At its 2014 World Congress, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) launched a pilot industry committee with the objective of increasing industry participation in, and impact from, IFAC activities. The chair of this committee is Tariq Samad, with support from Roger Goodall (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) and Serge Boverie (Continental, France) as cochairs. This committee was established as an outcome of an industry task force led by Roger Goodall in the last IFAC triennium (2011-2014).