DIGITAL FUTUREcongress, the largest IT management event in Hesse, took place in Frankfurt on March 1, 2018, under the motto "Midmarket Meets Digitalization."

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As in the previous year, the magazine Informatik Aktuell invited participants to close out the year at IT-Tage in Frankfurt am Main. The conference, with its broad thematic range, addressed software architects, developers, administrators, project managers, and IT decision-makers and featured more than 150 talks from different technology and business areas.