More than 200 industry, public administration and university representatives will meet again on Tuesday, May 3, at the Cúbic building in Viladecans, to discuss industrial trends and innovations, as well as innovation and competitiveness policies necessary to address them. It will be at the IND I conference (industry plus innovation), in its seventh edition, dedicated mainly to the need to guarantee cybersecurity or digital security in critical areas, such as geostrategy, data processing, energy transition, public health and supply chains.
The ‘IND I community’ will meet in person to learn, reflect on the future and provide innovative solutions to industry challenges. The 2023 edition will focus on “transforming challenges into opportunities and seeing how we build an innovative industry safe from vulnerabilityâ€. The day will be presented by José Manuel Zapata, opera singer, creator of shows, collaborator in the media and conference. The IND I 2023 program can be consulted at: indi.cat.
IND I Day 2023 will explore how Europe can anticipate and ethically hack, glimpse what will happen next, and find innovative solutions to be prepared and competitive in a changing environment. The crisis of supplies and raw materials, security in terms of energy derived from the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the geostrategic positioning of China and the United States in terms of technology have caused the vulnerability of European industry. This situation has led to a strategy to increase control over industrial value chains and achieve greater industrial and technological sovereignty in Europe compared to other geopolitical blocs, a single market resilience strategy with its own industrial ecosystems and, specifically, in batteries , semiconductors, active ingredients, hydrogen and energy, raw materials and cloud technologies.
At the same time, we are immersed in a double transformation, digital and sustainable, derived from climate change. All this is causing companies to have the need to innovate and quickly adapt to changes in the markets, shortages of supplies and energy, inflation or new threats in terms of data security. The physical borders have been demolished by the digital ones and all by the biological ones. Companies have to seek the maximum certainties while constantly innovating to be competitive bearing in mind the sustainability of the planet.
The IND I Day 2023 will deal with these issues related to the dilemma between a change in the economic model and the need for security in critical areas such as geostrategy, data security, energy transition, public health and supply chains, if we continue with the same model. To do this, it will have representatives from relevant industries that apply good practices in terms of global competition, sustainability, data management and protection, but also representatives from academia who are experts in digital humanism, climate change and industrial ecosystems.
The industry needs solutions and, therefore, new energy models will be exposed, the importance of safeguarding data and reputation, as well as formulas to ensure value chains from raw materials to the consumer and new applications of artificial intelligence. Challenges will be discussed, but also opportunities in new industrial ecosystems thanks to innovation, cybersecurity, international standards and alternatives to the scarcity of resources.
IND I 2023 will also open a window to talk about a new regenerative economic model and solutions based on scarcity, but, above all, on the use of resources, optimizing production and consumption chains and bearing in mind the sustainability of the planet itself.
