Automation Vista – Together Towards Industry 5.0

Automation Vista is a meeting place for researchers, industry leaders, innovators, startups, and public-sector stakeholders who want to shape the next generation of sustainable and human-centered industry.

Industry 5.0 moves beyond efficiency and automation alone, placing people, resilience, and sustainability at the center of industrial transformation. The symposium will explore how advanced technologies such as AI, robotics, automation, and digital infrastructure can strengthen collaboration between humans and machines while enabling more resilient and sustainable production systems.

The conference is hosted by Automation Region in collaboration with the research schools ARRAY and MARC at Mälardalen University.

Programme

The programme is continuously updated and session times may be subject to change.

09:30 – Registration, Coffee & Poster Exhibition

10:00 — Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:15 – Keynote: Setting the scene for Industry 5.0

Chris Ivory, Mälardalen University

As the opening keynote speaker, Chris Ivory will provide a big-picture perspective on Industry 5.0 and the forces reshaping industry – from automation and digitalisation to new demands for sustainability, skills development and human-machine collaboration.

10:45 – Keynote: Human–Machine Collaboration

11:15 – Industry Panel Discussion

11:45 – Poster Exhibition, Networking & Lunch

12:30 – Keynote: Sustainability and Industrial Transformation

13:00 – Keynote: Resilience in Industrial Infrastructure

13:00 – Panel with Industry, Academia & Innovation Actors

14:00 – Coffee Break, Poster Exhibition & Networking

15:00 – Parallel Sessions

16:00 – Reflections & The Way Forward

Joint Discussion from the sessions.

16:45 – Closing Remarks

17:45 – Conference dinner

Questions?

Please contact Catarina Berglund, catarina.berglund@mdu.se.