Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, chaired a panel in Brussels on 28 March to discuss the future of work. The panel was part of the end of project conference for Beyond 4.0.

The discussion focused on the limitations of Industry 4.0 and the opportunities for promoting Industry 5.0.

Panel members were Judith Kirton-Darling, Deputy General Secretary of IndustriAll; Erja Sankari, Executive Vice President of COO iLOQ in Finland; Karina Angelieva, former Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Innovation and Growth and of Education; Andrea Glorioso, Policy Officer at DG EMPL in the European Commission; and Liviu Stirbat, Director of the new Industry 5.0 unit with the European Commission.