How Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping the Future of Work – ARIA Summit 2020

Online | On-demand

Augmentir recently participated in the 2020 ARIA Leadership Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. The AR in Action (ARIA) Leadership Summit featured live presentations from inventors, innovators, integrators, investors, and other executives that are experts in the industry. The summit focused on the latest advancements in augmented reality, and how AR and other technologies will shape the industry in 2020 and beyond.

Augmentir’s Chris Kuntz presented on “The Rise of the Augmented Worker: How AI and AR are Shaping the Future of Work.” This presentation showcased a unique use of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) in the manufacturing sector, and how AI is being used to intelligently close the skills gap and transform the frontline workforce of the future. The combination of AI and AR will allow us to provide the next generation of connected workers with AI-driven, visual guidance that will continuously improve work outputs and ultimately lead to the exponential productivity gains industrial companies are looking for.

Here is a recording of the presentation.

Supported by an increased level of connected-ness of today’s frontline workers, AI systems are capable of taking in large amounts of data and finding correlations and patterns that can be used to help improve productivity, enhance skills, and provide more cost-effective, targeted training. With an ecosystem of content authors, frontline workers, subject matter experts, operations managers, continuous improvement engineers, and quality specialists, there are dozens of opportunities to address the skills gap, improve quality, and improve performance.

The level of personalization that an AI-based system can deliver to work procedures and instructions allows companies to not only address initial skill gaps but also deliver continual improvements over time.

Learning Solutions Conference & Expo 2022

April 20-22 | Orlando, FL

Learning Solutions Conference & Expo is where learning professionals from around the globe have gathered year after year to share and explore what works in L&D. The event consists of the full Conference and the free-to-attend Expo. The Conference houses 120+ practical sessions, invigorating keynotes, many opportunities for attendees to connect, and much more. The sessions are categorized under key L&D tracks including: Instructional Design, Management & Strategy, Emerging Tech, Tools, Learning Platforms, and more. These tracks serve as a session guide for every member of a team, from instructional designers to high-level executives. 

The free-to-attend Expo consists of 60+ leading industry suppliers that showcase their latest tools, technologies, products, and services. Learning Solutions 2022 will be held April 20 – 22, 2022, at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. 

Visit Augmentir’s Booth and Hear Innovative Ways to Train Your Workforce

Traditional approaches to training and development don’t apply to today’s industrial workforce. Augmentir delivers continuous learning and development tools to optimize training for a rapidly changing and diverse workforce. AI-based analytics help you better understand your workforce and make informed workforce development decisions.

Stop by booth 410 to hear how companies like Bio-Chem Fluidics was able to improve learning and development by reducing training times of new hires by over 80% (from three months down to two weeks) using Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform while also driving continuous improvement across its entire manufacturing operation.

If your work is in the design, development, and/or management of learning and performance initiatives, Learning Solutions 2022 is for you. The program supports the entire team so regardless of your specific role, you’ll find what you need to be successful at any level. This event attracts people from around the world who want to keep up with the evolving needs of their learners and organizations, including:

  • Individual contributors, such as instructional designers and eLearning developers
  • L&D and training managers, directors, and executives
  • Managers and executives whose work connects to learning, such as chief technology officers, human resources executives, and IT directors
  • Plus, anyone looking for proven learning solutions, including new tools, technologies, products, services, strategies, and best practices that they can deploy in their organizations right away!

What Will You Gain?

  • Contemporary Content – Learning Solutions’ dedication to sharing proven examples in learning will help you and your team gain a stronger sense of what’s available and how you can put these tools and techniques into practice.
  • Applicable Ideas – the Learning Solutions program is created by experienced professionals who come from the fields of instructional design, eLearning development, technology, HR, and L&D leadership. They pride themselves on staying current with what matters most to people like you.
  • Access to Expertise – get key advice from experts who will discuss the strategies and tools currently working in learning, and how they could impact your organization tomorrow.
  • Today’s Technology – explore new solutions from dozens of leading suppliers of learning tools, technologies, and services at the Expo.
  • Community – head back to the office with fresh ideas for your work and new, lifelong connections to reach out to after the conference.

