October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
A&D Manufacturing
In defense manufacturing, supply chains are volatile, compliance demands keep rising, and cost predictability is harder to maintain. For those ready to move beyond those limits, the opportunity to lead on program performance is significant.
Enter the Era of Limitless Defense Manufacturing
See how Industrial AI is helping defense manufacturers and MRO suppliers close the execution gap, reduce program risk, and deliver on cost and schedule. Real organizations, real outcomes and a clear path to limitless performance.
Mission Ready
Built for the most demanding operations on earth and sea.
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Where the world's most essential industries set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
Peers to collaborate, benchmark and learn from.
Tracks across industry, AI, solution and C-suite.
Sessions curated around your role and priorities.
Of attendees come back. You will see why.
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Join your Peers
Three days. One stage. Every industry the world relies on. Here’s what the room looks like when you arrive in Orlando.
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
In A&D manufacturing, execution is falling behind ambition. Supply chains are volatile, expertise is leaving, and compliance keeps rising. This is where leaders close the gap.
Insight That Gets You Mission Ready
Understand where supply chain disruption, workforce constraints, and compliance pressure converge to put production schedules at risk, and how leading manufacturers are building measurable resilience.
AI in Action on the Defense Floor
Live demonstrations built around A&D manufacturing challenges: production scheduling, supply chain visibility, compliance tracking, and how Industrial AI connects the shop floor to mission delivery.
Keynotes That Shape What's Next
Hear from A&D manufacturing leaders closing the gap between program ambition and production reality, using Industrial AI to manage supply disruption, workforce risk, and rising compliance demands.
AI Startup Hall
Discover new Industrial AI companies solving A&D manufacturing problems with no scalable answer until now, from predictive supply chain risk to intelligent production scheduling and compliance support.
A&D Manufacturing Breakouts
Build your agenda around the priorities that define your program. Sessions cover the operational, workforce, and compliance challenges shaping defense manufacturing today, designed around what you need to solve next.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS capabilities for A&D manufacturers. Leave with practical tools, a clearer implementation path and the confidence to deliver on program commitments.
Training registration coming soon.
Oliver Bowles
Finance Director, Portsmouth Aviation
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What's on for A&D Manufacturing
Unleashed brings together defense manufacturing and naval shipbuilding leaders, partners, and industry experts to explore The Era of Limitless Industry. Browse sessions spanning Industrial AI, program performance, and supply chain resilience, then see the full agenda to plan your time in Orlando and stay mission ready.
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The Threat Is AI-Powered. So Is the Defense. How Manufacturers Are Protecting Programs in a New Environment
Speakers:
Kriti Sharma, CEO IFS Nexus Black, Garvan Doyle, Anthropic
Join this session to learn how AI is being used against you, how AI-driven cyber defence changes what resilience looks like, and what it takes to meet CMMC and ITAR requirements without creating a compliance burden that slows the line.
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Industry Expert Perspectives: Defense Acquisition & Program Leadership
Speakers:
Mark Moffat, IFS CEO, Mohamed Kande, PwC
A defense acquisition leader shares where execution breaks down across programs, suppliers, and readiness, what the pressures look like from the top, what is and isn’t working on the ground, and what must change first for defense manufacturers and naval operators to close the performance gap.
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The Defense Delivery Blueprint : How Defense Manufacturers & Shipbuilders Are Sequencing the Path from Pressure to Performance
Speakers:
Christian Pederson, CPO IFS, Merry Frayne, Boston Dynamics, Sean Remington, Eversource, David Gladey, Eversource, Prasad Satyavolu, Accenture, Chris Merchant, Linmar
How organizations improve execution through continuous innovation across planning, production, quality, and compliance. A practical look at what capability adoption looks like in live defense and naval environments, sequencing improvements without disrupting program delivery.
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What you'll leave with
What next-level defense manufacturing and naval shipbuilding performance actually requires
An executive view of where A&D execution is under pressure across programs, suppliers, and readiness, backed by customer panel insights and defense acquisition expertise. Real-world context for the decisions that matter most.
A sequenced path from immediate execution improvement to scaled performance across defense and naval programs
See where IFS is investing across A&D manufacturing and naval shipbuilding, from cyber resilience and CMMC compliance to autonomous production monitoring. Shape the roadmap with your program priorities.
Industrial AI running in a live defense value stream
Applied AI across defense planning, production, quality, and supplier coordination with measurable results. Then hear directly from an operator running it in production. The gap between pilot and program closes in this session.
A peer network built for mission-critical programs
Defense manufacturing leaders, program directors, and sustainment executives are navigating the same capacity, compliance, and readiness pressures. Peer relationships that stay active long after Orlando.
Be Part of the Era of Limitless Industry
From first-time attendees to returning champions, Unleashed 2026 brings your transformation into focus and turns vision into action.
