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Thought Leadership Series: Unleash new possibilities – where digital meets physical

Overview

The nature of your industry is changing.

Every company is becoming, in some way, a digital company – and that means the way you optimise, accelerate and innovate is changing too. The line between traditional engineering and digital technology is blurring. The fact is, transformation is never just physical or digital. It’s both.

While digital gives us the data to make decisions, engineering is how we turn those strategic decisions into reality.

The new frontier for transformation sits at the intersection between the physical and digital.  Operations and supply chain ecosystems can become responsive and flexible. New, digitized products can be adapted or created and brought to market swiftly and effectively. Business operations can be unified and managed more cost-effectively than ever before. Sustainable targets can be pursued, achieved, and even exceeded, without compromising business goals.

Join us at the Thought leadership series in partnership with Engineers Australia as we explore the merging of traditional engineering with digital technology, reshaping the future and how we optimize, accelerate, and innovate!

Engage with industry leaders, academics, and policymakers to explore the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape. Expect provocative discussions and hands-on demonstrations focusing on resilience, growth, experience, and innovation – with Engineering at the core.


Key Topics:

  • The Future of Industries: Evolving industries in Australia and how intelligent, interconnected products and services are transforming the way we work. 
  • Digital, Meet Physical in Practice: Exploring practical applications of digital and physical convergence, merging technologies to address industry challenges effectively.
  • Sustainability in our Industry: Building resilience into supply chain dynamics, while embracing sustainable practices to reduce environmental impact.
  • The Impact of Research and Development: Understanding the transformative power behind innovation, shaping industries, and preparing for the future.
  • The New Engineer: Redefining engineers’ roles for adaptability and innovation in the digital age, thriving in the integrated landscape of traditional and digital.

Session Information:

Melbourne session – 30 April 2024
Date: 30th April 2024
Time: 09:00 AM – 02:00 PM AEST
Location: Engineers Australia HQ MEL, Level 31/600 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000

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Perth session – 2 May 2024

Date: 2nd May 2024

Time: 09:00 AM – 02:00 PM AWST
Location: Engineers Australia HQ WA, Allendale Square, Level 10/77 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000

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The future of industry is intelligent

Intelligent products and services

Every product can be smart and connected. This increases uptime, improves efficiency, saves costs and creates new revenue streams through service models.

Software-driven transformation

A software-driven transformation is redefining the global automotive industry. Vehicles, organisational structures, processes, methods and tools are defined, designed and operated by software

Digital continuity

Enable end-to-end digital continuity across the entire product lifecycle by seamlessly integrating ideation, development, manufacturing and aftersales into a unified digital collaboration.

Intelligent manufacturing

The next generation of factories will be hyper-connected, intelligent, autonomous and sustainable. They will also be characterized by high adaptability and optimal use of resources. Digital technologies will enable traditional systems to become intelligent and change the way they work.

Intelligent supply chain

Supply chains are at the centre of challenges in all industries today and are subject to an ongoing transformation process. Greater resilience and sustainability efforts – an important concern for all companies – are highly dependent on optimizing the supply chain.

Related research and insights

Point of view

Intelligent Industry: The rise of circularity

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Capgemini Research Institute

Smart factories at scale: A Capgemini Research Institute report
Capgemini Research Institute

Intelligent products and services: unlock the opportunity of a connected business

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Point of view

Engineering the next for automotive, aerospace and defense

Our demos:

Connectivity Corner

An intelligent monitoring system analyzes real-time video feeds from a network of surveillance, utilizes dashboards to consolidate data in the cloud or at the edge, offers smart alerts for real-time worker safety, and enhances safety and security at industrial sites.

Mission-critical communications involve systems tailored to prioritize, secure, and ensure availability, crucial for safety or business operations.

Public safety mission-critical communications systems are migrating from legacy professional mobile radio (PMR) technologies to LTE/5G solutions with MCX, to provide advanced multimedia services and enhance situational awareness during crises.

A data-driven energy optimization solution for 5G and beyond networks, built as part of Capgemini’s sustainable 5G network initiative.

Intelligently optimizes RAN performance using closed-loop automation, maximizing energy saving gains without compromising network performance
Seamlessly works on both traditional RAN and Open RAN.

Delivering an E2E visibility in both operations and key performance with key sections: Dashboard view, track & trace tools, CO2 emissions assessment.

Leveraging the latest technologies such as GenAI for 0 time between information and supply chain decision-making.

Innovation Corner

Edge AI capabilities used to classify the punches delivered by the user.

Low-power ML models are used to fetch the acceleration data and send it to the classifier for processing the noise data to meaningful interpretations (punches).

Sustainability Corner

It is a flex-gas 200kW Turbogenerator for liquefied natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen

Powerful & easy-to-use simulator that combines thermal simulations & AI to assess solutions to urban heat islands by integrating green spaces in cities. SIM City for Climate is at the heart of a new sustainability offer for climate change adaptation. The demo simulates and illustrates the potential of greening solutions that help industries and cities tackle heat islands.

