Agenda

Opening the discussions and guiding delegates through the day’s agenda.

Exploring how manufacturers can design scalable, sustainable solutions from the start, enabling smooth adoption across sites with the right governance, skills, and digital infrastructure.

• Design for Scale from the Start: Prototype with scalability in mind, use modular architectures, standard interfaces, and reusable data models so solutions can be replicated across multiple factories without redesign.
• Establish Enterprise-Level Governance: Create a structured path from pilot to production, with clear ownership, funding approvals, and decision checkpoints to ensure accountability and alignment with global strategy.
• Empower People and Build Capabilities: Invest in digital upskilling, cross-functional collaboration, and local champions who can sustain adoption and continuous improvement once the pilot moves into full rollout.
• Build a Scalable Digital Infrastructure: Deploy a unified cloud-edge ecosystem with secure connectivity, harmonised data layers, and standardised integration frameworks that support performance, reliability, and compliance.
• Embed Continuous Learning and Improvement: Adopt agile feedback loops and KPIs to capture lessons from deployments, refine configurations, and scale successful use cases globally with measurable business impact.

For many manufacturers, the real challenge isn’t a lack of data, but a struggle to bring it all together and use it effectively. Join this session to learn how a smart cloud strategy can consolidate your information, from operational systems on the factory floor (OT) to enterprise applications in the back office (IT). Discover how to turn this raw, fragmented information into clear, actionable intelligence, creating a single source of truth that optimises processes, enhances product quality, and delivers a strong competitive advantage.

• Address key manufacturing pain points: We’ll explore the common data challenges that lead to inaccurate costing, reactive maintenance, and siloed decision-making, and discuss why the traditional divide between the factory floor (OT) and the back office (IT) is a major roadblock to innovation.
• Build your data foundation: Learn a practical approach for consolidating your information, from operational systems and handwritten logs to enterprise applications, into a single, reliable source of truth on the cloud.
• Unlock advanced capabilities: Discover why a unified data strategy is the essential first step in enabling high-value initiatives, such as AI-powered predictive maintenance, enhanced quality control, and true operational intelligence.
• See how the latest technologies, such as AI, can support and even enable the journey to creating a unified data core.

True innovation in tech demands more than just code; it demands diverse perspectives. This keynote challenges us to look beyond the buzzword of diversity, revealing its tangible power to ignite innovation and drive significant business benefits within the tech industry. It’ll share a vision for a paradigm shift in talent acquisition and development, focusing on practical strategies to recruit, nurture, and retain individuals ensuring that innovation is driven by a rich tapestry of perspectives and puts people first.

• Explore why diversity in tech must go deeper than surface-level metrics to truly transform culture and innovation.
• Understand how diverse perspectives directly fuel creativity, problem-solving, and competitive advantage.
• Learn practical approaches to recruiting, developing, and retaining talent that reflect the full spectrum of human potential.
• Take away strategies to shape environments where individuals feel valued, empowered, and able to contribute meaningfully to tech’s future.