Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, declared the world on the precipice of a “technical revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another… characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.” This meeting explored the cross-sector collaboration between government, universities, and industry needed to accommodate the developments in emerging technologies that will transform manufacturing practices, and considered the economic and social implications of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ that builds on the digitization breakthroughs of the past several decades.