What to Expect

The Learning Solutions 2022 program hosts energizing learning opportunities for you to make amazing leaps in the work you do in L&D. There will be many opportunities that will propel your performance and expertise:

  • Keynotes – the keynotes at Learning Solutions are inspirational, amazing storytellers, and they will leave you with a whole new perspective on the world of learning and development.
  • 120+ Sessions – sessions at this event are led by people from L&D like you and will help you discover solutions you can use right away. The 120+ sessions will explore the most pivotal topics in our industry today, including instructional design, management and strategy, emerging tech, and more.

Learning Solutions will also offer pre-conference opportunities that will focus on proven practices and explore what works at the intersection of learning and technology. To expand upon this theme, there will be 14 learning opportunities kicking off before the main event that are fully dedicated to the most important topics in the field:

  • Workshops – optional pre-conference workshops will provide you with a deep dive into new skills and knowledge that you can immediately put to work in your organization.
  • Co-located Events – choose from unique co-located events to explore and help solve some of the most common challenges in the field.
  • Certificate Programs – Learning Solutions hosts two Certificate Programs, happening April 18 & 19 prior to the conference. Join expert speakers as they take a close look at emerging topics with a focus on practical application.

 

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Digital Manufacturing Summit

May 19, 2022 | Chicago, IL

The 6th annual Digital Manufacturing Summit is a world-class manufacturing event brought to you by Transform Industry, launched under Transformative Media. Transform Industry connects the global manufacturing, industrial, innovation, automotive and future technology ecosystem to transform the way we do business. With 20+ senior expert speakers and 8+ technology partners, the Digital Manufacturing Summit event will illustrate the latest manufacturing case studies, explore enterprise transformation, and showcase future innovations.

At the Digital Manufacturing Summit, in addition to personal and professional development, you can steer your business to work smarter and become more agile. Learn how leading companies are utilizing and implementing new applications, solutions and technologies.

Learn how you can build an autonomous workforce of the future with Augmentir!

Augmentir’s VP of Strategic Operations Chris Kuntz will be a speaker at this year’s event talking about the future manufacturing workforce and why it’s time to rethink how we train, guide, and support our workers. Learn best practices for leveraging real-time workforce intelligence to provide insights into workforce training, guidance, and support needs and hear how leading manufacturers are using digital tools to allow their workforce to work autonomously for tasks like routine maintenance and quality checks. 

In this session, you’ll also discover how AI-based, data-driven performance support can intelligently close skills gaps at the moment of need and improve safety, quality, and productivity.

At Augmentir, we believe the true value comes from the data-driven insights that our AI powered Connected Worker platform provides. When you combine AI with digital work instructions, you can see exactly how well your workforce is performing as well as where the strengths are. With these insights our platform creates tailored work instructions for each individual worker, enabling them to perform at their very best. Stop by the Augmentir booth to learn more!

What Will You Gain?

At the Digital Manufacturing Summit, in addition to personal and professional development, you can steer your business to work smarter and become more agile. Learn how leading companies are utilizing and implementing new applications, solutions, and technologies.

Key Focus Areas include:

  • Smart Factory 
  • AI & Machine Learning 
  • IIoT
  • Sustainability
  • Industry 4.0 
  • Sensors & IoT
  • Big Data Analytics 
  • Digital Transformation
  • Automation
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • AR & VR
  • Connected Production 
  • Supply Chain resilience
  • Digital Twin
  • Robots & Cobots
  • Intelligent Process Automation

 

Who will be there?

From CEOs to VPs of Manufacturing, Technology, Digital, Innovation, Operations and Supply Chain. Mingle with VPs, Directors and Managers, Senior Decision makers at every level. This practical, how-to content-packed programme will show you where the opportunities are that you can exploit, and, more importantly, how you can gain competitive advantage. Our expert speakers and discussion leaders will steer you through the process required to transform and future proof your manufacturing business for the next decade.

