide: Dr. Friedrich Hetzel
- AI-supported systems for sorting, contaminant detection, or process optimization
- IoT and sensor technology for system monitoring, separation quality analysis, and route planning
- Platforms & data management for cross-process coordination
- Digital tools for training, forecasts, or citizen participation
Tour Guide: Dr. Siegfried Kreibe
- AI-supported image processing & sensor technology for sorting and contaminant analysis
- Machine-to-machine communication for improved production and processing of recyclates
- Digital platforms for process management along the recycling chain
- Tools for recycling-friendly design
- Mechanical & chemical processing technology
Tour Guide: Dr. Siegfried Kreibe
- Alternative drives in practice
- Autonomous and semi-automated systems
- System integration & cooperation
Tour Guide: Anna Breimer
How the tours get to your stand
Do you have a product or service you would like to present as part of one of the tours? We look forward to your participation.
Please send us the following information by email:
• brief description of your solution (max. 3–5 sentences)
• Assignment to one of the tours
• Contact details
Official registration takes place via the exhibitor shop.