The Great Digital Engineering Debate

How can Industry 4.0 advancements successfully sync with business transformation?   Join a hand-picked panel of engineering/enterprise leaders and service providers plus the HFS analyst team, led by Phil Fersht, who poses the following questions:   Digital engineering-led IT/OT convergence is not some sci-fi story—it’s essential for survival. Then why are we still struggling with “digital transformation”?  Automation, AI, analytics, blockchain, IoT, AR/VR, 5G, quantum computing… How do manufacturing organizations stay at the edge of innovation?  While digital aims to address the technical debt in Global 2000 manufacturing enterprises, how do we address the ballooning process debt and talent debt across the manufacturing value chain?  COVID-19 shined a light on our supply chains and illuminated the cracks that have always existed. How do we unshackle our supply chain? While engineering services have traditionally operated in a market of their own, will these services become closely linked with technology and business services as Industry 4.0 expands beyond the shop floor to the supply chain?  The Women’s Engineering Society reported Engineering UK figures that show women make up only 14.5% of all engineers in the UK. In the US, the Census Bureau says that women make up almost half of the workforce but have only 27% of the STEM jobs. How can we go about improving diversity within the engineering sector?