 

Business Benefits:

  • Optimize business processes
  • Seize competitive advantage in an unprecedented era
  • Expand your business and customer portfolio
  • Reduce costs – work lean and smarter
  • Drive ahead of the competition
  • Improve resourcing efficiencies for greater productivity
  • Streamline your production process
  • Turbo charge profitability and ROI
  • Build positive brand exposure
  • Increase operational capacity

 

Personal Benefits:

  • Gain exposure to multiple industries successfully deploying new and emerging technologies with best-in-class manufacturing speakers
  • Expand your professional network through meetings, panels, and roundtable sessions
  • Make better data-based decisions on vital business projects
  • Get direct access to world renowned enterprises and learn best practice through case studies and exclusive presentations
  • Source new suppliers and have productive conversations to how they can support your manufacturing business
  • Benefit from a fully immersive virtual event experience with interactive event features, video meetings, chat and advanced networking capabilities and AI powered matchmaking

 

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AWE USA 2022

June 1-3, 2022

Santa Clara, CA | June 1-3, 2022

Experience First-Hand the Most Exciting Industry of Our Time

Join the most valuable community to connect, learn, and grow your business and personal life with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. AWE focuses on Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), immersive technologies and enabling technologies (eg. Artificial Intelligence-AI, interaction, haptics, 5G, streaming and more). With over 1 billion users and the majority of the Fortune 1000’s on board, finally Spatial Computing has entered the mainstream – it’s time to go spatial!

Learn from those solving major technical challenges, bringing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality into new sectors, considering ethical and legal issues, promoting diversity, and working on the cutting edge of AR/VR development. Explore AWE and discover your best way to get involved: global events, conferences and tradeshows, local and topical meetups and webinars from the AWE Nite community, classes and workshops in the AWE Academy, videos and reports: 365 days a year – because every day is Spatial!

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Hannover Messe

May 30 – June 2, 2022 | Hannover, Germany

HANNOVER MESSE 2022, the world’s most important event for industrial technology, focuses on digitalization and sustainability. Digitalization and sustainability are the key to transforming business and industry because they enable digitized, climate-neutral and sustainable value creation.

Climate protection requires digitalization, automation, green energy, and growth

Industry plays a key role on the road to climate neutrality. To maintain competitiveness, industrial companies have to protect the environment; to do so, they must significantly reduce CO2 emissions. How? By investing in digitalized, energy-efficient, and climate-friendly production processes. And only the most modern industrial technologies can generate and distribute renewable energies in sufficient quantities. HANNOVER MESSE 2022 shows how industry is transitioning to climate-neutrality.

The path to a climate-neutral industry goes through Hannover

Exhibitors at HANNOVER MESSE have combined digitalization, artificial intelligence, automation, and sustainable energy concepts to develop solutions to the global challenges of climate change.

 

Augmentir will be attending HANNOVER MESSE along with partners Cisco Webex and RealWear.

Augmentir joined the Webex Ecosystem in 2021 as Cisco’s connected worker partner, allowing Webex by Cisco customers to empower their frontline workers via a seamless integration of Webex and Augmentir’s connected worker and digital workflow solution. Through the integration of Augmentir and Webex Expert on Demand (XoD), industrial companies can:

  • Improve job quality – Drive quality improvements by moving from paper-based to interactive digital work instructions augmented with rich media, contextual data, and mixed reality experiences, ensuring your workers always have the correct information on hand to make error-free and safe decisions.
  • Reduce time to resolution – Enhance collaboration across your teams with access to on-demand remote expert guidance through Webex Expert on Demand, allowing your remote workforce and your customers to remotely collaborate and receive instant help from subject matter experts no matter the time or their location.
  • Improve Worker Safety – In addition to running on any mobile phone or tablet, Augmentir and Webex are supported on the voice enabled RealWear Navigator 500 as well as HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1 industrial headsets, offering hands-free operation that can be used in nearly any industrial environment. This helps workers stay focused on the task at hand to improve safety and efficiency.
  • Reduce operational costs – Identify areas where the largest improvements can be made within your workforce and across your organization with insights from Augmentir’s AI.

