PAST EVENTS

JUNE 13, 2018WASHINGTON, DCNow in its third year, the MForesight National Summit is a unique one-day event that attracts a diverse range of leading thinkers focused on the future of American manufacturing. The event had both a technology keynote, Blake Moret, CEO of Rockwell Automation, and a policy keynote, Willy Shih of Harvard Business School. Thank you to all who joined us!

OCTOBER 12, 2017PITTSBURGH, PAThis MForesight workshop, convened in collaboration with the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), is focused on forecasting and harnessing major materials science and engineering (MS&E) innovations that will unlock new opportunities for the next wave of manufacturing.

MForesight hosted a workshop during the 2017 ASME-MSEC Conference at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to listen to experts, share ideas and build partnerships to broaden technical capabilities and access to low-volume manufacturing.

MForesight wants to help ensure an educated, skilled, and ready U.S. manufacturing workforce, competent and confident in using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies and new materials and processes in advanced manufacturing. To that end, the Education & Workforce Development Working Group compiled a report of over 30 relevant programs and initiatives.

NOVEMBER 6-9, 2017CHICAGO, ILBOOTH B502We surveyed the manufacturing community at FABTECH 2017 in Chicago, IL. Thanks to all who stopped by our booth to participate!

OCTOBER 18 – 19, 2017TECHTOWN DETROIT

This event is a unique opportunity bringing together industry and academic technology managers to network, partner, discover, and license technologies, as well as to find further opportunities for collaboration and sponsored research in the area of shaping and joining. MForesight is hosting the forum in collaboration with the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).

TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017

MForesight’s 2017 National Summit convened some of the nation’s foremost manufacturing experts, business leaders, and decision-makers to explore crucial questions including:

1. What will American manufacturing look like in five years? Ten years? Twenty?

2. How will emerging technologies from nanotech and organ printing to artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things change the nature of products and work?

3. What’s America’s strategy for creating and sustaining manufacturing jobs, preserving our technological edge, and maintaining global manufacturing leadership?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017

“US Capitol Building” by Upendra Kanda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)This briefing, co-hosted by MForesight and CCC in conjunction with the House Manufacturing Caucus, provided a window into what was discussed at the Cyber Security for Manufacturers workshop.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016The first National Summit was held in Washington, DC on September 29, 2016. The theme for the Summit was “America’s New Manufacturing Moment.”

The Leadership Council met in conjunction with the National Summit. The meeting provided a chance for members of the Leadership Council to hear more about MForesight’s recent activities and share ideas about what technologies to pursue in the coming year.

We are working to identify advances in hardware, software, and services would have the biggest impact on increasing the variety and value of what an individual could design, prototype, and manufacture, and how entrepreneurs can best be supported to make the transition from being a “maker” to low-volume manufacturing. Additionally, we will identify the barriers that entrepreneurs and SMMs (small and medium-sized manufacturers) face when trying to access an established supply chain, and how to lower barriers to accessing new technologies by SMMs.

Providing manufacturing training to the Cleantech start-up community could better leverage federal investment in research and development, help bring innovative products to market, foster the manufacturing sector in the U.S., and support the global transition to a clean energy future. We gathered together experts to discuss possible topics and delivery methods for this training.