Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Announces That Mickey McManus Is A Confirmed Speaker for World Manufacturing Forum 2013
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) July 26, 2013 -- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) is pleased to announce that Mickey McManus, President and CEO of MAYA Design, and co-author of "Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology," will be participating as a speaker at World Manufacturing Forum 2013.
The Forum will be held October 22-23 at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. McManus will be participating in the session "Game Changing Key Technologies for Manufacturing" on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 2013.
McManus is president, CEO, and principal of MAYA Design, a leading technology design and innovation lab. In 2005, Mickey spearheaded the launch of MAYA's Pervasive Computing practice to help companies kick-start innovation around business challenges in the connected world. To explore the emerging value at the intersection of design, technology, and business, Mickey co-authored Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology (Wiley 2012). The book is a field guide to the future, where instead of information being "in" computers; people, products, environments, and cultures will begin to live "in" the information.
Mickey holds a BFA in industrial design from the University of Illinois, with extended studies in communication design and mathematics. His work has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Mickey is a frequent speaker on the topic of design, pervasive computing, and business innovation.
This year, with the theme of "The Way Forward to Global Prosperity through Intelligent Manufacturing Collaboration," the Forum will focus on cooperation needed to create a global environment for sustainable economic success through sharing resources, creating and supporting common platforms for standards and interoperability for emerging technologies, solving storage and knowledge-mining challenges for ever-increasing amounts of data, and finding innovative ways to leverage applied R&D investments. The event will also discuss the key innovation differentiators of technology and skills, and the role of educational institutions and companies in training the next-generation of workers in the highly technical field of manufacturing.
The Forum will bring together high-level industrialists, policy makers, and key societal stakeholders across the globe for a cross-exchange of ideas on major macroeconomic trends and manufacturing innovation. The Forum is sponsored by the international Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program and its member countries and is open to international sponsorship from government, industry, and institutions.
To receive an invitation to WMF 2013, please contact info(at)worldmanufacturingforum(dot)org. For more information and to register for this event, please visit online at http://www.worldmanufacturingforum.org/Pages/default.aspx
About IMS:
IMS is an industry-led, international business innovation and research and development (R&D) program established to develop the next generation of manufacturing and processing technologies through multi-lateral collaboration. We provide global services to institutions from our supporting Regions including the European Union, Mexico, Switzerland, and the United States of America. Other Regions are pending membership, and others are encouraged to join the IMS program.
IMS offers international consortium building and coaching services provided at no charge to researchers from member countries, a listing of projects seeking partners, and a project database with valuable research information. IMS is also a premier sponsor of the World Manufacturing Forum where high-level government officials and industry executives discuss issues and solutions to challenges in manufacturing.
Kari King, World Manufacturing Forum, 703.247.2588, [email protected]
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