C | The Shift: Redefining Global Manufacturing

This report brings together manufacturing industry leaders, researchers and practitioners from across the globe to examine the five forces reshaping modern manufacturing.

  1. Preface

    • Søren Krogh Knudsen, Chief Executive Officer & President, Columbus​

  2. The New Industrial Baseline

    • Toby Mankertz, Manufacturing Industry Director, Columbus​

  3. Five Shifts in Manufacturing

    • Andy Juarez, VP of Operations, Litehouse Foods

    • Kasper Lynge Jacobsen, Head of AI and Data,​ Danish Centre of Commerce

    • Christine Charlotte Akselsen, CEO, Kezzler

    • Greta Braun, PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, European Commission Steering Board Member & Young Manufacturing Leaders Gothenburg City Hub Coordinator​

    • Steve Evans, Professor of Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge​

    • Miying Yang, Professor of Sustainability, Cranfield University

  4. Smart Factories, Human Futures

    • Toby Mankertz, Manufacturing Industry Director, Columbus​

    • Kevin Bull, Product Strategy Director, Columbus

    • Magnus Oxenwaldt, AI & Digital Transformation Director, Columbus

  5. Don’t Wait For Certainty

    • Columbus Manufacturing Industry Expertise Community

 

C | The Shift: Redefining Global Manufacturing

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