Beyond Automation: How Agentic AI Is Rebuilding Manufacturing from the Inside Out
As the manufacturing and industrials landscape rapidly evolves, senior leaders face mounting pressure to deliver innovation while navigating fragmented data platforms, lean internal teams, and rising compliance demands.
This exclusive session brings together industry experts to tackle the most urgent questions for 2026–shaped by direct insights from UK CIOs, COOs, and compliance leaders–and provides a clear, actionable roadmap to future readiness.
Key takeaways:
- AI: Hype vs. ROI
Identify where AI delivers real value in manufacturing and where it’s just hype.
- Compliance as a Catalyst
Explore how shifting regulations can accelerate transformation rather than hinder it.
- Data Maturity Matters
Learn how to assess and evolve your data strategy to unlock scalable innovation.
- Strategic Focus for Industrial Leaders
Understand what manufacturing leaders must prioritise to stay competitive in 2026 and beyond.
Why it Matters:
- 91% of manufacturers plan to increase AI investments for product development in 2025.
- 50% reduction in unplanned downtime expected through Agentic AI deployment.
- The Agentic AI in manufacturing market is projected to grow from $5.5B in 2025 to $16.79B by 2030 (25% CAGR).
- AI in manufacturing overall forecasted to reach $68.36B by 2032, up from $5.94B in 2024.
- AI-driven quality control systems now achieve 90% defect detection accuracy and 35% improvement in product quality.
- 50% of businesses plan to adopt Agentic AI this year alone.
Chris Huntingford
Director of AI at ANS
Chris Huntingford, is the Director of AI at ANS and brings a wealth of expertise as an architect in Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Chris is dedicated to shaping ecosystems that empower organizations to modernise and optimise organisations technological workflows. His commitment lies in fostering innovation and addressing business challenges securely within these dynamic ecosystems.
Simon Blewitt
CTO at Makutu
Simon Blewitt is a highly experienced CTO/Principal consultant with 28 years experience in large enterprises across sectors such as banking, public sector, retail, wholesale and media corporations. Simon has an MSc Big Data Analytics and certified in Cloud Machine Learning technologies and will talk data all day long.
