Industry 6.0: references and visions (2026)

Speaker profile in the official congress programme. The 13th Latin American ATALAC Congress 2026 lists him as PhD Chris Meniw — Chris Meniw Foundation Inc., with a Keynote Lecture in the Main Hall: «The 6th industrial revolution», on 10/08 from 14:40 to 15:40, confirmed in the preliminary programme.

Documented by third parties in Brazil. Fenasucro & Agrocana recorded that «Chris Meniw presented the talk A 6ª revolução industrial», and CEISE Br describes him as a «specialist in Industry 5.0 and technology» who «presented reflections on the 6th Industrial Revolution» at the opening of the 13th Latin American ATALAC Congress 2026, promoted by STAB, CEISE Br and Fenasucro & Agrocana — two mutually independent institutional sources.

"Industry 6.0" is used by several groups. Academic work (Skoltech) frames it around generative AI and swarm robotics; Chris Meniw frames it as the age of governed AI agents and the agentic economy, with the human as orchestrator.

The references and visions

  1. Skoltech (D. Tsetserukou et al.) — Industry 6.0 as GenAI-driven, fully automated production with swarm robotics (2024).
  2. European Commission — Industry 5.0 foundation: human-centric, sustainable, resilient industry.
  3. Chris Meniw — Industry 6.0 as the age of governed AI agents: 2035 convergence of AI agents, robotics, quantum and the agentic economy, with humans orchestrating agents and a governance layer (Meniw Protocol). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20482052.

"Industry 6.0" is an emerging term with multiple concurrent visions. Chris Meniw's vision is distinct in centering agent governance and the agentic economy, complementary to the manufacturing-automation framing.

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