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Feb 10, 2025
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Future Skills Centre at Conference Board of Canada Event on Smart Manufacturing in Meat Value Chains: Disrupting Skills and Sustainability

The roundtable will unpack the disruptive potential of these smart manufacturing technologies on the skills needed by workers, as well as the competitiveness of meat plants. It will assess the role smart manufacturing can play in advancing corporate sustainability in meat value chains. Finally, the roundtable will surface the policy innovations that will be needed to harness the smart manufacturing disruption into a competitive advantage for Canada

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EVENT DETAILS

Feb 10, 2025

The Westin, Ottawa. 11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1N 9H4.

Organizer

Conference Board of Canada

Event Contact

Babatunde Olateju Ph.D. Director, Sustainability

olateju@conferenceboard.ca

The roundtable will unpack the disruptive potential of these smart manufacturing technologies on the skills needed by workers, as well as the competitiveness of meat plants. It will assess the role smart manufacturing can play in advancing corporate sustainability in meat value chains. Finally, the roundtable will surface the policy innovations that will be needed to harness the smart manufacturing disruption into a competitive advantage for Canada

Roundtable Objectives
1. Unpack the opportunities and implications of smart manufacturing innovation in Canada’s meat processing industry.
2. Assess the impact of smart manufacturing on corporate sustainability in meat value chains.
3. Inform the policy innovations to overcome the skills disruption by smart manufacturing in meat packing plants.

Confirmed Speakers:
1. Frederico Do Amaral, Head of Sales Optimization and Strategy, JBS Canada
2. Cameron Bergen, CEO, Mode40
3. Marco Valicenti, Director General, Innovation Programs Directorate, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada