CTRL+ALT+IMPACT Leicester: Intelligent Manufacturing & Advanced Production

Traditional production systems struggle to adapt quickly – leading to inefficiencies, unplanned downtime, and quality issues

Date: 20th January 2026

Location: National Space Centre, Leicester

Ours is an age marked by trade tariff concerns, supply chain vulnerabilities, climate change challenges, and energy security risks. In the face of these challenges, evolving factories into connected, data-driven, and secure ecosystems can empower manufacturers to respond faster, adapt smarter, and make business-critical decisions with confidence. We call that Intelligent Manufacturing.

Short-term, this means greater visibility, faster problem-solving, and reduced downtime. Over the medium term, manufacturers gain higher productivity, improved quality, and the flexibility to respond to shifting market demands. Long term, Intelligent Manufacturing fosters sustainable growth through energy efficiency, waste reduction, and continuous innovation, thus ensuring manufacturers stay competitive in an increasingly digital world.

According to Deloitte’s 2025 Smart Manufacturing and Operations Survey, organisations who have implemented smart manufacturing initiatives have seen, on average, a 10% to 20% improvement in production output, a 7% to 20% improvement in employee productivity, and 10% to 15% in unlocked capacity.

Real change doesn’t happen in isolation. Join us at CTRL+ALT+IMPACT Leicester to secure better manufacturing outcomes, embed digital innovation into your operation to outpace threats, and turn data into decisive action.

Find inspiration in talks from thought leaders and industry experts, including Marc Wallis, Senior Solutions Architect at AstraZeneca, who will explain how to double your productivity without building new factories; Rocky Clarke, MBE, Rugby World Cup Player, who brings keen insight into leadership, perseverance, and the beauty of teamwork; and Ramon Antelo, Global Intelligent Industry Lead at Capgemini, who will share new trends and decades of experience in assisting our customers across sectors in their Digital Manufacturing transformations.

Get practical with peers from across the engineering community in an immersive workshop where you bring your specific, real-world business challenges and our experts help you identify the strategic next steps and investments – both big and incremental – to answer them.

Then, get hands on with demonstrations of world-class technologies from Capgemini and partners, and discover how they can drive the next significant evolution in your manufacturing operations. These include:

• ODIN – Bring AI out of the screen and into the real world. Built for industrial applications, this humanoid robot’s capabilities include real-time environmental mapping, recognition of people and objects, natural language conversation, and autonomous decision-making based on verbal instructions.
• Knowledge Graph, UNS and AI – Set up your IT/OT data model with a cost effective IT/OT architecture and enable the deployment of powerful AI to improve your manufacturing performance. It’s like turning a darkened room full of locked cabinets into a brightly lit workspace where every answer is at your fingertips.
• Energy Command Centre – Optimise energy management with our Energy Command Centre, leveraging AI, IoT, and real-time monitoring for efficient, sustainable operations.
• VisionCheck – Leverage computer vision to swiftly assess component and object quality across sectors, with aerospace-developed, handheld non-conformance detection.
• Private 5G in-a-box – Redefine connectivity with portable 5G-in-a-box, offering rapid experimentation, mission-critical capabilities, AI-ready compute, and seamless user familiarisation with next-gen communication tools.
• Dr. Tara Singh – Revolutionise onboarding and education with our advanced AI learning mentor who offers personalised, intelligent guidance and support.
• SPOT – A mobile IOT platform, powered by AI and machine learning to optimize your asset management without installing thousands of sensors in your facility.