Industry 4.0 Congress is led by more than 40 women technologists

The number of women who will discuss 4.0 skills and competencies is increasing thanks to the Advanced Factories event.

Advanced Factories The biggest Industry 4.0 event will be held at the CCIB in Barcelona on March 3, 4 and 5. Those attending the event will be able to discover the 4.0 technologies that will represent the next period, as was done in the previous one, the Automation Systems, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Digital Twin, among others, were presented.CHALLENGE: DIVERSITY This new decade has an essential challenge in society, diversity. In our country, only 15% of technological positions are occupied by women, just as the presence of women in computer or technological careers is 12%. The European average is 20%. Thanks to the report Women in the Digital Age 2018 by the European Commission, women's participation in the digital market at the same level as men would generate an annual GDP increase of 16 billion euros for the European economy.Advanced Factories aims to give visibility to the role of women, in this way, will be attended by more than 40 women who will discuss industry 4.0, 8% more than the previous edition.

“We know that this is a figure that has a long way to improve, we continue to pursue the challenge of arriving at an agenda with more women experts at the congress to give them visibility with great effort, but for this we must raise awareness from schools and companies, we must make a social change so that women are committed to technology and thus have more female digital profiles,” says the director of Advanced Factories, Albert Planas.

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