GMIS ROADSHOWS Toronto, Canada

Breakfast and Registration

Welcome from the MC

Prof. Walid Hejazi, Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Opening of the Conference – GMIS Presentation

Namir Hourani, Managing Director, Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS)

The Canadian manufacturing sector and its vision out to 2030

Moderator: Prof. Walid Hejazi, Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Panellists:
Faisal Kazi, President & CEO, Siemens Canada
James Strapp, Partner Consulting & Deals, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Mathew Wilson, Vice-President, National Policy, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME)

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Joshua Gans, Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

From Lab to Fab: Scaling-up Advanced Manufacturing in Canada

Michael Helander, CEO, OTI Lumionics

On Stage Discussion

Moderator: Prof. Walid Hejazi, Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Michael Helander, CEO of OTI Lumionics
Panellists:
Jayson Myers, CEO, NGM Canada
Prof. Joshua Gans, Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Michael Helander, CEO, OTI Lumionics

Break

Women in the Manufacturing sector: Female participation in STEM as an enabling factor

Moderator: Prof. Sonia Kang, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Department of Management, University of Toronto
Panellists:
Adot Killmeyer-Oleche, Team Leader, Capacity Development Programmes
Department of Policy Research and Statistics, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Ann Marie MacDougall, President, LeaderBoom
Marilyn Spink, Mentor To Engineers and Project Managers, Isherwood Geostructural Engineers and Vice President, Professional Engineers Ontario

Factories of the Future: Finding Solutions to Tomorrow’s Challenges

An interactive session seeking to engage the audience in identifying top priorities and potential solutions to key challenges facing the manufacturing sector.
Delegates will be separated into small groups by table and given one of the following questions to discuss:

What do we need to do in Canada to motivate the management in the manufacturing sector to take that leap and invest in digitization/automation?
How can we help Canadian manufacturing companies scale up? And how can technology enable that scale up?
How do we increase the representation of under-represented groups in the education and training process, particularly women, and combine academia and industry in this process
Each group is also asked to rank the below list of considerations in terms of priority from 1 to 10, 1 being the most important consideration when considering Factories of the Future and intelligent solutions to tomorrow’s manufacturing challenges. Each group will rate the below from 1 to 10 and also provide brief remarks as to why they chose as they did.

Sustainability – mitigating environmental impact
Customer-centric – customer-led R&D
Digitization – automation and robotics leading the production processes
Increasing the number of women in the manufacturing workforce
Urbanisation and more efficient urban planning – locating factories nearer to the source of demand
Data driven – harnessing big data to improve operational efficiency
Adaptive production lines – ablity to produce more than one product and design with minor modifications
Integration into a global supply chain
Attracting youth to the manufacturing sector
Education and skills development – up-skilling of existing and future workforce and continuing education opportunities
The Chairperson will select three tables at random to feedback their responses to the above.

Closing remarks