2024 Program overview

Panel: How has Australian manufacturing changed over the past four decades? │ What will accelerate and secure the future of manufacturing? │ What will drive scale and high-growth SMEs?

What does AI mean for improving safety management, productivity, and recycling outcomes in manufacturing? Australian research and industry leaders share how digitisation and advanced automation are delivering efficiencies and higher value jobs – and helping to reduce the compliance burden on industry.  

What are the imperatives and solutions transforming industries? Hear from leading Geelong-based manufacturer Incitec Pivot on actions that are creating successful pathways to decarbonisation.

 

Regional technology leaders share leading edge breakthroughs and innovations that are solving challenges. 

World-first innovations that will transform our energy and our environment are being developed and commercialised right here in the Geelong region: sustainable diesel, aviation fuels, plastics recycling. Renewable organics turned into biochar and exploited for use in sodium ion batteries. Turning wastewater into hydrogen and fuelling trucks.

Barriers to commercialisation include investment depth, but what else? Do we need to upgrade Australian business acumen and access to other expertise beyond the technology experts?  

Hear from manufacturers and investors who have walked the walk.  

Are our pockets deep enough and Australia’s risk appetite big enough to build a strong advanced manufacturing sector? What will make the difference for advanced manufacturing?

Carbon Revolution CFO, Gerard Buckle, talks with GMC Chair, Thys Heyns, about building scale for new disruptive technologies.

Case studies of successful applications of IoT and how even small-scale improvements in digitising manufacturing processes are having large impacts. What are the cyber challenges and immediate fixes?  How advancing technology will give you an edge in supply chains.

City of Greater Geelong’s goal is to be a world-leading smart and creative city │ How does circular economic theory play into this? │ What will drive future advances for Geelong? Can we advance city planning and optimise community outcomes for our future City with technology and collaborations?