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• ��End-to-end automation of BAT’s afforestation programme in Pakistan has helped ensure the planting and distribution of 1.6 million trees this year, as previously time-consuming matters like inventory management were completed automatically.
• ��Automation has enabled our Singapore factory to become more sustainable by managing its energy more smartly. A platform was implemented that collects all the necessary data real-time to enable faster analysis - resulting in a 50% reduction in the energy consumption of chillers at the factory.
• ��A “citizen-developed” mobile phone app in Nigeria automated the manual forms used to report issues and helped to ensure quality control on the production line during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The main objective of the TIME summit - broadcast live to all employees - is to demystify automation and demonstrate how it can empower our people.

Our Chief Executive, Jack Bowles, provided the opening speech and was followed throughout the four-day summit by a range of fellow senior ����̽��leaders including (pictured above) Marina Bellini, Director, Digital and Information, Luciano Comin, Regional Director, AmSSA, and Zafar Khan, Director, Operations.

The full list of companies participating in the summit included: Accenture; Adobe, Amazon; Dentsu; EY; Google; IBM; Microsoft; Procter & Gamble; PWC; UI Path; Unilever; Reply; Sprinklr; So-Media as well as a range of inspirational thought leaders.

The TIME Summit agenda:

• ��Day 1 - The art of the possible: Before automation comes innovation
• ��Day 2 - The employee in the digital era
• ��Day 3 - consumer moments reimagined: The power of AI, automation and machine learning
• ��Day 4 - The supply chain of the future.

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Marina Bellini said:��“It was a huge privilege to welcome so many great minds from both inside and outside ����̽��to the TIME Automation summit.

“Automation is bringing huge benefits to ����̽��as we build A Better Tomorrow by unlocking value and freeing up our people to focus on what matters.”