Manufacturing
The Connected Worker Manufacturing Summit 2026
The essentials
Event details
- Dates
- 13 October 2026 to 15 October 2026
- Location
- Chicago, United States
- Organiser
- IQPC
- Tickets
- USD 399
- Industry
- Manufacturing
Agenda themes
Topics covered
- Manufacturing
- IT
- Work
On stage
Speakers
- David Jutcawitz, Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, Terex Corporation
- Nicholas Colisto, Senior VP & Chief Information Officer, Avery Dennison
- Rebecca Teeters, SVP Business Supply Chain and President Chemical Operations
- Kurt Kroplin, Vice President, Supply Chain Operations, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
- Prasanthi Muddhana, Head of Digital and Process Enablement Unit, Bayer
- Josué Peñaloza Quispe, Europe Production Excellence Manager
- Natalie Thompson, Vice President, Reliability and Maintenance
- Roger Brecht, Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain - North America, Griffith Foods
- Vijay Gurav, Senior Industrial Engineer, Boston Whaler
- Craig Sutton, VP IT Supply Chain and Operations, Eaton
- Maulik Patel, Head of Manufacturing Digital Transformation
- Thomas Wilk, Head of Content, Industry Week Mag
- Jim Graves, Global Digital Manufacturing Head, Indorama Ventures
- Mohit Ahuja, Strategy & Transformation Leader, Caterpillar
- Josh Dotson, Director Koch Labs, Koch Industries
- Danaca Jordan, Services Architect Manufacturing, Eastman Chemical Company
- Rajeev Sinha, Head of Artificial Intelligence, J.B. Poindexter & Co, Inc
- Nick Ergang, Director of Engineering, Ecolab
- Bhupinder Gill, Sr. Technical Product Manager, E&J Gallo Winery
- Chris Soltys, Regional Smart Manufacturing Solutions Leader – North America, Bunge
- Vignesh Alagappan, Sr. Manager, Cloud and IoT Architecture, Rheem Manufacturing
- Caitlin Moffitt, Senior Director of Operations, Altria
- Mike Brauckman, Head of Focused Improvement, Nestlé
- Tom Busby, Vice President of Information Technology, Greif, Inc
On the floor
Sponsors and partners
- AWS
- Innovapptive
- EY
- Poka
- Relay
- Redzone
- SAP
- ServiceNow
- AG5
- Asana
- Augmentir
- Detect Technologies
- Fuuz
- Indeavor
- Kahuna Workforce Solutions
- MaintainX
- Parsec
- Verizon
- Canvas
- Envision
- Luxor
- MākuSafe
- Roboflow
- SAS
Logistics
Where to stay
Places to stay near the venue.
Jaslin Hotel
261 West Cermak Road, Chicago, 60616
Benedictine Bed and Breakfast
3111 South Aberdeen Street, Chicago, 60608
SpringHill Suites Chicago Chinatown
2357 South Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, 60616
The Polo Inn
3322 South Morgan Street, Chicago, 60608
Wyndham Chicago McCormick Hotel
11 West 26th Street, Chicago, 60616
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