FORGING MANUFACTURING'S FUTURE

The Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit is the annual gathering of the industrial elite.  

Leaders, senior executives, and decision-makers representing all industries across the manufacturing sector converge with thought leaders and industrial futurists for two days of knowledge-sharing, debate, and discussion that will shape the industry for the coming 12 months. 

Now, in its 16th year, the award-winning Summit is a catalyst for transformation, covering the topics most pertinent to manufacturing leaders, as defined by industry research conducted by The Manufacturer across a community of 250,000 engaged manufacturers. This year’s topics range from data and digitalisation to ESG, automation, advanced manufacturing, people and skills.

Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit attendees can expect this year’s event to have an amplified focus on practical solutions and industry-leading insights, the highest calibre of speakers, case studies and interactive sessions, more networking opportunities and deeper dives into the technologies shaping the future of the sector.  

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Europe for Global Leadership in AI & Data

Organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), in collaboration with AI&AUT EXPO, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Ideal-ist, Neumann Technology Platform and the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), the EBDVF is the flagship event of the European Big Data Value and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community!

The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI. 

This year, the event will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 2-4 October 2024 at Crowne Plaza Budapest!

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Multi-complex challenges & all-encompassing digitalisation: What will manufacturing look like in the future?
The manufacturing industry is facing the greatest upheaval and change since the advent of mass production. The status quo will no longer suffice. While resilience has remained a key theme, innovations such as IIoT, advanced analytics and automation, and trends such as predictive maintenance, digital twins and intelligent automation are creating the megatrend of smart manufacturing.

Rethink! Smart Manufacturing is a 2-day, leadership-focused conference designed to address these challenges and to bring global manufacturing, operations, engineering, quality and supply chain leaders together to discuss current trends, strategic insights and best practices in an ever-evolving manufacturing environment. Rethink! Smart Manufacturing serves as an annual platform to exchange ideas surrounding the impact of market dynamics and new technologies for current and future manufacturing leaders. Network with over 150 of your peers, connect with exhibitors and learn from the top industry influencers as we explore strategies to optimize, modernize, train and innovate across multiple manufacturing facilities. Discuss opportunities, optimize your resilience and strengthen your future.

Because one thing is certain: change always means both challenge and opportunity.

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SHAPING EUROPE’S INDUSTRIAL FUTURE

The European Manufacturing Conference is a biennial event that brings together key players in the European manufacturing industry, including policymakers, industry representatives, as well as academia, research & technology organisations, startups, scaleups and innovators.

The three organisers, EFFRA, EIT Manufacturing, and ManuFuture, share a common vision that cooperation is key to creating an enabling environment to address the most pressing challenges faced by European industry and society today and in the future. 

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Fueling collaborative growth: Pioneering Intelligent Solutions together for a resilient and inclusive digital tomorrow.

In today’s digital world, data empowers us to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. True progress comes through collaborative efforts to unlock its full potential.

In the field of data exchange, FIWARE acts as a compass for developers, professionals, and newcomers. It helps them navigate the latest trends and solutions and guides them on how to integrate these with their existing systems. FIWARE serves as a benchmark for various cutting-edge technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, Data Spaces, the IoT-edge-cloud continuum, and robotics. Experts will delve deeply into these topics through engaging panels, talks, and workshops.

The FIWARE Global Summit brings together a passionate community eager to share knowledge, develop impactful solutions, and create a lasting difference in the ecosystem. At the 2024 edition, we continue to build on our collective journey, uniting with industry leaders, innovators, and communities to transform the vast wealth of data into actionable strategies. Together, we are building a future shaped by our shared mission and achievements.

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DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

IOTSWC 2024, the premier event for digital transformation trends and disruptive technologies, is here to help stakeholders stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving industry.

The IOTSWC 2024 offers access to the latest insights and best practices from thought leaders across the industry, as well as exclusive previews of cutting-edge technologies and game-changing innovations. Its mission is to help stakeholders stay ahead of the challenges and focus on the technologies that will have the greatest business impact.

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The Smart Manufacturing & Industrial IoT World 2024 (SMIoT) is a gathering of 100+ Industry Leaders to discuss carefully curated themes and topics full of knowledge, solutions, and challenges that the manufacturing Industry is facing.

This event will help you explore the latest developments in the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Transportation, Digital Transformation, Big Data Analytics, Blockchain, 5G, Digital Marketing, Smart City Financing Models, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence. The Smart Manufacturing & Industrial IoT World 2024 (SMIoT) helps senior leaders throughout the IoT industry forge strong and everlasting business relationships and provides a platform for all industry experts to network and exchange relevant information with each other.

