AI That Actually Runs Your Business
May 14, 2026
10:00 AM–1:00 PM ET
See how agentic AI and digital coworkers are transforming operations across manufacturing, supply chain, apparel, food & beverage and transportation.
This is Where AI Gets Practical
This free virtual event brings together industry leaders, product experts and real customer stories to show how agentic AI and digital coworkers are transforming day-to-day operations across manufacturing, supply chain, food & beverage, apparel, transportation and equipment businesses. You’ll see how AI moves beyond dashboards and analytics to actively monitor operations, surface risks, recommend actions and automate decisions in real workflows. Expect inspiring keynotes, practical use cases, and interactive sessions with AI and product experts.
What You'll Learn
What AI agents actually do inside real businesses
Where AI delivers measurable operational impact
How digital coworkers augment your team
How to start applying AI in your organization today
Why You Cant Miss this
1. See AI That Actually Works in Your Industry:
Most AI events talk in generalities. This summit shows real AI built specifically for your industry workflows—from manufacturing plants to supply chain planning to transportation execution.
2. Meet Your Digital Coworkers:
Discover how AI agents act as digital coworkers—monitoring operations, surfacing insights, recommending actions and even executing tasks inside your systems.
3. Move from Insights to Decisions:
Dashboards tell you what happened. Agentic AI helps decide what to do next. Learn how AI can detect disruptions, recommend actions and trigger workflows in real time.
4. Learn Practical AI Use Cases You Can Apply Immediately:
This is not theory. Each session focuses on specific operational use cases such as predicting disruptions, preventing stockouts, automating workflows, improving service levels and protecting margins.
5. Interact Directly with AI and Product Experts:
Ask questions, explore real scenarios and learn directly from Aptean AI leaders, industry experts and practitioners who are applying AI today.
Vertical Track Overview
Apparel & Fashion
Discover how agentic AI helps teams manage margin pressure, reduce stockouts and overbuys, align cross-team workflows and identify hidden costs earlier. Purpose-built AI designed for volatile, fast-moving fashion cycles.
Food & Beverage
See how AI predicts operational risk, triggers real-time responses and unifies planning through production for improved yield, uptime and margins. From natural-language insight to event-driven workflows, get a full picture of AI’s impact from ingredients to invoices.
Discrete & Process Manufacturing
Explore predictive agents, event-driven automation, smart manufacturing workspaces and instant natural-language insight across production, supply, quality and scheduling. AI built for real factory floors.
Equipment Dealers
See how AI transforms parts counters, sales desks and field service teams. From automated quotes to technician note rewriting, this track shows practical AI inside the DMS and dealership workflows.
Supply Chain Planning & Execution
See how AI closes the gap between knowing and acting. Live demonstrations show how planning questions are answered in seconds — with real data, real context and clear recommendations.
Transportation & Logistics
Move beyond dashboards into operational AI. Learn how AI monitors transportation events in real time, predicts disruptions, drives automated workflows and helps planners act faster with confidence.
Agenda Overview
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| 10:00AM – 10:30AM | Innovation in a World of AI Keynote Speaker: To be Announced |
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| 10:30AM – 10:50AM | Work Smarter, Together: AI Agents as Digital Co-Workers Keynote Speaker: Jenny Peng, CTO Aptean |
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Breakout Tracks
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| Food & Beverage | Transportation & Logistics | Equipment | Supply Chain | Manufacturing | Apparel | |
| 10:50AM – 11:15AM | The Foresight Factor: Predicting Disruption Before It Hits the Line | From Visibility to Velocity: Agentic AI in Transportation Execution | Equipment Dealership Parts Intelligence: AI Agents for Faster, Smarter Parts Sales | Augmenting Demand Planning: DAI+ & App Central | From AI Ambition to Operational Impact: Aptean Intelligence as a Service | Seeing Trouble Before It Hits: Apparel-Specific AI for Early Risk Detection |
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| 11:25AM – 11:50AM | Conversations With Your Data: Natural-Language AI in Food Manufacturing | AI-as-a-Service: Scaling Predictive Transportation | AI Inside the Dealership: Operational Agents in Your DMS | From Finding Exceptions to Fixing Them: Hanes | Keeping Production Moving: AI-Driven Workflows | Fashion Inventory Chaos: Fixing Stockouts & Overbuys |
| 11:50AM – 12:20PM | When the Plant Listens: Event-Driven AI | Meet Your Digital Coworkers: Modern Supply Chain Teams | The Equipment Dealership AI Sales Desk: Automated Quotes | Network Design with AI Agents: Scenario Analysis | AI-Powered Workspaces | Breaking the Silo Cycle: Fixing Team Miscommunication |
| 12:20PM – 12:50PM | From Ingredients to Invoices: One Intelligence Layer | The Decision-Centric Supply Chain: Connecting Planning & Routing | Field Service Reinvented: AI Service Technicians | Planning Data to Action: IaaS in Supply Chain | The Power of Prediction: Staying Ahead with AI | The Hidden Costs Draining Apparel Margins — and How to Fix Them |