Your digital transformation journey is unique.
Your Summit experience should be too.
Every delegate at the Digital Manufacturing Strategies Summit USA receives a personalised agenda built around their active priorities, current initiatives, and planned investment.
During registration, you outline the programmes you’re delivering and the challenges you’re addressing. We then curate your two-day experience — aligning you with the most relevant Think Tanks, Roundtables, peer discussions, and pre-scheduled 1-to-1 meetings.
Your time onsite is structured around what you’re directly responsible for — from smart factory scale-up to legacy modernisation and supply chain resilience.
Our Advisory Committee reviews aggregated priorities to ensure the programme reflects real-world execution challenges across US manufacturing.
The result? A focused, high-value experience where every session and conversation supports measurable progress.
Navigating smart manufacturing in new complex environments
Automation is advancing rapidly as AI moves into mainstream manufacturing operations. Digital execution is no longer optional — it’s critical across the value chain. At the same time, US manufacturers are navigating reshoring pressures, tariff volatility, commodity price shifts, and rising energy costs — all while driving performance across complex plant networks.
The Summit explores how to align IT and OT, integrate new technologies with legacy systems, scale AI beyond pilot phase, reduce operating costs through predictive strategies, and build a resilient, future-ready workforce. These priorities are addressed through four core themes reflecting the real delivery challenges facing US manufacturers today.
2026 Themes
Smart Manufacturing & Industrial Intelligence
Modernize operations through connected systems, automation and AI-driven production intelligence to improve performance at scale.
US manufacturers are accelerating investment in industrial IoT, robotics and advanced analytics to drive measurable gains in OEE, throughput and cost efficiency — integrating new technologies into existing environments and scaling across multi-plant networks.
Key Topics & Technologies:
AI-enabled production optimisation
Industrial IoT and connected factory infrastructure
Robotics and advanced automation systems
Cloud and edge computing for plant visibility
IT/OT alignment for performance-driven operations
You’ll leave with: Practical frameworks to modernize production environments, improve operational KPIs and scale smart manufacturing initiatives across facilities.
Resilient & Intelligent Supply Chains
Strengthen supply chain visibility and planning accuracy to navigate reshoring, tariff volatility and global disruption across increasingly complex supplier ecosystems.
As US manufacturers rebalance sourcing strategies and manage trade risk, digital control towers, predictive analytics and AI-driven forecasting are becoming essential tools for resilience, agility and faster executive decision-making.
Key Topics & Technologies:
Real-time supplier and logistics visibility platforms
AI-driven demand forecasting and disruption modelling
Risk mitigation and supplier diversification strategies
Digital control towers and integrated planning systems
Data-driven collaboration across procurement and operations
You’ll leave with: Actionable strategies to improve planning accuracy, reduce supply chain risk and strengthen operational resilience.
Agentic AI & Predictive Asset Performance
Move from reactive maintenance to AI-powered operational intelligence that improves uptime and reduces cost.
Manufacturers are embedding predictive and agentic AI into maintenance workflows to anticipate failures, optimize service intervals and reduce excess inventory across assets and facilities.
Key Topics & Technologies:
Predictive maintenance and asset monitoring platforms
AI-driven failure pattern recognition
Integration with ERP, MES and CMMS systems
Inventory optimisation through predictive insights
Scaling AI from pilot to enterprise deployment
You’ll leave with: Proven approaches to reducing downtime, improving asset reliability and delivering measurable cost efficiencies.
Digitally Enabled Workforce Transformation
Build a digitally capable workforce ready to operate in AI- and automation-enabled environments.
Technology transformation depends on workforce readiness. US manufacturers are investing in digital literacy, AI-enabled recruitment and immersive training platforms to close skills gaps and strengthen human–machine collaboration.
Key Topics & Technologies:
AI-powered talent sourcing and workforce analytics
AR/VR and simulation-based technical training
Digital upskilling and continuous learning frameworks
Human–machine collaboration strategies
Change management for digital adoption
You’ll leave with: Practical strategies to strengthen workforce capability, accelerate adoption and align talent development with long-term digital strategy.
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Whether you’re looking to attend, speak, partner or just explore further, we’d love to hear from you.
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