The biggest news from the Ninox Summit 2026 was a commitment. Ninox 3 stays supported with no planned end-of-life, and every customer decides for themselves when to move to the new Ninox. More than 130 customers, partners and Ninox team members met in Berlin on 8 October 2026 to hear that promise from founder and CEO Frank Böhmer, watch the platform in live demos, and put their questions straight to the people who build it. Most of those questions came back to data protection, AI, and the move from Ninox 3.
Guests came from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, and one partner travelled all the way from New York to talk low-code and Ninox on the banks of the Spree. The room was just as varied by industry, with businesses from wine and hospitality sitting next to teams from construction and manufacturing.
The morning belonged to partners
The day opened with the partner-only Ninox Partner Forum, where Frank Böhmer and Nicolas Wittmer introduced the Ninox partner program, and the people partners now work with day to day. In the Partner World Café that followed, small groups rotated between themed tables to talk with Ninox experts about partner education, the move from Ninox 3, building reusable apps for clients, the roadmap, and the partner program itself. Partners left with answers to their own questions instead of a generic slide deck.
The keynote made the case that software should fit your business
At noon, customers joined and the main program began. Frank opened with a number: more than 80 per cent of the code Anthropic adds to its own codebase today, written by its AI model, Claude. The question is no longer whether AI will change how we work, because it already changes how software gets made.
For decades, standard software set the rules and businesses bent their processes to fit the system. Ninox started 13 years ago on the opposite conviction: software should adapt to the business. AI pushes that idea further. What took weeks now takes days, so the question shifts from "can we build this software?" to "which software do we want, and under which rules may it run?" Frank sees a major opportunity here for mid-sized businesses, as long as speed comes with control over data, operations and compliance. Providing that framework is how Ninox sees its core job.
Ninox is building one place for data, processes, agents and people
Frank described the platform as a house. The foundation is the infrastructure: the new Ninox is hosted in three AWS availability zones in Germany with automatic failover, encryption at rest and in transit, and an isolated container for every workspace. On top sits a PostgreSQL database, because structured data is the precondition for any automation that works.
Four pillars carry the rest. Low-code keeps software maintainable because you assemble it from proven building blocks. Integrations, built with maesn, connect Ninox to systems like Lexware Office, sevdesk, weclapp, Xentral, Sage Accounting, Google Sheets and Excel, with more connectors rolling out step by step. Documents such as quotes, invoices and maintenance reports are generated straight from your data. And AI agents help you create and extend your app and analyse your data today, with a planned Agent Hub to automate recurring tasks and decisions.
Ninox 3 stays supported, and you decide when to move
Then Frank turned to the topic many in the room cared about most. He acknowledged that past communication had been unclear, then said it plainly: there is no planned end-of-life for Ninox 3. It keeps receiving support, patches, improvements and security updates.
The migration plan rests on feature parity, including a fully compatible scripting language, an API compatibility layer and support for existing JavaScript, HTML and CSS extensions, plus a planned assistant that moves workspaces, databases, users and roles. There is no cut-off date, and customers can run Ninox 3 and the new Ninox in parallel at no extra cost. Pilot customers on the public cloud start from February 2027, and by October 2027 every customer has the option to migrate. In the Q&A that followed, attendees put their questions to the CEO directly.
The afternoon sessions paired what you can build with how to build it safely
After lunch, Nikolaos Trikaliotis and Nils Henning presented “Low code, h[ai]gh value.” They showed how AI-native building takes you from a plain-language description to working software, how Ninox connects to your stack through the REST API, and how custom components shape the interface around the way your team works.
Sebastian Weikart then took on the topic that topped the list of audience questions all day: data protection. His session, “Secure development in the AI era,” covered secure development processes, running AI responsibly over the long term, the Ninox AI policy and AI security guidelines, and how Ninox approaches GDPR compliance as a platform certified to ISO 27001.
The panel agreed German SMEs cannot afford to sit out AI
The panel "AI and low-code reality check: Are German SMEs ready for the next level of automation?" brought Frank Böhmer and Michael Blazek from Ninox together with two partners: Jan Brenneke, authorised officer at setec eocen.io GmbH, and Emanuel Neubert, founder and CEO of Blockomotion. The standout moment came when they tackled whether German SMEs can keep pace with how fast AI is evolving.
Jan Brenneke started from the Mittelstand's strengths:
Above all, German SMEs are innovative. AI is the next step. We need to bring our knowledge and this innovative strength into the digital world and turn it into a real competitive advantage.
Emanuel Neubert came at it from the pressure side:
There is no alternative to AI. German SMEs have no choice, because they face strong international competition. If you don't use AI, you fall behind. Many people don't yet know what's possible. And that's exactly where Ninox and its partners come in.
The afternoon World Café put attendee questions first
In the late afternoon, the World Café opened to everyone. Customers and partners rotated through tables on integrations, UX, developer tools, AI, scripting, support, security, and the move from Ninox 3. Each table was hosted by the team members who work on that area every day, so feedback went straight to the people who act on it.
The day closed with networking, drinks and snacks well into the evening. Frank had ended his keynote with the principle Ninox has followed since 2013: every business deserves software that truly fits it.
