Agenda Overview
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| 10:00AM – 10:30AM | Innovation in a World of AI Keynote Speaker: Shawn Kanungo |
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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 Predictive AI shifts decisions upstream—before disruption impacts the line or the P&L. Machine learning uses signals like OEE, shelf life, yield variability, and traceability data to forecast downtime and operational risk, enabling earlier intervention, tighter operational control, and measurable protection of uptime and profitability. |
From Visibility to Velocity: Agentic AI in Transportation Execution Dashboards show what happened. Agentic AI decides what to do next. AI agents actively monitor transportation operations, predict disruptions, and trigger execution workflows across routing, TMS, and shipment management. See how digital coworkers identify carrier risk, recommend cost-saving actions, and automate exception handling in real time. |
Equipment Dealership Parts Intelligence: AI Agents for Faster, Smarter Parts Sales AI agents help parts counters and customers identify, substitute, and sell the right part—faster. Walk through real dealership workflows where AI reduces counter time, improves first-time accuracy, and increases parts margin. Practical and built for the realities of the parts department. |
Augmenting Demand Planning: with Digital Co-Workers AI agents don't just surface data for planners to act on—they act. Autonomous forecast adjustments, real-time exception management, scenario execution, and workflow automation happen at machine speed, with the full context of your vertical business built in. See how Logility's DemandAI+ and Aptean AppCentral are redefining demand planning. |
From AI Ambition to Operational Impact: Aptean Intelligence-as-a-Service Many organizations see the potential of AI but struggle to move from experimentation to real business impact. Discover how Aptean Intelligence-as-a-Service delivers custom, industry-ready AI agents that integrate directly into everyday workflows—removing the complexity and uncertainty that often stall AI initiatives. |
Protect Revenue in Real Time with AI-Driven Style Substitution Out-of-stock and blocked styles create immediate revenue risk when teams can't respond fast enough. AI uses live ERP data to instantly recommend the best in-stock substitutes—standardizing decisions and protecting revenue at the exact moment it's on the line. |
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| 11:25AM – 11:50AM | Conversations With Your Data: Natural-Language AI in Food & Beverage Waiting on reports creates bottlenecks between insight and action. Natural-language AI removes that friction. Ask plain-language questions about production, inventory, quality, and financial performance—and receive instant summaries and visualizations. Move beyond static dashboards to governed, real-time insight delivered directly within daily workflows. |
AI-as-a-Service: Scaling Predictive Transportation Without Rebuilding Your Stack AI adoption is most effective when it builds on the systems teams already rely on. AI-as-a-Service brings predictive intelligence into transportation operations across existing ERP, routing, and TMS environments—applying forecasting, late-order detection, carrier performance insights, and automated decision support to improve service and control costs. |
AI Inside the Dealership: Operational Agents That Work in Your DMS What if your team could ask your system to complete tasks instead of navigating screens? AI agents don't just answer questions—they execute tasks inside your DMS, such as creating orders and checking invoices. Designed to reduce training time, eliminate manual steps, and help teams operate more efficiently. |
From Finding Exceptions to Fixing Them: Hanes Global supply chains don't fail because of missing data—they fail because the right data never reaches the right decision at the right time. See how fragmented supply chain signals can be unified into a single decision layer so teams know exactly which actions to take to maximize customer order fulfillment before the problem finds them. |
AI-Powered Workspaces for Modern Manufacturing & Distribution You don't need more dashboards—you need a smarter way to run production. A personalized, AI-powered workspace simplifies daily manufacturing operations, surfaces real-time insights, and reduces manual effort. AI helps teams respond faster to production delays, material shortages, and quality issues so they can focus on throughput, efficiency, and on-time delivery. |
Fast-Track Production Decisions with the Help of AI On the shop floor, every delay matters. AI lets frontline production teams make instant, natural-language requests—replacing multi-step reports with real-time answers that help people act faster, with confidence. Eliminate the back-and-forth of navigating systems and put the right information directly in the hands of the people who need it most. |
| 11:50AM – 12:15PM | When the Plant Listens: Event-Driven AI In food manufacturing, the gap between signal and response is where waste and compliance risk begin. Event-driven AI closes that gap—real-time operational signals trigger coordinated, cross-functional responses across production, quality, and procurement. AI-enabled workflows standardize exception handling and ensure consistent action the moment conditions change. |
Meet Your Digital Coworkers: AI Agents Inside the Modern Logistics Team Digital coworkers are role-based AI agents designed to support planners, transportation leaders, and operations teams in real time. They monitor workflows, surface risks, recommend actions, and execute tasks using natural language and continuous data analysis—increasing decision speed, improving planner productivity, and strengthening operational confidence. |
The Equipment Dealership AI Sales Desk: Automated Quotes Powered by Microsoft AI agents built inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central monitor inboxes, gather missing order details, and automatically build quotes within your equipment DMS. Accelerate response times, streamline quote creation, and keep opportunities moving—giving sales teams more time to focus on customer relationships. |
The Future of Network Design with AI Agents: AI-Powered Scenario Analysis What if your network design tool already had the answers waiting before you asked the questions? Explore how AI-powered scenario analysis and greenfield simulation are evolving with agentic workflows. Planners stay in control while the system does the heavy lifting—delivering faster decisions and fewer blind spots. |
AI in Action: How You Interact, Automate, and Accelerate Go beyond the concept of AI and see how it works in day-to-day operations. Watch live as AI searches for agents, answers questions, and executes tasks. From scheduling background processes and automating daily routines to reviewing approvals and analyzing files—a practical, hands-on look at how AI fits directly into your workflow. |
Accelerate Product Launch with AI-Driven Content at Scale Manual rewriting of product source materials slows launches and weakens brand consistency. AI quickly finds the most relevant product information and transforms it into accurate, market-ready copy—removing bottlenecks across merchandising, sales, and e-commerce so teams can bring products to market faster and with greater consistency. |
| 12:15PM – 12:50PM | From Ingredients to Invoices: One Intelligence Layer Food and beverage operations are interconnected—but decisions are often fragmented. AI unifies demand, supplier performance, production planning, quality metrics, and margin analysis into a continuous decision flow. Organizations reduce cross-functional friction and embed intelligence into daily decision-making to protect profitability across the entire value chain. |
The Decision-Centric Logistics: Connecting Planning, Routing and Execution with AI Disconnected systems slow decisions and increase risk. AI connects demand signals, routing, transportation execution, and carrier performance into one continuous decision flow—reducing firefighting, improving predictability, and safeguarding margins from planning all the way through final delivery. |
Field Service Reinvented: AI Service Technician Agents AI agents transform technician shorthand into professional, customer-ready service documentation. From rewriting field notes to generating structured summaries and preventative maintenance recommendations, these agents improve clarity, consistency, and customer experience—reducing admin time while elevating the professionalism of your service department. |
Planning Data to Planning Action in Seconds AI purpose-built for planning understands your questions in context, pulls directly from your actual planning data, and delivers insights in plain language, tables, and visuals—in seconds, not days. Close the gap between knowing something changed and knowing exactly what to do about it. |
GenAI Query: Customer Insights, Real Impact What if getting answers from your data was as simple as asking a question? With GenAI Query, it is. Using natural language, instantly surface insights—no SQL, no delays. Hear from an Aptean customer on how better data access is improving efficiency, increasing visibility, and enabling faster, more confident decisions. |
Protect Margin Before It's Too Late: AI-Led Inventory Risk Control Spreadsheet-driven inventory reviews surface risk after margins are already lost. AI continuously monitors live ERP data to expose at-risk styles early—giving leaders the time to act before markdowns and write-offs begin. Always-on intelligence replaces reactive reviews with proactive margin protection. |