An integrated Hardware/software platform for integrated monitoring and control of Campus/Building utility systems Platform/service that combines IoT, Edge Computing, AI/ML to enable Integrated control/monitoring Client can reduce energy consumption thus reducing carbon footprint Optimize equipment operation reducing equipment wear and tear Achieve predictive maintenance by asset health monitoring Comprehensive management of power generation and utilization.

Manage distributed resources like on-premises solar, CPPAs, and storage solutions for night intermittency thus optimizing the supply to help strike the balance.

Meet Thought Leaders & Industry Experts

Melbourne Session Experts

Rodrigo Maia

Global Head of Research and Innovation, Capgemini Engineering
Rodrigo is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience. He is an expert in building and scaling R&D structures, defining technology roadmaps, implementing innovative engineering practices, and fostering collaboration between stakeholders. As CTO and Executive Board Member, Rodrigo led several strategic initiatives in Portugal including the construction of the 5GLab, the implementation of industry certifications, and the creation of Vortex-Colab, an applied research center. During his tenure as Capgemini Engineering Global Head of Research and Innovation, he defined the R&I strategy for the company, led cross-country collaborations, and ensured alignment with technology priorities.

Luke Belfield

Former Victorian Chief Engineer, Office of Projects Victoria
Luke was most recently the Victorian Chief Engineer working for the Department of Treasury and Finance. He led the creation and implementation of the Victorian Government’s $11 million Digital Build program. He is an experienced infrastructure professional with over 20 years of experience in policy, technology and business strategy, project management, and organisational and process optimisation in asset intensive sectors. 

Lars Weber

Digital Enterprise Business Lead for Australia & New Zealand, Siemens

Brad Hordern

Executive General Manager- Supply Chain and IT, Dulux Group

Prof Matt Duckham

Director, Information in Society EIP, RMIT
Matt is a Professor in Geospatial Sciences and Director, Information in Society EIP (Enabling Impact Platform) at RMIT University. His research expertise in digital infrastructure covers spatial computing, geovisualisation, and geospatial AI (“geoAI”) and connects strongly with applications in areas such as emergency response, defence, transportation, and environmental monitoring.

Sylvia Weber

Business Support Officer, BlueScope

Daniel McLean MIEAust

Commercial Program Manager, Engineers Australia

Hassan Muttakin

Graduate Engineer – Civil Eng, Arcadis

    Perth Session Experts

    Michael Bell AffilIEAust

    Policy Lead, Engineers Australia
    Michael is a policy and engagement specialist with more than a decade of experience across industries including technology, professional services and engineering in the private and non-profit sectors.

    Brett Birkbeck

    Head of Solutions Architect – Mining, Energy and Industry, AWS

    Ralph Smith

    Global Sales Director – Member Sustainability, 3ds

    Glenn Callow

    Chief Technology Officer, Austal
    Glenn graduated in the UK with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of York and an Engineering Doctorate with Loughborough University. Glenn’s doctoral thesis was focused on novel techniques to improve the Systems Engineering of increasingly Autonomous Systems.

    Andrew Campbell

    Senior Director Sustainability & Climate Adaption within Customer Solutions, Worley
    Andrew leads the outward facing Customer Solutions team focusing on Sustainability & Climate Adaption offerings globally. Andrew leads this multidisciplinary team who are developing a range of innovative products and subscription services alongside the engineering and consulting services provided to clients.

    Kevin West

    Innovation Facilitation Lead, Austmine
    Kevin boasts over two decades of experience in the technology space across multiple industries including construction, mining, systems maintenance and currently, he plays a pivotal role as the driving force behind Austmine’s mineinnovate collaboration platform, bringing transformative solutions whilst creating opportunities and driving strategic innovation and collaboration across the mining industry.

    Brizz Martinez

    Civil Engineer / BIM Coordinator, SMEC
    Brizz has been working for the last three years on two of the largest infrastructure design projects in Australia in the digital engineering environment at #SMEC, delivering real time digital solutions for civil engineering design.

    Ryan Dalla Vecchia

    Senior Fire Safety Consultant, Warringtonfire
    Ryan is a Senior Fire Safety Engineer for Warringtonfire Australia, A Jensen Hughes Company, with a focus on business development. He currently has over 5 years industry experience and has led a number of fire safety engineering projects ranging from large office towers to hospitals and warehouses. He enjoys the challenge of finding a solution that is both technically viable and meets the operational needs of the project.

    Kerry Brown

    Professor of Employment and Industry, Edith Cowan University
    Kerry Brown is the Professor of Employment and Industry in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She is Board Member and Program Leader for the Governance and Organisational Planning Program of the Asset Institute. 

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