Global Industrie, Lyon - France

5-8 March 2019

Industry 4.0 international days, 6 & 7 March Conference and Business meetings

Venue : Eurexpo Exhibition Centre, 9 avenue Louis Blériot, Chassieu, France

About Global Industrie

Global Industrie will be held in Lyon, from 5th to 8th March 2019. The 1st edition took place in Paris in

early 2018. This fair will cover the whole of industry and enable you to discover your partners and all the

solutions, technologies, services and know-how you need for the industry of today and tomorrow. The fair

targets the entire industrial ecosystem (from start up to major customer including subcontractors,

equipment manufacturers, competitiveness clusters, research centres and incubators...), the entire added

value chain (R&D, design, production, maintenance, services…), and all user markets.

The event brings together 4 major shows that are leaders in their respective field :

o Industrie : manufacturing technologies and equipment event

o Smart Industrie : smart, efficient and digital industry know-how

o Midest : for all industrial subcontracting know-how

o Tolexpo : for sheet metal, tube and section working

Key figures 2018 : 40 800 visitors

2 250 exhibitors – 29% international from more than 35 countries

49 320 sqr of exhibition space

1 040 business meetings

150 start-ups

International delegations : Portugal, Brésil, Japon, Chine, South Africa…

Objectives in 2019 : 45 000 visitors

2 500 exhibitors

110 000 sqr of exhibition space

Several events :

o Connected Factory – 9 000 visitors expected

o Conferences – 4 000 listeners expected

o Campus – 7 000 students expected

o Awards

o Business meetings

o International keynotes and panel discussions

o Industry 4.0 International Days

Industry 4.0 international days, 6 & 7 March Conference and Business meetings

Conference – 6th March

During Global Industrie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entreprises will organise an international conference.

Through keynotes, panel discussions and networking, the aim is to share with companies information and

good practices that have emerged in industrial companies all over the world – from a technological,

economical and human point of view – to take advantages of these technologies and enhance

performance.

About 12 companies, SMEs, intermediate-sized enterprise, and international companies such as Siemens, Staübli, Gravotech and Geprom, will share their experience with the participants and dicuss about :

the importance of rethinking business strategies and business models impacted by these new

technologies,

the need to train employees in these new technologies,

and the need to recruit new competences and profiles (e.g.: data scientists…)

Business meetings – 6-7th March

The international Business meetings about Industry 4.0 will be organised on 6th and 7th March. This

matchmaking event is a great opportunity to meet potential cooperation partners for technological,

commercial or collaborative research projects in this field. People meet and greet 20 minutes to build

connections. It will also be open to Horizon 2020 calls for proposal related to this thematic.

How it works ?

1. Register

2. Select your attendance, complete your personal and organisation information, select relevant

keywords describing your areas of activity

3. Complete your profile in the Marketplace: what are your cooperation offers and/or requests

4. Send meetings requests after browsing participant’s profiles, and manage your meetings requests

5. On March 5th, you will receive your schedule of pre-arranged meetings, according to your availability

Who can participate ? All private and public industrial players (companies, clusters, research laboratories, incubators...), from the entire added value chain and all the various user markets.

Participants have to register for the conference and/or the business meetings on the dedicated event

website : https://industry-days-2019.b2match.io/

Deadlines

Registrations : until 1st March for the business meetings / until 5th March for the conference

Meetings booking : 1st February - 4th March (12:00)

Industry 4.0 International Days: 6th - 7th March

Draft agenda – all conferences will be held in English

Wednesday, 6 March – First day

08:30-09:00 Welcome - coffee

9:00-10:00 Plenary – Keynote : Industry 4.0 today… and tomorrow

Speaker : Alec Ross, American expert in innovation and in economic and technological development ; former Obama’s government adviser for innovation ; author of The industries of the Future, best-seller New York Times

10:10-10:50 Plenary - How does Industry 4.0 impact the strategy of major industrial companies ?

Speakers : Siemens (Vincent Jauneau, Vice-President), Thalès Avionics (Aurélien

Debreyne, Chief Digital Officer Avionic), Renault Trucks (Vincent Marlinge, Plant director)

10:50-12:20 Plenary – Panel discussions with regional and international speakers

Techno 4.0 : additive manufacturing, robotics, connected factory, artificial intelligence…

Speakers : Cetim (Philippe Lubineau, Director of Research and Programs), Staübli

(Stéphane Blanc, Robotics Suite Team Leader), Hexcel (Lionel Demoulin, Airbus

Programmes Development Manager), TruPhysics (Albert GROZ, CEO), EPFL (Christopher

Tucci, Professor)

Management 4.0 : business model, investments for transformation, mass customisation,

future trainings, new skills and new profiles

Speakers : Cnam Paris (Flore Barcellini, Associate professor, Ergonomics Lab), Gripple

(Katrina Ritchie, Head of People and Culture), Singapore Industrial Automation

Association (Olivier Tian, CEO), MACCION (Pau Feliu, CEO), Clextral (George Hallary,

CEO)

12:20-12:40 Conclusion

Speaker : World Manufacturing Forum (Alberto Ribolla, President of the World

Manufacturing Foundation)

12:40-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:40 Matchmaking event - business meetings

Thursday, 7 March – Second day

9:00-13:00 Matchmaking event - business meetings

NOTE : Industry 4.0 International Days 2019 take place within Global Industrie. To access the event,

interested participants have to register for the fair Global Industrie as well.

Participation in the Industry 4.0 International Days 2019 and in Global Industrie is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

Hotel list : https://www.global-industrie.com/en/infos-pratiques/dates-times-locations-accomodation More information on Global Industrie : https://www.global-industrie.com/en

Contact : for further information, please contact

Lisa Janin, +33(0) 4 37 37 85 86, ljanin@arae.fr

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