Contributors Acknowledgements The World Economic Forum thanks the following individuals for their contributions and participation in working groups, interviews and community discussions: Basma AlBuhairan Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Saudi Arabia Meshal Almashari Director, Digital and IT Strategy and Investment, Saudi Aramco Ibrahim AlShunaifi IIoT and SMEs Sandbox Lead, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Saudi Arabia Pierluigi Astorino Chief Operating Officer, Ariston Group Gunter Beitinger Senior Vice-President, Manufacturing; Head, Factory Digitalization, Siemens Berk Birand Chief Executive Officer, Fero Labs Klaus Blüm Vice President, Group IT Products & Architecture, Volkswagen GroupAref Boualwan Chief Initiatives & Startups Officer, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) Michelangelo Canzoneri Global Head, Group Smart Manufacturing, Merck Group Woai Sheng Chow Vice President/General Manager, Global Instrument Manufacturing, Agilent Aleksander Ciszek Chief Executive Officer, 3YOURMIND Jason Clark Global Vice President of Manufacturing, Exiger Haldun Dingec Director, Production Technologies, ARCELIK Lauren Dunford Chief Executive Officer, Guidewheel Efe Erdem Chief Technical and Commercial Officer, MESS Technology Platform, Turkish Employers Association of Metal Industries (MESS) Sercan Esen Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, IntenseyeLead authors Yannick Bastubbe Principal, Boston Consulting Group; Project Fellow, Future Frontier Technologies: AI & Beyond, World Economic Forum Devendra Jain Lead, Frontier Technologies for Operations, World Economic Forum Federico Torti Lead, Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain, World Economic ForumProject team Maria Basso Digital Technologies Portfolio Manager, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Digital Technologies Memia Fendri Content Curation and Operational Excellence Lead, Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Benedikt Gieger Project Fellow, AI Transformation of Industries, SAP Jill Hoang Initiatives Lead, AI and Digital Technologies, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Digital Technologies Benjamin Schönfuß Initiatives Specialist, Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Frontier Technologies in Industrial Operations 22

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