

Predictive analytics, AI, and ML are no longer considered emerging technologies, they are here and here to stay. In many cases senior leaders are still using old tools to tackle new challenges. Evolution is key.
Sense check your approach with likeminded industry experts, sharing insight on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
Connect with 60+ senior Manufacturing leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
This award will recognise outstanding C-Suite (or equivalent) Manufacturing executives who can demonstrate exemplary leadership through real-world achievements in their field. Judges are particularly interested in seeing evidence of the application of innovative technologies or strategies over the last 12 months that have led to improved business performance and operational efficiencies.
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Think Big, Start Small, Fail Fast and Scale Even Faster What does it take to transform a legacy industry?
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Track 1: Tackling 21st Century Talent Disruption
Managing the employee demographic shift within manufacturing.
Track 2: Reevaluating the Future of Lean
Learn what can be achieved when an entire enterprise is aligned with a lean mindset, from product innovation to industrial processes.
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Track 1: The Digital Workforce: How to Attract Talent and Upskill to Optimize your Workforce
How manufacturing work - and the manufacturing workforces - are evolving.
Track 2: Manufacturing Automation: Process, Pilots and Costs
How advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are enabling machines to dramatically increase productivity across all manufacturing processes.
Track 3: Leadership in Manufacturing: Championing Change and Driving Innovation through Uncertainty
Key methods and techniques for leaders to steer their organizations throughout periods of uncertainty.
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What Makes a True Partner?
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What Does It Take to Change a Legacy Industry?
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Track 1: The Promise, Hope and Hype of AI
Demystify the hype and hope of AI to decipher where the real impact, applications and ROI are to be found.
Track 2: Managed Services in the Cloud
How can you harness all that cloud computing has to offer, and how will this impact your business?
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Track 1: The Digital Workforce: How to Attract Talent and Upskill to Optimize your Workforce
Track 2: Manufacturing Automation: Process, Pilots and Costs
Track 3: Leadership in Manufacturing: Championing Change and Driving Innovation through Uncertainty
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A Challenge Addressed! Solution Provider Case Study
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Technology Enabling the Future - Solution Provider Vision
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Track 1: The Digital Workforce: How to Attract Talent and Upskill to Optimize your Workforce
Track 2: Manufacturing Automation: Process, Pilots and Costs
Track 3: Leadership in Manufacturing: Championing Change and Driving Innovation through Uncertainty
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Industry 4.0 Evolution: Survival of the Fittest
How can we facilitate such a fundamental shift in culture and change throughout organizations as we continue to digitize?
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session.
Recognising outstanding Executives who have demonstrated exemplary leadership.
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most.
There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years