Partnerships, innovation and cutting-edge technology

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This conference is designed for companies to get an in-depth understanding of the main innovations, best practices and technologies transforming factories which deliver cost savings and sustainability gains.

We will debate the nuts and bolts of collaboration that pays, and how you can sell the case for investment internally in a large company.

The agenda will comprise of panels, case studies and workshop sessions that are framed around comment and insight from companies and industry associations in the apparel, FMCG, electronics, home furnishings and other consumer goods sectors.

Some of the topics the conference will address include:

• Drive cost efficiency AND improve sustainability outcomes– how to stop being viewed as a necessary cost - change the narrative of sustainability to a business opportunity with productivity, profit enhancement and compliance gains
• Finance models – we will debate who pays for the improvement of factories. We’ll explore the most economically viable and sustainable ways of financing improvement
• Technology – blockchain, artificial intelligence, digitisation, big data, predictive analytics – we’ll take a pragmatic look at the different emerging solutions and debate how useful they really are
• Expand your influence through partnerships – we’ll explore the best mechanisms and models for working with companies that share factories, and ask how to overcome competitive and confidentiality barriers for mutual benefit
• Reforming audits through collaboration – understand what technologies will allow companies to pre-competitively share data to reduce expenditure on audits and lower risk collectively
• The future of manufacturing– understand what’s over the horizon with automation, robotics and digitisation, the maturity of on-shoring and to what extent these trends will bring manfacturing closer to consumer markets