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Better Factory Unleashed: Art as a Catalyst for Innovation in industry 4.0
19.10.2023 I 17:30 - 22:00
WONDER Creativity Festival I Kortrijk

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During Wonder Creativity Festival, GLUON is organizing a network event focused on art-driven innovation within the context of Industry 4.0. This conference brings together experts, artists, innovation managers, and entrepreneurs to explore the intersection of art and advanced technologies in industrial production. Participants will attend presentations and panel discussions highlighting the transformative role of art in fostering innovation within the manufacturing industry.

This conference investigates how artistic approaches, creativity, and design thinking can enhance production processes, product development, and overall factory performance. It provides a platform for sharing insights, best practices, and success stories in the realm of art-driven innovation within manufacturing. It encourages networking and collaboration among participants, promoting the exchange of ideas to steer the future of manufacturing towards a more innovative landscape.

Better Factory supports small and medium-sized manufacturing companies to collaborate with artists and technology providers to develop new and personalized products. It provides technology to SMEs, enabling them to become cyber-physical systems, transforming into lean-agile production facilities capable of manufacturing new and personalized products. Better Factory is run by 28 partners from 18 European countries representing the arts ecosystem, technology competence centers, industrial clusters, and technology suppliers.

This conference has been organized in the framework of WONDER Creativity Festival and Designregio Kortrijk

Better Factory has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Union under grant agreement 951813.