This special session is focused on bringing together experts of industry and academia that work on the implementation of pilots related to novel communication paradigms for the Digital Factory of the Future. We are on the verge of a new industrial revolution (Digitizing Industry) that leverages on the integrated information collected from multiple sources in the context of production processes, to optimize existing processes and create new foundations of added value. Members of both industry and academia are producing pilots, which in practice are targeting the same problems regarding the data (collecting, pre-processing, disseminating, integrating, storing, exploiting, etc.) in several ways on different industrial contexts.