The theme of the Conference will be Embracing the IoT Trends to Boost Industrial Business!

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Energising a Sustainable Industry

HANNOVER MESSE is the most important international platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation - with excellent innovations and unusual products. Here, you will find all the facts that make one thing even clearer: being there is everything!

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The world’s leading event for circular economy thinkers, doers and leaders hits Brussels in April 2024, showcasing the most impactful circular solutions from around the world. Online participation is open to everyone.

WCEF2024 will mark the eighth iteration of the forum and occurs at a pivotal moment for economies, societies and our planet. To enable participation from around the world, the forum will be live-streamed online, open to all and free of charge. Attendance in person is by invitation only.

WCEF2024 has joined forces with the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference 2024 (ECESC), which brings to the forum a dedicated track showcasing Europe’s progress. In addition, the forum features a full-day programme on 17 April curated by the Belgian EU presidency team, including site visits to circular economy companies in Belgium.

The SQUARE convention centre in Brussels will host WCEF2024 from April 15 to 16. In addition, accelerator sessions will be held by WCEF collaborators on April 17–18 in Brussels, online and around the globe.

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12th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications

Enterprise Interoperability through Data, AI, and Robotics

In 2024, the I-ESA (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) conference is coming back with the I-ESA’24, after many successful past conferences. The first I-ESA conference was the I-ESA’05, organised in Geneva in February 2005. Since then, there have been many successful organisations in Bordeaux, Funchal, Berlin, I-ESA’09, etc.

This year, the I-ESA community will meet on the beautiful island of Crete in Greece.

I-ESA’24 will offer an outstanding opportunity for industries to exchange experience and problems on business interoperability in their daily operations. The I-ESA conferences have been recognised as a tool to lead and generate extensive research and industrial impact in the field of Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications. I-ESA brings together the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the area of enterprise interoperability, and it is a unique forum for the exchange of visions, ideas, research results and industrial experiences, dealing with a wealth of interoperability research subjects.

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The Future of Automation

Advanced Factories is the Annual Summit on Industrial Innovation. A platform only for professionals to discover the latest innovations in Industrial Automation equipment, robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, VR/AR and all the cutting-edge technologies that emerge from Industry 4.0 and can help us to improve our manufacturing plant productivity.

Over three days, more than 260 experts will share their expertise at the Industry 4.0 Congress.

Advanced Factories is a must-attend event for all companies looking for industrial automation, robotics, 3D Printing, and artificial intelligence, among other manufacturing solutions.

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In a generation where companies from all sectors are constantly on their toes to inculcate the next step of improvement and enhance their productivity in every area of the business by conducting research and development to conducting surveys. Businesses thrive for the slightest of modifications to make their manufacturing efficient and effective by reducing errors and boosting the value provided to the consumer. As numerous companies are adapting to digital solutions, it also draws complexity on how to accomplish these objectives in a brief period of time and also sustainable and, at the same time, assemble the previous data and make it accessible for the future.

Digital twins hold the potential to achieve these objectives with excellent impact both effectively and efficiently, empowering leaders to get a complete insight into the data and structure of their business to detect early flaws and potential opportunities, giving them an upper hand on implementing quick, responsive applications to curb the crack or to eradicate any concern before it is triggered even before the business could set up.

Digital Twin & Smart Manufacturing is a 2-day networking event that will invite visionary speakers, industry experts, innovative digital twin, and digital manufacturing technology providers on one platform and facilitate the discussion pertaining to the current trends and Future innovation in the field of Digital Twin.

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Sustainability and the environment encompass an enormous number of issues. It is, of course, impossible to cover them all in a single event. That’s why the scientific committee of STECONF hand-picks the most relevant and pressing issues that can make the biggest impact on moving the conversation forward.

The 3rd World Conference on Sustainability, Energy and Environment will provide attendees with engaging learning opportunities, lively networking sessions, and a platform to meet and connect with potential research partners and collaborators. The power and energy conference will cover a range of topics that are at the top of the agenda of many national and international leaders: air pollution, eco-design, energy optimisation, climate change, energy practices, waste management, and more. The event is attended by researchers, scientists, graduate and post-graduate students, as well as representatives of for-profit and non-profit organisations, research institutions, and government agencies. You are guaranteed engaging discussions that bring diverse opinions under the common goal of elevating the discussion on sustainability and bringing about meaningful changes.

