Discovery 13: Innovation and the Future of Manufacturing Panel

Faced with the challenges of a strong dollar, rising business costs and the need to innovate, Canadian manufacturers are reinventing themselves to take advantage of the vast opportunities of a global marketplace.

Streamlining to become more vertically integrated is enabling Ontario's manufacturers to take advantage of opportunities to innovate all along their value chain and step outside their comfort zones to explore manufacturing opportunities in totally new sectors and processes including bio-manufacturing, environmental products and lightweight composites.

Learn from a panel of industry experts how manufacturers are transforming, the technologies they are utilizing, and what the future will look like.

Moderator -- Ian T. Howcroft, Vice President (Ontario Division), Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME)

Panellists:

Michael Gardiner, Director, Industry Solutions, Siemens Industry Software Ltd.

Doug Angus-Lee, 3D Printer Product Manager, Javelin Technologies

Jacek Mlynarek, CEO and President, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Textile,
Geosynthetic and Flexible Material Technologies (CTT Group)

Bob Little, VP and Country Manager, Altair Engineering Canada Ltd.

For more information about Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), visit www.oce-ontario.org. To learn about OCE's Discovery conference, held annually in Toronto, Canada, visit www.ocediscovery.com.