From January 31 to February 2, the event will feature more than 400 exhibitors and 250 experts who will take the stage to talk about disruptive technologies and solutions that are transforming industries.
Organized by Fira de Barcelona in collaboration with Industry IOT Consortium® (IIC™), the 2023 edition of IOTSWC will structure its conference program in six horizontal tracks or stages aimed at providing a new cross-cutting approach: Industry IOT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins (DT), Edge Computing, Augmented Reality and 5G. The conferences and sessions will feature the best international speakers and will present use cases that provide clear examples of how disruptive technologies are radically transforming businesses. Featured speakers include Dr. Michael Grieves, executive director and chief scientist of the Digital Twin Institute and an international expert in product lifecycle management (PLM). Grieves is widely recognized as the father of Digital Twin after a conference he gave on PLM at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in Michigan in 2002. The idea originally called DoubleGanger became known as the digital twin during Grieves' collaboration with NASA while developing a technology roadmap in 2010. Grieves has more than five decades of extensive executive and in-depth technical experience in both global and enterprise manufacturing and technology companies.
Leaders in Digital Transformation
To provide the keys to effective business transformation, IOTSWC is preparing a conference program that will feature some of the most innovative companies and experts in the world. Among them are Sean O'Regain, Deputy Director of Industry 5.0 at the European Commission; Lookman Fazal, Chief Information and Digital Officer of New Jersey Transit, Seonhi Ro, Ford Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Specialist; Sandeep Shekhawat, Director of Engineering at WalmartLabs; Cristian Paun, global digital leader at Dupont; Julien Bertolini, IoT expert at Volvo; and Jesper Toubol, VP of Operations — Molding Production at Lego Group.
Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress
The IOTSWC will be held in 2023 in conjunction with the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress (BCC), an international event focused on the field of cybersecurity that will celebrate its fourth edition at the Gran Via venue. Organized jointly by Fira de Barcelona and the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia, the body responsible for cybersecurity in Catalonia for both society and public administration, the conference will focus on the importance of increasing the levels of digital security in all companies and industries to prevent or minimize the effects of cybercriminal attacks. The BCC will also host an exhibition area and a hacking village where ethical hackers can show their skills and help companies detect weaknesses in their systems to improve their protection.
Together with ISE
After the success of the first shared edition of IOTSWC and Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in 2022, the two events have decided to continue their co-location. In the first joint edition, the events explored the common ground between two different sets of disruptive technologies and the potential this offers to attendees and exhibitors. Thus, visitors will be able to access the exhibition areas of both events again at no additional cost, while IOTSWC delegates will receive a 50% discount if they wish to register for either ISE.
