Bridging Industry, Academia, and Policymakers for Smart Manufacturing
The IT world desires to utilize the data from the OT space to be combined with additional concepts like Asset Administration Shell, Data Spaces, Digital Twins and Metaverse: All these initiatives and solutions are about sharing information between multiple companies with different use cases like product lifecycle data (AAS) or governance data (DataSpaces) etc. Learn how to use new AI technologies like chatGPT help to reduce engineering efforts!
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Date
7 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Venue
BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
Theme
“Fostering collaboration across industry, academia, and policymakers, OPC Day”
– India aims to chart the future of smart manufacturing in India powered by OPC UA.
Conference Agenda
09:00 – 10:00
Registration & Welcome Tea
10:00 – 10:15
Inaugural Candle-Lighting Ceremony and Welcome Address
10:15 – 10:45
Keynote 1
Dr. Nagahanumaiah,
Director, CMTI-Govt. of India
10:45 – 11:15
Keynote 2
Mr. Rajesh Nath,
Managing Director,
European Machinery Association (VDMA) India Office
11:15 – 12:00
OPC UA: The Foundation for Industrial Digitalization
Mr. Stefan Hoppe,
President and Executive Director at OPC Foundation
12:00 – 12:30
To be updated shortly
Mr. Prashanth Doreswamy,
President & CEO,
AUMOVIO India
12:30 – 13:00
To be updated shortly
Shri APVS Prasad,
Director,
CEMILAC – DRDO
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch & Networking
14:00 – 14:45
Expert Panel Discussion
Global Perspective on OPC UA, India’s unique opportunities w.r.t Technology Adoption and Industrial Digitalization
- Mr. Stefan Hoppe,
President and Executive Director at OPC Foundation - Ms. Smitha Rao,
Founder of OjasQuest - Team CMTI
- Academia
14:45 – 15:15
OPC UA Success Stories - India
Mr. Prasanna Inamdar,
Founder, SENSEOPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
15:15 – 15:45
OPC UA Success Stories - International
Mr. Stefan Hoppe,
President and Executive Director at OPC Foundation
15:45 – 16:00
High Tea & Networking
16:00 – 17:00
Expert talk focused on Academia and Industry Collaboration: Industrial Data Spaces/Smart Manufacturing in India
17:00 – 17:30
Vote of Thanks
This Conference is taking place on Thursday April 20th, 11:00 -13:00
CET adressing OPC UA with Metaverse, Dataspaces and Asset Administration shell.
Join our conference at the Convention Center –
Room 3B
- live demonstrator OPC UA and the Metaverse
- live demo “OPC UA over MQTT” connecting lot of controllers via OPC UA over MQTT directly to cloud dashboards
- OPC UA via REST: get information about new working group adressing
The IT world desires to utilize the data from the OT space to be combined with additional concepts like Asset Administration Shell, Data Spaces, Digital Twins and Metaverse: All these initiatives and solutions are about sharing information between multiple companies with different use cases like product lifecycle data (AAS) or governance data (DataSpaces) etc. In most cases, they exchange the data via proprietary or standardized HTTP REST-Interfaces. - OPC UA for field: live demo of horizontal Controller-to-Controller communications based on OPC UA FX series – the one and only harmonized OPC UA solution for both Process- and Factory-Automation, including deterministic, motion, instrumentation, OPC UA Safety and OPC UA over 5G.
- live demo “GDS – Global Discovery Service” for secured exchange of certificates
These companies and partners will show solutions on the OPC Foundation booth in 2023:
- Brightly Works Oy
- Fraunhofer IOSB
- Hilscher
- logiccloud AG
- Matrikon
- Prosys OPC
- PTC/ Kepware
- Siemens
- Unified Automation
In addition we welcome our partners
- AutomationML
- FDT Group
- Spectaris with the LADS Companion Spec