Industrialization & Sustainability theme will focus on the transformation witnessed at scale across the industrial zones and ports towards developing and delivering a sustainable world class ecosystem to enable future factories to thrive, operate and drive efficiency. The theme will dive into understanding the policies, regulations, developments and support from government stake holders and enablers towards realizing economic diversification through providing robust infrastructure and favorable investment climate and incentives to drive Industry 4.0.

Digitalization & Emerging technologies theme will shed insights on the Digital Journey towards Intelligent Industrial Ecosystems and delivering Future Factories. The theme will delve on establishing the culture, strategy and application of emerging technologies towards achieving improvements in agility, scalability, performance, growth and customer experience.

Robotics & Automation theme will highlight the innovation that is happening in the plant floor. The key objective of the manufacturer is to run the plant floor with minimal human intervention as well as gather intelligence on what happened in the plant floor, see what is happening, and predict what will happen to improve visibility within the four walls and enable better decision making on the plant floor. This theme will be further explored delving into areas such as robotic manufacturing, industrial IoT enabling asset management, etc.

Collaboration & Innovation theme will on the collaboration viewpoint give insights on connecting with customers and suppliers to collaborate across the product life cycle from ideation through to product retirement. Areas such as supply chain optimization, customer management, supplier management, trade promotion, service innovation, etc. will be dealt upon within this theme. On the innovation front it further digs deeper into improving the innovation process within the factory to bring new products to market faster and cheaper. Areas such as product innovation, simulation, formula management, etc., will be covered under this theme.