On June 4th at Stellix Corporate Headquarters, engineers, solution architects, and operational technology leaders came together to move past the buzzwords and into the architectures, integrations, and operating models that actually work at scale. This page brings the highlights to you so you can revisit, share, and carry the momentum forward.
Jenn and John opened the afternoon by laying out a direct challenge to the industry: the era of the perpetual pilot is over. The tools exist. The data exists. What’s missing is the architecture, the governance, and the organizational will to connect them into something that runs at enterprise scale. Their keynote set the tone for everything that followed — grounding the day’s technical depth in a shared sense of urgency and purpose.
Mike Cody led a candid, peer-level conversation on what it actually takes to move a successful pilot into production — and why so many promising initiatives stall before they get there. Panelists explored the organizational, technical, and architectural barriers that separate isolated wins from enterprise-wide impact, and shared the design patterns and operating models that have made the difference in real deployments.
Operators and technical teams often work across disconnected systems, screens, and workflows. This session examines how a single pane of glass can bring together the data and context needed for better batch visibility, faster response, and a more consistent operator experience without requiring a full re-platforming effort.
This session looked at what operational intelligence means in practice, from agentic AI and knowledge graphs to more deterministic, rules-based decision support. Explore how connected data and better context can improve exception handling, accelerate problem-solving, and help teams apply advanced methods in ways that are useful, governed, and credible.
This session explores how event-driven architecture can create the backbone needed to connect equipment, applications, data platforms, and teams across the operation. Attendees will see how a vendor agnostic, edge-to-cloud approach can improve interoperability, reduce latency between signal and action, and create a stronger foundation for AI-enabled workflows.
Unpack why roughly 70% of process knowledge gets lost at handoffs, and what a connected CMC architecture actually looks like when it’s built to fix that. The session closed with an introduction to the Digital CMC Consortium, a pre-competitive industry collaboration Stellix has joined as a founding member, aimed at standardizing data models and compressing transfer timelines across the industry.
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A curated post-event package that includes key takeaways, referenced frameworks, and supporting resources from the day is being prepared for all attendees. You’ll be notified when it is live and available for you to download.
