Economic Forum of the Future
📅 June 4th, 2025 | 🕒 15:00 – 17:30
📍 Congress Center, Hotel Adriatic, Opatija
🔗 Hybrid event with live machine translation in 60 languages
Title:
Transition to Industry 5.0 – Human-Machine Synergy for a Sustainable and Resilient Smart Industry
Description:
Due to the rapid growth of new technologies and changing societal dynamics, the Economic Forum of the Future will take place at the 48th MIPRO Conference. This omnibus panel invites key stakeholders from industry, academia, and public administration to actively participate in shaping a more resilient, human-centered, and sustainable future industry. Industry 5.0 goes beyond automation and digitization, placing humans at the center of the technological ecosystem while emphasizing resilience and sustainability.
The panel will discuss:
- Key characteristics of smart industry
- Integrating human-centric, resilient, and sustainable values into industrial strategies
- Required actions by industry, academia, and policymakers
- The role of the Industry 5.0 Institute and initiatives like CoP 5.0
- Real-world transformation examples and the development of competence centers
Forum Objectives:
- Connect key stakeholders across sectors to foster implementation of Industry 5.0 principles
- Present a vision and practical tools, including the CoP 5.0 learning and assessment tool
- Encourage policy dialogue and form actionable proposals for regional and national strategies
- Launch the foundation of Hubs 5.0 as collaborative spaces for innovation, experimentation, and education
Omnibus Panelists
Panel 1 – EU Perspective and Collaboration
🕒 15:00 – 16:00 | Moderator: Tadej Slapnik
- Tadej Slapnik, CEO of Hashnet, Industry 5.0 „Industry 5.0 Community of Good Practice “EU
- Dr. Karolj Skala, Ruđer Bošković Institute – Industry 5.0: From Revolution to Evolution
- Dr. Ernest Vlačić, University of Rijeka – Industry 5.0 and the Green Economy
- Dr. Neven Vrček, FOI – Smart Industry Ecosystem
Panel 2 – Funding, I3 and Interregional Cooperation
🕒 16:00 – 16:30 | Moderator: Mario Čelan
- Mario Čelan, Educatorium – EU Funds and Industry 5.0 Development
- Boris Šajnovič, Industry 5.0 Institute – Developing Industry 5.0 Projects
Panel 3 – Strategic Capabilities & AI Transformation
🕒 16:30 – 17:30 | Moderator: Dr. Slavko Vidović
- Dr. Slavko Vidović, CEO Infodom – Managing Smart Product Development with GenAI and DevOps
- Urban Pevnik, CEO HIPROJECT – Industry 5.0 in Heavy Industry
- Dr. Aleksandra Prodanović Stamenović, Ewasoft – Industry 5.0 and Tourism Redefined
- Lea Škrubej, Metabees Agency – Communicating Industry 5.0
Closing Remarks