 

Companies from mechanical and electrical engineering as well as the software and IT sectors demonstrate how digitalization and automation link together factories to produce more efficiently and use fewer resources. Companies from the energy industry show how to generate and transmit energy efficiently and sustainably; how to produce and use hydrogen for industrial production; and how to distribute wind and solar power intelligently. These technologies offer considerable potential, especially for energy-intensive manufacturing companies.

HANNOVER MESSE promotes sustainable economic growth, because without it climate goals are too expensive and thus unattainable. Plus, sustainability generates additional growth and new business opportunities. How? Digitalization and automation save energy and resources while increasing productivity. The end result: A much smaller, transparent CO2 footprint.

This is how HANNOVER MESSE initiates a constructive discourse between business, politics, science, and society, which in turn develop solutions to the big challenge facing mankind –climate change.

We are very excited to showcase this partnership live in Germany with our partners at RealWear and CiscoWebex. Be sure to visit us in the expo hall to see how Cisco Webex Expert on Demand and Augmentir’s AI-Powered Connected Worker Platform together deliver a powerful solution that helps intelligently guide and remotely support frontline workers so that they can perform at their best.

Connected Worker Summit

May 3-5, 2022 | Houston, TX

Join us at this year’s Connected Worker Summit on May 3-5, 2022, and network with over 200 operations leaders at the Norris Conference Center in Houston, TX. Learn how to build a connected workforce to improve operational efficiency, training, asset management, quality, and safety.

Over 30 industry leaders are taking to the stage to show you how to:

  • Create a safer work environment, boost compliance and improve efficiencies through automation
  • Make your data mobile and reduce rework, non-productive time, and time to decision
  • The next normal: Connected Worker driven Operational Excellence
  • Locate assets, materials, tools, and coworkers during maintenance projects
  • Achieve a resilient world-class safety culture by leveraging AI / ML and Cloud
  • Use AR/VR to Create Simulated Environments
  • Adapt to the new post Covid 19 reality and build agility and flexibility into your operations
  • Empower front-line employees with a dynamic Connected Worker strategy
  • Provide a consolidated view to link your front-line workers to the information they need – when they need it most
  • Measure the ROI of connected worker technologies so you can build the business case now

Dive into the latest trends and challenges, choose between 8 peer-led Interactive Discussion Groups, embrace more networking time, and enjoy pre-summit workshops focused on:

  • Moving from connected worker to connected workforce
  • Driving operational excellence with a robust connected worker strategy
  • Reducing risk in hazardous conditions with connected safety management
  • Improving efficiencies and consistency with remote operations
  • Leveraging connected worker technology to improve maintenance and inspections
  • Preparing your organization for digital, business, and cultural transformation

 

The Connected Worker Summit agenda includes insightful hands-on workshops and two full days of case studies, keynotes, and interactive discussion groups. Plus don’t miss out on networking sessions, demos, dinners, and more!

The importance of having a connected workforce in order to achieve operational excellence is no secret. The pandemic has taught industrial leaders that it is critical to ensure their frontline workers are safe, connected, and empowered so that they can make intelligent, informed decisions. The number one way to build resilient, safe, efficient operations is through a connected workforce. At Augmentir, we recognize that this new connected worker is a source of valuable enterprise data – but only if the data can be captured and understood. The challenge lies in the fact that connected worker data is inherently noisy, with high variability and confusing signals. Making sense of this data and turning it into actionable insights is only possible with AI. At the Connected Worker Summit, discover how Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker technology is being used to shape today’s new workforce and address some of manufacturing’s biggest challenges.

 

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North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) 2022

April 25-27 2022 | Chicago, IL

The North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) is an annual gathering of more than 500 of the most senior Manufacturing professionals from North America’s largest organizations and is the must-attend event for manufacturing executives. NAMES22 will take place from April 25th-27th in Chicago, IL. 

