On 9 June, the UPRAISE Webinar – Accelerate Industrial Innovation: Upgrade Your Skills with XR is an online event exploring how Extended Reality (XR) is moving from experimentation to real industrial use. The session will showcase concrete industrial XR applications, emerging skills needs, and structured approaches to XR-driven innovation, with a particular focus on partnerships within the Italian XR ecosystem.

Agenda

• 11:00 – 11:05 Welcome & Introduction | EIT Manufacturing (UPRAISE)
• 11:05 – 11:15 Keynote: How XR Accelerates Industrial Innovation | Marco Sacco – Research Director, CNR
• 11:15 – 11:35 Building Skills for XR-Driven Manufacturing | Gustavo Marfia – University of Bologna (UNIBO)
• 11:35 – 11:45 Driving Industrial Innovation Through XR: From Remote Support to Immersive Operational Workflows | Alessandro Zara – CEO, EXVIRIENCE
• 11:45 – 11:55 XR-Driven Design Thinking Methodology | Alessandro Pollini & Ioannis Chatzigiannakis – Sapienza University of Rome
• 11:55 – 12:05 Integrating XR into Education | Thierry Koscielniak – ENSAM
• 12:05 – 12:15 Roundtable & Audience Discussion | All speakers
• 12:15 Closing & Next Steps

Target audience

Manufacturing and industrial professionals, innovation and R&D managers, design and engineering teams, XR startups and providers, educators, students, and ecosystem stakeholders.

Speakers

Representatives from the University of Bologna (UPRAISE project coordinator), CNR – Italian XR Community, EXVIRIENCE, Sapienza University of Rome, ENSAM, and EIT Manufacturing.

Register for the UPRAISE XR Webinar: Accelerate Industrial Innovation: Upgrade Your Skills with XR.