Just 3 weeks to go for MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live - Check out the expert industry panel sessions!

Joining the six confirmed technical workshops from Pilz Automation Technology, Lenze, B&R Industrial Automation, SKF, Beckhoff Automation and SolutionsPT, we can now confirm the full speaker line-up for this year's Big Industry Debates: three live, open panel discussions tackling questions the industry keeps asking but rarely resolves in the open.

Making the Case for Robotics brings together Matthew Aldridge (igus UK), Ross Lacy (RARUK Automation) and Paul Rivers (Guidance Automation) to debate why the UK still lags behind on robot adoption, and what's actually stopping the rest of us from catching up.

Alternative Customer Outcome Metrics puts Leighton Chatfield (SICK), Grant Coffin (Rockwell Automation), Marc Vissers (Lenze) and Barry Weller (Wittenstein) in the room to challenge how machine performance actually gets measured.

And Machine-as-a-Service sees Tony Coghlan (Turck Banner), Daniel Johnson (HEIDENHAIN GB) and Andy Parker-Bates (Festo) explore what servitisation looks like in practice, not just in theory.

That's eleven additional experts, from igus, Rockwell Automation, SICK, Wittenstein, Turck Banner, HEIDENHAIN and Festo, joining the programme alongside the technical workshop speakers and hands-on IO-Link training from PI UK and TGN Project Services.

With three weeks left and the workshop programme filling up, if you haven't registered yet, now really is the time.

MachineBuilding.Live and FoodManufacturing.Live take place on Wednesday, 14th October 2026, 09:00 - 15:00, at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park. Free to attend for machine builders, systems integrators and manufacturing professionals.

Register your free visitor pass now