On the 7th February, in Mafra, TecnoVeritas, member of the COTEC Network – Business Association for Innovation, was present at the XII COTEC Europe Summit 2018, where the main focus was “Work 4.0, Rethinking the Human – Technology Alliance”.

 

The meeting gathered important personalities such as the King of Spain, D. Filipe IV, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the Italian President, Sergio Mattarella.

 

More than 500 participants attended the event to discuss the future of Work, the hot topic “Industry 4.0”, and the political, economic and social consequences of this new era. It was appointed that many companies are already implementing the digitalization and changing the way they work and how it’s organised, however, this is an ongoing process that is being gradually implemented.

 

Another point of the meeting was the perception of the speed the nowadays digital world moves with, and how quickly and efficient companies have to answer their clients’ needs, referring the necessity of keeping the standards implemented by companies like Amazon, that aims at digitizing different and several fields of their business in order to be more competitive and efficient, delivering hi-tech solutions to the end-user.