October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
A&D Manufacturing
Three days built for aerospace and defense manufacturing leaders, shaping the future of program delivery. Unleashed brings together customers, experts, and innovators to share practical strategies, proven outcomes, and new ideas. Through keynotes, focused break outs and interactive expo experiences discover how leading manufacturers are using Industrial AI to close the execution gap, reduce program risk, and deliver with greater confidence across cost, schedule, and compliance objectives.
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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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What's on for A&D Manufacturing
FORGE. Building the Future of Aerospace & Defense. Unleashed brings together aerospace & defense leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry through sessions on Industrial AI, program performance, and supply chain resilience.
Keynote: The A&D Industry Landscape: Achieving Next-Level Performance Across the Value Stream
An executive-level view of how A&D execution is under pressure across manufacturing, aviation maintenance, and MRO.
The IFS A&D Manufacturing & Naval Shipbuilding Roadmap
A&D manufacturers and naval shipbuilders face growing pressure to increase throughput, improve delivery performance, and maintain operational control.
A&D Manufacturing and Naval Shipbuilders Industry Challenges
Join A&D manufacturers and naval shipbuilders as they discuss capacity constraints, supplier dependencies, program delays, and delivery pressure.
Industry Expert Perspectives: Defense Acquisition & Program Leadership
Hear directly from defense acquisition and procurement leaders as they discuss the pressures shaping today's programs, supply chains, and requirements from a government acquisition perspective.
Cybersecurity & Compliance in Aerospace & Defense
Cybersecurity, export controls, traceability, and regulatory compliance are becoming increasingly difficult to manage as aerospace and defense organizations scale operations and regulations change.
AI in A&D Manufacturing + Naval Shipbuilding
Gain insight into how aerospace manufacturers, defense producers, and naval shipbuilders may apply AI to improve operational performance.
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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 Helps Forge the Future
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.
Insight That Helps Forge the Future
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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.
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Where industry leaders set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
Steve Mould
Modulaire Group
Curtis Taylor
Sims Crane
Lidia Ribarovska
Quanta Services
