May 2019

| 10 | May 2019 www.smartmachinesandfactories.com | SMART INDUSTRY CONFERENCE / FOOD & BEVERAGE PREVIEW | L eading industry experts from across the Food & Beverage industry have been lined-up as speakers for the forthcoming dedicated digitalisation conference for the Food & Beverage industry: Demystifying the jargon: How to make the digitalisation transition, which takes place on 22nd May 2019 at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham. The conference’s main aim is to provide a practical, jargon-free opportunity to those starting out on the digital transformation process, to experience a complete smart roadmap, highlighting the incremental stages of the 4IR journey covering all aspect of the digital transformation in the Food & Beverage sector. Many Food & Beverage producers are increasingly adopting automation and digitalisation technologies that give them a competitive edge, allowing them to produce more efficiently and provide insightful information for decision making. Producers who lag behind will find themselves unable to compete in the smart era. Technologies that used to be optional are now required for plants and factories that want to remain competitive in a rapidly changing, cost-competitive landscape.  The forthcoming event is a unique opportunity to help both SMEs and Bluechip businesses provide a roadmap to bring these automation and digitalisation solutions to your organisation. Speakers will address the vast array of information around 4IR, discussing the practicalities, technologies and issues surrounding transition and implementation of digitalisation in the Food & Beverage sector. Victoria Montag - Sector head, for Industrial Automation at GAMBICA – Leading experts line-up for dedicated Food & Beverage digitalisation conference the Trade Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology in the UK – will start the conference by introducing the range of opportunities that industrial digitalisation presents for the British food & beverage industry over the next decade. Further seminars will be led by other leading figures in the Food & Beverage industry, such as Keith Thornhill, Siemens Digital Factory, head of Food & Beverage - UK and Ireland, who will look at how in a landscape of production having to be more productive, efficient and agile to cope with our appetites that require extra choice and multiple buying options, 1902 INDUSTRY CONFERENCES Food & Beverage – Automotive – Aerospace