The UK's Leading Manufacturing Event
Back stronger: Digital Manufacturing Week
We’re excited to be attending Digital Manufacturing Week for the first time physically, this year. We will have real exhibition space thanks to the support of KTN and Innovate UK and our CEO Steph Locke will give an AI talk in the Industrial Data & AI Theatre.
Now in its sixth edition, this year’s event takes place from the 8 - 12 of November at Exhibition Centre Liverpool. Attracting thousands of manufacturers from across the UK to come together to learn, exchange and discuss the changing face of manufacturing in the UK and beyond. Here’s a short summary of everything you need to know.
Sustainability and big manufacturing
Digital manufacturing week is an event that aims to bring the manufacturing industry together. Major themes at this year’s event include digital transformation, sustainability, innovation, diversity and automation. Exhibitors at this year’s event include big names like Siemens, Deloitte, HP, Omron and more.
Scaleups and Innovation Alley
We’re going to be exhibiting in Innovation alley, part of the Smart Factory Expo along with 50 other scaling businesses.
The Expo brings together the technologies behind the fourth industrial revolution. Visitors can research and purchase the latest tech transforming the industry and network with the people behind them.
Innovation Alley runs alongside the Smart Factory Expo. It’s a dedicated start-up corridor for innovative businesses that haven’t exhibited at Digital Manufacturing Week before.
We’re going to be here on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November. If you’re attending and want to have a chat, please book a time and let’s have a coffee.
Our CEO, Steph Locke, will also be delivering a talk titled ‘How AI drives Sustainable Manufacturing’, from 2:30-2:50pm on Thursday 11 November.
We’re looking forward to attending and hope to meet some other great, innovative start-ups as well as the manufacturing community at large.
FAQs
What is Manufacturing's annual gathering?
The UK’s leading annual manufacturing event attracts manufacturers of all sizes, from SMEs to major industrial groups, alongside technology providers, research institutions, and government agencies. For GoSmarter, attendance and participation in this event is part of a consistent strategy of being present in the conversations that matter in manufacturing — not just selling to individual businesses, but contributing to the broader discourse about the sector’s direction.
The event format — combining exhibition, conference, and networking — creates opportunities for the kind of in-depth conversations that are hard to replicate in any other setting. Production managers, operations directors, and CEOs who are actively thinking about digital adoption are accessible in a way that they are not through normal commercial channels.
What does GoSmarter showcase?
At major manufacturing events, GoSmarter typically demonstrates the tools that deliver the fastest, most visible value to manufacturers attending: cutting optimisation (showing how a cutting plan can be generated in seconds that a planner would take hours to create manually), mill certificate reading (demonstrating the extraction of data from a real certificate in real time), and the free tools suite (showing that AI tools for manufacturers do not all require a subscription).
The demonstrations are deliberately practical — focused on specific, recognisable problems that manufacturers face every day, and showing the solution working on real data rather than curated demo scenarios. This approach reflects GoSmarter’s core conviction: AI for manufacturing should be visible and tangible, not aspirational and abstract.