About this event
Learn How Exponential Tech Revolutionizes Manufacturing and Makes Agility Possible
In our digital world, customers expect both instant gratification and ever increasing levels of customization. The result is that nearly every industry is experiencing a troubling phenomenon: the need to manufacture a growing range of products at much lower volumes than in the past. In addition to unpredictable customer patterns, manufacturers are facing other challenges ranging from shifting markets to skyrocketing raw materials prices, political upheaval, and environmental changes.
How can companies stay competitive in such a volatile manufacturing landscape?
In this edition of Singularity University's Experts on Air webcast, Andre Wegner invites you to explore the critical nature of manufacturing agility, as he details the inventive power exponential technologies offer to manufacturers and their extended supply chains.
In this webcast, you will:
Understand how current trends in manufacturing are affecting industries ranging from automotive to fashion, aviation and medical devices
Discover examples of companies who are using agile manufacturing techniques to stay ahead of the curve
Gain familiarity with how technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), generative design, 3D printing, collaborative robots and other digital manufacturing tools such as digital knitting machines, CNC machines, and laser cutters can increase manufacturing agility
Discover how companies are successfully compacting their value chains by using these new tools, including why your company should aim to be more like Zara and less like Volkswagen
This session will be valuable to anyone interested in developing, manufacturing and shipping product. For those not in the manufacturing industry, this session will create context for how consumer patterns, politics, and environmental changes are impacting technology and the real economy.
About Andre
Andre Wegner is founder and CEO of Authentise. Andre is a frequent speaker on emerging intellectual property issues in 3D Printing and opportunities of distributed manufacturing at events such as Singularity University, Rapid, Designer of Things, Inside 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, Pacific Crest & WIRED. He has been quoted in publications such as BBC News, MIT Tech Review, Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg. He is an expert in greenfield value chain creation, leading the development of a $300m low-income gas distribution business for West Africa's leading Oil and Gas company. Prior to founding Authentise Andre also managed a venture capital fund in Nigeria and advisory services in India. Andre is a graduate of St. Andrews University (M.A. - UK), ESSEC (M.Sc. - France) and Singularity University (California).
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