Tampere Manufacturing Summit  is an international benchmarking and networking forum in the manufacturing field. Its key role is to bring together front line industrial manufacturers and researchers to exchange opinions and ideas about different aspects of manufacturing and keys to improved global competitivity and business profitability. This executive and visionary seminar discusses the challenges, trends and visions in today’s manufacturing industry as well as industrial best practices and scientific and technological advances and breakthroughs in the field.

The Tampere Manufacturing Summits in 2007 and 2009 both networked more than 200 experts from more than 20 countries with the majority of participants coming from industry.