In today’s volatile landscape, supply chain resilience is the buzzword, but too often, the conversation overlooks its foundation: manufacturing. This keynote explores why manufacturing must be at the heart of any supply chain strategy, drawing on decades of transformation experience across global giants. If your supply chain is only as strong as your factory floor, what are you doing to strengthen it?

Key Takeaways

• Resilience starts with manufacturing: Without productivity and service improvements at the source, the rest of the supply chain will falter
• Let the business lead the solution: Effective transformation begins by listening to the business and engineering solutions that serve it
• People power performance: Engaging teams from R&D to the shop floor is essential to achieving world-class manufacturing and supply chain outcomes

As manufacturers accelerate digital transformation, the integration of Industrial AI with circular manufacturing is evolving from a sustainability ambition into a strategic imperative. Emerging solutions, such as AI-powered ERP/EAM systems, predictive field services, and remanufacturing, are now delivering measurable ROI without the need for disruptive infrastructure changes. This panel will explore how leading manufacturers are embedding intelligence across the asset lifecycle to boost product value, reduce waste, and drive operational excellence.

Join this session to discuss:

• How to use AI-embedded platforms to improve asset reliability, operational efficiency, and decision-making
• Practical strategies to integrate circular manufacturing principles and reduce environmental impact without sacrificing profitability
• How manufacturing leaders can drive digital adoption and sustainability goals by connecting data, people, and processes across the organization

The future is still human, and the skills-transformation is our new superpower. We now realize many of our roles and the traditional ways of working are quickly becoming obsolete. So how do you remain productive while you simultaneously re- and up-skill your work, role, and teams. As an individual contributor you desperately need education, clarity, and guidance. As a leader, you likely don’t know where to start and are struggling to lead your teams through this transformation. It’s a delicate dance of doing, learning, growing, and increasing impact while not getting overwhelmed and burning out. After this session you will:

• Learn the drivers behind the skills transformation and it’s criticality to business success
• Consider the current composition of your workforce and how it might need to change going forward
• Gain ideas for next steps in your company from examples of what’s working and what’s not

As the manufacturing sector rapidly advances in digital transformation, success hinges on more than just adopting technology. Manufacturing software solutions must deliver substantial business value and provide capabilities that improve operational efficiency, strengthen security, and enhance scalability. Manufacturers can gain a competitive edge by deploying cloud-based solutions that drive business growth, sustainability, and innovation. Cloud-based Smart Factory solutions empower industrial operations with modern technology, ensuring a robust infrastructure and a resilient, maintainable solution lifecycle.
Discussion Focus:

• Driving scalable solutions that enhance operational efficiency
• Bridging IT, OT, and operational teams for seamless data access and decision making
• Embracing cloud-based hosted solutions that enable flexibility and cost savings

Geopolitical instability, persistent labor shortages, and evolving trade policies are compelling manufacturers to reassess and redesign their supply chain strategies. In this roundtable, industry leaders will explore how to build more agile, transparent, and resilient supply networks capable of withstanding disruption and sustaining operational continuity.

Key Discussion Points:

• Leveraging dual-sourcing and nearshoring to reduce dependency and increase flexibility
• Implementing digital tools for real-time supply chain risk monitoring
• Integrating supply chain and manufacturing leadership perspectives to improve cross-functional collaboration

This session explores Industry 5.0 as a human-centered transformation, unpacking the dilemmas between IT and manufacturing while showing why lasting change begins with people first, technology second.
Join this session to discuss:

• Unlock Strategic Advantage: Learn how intelligence functions can reduce uncertainty and support bold decision-making in high-risk environments.
• Build Intelligence-Driven Culture: Discover how to embed threat awareness into manufacturing leadership and operations for smarter, faster responses.
• Prepare for 2026 and Beyond: Gain insight into emerging global risk themes and how to align intelligence with long-range planning and product innovation.

In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, supply chains are under more pressure than ever to adapt, innovate, and remain resilient. Change management in supply chains is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. Whether driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, geopolitical disruptions, or sustainability demands, the ability to manage change effectively determines whether organizations merely survive or truly thrive. This presentation will explore the critical role of change management in navigating complexity, aligning stakeholders, and building agile, future-ready supply chains that can withstand disruption and seize opportunity.

In this presentation, you will learn the following:

• Practical application of a three-phased approach to change
• The impact on individuals when facing change
• How to sustain changes and build a repeatable cycle for addressing change

A behind-the-scenes look at how NASA tackled one of the most pressing challenges shared by today’s manufacturers — aging infrastructure, shifting workforce expectations, and the need for sustainable, future-ready operations. This keynote reveals how a 40% footprint reduction became a catalyst for organizational transformation, innovation acceleration, and talent empowerment.

Join this session to discuss:

• From Footprint to Force Multiplier: How a 40% campus reduction unlocked $211M in cost savings — while boosting workforce engagement, retention, and mission delivery
• Reengineering Legacy into Leverage: NASA’s blueprint for turning outdated
• infrastructure into an innovation ecosystem that attracts top talent and strategic partners.
• Designing the Future Workplace: How manufacturing leaders can apply NASA’s transformation playbook to align people, place, and purpose — retaining talent, reducing cost, and building for the next generation

A behind-the-scenes look at how NASA tackled one of the most pressing challenges shared by today’s manufacturers — aging infrastructure, shifting workforce expectations, and the need for sustainable, future-ready operations. This keynote reveals how a 50% footprint reduction became a catalyst for organizational transformation, innovation acceleration, and talent empowerment.

Join this keynote to discuss:

• From Footprint to Force Multiplier: How a 50% campus reduction unlocked $211M in cost savings — while boosting workforce engagement, retention, and mission delivery.
• Reengineering Legacy into Leverage: NASA’s blueprint for turning outdated infrastructure into an innovation ecosystem that attracts top talent and strategic partners.
• Designing the Future Workplace: How manufacturing leaders can apply NASA’s transformation playbook to align people, place, and purpose — retaining talent, reducing cost, and building for the next generation