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New Agoria manual compiles good practices against COVID-19 As an employer, you naturally consider it important to offer your employees a safe and hygienic working environment. The manual 'How do I Tackle COVID-19?' is a handy guide to 'good practices' from member companies that are confronted with the same issues as you, supplemented by the insights on safety from our own Agoria experts.
26/05 ‘Back on track’ – Agoria event on 26 May 2021 at 5:00 pm. Be there! On Wednesday 26 May at 5:00 pm, Agoria will rock the Sportpaleis to its foundations. From Antwerp, we will bring you a no-nonsense streaming full of immediately actionable ideas to get your company strongly on track in today's new reality.
Bart Steukers CEO of Agoria Bart Steukers CEO of Agoria Bart Steukers is CEO of the technology federation Agoria as this day. With a degree in commercial engineering and an MBA under his belt, Bart has been working as Agoria's Context Director since 2016. He set the course for Agoria's activities in the digital and manufacturing industry, helped shape the study centre and coordinated the representation of interests. Prior to that, he worked for eleven years at Unisys, where he rose to General Manager Continental Europe, and eighteen years at IBM as Public Sector Executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Bart was also a business angel for a while.
US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program – 13 April 2021 - online There is an upcoming opportunity for companies to learn more about the US Secretary of Defense Research&Engineering  Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program. Read more

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Standards in support of the Green Deal: Climate ambition Through the Green Deal, the European Commission has set a series of ambitious goals to transition towards a fully green economy and reach the global climate target of net zero by 2050. To reach these objectives, all actors involved will have to rethink the way to produce and consume, the way our infrastructures work, the use of resources and the functioning of transportation systems. Read more
Ontex: ‘Becoming a Factory of the Future requires a lot of hard work’ How do you build a production system that not only produces at a high rate, but also has the inherent flexibility to handle all possible variants of a product without issue? Ontex, based in Eeklo, successfully took up this monumental challenge, as evidenced by the Factory of the Future awards it won in 2016 and 2019.
Standards in support of the Green Deal: Sustainable and smart mobility Through the Green Deal, the European Commission has set a series of ambitious goals to transition towards a fully green economy and reach the global climate target of net zero by 2050. To reach these objectives, all actors involved will have to rethink the way to produce and consume, the way our infrastructures work, the use of resources and the functioning of transportation systems. In this first contribution, the focus is on Sustainable and smart mobility.
Standardisation regarding “Surfaces with biocidal and antimicrobial properties” Agoria has recently been recognised by the NBN as sector operator for ISO/TC 330 “Surfaces with biocidal and antimicrobial properties”.
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22/04 Brokerage event 'Eureka Clusters AI Call 2021' In order to support you in the creating your project proposal and build your consortium for the Eureka Clusters AI Call 2021, an online Brokerage event will be organised on 22 April 2021. This event will enable you to present your project idea(s) and/or learn about other project ideas.
Easier to send personal data to South Korea from the EU soon? The international transfer of personal data outside the European Union is changing on several fronts: More restrictive in many cases, but there is also a welcome positive development now regarding transfers to South Korea.
Development and validation of Driving Monitoring Systems : two major challenges for the automotive industry
23/04 AI Inspiration Session - How to improve asset performance using AI? Increasing digitisation is one of the most important trends in asset intensive organisations. We know this by the collective name 'industry 4.0', with terms such as IoT, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI in particular is increasingly being used to optimise and automate all kinds of processes. But what does AI mean for the world of maintenance and asset management?
Event 27/04/2021 The Why and How of Getting Smart in Manufacturing Is Belgium ready for the future of Industry 4.0? During the webinar "The why and how of getting smart in manufacturing" organised by Nokia, experts from Agoria and Nokia will discuss how the 4th industrial revolution, driven by digitisation and wireless networks and enabled by 4.9G and 5G, is unfolding worldwide. Book your seat now!
'Pulse Check': the impact of COVID-19 on automotive suppliers In February 2021, CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers) together with McKinsey & Company questioned the CLEPA members again about the economic situation and outlook. Organized for the 4th time now, this 'Pulse-Check' has become a kind of barometer for the automotive industry. The previous edition dates from September 2020.
Belgian startups pitch themselves to BMW in the Startup Garage For the first time, six Belgian startups presented themselves to the BMW Group during a pitch event at the BMW Startup Garage. The event was realized by BMW Startup Garage and the Automotive Technology Club of Agoria.
Factory of the Future 2021: L’Oréal – Libramont Factory The 'Factory of the Future' awards were presented on 23 February in Flanders and Wallonia. In this series of articles, we will meet the various winners and outline why they deserved their award! We are continuing this series with the L’Oréal Group’s Libramont factory whose production processes have undergone several transformations over the years.