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30th October 2024
Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
9:30 – 10:00
Headline Presentation
Be Digital Future Ready – Smart Manufacturing: Transforming Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Gavin Combe
Partner Deal Advisory Head of Industrial Markets, KPMG
Today, we stand at a crossroads in manufacturing, facing geopolitical shifts, macro-economic pressures, and a continued drive to sustainability. Despite these challenges, a digital future offers unprecedented opportunities for innovation, technology, and business growth. Embracing digital transformation is not just vital—it’s our pathway to redefining the industrial landscape on a sustainable basis
10:00 – 10:30
Presentation
The Era of AI-enabled Digital Twins Has Arrived
Andrew Hendry
Senior Sales Manager EMEA, NVIDIA
Enterprises and industries are adopting digital twins to design, simulate, build, operate, and optimise assets and processes, addressing challenges like labour shortages and supply chain volatility. These digital twins enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and serve as platforms for robotics systems and AI training. The new era of digital twins requires physics feedback to ensure AI models perform effectively in the real world. This presentation will explore technologies available to support this digital transformation.
10:50am – 11:20am
Presentation
Data - The Foundation Stones of AI
Arash Ghazanfari
Chief Technology Officer UK, Dell Technologies
During this session, we will discuss the approaches that should be adopted to transform data into a strategic business capability. We will explore Dell Technologies’ ‘AI Factory’ as a framework to harness the power of data and as the foundation for building a robust platform for digital manufacturing.
11:20 – 12:00
Panel Discussion with Audience Q&A
Data – The Foundation Stones of AI
Panel Compere: Neil Griffiths
Arash Ghazanfari
Chief Technology Officer UK, Dell Technologies
Chris Middlehurst
Partner, Data & Analytics, KPMG
Nipuni Karunaratne
Head of Digital, Rolls-Royce
Andrew Hendry
Senior Sales Manager EMEA, NVIDIA
Simon Gray
CTO, Technology Strategist – Manufacturing, Microsoft
Will Bridgman
Managing Director, Warren Services
Lauren Chambers
Industry 2Day
13:30 – 13:50
Presentation
Manufacturing Resilience Through Cyber Security
Matt Logan
EMEA Field CTO, Claroty
Digital transformation and the push for increased productivity have led to converged IT and OT networks, with increased attack surface at a time when cybercrime is more accessible & deployable, government legislations to protect environments that underpin national security & public safety. The need to discover assets, understand vulnerabilities and assign risk is ever more paramount.
13:50 – 14:40
Panel Discussion with Audience Q&A
Manufacturing Resilience Through Cyber Security
Panel Compere: Neil Griffiths
Matt Logan
EMEA Field CTO, Claroty
Mark Wilson Ramsay
Senior Manager IT/OT Cybersecurity, KPMG
Lesley Kipling
Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft
Patrick Roxbee Cox
Chief Information Officer, MTC
Arash Ghazanfari
Chief Technology Officer UK, Dell Technologies
Will Bridgman
Managing Director, Warren Services
Lauren Chambers
Industry 2Day
15:00 – 15:20
Presentation
Harnessing the Power of the Industrial Metaverse
Scott Kemp
Director of Industry Solutions, SoftServe
How do immersive virtual environments, AI, and digital twins produce operational efficiencies? This presentation will provide real world examples of increased productivity, real-time collaboration across manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, driving new efficiencies through the fusion of digital and physical worlds.
15:20 – 15:40
Presentation
Deriving Value from the Industrial Metaverse - Or from the Journey There
François Disch
Digital Transformation Delivery Leader UK&I, Schneider Electric
On the subject of the Industrial Metaverse, we are going to explore the incentives to invest in the concept, with short and longer-term perspectives. How far away are we from tangible benefit realisation? How can we get early returns?
15:40 – 16:20
Panel Discussion with Audience Q&A
Competitive Advantage - What Can the Industrial Metaverse Do For Me?
Panel Compere: Neil Griffiths
Scott Kemp
Director of Industry Solutions, SoftServe
François Disch
Digital Transformation Delivery Leader UK&I, Schneider Electric
Neill Riordan
Director, Executive Architect, KPMG
Paul Griffiths
Chief Technology Officer for Automotive and Manufacturing, Microsoft
Nandini Chakravorti
Associate Director of Digital Manufacturing, MTC
Will Bridgman
Managing Director, Warren Services
Lauren Chambers
Industry 2Day
10:50 – 11:10
Tech Bite
Virtual Factories for Accelerating Digital Manufacturing
In recent years, digital twins have been introduced into manufacturing to capture and transfer a near-continuous stream of data from the physical systems and processes to virtual environments, where models analyse performance and/or simulations predict future behaviour. These live analyses and predictions are used for optimal decision making, monitor, and control. Digital twins combined connectivity, data analysis, and simulation as virtual replicas to predict the future behaviour of the system or process based on the sensor data. This talk will cover the route to adopting digital twins and how digital twins have been used across industries, such as FMCG, pharma, automotive, and aerospace.
Emile Glorieux
Senior Research Engineer, MTC
Nikita Pietrow
Senior Research Engineer, MTC
12:50 – 13:10
Tech Bite
Generative AI in Manufacturing
Ula Hijawi
Advanced Research Engineer, MTC
Generative AI is revolutionising manufacturing and supply chains by enhancing efficiency and enabling innovative problem-solving, reasoning, and content generation. This talk delves into its impact in the manufacturing sector, showcasing applications in manufacturing as well as projects at the MTC that highlight its potential for human-like interaction and innovation.
14:00 – 14:20
Tech Bite
A Route to Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Plan for the Transition
James Knight
Technical Specialist of High Value Design, MTC
15:20 – 15:40
Tech Bite
Building Your Digital Thread – A Pragmatic Approach to Defining Your Digitalisation Pathway
Tim Andrews
Senior Advisor Digital Transformation
Manufacturers approach digitalisation from many directions and this often leads to sub-optimal solutions or a confused digital landscape. The MTC’s Digital Discovery process helps businesses to develop a holistic digital adoption strategy. Using a tried and tested method to assess the current digital capabilities and identify the future capabilities required, the resultant action plan and roadmap enables a business to chart the pathway to an integrated digital architecture.
