DIGITAL MANUFACTURING WEEK 12-15 November 2019
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will unleash great change on every industry and it’s nearly upon us.
Impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, industry 4.0 will generate unbelievable opportunity but also pose considerable challenges for businesses left behind.
The annual Digital Manufacturing Week returns to Liverpool City Region next month. The event illuminates the digital manufacturing innovations of tomorrow, to help businesses of all kinds, prepare for a very different future. Read more about the event and Liverpool City Region’s strong presence throughout the week.
WHAT IS DIGITAL MANUFACTURING WEEK?
Taking place at Exhibition Centre Liverpool, from 12-15 November, Digital Manufacturing Week is a national festival of advanced manufacturing, researched and produced by ‘The Manufacturer’ magazine. Billed as a huge learning opportunity, the four-day event comprises dozens of manufacturing events and features hundreds of seminars.
Digital Manufacturing Week provides manufacturers with the confidence to navigate the increasingly complex field of digital manufacturing through clear, practical and engaging sessions that enable delegates to truly understand how their business can utilise new technologies available to them.
“Digital Manufacturing Week exists to fast-track the UK’s adoption of industry 4.0 technologies and solutions and to dramatically increase the pace of the UK’s impending digitalisation.”
WHO ARE THE DELEGATES?
The event welcomes more that 6,000 visitors across it’s four days, consisting of industry leaders, digitally minded manufacturers.
WHAT’S GOING ON THIS YEAR?
Digital Manufacturing Week presents several different components under, across its four-days – Smart Factory, Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit, The Manufacturer MX Awards Expo, The Manufacturer Top 100 – along with dozens of related manufacturing seminars, held across Liverpool City Region, including:
- Founders’ Forum
- Diversity & Inclusion Summit
- Lean Manufacturing Summit
- Founders’ Forum
- Directors’ Forum Dinners
- Marketing to Manufacturers
- Night Summit
- Pitch Competition
- Directors’ Forum Breakfasts
SMART FACTORY EXPO
Always a highlight, Digital Manufacturing Week’s Smart Factory Expo provides a platform for digitally-savvy manufacturers to meet world-leading solution providers and their partner ecosystems; digital manufacturing specialists, tech start-ups, consultants and a selection of award-winning manufacturers, that are setting the standard and pace for entire industries.
Centred around eight visitor zones (Smart Factory, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Innovation, Cyber Security, Field Service & Supply Chain and Logistics) Smart Factory Expo provides an immersive and revelling look at the future of manufacturing, across all industries, under one roof, with practical demonstrations and advice and support.
Smart Factory Expo & The Leaders’ Summit signage, Liverpool 2018
MANUFACTURING LEADERS’ SUMMIT
Bursting with contributions from some of the biggest names in manufacturing today, including Aston Martin, BAE Systems, Jaguar Land Rover and Caterpillar inc, The Manufacturing Leader’s Summit works to help board-level decision making delegates future proof their business through thought-leadership roundtables focussed on growth and innovation, with expert discussion groups covering everything from nanotechnology to big data and information security to supply chain and logistics.
Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit, 2018
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
At its heart, Digital Manufacturing Week is all about business growth. It works to help businesses sharpen their competitive advantage, through access to the latest technologies. It encourages people to network and find partners, evaluate their own business set-up and develop better ways to run and accelerate their business. In short, it’s a fantastic event for any forward-looking business who sees the world changing and wants to keep pace.
MEET US AT DIGITAL MANUFACTURING WEEK
Attended and supported by leading representatives across Liverpool City Region’s thriving advanced manufacturing sector, Invest Liverpool attend the event to connect with the industry, promote the sector to potential investors and talk about the broader offer and ecosystem that Liverpool City Region presents.
Hosting a permanent exhibition display, designed by Marketing Liverpool, throughout the event, Invest Liverpool provides literature, insights, advice and support to any event delegate who is interested in discovering how Liverpool City Region can help their business.
Alice Lamb, Head of Investment, Liverpool LEP
For more details or to arrange a meeting during the event contact:
Alice Lamb
Head of Investment Services
Liverpool LEP
T. +44(0)151 237 3919
alice.lamb@liverpoollep.org
IN CLOSING
Robots, AI, bio-tech, nanomaterials, 3D printing and fusions of the physical and digital world. The fast-paced change of the second machine age can often seem like a scary place. But exceptional events like Digital Manufacturing Week, demystify and humanise their industry in a way that makes even the most technical and scary-sounding advancement sound like the fantastic opportunities they are. You cannot stand in the way of progress, but you can go along for the ride and Digital Manufacturing Week always presents one incredible journey.
