What is Integr8?

Each year, Automation Alley—the Digital Transformation Insight Center—hosts Integr8 to bring together technology and manufacturing professionals and industry experts to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the advanced technologies shaping our future. We share perspectives and knowledge vital to the future success of Michigan’s global competitiveness and create the inspiration you need to jumpstart or accelerate your digital transformation.  

Integr8: An Exclusive Community of Thought Leaders

In today's rapidly evolving digital world, staying ahead of the game is crucial. It's time to harness the transformative potential of Industry 4.0 and propel your business towards unprecedented success. Automation Alley Membership presents the exclusive opportunity to join a prestigious community of industry peers and visionaries, where knowledge and insight converge at Integr8 through collaborative roundtables and captivating content.

What’s new for 2024?

The Roundtable Series

Integr8 is shifting from a one-day event to a year-long exploration into digital transformation that will include 12 invite-only roundtable sessions spread throughout the year on various Industry 4.0 topics. Each roundtable will be sponsored and facilitated by one or more Automation Alley members/partners from industry, academia, or government. These sponsors and facilitators will work with Automation Alley to publish Integr8 playbooks following each roundtable.  

Who has a seat at the table?

  • Manufacturers of all sizes
  • Technology Companies
  • Government
  • Academia
  • Professional Services

The Roundtable Summit

The pinnacle event of the year, the Integr8 Roundtable Summit is the place where leaders, innovators, and industry experts converge to shape the future of technology-driven transformation. Building upon the momentum of the Roundtable Series of insightful roundtable discussions held earlier in the year, the Roundtable Summit is the apex of collaborative exploration into the realms of Industry 4.0.

Roundtable Summit

INTEGR8 Playbook

Following each Integr8 Roundtable Series & Roundtable Summit, our commitment to knowledge sharing, insight dissemination and collaborative progress continues with the Integr8 Playbooks. Each roundtable sponsor and facilitator, in partnership with Automation Alley, will distill the wealth of insights garnered from their respective Roundtable Series and Summit sessions into comprehensive digital playbooks, to be published and promoted by Automation Alley.

In Partnership with:

Since 1991, the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center has assisted Michigan's small and medium-sized businesses to compete and grow. Today, we are celebrating 30 years of building super highways of competitive success for our clients, where there were once only slow and lonely dirt roads. Now, we stand ready to face the future with bountiful optimism, focused purpose, strong determination, legions of support staff and inspired creativity.

Since 1902, MMA has had a proven track record and unwavering commitment to serve Michigan manufacturers through legislative advocacy, workforce development, education, training, networking, costs savings and more. As MMA members, manufacturers can tap into a professional network and resources to help grow their businesses and address challenges, and they can create a sense of unity with other manufacturers.