June 15 - 16, 2027
Ritz Carlton, St. Louis, MO
Your Factory’s Future Starts Here Connected Manufacturing Forum brings together senior manufacturing, operations, engineering, and digital transformation leaders responsible for modernizing factory systems and delivering real ROI from Industry 4.0 investments.
Vice President Operations - Moulding Production
LEGO
Senior Director Global Manufacturing Excellence and Digital Transformation
Bunge
Lead, Digital Transformation Innovation - XR/VR
Duke Energy
COO
ImmuneIQ
Digitalization Lead, Crop Science Global Engineering
Bayer
VP Global IT, Digital & Supply Chain
Bic World
Director Digital Manufacturing
Nestle-Purina
Vice President
Technology Enpro
Focused on what is working right now inside live production environments. Every session is led by practitioners responsible for ROI, uptime, and safety, providing you with unfiltered reality of integrating AI, IIoT, MES, robotics, and data platforms on the plant floor.
Addressing on how manufacturers build, validate, and scale ROI from AI, IIoT, automation, and data initiatives. Sessions go beyond vision to examine investment assumptions, pilot outcomes, integration costs, and performance metrics. Understand what it truly takes to move from proof of concept to sustained value in the factory.
Intentionally designed to connect manufacturing, operations, engineering, and technology leaders facing similar challenges. Through facilitated roundtables, interactive sessions, and focused discussions, you engage with peers who understand your environment, enabling practical knowledge sharing and relationships that continue well beyond the event.
You will rub shoulders with Manufacturing, Operations, Technology, Supply Chain and Advanced Engineering executives from Top 500 manufacturing companies, as well as the world’s most innovative start-ups, including:




























