The visitor figures clearly prove the continuing increased interest in the information platform, where experts examine current topics from the world of lifts in compact 20 minute lectures. In 2017 more than 10% of the trade fair visitors made use of the opportunity of gaining information about international developments of the branch. At the interlift ’19 the lecturers can once more reckon with more than 2,000 forum visitors. Approximately 50 lectures on various international topics will be offered in the forum. The focus in 2019 is on the subject of digitalization and in this reflects the current worldwide change in the branch. In addition to this, the current most interesting lift markets will be looked at. Within a very short time trade fair visitors can gain a well-founded, compact overview of the latest developments in European and international guidelines as well as of product innovations in everything to do with lifts. Further important ongoing themes apart from the complex of norms and guidelines are modernization as well as the theme of the recruitment of skilled employees associated with the activities of basic and further training, which is becoming increasingly significant in Germany and Europe. A visit to the forum is free of charge for all trade fair visitors; the lectures will be interpreted simultaneously from German to English or English to German.