Search for: artificial intelligence

Antonio Mosca, Digital Advisor, Owner
· Our Contributors

Antonio Mosca, Digital Advisor, Owner

Innovation manager certified by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the National Body for Digital Transformation, Antonio Mosca spent over 20 years at the helm of digital innovation and business transformation initiatives, both in multinationals (Korber, Ericsson, Microsoft, EIT Digital) and consulting firm (Accenture, Ernst & Young). He recently founded New Digital Solutions, which offers consulting and solutions for Innovation and Digital Transformation. With in-depth ICT, Telco and Industry 4.0 skills, Antonio is an expert in technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and Smart City. He contributes as a speaker to the MIP-Politecnico di Milano and collaborates with the “Digital Innovation Observatories”, a Think Tank of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano. He publishes articles on business and technology topics, and novels.

Read more →
Humera Malik, CEO
· Our Contributors

Humera Malik, CEO

Humera Malik is CEO of Canvass AI, a software provider that empowers the world’s largest industrial companies with actionable intelligence to make data-driven operational decisions. Internationally, Ms Malik is one of the leading voices in Artificial Intelligence and how it can help the industrial sector to propel growth, accelerate innovation and augment human expertise. Ms Malik is a recipient of the RBC Women of Influence Entrepreneur of the Year award, the Women of IoT/M2M award and was most recently named in the list of Top 10 Hot AI IoT Startups to Watch. She is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences and has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg and Forbes.

Read more →
Bjorn Andersson, Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing
· Our Contributors

Bjorn Andersson, Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing

Bjorn Andersson is a Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Bjorn is a leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industries Marketing, accelerating go-to-market (GTM) for innovative solutions that combine advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and IoT. Bjorn has a proven track record to build and execute strategies and plans to build a business and bring products & technologies to market. He can translate technology into customer benefits and communicate these to diverse audiences. Bjorn has deep expertise in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Visualization and Technical Computing - reaching into technologies and uses that have partly evolved from there, such as Cloud Computing&Storage, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and Virtualization He is also experienced in creating strategic partnerships and mergers&acquisitions (M&A). 

Read more →
Beyond the Alert: The Best Industrial AI Use Cases for Predictive Maintenance
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

Beyond the Alert: The Best Industrial AI Use Cases for Predictive Maintenance

The industrial manufacturing sector is operating in an era of persistent volatility. To maintain global competitiveness,organizations are increasingly turning to the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). According to recent research from IDC: “71% use AIoT for predictive maintenance. Predictive maintenance is the most widely adopted use case across industries.” The financial return is undeniable. Organizations that deeply employ AI in […]

Read more →
Europe’s #1 Energy Tech Event Returns to Bilbao
· Energy

Europe’s #1 Energy Tech Event Returns to Bilbao

Energy Tech Summit – top energy tech industry event in Europe returns to Bilbao, Spain on April 15-16, gathering over 1,500 attendees and 100+ speakers from over 50 countries to tackle the challenges, opportunities and policies for pushing the energy transition forward. Hosted by Contrarian Ventures with a main partner BBVA and supported by the Government […]

Read more →
The Investment Filter: How AI Exposes the True Cost of Your Operational Data
· Predictive Maintenance

The Investment Filter: How AI Exposes the True Cost of Your Operational Data

For manufacturing leadership, every capital request comes with a projection: a return on investment, a payback period, a net present value. These metrics are designed to filter good bets from bad. But there is a new, critical filter emerging in the era of artificial intelligence, and it has nothing to do with financial modeling. It […]

Read more →
The First Step for AI in Energy Isn’t Digital
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

The First Step for AI in Energy Isn’t Digital

Before an energy company can use artificial intelligence to predict a pipeline fault or optimize a drilling schedule, it must solve a physical problem. The industry’s most valuable data isn’t in the cloud; it’s in filing cabinets, on shared drives, and in the handwritten logs of technicians nearing retirement. This legacy knowledge, decades of inspections, […]

Read more →
Top Smart Factory Technologies 2026: The Agentic AI and UNS Revolution
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

Top Smart Factory Technologies 2026: The Agentic AI and UNS Revolution

The manufacturing industry has reached a critical inflection point. The era of “pilot purgatory” is over. Based on the insights from IIoT World Days 2025, the next phase of industrial transformation is defined by three core pillars: Agentic AI, Unified Namespaces (UNS), and Industrial DataOps.While these three form the structural “backbone,” a total of six […]

Read more →
Stop Feeding Garbage to Your AI: Why 80% Accuracy in Document Processing is Now a Failure
· Hybrid Manufacturing

Stop Feeding Garbage to Your AI: Why 80% Accuracy in Document Processing is Now a Failure

A fundamental change in expectations is reshaping how manufacturers evaluate artificial intelligence systems. The long-standing benchmark of 80% accuracy in document processing is no longer acceptable. In the context of AI-driven product and supply-chain decisions, this level of performance constitutes failure. When two out of every ten data points extracted from a critical document—such as […]

Read more →
Your Most Critical AI Model Isn’t an LLM: It’s Your Document Pre-Processor
· Discrete Manufacturing

Your Most Critical AI Model Isn’t an LLM: It’s Your Document Pre-Processor

A decisive shift is underway for manufacturers implementing artificial intelligence. The focus is moving from the selection of large language models to the systems that prepare data for them. The accuracy and trustworthiness of any AI-driven decision—from supply chain logistics to predictive maintenance—are determined long before a query reaches an LLM. They are determined by […]

Read more →
What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025
· Artificial Intelligence

What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025

In 2025, many manufacturers implemented artificial intelligence across forecasting, logistics, and supplier risk scoring, expecting breakthroughs. By year-end, though, a pattern had emerged: AI improved awareness and decision support, but it did not eliminate uncertainty or deliver automatic resilience. AI doesn’t replace judgment — it augments it Procter & Gamble’s Jamie McIntyre Horstman explained that machine […]

Read more →
Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering People and Building Trust Through Transformation
· Connected Industry

Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering People and Building Trust Through Transformation

Industrial organizations are no strangers to transformation. While technology has long been a catalyst for progress, the accelerating speed and complexity of change means that tools alone can no longer deliver a lasting competitive advantage. The real differentiator of organizational success now lies in how people, processes, and platforms come together to create lasting value.The […]

Read more →