The event will be held On the 15 and 16 of September 2021 live from The Theatre in Milan and it is aimed at the entire printing, converting, and packaging supply chain.
Future Factory is back. The event, organised by Acimga, the association inside Confindustria representing all printing, packaging, and converting technologies, is the main event in the roadmap towards Print4All, the trade fair to be held from 3 to 6 May 2022.
On the 15 and 16 of September 2021 live from The Theatre in Milan, the event is aimed at the entire printing, converting, and packaging supply chain, to offer an opportunity for a deeper analysis with prominent national and international guests, on the core issues currently orienting the markets: sustainability, industry 4.0, servitization, and human resources. Future Factory will be held live, as a physical networking and meeting event combined with the possibility to follow the event in streaming.
Future Factory 2021 gathers the entire international community gravitating around the supply chain, including brand owners, communication agencies and retailers, as well as technology suppliers, and printers.
Future Factory 2021 SpeakersAmong the speakers at the two-day event, Alec Ross, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School and senior adviser on innovation to the Secretary of State during the Obama administration, shall be analysing the changing dynamics in the socio-economic context; Nouriel Roubini, Economist and Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and CEO of global macroeconomic consulting firm Roubini Macro Associates, talking about the global economic scenarios and how economies can, or will have to reorganize themselves towards a necessarily more sustainable future; Ivana Pais, Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, together with David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, going deep into the economic platform models; Paola Mariani, Associate Professor of International Law at Università Bocconi in Milan, looking at economic issues in close relation to international law; Bertrand Badré, former World Bank CEO, CFO of the Société Générale and Crédit Agricole and founder of Blue Like An Orange Sustainable Capital, reflecting on the future ofbusiness organization.
Many other contributions will provide new points of view on the industry looking at future directives for the coming years, with thematic roundtables once again oriented towards sustainability, digitalization, and servitization.
A roundtable on corporate social responsibility, with representatives from the retail world such as Penny Market, Leroy Merlin, and Esselunga, shall be analysing the changes in business models within the global and local market. A discussion will also be held on print as a strategic element creating value by orienting product positioning, with brand owners Nestlè, Henkel, Euro Company, and Pedon. Furthermore, the players within Federazione Carta e Grafica, will provide insights from technology manufacturers, including Simec Group, ACE Electrostatic, Uteco Group, Prades, and OMET, and printers such as Sacchital, Lucaprint, Smurfit Kappa Italy, Gruppo Rotolito and Sales.
The second step of the bilateral sectoral meetings between Italy and Germany, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the German Ministry of Economy and Energy, together with Italian and German associations is an initiative aimed at creating privileged dialogue opportunities between Italian and German industries within specific trade fairs.
In addition, Future Factory 2021 has almost thirty international media partners, further enhancing that vocation toward export that has always characterized the companies in the industry: in 2020, despite the difficulties of the pandemic, the Italian industry in the sector confirmed to be the third largest exporter in the world (behind China and Germany), with a market share of 10%.
“Future Factory is a network opportunity, which this year will take place thinking about a new start,” says Andrea Briganti, General Manager of Acimga. After 2020, which was a very difficult year for our companies, the first six months of 2021 recorded a 67.1% growth in orders compared to the same period of the previous year (+76.2% domestic orders, +64% foreign orders), while turnover marked a +21.4%, standing at a value of 1.4 billion. Those are very positive and comforting signs, which leave us with the hope to return to pre-covid levels within the year.”
“The claim of this new 2021 edition of Future Factory is the future at human service,” continues Briganti, “a claim that wants to underline, in this specific global context, the need to reposition the human being at the centre of the scene. Since industry 4.0 means that human skills are enhanced both in the design phase of production systems and machinery, and in the data processing phase, these are skills that evolve. And at Future Factory we’ll discuss on how they evolve.”
For the full event’s agenda and the latest news on Future Factory 2021, the dedicated website is available at www.future-factory.it/en
Future Factory 2021 is organised by Acimga with the support of ITA (Italian Trade Agency), the Governmental agency that supports the business development of Italian companies abroad and promotes the attraction of foreign investment in Italy and is a new dialogue opportunity for the whole industry, main event in the roadmap towards Print4All (May 3-6, 2022).
Acimga is the association inside Confindustria representing all printing, packaging, and converting technologies, uniting 82 companies for an industrial sector worth about 3 billion in turnover, 60% of which are from exports. Italy is in the top 3 manufacturers for these machines globally (along with Germany and China) with its strengths being mechanical technologies, combined with the latest electronic innovations.