As the manufacturing landscape continues to evolve in North America, manufacturing leaders are facing immense pressure to adapt and grow in a competitive global marketplace. Today’s new normal demands an ongoing commitment to improving productivity, performance, delivery, quality, compliance, environmental footprint, and customer satisfaction. This is why it’s critical to understand unique and cutting edge solutions other manufacturers are implementing in their organizations to solve these universal challenges. 

NAMES brings together the “who’s who” of manufacturing executives, cutting-edge technology providers and media partners for North America’s premier manufacturing event. Attendees can look forward to two full days of networking, benchmarking, learning, and sharing with industry peers as they discuss the most important issues, challenges, and opportunities all manufacturing executives are engaging with on a daily basis in their working lives. 

Attend the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit to hear how Augmentir is helping companies like Colgate-Palmolive, Hunter Industries, Baker Hughes, and Bio-chem Fluidics accelerate digital transformation, reduce training and onboarding times, and drive continuous improvement across their manufacturing operation using AI-powered connected worker technology. Discover the necessary tools and knowledge needed to build a digital strategy that will boost productivity and promote quality improvements in your manufacturing organization.

 

Agenda at a Glance

  • Building and Maintaining Competitive Advantage
  • Lean, Operational Excellence, and CI Programs
  • Training Tomorrow’s Leaders
  • Leveraging New Technologies
  • Managing a Global Footprint
  • Workforce Development

Who Should Attend?

  • SVPs & VPs of Manufacturing
  • Directors of Manufacturing
  • Lean/CI and OPEX Executives
  • Supply Chain Leaders
  • Operations and Quality Executives
  • Plant Managers

 

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Connected Worker Manufacturing

March 29-30 | Virtual

In the new norm, it’s important to keep your frontline workers safe, mobile, and efficient. Connected Worker technology is helping manufacturing companies achieve just that – a safe work environment that maintains quality and efficiency. In order to stay competitive and relevant in today’s world, manufacturing leaders must rely on modern technology to digitize their frontline workers. 

The Connected Worker Manufacturing event will take place virtually on March 29th and 30th and focuses on connected worker technology that will improve operational efficiency, training, asset management, quality, and safety. Join over 300 manufacturing industry leaders and learn how to:

  • Transition from the Connected Worker to the Connected Workforce
  • Build a Connected Workforce from the ground up
  • Successfully create a remote work environment that boosts compliance and improves efficiency.
  • Empower your front-line workers with a Connected Worker strategy
  • Leverage data from multiple data sources to drive insight

Connected Worker Manufacturing is free to attend for manufacturing leaders. You will hear the best case studies from across the globe with no travel costs or time out of the office necessary. Additionally, you’ll be able to access content on demand and watch in your own time and have access to all of the latest connected worker technologies!

Who attends the Connected Worker Manufacturing event: 

This virtual event is designed for Manufacturing VPs, Directors and Managers responsible for:

  • Operations
  • Technology
  • Production
  • Plant Operations
  • Manufacturing
  • Quality
  • Food Safety
  • Risk Management
  • Human Resources
  • Automation
  • Maintenance and Reliability
  • Health & Safety
  • Business Process Optimization
  • Asset Management
  • Transformation, Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence
  • Digital Transformation
  • Training / Learning

 

Augmentir’s VP of Strategic Operations, Chris Kuntz, will lead a presentation at the event where he will discuss how a traditional connected worker platform alone won’t cut it. Most Connected Worker technologies stop at digitizing work instructions, meaning taking your existing paper processes and putting it on glass – via phones or tablets. At Augmentir, we believe the true value comes from the data driven insights that our AI powered Connected Worker platform provides. When you combine AI with digital work instructions, you can see exactly how well your workforce is performing as well as where the strengths are. With these insights our platform creates tailored work instructions to each individual worker, enabling them to perform at their very best. Tune in to Chris’s presentation to learn more!

 

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