Industry 5.0 will open the IOT Solutions World Congress 2023 sessions

During the first day of the event, which will take place from 31^st January to 2^nd February at the Gran Via venue at Fira de Barcelona, there will be a plenary session followed by a panel discussion featuring Sean O’Reagain, Deputy Head of Industry 5.0 at the European Commission, who will explain how Industry 5.0 provides a vision of industry that looks beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals and reinforces its role and its contribution to society.

These sessions will address key issues such as resilience, offshoring, recruitment, and the use of renewable energies, which are fundamental for the development of an industry 5.0 that places the well-being of the worker at the heart of the production process and uses new technologies to provide prosperity beyond employment and growth, while respecting the planet's production limits.

On the same day, Katherine Bennett, CEO of The High Value Manufacturing Catapult, a strategic research and innovation centre for UK industry, will explain the state of development of the Internet of Things (IOT) in the UK manufacturing sector.

In addition, on 1^st February, Amalaye Oyake, Senior Flight Software Engineer, and Timmy Mbaya, Head of Application Software at Blue Origin, the US aerospace transportation company founded by Jeff Bezos, will explain the Orbital Reef project to build a space station in low Earth orbit for commercial activities and space tourism uses.

These are some of the more than 250 experts who will take part in the 2023 edition of IOTSWC, organised by Fira de Barcelona in collaboration with the Industry IOT Consortium (IIC) and Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and which will structure its conference programme around six themes or stages aimed at offering a new cross-industry approach: IOT Industry, AI, Digital Twins (DT), Edge Computing, Augmented Reality and 5G.

In addition, IOTSWC, which will be jointly held with the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress (BCC), will have an exhibition area where more than 300 companies from around the world will showcase the latest trends, products and applications of IOT, AI and DT, among other technologies. Highlights include the participation of Amazon Web Services, ABB, KNX, Relayr and TxOne at IOTSWC and Cloudflare, Fortinet, Knowbe4, ManageEngine and Telefonica Tech at BCC.