European Economic and Social Committee
Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI)
PROGRAM
FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EUROPE TO TAKE THE LEAD?
14 November 2014 – 9.00 a.m.-13.00 p.m.
Brussels
Interpretation: from EN/FR/DE/ES into EN/FR/DE/ES
09.00 a.m.
Registration
09.30 a.m.
Welcome by Mr Trias Pinto, CCMI President
09.40 a.m.
Mr Vollmar
Subject :
IBM Deutschland
Raising awareness about the new services and the changes they imply in the
manufactures' organisation
09.55 a.m.
Mr Labaye
Subject :
McKinsey Global Institute
Social aspects of the new services to industry: changes on the labour market, e-skills
and education of workforce
10.10 a.m.
Coffee break
10:30 a.m.
Discussion panel
Moderated by
Mr Rose
European Business Services Round Table
With:
Ms Swink
Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (USA)
Mr Röthig
UNI Global Union
Mr Caballero Sanz European Commission – DG Enterprise and Industry
Mr Nevzoreanu Renault Nissan Romania
12.00 p.m.
Questions and Debate
12.40 p.m.
Conclusions by
Mr. van Iersel, EESC - CCMI
Mr. Leo, EESC - CCMI
- Lessons learnt from the conference – Input for the EESC/CCMI future work
13.00 p.m.
End
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Fourth industrial revolution: An opportunity for EU to take the lead ?
Fast expanding business services are already dominant in manufacturing and in support of
manufacturing. A wide and growing range of companies – both manufacturing and service – is
now involved in designing and delivering new generations of business services. New technologies
make services still more relevant to manufacturing. The EESC (through its Consultative
Commission on Industrial Change) has recently published an own-initiative opinion on the impact
of business services in industry.
However, beyond the "servitization" of industry, a new paradigm is emerging: the Internet of
Things and the Internet of Services currently known in Europe as the Fourth industrial revolution,
a dawn of a new era following that of automation.
A quantum jump results from a vertical and horizontal cooperation from machine to internet,
machine to human, and machine to machine along the value chain in real time. Islands of
automation will get interconnected in innumerable networks and variations. Software and networks
will connect intelligent products, digital services, and customers to the new innovative ‘products’ of
the future.
The EU has to decide now whether it wants to take the lead or leaving its place to others. A leading
position would imply new growth and new jobs.
The participants and attendants to this conference will cover and discuss the many aspects of the
theme. The primary goal of the conference however will be to raise awareness of this 4th revolution
among all stakeholders and particularly at the level of the policymakers of the EU Institutions and
of the Member States.
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PERSONNALIA
Friedrich Vollmar
Friedrich Vollmar is Manager Technical Sales and Solutions at IBM Germany GmbH. He has been Vice President of the
IBM Software Group and responsible for the team of technical sales since the early 2000s.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Friedrich Vollmar held various management positions in sales at IBM , both at national
and international level.
Mr. Vollmar represents IBM in Bitcom, leads the software working group and is one of the co-authors of the Bitcom
Guide published online at www.soa -know - how.de .
Mr. Vollmar represents IBM in the steering committee of the platform Industry 4.0.
Eric Labaye
A Director of McKinsey & Company based in Paris, Eric Labaye is the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute. He is a
member of the Shareholders Council of the firm of which he chairs the Client Committee.
From 2002 to 2010, he was the Managing Director of the France Office and led Global Knowledge and Communications
from 2010 to 2013. He works extensively for clients in the Telecom Media HighTech and Energy sectors as well as for
public and health institutions on a variety of strategic and operational issues including major transformation programs.
He has been a member of the “Commission pour la Libération de la Croissance Française” (Release Growth in France) in
2007-2010, and has been a member of the “Commission Economique de la Nation” (French National Economic
Commission) since 2005. He is also involved in the educational and cultural fields where he contributes to several
development initiatives and is a member of the board of Telecom ParisTech and of the International Advisory Board of
Essec. In 2009, he was also a member of the Commission in charge of defining a new model for the French University
Hospital system and the development of IHU (University Hospital Institutes).
Norman Rose
Norman Rose is a government affairs specialist working mainly in the business services sector. He is Secretary-General of
the European Centre for Facility Management and Chairman of UK Trade Facilitation Ltd.
From 1996 to 2007 he was Director-General of the Business Services Association. Prior to that, he was Associate
International General Counsel of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), with whom he worked extensively in Washington D.C.
and Brussels (1988-1992), a Deputy Director at CBI (1985 – 1988) and Deputy Secretary of the Law Society of Scotland
(1977 – 1985).
From 2004 until its closure in 2011 he was the Chairman of SITPRO, the international trade facilitation body of the UK
Government. On the wider international stage, Norman is Chairman of the European Business Services Round Table and
Vice-Chair of the European Commission’s High Level Group on Business Services. From 2003 to 2010 he was VicePresident of the European Society of Association Executives.
Denise Swink
Denise Swink is chairman of the Board of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition and a Senior Advisor to the US
Resilience Project. She is also the Vice Chairman of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board and the National
Academy of Sciences.
The SMLC is a non-profit organization committed to overcome barriers to the development and deployment of Smart
Manufacturing (SM) Systems through an implementation agenda for building a scaled, shared infrastructure called the
Smart Manufacturing Platform (SM Platform). SMLC activities are built around industry-driven development, application
and scaling of a shared infrastructure that will achieve transformational economic-wide impact, manufacturing innovation
and global competitiveness.
SMLC supports the manufacturing industry through pursuing a comprehensive technology that no one company can
undertake. Without a modern industrial infrastructure, adoption of SM Systems is not economically viable. Process control
and automation systems implemented in piecemeal fashion will continue to limit innovation and capability. SMLC will
build the business, interoperability and technology models, demonstrations, infrastructure, and project teams across
multiple industry segments.
Francisco Caballero Sanz
Francisco Caballero Sanz is currently the Chief Economist and Head of unit A4,Industrial Competitiveness Policy for
Growth, in the European Commission, DG Enterprise
A former researcher in Spain and the UK, Mr Caballero Sanz has, since November 1989, held positions in the
Telecommunications, Competition, Economics and Financial Affairs DGs.
He became Head of Unit in the Internal Market Directorate General responsible for Economic Analysis of the Internal
Market, Capital Movements and Economic Analysis of Financial Markets in December 1998, position that the held until
January 2012. He then became Chief Economist of DG Enterprise and Industry and Head of Unit for Industrial
Competitiveness Policy.
He is an economist and Doctor in Economics by the University of Valencia. He followed his post - graduate studies in the
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) and in the University of Warwick (UK).
Oliver Röthig
Oliver Roethig is the Acting Regional Secretary of UNI Europa since May 2011.
He is also a member of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Steering Committee and a board member of the
NGO Finance Watch, which rallies nonindustry interests to support fair financial markets.
From 2003 until April 2011, Oliver was Head of UNI Finance, the global union for the banking and insurance industry. As
part of his work, he pushed for the coordination of finance unions within the context of the G20.
From 1998 to 2002, Oliver was policy officer for UNI Europa (formerly Euro-FIET), with special responsibility for
European Companies and EU enlargement.
From 1997 to 1998, he worked for the British Trade Union Congress on EU regional policy in Brussels.