Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

Building the Skilled Workforce Behind Europe’s Industrial Future

Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

Join us in The Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

As manufacturers and infrastructure operators face an ageing workforce, accelerating retirements, competition for technical talent and increasing demand for skilled trades

Welcome to The The Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit — The Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit brings together manufacturing leaders, plant operators, engineering executives, workforce strategists, technical training leaders, project owners and workforce solution providers to address the growing shortage of skilled technical labour across European industry.

As manufacturers and infrastructure operators face an ageing workforce, accelerating retirements, competition for technical talent and increasing demand for skilled trades, workforce availability is rapidly becoming a strategic operational issue rather than simply an HR challenge.

This summit provides a dedicated platform to explore skilled-trades recruitment, workforce planning, apprenticeships and technical academies, knowledge transfer, cross-border workforce mobility, connected-worker technologies, automation and the transformation of industrial workforce strategy into a core driver of productivity, resilience and future growth.

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Who Should Attend

Manufacturing & Industrial Companies
Energy & Utility Companies
Defence & Aerospace Manufacturers
Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Manufacturers
Engineering, EPC & Industrial Construction Companies
Data Centre & Critical Infrastructure Operators
Semiconductor & Advanced Manufacturing Companies
Industrial Equipment & Machinery Manufacturers
Maintenance & Technical Service Organisations
Industrial Recruitment & Workforce Providers
Technical Training & Apprenticeship Providers
Automation & Connected Worker Technology Providers

Industries Represented

Industrial Manufacturing & Machinery
Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing
Energy, Power & Utilities
Engineering, EPC & Industrial Construction
Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing
Data Centres & Critical Infrastructure
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Semiconductor & Electronics Manufacturing
Renewables, Wind, Solar & Battery Manufacturing
Metals, Steel, Mining & Materials
Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Key Themes

Industrial Workforce Strategy & Skills Shortages

Workforce availability as an operational and production risk
Mapping critical technical skills across industrial sites
Aligning workforce capacity with production and growth plans

Skilled Trades Recruitment & Workforce Mobility

Building domestic, European and international talent pipelines
Recruiting electricians, welders, pipefitters, technicians and mechanics
Qualification recognition, relocation and workforce integration

Apprenticeships, Technical Academies & Training

Building company-owned technical academies
Competency-based training and faster time-to-skill
Industry partnerships with vocational and technical education

Ageing Workforce & Knowledge Transfer

Preparing for accelerating retirement rates
Capturing tacit technical and maintenance knowledge
Mentoring, succession and digital knowledge systems

Automation, Robotics & Workforce Productivity

Using automation where skilled labour cannot be recruited
Robotics, cobots and AI-assisted industrial work
Improving output and productivity with constrained headcount

Connected Worker & Frontline Technology

Digital work instructions and mobile tools
Remote expert support, AR and AI knowledge assistants
Scaling expertise across plants and maintenance teams

Workforce Planning for Industrial CAPEX

Translating project pipelines into workforce requirements
Planning labour for construction, commissioning and operations
Integrating workforce planning into CAPEX decisions

Retention & Technical Career Development

Retaining scarce technicians and skilled trades
Building technical career paths and progression
Using workforce analytics to identify retention risks

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6 Key Themes for the Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

Two days. One critical challenge: building the skilled workforce Europe’s industrial future depends on.
Join industrial leaders in Barcelona to exchange practical strategies for recruiting, developing, retaining and empowering the technical workforce needed to support future growth.

6 Reasons to Attend

Solve Critical Skills Gaps: Discover how industrial organisations are responding to shortages in skilled trades and technical roles before they become production and growth constraints.
Build Your Talent Pipeline: Explore apprenticeships, technical academies and competency-based training models designed to create skilled workers faster.
Strengthen Workforce Planning: Learn how to connect workforce capacity with production plans, major projects, CAPEX programmes and future skills requirements.
Access Wider Talent Pools: Explore domestic and cross-border recruitment strategies, workforce mobility and new approaches to finding scarce technical talent.
Multiply Workforce Productivity: See how automation, robotics, AI and connected-worker technologies can help organisations achieve more with constrained headcount.
Connect With Industry Leaders: Meet manufacturing, operations, engineering, workforce and technical training leaders tackling the same workforce challenges across Europe.

Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit — This summit provides a dedicated platform to explore skilled-trades recruitment, workforce planning, apprenticeships and technical academies, knowledge transfer, cross-border workforce mobility, connected-worker technologies, automation and the transformation of industrial workforce strategy.

Industrial Workforce & Skilled Trades Europe Summit

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