When: 5 February 2025, 13:30–16:15
Where: Hybrid format:
in-person at MIFJC Brussels – Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie House, 100 Rue du Throne, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, or
online via MS Teams
The European AI, Data and Robotics Association (ADRA), in collaboration with the Horizon Europe project Adra-e, invites you to a dedicated expert workshop on “ADR Research for European Manufacturing Sector’s Resilience.”
This workshop is part of a series preparing for the European Convergence Summit 2025 (ECS2025), a major event aimed at shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Robotics (ADR) research in Europe, with a focus on resilience and competitiveness during crises.
European AI, Data and Robotics Association (ADRA) and Horizon Europe project adra-e organise the European Convergence Summit 2025 (ECS2025). Building on the success of ECS2024, the full-blown face-to-face event will take place in Brussels on April 09, 2025. The ECS is a high-level event that aims to bring together influential figures from various backgrounds to support co-programming of the Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics (ADR) European partnership, define orientations for ADR research and innovation in Europe with respect to socioeconomic issues, and build a consensus among stakeholders. ECS2025 will be focused on how ARD technologies can support and enable the Europe’s resilience and competitiveness in various crisis situations.
In order to prepare the policy-level dialogue, adra-e organises the series of expert workshops in order to collect the community opinions about future research directions relevant to the topic of Resilience, policy-level challenges and enablers influencing the ARD research landscape. One of the central ARD application domains is Manufacturing, therefore the workshop on the topic “ADR research for European Manufacturing sector’s resilience” will be held on February 5. Registered online participants will receive an MS Teams invitation on February 3.
Agenda of the workshop
- 13:30–13:35 Introduction and workshop objectives – Andrey Girenko, DFKI
- 13:35–14:10 Case studies:
- Resilient supply chains for Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) – RAASCEMAN case, Andrey Girenko, DFKI
- MaaS supply chain predictive twin for critical materials – MaaSiveTwin case, Michael Hess, Battronics
- Foresight for European Manufacturing’s twin transition until 2040 – MASTT2040 case, Haydn Thompson, Thhink
- 14:10–15:00 SWOT analysis: Resilience and Competitiveness in Manufacturing ADR Research
- 15:00–15:10 Coffee break
- 15:10–16:00 Brainstorming: European ADR research strategy for Manufacturing
- 16:00–16:15 Conclusions and wrap-up
The conclusions of these workshops will be presented at the European Convergence Summit on 9 April in Brussels at Concert Noble, Rue d’Arlon 82, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium. These may include recommendations on research topics, methods or infrastructure to be developed.
The current provisional agenda covers the topics as follows :
- Tuesday, February 5th : 09:00-12:30 Workshop on Resilience in Civil Security ( Christophe Leroux, CEA) & 14:00-17:30 Resilience in Manufacturing ( Andrey Girenko, DFKI)
- Wednesday, February 6th : 09:00-12:30 Workshop on Resilience in Defense Industry (Christophe Leroux, CEA) & 14:00-17:30 Resilience in Healthcare ( Iddo Bante, UT)