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IFR Executive Roundtable 2025


25 June 2025

IFR Executive Round Table - Global Robotics Market: How can Europe step up its game?

The session will start with the presentation of the latest preliminary statistics on the global robotics market and the top trends in robotics in 2025 by IFR President Takayuki Ito. This is followed by a panel of executives from the robotics industry, policymakers and end users that will address how Europe is leveraging the potential of robotics, in particular in the manufacturing industry, in times of increasing uncertainty and need for stronger resilience, what efforts the governments are doing (or should be doing) to keep up in the race, how robots can ensure competitiveness in Europe and how new markets come into play.

When: June 25, 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 hrs CEST

Where: Messe Munich, automatica Forum, hall A5, #330

Panel

Dr. Nikolas Blümlein

AI, Robotics and Process Optimization Expert at Schwarz Digital

Nicole Clement

Chief Business Unit Officer Robotics and Advanced Automation Solutions at COMAU

Wilfried Eberhardt

Vice President Governmental Affairs at KUKA

Francesco Ferro

CEO at PAL Robotics

Lucilla Sioli

Director for AI and Digital Industry at the European Commission

Takayuki Ito

President at International Federation of Robotics

Agenda

  • Welcoming and presentation of the participants of the Executive Round Table by Dr. Susanne Bieller, IFR General Secretary

  • Preview: New preliminary data of World Robotics Industrial Robots for Europe by Takayuki Ito, President of The International Federation of Robotics
  • Discussion; “Global Robotics Market: How can Europe step up its game?”
  • Questions and Answers

Press

Journalists send their questions to Carsten Heer, [email protected]

Downloads

Market Presentation on preliminary figures on industrial robot installations 2024

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