09:00

Registration coffee and mingle

09:30

Opening of the Swedish Manufacturing Conference

09:45

Keynote: Julia Mörtberg, Managing Director at Cummins, Scania XPI Manufacturing 

10:05

Keynote: Elin Haapaniemi, Head of Sustainability Sweden and Nordics, Siemens 

10:30

Break with coffee and moving to the sessions

11:00

Parallel sessions 

Session 1 – Digital Manufacturing Cluster: AI for Resilience – From Predictive Maintenance to Data Ecosystems and Cyber-Secure OT

Session leader: Sten Grahn

Session 2 – Forming & Joining Cluster:
Joining technologies as enablers of competitiveness and resilience

Session leader: Joakim Hedegård and Klara Trydell, Swerim

Session 3 – Surface Treatment Cluster

Session leader: Charlotte Ireholm

Study visit at Scania Smart Factory 

Limit: 25 people

1. From Active Resilience to Autonomous Operations: AI, Knowledge Graphs, and Human-Centred Frameworks for Future-Ready Manufacturing
Speakers: Arpita Chari, Chalmers, Magnus Wahlgård, SKF  

1. Large scale remanufacturing and reuse of cast & forged components
Speakers: Alexander Lundstjälk, Joakim Hedegård, Swerim & Asun Valiente, University West

1. AI-Boosted Automated Painting – Autopaint – a project to enhance
Speaker: Fredrik Edelvik, Fraunhofer Chalmers-Centre 

2. Creating Digital Value in Manufacturing: Insights from the STRIDE Collaboration – Skultuna Induflex’s journey toward reinventing Quality Inspectio
Speakers: Saad Azhar and Niclas Ericsson, RISE and Mohsin Saleemi, Skultuna Induflex

2. Characterizing, optimising, and repairing electrically conductive joints in EV battery applications
Speakers: Ethan Sullivan, Swerim & Oscar Andersson, RISE

2. PFAS and PFOS – the eternal chemicals  

3. Human-Machine Co-Learning for Sustainable and Resilient Decision Making in the AI Era
Speaker: Amos Ng, University of Skövde  

3. Machine Vision-Based Real-Time Quality Monitoring in Friction Stir Welding
Speaker: Naveen Loganathan, University West

3. Robust electrical contacts – Surfaces of importance
Speaker: Jan Skogsmo, RISE

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Presentation of the Net Zero Industry Manufacturing Outlook
Introduction by Sofia Wieselfors and Cecilia Ramberg, Net Zero Industry.

Followed by the launch of the Maufacturing Outlook, an annual report on the status of the Swedish manufacturing industry. Klas Cullbrand, Analysis and Innovation Strategist, Net Zero Industry

13:45

Panel discussion: From outlook to action: Building a competitive and resilient manufacturing industry
Elin Haapaniemi, Head of Sustainability Sweden and Nordics, Siemens
Johan Svenningstorp, Head of Research and Development Operations, Volvo Group
Björn Johansson, Professor (Chair) Sustainable Production, Chalmers
Klas Cullbrand, Analysis and Innovation Strategist, Net Zero Industry 

14:15

Short break for moving to the sessions

Workshop with Net Zero Industry: How do we accelerate the transformation towards a net-zero industry?

Forming & Joining Cluster: Forming
technologies as enablers of competitiveness and resilience

Session leader: Oscar Andersson, RISE

Study visit: Scania Chassis Assembly  

Limit: 30 people

1. Forming of scrap-based aluminium sheet – evaluation of formability and modelling
Speakers: Yusuf Kucukyavuz, AP&T and Peter Ottosson, RISE

2. Towards zero emission vehicles using composites with recycled thermoplastics
Speaker: Yvonne Aitomäki, RISE

15:15

Break with coffee 

15:45

Workshop with Net Zero Industry: Part 2

Digital Manufacturing
Cluster: AI Enablement Support to Industry: Cases, Coaching, and Computation (AI ShiftLabs and  MIMER)

Session leader: Per Gullander and Sten Grahn, RISE

Continuation of study visit

1. From idea to industrial impact: MIMER makes AI accessible for Swedish industry
Speaker: Benedict Neyses, MIMER-Materials

2.From Drawings to Data with AI-ShiftLabs: Template Generation and Tolerance Validation using Machine Learning at Gaston Components
Speakers: Peter Anderson, RISE and Peter Weisheit, Gaston Components

16:30

Keynote: Johan Svenningstorp, Head of Research and Development Operations, 
Volvo Group and Sten Grahn, Senior Researcher, RISE
Sense of Emergency - we do have the tools to solve it

17:15

Summary and closing of the first day

17:20

Mingle

18:45

Dinner

Welcome and introduction 

Keynote speaker  
To be announced 

Keynote: Linda Fransson, CEO, Gnosjö Automatsvarvning AB 

Session 1 – Logistics Cluster

Session 2 – Production Management Cluster: Towards resilient and sustainable production systems

Session leaders: Camilla Munther and Ulrika Harlin, RISE

Session 3 – Component Manufacturing Cluster: Towards Net Zero component manufacturing

Session leaders: Goran Ljustina, HORSE Powertrain and Eva Troell, RISE

Study visit: Scania Smart Factory 

Limit: 25 people

1. Complexities in managing the digital transformation
Speakers: Anna Granlund, MDU och Marc Weber, Volvo GTO

1. Advanced Manufacturing Solutions for Next Generation Powertrain (Centre X)
Speaker: Andreas Archenti, KTH

2. Industrialization and Green Design
Speaker: Monica Bellgran, MDU 

2. Anferra transforms "slitpmull" into resources for critical water treatment
Speaker: Ebba Adolfsson, Anferra

3. How can AI support process planning?
Speaker: Peter Almström, Chalmers and Anton Berce, Industrial Path Solutions Sweden AB

3. AI-based decision support for managing fluctuating scrap supply at Swedish foundries
Speaker: Lennart Elmquist, RISE 

Session 1 – Assembly Cluster: Innovative assembly in a changing world

Session leaders: Robert Wester, Volvo Trucks and Björn Backman, RISE  

Session 2 – Geometry Cluster

Session 3 – SMIF-workshop: Roadmaps, approaches, and support for successful research applications

Session leaders: Per Gullander, RISE and Ulrika Harlin, RISE

Study visit: Scania Chassis Assembly 

Limit: 30 people

1. Scheduling of Assembly and Logistics Systems with AI (SALSA) 
Speakers: Erik Flores Garcia and Yongkuk Jeong, KTH

1. Roadmap work in practice (Scania)

2. PLENary multi-User developMent arena for industrial workspace – Practical results (PLENUM)
Speaker: Björn Johansson, Chalmers

2. R&D projects – enablers for co-creation of new knowledge and competitiveness
Group discussion: How to create successful research project applications?

3. Pro Code – Implementation of AI
Speaker: Omkar Salunkhe, Chalmers 

3. What extra support can resolve the challenges, and who can provide it?
Group discussion

Keynote speaker
To be announced