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Webinar: Fortifying Food Production: Automation and the Critical Role of Cybersecurity
April 22, 2025
exida's Patrick O'Brien will be presenting a webinar for Food Engineering on May 6th. Below are the details:
Fortifying Food Production: Automation and the Critical Role of Cybersecurity
Food manufacturers face many challenges, including maintaining quality, managing labor shortages and sustaining the safety of their products, workforce and facilities. How can producers possibly keep up?
Manufacturers are increasingly turning to automation solutions and emerging technologies like machine learning and the cloud to address these concerns. While these technologies can help improve efficiency, they must be adequately secured to ensure that these benefits are not outweighed by cybersecurity risks.
In this exclusive, 60-minute webinar, Patrick O’Brien, Assistant Director of Engineering at exida and its representative in the International Society of Automation Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), will cover common challenges food manufacturers encounter and how automation technology can help producers succeed, and the importance of managing cybersecurity risks.
Attendees will learn about:
- How to manage digitalization and smart manufacturing
- The impact of machine learning, cloud, and new technologies
- Proactively managing cybersecurity risks