Smart Manufacturing Food & Beverage Virtual Summit

In this one-day event we identify emerging technology that can improve data quality, optimize manufacturing operations, and implement strategies to enable continuous improvement of supply chains.

The event is designed to:

• Create the Smart Food & Beverage Factory of the future to drive down costs, enhance efficiency, optimize production, and maintain quality.
• Conduct an organizational assessment to understand unique business problems and areas ripe for technology and automation to solve them
• Instil culture of technology and innovation that responds to digital resistance and bridges existing skills gaps
• Develop the Industry 4.0 roadmap, build the business case, demonstrate ROI, and secure buy-in for smart technology
• Identify and select appropriate technology: IIoT, Machine Health, Robotics, AI/ ML/Advanced Analytics, Digital Twins, VR/AR and Blockchain
• Move smart manufacturing technology projects from POC to full scale deployment

The following speakers will joined me:

• Alberto Cozer, Senior BRM/FRM Business Process Automation, Nestle
• Emilio Angles Isern, Industry 4.0 Development Lead, Kellogg’s Company
• Lothar Lang, Senior Leader Process Control and Automation, Cargill
• Robert Ruigrok van der Werve, Project Manager, Digital Manufacturing & Performance, Danone
• Sandeep Disawal, Sr. Manager, Applied AI and Digital Strategy, Global R&D, PepsiCo
• Jarrod Anderson, Emerging Technology Leader, Archer Daniels Midland
• Pedro De Los Santos, PMO Digital Manufacturing, The Kraft Heinz Company
• Daniel Stauft, Director, Operational Technology, SugarCreek
• Hugh Roddy, Vice President of Global Engineering and Project Management, Chobani
• Erik Veedfald Jensen, Lead Release Train Architect, Arla