Manufacturing Revolution: Building on AI Success in Smart Production and Supply Chains
Included breakfast, lunch, and networking breaks.
Morning Keynote: Elham Tabassi, Director, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative; Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
MORNING PANEL: From Pilot to Production: Scaling AI across Systems and Supply Chains
As manufacturers contend with supply chain disruptions, material shortages, rising costs, and workforce gaps, AI has evolved from “nice-to-have” to business-critical—but scaling it beyond a successful pilot remains a big challenge.
This interactive session featured manufacturing leaders, AI innovators, and supply chain experts sharing real-world insights from their successful scaling journeys. Panelists shared integration strategies, relevant standards, measurable outcomes, and lessons learned along the way for challenges like coordinating across global supply networks, managing automated logistics systems, connecting disparate technologies and data, overcoming legacy infrastructure challenges, and mitigating disruption and risk.
AFTERNOON PANEL: The Smart Manufacturing Toolkit: Standards, Resources, and Roadmaps for Success
Building on the morning’s discussions, this session examined the essential tools, frameworks, and standards that enable sustainable AI transformation in manufacturing. While technology captures headlines, success depends on the underlying infrastructure of standards, best practices, and industry resources that many companies struggle to navigate-and identifying what’s missing from the toolkit.
This collaborative panel featured leaders from key standards organizations and industry practitioners who explored the current landscape of available resources while identifying gaps that need attention. From mobility and automotive standards to advanced manufacturing centers of excellence, panelists offered diverse perspectives on what’s working, what’s needed, and how the standardization community can better serve manufacturers. Key topics included leveraging existing standards; accessing federal and industry resources; aligning cross-industry efforts for maximum impact; and identifying gaps and accelerating standards development for emerging technologies. Through interactive discussion and real-time audience input, today’s available tools were connected with tomorrow’s needs.
