Columbus is a global consultancy company with more than 2000 employees servicing 5000+ customers worldwide. We help ambitious manufacturing companies transform, maximise and futureproof their business digitally.
The industry knowledge of our highly skilled experts enable us to provide the full range of manufacturing business-critical services and solutions adapted to your needs. From enabling new technologies that drive efficiency to advising on the right processes that drive your business growth, we add value to our customers through digital transformation.
We’ve had over 30 years to build up our portfolio of comprehensive solutions, deep industry knowledge, extensive technology expertise and profound customer insights. We specialise in helping companies reach their goals for growth by finding and implementing the right digital business solutions for them.

Sponsor of Product Innovation & Design category: Autodesk is a global leader in software for architects, builders, engineers, designers, manufacturers, 3D artists and production teams. Our design and make technology connects data, teams, and workflows throughout the entire project lifecycle—from design to engineering to production. Through advanced CAD, CAM and CAE, manufacturers can improve collaboration and drive innovation to transform the way they design and make products.

For over 25 years, Discovery has led the way in helping companies worldwide navigate change – whether through turnaround, transformation, growth, or acceleration. We identify the right talent and ensure they possess the skills and behaviours necessary for high performance. Our innovative solutions set the industry standard in recruitment, training, and performance enhancement, driving unmatched effectiveness and excellence while consistently improving performance, productivity, and profitability. Our pioneering approach challenges the status quo, delivering exceptional competitive advantages for organisations facing the complexities of talent acquisition and people development amidst change.

Ready to take your manufacturing business to the next level? Epicor can help you get crystal-clear on where your business is right now and where it needs to go next. Our innovative solutions, powered by cognitive ERP, are designed to help you supercharge efficiency, turn your data into action, and stand out from the competition.

RS is a trading brand of RS Group plc, providing product and service solutions that help our customers design, build, maintain, repair and operate industrial equipment and operations, safely and sustainably. We stock more than 750,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provide a wide range of product and service solutions to 1.1 million customers.

We support customers across the product lifecycle, whether via innovation and technical support at the design phase, improving time to market and productivity at the build phase, or reducing purchasing costs and optimising inventory in the maintenance, repair and operation phase. We offer our customers tailored product and service propositions that are essential for the successful operation of their businesses and help them save time and money.

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

SugarCRM is how marketing, sales, and service teams finally get a clear picture of each customer to help businesses reach new levels of performance and predictability. Sugar is the CRM platform that makes the hard things easier. Thousands of companies in over 120 countries rely on Sugar to achieve high-definition CX by letting the platform do the work. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sugar is backed by Accel-KKR.