Verdantix Announces Octave As Title Sponsor Of Transform Industrial Agility Summit 2027

Verdantix today announced that Octave is the title sponsor of its inaugural Transform Industrial Agility Summit, taking place on Tuesday 16 March 2027 at The Westin Oaks hotel at the Galleria, Houston, Texas.

The new summit will convene 150 senior leaders across engineering, maintenance, operations, supply chain, IT and digital transformation functions. Attendees and speakers will share their insights on how industrial executives can translate AI ambition into frontline operational outcomes, strengthen decision-making and improve resilience in the face of global disruption.

Octave is a global leader in enterprise software, turning data into decisive action and intelligence into a competitive edge. Its software solves for and simplifies complexity, from design and build to operations and the protection of people, property and assets. Its solutions are designed to scale up what’s possible from day one onwards, from factory floors to entire cities.

The summit will bring together a senior speaker line-up from leading industrial organizations, including:

• Jonathan Alexander, Global Manufacturing AI & Advanced Analytics Manager at Albemarle
• Prathibha Prabakaran, Enterprise Data and AI Architecture and Strategy at Amtrak
• Mauro Rossi, Senior Reliability Engineer at Anglo American
• Lisa Williams, Senior Director, Operations Talent Strategy and Employee Experience at Dow
• Tanushri Jain, Key Account Director, Joint Venture Operations at Dow
• Dr. Sumesh Arora, Program Manager – Workforce Strategies at Entergy
• Srinivas Pradeep, AI Leader at Glencore
• Vino Kingston, Enterprise Data & AI Transformation Leader at Lockheed Martin
• Daniel Byrne, formerly Senior Director, Digital Transformation, at Marathon Petroleum
• Nena Fremin, M&E IT Senior Manager – Manufacturing, Maintenance and Reliability Applications at Olin
• Sam Fellows, Vice President of Direct Store Delivery at Rich Products Corporation

Alongside the practitioner line-up, Verdantix analysts will present findings from our year-long Industrial Agility research programme, including benchmark data on where industrial organizations are currently seeing returns on their AI investments – and where they are not. Delegates at the conference will have direct access to Verdantix analysts across the day for one-to-one briefings on their own operational and transformation priorities.

"Industrial leaders are under pressure to move AI initiatives from the pilot stage and demonstrate measurable impact – from predicting maintenance needs before failures occur and reducing downtime, to improving asset performance as well as operational efficiency and enabling faster, more informed decisions,” said Malavika Tohani, Research Director at Verdantix. “To do that with confidence and create measurable value, leaders need independent, real-world examples they can trust, and that is what Transform Industrial Agility 2027 will deliver. Industrial buyers are actively looking for hard evidence of what works before they commit budget. We are delighted to have Octave on board as title sponsor, which demonstrates their commitment to sharing insights and best practices across the industrial community, and to helping organizations turn data and intelligence into measurable operational outcomes.”

Jay Allardyce, Chief Product Officer at Octave, said: "Industrial organizations are being asked to run more complex assets with fewer experienced people, and to do it with less margin for error. At Octave, we believe the measure that matters is operational – fewer unplanned outages, projects that land on schedule, decisions that hold up under scrutiny. Technology earns its place when it changes those numbers.”

“We are proud to support the inaugural Transform Industrial Agility Summit as title sponsor, bringing together the leaders accountable for those outcomes to share what has actually worked, challenge conventional thinking and set a higher bar for what industrial performance looks like – leveraging the power of AI.”

Software vendors and service firms are invited to explore remaining sponsorship opportunities for the Industrial Agility Summit. Senior practitioners can register for a complimentary ticket to attend or propose to speak, sharing perspectives on operational challenges and transformation strategies.

For sponsorship enquiries, please contact Savva Ermoyenous, Account Director at [email protected].