Co-summit 2015, 10 & 11 March at the Berlin Congress Center
This 7th edition of the Co-summit, organised by ITEA - the EUREKA Cluster on Software-intensive Systems and Services - and by the ARTEMIS Industry Association on Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems, focuses on a revolution - Industrie 4.0 or Smart Industry - that will radically alter the face of industry throughout Europe and beyond over the next few decades. A revolution that is being driven by giant leaps in software innovation.
Catalyst for a manufacturing revival
The theme of this Co-summit underlines the centrality of software in the European industrial landscape, with software not only a key enabler for success and a competitive differentiator but also a connector of the different elements throughout the value chain. The 4th industrial revolution - the merging of the real world with virtual worlds - is helping to revive production in Europe and software innovation is pivotal to competing successfully in the manufacturing and process industry. To achieve the EU Commission's target of boosting manufacturing's share of value added in Europe from 15% to 20% by 2020, "we need to adjust the focus of our R&D efforts more towards the relevant new drivers: systems design and software. This will be decisive in our ability to compete with the other regions of the world," Heinrich Daembkes, President of the ARTEMIS Industry Association, stresses. ITEA Chairman Rudolf Haggenmüller underlines the need for Europe to "take a more global approach to software innovation, one that includes customers and end-users and which addresses product and service innovation. Smart industry needs smart people."
An intriguing, impactful programme
The Co-summit's keynote speech will be given by Dr. Jutta Schneider, Director eDrive & Software Technologies at Daimler and guided tours of the exhibition along with five speakers corners, covering topics from the Scientific and Technological Challenges of Cyber Physical Systems to the Internet Of Things, will give visitors plenty of insight into today's key developments and their impact on tomorrow. A panel session in the morning of day two will focus on the Co-summit theme followed by the ITEA and ARTEMIS Community sessions. The Co-summit will close, as is traditional, with the ITEA Excellence awards and the ARTEMIS Recognition award ceremony. The Co-summit 2015 is being supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Daimler and Siemens.
Demonstrating the impact
The Co-summit presents a perfect platform for the highly collaborative ARTEMIS and ITEA projects to demonstrate the benefits of bringing together 'smart' people, from research through industry to end-users and for showcasing the results of the projects in terms of innovation, industrial and societal impact as well as the concrete business opportunities that the projects realise. You can be sure to expect exciting stories and state-of-the-art live demos! For more details, please find attached the press and the full programme. You can also visit the Co-summit websites via ARTEMIS & ITEA.