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The 23rd International Exhibition for Metal Working, CNC Machinery, Industrial Tools, Welding & Cutting Equipment.

MACTECH is undeniably the most prominent industrial knowledge-sharing and networking platform; spreading out cutting-edge technologies, the most revolutionary innovations, insights, know-how and the most important international business alliances’ opportunities.

Scheming multiple trading stand-points, MACTECH is publicised as the most influential sourcing trade fair for Egyptian and regional industrial patrons tracking novelties and new technologies in the metalworking machinery, CNC machinery, industrial tools, welding and cutting equipment business sectors, crafting exceptional opportunities for worldwide key players to pop-in the highly growing industrial sectors in Egypt and the entire region.

Beyond the bounds of a regular trade fair, MACTECH is a wide-reaching meeting point where key regional and local industrialists meet face-to-face with the worldwide technology makers to create a point of reference for technology supplies, network with industry experts, upgrade their future modernisation strategies and catch up with the latest trends and innovations in integral manufacturing processes and industrial applications.

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Connecting Manufacturing Leaders for a Day of Collaboration and Learning

Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit is the annual gathering of top-tier industry visionaries, senior executives, decision-makers, and thought leaders within the manufacturing ecosystem.  

They converge for two days of debate and discussion about growth, innovation and key strategic, business and technical challenges faced by the industry in an interactive conference with roundtable discussions, keynote presentations and panel Q&As. 

With no exhibition stands or sales promotions (Smart Factory Expo moved to Birmingham in June to merge with Manufacturing & Engineering Week) Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit is focused on senior-level networking, thought-provoking content, vibrant debate, and meaningful collaboration on the topics that are shaping the industry today. 

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The scope of the Global Smart Manufacturing Summit includes every aspect of digital technology, innovation, strategic thinking, and information sharing related to manufacturing, automation, and Industry 4.0. Strategy should focus on the needs of people and be flexible, data-driven, and technologically sound. In this context, real-time data and sophisticated analytics are the cornerstone of a crucial revolution in industrial and smart manufacturing processes. The move towards new skill sets and value-driven content results in improved worker experiences, more productivity, and quicker economic growth. 

The Global Smart Manufacturing Summit 2023 will bring together industry leaders and experts on a single platform to address key challenges, share strategies, and discuss innovative solutions. Join the event for engaging case study presentations, expert talks, panel discussions, and instructive masterclasses where you can learn from a variety of industry professionals.

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Multi-complex challenges & all-encompassing digitalisation - What will manufacturing look like in the future?
The manufacturing industry is facing the greatest upheaval and change since the advent of mass production. The status quo will no longer suffice. While resilience has remained a key theme, innovations such as IIoT, advanced analytics and automation, and trends such as predictive maintenance, digital twins and intelligent automation are creating the megatrend of smart manufacturing.

Rethink! Smart Manufacturing is a 2-day, leadership-focused conference designed to address these challenges and to bring global manufacturing, operations, engineering, quality and supply chain leaders together to discuss current trends, strategic insights and best practices in an ever-evolving manufacturing environment. Rethink! Smart Manufacturing serves as an annual platform to exchange ideas surrounding the impact of market dynamics and new technologies for current and future manufacturing leaders. Network with over 150 of your peers, connect with exhibitors and learn from the top industry influencers as we explore strategies to optimise, modernise, train and innovate across multiple manufacturing facilities. Discuss opportunities, optimise your resilience and strengthen your future. Because one thing is certain: change always means both challenge and opportunity.

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ONE EVENT, MANY DIFFERENT EOSC STAKEHOLDERS

From 20-22 September 2023, the EOSC Symposium will take place in Madrid in the context of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The EOSC Symposium is organised by the EOSC Future project, together with the EOSC Tripartite collaboration (the EOSC Association, the EOSC Steering Board and the European Commission).

This year’s event will be fully hybrid, facilitating broader exchanges between stakeholders from ministries, policymakers, research organisations, service providers, research infrastructures and research communities driving the development of – and engagement with – the European Open Science Cloud. In the context of the EOSC Future project, the EOSC Symposium will also be a critical platform to showcase project achievements and key exploitable results.

Under the heading ‘Taking EOSC into the future’, the Symposium will take on pressing topics and more around EOSC’s sustainability:

• EOSC after 2027

• Governance and guidelines

• Impact on the European Data and Infrastructure
  ecosystem

• …and more!

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The Fourth International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing