Agoria is the Belgian Federation for Technology industry. Together with its members and through technology, Agoria wants to make a significant, sustainable, and successful impact on economic and societal challenges.
Technology Sectors
Telecom & industrial industries, manufacturing & process technology, aerospace manned & unmanned, energy technology, building technology, safety, security & defence technologies, mobility & vehicle technology and co-creation, contracting & materials. It is to these high-tech industries that Agoria devotes its energy.
Impact in Wallonia
In these sectors, in Wallonia, Agoria represents the interest of 570 companies that employ almost 37,000 people in Wallonia and have a combined turnover of 15 billion Euros, two thirds of which are exported.
Supporting Industrial Policy
From day one Agoria has supported the setting up of a strong industrial policy in Wallonia. In this context, Agoria Wallonia facilitates sustainable collaborations and supports local ecosystems such as A6K, The PoD, La Grand Poste, where businesses, governments, knowledge institutions, and citizens cooperate and build expertise around a specific technology or societal issue.
Digitalisation: A Challenge and Opportunity
Digitalisation is, at the same time, a major challenge but also a great opportunity for our society and our industry. The health crisis of 2020-2021 has also reinforced our belief that technology, and particularly digital technology, is the source of many solutions to improve our way of life. Through its study “Shaping the future of work”, Agoria has analysed the impact of digitalisation on the job market in Belgium and proposes concrete actions to shape the response to these major challenges. Digitalisation — especially with the rise of generative artificial intelligence and Web3 technologies — will impact the content of almost all jobs, and skills will need to be updated to ensure job sustainability here. In Wallonia, this will concern 1,200,000 professionals.
Preparing the Manufacturing Industry for the Future
Another issue of concern to Agoria in Wallonia involves preparing manufacturing industry for the future and enabling it to be firmly rooted in Belgium in the long term. This is the objective of Make The Future, the programme which offers the manufacturing industry a support based on the 7 pillars transformation methodology. The aim is to transform our companies into Factories of The Future.
The Make The Future Programme
The Make The Future support programme starts with a scan of seven areas of transformation, focusing on making companies aware of their current status so that they can see where they stand with respect to other companies. The transformation phase can then begin.
Around 800 companies from all over Belgium have embarked on this phase up to now. These companies include, in addition to Agoria members, an increasing number of businesses from the food, textile, biotech and timber sectors. The programme’s success has not gone unnoticed at European level either. For several years now, the programme has been deployed in other European countries, in addition to Belgium, through the European ADMA TranS4MErs Project.
Supporting Industry Sustainability
By assisting industry in addressing the challenges of human capital and digitalisation, Agoria is a crucial component in underpinning the sustainability of our industry and its development.
