Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0

Meet a delegation of German Industrie 4.0 leaders as well as a group of US-based smart manufacturing experts for keynote presentations, panel discussions and networking opportunities.

Industrie 4.0 is a subject of great importance in Germany as well as the US, where the term Smart Manufacturing is more common.

During this conference, you will receive on overview of the concept of Industrie 4.0 as well as its key technologies and its vast range of applications.

Taking place in the context of the “Year of German-American Friendship”, the conference features a German delegation of Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 leaders that includes several of the originators of the Industrie 4.0 concept as well as the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing Leader of the Year 2017 Award, who will provide the opening keynote presentation.

Agenda Outline

4:30pm
Registration and Networking

5:00pm
Opening Address by German Deputy Consul General in Chicago Andreas G�tze

5:10pm
Keynote by Detlef Z�hlke
(Founder & Chairman of SmartFactory, Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing Leader of the Year 2017, former Director German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI))
“Industrie 4.0 - from Vision into the Factory”

5:40pm
Keynote by John Dyck
(CEO of Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII))
"Demystifying Smart Manufacturing – Pragmatic guidance on the real state of the industry, the opportunities and the challenges on this journey”

6:00pm
Panel Session
“Key Technologies for Smart Manufacturing / Industrie 4.0 – What puts the ‘Smart’ in ‘Smart Manufacturing’?”
- Data and Connectivity – Sensors, Internet of Things, 5G
- Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

6:20pm
Panel Session
“Key Technologies for Smart Manufacturing / Industrie 4.0 – Opportunities and Threats”
Digital Twins
Additive Manufacturing
Robotics
Cybersecurity
The Future of Work
Industrie 4.0 Platforms

6:40pm
Panel Session
“Industrie 4.0 Landscape and Collaboration Opportunities”
Standardization
Industry associations
Opportunities for smaller companies / SMEs
How to get started / how to get connected

7:10pm
Ask Us Anything - Q&A session with German delegation and US speakers

7:30pm
Networking Reception

8:30pm
End

SPEAKERS / PANELISTS

German Industrie 4.0 Delegation Leaders

Rainer Glatz, Managing Director of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA)
for Software and Digitalization and Representative of Plattform Industrie 4.0

Thomas Koenen, Head of Department Digitalization and Innovation
at the Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Volker Smid, CEO of Searchmetrics and Industry Member of Industrie 4.0 Working Group,
former CEO of Hewlett-Packard GmbH

Detlef Z�hlke, Founder & Chairman of SmartFactory and
Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing Leader of the Year 2017,
former Director German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

US-based Industrie 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing Experts

John Dyck, CEO of Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII)

Jim Hilton, Director Vertical Marketing Strategy Manufacturing / Transportation & Logistics at Zebra Technologies

Manas Mehandru, Chief Operating Officer of mHub

Heiko Schwindt, Vice President Automation & Electrification at Bosch Rexroth

Mike Yost, President of Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International

Year of German-American Friendship ("Deutschlandjahr USA 2018/19")

The Year of German-American Friendship is a comprehensive and collaborative initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and with support from the Federation of German Industries (BDI)

https://wunderbartogether.org/about/