What to expect from IFS Industrial AI Unleashed
Staged on Thursday, 13 November 2025, New York City plays host to IFS Industrial AI Unleashed NYC.
Billed as “more than just another industry showcase”, industrial AI company IFS promises a deep-dive into the forces driving digital industry mechanics today.
With event themes including what the company calls “signal to substance”, IFS says it will be able to cut through hype to show where Industrial AI is already driving results.
The company will stage practical demonstrations of IFS.ai in action. This will include expo exhibits such as software designed to perform functions such as orchestrating multiple real-time data sources and tools built to automate core business processes.
Companies including Anthropic, Boston Dynamics, MIT CISR, Microsoft, PwC and Siemens will be showcasing the best of AI use cases in working real-world industrial settings. Additionally, executives from some of the world’s most progressive industrial companies will be sharing how their companies are transforming, with representatives detailing work covering Aerospace & Defence, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Manufacturing, Transport and Telecommunications.
The event will address how leaders in software, LLMs, hardware, and robotics will come together, as these technologies dovetail with the macro topics that serve as the foundation for change i.e. infrastructure, governance, and reskilling.
AI-powered advisor tools
IFS says it will showcase methods designed to help teams unlock productivity with AI-powered advisor tools. This will include smart factory technologies that demonstrate how AI can boost asset efficiency and allow employees to focus on higher-value work.
The event is designed to explain the IFS vision and roadmap for organisations that are working to achieve the “dream” of the autonomous enterprise through anomaly detection, simulation and continuous optimisation.
“Industrial X Unleashed is bringing together the world’s most progressive minds and organisations who are actively driving change within the industries that are powering our economy, society and planet,” said Oliver Pilgerstorfer, CMO of IFS. “This is not an abstract event; it’s packed full of real-world industrial AI in-action. There will be demos, executives from the largest companies sharing their stories, as well some of the most progressive minds and industry bodies outlining their vision of the challenges and opportunities ahead.”
Unusually, perhaps, IFS has headlined the appeal for this event for analysts and press, specifically. The company says that members of the media can be “first to the story” when it comes to analysing the future of industrial AI. They can do this by getting a view into the IFS roadmap, seeing where customers have had successes and gaining access to leadership (including CEO Mark Moffat) who will be on hand for interviews.
An invisible AI revolution
Talking about what it calls an “invisible AI revolution”, IFS says that industrial AI today is both everywhere and nowhere, by which we presume it means it is constantly in the media and in our consciousness, but rarely actually extensively applied and deployed in real world industrial and commercial environments.
The event itself is aligned for leaders in manufacturing, energy, telecoms, aviation, and complex service delivery environments. The event promises to guide organisations towards a “path to autonomy” and provide a forward-looking view of the autonomous enterprise.
IFS gatherings have recently shown how the company strives to provide Industrial AI that works by enhancing assets, workflows, people and services in real-world deployments.
“We’ll show you what’s already delivering. See how Industrial AI is transforming how complex industrial systems operate today,” promises IFS, in its pre-show literature. “[Attendees will see] keynotes, showcases and expert commentary from the greatest minds in industry and technology, gain a window into the conversations and strategies that will define the next era of industrial progress.”
Tapping into IFS’ newswire
IFS will no doubt make mention of some of its more recent news at this show. The company this year acquired 7bridges, an AI-powered supply chain management solution provider. The move strengthens IFS’s position in logistics and transportation optimisation.
In use, 7bridges streamlines supply chains using advanced AI simulation and analytics to automate and optimize logistics networks. It has been purpose-built for industrial use cases, combining rapid, low-cost data capture, a high-quality semantic data layer, and powerful AI to solve complex supply chain optimisation challenges.
“We’re proud to lead the market in Industrial AI and continue to invest in technologies that differentiate our offering. 7bridges’ capabilities in AI-powered supply chain optimisation are a strong complement to our existing strengths and will strongly resonate with our asset-intensive customers,” said IFS CEO Moffat.
Climatiq: Embedded sustainability
The company also recently made note of its partnership with carbon intelligence platform Climatiq, coinciding with the launch of its new Emissions Management module in IFS Cloud.
This launch supports IFS’s broader strategy to embed sustainability directly into business operations, enabling users to make carbon-aware decisions based on their own data. The partnership is underscored by the release of a joint white paper: “IFS Cloud: Carbon Emissions Scope 3 Overview and Statement of Direction.”
Newly appointed in 2024, Kriti Sharma, CEO of IFS Nexus Black, said: “Generative AI was just the starting line. The real opportunity lies beyond generic tools. The revolution happens with contextual, agentic AI that solves deeply complex, industry-specific problems. From predicting critical asset failures to optimizing global supply chains, with Nexus Black we’re not just building AI – we’re building intelligence that works in the real world.”
IFS Industrial AI Unleashed will be broadcast live from New York City and is available by invitation or waitlist registration.
