Future leaders - embrace the twin green & digital transition

"In the years to come, Belgian companies will encounter rapidly changing working conditions. However, If you start planning now, you can create new business value at the intersection of digital technologies and sustainability and lay the groundwork to be a future leader."

How is your working context changing? 

• Your chance of being affected by global warning is 100%. It will impact you through new legislation and through physical disruptions like storms and heatwaves.

• New European and Belgian emission legislation is taking effect in the coming years. To meet the EU's ambitious climate neutrality target by 2050, you'll have to decrease your greenhouse gas emissions and reduce your company's environmental footprint. What's more, you'll be expected to document this progress in detail.

• As the requirements for supply chains shift towards sustainability, you might have to reassess your suppliers and manufacturing processes to ensure alignment. Expectations are changing - your customers may demand more transparency about sourcing and want to understand your social and environmental impact.

What is the impact for manufacturing / non-digital companies?

• Adapt your products to the scarcity of raw materials: put a greater emphasis on prolonging the lifespan of goods and materials.
• Adopt more sustainable practices, such as invest more in energy-efficient production and focus on energy security.
• Innovate your products and optimize your processes on time and create new business opportunities and competitive advantages before local or global competitors take your customer base away.
• Meet the increasing demand of customers for data and insights that can enhance their processes and contribute to their compulsory environmental reporting.
• Investors are highly interested in companies that prioritize both transformations.

What does this mean for digital companies?

• There are great business opportunities to seize: there will be an increasing demand for (custom) platforms that give insights in energy use, traceability of raw materials, etc.
• There will be a strong demand to innovate machinery, products, and processes with digital solutions.
• There will be an increasing demand to facilitate the reporting of emission and environmental data to the government, customers, and partners.
• Investors are highly interested in companies that prioritize both transformations.
• Besides that, digital companies will have to put a strong emphasis on their own ecological footprint with mindful code and smart use of energy-consuming datacenters.

Come join us, and get ready!

Sirris is hosting an event full of insights, inspiring customer cases and practical steps you can take. In this unique event we will mesh manufacturing companies with digital companies to help facilitate those strong connections that will help you become a future leader in your industry.

Programme

Price

Participants pay €349. Thanks to the support of Innoviris under the Technological and Strategic Innovation Guidance for Brussels companies and Vlaio within the framework of the #industriepartnerschap (industry partnership) project, companies located in Flanders and Brussels pay only €105. 

Cancellations should be notified by email (events.admin@sirris.be). Cancellations notified 3 working days before the event are free of charge. In case of no-show or cancellation on the day itself, the full registration fee will be charged. Replacement by a colleague is always possible provided that this is notified in advance by email (events.admin@sirris.be).

This masterclass is part of the Industry Partnership Industriepartnershap in which 17 Flemish innovation partners offer an integrated service to stimulate growth and innovation in the Flemish industry in the 3 following themes: Digitalisation, Sustainability & Industrie 4.0. They do this under the leadership of Agoria and Sirris and with the support of the Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen.