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Antonio Mosca, Digital Advisor, Owner
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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.

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Humera Malik, CEO
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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.

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Bjorn Andersson, Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing
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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). 

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Agentic AI and Physical AI in Manufacturing
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Agentic AI and Physical AI in Manufacturing

The ARC Advisory Group’s Industrial AI Pacesetter Report identifies a split in how manufacturers deploy artificial intelligence. Organizations classified as Pacesetters have moved beyond single-agent AI assistants and are deploying Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems where specialized AI agents communicate directly with one another. At the same time, ABB’s roadmap to autonomous operations defines six levels of […]

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Five Frontier Technologies Reshaping Manufacturing in 2026
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Five Frontier Technologies Reshaping Manufacturing in 2026

The Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) 2026, published by the Hoover Institution and Stanford School of Engineering, maps ten frontier technologies moving from research into real-world deployment. Five of them are hitting manufacturing operations directly: autonomous AI agents that promise to run multi-step production workflows but keep failing in practice, robotics platforms that still lack […]

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AI Governance vs Data Governance: Why They Need Opposite Approaches
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AI Governance vs Data Governance: Why They Need Opposite Approaches

Only 55% of data and analytics teams rate themselves effective at managing governance policies, the lowest score across 14 capabilities measured in the 2025 Gartner CDAO Agenda Survey. Building analytics solutions scored 85%. The gap shows that governance remains the weakest link in data and artificial intelligence programs, and most organizations respond with approaches that […]

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How to Build Data Fabric Architecture for AI Use Cases
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How to Build Data Fabric Architecture for AI Use Cases

Seventy-seven percent of organizations list AI-ready data as their number one investment priority for the next two to three years. But according to a 2024 Gartner survey of 247 data management leaders, the spending tells a different story. Only 37% are upgrading their data management architecture, 40% are investing in active metadata tools, and just […]

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What Is Unified Namespace (UNS) and the i3X Standard?
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What Is Unified Namespace (UNS) and the i3X Standard?

Industrial environments have been built one use case at a time, leaving most large manufacturers with fragmented IT and OT infrastructure. A manufacturer with 10 sites might run four different home-grown MES platforms, three different ERPs, and entirely custom data connections between them. As organizations deploy artificial intelligence, that absence of standardized data architecture has […]

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What Is Physical AI and How Does It Work in Factories?
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What Is Physical AI and How Does It Work in Factories?

Physical AI integrates artificial intelligence software with physical factory hardware, from robotic arms and mobile manipulators to quadruped sensor platforms, so machines can see, reason, and adapt to real-world conditions without human guidance at every step. Companies including Cambrian Vision (Germany), Inbold (France), and Path Robotics (US) are deploying these systems for tasks from flexible […]

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The Reality of Agentic AI in the Smart Factory
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The Reality of Agentic AI in the Smart Factory

The industrial sector is flooded with claims about fully autonomous operations, but for manufacturing executives, separating marketing from operational reality is critical. Despite the billions projected for artificial intelligence this year, the factory floor remains a complex, physical environment that does not easily bend to software trends. Only 20% to 25% of manufacturers have reached […]

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Industry 4.0 Was Introduced 15 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?
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Industry 4.0 Was Introduced 15 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?

Industry 4.0, first introduced at Hannover Messe in 2011, promised a revolution in manufacturing through the convergence of cyber-physical systems, IoT connectivity, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. More than a decade later, the reality is nuanced: some manufacturers have achieved significant digital transformation, while many others remain stuck in pilot purgatory or early maturity stages. […]

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Predictive Maintenance ROI: The Executive Guide
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Predictive Maintenance ROI: The Executive Guide

Predictive maintenance (PdM) delivers measurable returns, but building a credible ROI case requires more than vendor estimates. IIoT World created this executive guide to help plant leaders, operations directors, and CFOs quantify the financial impact of condition-based monitoring programs. From avoided downtime costs and spare parts optimization to labor efficiency and insurance premium reductions, this […]

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