AI Manufacturing & Supply Chain Summit 2026
One Pilot Worked. Now Scale It to 50 Factories.
The AI Manufacturing & Supply Chain Summit 2026 is a free, two-day virtual conference hosted by IIoT World on December 8-9, 2026. Most manufacturers have an AI pilot that works at one site. This summit is about what comes next: scaling factory AI across global operations, replacing the legacy data infrastructure that makes scaling unaffordable, building the governance and traceability layer that production-scale AI demands, and defending manufacturing operations against cyberattacks. Sessions cover multi-site factory intelligence rollouts, modern data stacks replacing end-of-life industrial historians, vertical AI built for specific equipment and industries, AI auditability for regulated manufacturing, supply chain traceability with Digital Product Passports, how production data flows securely into enterprise and supply chain systems, and cybersecurity for manufacturing including AI-powered defense, ransomware response, and securing legacy OT. This summit also incorporates the topics originally planned for Industrial Cybersecurity Day. Speakers come from discrete and process manufacturing, industrial automation, OT security, and operations management. Registration is free for CDOs, CIOs, CTOs, plant managers, VPs of operations, automation engineers, quality managers, OT security professionals, data engineers, and technology leaders.
What You Will Learn
The AI Manufacturing & Supply Chain Summit 2026 picks up where single-site pilots end and covers what it takes to run AI at production scale across an entire manufacturing operation:
Scaling Factory AI from One Site to Fifty
Learn why AI that works at one factory breaks at ten, how global manufacturers roll out factory intelligence across dozens of sites simultaneously, how vertical AI tools built for specific equipment types outperform generic platforms, and how AI agents now configure their own factory data pipelines through natural language, eliminating the integration bottleneck that has blocked multi-site scaling.
Replacing the Legacy Data Stack
Discover why legacy industrial historians with per-tag pricing make AI scaling unaffordable, how modern time-series alternatives eliminate per-data-point economics and handle the volume AI demands at a fraction of the cost, how lightweight MQTT brokers bring AI-ready infrastructure to plants that cannot justify six-figure middleware, and how to move OT data into AI pipelines without opening a single firewall port.
AI Governance, Traceability, and Supply Chain Intelligence
Explore how manufacturers turn supplier documents from 200+ vendors in different formats into trusted AI-ready inputs for supply chain traceability, how the EU Digital Product Passport regulation (live since July 2026) requires data capture across the entire supplier network, how retiring senior technicians' decades of equipment knowledge gets captured into AI before it walks out the door, and how production intelligence feeds procurement and multi-tier supplier visibility.
Full Agenda
Two days of live, interactive panel sessions on what it takes to move manufacturing AI from a working pilot to production scale across global operations, with practitioners who have done it.
Potential Session Topics
The agenda is being finalized. Here are the topics under consideration for December 8-9
Sponsors
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