October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
Manufacturing
Every manufacturer is losing capacity they already paid for. Not because of demand or capital constraints, but because execution breaks down when plans meet reality. Unleashed is where manufacturing leaders come to remove that limit.
Enter the Era of Limitless Manufacturing
See how manufacturers are using Industrial AI to recover lost capacity and close the execution gap between planning, production, and warehouse operations. Real organizations, real outcomes and a clear path to limitless performance.
Unlock
More capacity. Better decisions. Stronger manufacturing performance.
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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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Where industry leaders set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
Claudius Lindner
Deloitte
Lance Schulz
KLN
Jonatan Gustafsson
Kitron
Maggie Slowik
IFS
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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 Manufacturing
Unleashed brings together manufacturing leaders, partners, and industry experts to explore The Era of Limitless Industry. Browse sessions spanning Industrial AI, autonomous factory operations, and supply chain resilience, then see the full agenda to plan your time in Orlando and forge what comes next.
Agenda highlight 1
The Bottleneck Isn't Where You Think It Is : Data, AI, and the Real Capacity Gap in Manufacturing with Deloitte
Speakers:
Claudius Lindner, Deloitte
Join this session to explore the key trends shaping manufacturing and supply chains today, backed by customer survey insights and real-world industry challenges. As the opening session for the manufacturing track, we’ll examine where capacity constraints and performance gaps exist across the value chain, the growing role of AI in addressing them, and the opportunities manufacturers have to improve resilience, efficiency, and growth.
Agenda highlight 2
American Manufacturing Excellence: The Hunter Engineering Story
Speakers:
Paul Crowe, Hunter Engineering
Hunter Engineering is one of the world’s most innovative manufacturers of automotive service equipment, back by decades of engineering excellence and a substantial patent portfolio. Join this session to discover how the company connects manufacturing, asset performance, and field service through IFS Cloud, Enterprise Asset Management, and Field Service Management. Learn how a connected operating model is improving visibility, service delivery, and operational performance.
Agenda highlight 2
From Merger to Modernization: Unifying 26 Manufacturing Sites with IFS
Speakers:
Maximilien Bordeleau, IPL
Following the merger of IPL Plastics and Schoeller Allibert, IPL faced the challenge of bringing together operations across 26 manufacturing sites. In this session, IPL and implementation partner Hoist discuss how they standardized processes, rolled out IFS at scale, and built a foundation for future innovation. They’ll share lessons learned and the business impact achieved.
Agenda highlight 2
Building the Foundation for Agentic Manufacturing
Speakers:
Lance Schulz, KLN
Before AI can transform operations, organizations need connected systems, trusted data, and standarized processes. Hear how KLN established that foundation with IFS Cloud, IFS Loops, and Poka, the lessons learned throughout implementation, and the business impact achieved.
Agenda highlight 2
The Next Chapter of Industrial AI with KLN
Speakers:
Lance Schulz, KLN
Discover why KLN is extending its transformation journey with Nexus Black. Hear their perspective on the opportunity before seeing a live demonstration of how Nexus Black connects people, data, and AI to support smarter operational decisions.
Agenda highlight 2
What Manufacturing Leaders Are Asking For Next and How IFS Is Answering
Speakers:
Caitlin Keam, Chris Hoang and
Maggie Slowik, IFS
From connected operations, digital workers, and AI-driven insights in market today to fully orchestrated, autonomous manufacturing in 2026. See where IFS is investing next across the manufacturing value chain and shape the roadmap with your operational priorities.
Agenda highlight 2
The Technology Is Ready. Are the People? What It Really Takes to Make Manufacturing Transformation Stick
Speakers:
Michael Imbruce, Microsoft
A session focused on how organizations unlock capacity through people, adoption, and effective change management. Why technology investments fail without organizational alignment, how digital workers and AI augment and not replace the human capacity, and what organizations must do to make transformation stick. Industry analyst perspective on change management included.
Agenda highlight 2
Meet Kitty: The AI Procurement Supervisor Who Earned Their Place on the Kitron Team
Speakers:
Jonatan Gustafsson, Kitron
Kitron’s Business Application Manager shares the real story, the path from RPA to Agentic AI, what it took to earn team trust, and how IFS Loops Digital Workers are now handling supplier order management and inventory replenishment autonomously. A candid account of what the transition involved and what it delivered.
Agenda highlight 4
Sustainability That Lives in the Operation, Not the Report with CDF
Speakers:
Alex Ivkovic, CDF
A practical demonstration of how CDF has embedded sustainability into its operations using IFS Zero to measure, manage, and act on emissions in real time. Discover how connecting emissions data directly to operational workflows enables teams to move beyond reporting and make better decisions every day.
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
Every manufacturer is losing capacity they paid for, not from lack of demand, but because execution breaks down when plans meet reality. This is where manufacturers close that gap.
Insight That Unlocks Performance
Understand where your capacity is being lost and how leading manufacturers are recovering it, through peer benchmarks, live customer proof, and production exception resolution in real time.
AI in Action on the Shop Floor
See digital, human, and automated workers resolve production exceptions together in real time, closing the integration gap between planning, production, and warehouse execution.
Keynotes That Shape What's Next
Hear from manufacturing leaders who closed the gap between strategy and shop floor, and are now running Industrial AI at real-world scale with measurable results.
AI Startup Hall
Discover Industrial AI companies solving manufacturing problems with no good answer until now, from shop floor visibility to intelligent supply chain orchestration and production optimization.
Manufacturing Breakouts
Build your agenda around the execution priorities that protect your margin. Sessions cover throughput, delivery performance, ERP modernization, supply chain resilience and the planning-to-production gap that costs manufacturers most.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS Manufacturing capabilities. Leave with practical tools, a clearer implementation path and the confidence to put Industrial AI to work on your shop floor.
Training registration coming soon.
Lance Schultz
IT Director, KLN Family Brands
Maggie Slowik, Global Industry Director – Manufacturing
Insight That Unlocks Performance
Every manufacturer is losing capacity they paid for, not from lack of demand, but because execution breaks down when plans meet reality. This is where manufacturers close that gap.
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What you'll leave with
What customer survey data reveals about the real capacity gap in manufacturing
Independent research and real manufacturer stories showing where planning, production, and supply chain execution are gaining ground through Industrial AI. The kind of evidence that moves internal conversations forward.
A practical path for connecting planning, production, and supply chain on one intelligent platform
From the IFS Manufacturing roadmap to hands-on workshops built around your execution priorities. Leave equipped to close the gap between strategy and shop floor and turn it into a performance advantage.
Agentic AI and physical AI running in production, live
See how leading manufacturers combine digital workers, agentic AI, and physical robotics across assets, service, and the shop floor. Hear directly from operators on what implementation actually involved and what it delivered.
A peer network forged in shared execution pressure
Manufacturing leaders, operations executives, and supply chain decision-makers tackling the same planning-to-production gap. Relationships built at Unleashed that extend well beyond the event itself.
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.
