Connected Manufacturing Forum 2026

June 15 - 16, 2026

Ritz-Carlton St. Louis

Ron Nachum

Ron Nachum

Co-Founder and CEO Sapien
Ron Nachum

Ron Nachum is the co-founder and CEO of Sapien, a proactive intelligence system for finance and operations that helps manufacturing and industrial companies drive 8-figure impact across complex operating environments. Sapien's platform enables AI agents to work directly across systems of record, from ERPs and data warehouses to CRMs and spreadsheets, helping companies analyze, understand, and optimize their operations in real time.

Sapien is leveraged by public companies including Bayer, Cooper Standard, and Blink Charging, as well as large private equity portfolios including Atlas Holdings. Across deployments, the platform has uncovered multi-million-dollar errors, improved operational and financial visibility, and replaced thousands of hours of manual reporting with automated, deeply granular analysis. Manufacturing-relevant use cases include management and 10-Q reporting, inventory and pricing optimization, gross margin and variance insights, ad-hoc analysis, and proactive business driver analysis across finance and operations.

The company is backed by leading investors including General Catalyst and Neo, alongside executives from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more, and is scaling rapidly as enterprises adopt AI to transform core financial, operational, and analytical workflows.

Before founding Sapien, Ron worked in applied AI research across computer vision, machine learning, and large language models, most recently at Harvard's Kempner Institute.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

8:50 AM Case Study Presented by Sapien

Ron Nachum will speak about how proactive AI agents are helping manufacturers move beyond dashboards, pilots, and manual reporting into real-time operational intelligence. Drawing on Sapien's work with industrial leaders, he'll show how AI can continuously monitor ERPs, data warehouses, spreadsheets, and operating systems to surface margin leakage, inventory and pricing opportunities, reporting errors, and business drivers before they become costly surprises.

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

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