Workshop 1 | Integrative Sustainable Manufacturing – How the Smart Combination of Key Technologies, Human Capabilities and Flexible Value Networks is Transforming the Manufacturing Industry

The session “Integrative Sustainable Manufacturing” is dedicated to the causes and matters of the manufacturing industry in transition. It will look into how the smart combination of key technologies, human capabilities and flexible value networks is transforming the manufacturing industry. High-level representatives from industry, technology and business research, associations and the European Commission will give their views on the future of manufacturing and discuss with the audience how the transition towards integrative and sustainable manufacturing industry should be shaped.

Speakers:

1. Jose Cotta (Head of Unit Industry 5.0, Directorate Prosperity; DG for Research and Innovation, EU-COM)
2. Rikardo Bueno Zabalo (Director of Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) and Vice-chair at the MANUFUTURE High-Level Group)
3. Patrick Wegehaupt (Volkswagen AG)
4. Christoph Luykx (Policy Director at Orgalim, Europe’s Technology Industries)
5. Enrico Callegati (Innovation Funding Manager SCM GROUP)
6. Željko Pazin (Executive Director at the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA))
   

Interviews:

• Tullio Tolio (Professor of Manufacturing at Politecnico di Milano, President of the CTS of the Cluster Intelligent Factories (CFI), President of the Italian Association on Manufacturing Technologies (AITEM), Member of the MANUFUTURE High-Level Group)