Connected Manufacturing Forum 2025

June 23 - 24, 2025

Ritz Carlton St. Louis, MO

Mark Fosdike

CEO Datch.io

Mark Fosdike, CEO of Datch, brings a wide blend of engineering and leadership expertise to the field of AI for industrial solutions. He cut his teeth in aerospace and navy shipbuilding, working across Australia, the UK, and the US, with a focus on end-to-end manufacturing and reliability. Today, Mark’s focus is on radically changing the way we manage our assets and our people on the frontline.

Day One – Monday, June 23, 2025

1:40 PM Enabling Real-Time Maintenance for Real: Why Agentic AI is the Missing Link

  • Defining what real-time maintenance means in the context of other strategies and tactics, and how it improves key KPIs like MTTR and OEE.
  • Clarifying the role that AI plays in this space; how can Operations and IT approach it together in a way that makes sense?
  • Breaking down key concepts that tend to feel unnecessarily complicated; what really matters when looking at this emerging category of Generative AI?
  • Taking it the final mile; what does the application of real-time maintenance look like for the frontline workers in charge of keeping asset up and running?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Mark.

Download The Latest Agenda