Final event and awards ceremony of the COSME ADMA project on 22 April

In the ADMA conference on April 22^nd the results through the activities of the Advanced Manufacturing Support Centre over the past 3 years will be presented. Also, the first two European ADMA Factory of the Future Champions will be announced.

Factories of the Future are future-oriented manufacturing companies embracing Industry 4.0 opportunities to their full extent. Can you improve your manufacturing? The Centre’s objective is to help European manufacturing SMEs to assess the possibility of adopting both advanced manufacturing solutions as well as social innovation strategies thereby transforming their organisation towards next-generation factories with more competitive, modern and sustainable production.

After establishing an online scan tool measuring the maturity of SMEs on seven transformation areas, 110 SMEs have been approached (employing a total of close to 10.000 people). Of those companies, 69 companies in 12 different European countries have received active support through a fully customized ADMA Transformation Plan highlighting the priority areas for each of them.

During the final ADMA event, the key learnings obtained by the Advanced Manufacturing Support Centre partners will be shared with you. Moreover, 15 European manufacturing SMEs will present their ‘Factory of the Future transformation journey’ and the breakthroughs they managed to realize.

If you are interested, please register here or clicking on the image below to attend the event. Do not hesitate to forward the invitation to colleagues and stakeholders.

Programme:

11:00	Welcome note from EISMEA (European Innovation and Small-Medium Enterprises Executive Agency) Jean-David Malo, Director, EISMEA, European Commission
11:05	The ADMA Morning News, incl. recorded testimonials and interviews from 8 selected SME leaders Lien Van de Kelder (anchor), assisted by Alessandro Marini (Sr. Advisor AFIL), Jean-Francois Romainville (Expert IDEA Consult) and Paul Peeters (Sr. Expert Agoria)
12:00	Announcement of Europe’s ADMA Methodology Frontrunning SMEs Alessandro Marini (Sr. Advisor AFIL)
12:15	Workshop on the ADMA project learnings (with input from recorded testimonials and live interviews from selected SME leaders) Lien Van de Kelder (anchor), assisted by Paul Peeters (Sr. Expert Agoria), Alessandro Marini (Sr. Advisor AFIL) and Jean-Francois Romainville (Expert IDEA Consult)
12:30	Break
14:00	The ADMA Future Objectives Show, incl. recorded testimonials and interviews from 7 selected SME leaders Lien Van de Kelder (anchor), assisted by Mayte Carracedo (Partner at FundingBox), Herman Derache (Managing Director Sirris & Vice chairman EFFRA) and Wim van der Beken (Managing Director IDEA Consult)
14:40	Announcement of the European ADMA Transformation Champions Announcement of the European ADMA Transformation Champions
15:05	Keynote by the awarded ADMA Supporting Organisations MIENK Cluster (Hungary) - Tamas Gyulai ICT Cluster Bulgaria - Krasimira Shindarova IntechCentras (Lithuania) - Marius Kvedaravičius
15:15	Workshop on the next steps for the Advanced Manufacturing support Centre Centre for European manufacturing SMEs (with input from recorded testimonials and live interviews from selected SME leaders) Lien Van de Kelder (anchor), assisted by Paul Peeters (Sr. Expert Agoria), Wim van der Beken (Managing Director IDEA Consult) and Igor Kalinic (Head of Sector Competitiveness & Internationalisation EISMEA, European Commission)
15:30	Announcement of the European ADMA Factory of the Future Champions Ulla Engelmann – acting Director Networks & Governance at DG GROW, European Commission
15:40	Interviews with the ADMA FoF Champions Lien Van de Kelder (anchor), assisted by Herman Derache (Managing Director Sirris & Vice chairman EFFRA)
15:55	Closing contribution from DG GROW Ulla Engelmann – acting Director Networks & governance at DG GROW, European Commission
16:00	End of event

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